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Letters: Mixed messages on Susan Rice
Re "The Rice choice ...," Opinion, Nov. 29 Whether or not they won reelection or were even running, Republican senators who lined up to oppose U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice's potential nomination as secretary of State look increasingly like lame ducks....Tags: Elections, Politics
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Obama nominates Brennan for CIA chief, Hagel for Defense secretary
WASHINGTON -- President Obama tapped two controversial figures to lead his national security team Monday, and warned that any delays caused by a confirmation fight would put the safety of the country at risk. When it comes to national security, Obama...
Tags: Chuck Hagel, John Kerry, George W. Bush, Republican Party, John Brennan
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GOP senators criticize Susan Rice after meeting on Benghazi attack
WASHINGTON -- Three Republican senators said they were unsatisfied by the answers provided by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice after a fence-mending meeting on her disputed role after the terrorist attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to...
Tags: U.S. Senate, United Nations, Kelly Ayotte, Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency
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Letters: An upgrade for Palestinians
Re "Vote at U.N. is a setback for U.S., Israel," Nov. 30 The United Nations' vote to recognize Palestine as a nonmember observer state is a huge step forward. The world stated loud and clear that the occupation of the Palestinians' land and the denial...
Tags: Mahmoud Abbas, United Nations, Israel, Palestine, Elections
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Weekend TV Talk Shows: Timothy F. Geithner; Grover Norquist; Dianne Feinstein
Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 2 - 8 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SATURDAY Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC The Chris Matthews Show "Fiscal cliff" negotiations: Richard Stengel; Katty Kay;...
Tags: Mike J. Rogers, Keith Ellison, Tom Cole, John Boehner, Claire McCaskill
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Panel faults security failures in Benghazi attacks
WASHINGTON — The State Department was guilty of "systematic failures" in security that made the deadly Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. mission in Libya possible, a high-level investigative panel concluded in an unflinching examination made...
Tags: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hillary Clinton, Career and Workplace, Michael G. Mullen, Muammar Gaddafi
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White House defends possible Defense nominee Chuck Hagel
WASHINGTON -- The White House is again coming to the defense of a possible Cabinet nominee, even before President Obama makes up his mind on the post. White House spokesman Jay Carney backed up former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel on Thursday, saying the...
Tags: Chuck Hagel, U.S. Senate, United Nations, Hillary Clinton, Lobbying
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Friday's TV Talk Shows: Ewan McGregor; Cory Booker; Judd Apatow
Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 9 - 15 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- CBS This Morning (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Ewan McGregor; Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline. (N) 7 a.m....
Tags: Christina Milian, Mark Feuerstein, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Kline, Samuel L. Jackson
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The Hagel litmus test
First, critics went after U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and unfairly short-circuited her candidacy to be secretary of State. Now, a similar campaign is being waged against former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), who reportedly is President Obama's choice to be...
Tags: Chuck Hagel, Lobbying, Barack Obama, The Wall Street Journal, Judaism
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Susan Rice's troubled steps toward secretary of State
Four thoughts about Susan Rice’s decision to withdraw as a possible nominee for secretary of State: 1) Rice should not have been disqualified because of her now-notorious talk-show comments about the attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four...
Tags: Anne Hathaway, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Benghazi, The Washington Post
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Letters: Calling out Republicans on embassy cuts
Re "Senators unswayed by talks with Rice," Nov. 28 Isn't there just one donkey willing to call out the elephant in the room when Republicans insist on ranting on and on about Benghazi? Simply put: Which party was responsible for the hundreds of millions...Tags: Republican Party, United Nations, Charter Schools, John McCain, Benghazi
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3 unconventional picks for secretary of State
With the 2012 presidential election over, attention nows turns to the inevitable shuffling of personnel in the Obama administration. Chief among the vacancies will be at the helm of the State Department, where Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has...
Tags: John Kerry, Chuck Hagel, Robert Gates, Fiscal Cliff, Gerald Ford
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