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The life and difficult times of
a biographer: The Petraeus affair
Washington Times, by Hillel Italie
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Posted By:Drive, 11/15/2012 7:13:52 AM
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| NEW YORK — The affair between retired Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and author Paula Broadwell is but an extreme example of the love/hate history between biographers and their subjects. Even before their outing led to Mr. Petraeus‘ resignation as CIA director, Mrs. Broadwell had been criticized for the rosy tone of “All In,” which The Associated Press described in 2011 as “part hagiography and part defense” of his strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan. But as long as biographies are written by and about human beings, scientific precision will remain an ideal.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
rustycfc, 11/15/2012 8:04:58 AM (No. 9015567)
the down fall of this nation began in the
60s and it contiues to this day.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Judith, 11/15/2012 8:44:21 AM (No. 9015654)
A woman with two young children takes a year off from taking care of them to follow a general into a war zone, supposedly to write a book. BUT, someone else writes the book. Really, how does that work? Or was she just another woman who married, had two children, decided to not put any time into THOSE relationships, and was forever being an adventuress.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LadyVet, 11/15/2012 10:01:50 AM (No. 9015850)
Does anyone really believe that Doris Kearns Goodwin is any different than Paula Broadwell? Tell me again how it was just a platonic relationship when most of the interviews were when LBJ was in her bed.
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The Benghazi Scandal Grows
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Commentary Magazine, by Peter Wehner
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Posted By: Drive- 5/9/2013 3:50:04 PM
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National Journal’s Michael Hirsh, in writing about the House hearings on the September 11, 2012 attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, said, “Benghazi was a tragedy. It will, almost certainly, remain a political issue. What it is not – by a long shot — is a scandal yet.” To understand why this judgment is wrong, it’s helpful to keep in mind that weeks after the attack the Obama administration claimed the cause of the violence was a spontaneous demonstration, not pre-planned attacks; that the cause of the demonstrations was an anti-Muslim YouTube video; and that there was no terrorist involvement in the attacks.
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House Republicans Call on
White House to Release
Benghazi E-Mails
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New York Times, by Jeremy W. Peters
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Posted By: Drive- 5/9/2013 3:21:10 PM
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House Republicans on Thursday called on the Obama administration to release a new batch of e-mails that they believe will shed more light on how the White House and the State Department responded in the days after the attacks on American facilities in Benghazi, Libya. Speaker John A. Boehner, in a written statement, made the request, saying, “The truth shouldn’t be hidden from the American people behind a White House firewall.” His move was the first of many expected by Republicans in the coming days and weeks to try to force the White House to divulge more documents and allow additional witnesses to testify.
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Hezbollah chief: Syria
will supply ‘game-changing’
weapons to the Lebanese militia
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Drive- 5/9/2013 3:16:13 PM
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BEIRUT — Syria will supply “game-changing” weapons to Hezbollah, the chief of the Lebanese militia said Thursday, just days after Israeli airstrikes on Damascus targeted what Israel said were shipments of advanced Iranian weapons possibly bound for the group. Any attempts to ship advanced Iranian missiles across Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon would likely draw a new Israeli response, and Thursday’s warning by Hezbollah chief Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, if more than rhetoric, could signal a further escalation. Israel has largely tried to stay out of Syria’s 26-month-old conflict.
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Nobody Died in Watergate
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American Spectator, by Jed Babbin
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Posted By: Drive- 5/9/2013 1:42:16 PM
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Three State Department whistleblowers’ congressional testimony was nearly forgotten yesterday amid the lies and half-truths coming out of the White House and its congressional cohorts. If White House press secretary Jay Carney were spinning any faster, he’d be mistaken for an Iranian uranium-enrichment centrifuge. The testimony proved a host of things, some redundantly. The first is that when UN Ambassador Susan Rice went on five Sunday talk shows — five days after the incident — the Obama administration had to know she was lying when she blamed the Benghazi attack on an anti-Muslim video. How do we know?
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Boris Johnson: leaving Europe a
shot in the arm for democracy
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Telegraph (UK), by Tim Ross
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Posted By: Drive- 5/9/2013 12:35:00 PM
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Voters would feel they had regained control over their own destiny if Britain became fully independent from Brussels, the Mayor of London said. Mr Johnson warned that the country must be ready to "walk away" from Europe if David Cameron failed to negotiate better terms of membership. Mr Johnson´s comments will fuel the increasingly fevered debate inside the Conservative Party about European policy, which has flared after the success of Ukip in last week´s local elections. The Mayor´s intervention, at a conference of international business leaders in London, followed an attack from the Prime Minister on
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Why Benghazi is a Blow
to Obama and Clinton
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National Journal, by Ron Fournier
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Posted By: Drive- 5/9/2013 11:37:20 AM
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Both parties are wrong about Benghazi. Existing evidence does not point to a far-reaching cover-up on the scale of Watergate, as Republicans want you to believe. But it is not, as the White House claims, nothing. The administration’s response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on U.S. installations in eastern Libya was inaccurate, irresponsible and shrouded by campaign-style spin. It belied President Obama’s oft-broken promise to run a transparent government. If nothing else, Benghazi is a blow to the credibility of the president and his potential successor, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. This could be big.
