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CIA Director Petraeus quits over extramarital affair

Source: The Appleton Post-Crescent, Nov 10 2012, 4:37am CST

WASHINGTON David Petraeus, the retired four-star general renowned for taking charge of the military campaigns in Iraq and then Afghanistan, abruptly resigned Friday as director of the CIA, admitting to an extramarital affair. The affair was disco ...

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Marcus: Far from doomsday for Obama

Source: Albany Times-Union  |   May 18 2013, 9:34pm CDT

Folks, deep breath time. This is not the end of the Obama presidency. It's a bad stretch with an unfortunate confluence of unfortunate events. None of which will make the first paragraph — not even the first page — of the account of the ...

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As disability claims pile up, anger at veterans affairs secretary grows

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune  |   May 18 2013, 6:38pm CDT

The 30-second Web video has the edgy quality of a campaign-season attack ad, including ominous music, grainy photos and a closing demand: “It’s time for new leadership.” But the target is not an elected official, or a politician at all. ...

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Romney: Benghazi Talking Points Did Not Cost Him Election

Source: NewsMax  |   May 18 2013, 5:14pm CDT

Mitt Romney told Jay Leno that the Obama administration’s controversial talking points on the attacks that killed four Americans in Benghazi last Sept. 11 did not cost him the White House. “I don’t think it would have ...

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Obama adminstration talking points scrubbed jihadists from Cairo as well as Benghazi

Source: Power Line  |   May 18 2013, 1:58pm CDT

In the days after the Benhazi attack, the State Department scurried to cover up its failure to heed warnings of such attacks while the White House scurried to cover up the fact that that attacks were the work of al Qaeda-linked terrorists ...

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11 hours ago

Umbrage-gate: The scandalously premature diagnosis of a cancer on the presidency

Source: Chicago Tribune  |   May 18 2013, 1:14pm CDT

If it makes me a media lackey or a tail-wagging lap dog for President Barack Obama to hold out for, you know, actual evidence that he had anything to do with the various and glaring misbehavior, blundering and butt-covering in the govern ...

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11 hours ago

The truth about Benghazi

Source: Sydney Morning Herald  |   May 18 2013, 1:03pm CDT

Bloodshed: A rebel fighter in Tripoli. Photo: AFP It's just past midnight when Amber Pickens grabs the axe. Going from desk to desk in the US embassy in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, the office manager smash ...

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Romney: Benghazi talking points had no bearing on presidential election

Source: The Hill  |   May 18 2013, 1:01pm CDT

The issue of the administration’s talking points has been a key focus of Republican criticism over the handling of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya last September that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. ...

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11 hours ago

Criticism of veterans affairs secretary mounts

Source: Cape Cod Online  |   May 18 2013, 12:52pm CDT

By NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE May 18, 2013 The 30-second Web video has the edgy quality of a campaign-season attack ad, including ominous music, grainy photos and a closing demand: “It's time for new leader ...

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14 hours ago

A Bad Week, But Not That Bad

Source: The Huffington Post  |   May 18 2013, 10:08am CDT

We have, of late, been inundated with press accounts declaring that the Obama Administration is in real trouble. Headlines scream: "Obama struggles," "White House dysfunction," or, worse still, asking "Has Obama Lost ...

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Why Obama Is Not Nixon

Source: The New York Book Review   |   May 18 2013, 9:54am CDT

References to Watergate, impeachment, even Richard Nixon, are being tossed around these days as if they were analogous to the current so-called scandals. But the furors over the IRS, Benghazi, and the Justice Department’s sweeping investigation of the As ...

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