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Ex-Goldman director Gupta
sentenced to 2 years in
prison and ordered to
pay $5M fine
New York Post, by Kaja Whitehouse
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Posted By:JoniTx, 10/24/2012 4:40:06 PM
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| Fallen business titan Rajat Gupta was sentenced to 2 years in prison and ordered to pay a $5 million fine for leaking tips to convicted hedge-fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam. Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs director who once ran top consulting firm McKinsey & Co., was convicted in June of three counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy, including tipping Rajaratnam to Warren Buffett’s $5 billion investment in Goldman at the height of the financial crisis. (Snip) The sentence fell short of the maximum recommended by prosecutors, who argued he deserved up to 10 years
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Halfvast Conspirator, 10/24/2012 4:57:25 PM (No. 8958915)
So he'll get out in a year or so and have a nice nest egg to enjoy the rest of life doing whatever, if indeed he is capable of enjoying life doing whatever besides being a banking tycoon.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
harleynyc, 10/24/2012 5:26:41 PM (No. 8958986)
Good resume to be a democrat.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
The Advocate, 10/24/2012 7:47:36 PM (No. 8959301)
When will John Corzine be perp walked for his theft of 1.6 billion?
Why isn't he with Bernie Madoff?
Why hasn't Obamas returned his campaign contributions?
When will State AG charge him?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46, 10/24/2012 7:50:49 PM (No. 8959304)
Hmmmm. Us see, now. Two years, cut in half for good time, that's one year- Hmmm- 365 days, divided by 4,6 billion or so, that come out to- wiat for it. . . oh, yeah, there it is, 12.6 million dollars a day- and that's tax free- oops, I forgot to deduct his 5 million dollar fine... recalculating...There we go, all correct...12.5 million bucks a day - give or take a few hundred thousand! Tax free, too, since it's all in overseas accounts. Well, I could stand on my head for a year for that kind of scratch!
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Enron’s Jeff Skilling may get
decade off sentence in U.S. deal
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Houston Chronicle, by Allan Turner
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 9:04:41 PM
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Responding to a federal appeals court mandate, lawyers for former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling and the U.S. Department of Justice Wednesday reached an agreement that could knock a decade off the disgraced CEO’s 24-year sentence. Skilling, 59, was convicted in 2006 of conspiracy, securities fraud, making false statements to auditors and one count of insider trading in connection with the energy company’s 2001 collapse. The new agreement provides for a jail term of 14 to 17 years and a financial penalty of $40 million. He would be credited for time already served. Skilling’s sentencing is set for June 21
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Krauthammer: Democrats Were
‘Frankly Embarrassing’ at
Benghazi Hearing
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Washington Free Beacon, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 9:00:43 PM
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Columnist Charles Krauthammer hit back at Democrats who have repeatedly claimed that the Benghazi hearing was a politicized attempt to discredit Hillary Clinton, calling their behavior Wednesday “frankly embarrassing” on “Special Report.” “All they were doing is hurling political charges,” Krauthammer said. “Here were State Department officials, career officials who don’t have any ax to grind, who don’t have any political motive here, giving facts and the Democrats essentially ignored them and said, ‘It’s an attack on Hillary.’ Well, this didn’t start today with Hillary as the lead candidate in the next election … So to pretend
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Partisan politics, little new
information at House
Benghazi hearing
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Los Angeles Times, by Ken Dilanian
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 5:56:42 PM
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WASHINGTON— Partisan politics loomed over a House hearing Wednesday on the deadly September 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, as Republicans and Democrats clashed over the meaning of testimony from three witnesses who had little new to add to the story. The hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee began with the chairman, Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), complaining that the Obama administration and Democrats on the committee have not supported his efforts to get to the truth. The ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), promptly accused the Republican chairman of politicizing
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NYT Public Editor Says Paper
Playing Down Benghazi;
Dismissive Hearing Coverage
indicates Her Concern
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Newsbusters, by Clay Waters
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 4:22:36 PM
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Benghazi hearings open in the House on Wednesday, and the New York Times printed a preview on page 16 of Wednesday´s edition that downplayed any possible revelations about the Obama administration´s reaction to the terrorist attack, which killed ambassador Chris Stevens and three others. Testimony is expected by three State Department officials, led by U.S. diplomat Gregory Hicks, deputy mission chief in Tripoli, who said his pleas for military assistance were overruled. Feeling reader pressure after the Washington Post led its Tuesday´s edition by setting up the House hearings, Public Editor Margaret Sullivan addressed the issue
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Five Key Points from Today´s
Benghazi Hearing (So Far)
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Breitbart Big Peace, by Joel B. Pollak
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 3:46:26 PM
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1. Two "stand-down" orders were given while the Benghazi attacks were in progress. 2. The "protest" about a YouTube video was a complete fabrication by the Obama administration. 3. Cheryl Mills, Clinton´s lawyer at the State Department, told witnesses not to speak to House investigators. 4. The diplomatic personnel on the ground acted with incredible, unheralded heroism. 5. Democrats came to rebut the eyewitnesses
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Official holds back tears during
emotional Benghazi testimony
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Jordy Yager
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 2:16:32 PM
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The State Department’s deputy chief of mission in Libya fought back tears on Wednesday as he delivered a lengthy account of the nighttime terrorist attacks last year that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens. The first-hand account is the first the Oversight Committee has heard publicly from a witness during its investigation of possible security and intelligence failures in the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Testifying before a packed hearing room, Gregory Hicks gave an emotional account of his attempt to secure the State Department’s staff in Tripoli as he relayed messages to the Washington, D.C., operation center
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Fox News Carries Benghazi Hearing
Wall-to-Wall; CNN Joins at
Noon and MSNBC Is Last
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Newsbusters, by Scott Whitlock
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 2:10:02 PM
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Of the three cable networks, Fox News on Wednesday offered the most substantial coverage of whistleblower testimony on the September 11th terrorist attack in Benghazi. Fox broke in first at 11:36am and has been airing the hearings mostly unobstructed since. CNN followed at noon. Anchor Wolf Blitzer appeared and introduced coverage. The cable network stuck with the testimony for 15 minutes before leaving to feature discussion by Blitzer and Jake Tapper. MSNBC, unsurprisingly, was last. It wasn´t until 12:17pm, after spending copious amounts of time on the Cleveland abduction case, that the network finally showcased the hearings.
