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McManus: The second-term scandal plague
What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, Parties and Movements, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, White House
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Sen. Rand Paul laying groundwork for possible presidential run
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — If he runs for president, says Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), he wants to be considered on his own merits. But when he brought his fledgling campaign to Iowa this weekend, there was no escaping the double-edged legacy of the man he's...
Tags: Politics, Republican Party, U.S. Department of State, Immigration, Parties and Movements
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Administration emails raise new questions on Libya attack
WASHINGTON — Email traffic exchanged during the drafting of talking points about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, last year shows that the State Department and White House were more involved in shaping the...
Tags: Politics, ABC (tv network), U.S. Department of State, John Boehner, Police Investigations
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Envoy describes night of Benghazi attack
WASHINGTON — Minutes after Greg Hicks learned that the perimeter of the U.S. mission in Benghazi had been breached by men with guns, he punched a cellphone number to reach Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, his immediate boss, who was at the scene....
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Politics, Wars and Interventions, Elijah E. Cummings, U.S. Department of State
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Nobody died at Watergate, but it was a bigger scandal than Benghazi
Before Wednesday's hearing into last September’s attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said: “If you link Watergate and Iran-Contra together and multiply it maybe by 10 or so, you’re going to...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Politics, U.S. Department of State, Religion and Belief, Islam
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Rand Paul accuses Hillary Clinton of 'dereliction of duty' on Libya
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Sen. Rand Paul sharply attacked former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, declaring that her actions in the months leading up to the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya last year were "inexcusable, it was a dereliction of...
Tags: Politics, Republican Party, U.S. Department of State, Susan Rice, Barack Obama
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Republicans say military could have done more in Benghazi
WASHINGTON — The latest chapter in the political battle over the killing of four Americans in Libya is unfolding this week, with Republicans pointing to the testimony of a State Department official as evidence that the U.S. military could have...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Politics, The Washington Post, Republican Party, U.S. Department of State
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John Kerry says need for action in Israel-Palestinian conflict is urgent
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John F. Kerry told Congress on Wednesday that any chance of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by creating a separate Palestinian state may be lost in two years. The unusually specific prediction was...
Tags: Israel, West Bank, Politics, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama
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Old animosities thrive in post-Kadafi Libya
ZINTAN, Libya — The prized scion of Moammar Kadafi is a prisoner of tribesmen in these mountains of scrub and ocher rock. The rebels who captured him after the 2011 civil war that toppled his father have refused to turn him over to the central...
Tags: National Government, Wars and Interventions, Politics, Muammar Gaddafi, International Law
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Libya's south teeters toward chaos — and militant extremists
SABHA, Libya — Their fatigues don't match and their pickup has no windshield. Their antiaircraft gun, clogged with grit, is perched between a refugee camp and ripped market tents scattered over an ancient caravan route. But the tribesmen keep...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Muammar Gaddafi, Islam, Religion and Belief, Mali
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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: Central Intelligence Agency, Paula Broadwell, NATO, U.S. Army, FBI
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Hillary Clinton exits Benghazi probe looking stronger than ever
When Hillary Clinton went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Republicans opened their bags of overly ripe conspiracy theories and moldering fruitcake ideas and tossed everything at her. Every shot missed. Republican senators and congressmen on the foreign...
Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Politics, Republican Party, U.S. Department of State, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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