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  • ** FILE ** A banner supporting Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, is displayed at Central, Hong Kong's business district, on June 17, 2013.  (Associated Press)

    In Obama they trust much less these days; Snowden is among the disillusioned

    A string of scandals and fresh concerns about government overreach from the Internal Revenue Service to the National Security Agency have soured voters on President Obama and left many questioning his honesty and trustworthiness.

  • Former Gov. of Alaska Sarah Palin, with her husband Todd Palin, top left, greets supporters after speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority 2013 conference, Saturday, June 15, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    Sarah Palin: NSA leaker Edward Snowden is not the real problem

    Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told a group of conservatives at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Conference over the weekend that NSA leaker Edward Snowden isn't the real problem.

  • PRICE: Readying outpost in Djibouti for 'rapid response'

    On May 30, Army Brig. Gen. Kimberly Field announced the formation of a new "rapid response force" to be established at Camp Lemonnier in the East African nation of Djibouti.

  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    HANSON: America's vast margin of error

    The Obama administration is facing scandals everywhere - using the Internal Revenue Service to punish political enemies, seizing the phone records of Associated Press and Fox News reporters, monitoring phone and email accounts of millions, and making up stories about what happened in Benghazi, Libya.

  • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stands aside Cheryl Mills, her chief of staff. (credit: State Department photo)

    Clinton confidante at center of Benghazi damage-control tied to probe of suspected diplomat crimes

    A longtime confidante of Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton who reportedly played a key role in the State Department's damage-control efforts on the Benghazi attack last year is also named in accusations that department higher-ups quashed investigations into diplomats' potential criminal activity.

  • **FILE** Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview on April 17, 2013. (Associated Press/Syrian State TV via AP video)

    Obama says Syria has crossed 'red line' with chemical weapons, will send weapons

    The Syrian government used chemical weapons against rebel forces trying to overthrow the regime, the Obama administration said Thursday, acknowledging that President Bashar Assad has without doubt crossed the "red line" President Obama laid down for U.S. action in the country's bloody civil war.

  • Togo footballers refuse to play qualifier in Libya

    Togo players are refusing to play a World Cup qualifier in Libya after recent violence there led FIFA to move Friday's game from Benghazi to the capital, Tripoli.

  • CIA Deputy Director Michael J. Morell arrives for a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. A congressional investigator determined that the State Department has failed to spend money strategically. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

    Michael Morell steps down as CIA deputy director

    CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell retired from his post Wednesday, after managing the resignation of former CIA Director David Petraeus over an extramarital affair, and defending the agency's performance over the attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.

  • Togo soccer players refuse qualifier in Libya

    Togo players are refusing to play a World Cup qualifier in Libya after recent violence there led FIFA to move Friday's game from Benghazi to the capital, Tripoli.

  • ** FILE ** President Obama talks about national security on Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. Declaring America at a "crossroads" in the fight against terrorism, the president revealed clearer guidelines for the use of deadly drone strikes, including more control by the U.S. military, while leaving key details of the controversial program secret. (Associated Press)

    Index: U.S. among nations less likely to pursue peace

    Released Tuesday, the seventh annual Global Peace Index assessed each country's internal crime statistics, population trends and other factors — from the number of homicides to terrorist activity to prevailing economic conditions. It may shock Americans to know that the U.S. is ranked No. 100.

  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    ALLARD: Scandalmania

    President Obama has learned nothing and forgotten nothing. In elevating truth-challenged U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice to the government's premier national security position, Mr. Obama effectively flashed an upturned middle finger toward his critics as if to say, "I'm large and in charge. If you have a problem with her, then come and get me."

  • Samantha Power, President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next U.N. Ambassador, listens to Obama speak in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 5, 2013, where he made the announcement. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    EDITORIAL: The Power nomination

    A leopard can't change its spots, but can an interventionist resist the urge to intervene? That's the question senators must pose to Samantha Power, President Obama's choice for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, at her confirmation hearing, coming up soon.

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  • Soldiers gather at a former camp for Islamic extremists near Marti, Nigeria, on Wednesday. Oil-rich Nigeria is threatened by the terrorist group Boko Haram. (Associated Press)

    PRICE: Nigeria needs help with Islamists, not Kerry lecture

    The United States must do more than lecture embattled Nigeria, a strong U.S. ally in West Africa under assault from al Qaeda-linked Islamists sweeping across the region.

  • Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Hotel at National Harbor, Md., on Thursday, March 14, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

    MILLER: Rand Paul demands answers on U.S. gunrunning in Benghazi

    Sen. Rand Paul suspects the U.S. was secretly running guns through the consulate in Benghazi to arm Syrian rebels. He wants answers related to the terrorist attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.

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