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Colbert Previews Fox News’
‘Explosive’ Coverage Of Benghazi
Hearings: ‘The Taco Bell Of
Breaking News’
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Mediaite, by Matt Wilstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 1:39:00 PM
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Ahead of today’s House Congressional hearing on the Benghazi attack, Stephen Colbert took a head-first dive into Fox News’ speculative coverage of what that network has been promising will be “explosive” revelations. Since the attack first happened last September, Colbert reported, Fox has been “doggedly” pursuing the investigation to uncover “how the administration blew it, when they blew it, why they blew it, and how they will continue to have blown it.” The host also marveled at the fact the car used in shot after shot on Fox appears to still be on fire. “I mean, it’s been eight months,”
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Dem Rep. Cummings Tears Into
GOP Rep. Issa For ‘Politicizing’
Benghazi During Congressional Hearing
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Mediaite, by Matt Wilstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 1:35:17 PM
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Rep. Elijah Cummings was the first Democratic member of Congress to speak during Wednesday’s hearing on last year’s attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Cummings did not waste any time before going after Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), for what he believes was the congressman using the Benghazi attack for his own political gain. Cummings began by thanking the witness, former diplomat Gregory Hicks for his service and offering condolences for the loss of his colleagues in the attack. “If I had been in your place,”
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Fourth Benghazi witness
gagged by red tape
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Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Neil Munro
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 11:40:43 AM
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Obama administration officials are finally letting the attorney for a Benghazi whistle-blower get a security clearance — but the clearance is at such a low level that it will probably slow the congressional probe of how the administration handled last year’s terrorist attack on the embassy in Benghazi, Libya. Victoria Toensing represents an unnamed government official who can help explain the reaction of top government officials to the jihadi attack on the U.S diplomatic site in Benghazi and killed four Americans last Sept. 11. The official may also be able to explain if officials rewrote intelligence reports
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McCain´s Benghazi Fishing
Trip Lands Gregory Hicks
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Atlantic, by Steve Clemons
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 11:32:01 AM
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Last evening in Manhattan, Senator John McCain met with supporters of a new center named in his honor called the John McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University. McCain spoke and displayed all of the maverick, straight talk qualities that have both propelled his political career and made him a frustrating partner to many in both parties who have wanted him to either be a cookie cutter conservative or a progressive in GOP attire.(Snip) And then Senator McCain said to the assembled wealthy blown away by the effusive radical centrism they had just heard, "Watch the Benghazi
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Scarborough, Chuck Todd Blast
GOP’s Benghazi ‘Conspiracy
Theory’: Not ‘Holy Grail’
Or ‘Pathway To Victory’
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Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 11:18:06 AM
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Joe Scarborough and Chuck Todd commiserated a bit on Wednesday’s Morning Joe, as they both questioned why conservatives are going after the Obama administration for Benghazi so fervently. While the situation merits investigation, both MSNBCers agreed that it’s no political “holy grail” — and won’t ensure Republican victory in 2014. Recalling a conversation with a leading Republican, Scarborough initiated the conversation as he discussed how said Republican felt the Benghazi will turn the American people against President Obama. “Are you kidding me?” was Scarborough’s reaction. “I want the investigation,” he agreed, but “I don’t understand why conservatives
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Hillary Clinton — culpable for
Benghazi from beginning to end
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Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/7/2013 5:14:14 AM
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When it first became clear that the CIA’s Benghazi talking points had been altered, many of us viewed the White House as the prime suspect. After all, it served President Obama’s political purposes to claim, at the height of a political campaign in which he was taking credit for the fall of al Qaeda, that the death of a U.S. ambassador was down to spontaneous outrage over a video, rather than pre-planned terrorism. It turns out, however, that the State Department was the prime culprit. It was State that pushed back hard against the original talking points.
