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The president's redacted truth, subjunctive outrage
WASHINGTON - Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don't know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn't meet...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, Libya, Al-Qaeda, Politics, FBI
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Redacted truth, subjunctive outrage
WASHINGTON — Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-Contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don't know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn't...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, Libya, Al-Qaeda, Politics, FBI
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Analysis: Shrinking deficit reduces pressure for budget deal
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chances of a deal between Democratic and Republican lawmakers that would overhaul the tax system, trim government spending and reform safety net spending programs appear to be fading. A sudden improvement in the outlook for the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Public Finance, Justice System, Budgets and Budgeting
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The Loop Ten: 5-16-13
St. Paul Pioneer PressOur daily countdown of the top newsmakers, groundbreakers and world-class fakers. 1. Brett Favre Might deign to return to Packers family ... after a few more years of pouting. (previous ranking: unranked) 2. "The Office" Wrapping up tonight, about...Tags: Brett Favre, United Nations, Urban Meyer, Tiger Woods, Dwyane Wade
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McManus: The second-term scandal plague
What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...Tags: Al-Qaeda, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Justice System, Bill Clinton
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Answer the question, Mr. President
I love to hear Democrats still blame George W. Bush for all their ills. Jay Carney said last week that Benghazi was a long time ago — it happened 8 months ago. But President Bush is still brought up, after 54 months of not being in office, as a ...Tags: Benghazi, Chicago Tribune, George W. Bush, White House, Susan Rice
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White House fights and loses battle to withhold Benghazi records
ReutersBy Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's White House fought and lost a battle to avoid making public what it claimed were confidential records of internal deliberations over the attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in...Tags: Dick Cheney, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Justice System, Bill Clinton
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Factbox: Key players in the IRS scandal
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three congressional committees and the Department of Justice are investigating the Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status as the scandal distracts from President Barack Obama's second-...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Danny Werfel, Justice System, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means
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Obama's White House Creates Credibility Crisis
The Hartford CourantLet the facts speak for themselves. They are damning enough. Let Gregory Hicks, the honorable, apolitical second-in-command that night in Libya, movingly and grippingly demolish the president's Benghazi mantra that "every piece of information that we got,...Tags: Libya, U.S. Department of State, Al-Qaeda, Politics, FBI
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Obama responds to criticism with 'fix it' strategy
WASHINGTON — At a news conference in a rainy Rose Garden on Thursday, President Obama and the Turkish prime minister had weighty matters to discuss — the bloody civil war in Syria, a disastrous Syrian refugee crisis and Turkey's strained...Tags: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Politics, Al Gore, John Boehner, Chuck Hagel
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Scandals put presidential credibility on the line
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- When the storm of administration scandal first hit President Obama, he offered a good impersonation of Claude Raines in "Casablanca," expressing shock that gambling was going on in Rick's saloon. His verbal outrage at the snooping of the IRS...Tags: Politics, John Boehner, Political Corruption, Carney (music group), Richard Nixon
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The Loop Ten: 5-17-13
St. Paul Pioneer PressOur daily countdown of the top newsmakers, groundbreakers and world-class fakers. 1. Barack Obama Hawaii officials starting to regret making him that fake birth certificate. (previous ranking: 3) 2. Chris Kluwe Will have to punt about twice as...Tags: Brett Favre, Chicago Bulls, Oklahoma City Thunder, Tiger Woods, National Basketball Association
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May 19, 2013
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May 16, 2013
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May 17, 2013
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May 17, 2013
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May 17, 2013
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May 17, 2013
|Column| Hartford Courant
May 16, 2013
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May 17, 2013
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May 17, 2013
|Story| McClatchy-Tribune
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