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Petraeus offers apology for scandal during speech at USC
Signaling a desire to return to public life, retired Gen. David H. Petraeus offered an apology Tuesday for the scandal that led to his resignation as director of the CIA and brought an illustrious career to an abrupt end. Petraeus has kept a low...
Tags: Christopher Stevens, Paula Broadwell, FBI, U.S. Army, Central Intelligence Agency
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Petraeus apology for affair doesn't go far enough
Glad to see that the self-imposed purda of retired Gen. David Petraeus is coming to an end. I am not one who thinks an extramarital affair merits the equivalent of a professional death penalty, but Petraeus’ transgressions with his much younger...
Tags: Authors, Paula Broadwell, FBI, Police Investigations, Central Intelligence Agency
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Congress weighs legislation that would update email privacy laws
SAN FRANCISCO -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced legislation Tuesday that would give stronger privacy protection to emails. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 would require the government to...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Email, National Government, Privacy Laws, U.S. Congress
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Senate approves Brennan as CIA chief
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to confirm John Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, ending weeks of delay as lawmakers sought access to secret Obama administration documents about the targeted killing of militants overseas...
Tags: Benghazi, Yemen, John Brennan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Terrorism
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Petraeus apologizes for affair, hints at return to public life
After Gen. David H. Petraeus apologized in Los Angeles for engaging in an extramarital affair, he signaled he is ready to move beyond the scandal and perhaps back into the public eye. Before about 600 guests in a hotel ballroom in downtown L.A. on...
Tags: Defense of Marriage Act, Paula Broadwell, George W. Bush, U.S. Army, Medical Specialization
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State of the union, at home and abroad
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- President Obama's first State of the Union address of his second term, following in the fashion of his second inaugural address, focused on the state of the nation at home: the need for more jobs and a revived middle class, as well as such...Tags: George W. Bush, United Nations, Unions, Afghanistan, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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On Benghazi, blame the bureaucracy
In testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will resume the fraught conversation about what exactly took place at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year on Sept. 11. Members...
Tags: Hillary Clinton, The Wall Street Journal, Elections, Library of Congress, Benghazi
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Chan Lowe: Manti Te'o, Lance Armstrong and gun control
I’ve noticed that people tend to pay more attention if you can somehow work a sports theme into your message. It’s no accident that politicians lard their language with stomach-turning clichés like “home run,” “full-court...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Central Intelligence Agency, Gun Control, Politics
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Marine takes over as U.S. commander in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan – Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. took over Sunday as the newest and probably last U.S. commander in Afghanistan, tasked with ending America’s longest war even as insurgents continue to challenge the U.S.-backed Afghan...
Tags: George Washington, Afghanistan, American Enterprise Institute, U.S. Department of Defense, International Military Interventions
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Are men wired to be unfaithful?
Ana Veciana-Suarez"Men!" huffed a friend, more annoyed than angry. "Can't they keep it zipped?" "Puts a whole other meaning on the term embedded," said another. They were referring, of course, to the tangled sex story du jour, the extramarital affair that toppled CIA...Tags: FBI, Central Intelligence Agency, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), The Miami Herald, Sex Crimes
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Where the buck still stops
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- A rare phenomenon occurred on Capitol Hill the other day when two ranking officials of the Obama administration testified that they had differed with the president they still served over providing arms to the rebels in Syria seeking to...Tags: George W. Bush, Diane Sawyer , Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lyndon B. Johnson, Wars and Interventions
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Senators use hearing to air CIA controversies
WASHINGTON - The confirmation hearing Thursday of John Brennan to be CIA director reopened scrutiny of a wide range of controversies that have dogged the country for more than a decade, ranging from the Obama administration's embrace of targeted...Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Richard Burr, Amnesty International, Sleep Deprivation, U.S. Congress
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