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Dick Cheney has ratcheted up his criticism of President Obama again, calling the decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in New York a "huge mistake.".
Ed itor’s Note: Over the past weekend, Consortiumnews.com’s editor Robert Parry expressed some discouragement to Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and prominent critic of the Iraq and Afghan wars.
Long before a pair of gate-crashers penetrated a White House state dinner, the Secret Service had detailed for its internal use a lengthy list of security breaches.
The historical list indicates that intruders have reached the president or another person under Secret Service protection eight times since 1980.
The other day I flipped through an old photo album and, as suspected, there they were: Tareq and Michaele Salahi, seated near the glazed...
Favorable Rating and Unfavorable Rating now at 46 Percent in CNN Survey; "Going Rogue" Author Jokes About Biden's "Going Rogaine"
The Salahis are the latest people to get past the agency's checkpoints, an internal report shows. Long before a pair of gate-crashers penetrated a White House state dinner, the Secret Service had detailed for its internal use a lengthy list of security breaches dating to the Carter administration -- including significant failures in the agency's protection of the president.
Why don't we call Newt Gingrich or Dick Cheney stupid? We don't make those charges against those people, because as much as we might not agree with them or like them, we know that they are not dullards.
Setting a date for the start of a US withdrawal from Afghanistan conveys "a sense of urgency" to Kabul that American forces would not stay indefinitely, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.
Hope and change have given way more of sameTo the editor:Hope. Courage. Audacity. Change. These were the ideas that were thrown about in the last election and what the majority of Americans thought they elected to run our country for the next four years. Instead, we have just gotten more of the same old tired rhetoric that we heard from the previous administration. The wars in Iraq and ...
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The trivial gate-crashing by a fame-seeking couple may be a more telling omen of what is to come than President Obama’s speech.
Two liberal Senate Democrats said Sunday they aren't pleased with President Obama's plan for Afghanistan but acknowledged they may have few resources to stop the planned troop surge.
I had a woman stop me the other day at the YMCA. I was there covering a story. I don’t belong myself. I’m leery of anything that is organized. The first time I swore on the treadmill I’d get kicked out anyway.
He's not even in office yet, but Rob Astorino already knows there's no honeymoon period waiting for him on Jan. 1.
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan policy, as laid out in his West Point address last week, evokes Winston Churchill’s description of democracy as “the worst form of government except for all those others.”
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