JEFFREY SCOTT SHAPIRO: Hillary Clinton’s email scandal harkens Nixon’s Watergate
It is hard to imagine the 2016 presidential race without Hillary Clinton. Published March 8, 2015
Jeffrey Scott Shapiro
Articles by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro
Administration denies Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli warplanes
President Obama threatened to use the U.S. military to shoot down Israeli fighter jets last year if they attempted to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities, the Bethlehem news agency Ma'an reported Sunday. Published March 1, 2015
CPAC attendees decry widespread attacks on citizen personal freedom
On the day the government took the largest single step on regulating the Internet, conservatives at CPAC warned that more assaults are being directed at individual freedom, from taxation of electronic cigarettes to food and dietary guidelines. Published February 26, 2015
Hillary Clinton’s war on Libya lost terror intelligence
Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2011 campaign to drive Moammar Gadhafi from power did significant damage to U.S. intelligence, according to a top Libyan aide and U.S. intelligence officials. Published February 25, 2015
Hillary Clinton Libya tapes set for House Benghazi committee review
The chairman of a special House committee created to investigate the 2012 Benghazi tragedy on Monday instructed his staff to review secretly recorded tapes and intelligence reports that detail Hillary Clinton's role in advocating and executing the war in Libya, opening the door for a possible expansion of his probe. Published February 2, 2015
Hillary Clinton’s Libya war push armed Benghazi rebels with suspected al Qaeda ties
Libyan officials were deeply concerned in 2011, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was trying to remove Moammar Gadhafi from power, that weapons were being funneled to NATO-backed rebels with ties to al Qaeda, fearing that well-armed insurgents could create a safe haven for terrorists, according to secret intelligence reports obtained by The Washington Times. Published February 1, 2015
Hillary Clinton Libya war genocide narrative rejected by U.S. intelligence
The intelligence community gathered no specific evidence of an impending genocide in Libya in spring 2011, undercutting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's primary argument for using the U.S. military to remove Col. Moammar Gadhafi from power, an event that has left his country in chaos, according to officials with direct knowledge of the dispute. Published January 29, 2015
Hillary Clinton undercut on Libya war by Pentagon and Congress, secret tapes reveal
Top Pentagon officials and a senior Democrat in Congress so distrusted Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2011 march to war in Libya that they opened their own diplomatic channels with the Gadhafi regime in an effort to halt the escalating crisis, according to secret audio recordings recovered from Tripoli. Published January 28, 2015
John Kerry seeks Nigeria’s help battling Islamist terrorism, pushes for peaceful vote
Secretary of State John F. Kerry flew to Nigeria over the weekend to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan and his challenger in the upcoming Nigerian presidential election to push for a peaceful vote and to seek enhanced cooperation in the fight against Islamist terrorism. Published January 25, 2015
John Kerry breaks protocol, flies to Nigeria to discourage election violence
Amidst rising civil unrest in Nigeria, Secretary of State John F. Kerry flew there this weekend to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan and his challenger in the upcoming Nigerian presidential election to discuss the vote and discourage violence from each party's supporters, and also to enhance cooperation in the fight against Islamist terrorism. Published January 25, 2015
Martin Luther King III sees Ferguson riots, violence against police as setbacks
NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: On the holiday commemorating his father's epic civil rights legacy, Martin Luther King III says he is dismayed by recent violence against police, the destructive protests in Ferguson and the trashing of a U.Va. fraternity falsely accused of sexual assault because they don't reflect his father's own approach to advocate for change peacefully. Published January 18, 2015
Obama economy: Welfare dependency peaks as rich get richer
As Barack Obama enters the twilight of his presidency, he presides over an America vastly different from the one he envisioned building during his 2008 campaign that promised to empower everyday Americans on Main Street over wealthy bankers and investors on Wall Street. Published January 4, 2015
Sweetheart deal? Unions allowed to cut retiree benefits rather than fix underfunded pensions
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union is a heavyweight on the labor scene. It pays its president $350,000 a year. It's holding its next executive board meeting in February at a swanky beachfront resort in Hollywood, Florida. And it just doled out nearly $8 million to influence the last election and lobby Washington. Published December 29, 2014
Obama community policing effort falls short as funds mishandled, diverted
President Obama has used the Ferguson and NYPD controversies to campaign for increased community policing tactics. But on his watch, federal funding for such initiatives has plummeted and money has been mishandled or diverted to such things as drones that have done little to further the cause, a Washington Times review of federal documents shows. Published December 23, 2014
Rolling Stone University of Virginia rape story sparked unpunished rampage
In the wee morning hours after Rolling Stone's now-retracted gang rape story roiled the University of Virginia campus, a masked group of five women and three men unleashed their fury on the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the center of the controversy. Published December 21, 2014
Alan Dershowitz sees political double standard in vandal attack on U.Va. fraternity house
Alan Dershowitz, one of the nation's premier defense lawyers and a Harvard law professor, believes universities display a double standard in excusing violence from the political left, and failing to punish activities like a fraternity house attack can have dangerous consequences. Published December 21, 2014
U.Va. rape accuser’s friends begin to doubt story
Three friends of the alleged University of Virginia rape victim are growing more skeptical about her account, saying they have doubts about information she gave them and why she belatedly tried to get herself deleted from the Rolling Stone article that engulfed their campus in controversy. Published December 15, 2014
Should Rolling Stone blame ‘rape victim’ or itself?
University of Virginia (UVA) rape rage should not be misdirected upon the alleged victim in wake of the magazine's retraction. Published December 5, 2014
Obama immigration action headed for the courts
The battle over Barack Obama’s immigration overhaul is likely headed to the courts, but legal scholars say the president's specific tactics in acting unilaterally may be difficult to overturn. Published November 20, 2014
Harvard, UNC sued over race-based admissions policies
The Alexandria legal advocacy group that sued Harvard University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill this week for capping the number of Asian-Americans they admit says it hopes to file more lawsuits against other colleges for race-based admissions policies in the coming days. Published November 18, 2014
