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AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (AP) — The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal...
Tags: National Government, Mitch McConnell, Politics, Corporate Officers, U.S. House of Representatives
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FBI spied on Fox News reporter, accused him of crime
WASHINGTON — The FBI obtained a sealed search warrant to read a Fox News reporter's personal emails from two days in 2010 after arguing there was probable cause he had violated espionage laws by soliciting classified information from a government...
Tags: University of Chicago Law School, Police Investigations, Freedom of the Press, Politics, U.S. Department of State
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Top item on Obama's agenda: damage control
As it must come to all American presidents, it seems, Barack Obama's policy agenda is being crowded out of the headlines by the imperative of damage control against administration scandal. The allegations of incompetence or worse in the IRS' targeting...Tags: U.S. Senate, Dwayne Johnson, Internal Revenue Service, Immigration, Politics
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Screenwriters Need to Learn How to Lie Through Their Teeth
ReutersMay 20 (TheWrap.com) - Art, Picasso tells us, is the lie that tells the greater truth. Screenwriters need to learn how to lie through their teeth. As a screenwriting educator and script doctor I have seen more scripts brought down by a writer's...Tags: Fidel Castro, Movies, Argo (movie), Arts and Culture, USA Today
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Qatar: Arab Spring makes Israeli-Palestinian peace more pressing
Reuters* Emir of Qatar calls for Palestinian state within 1967 borders * Sheikh Hamad says Qatari backing for Arab Spring was important * With little democracy at home, Sheikh says reform must be gradual By Regan Doherty DOHA, May 20 (Reuters) - Qatar's...Tags: Heads of State, Politics, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Qatar
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Scale of government's AP records seizure surprises many
WASHINGTON — Three years ago, the Obama administration brought criminal charges under the Espionage Act against Thomas Drake, an Air Force veteran and intelligence expert at the National Security Agency in Maryland. He was not accused of aiding...
Tags: Freedom of the Press, Politics, News Media, Eric Holder, Lawyers
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Iran hangs two spies working for Israel and U.S.: report
ReutersDUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities executed two men on Sunday convicted of working for Israeli and U.S. spy agencies, Iran's Fars news agency reported. Mohammad Heidari, accused of passing security-related information and secrets to Israeli Mossad...Tags: Iran's Nuclear Program, Iran, Politics, Israel, Espionage and Intelligence
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There Are Plenty of Scandals, Just Not These Ones
There’s a familiar template for the “scandals” that have so far “plagued” the Obama administration, in that they are all, for the most part, total bullshit and/or unfortunate events in the vast federal bureaucracy that have...
Tags: Operation Fast and Furious, Politics, Eric Holder, Christopher Stevens, Richard Nixon
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John F. Brinson: U.S. fighting world war against a political ideology
World War I was everybody versus Germany and Austria (1914-18). World War II was everybody versus Germany, Italy and Japan (1939-45.) World War III was the Cold War, with everybody versus the Soviet communist empire (1947-91). World War IV began in 1979...
Tags: Culture, Islam, Politics, Sociology, Religion and Belief
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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: Jay Carney, Police Investigations, Internal Revenue Service, Politics, U.S. Department of State
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Past time for heads to roll in Washington
AUSTIN, Texas - The twin revelations of the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative political organizations and, now, that the U.S. Justice Department was spying on the Associated Press -- all in a few days -- mean this: It is time to air the...Tags: U.S. Senate, Taxation, Internal Revenue Service, News Agency, Politics
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Report: Iran hangs 2 men convicted of spying for Mossad, CIA
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA intelligence agency. Sunday's report says Mohammad Heidari, who was accused of providing Mossad with...Tags: Iran's Nuclear Program, Iran, Defense Equipment, Politics, Israel
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