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President Obama came out with guns blazing at today's news conference, his first since re-election, pushing back hard against Republican senators' disparaging remarks about U.N. ambassador Susan Rice, Washington's odds-on favorite to get the nod as America's next secretary of state.
The president may indeed be genuinely outraged that one of his reportedly closest advisors is taking heat for the Sept. 11 snafu in Benghazi -- a situation Rice had nothing to do with. He repeated the administration's claim that when Rice took to the airwaves on Sept. 16 to explain the events in Libya, she was merely working with what the intelligence community had given her. And as far as we know, that's precisely what happened. (Benghazi isn't really the reason senators are objecting to Rice anyway, but that's ...
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Today during his White House press conference, President Obama scolded Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and other Republicans for attacking America's U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice regarding intelligence on the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. McCain said today that he and his Republican allies would do anything they can to prevent Rice from becoming [...]
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The Washington Post reports President Obama signed a secret directive on cyberattack defense designed to enable military personal to act more aggressively in thwarting attacks on public and private networks, known as Presidential Policy Directive 20, in mid-October: "The new directive is the most extensive White House effort to date to wrestle with what constitutes [...]
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) won't be the only 2012 presidential hopeful to weigh in on the topic of Texas seceding from the union. In the wake of President Obama's reelection victory, conservatives submitted several sore loser petitions to a White House website permitting citizens to petition the Obama Administration and receive a response if [...]
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The oil industry's long record of success in defending its tax breaks faces new tests as lawmakers and the White House negotiate to avoid the "fiscal cliff." [The Hill] Renewable energy is set to rival coal as the main generator of the world's electricity by 2035 as the costs of technology fall and subsidies rise, [...]
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The insane NZ right wing are talking up the Daily Caller report
White House website deluged with
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"Fareed Zakaria GPS" this Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET. Fareed Zakaria speaks with John Podesta, White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton, about the likely priorities for an Obama second term. I think the Republicans are back on their heels, having really gotten clobbered amongst Latino voters. And I think they're ready [...]
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By Shannon K. O'Neil, CFR Editor's Note: Shannon K. O'Neil is the Douglas Dillion Fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. This entry of Latin America's moment first appeared here. The views expressed are her own. As Americans went to the polls to elect their president last week, voters in Colorado and [...]
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Barack and Mitt rivals for the US presidency will never get to stay in the White House together but in Kenya they will live together. A young mother in Kenya has named her newborn twins Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Some have claimed the mum wants to bask in two-minutes of glory. Some speculate that [...]
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