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Coburn: ‘Glaring Omission’ from
State Department’s Submission
to Intelligence Committee
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Washington Free Beacon, by Staff
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Posted By: Drive- 5/9/2013 8:23:30 AM
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Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) told “Morning Joe” Thursday the State Department “has real trouble” on its hands and that in his seat on the Senate Intelligence Committee he noticed a glaring omission in its submitting of information that will eventually come to light. He could not elaborate on what the omission was, but said he noticed it in his review of emails that went back and forth surrounding Benghazi. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Obviously on the Hill, a lot of people talking about the Benghazi hearings yesterday. What’s your take on what you learned from the State Department officials?
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How Did America
Become A Paper Tiger?
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Irish Examiner USA, by Alicia Colon
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Posted By: Drive- 5/9/2013 6:12:54 AM
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Paper Tiger definition: n, nation, etc., that has the appearance of power but is actually weak and ineffectual. That description perfectly describes our country today. Global chaos reigns today, Nations are crumbling, others are going bankrupt, radical Islamists are waging deadly battles and instead of facing these dire developments, this administration, that represents the world´s remaining super power, blusters and throws out empty threats to hostile forces. It first establishes a red line that Syria must cross before we take action and when that line was crossed, it simply redefined the red line.
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First Mark Sanford,
next Anthony Weiner?
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Politico, by Maggie Haberman
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Posted By: Drive- 5/8/2013 9:11:59 PM
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Mark Sanford’s post-election morning began like this: Any lessons for Anthony Weiner in your victory? “I wouldn’t presume to give any other politician advice,” Sanford told CNN. The social media and pundit consensus after Sanford won his old South Carolina congressional district over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch was that there was no politician who could be more grateful for the outcome than Weiner, the former congressman who resigned amid scandal and who’s eying a comeback of his own.
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Benghazi Whistleblower Breaks Down
While Describing His Lost
Friends During Testimony
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Mediaite, by Noah Rothman
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Posted By: Drive- 5/8/2013 12:47:31 PM
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Eric Nordstrom, the former Libyan regional security officer with the State Department, became emotional during his opening statement to the House committee investigating the deadly attack on an American consulate in Benghazi. His voice broke describing his friends, the deceased American service and diplomatic personnel, who lost their lives in that attack. “I would also like to thank the committee for your continued efforts in investigating all the details and all the decisions relating to the attack on our diplomatic facility — specifically the committee’s labors to uncover what happened prior, during, and after the attack matter,” Nordstrom began.
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Neighbors: Man in custody comforted
missing girl’s mom, helped search
for missing Ohio women
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Drive- 5/8/2013 12:01:58 PM
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CLEVELAND — In the years after his friend’s daughter vanished while walking home from school, Ariel Castro handed out fliers with the 14-year-old’s photo and performed music at a fundraiser held in her honor. When neighbors gathered for a candlelight vigil just a year ago to remember the girl, Castro was there too, comforting the girl’s mother. Castro, just like everyone else in the tight-knit, mostly Puerto Rican neighborhood, seemed shaken by the 2004 disappearance of Gina DeJesus and another teenager who went missing the year before.
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Obama is not done
cutting defense just yet
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Washington Examiner, by Jed Babbin
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Posted By: Drive- 5/8/2013 9:22:18 AM
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April was a pretty awful month for President Obama, but it´s too early for Republicans to start celebrating his political demise. People keep trying to compress the political calendar, wanting to convince us that time is running out for Obama, even though he´s barely past 100 days in his second term. Yes, Obama´s gun control initiative was a resounding failure. It didn´t pass the Democrat-controlled Senate. California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein´s assault weapons ban got only 40 votes.
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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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White House struggles to respond
to new Benghazi revelations
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Washington Times, by Susan Crabtree
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/8/2013 11:24:14 PM
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The White House on Wednesday stood by its story that the Obama administration remained unsure exactly who was responsible for the attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi nearly five days after it occurred even though new revelations show Ansar al-Sharia’s direct involvement. Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya and a self-described whistleblower, testified before a Congressional committee Wednesday that the body of Ambassador J. Christpher Stevens was missing for hours during the attack after being dragged out of the diplomatic post in Benghazi.
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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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Latino student group says eating
tacos is offensive to Mexicans
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Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Robby Soave
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/9/2013 6:12:54 PM
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Northwestern University continued to stumble over diversity issues this week as Mexican students voiced disagreement with a campuswide letter that advised students not to celebrate Cinco de Mayo by engaging in racially-offensive activities, such as eating tacos and drinking tequila. The letter was sent to students via e-mail, and published in The Daily Northwestern last week. Leaders of Alianza, a Latino student group, and the Associated Student Government called on students to remember that Cinco de Mayo commemorates Mexico’s victory over France in the Battle of Puebla. It is not a day to throw a sombrero-themed party, they said.
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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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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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Did Beck Cross the Line? Yes.
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Commentary, by Jeffrey S. Tobin
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/9/2013 6:28:23 AM
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Fans of Glenn Beck are complaining about what I wrote yesterday about his speech at the National Rifle Association convention, where he used a giant image of Michael Bloomberg photoshopped into what appeared to be an image of Hitler with his arm raised in a Nazi salute and wearing an armband. The Beck crowd now tells me that it wasn’t Hitler’s picture into which the New York mayor was transposed but that of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin. They say that means I owe Beck an apology along with the Anti-Defamation League and others who were also outraged by it.
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