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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: Barack Obama, Dianne Feinstein, Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Armed Forces
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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: U.S. Department of State, Barack Obama, The New York Times, White House, Armed Forces
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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, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry, George W. Bush
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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: International Law, Barack Obama, Bob Corker, Joel Brinkley, Russia
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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: Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of State, White House, POLITICO LLC
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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: News Media, Univision (tv network), U.S. Department of State, The New York Times, Sex Crimes
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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: Barack Obama, White House, Hillary Clinton, U.S. Senate, Benghazi
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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, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Mitt Romney
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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: U.S. Department of State, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Terrorism, Benghazi
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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: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Islam, Religious Conflicts
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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, Hillary Clinton, Bob Corker, John McCain, Benghazi
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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: Barack Obama, U.S. Department of State, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Robert Gates, U.S. Congress
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