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4 Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes
Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009. The...
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White House, Politics
President Obama's administration admits killing four Americans in drone strikes
Published: Wed, May 22, 2013
The Obama administration killed four Americans in drone attacks overseas, the Justice Department acknowledged Wednesday in the first such public admission by the administration. The day before...
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The Pentagon, White House, Politics
Obama will push Gitmo closure despite Pentagon plans for renovation
Published: Wed, May 22, 2013
President Obama on Thursday will again call for the closure of the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, even as his Pentagon asks Congress for $450 million more to keep the facility open, stoking...
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White House, Politics
Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison
Updated: 16 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close. New details on...
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White House, Politics
Democrats fret President Obama's scandals will hurt them in 2014
Published: Tue, May 21, 2013
President Obama isn't the only one whose fortunes are on the line in the face of a trio of explosive political scandals that are consuming Washington. The Justice Department's monitoring of...
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White House, Beltway Confidential, Politics
Jay Carney: ‘It’s not about me’
Yesterday
Amid revelations that the Justice Department monitored both Associated Press journalists and Fox News’ James Rosen, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, a former reporter, was asked Tuesday...
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White House, Politics
AP Sources: Obama ok punting gay immigration idea
Yesterday
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two people familiar with the Senate immigration deliberations say the White House has suggested to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy that it would be best to put off a controversy...
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He’s No Nixon
By: William Kristol
The thoughtful Carl Cannon has written a piece, " Richard Milhous Obama ," concluding that our current president has more in common with our 37th than President Obama's partisans would like to...
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IRS's Lerner Had History of Harassment, Inappropriate Religious Inquiries at FEC
By: Mark Hemingway
Perhaps no other IRS official is more intimately associated with the tax agency's growing scandal than Lois Lerner, director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Division. Since admitting the IRS...
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Yet Another Obamacare Design Flaw
By: Jeffrey H. Anderson
The more the evidence emerges, the more one has to wonder: Could Obamacare have been designed any more poorly? Even those who don’t mind Obamacare’s striking consolidation of power and money...