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Obama calls controversy over Benghazi talking points a 'sideshow'
WASHINGTON — President Obama tried to dismiss a brewing controversy over the White House handling of the terrorist attack on Benghazi as a “sideshow” and accused critics of using an attack that killed four Americans for political gain....
Tags: White House, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of State, Republican Party, Michael G. Mullen
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McCain again calls for special congressional panel on Benghazi
WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) pressed Sunday for a special congressional committee to investigate the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, last year, insisting that questions about former Secretary of State...
Tags: Jack Reed, John McCain, U.S. Department of State, Government, Lindsey O. Graham
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Justice Department secretly obtained AP telephone records
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained records of telephone calls from more than 20 telephone lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists over a two-month period in an apparent investigation of a leak of sensitive...
Tags: Eric Holder, Journalism, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Media Industry, News Media
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Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained telephone records from more than 20 lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists in an attempt to learn who leaked information on how the CIA thwarted an apparent terrorist plot...
Tags: Justice and Rights, American Civil Liberties Union, Police Investigations, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Media Industry
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Obama dismisses Benghazi criticism as 'sideshow'
WASHINGTON — A defiant President Obama dismissed as a "sideshow" the controversy over his administration's handling of last year's armed assault in Benghazi, Libya, accusing critics of trying to make political hay from the deaths of four Americans....
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. Department of State, Michael G. Mullen, Government, Jay Carney
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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: United Nations, Susan Rice, U.S. Department of State, David Petraeus, Government
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'Scandal' has become must-tweet TV
ABC's "Scandal" revolves around a beautiful, law-breaking Washington power-fixer with killer instincts and a matching wardrobe. She's madly in love with the very flawed president of the United States, who, among other things, recently murdered a Supreme...
Tags: Kerry Washington, Entertainment, Sundance Channel (tv network), Television, AMC (tv network)
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McManus: Obama's IRS choice
Message to the president: Resistance is futile. There are plenty of juicy targets for investigators in the IRS scrutiny of conservative organizations that applied for tax-exempt status, but the most dangerous for President Obama is this: Did bureaucrats...
Tags: Max Baucus, George W. Bush, Denis R. McDonough, U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
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Syria activists look to a grave for evidence against Assad
WASHINGTON — The hunt for proof that Syrian government forces used banned chemical weapons may come down to a rotting corpse exhumed late last month from a makeshift cemetery near Damascus. The grave diggers — a Syrian doctor and several...
Tags: Beirut (Lebanon), United Nations, Allergies, United Kingdom, Biological and Chemical Weapons
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Transparency isn't coming easily to Obama White House
WASHINGTON — The White House decided to release internal emails about the deadly attack on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya — but only after summaries of the exchanges had leaked. The president's spokesman disclosed details of...
Tags: Public Officials, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Al Gore, Tea Party Movement, Government
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Ryan Crocker says U.S. is fumbling on Iran's nuclear program
WASHINGTON — Ryan Crocker has long been viewed as America's indispensable diplomat in the Muslim world. President George W. Bush named him ambassador to Iraq in 2007 to rescue a failing policy, and four years later, President Obama dispatched him to...
Tags: Tehran (Iran), Nuclear Policy, George W. Bush, Islam, Religion and Belief
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Bringing drones out of the shadows
The use of unmanned aircraft to kill suspected terrorists, a practice that has dramatically escalated during the Obama administration, is receiving fresh and welcome scrutiny in Congress and elsewhere even as the number of drone strikes seems to be on the...
Tags: Terrorism, Yemen, September 11, 2001 Attacks, U.S. Department of State, Al-Qaeda
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