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Gen. John Allen turns down NATO post, set to retire
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON — Gen. John Allen, who was top commander in Afghanistan until Feb. 10, announced Tuesday that he is retiring from the Marine Corps due to his wife’s chronic illness, turning down a White House offer to nominate him to be the supreme...Tags: Paula Broadwell, Politics, NATO, U.S. Military, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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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: Paula Broadwell, U.S. Army, Defense of Marriage Act, NATO, Adultery
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Petraeus apologizes for affair, but was it enough?
Is retired Gen. David H. Petraeus planning a comeback? He seemed to suggest so in a speech at USC Tuesday night. In the highly anticipated talk, Petraeus apologized for engaging in an extramarital affair that made international headlines. The scandal...
Tags: Paula Broadwell, Defense of Marriage Act, Adultery, 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: Police Investigations, Paula Broadwell, FBI, Authors, Central Intelligence Agency
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In surprise move, General Allen retires from military
Marine Corps Gen. John Allen, the former commander of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan whose nomination to lead NATO was delayed last year while investigators probed his e-mails to a Florida socialite, has retired from the military. The Naval...
Tags: Iraq, Armed Forces, Annapolis, Paula Broadwell, Politics
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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: Politics, Computer Networking and Internet, Email, Government, Justice System
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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: Iraq, Politics, State of the Union Address, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Prosecution
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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: Iraq, Dianne Feinstein, Politics, Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Justice
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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: U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, Politics, Osama bin Laden, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Obama the decider
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 oust dictator...Tags: Iraq, Martin Dempsey, Muammar Gaddafi, Manufacturing and Engineering, Lyndon B. Johnson
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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: Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Gun Control, Central Intelligence Agency
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Google stepping up fight to limit government access to emails
Google is stepping up its fight to change federal law to make it more difficult for law enforcement to gain access to emails and other content stored on cloud services without a search warrant. The search giant, which says it gets about 1,400 requests a...
Tags: Electronics, Laws, FBI, Justice System, Judges
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