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Sep 30 2014
News
Debate Simmers Over Disclosing Warrantless Spying
Obama administration lawyers have been debating whether the Treasury Department must inform the people or groups it lists as foreign terrorists when it relies on warrantless surveillance as the basis for the designation, according to officials familiar with the deliberations.
Intelligence officials are said to oppose being more forthcoming about who has been subjected to surveillance,
New York Times (News)
May 17 2015
News
Marco Rubio takes digs at Hillary Clinton on ‘constant scandal,’ age
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday said that voters will reject Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton because of the “cloud of constant scandal” she brings to the political process.
“Unfortunately, both under her husband’s presidency, her time in the Department of State, her campaign for the president last time and even now there seems to be this cloud of
Washington Times
Sep 28 2014
News
Obama-Holder friendship at the heart of their partnership
It was Super Bowl halftime when Eric H. Holder Jr. buttonholed President Obama at a White House viewing party in 2011. But the attorney general did not want to talk about the game; he wanted to talk shop.
Holder informed his boss that he was prepared to recommend that the administration no longer defend a federal law defining marriage as between a man and woman because it was
Washington Post
May 14 2015
News
Rolling Stone's Rape Article Failed Because It Used Rightwing Tactics to Make a Leftist Point
If you type in the original page for Rolling Stone’s December 2014 story “A Rape on Campus: The Struggle for Justice at UVA,” you’ll be redirected to "What Went Wrong?,” a report about the article published Sunday by the Columbia Journalism Review. Rolling Stone officially retracted its blockbuster story, which had garnered more than 2.7 million views. The retraction comes on the heels of the
New Republic
Sep 04 2016
News
JAMES CARVILLE: THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS COMMITTING SUICIDE
Since the Democratic convention, Hillary Clinton has opened an average lead in national polls over Donald Trump of more than 5 percent, and is posting a double-digit lead over her Republican rival in a number of traditional battleground states—a lead that may to expand in light of Trump's recent refusal to soften his stance on immigration reform. But after the F.B.I. discovered 15,000
Vanity Fair
Aug 15 2015
News
DoD teams surveying US military sites for potential Gitmo transfers, lawmakers vow fight
The Department of Defense notified lawmakers Friday that teams will visit two military installations in the United States — Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and the Naval Brig in Charleston, S.C. — to conduct “site surveys” looking into transferring a “limited number” of Guantanamo detainees, Pentagon and Capitol Hill sources told Fox News.
The move, coming on the same day Secretary of State
Fox News (Online News)
May 04 2014
News
Cleta Mitchell to Newsmax: Holder Must 'Get Out of the Way' in IRS Probe
The U.S. Justice Department "has so many conflicts" in the IRS scandal that the only way to investigate the agency properly for targeting conservative groups is through a special prosecutor, top Washington attorney Cleta Mitchell told Newsmax.
"I just don't see how it's possible that they can conduct a proper investigation," Mitchell, who represented 10 groups were singled out for
Newsmax (News)
Apr 16 2019
News
Bernie Sanders, at combative Fox News town hall, makes no apologies for making millions
Bernie Sanders took the stage at a fiery Fox News town hall in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on Monday, and sparks flew almost immediately, as Sanders defiantly refused to explain why he would not voluntarily pay the massive new 52-percent "wealth tax" that he advocated imposing on the nation's richest individuals.
"We'll get through this together," Sanders said at one point, as tensions
Fox News (Online News)
Aug 09 2023
Headline Roundup
FBI Agents Shoot and Kill Utah Man Accused of Threatening Biden During Raid
A man accused of threatening to kill President Joe Biden and other elected officials was shot and killed by FBI agents in Provo, Utah, on Wednesday morning after agents attempted to execute warrants at his house.
Details: The shooting occurred hours before Biden’s scheduled arrival in Utah. The agency confirmed the incident in a statement reading, “special agents attempted to serve
Associated Press
Reuters 
Washington Examiner
May 29 2013
News
Drone Said To Have Killed Key Pakistani Taliban Commander
It's not confirmed that he's dead. But if a suspected U.S. drone strike on Wednesday did kill Waliur Rehman, as Pakistani officials say it did, then a top Pakistani Taliban commander with a $5 million price on his head has been taken off the battlefield.
According to the U.S. State Department's "rewards for justice" program:
"Rehman is second in command and chief military
NPR (Online News)