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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: Barack Obama, Politics, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Parties and Movements, Central Intelligence Agency
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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: Health Organizations, Afghanistan, Politics, Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency
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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: Politics, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Parties and Movements, Military Equipment, U.S. Department of Defense
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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: Barack Obama, Politics, David Letterman, Jay Carney, Central Intelligence Agency
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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: Barack Obama, Politics, Parties and Movements, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC
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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: Barack Obama, John McCain, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Politics, Benghazi
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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: Barack Obama, Politics, David Letterman, Central Intelligence Agency, Jay Carney
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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: Germany, Washington, DC, Austria, Pulitzer Prize Awards, The Washington Post
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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: Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Politics, Career and Workplace, Central Intelligence Agency
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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: Vietnam War (1955-1975), U.S. Military, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency
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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: Barack Obama, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, Weaponry
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Bear cub rescued after getting stuck in unlocked truck
We're pretty sure Meatball the bear wasn't trying to make a great escape. Maybe it was his alter ego? A bear cub had to be rescued Wednesday evening after somehow managing to get stuck in an unlocked truck in Truckee, a town outside north Lake Tahoe,...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency
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