Questions raised over administration claim that AP leak put Americans at risk
Americans were in danger. That was the chief argument Attorney General Eric Holder tried to make this week for why Justice Department officials ...
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Presidents use investigations for crisis management. As a tool, it has limits.
Trying to puzzle out terrorist motivations: Is it because “they hate our freedoms”?
George W. Bush famously explained the reasons why terrorist act: They hate our freedoms. An alternative motivation becomes available with the ...
Greg Sargent: The Morning Plum: GOP leaders urge caution amid scandal-mania. Will GOP base listen?
Yesterday I noted here that Republicans in the grip of Washington scandal-mania run the risk of a rerun of 1998, in which overreach amid the Monica ...
Surviving dangerous encounters
In "The Lion's Game" (2000) and "The Lion" (2010), Nelson DeMille's character NYPD Detective John Corey battles and defeats Asad Khalil, a brilliant ...
Al Qaeda in Iraq Are Getting More Involved in the Syrian Civil War
One of the main reasons that an intervention in Syria has not begun is that politicians, diplomats, and intelligence officials are rightly concerned ...
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Why It Should Be Harder to Impeach a President
The odds are that confirmed abuses (by the IRS), debatable ones (in the capture of AP phone records), and drummed up ones (the Benghazi "cover up") ...
CIA approved AP report that triggered investigation
The AP announced on Monday that the US Department of Justice seized two months’ worth of phone records belonging to journalists, an act the news ...
Honey, I Shrunk the Benghazi Talking Points
The White House release of the e-mail chain regarding the Benghazi talking points on Wednesday has opened up a slew of new questions.
The Benghazi Conspiracy Isn't Surviving D.C.'s Scandal Week
To be clear: There are not three scandals plaguing the Obama White House. The IRS situation is probably a scandal. The AP subpoena is maybe a ...