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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: Elections, Police Investigations, Benghazi, Susan Rice, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
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World close to ending polio, yet it's a tough foe
AZIZ KHAN GHARI, Pakistan (AP) — Less than four months ago the world was cheered to learn that India had gone a full year with no new cases of polio — a landmark that left only Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria on the World Health...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Elections, Vaccines, Politics, Diseases and Illnesses
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How Obama crossed his own line on Syria after months of debate
ReutersBy Warren Strobel and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - President Obama's decision to arm Syrian rebels for the first time follows an intense, nearly two-year debate within the White House in which the president and his closest advisers...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Politics, White House, Bashar Assad, U.S. Congress
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Obama names Avril Haines as deputy CIA director after Morell retires
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will name Avril Haines, a White House legal adviser, as deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency after the current director, Michael Morell, said he would retire in August, the White House said on...Tags: White House, Police Investigations, Barack Obama, Leon Panetta, John O. Brennan
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Our right to privacy has been going horribly wrong for a long time
So the government has been tracking every single Verizon phone call for seven years. That explains how Michelle Obama got her mitts on my secret bread pudding recipe. Actually that’s not completely true. I don’t even have Verizon. I have...
Tags: Al Gore, Government, The New York Times, Politics, Verizon Communications
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PRESS DIGEST - Wall Street Journal - May 30
ReutersMay 30 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. * David Petraeus, the former U.S. Army general who resigned last year as CIA chief, is...Tags: Warren Buffett, MidAmerican Energy Company, China, U.S. Army, Smithfield Foods
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Chicago-based tech firm attracts investment from CIA offshoot
Stuart Frankel can't tell you how his startup got connected with the Central Intelligence Agency. He can't tell you whether he now has security clearance. But he can tell you that he is very excited about the funding and partnership deal that his company,...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Science, Finance, Police Investigations, Agriculture
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Jill Kelley: Hell hath no fury like a socialite scorned
Certainly it can hard to be “the other woman” in a political sex scandal. But who knew that it’s also no picnic being “the other woman’s” woman? That’s the situation Jill Kelley has found herself in. But Kelley,...
Tags: Paula Broadwell, Jill Kelley, FBI, Central Intelligence Agency, Tampa
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Bales on Afghan village massacre: 'Sir, I intended to kill them'
The U.S. Army staff sergeant accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians in two villages pleaded guilty Wednesday in a move expected to spare him from the death penalty. And when a military judge asked Robert Bales, 39, why he slaughtered the men, women...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Military, Punishment, U.S. Army, FBI
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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: U.S. Military, Police Investigations, Wars and Interventions, Taliban, Central Intelligence Agency
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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: Hillary Clinton, Benghazi, Susan Rice, Politics, David Cameron
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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: U.S. Department of Defense, Elections, Police Investigations, Susan Rice, Benghazi
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