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Bob Schieffer, a 44-year CBS News veteran and current moderator of "Face the Nation," will be the 2013 recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

The Obama administration deserves to be richly criticized for surreptitiously obtaining the telephone records of reporters for the Associated Press, especially for bypassing court proceedings that would have allowed executives of the news organizations an opportunity to at least argue against releasing the documents.

The Justice Department leaks documents to attack a whistleblower on the Fast and Furious case.

Get on and stay on the offensive. When your position is indefensible, don't defend it.

Over the weekend, White House Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer was deemed with trying to rescue the Obama administration amid growing scandals.

White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer must not have particularly enjoyed himself this weekend, given that his Sunday show appearances have been defensive at best and contentious at worst.

Longtime CBS News anchor Bob Schieffer has critical words for President Barack Obama in light of three scandals presently plaguing the administration.

White House press secretary Jay Carney answered tough questions about the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi during a May 10, 2013, briefing.

The former deputy of the diplomatic mission in Libya, Gregory Hicks, had a lot to say in his testimony before a House committee last week regarding what he regards as a feckless U.S. response to the attack on the mission in Benghazi in September.

Want to know why State Department whistleblower Eric Nordstrom called the Accountability Review Board a whitewash designed to protect the highest ranks at Foggy Bottom? Take a listen to the man who ran the ARB.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday that he thinks "more whistleblowers" will come forward with information on the deadly attack last year on a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya.

"We overestimate our ability to determine outcomes" of other countries' internal problems, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, adding, with regard to Syria, "I think that caution, particularly in terms of arming these groups and in terms of U.S. military involvement, is in order." "We overestimate our ability to determine outcomes" of other ... (more)

"Anybody who knows me knows that my mother was the dominating and shaping force of my life," said "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer on Mother's Day, reciting a poem he wrote in 2006 about his mom's special place in his heart.

Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., debate congressional oversight of the Sept.

"Unfortunately, this has been caught up in the 2016 presidential campaign-this effort to go after Hillary Clinton," Sen.

The new season of the Yakima Town Hall Lecture Series will have a mix of speakers for its 2013-14 season: Academy Award winner Geena Davis, award-winning travel writer Doug Lansky, legendary newsman Bob Schieffer and peace advocate Arn Chorn Pond.

Stretching Oscar Wilde's adage "I never put off til tomorrow what I can do the day after," some in the mainstream media have finally started to Think Again about the Benghazi attack launched last year on the anniversary of 9/11 - thanks to new revelations by high-ranking State Department whistle-blowers including experts in security, ... (more)

The scene was standing room only inside Politics & Prose Bookstore Thursday afternoon as the swarm of patrons awaited MSNBC "Morning Joe" Co-hosts Mika Brzezinksi and Joe Scarborough.

Journalist Bob Schieffer, the host of CBS News' "Face the Nation," will interview Chancellor Robert Gates '65 at the College of William and Mary this weekend.

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