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consortiumnews.com - Mon Dec 7, 10:39 pm ET
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.
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MSNBC - Mon Dec 7, 7:06 am ET
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.
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Houston Chronicle - Mon Dec 7, 11:19 am ET
The historical list indicates that intruders have reached the president or another person under Secret Service protection eight times since 1980.
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The Huffington Post - Mon Dec 7, 7:58 pm ET
The other day I flipped through an old photo album and, as suspected, there they were: Tareq and Michaele Salahi, seated near the glazed...
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CBS News - Mon Dec 7, 3:32 am ET
Favorable Rating and Unfavorable Rating now at 46 Percent in CNN Survey; "Going Rogue" Author Jokes About Biden's "Going Rogaine"
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Los Angeles Times - Mon Dec 7, 3:18 am ET
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.
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The Huffington Post - Mon Dec 7, 4:13 am ET
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.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 1:46 pm ET
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.
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Evansville Courier & Press - Mon Dec 7, 1:00 am ET
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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CQPolitics.com via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 11:27 am ET
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New York Times - Sun Dec 6, 9:22 am ET
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.
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Fox News - Sun Dec 6, 3:02 pm ET
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.
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The Rhinelander Daily News - Mon Dec 7, 6:28 am ET
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.
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The Journal News - Mon Dec 7, 1:06 am ET
He's not even in office yet, but Rob Astorino already knows there's no honeymoon period waiting for him on Jan. 1.
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Bloomberg - Sun Dec 6, 10:54 am ET
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.”