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Petraeus offers apology for scandal during speech at USC
Signaling a desire to return to public life, retired Gen. David H. Petraeus offered an apology Tuesday for the scandal that led to his resignation as director of the CIA and brought an illustrious career to an abrupt end. Petraeus has kept a low...
Tags: FBI, Central Intelligence Agency, Paula Broadwell, U.S. Army, Christopher Stevens
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Petraeus apology for affair doesn't go far enough
Glad to see that the self-imposed purda of retired Gen. David Petraeus is coming to an end. I am not one who thinks an extramarital affair merits the equivalent of a professional death penalty, but Petraeus’ transgressions with his much younger...
Tags: FBI, Central Intelligence Agency, Paula Broadwell, Authors, Police Investigations
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Congress weighs legislation that would update email privacy laws
SAN FRANCISCO -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced legislation Tuesday that would give stronger privacy protection to emails. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 would require the government to...
Tags: Microsoft Corporation, Crime, Law and Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, Email, Law Enforcement
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Senate approves Brennan as CIA chief
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to confirm John Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, ending weeks of delay as lawmakers sought access to secret Obama administration documents about the targeted killing of militants overseas...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Terrorism, Benghazi, Police Investigations, Al-Qaeda
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Petraeus apologizes for affair, hints at return to public life
After Gen. David H. Petraeus apologized in Los Angeles for engaging in an extramarital affair, he signaled he is ready to move beyond the scandal and perhaps back into the public eye. Before about 600 guests in a hotel ballroom in downtown L.A. on...
Tags: Adultery, Central Intelligence Agency, Paula Broadwell, Defense of Marriage Act, U.S. Army
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The real problem with David Petraeus
There are a lot worse things going on in our country right now than Gen. David Petraeus cheating on his wife, and one of them is our country's invidious use of drone warfare. The worst part about it is that we have been brainwashed to believe that it is...Tags: Talk Shows (genre), U.S. Congress, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Military Equipment, George W. Bush
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On Benghazi, blame the bureaucracy
In testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will resume the fraught conversation about what exactly took place at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year on Sept. 11. Members...
Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Libya, Benghazi, Osama bin Laden
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Chan Lowe: Manti Te'o, Lance Armstrong and gun control
I’ve noticed that people tend to pay more attention if you can somehow work a sports theme into your message. It’s no accident that politicians lard their language with stomach-turning clichés like “home run,” “full-court...
Tags: Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Central Intelligence Agency, Gun Control, Politics
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Marine takes over as U.S. commander in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan – Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. took over Sunday as the newest and probably last U.S. commander in Afghanistan, tasked with ending America’s longest war even as insurgents continue to challenge the U.S.-backed Afghan...
Tags: U.S. Military, Armed Forces, American Enterprise Institute, International Organizations, U.S. Senate
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Senators use hearing to air CIA controversies
WASHINGTON - The confirmation hearing Thursday of John Brennan to be CIA director reopened scrutiny of a wide range of controversies that have dogged the country for more than a decade, ranging from the Obama administration's embrace of targeted...Tags: Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Police Investigations, Al-Qaeda, Murder
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Google stepping up fight to limit government access to emails
Google is stepping up its fight to change federal law to make it more difficult for law enforcement to gain access to emails and other content stored on cloud services without a search warrant. The search giant, which says it gets about 1,400 requests a...
Tags: Electronics, FBI, Central Intelligence Agency, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
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Obama the decider
A rare phenomenon occurred on Capitol Hill the other day when two ranking officials of the Obama administration testified that they had differed with the president they still served over providing arms to the rebels in Syria seeking to oust dictator...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Defense Equipment, Manufacturing and Engineering, Lyndon B. Johnson, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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