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For months, the Obama administration has been subject to media criticism for its initial statements linking the September attacks in Benghazi, Libya, to an anti-Islam video that had triggered protests across the Middle East at that time.

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Washington Times  columnist Jeffrey Kuhner called for President Obama’s impeachment over the Boston Marathon bombings, accusing the president of being “unwilling” to keep Americans safe. In his April 26  Washington Times  column , Kuhner wrote that Obama “has been unable — even unwilling — to keep us safe” from terror attacks, including the bombings in Boston, because “[h]e refuses to acknowledge that we are in a war with radical Islam.” Kuhner added: “It’s time he is held responsible for his gross negligence. It’s time that he be impeached

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As tensions continue to rise on the Korean peninsula, internet hactivist collective Anonymous has joined the fray — and appears to have been very successful at penetrating North Korea’s superficial cybersecurity defenses.

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Model international actors Iran and North Korea came together to block the adoption of a treaty regulating the $70 billion dollar arms trade at the United Nations on Thursday, no doubt endearing them to the National Rifle Association. The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) has been in negotiations for the past two weeks, the second attempt to gain a unanimously agreed upon text. The final draft was put before the delegates on Wednesday, with the assumption that it was set to cruise to an easy approval

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There is no evidence that torture was an effective source of gathering intelligence against al-Qaeda, according to John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Brennan, who was the Deputy Executive Director of the CIA when the torture program began , was asked repeatedly by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) as to whether he was aware of any evidence that statements by Bush era-officials Jose Rodriguez , Michael Hayden , and Michael Mukasey that information gleaned from torture led to Osama bin Laden were correct. Brennan said there was not, admitting that there was no evidence to contradict the findings of a 6,000 page Senate report concluding that torture did not get bin Laden: LEVIN: [A]re you aware of any intelligence information that supports Mr

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Another day, another icon of the global financial system becomes a climate hawk.

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Fox News questioned recent remarks by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta defending the Obama administration’s response to the terrorist attack in Libya, claiming that the administration had ample time to act to prevent the deaths of four Americans. But Fox omitted remarks from Panetta that directly contradicted the network’s narrative that the attack unfolded over several hours. During a weekend interview on CNN, Panetta and Gen

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) Sen

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(Photo Credit: AP/Cindy Yorgason) A man in Utah was photographed at a JC Penney carrying around an unloaded version of the gun used in the Newtown tragedy to prove that guns aren’t as dangerous as they’re portrayed. In addition to the unloaded rifle, a loaded Glock pistol was strapped to his hip when his picture was taken by shopper Cindy Yorgason on her cell phone camera.

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Women are physically unfit to serve in combat, Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) claimed during a Tuesday appearance on the Laura Ingraham radio show

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