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  • ** FILE ** In this undated image from video seized from the walled compound of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and released on Saturday, May 7, 2011, by the U.S. Department of Defense, a man whom the American government identified as Osama bin Laden watches television with an image of President Obama on the screen. Bin Laden was killed by U.S. troops. (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Defense)

    Court: U.S. can keep bin Laden photos under wraps

    A federal appeals court Tuesday backed the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos.


  • Director John O. Brennan on Monday stands before 107 stars at CIA headquarters in Langley representing those who have died in service to the agency since 1947. (CIA)

    Inside the Beltway: Persistent birthers

    Yes, President Obama's birth certificate was made public two years ago and even emblazoned upon a Democratic fundraiser coffee mug during the 2012 presidential campaign. But the "birther" issue which so intrigued Donald Trump has yet to disappear.


  • Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    LYONS: Dereliction of duty

    President Obama's policy of "change" for America was never defined, but it was implemented in a very sophisticated manner.


  • A man who the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) claims is Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, is pictured at FSB offices in Moscow early on Tuesday, May 14, 2013. (AP Photo/FSB Public Relations Center)

    Russian TV: U.S. Embassy employee accused of spying flies out of Moscow

    The U.S. Embassy employee accused of spying in Moscow flew out of Russia on Sunday, five days after he was ordered to leave the country, NTV television reported.


  • ** FILE ** President Obama speaks on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Mr. Obama announced the resignation of Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

    LAMBRO: Setting the scandal tone at the top

    Barack Obama's second term may be remembered more for his scandals than for anything else he's done thus far in his troubled presidency.


  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Petraeus' payback?

    President Obama is the most vindictive, thin-skinned president we have ever had. Does anyone want to take a bet that then-CIA chief David H. Petraeus' sex-scandal downfall is punishment for him not falling in line completely with the much-revised Benghazi talking points of the White House? Around Sept. 20, Mr. Petraeus disputed the revised version of the talking points. On Nov. 7, the story of his affair came out.


  • Credit: U.S. Marine Corps

    Pentagon fuels fears that legal powers will yield 'forever war' with al Qaeda

    The man who leads the Pentagon's secret war against al Qaeda and its allies believes it is likely to last another decade or two, and that the current legal basis for it provided by Congress in 2001 continues to be sound, despite the changing character of the enemy.


  • An email from then-CIA Director David Petraeus is among the 99 pages of emails regarding Benghazi released by the White House on May 15, 2013. Petraeus objected to the final talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. The White House released 99 pages of emails and a single page of hand-written notes made by Petraeus' deputy, Mike Morell, after a meeting at the White House the day before Rice's appearance. (Associated Press)

    Dems rally behind White House on Benghazi

    Democrats rallied behind President Barack Obama in the long-running, bitter dispute over the administration's handling of the Benghazi attack, arguing that the White House's latest email disclosure undermines Republican claims of a cover-up.


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    NAPOLITANO: Dark clouds over the White House

    Government is bad for personal freedom. That argument is premised upon the truism that everything government does interferes with freedom because it either prohibits or compels.


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