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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/19/13 05:05 PM
The United States is now engaged in negotiations with the Taliban, as the Examiner reports. How successful are these likely to be? Useful guidance comes from the 2009 book by John Bew, Martyn Frampton and Inigo...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/19/13 01:15 PM
President Obama’s call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles by one-third ran into immediate opposition in both Washington and Moscow, with officials from both countries questioning the need for such a...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/19/13 11:00 AM
President Obama on Wednesday called for the United States and Russia to reduce their arsenals of nuclear weapons by up to one-third, using a speech at the iconic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to renew a long-stalled push for...
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By CHARLIE SPIERING | 06/19/13 10:20 AM
During his speech in Berlin today, President Obama thanked the people for their warm welcome.
“In fact, it’s so warm and I feel so good, I’m going to take off my jacket and anybody else who wants to – feel free...
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By SUSAN CRABTREE | 06/19/13 10:10 AM
President Obama, reacting to news that Afghan President Hamid Karzai had suspended talks with Washington aimed at setting up a prolonged U.S. presence in the country, said he was not surprised by the Afghan government’s...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/18/13 06:05 PM
President Obama will make his encore on the German stage with a speech at Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday, returning as a mere mortal rather than the rock star who captivated a country looking for a...
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By CHARLIE SPIERING | 06/18/13 12:45 PM
Two military religious freedom amendments proposed by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas are challenging the Obama administration after they objected to a similar Amendment proposed in the House.
The...
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By SUSAN CRABTREE | 06/18/13 07:05 AM
Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday will try to revive interest in firearms restrictions and tout actions the Obama administration has taken on its own to reduce gun violence, six months after the mass shootings in...
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By SUSAN CRABTREE | 06/17/13 03:25 PM
Under pressure to demonstrate a renewed commitment to shutter the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, President Obama has tapped a high-powered Washington attorney as one of two special envoys dedicated to brokering a deal to...
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By EXAMINER EDITORIAL | 06/17/13 10:35 AM
President Obama's decision to provide weapons to rebels in Syria has the potential to become another foreign policy blunder at a time when the Nobel Prize winner's second term is mired in scandal. Obama had been saying...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/16/13 02:50 PM
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Sunday said President Obama’s decision to provide small arms and ammunition to the Syrian anti-government rebels wouldn’t curtail a civil war that has killed more than 90,000 people....
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/16/13 02:40 PM
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Sunday said his family was divided about whether he should make a bid for the White House in 2016.
“I think we’ve got a split ballot amongst the Bush senior family,” Bush said on...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/16/13 02:40 PM
Former Vice President Dick Cheney ripped into President Obama on Sunday, saying Obama had lost credibility with the American public thanks to his handling of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, and the...
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By SEAN HIGGINS | 06/16/13 02:10 PM
Here’s a very telling passage from Barton Gellman’s Washington Post story today about the National Security Agency titled “U.S. surveillance architecture includes collection of revealing Internet, phone metadata”:...
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By ASHE SCHOW | 06/16/13 01:30 PM
Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., told CNN's Candy Crowley today that "the road to the White House comes through a road with a pathway to [citizenship]." Menendez was suggesting that without a pathway to citizenship, the...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/16/13 10:27 AM
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough insisted Sunday that the federal government's massive Internet and phone surveillance programs don't violate Americans' privacy, a sentiment he said President Obama would outline...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/16/13 10:18 AM
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Sunday said his family was divided about whether he should make a bid for the White House in 2016.
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/14/13 04:45 PM
President Obama intends to nominate HBO vice president James Costos, a top campaign bundler, as the new ambassador to Spain, the White House Press Office announced today.
Costos heads the Global Licensing and Retail...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/14/13 02:55 PM
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton says it's time for a woman in the Oval Office, music to her mom Hillary Clinton's ears.
In a wide-ranging interview on MSNBC's "NOW with Alex Wagner" Clinton was asked about getting...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/14/13 02:45 PM
President Obama on Friday didn’t address his administration’s assertion that Syria had used chemical weapons — and crossed his so-called red line for intervention in the civil war there — instead leaving his...
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By CHARLIE SPIERING | 06/14/13 10:55 AM
On ‘Morning Joe’ today, former president Bill Clinton praised President Obama for his decision to intervene on behalf of the rebels in Syria.
“It looks to me like this thing is trending in the right direction...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/14/13 10:35 AM
White House officials on Thursday said President Obama has decided to provide "military support" to Syria's anti-government rebels after acknowledging for the first time that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had used...
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By DAVID LIMBAUGH | 06/13/13 07:35 PM
The Obama administration's handling of its multiple scandals paints a picture of those who believe they are above the law. There's a pattern of arrogance, dismissiveness, denial, scapegoating, stonewalling, lying, false...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/13/13 05:50 PM
White House officials on Thursday said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime used chemical weapons repeatedly against anti-government rebels, acknowledging the leader had crossed the "red line" that President...
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| 06/13/13 04:27 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has concluded that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime has used chemical weapons against the opposition seeking to overthrow him, U.S. officials said Thursday, crossing what...
