6/12 Roundup: Resettlement, Nicotine, Tsvangiari

Leader: Resettlement

- President Obama backed down on the resettlement of Guantanamo detainees yesterday, giving up on plans to bring some of them into the United States.  There may be "a few" candidates for resettlement in the U.S., but the Admninstration has decided not to push this against opposition from Congress.  This move may make it significantly more difficult for the U.S. government to convince European countries to accept detainees.  Four Uighurs were shipped out to Bermuda yesterday, where they will live as foreign guest workers, and the U.S. is seeking similar arrangements with other tropical island states.

Politics

- President Obama is removing the Inspector General responsible for investigating our country's national service programs, after he conducted a dubious inspection of a Sacramento non-profit group that had received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Corportation for National Service.

- The Senate yesterday gave the F.D.A. the power to regulate nicotine, and while they cannot outlaw it altogether, there will be a range of new policy options on the table to deter children from starting to smoke.

International

- Iranians will go to the polls today, with the chance to unseat their president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in exchange for Mir Hussein Moussavi, a rock-star moderate.  The WaPo profiles Dennis Ross, and the monumental task before him in Iran, as he works to keep Iran from the bomb.

- President Obama will meet today with Morgan Tsvangiari, the opposition leader in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe.

- Last, ever wonder who cleans up after members of congress?: