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McManus: Inching closer to entanglement in Syria
The White House finally made it official last week: Yes, the civil war in Syria is a slippery slope, and yes, we're on it. Nobody in the Obama administration actually used those words, of course. But if you paid attention to what officials said, it...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, White House, Wars and Interventions, Armed Forces, Barack Obama
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Chuck Hagel survives
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- After all the thunder and lightning signifying nothing but more Republican obstructionism, former Sen. Chuck Hagel has taken over at the Pentagon, vowing a realistic approach to America's military role in the world. Not surprisingly, he...Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Politics, Lobbying, John Kerry
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Benghazi, IRS: Son of Watergate?
Cal ThomasIn his defense of President Obama, Press Secretary Jay Carney is beginning to sound a lot like Ronald Zeigler, Richard Nixon's spokesman. Carney only has to use the word "inoperative," as Ziegler did when incriminating evidence surfaced that proved his...Tags: Television Industry, Susan Rice, Taxation, Barack Obama, Al-Qaeda
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Western intervention in Syria is long overdue (UPDATED)
American VoicesSyria is fast becoming the new Somalia -- a nation whose central government wields little control over the bulk of the country while feuding sects and gangs fight each other as well as the thoroughly discredited president, Bashar al-Assad. Meanwhile,...Tags: Afghanistan, Iran, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Military Equipment, Barack Obama
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Bob Menendez, senator of the evening
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bob Menendez is embroiled in a prostitution scandal -- and it has little if anything to do with sex. The New Jersey Democrat has for three months been the target of voluminous allegations, all unconfirmed, that he hired prostitutes,...
Tags: Politics, Univision (tv network), FBI, Ethics, Prostitution
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The ghosts of Benghazi
WASHINGTON -- We may never know exactly what happened in Benghazi the night Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed, but it's becoming increasingly clear that our response was short of optimum. Even today, there are far more...
Tags: Benghazi, Georgetown, Politics, Martin Dempsey, White House
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Obama's second coming
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- The first two weeks of the second Obama administration have signaled that a more assertive president now sits behind the Oval Office desk than the one who settled in there after his first inauguration four years ago. The starry-eyed...Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Immigration, Politics, Lobbying
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McManus: Obama plays for time to avoid 'red line'
Barack Obama really, really does not want to get tangled up in Syria. For almost a year, Obama's secretaries of State — first Hillary Rodham Clinton, now John Kerry — have pressed the president for more aid to the insurgents who are fighting...
Tags: Politics, John Kerry, George W. Bush, White House, Dianne Feinstein
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Lady Hillary of Benghazi
Paul GreenbergHillary Clinton kept her cool last week as she fielded questions from two congressional committees about the State Department's failure to protect our envoys at Benghazi. Until a senator from Wisconsin, Ron Johnson, pressed her on the subject. That's when...Tags: Benghazi, Politics, John Adams, Susan Rice, Christopher Stevens
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Questions that need asking
WASHINGTON -- Republicans wanted nothing more than to summon Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Capitol Hill and grill her about the tragic fiasco in Benghazi. Sadly for them, they got their wish. Clinton's smooth and confident performance at...
Tags: Benghazi, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Politics, France
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Hil storms the Hill
WASHINGTON -- They blamed her mismanagement for the death of Americans in Benghazi, Libya. They accused her of a cover-up. Some even suggested that she faked an illness to avoid testifying about the attack. On Wednesday, Hillary Rodham Clinton finally...
Tags: Republican Party, Benghazi, Parties and Movements, Politics, Bob Corker
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Continuing a foreign policy pivot
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- President Obama's nominations of former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel to be his secretary of defense and John Brennan as CIA director, coupled with Sen. John Kerry as secretary of state, underline his determination to pivot from the war...Tags: Robert Gates, John Kerry, George W. Bush, Afghanistan, Jules Witcover
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