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By MICHAEL BARONE | 06/13/13 02:45 PM
The Obama administration “strongly objects” to a proposed House amendment to the defense authorization bill which would require, in the words of its sponsor, Rep. John Fleming (R-LA), “the Armed Forces to...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/12/13 07:30 PM
The director of the National Security Agency, under fire for the widespread surveillance of U.S. phones and Internet servers, told lawmakers Wednesday that such data collections have foiled "dozens" of terrorist plots....
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 06/12/13 06:00 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Disparate interests ranging from environmental activists to businesses and industry are lining up to support a first-of-its-kind deal between the U.S. and China to phase out a chemical blamed for...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/12/13 01:05 PM
Congressional ignorance about the National Security Agency’s phone record collection exists because lawmakers skipped briefings on the program, according to President Obama’s spokesman, who maintained that the program...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/12/13 12:45 PM
The White House on Wednesday stepped up its campaign for immigration reform with a video of West Wing staffers talking about their immigrant roots, but it was immediately slammed by YouTube viewers as a whitewash of the...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/11/13 05:45 PM
In a thinly veiled threat to congressional Republicans, President Obama on Tuesday warned the GOP not to obstruct a comprehensive immigration-reform bill now advancing in the Senate, ending his virtual silence on an issue...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/11/13 01:55 PM
President Obama’s spokesman defended the intelligence official who told Congress that the government does not collect data on the American people, a comment that has proven irritating to lawmakers given the revelation...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/10/13 11:00 PM
The Justice Department late Monday said it would drop its appeal of a judge’s decision mandating that the “morning-after” pill be made available to girls of all ages, reversing course and effectively giving the go...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/10/13 08:05 PM
President Obama's insistence that combating terrorism requires the federal government's widespread gathering of Americans' phone and email records completed his turnaround from the days as a candidate when he railed...
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By EXAMINER EDITORIAL | 06/10/13 07:15 PM
Among President Obama's first statements concerning the National Security Agency's mining of metadata from billions of private telephone calls, emails and website visits was this curious observation: "If people can't...
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By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/10/13 03:35 PM
Ken Salazar, President Obama’s Interior Secretary, has joined the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, also known as WilmerHale.
Salazar, according to reports, will split time between Colorado (which...
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By CHARLIE SPIERING | 06/10/13 01:50 PM
On “Morning Joe” Monday morning, journalist Glenn Greenwald dismissed MSNBC co-host Mika Brzezinski for reading off of “White House talking points” during an interview the network had with him.
Brzezinski...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/09/13 07:10 PM
The source that publicly disclosed the Obama administration's domestic spying programs revealed himself on Sunday, just as federal authorities were preparing to hunt for him and lawmakers were debating the implications of...
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By NIKKI SCHWAB | 06/09/13 06:20 PM
On Thursday, Sasha Obama was spotted dining at Serendipity 3 in Georgetown. The younger Obama daughter was joined by four girlfriends, a restaurant source tells Yeas & Nays. All the girls enjoyed the D.C. Chicken...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/07/13 03:50 PM
President Obama’s team is gearing up for a push to pass the minimum wage increase he proposed in this year’s State of the Union address, hosting a “strategy meeting” with ideological allies at the White House last...
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By SUSAN CRABTREE | 06/07/13 01:20 PM
Sen. John McCain announced Friday that he is on his way to the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, along with Sen. Dianne Feinstein and White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough.
McCain revealed the surprise trip...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/07/13 01:10 PM
President Obama on Friday for the first time publicly defended his administration’s top-secret, phone and Internet surveillance programs, insisting that Americans weren’t being directly targeted and that...
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By STEVE DOTY | 06/07/13 12:53 PM
President Barack Obama is defending his government's secret surveillance, saying Congress has repeatedly authorized the collection of America's phone records and U.S. Internet use.
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By SUSAN CRABTREE | 06/07/13 10:25 AM
Beset by multiple controversies in Washington, President Obama will try to turn the nation’s attention to his 2010 health care overhaul during a Friday trip to California where he will encourage all Americans who are...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/07/13 10:00 AM
Retired Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk, who won a Super Bowl with the team last year, skipped the team’s visit to the White House due to President Obama’s support for Planned Parenthood.
“I have great respect...
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/06/13 11:40 PM
The Obama administration late Thursday defended its practice of obtaining records from major Internet companies, saying they don’t use the “important and valuable” counterterrorism tool to target Americans....
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/06/13 07:50 PM
The White House on Thursday acknowledged that President Obama quietly continued a Bush-era counterterrorism program that allows the nation's top spy organization to secretly collect the phone records of millions of...
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By JOEL GEHRKE | 06/06/13 02:30 PM
Broad surveillance of the American people is constitutional, President Obama’s spokesman said Thursday following a report that the National Security Agency is collecting the phone records of all Verizon customers....
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By BRIAN HUGHES | 06/06/13 01:55 PM
The White House on Thursday fully defended the Obama administration’s secret gathering of millions of U.S. phone records, calling the practice a “critical tool” in combating terrorism and insisting that such actions...
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