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GOP demands more despite Benghazi email release
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House release of some 100 pages of emails and notes about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year has failed to satisfy congressional Republicans, who are demanding more information....Tags: Benghazi, Elections, Jason Chaffetz, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Congress
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White House releases Benghazi emails, seeks to defuse controversy
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday sought to defuse controversy over its handling of last year's killing of four Americans in Benghazi, releasing emails that show how Obama administration officials presented a scrubbed-down version of the...Tags: Benghazi, Republican Party, National Government, Elections, Parties and Movements
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OPINION: Worldview: Real scandal of Benghazi
The Philadelphia InquirerYes, Virginia, there is a Benghazi scandal. The scandal is that Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) and some Republican colleagues are dishonoring the memory of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans by making a political circus out of their...Tags: Benghazi, Republican Party, U.S. Department of Defense, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Stevens
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DOCUMENTS: White House releases trove of Benghazi emails
WASHINGTON (AP) — Then CIA-Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points the Obama administration used after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, because he wanted to see more details revealed to the...
Tags: Benghazi, Elections, Parties and Movements, Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama
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Benghazi's smoking guns
Jonah GoldbergPresident Obama was asked about the metastasizing Benghazi scandal in a joint news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday. Referring to the Americans who died in Benghazi, the president said, "We dishonor them when we turn things...Tags: Benghazi, Unrest, Conflicts and War, David Letterman, Barack Obama, Univision (tv network)
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Life Out Here: Hillary vs. The Angry Koala
If there is proof that Hillary Clinton was incompetent, indifferent or conspiratorial, or any combination of the aforementioned, in the Benghazi attack and subsequent scandal, she should never again be given serious consideration as a presidential...
Tags: Benghazi, Republican Party, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Central Intelligence Agency, Elections
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Goldberg: Benghazi's smoking guns
President Obama was asked about the metastasizing Benghazi scandal in a joint news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday. Referring to the Americans who died in Benghazi, the president said, "We dishonor them when we turn things...Tags: Benghazi, David Letterman, Univision (tv network), Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
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Rick Atkinson talks "The Guns at Last Light"
World War II lasted six years, but Rick Atkinson needed 14 years to complete his massive trilogy on the conflict. That turned out to be time well spent. Now the wait for the concluding volume of “The Liberation Trilogy,” his magisterial...
Tags: Austria, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Journalism, Chicago Sun-Times, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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The Vietnam syndrome
Thirty-eight years ago last week, I was among the last CIA officers to be choppered off the U.S. Embassy roof in Saigon as the North Vietnamese took the country. Just two years before that chaotic rush for the exits, the Nixon administration had withdrawn...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Rebellions, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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McManus: Obama's Gitmo woes
President Obama sounded genuinely outraged last week when he talked about the Kafkaesque situation at the Guantanamo prison camp, where the United States has been holding 166 men without trial for terms that are, at this point, officially endless. "It's...Tags: Joe Biden, Robert Mueller, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Strikes
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Tilting Syria
President Barack Obama painted himself into a corner last summer when he said Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons against rebel forces would be a "red line for us." Now there's evidence that chemical weapons have been used in Syria,...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Weaponry, Bashar Assad, Barack Obama
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'The Way of the Knife' exposes America's shadow wars
In October 2002, Barack Obama, then an obscure state senator in Illinois, stood in Federal Plaza in Chicago and gave a speech about Iraq that launched his career toward the White House. "I don't oppose all wars," Obama told the crowd. "What I am opposed...Tags: Espionage and Intelligence, Kim Jong Il, Weaponry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Military Equipment
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May 4, 2013
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May 3, 2013
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