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Republican probe of Benghazi
attacks turns to Hillary Clinton
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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 6:52:16 AM
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Republican lawmakers, who have spent months seeking to tie President Obama to last year’s deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, are increasingly focusing their probe on a new target: former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton. The GOP-led investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012, assaults that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others now centers heavily on the State Department and whether officials there deliberately misled the public about the nature of the assault. Three State Department officials are scheduled to testify before a House committee on Wednesday about the Benghazi attack and its aftermath.
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Turning on Obama
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Amerian Spectator, by Ross Kaminsky
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/7/2013 6:19:30 AM
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If ponies rode men and grass ate cows, And cats were chased into holes by the mouse … If summer were spring and the other way round, Then all the world would be upside down. Once in a long while, an event evokes one of my favorite historical images: the British Army band, at Lord Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown which sealed the Americans’ revolutionary victory, playing “The World Turned Upside Down.” In this case, the event is the dramatic change over the past two weeks
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Seattle to melt buyback guns
into peace bricks
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: maggie2u- 5/7/2013 1:13:31 PM
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The Seattle Police Department collected more than 700 guns during a buyback in January, and now city officials have a plan for what to do with them. Mayor Mike McGinn is expected to announce Tuesday that they´ll be melted into bricks carrying messages of peace, and the bricks will be placed around the city. The buyback program was announced a month after last December´s elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., by city leaders sick of hearing about gun violence. Private sponsors including Amazon.com contributed tens of thousands of dollars
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Sanford gets second chance:
On political scrapheap 4 years ago,
ex-governor wins 1st district seat
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Glenn Smith*
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/8/2013 12:59:28 AM
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford completed the trail to political redemption Tuesday with a win over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to reclaim his old seat in Congress. Sanford defeated Colbert Busch 54 percent to 45 percent, according to full unofficial results. Turnout was heavier than expected, with about 32 percent of the district’s 455,702 registered voters casting ballots. Sanford, who has never lost an election, returns to the 1st District seat he held for three terms from 1995-2001. It’s a remarkable comeback for a man many pundits had written off after his highly publicized affair with an Argentine
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A new ‘Dawn’ at ABC:
Newsman becomes newswoman
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New York Post, by Tara Palmeri
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:26:11 AM
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Top ABC News editor Don Ennis walked into his Manhattan office on Friday in a “little black dress” and a brunette bobbed wig and announced to colleagues that from now on, he would like to be known as Dawn. The 49-year-old father of three said he’s splitting from his wife of 17 years to become a woman, or Dawn Stacey Ennis, as she is now known on her governmental records. “Today I begin anew,” she wrote on her Facebook timeline, where she debuted a flirty new profile picture. “Please understand: This is not a game of
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Dem Congressman At Benghazi
Hearing: "Death Is A Part Of Life"
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/8/2013 2:27:15 PM
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Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, tells Benghazi witnesses that "death is a part of life." CUMMINGS: And, as I listen to your testimony I could not help but think of something that I said very recently -- two years ago now -- in a eulogy for a relative. I said that death is a part of life, so often we have to find a way to make life a part of death. And, I guess the reason why I´m saying that, going back to something Mr. Nordstrom said, he wanted,
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Benghazi: Incompetence,
but no cover-up
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National Journal, by Michael Hirsh
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/8/2013 6:04:54 PM
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There was tragic incompetence, plainly, in the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks, and even possibly some political calculation. It is a record that may well come to haunt Hillary Clinton, the first Secretary of State to lose an ambassador in the field in more than three decades, if she runs for president in 2016. But the obvious Republican effort to turn this inquiry into the Democratic (Obama) version of the Iraq intelligence scandal that has tarred the GOP since the George W. Bush years -- led by that least-credible of champions, the almost-always-wrong Darrell Issa --
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Fox Analyst Shreds ‘Cowardly,
Duplicitous’ Admin Over Benghazi:
‘Sacrificed American Lives For Politics’
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Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:47:07 AM
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Ahead of the Benghazi hearings in which three witnesses are set to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade invited Fox News analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters to discuss the issue. Peters was unflinching in his criticism of the “cowardly” Obama administration — and the “establishment media” that aids it. “Is this a national security coverup?” Kilmeade asking, explaining that the witness testimony is expected to say the administration was deceitful in its handling of the situation. “The administration, facing the election, went into panic mode, wanted to contain it,”
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Stephen Hawking backs
boycott of Israeli academics
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Associated Press, by Gregory Katz and Aron Heller
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/8/2013 12:08:27 PM
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British physicist Stephen Hawking has dropped plans to attend a major international conference in Israel in June, citing his belief that he should respect a Palestinian call to boycott contacts with Israeli academics. The University of Cambridge released a statement Wednesday indicating that Hawking had told the Israelis last week that he would not be attending "based on advice from Palestinian academics that he should respect the boycott." University officials said they had "previously understood" that Hawking´s decision was based solely on health concerns — he is 71 and has severe disabilities — but had now been told otherwise by Hawking´s office.
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