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4 hrs ago | The Heritage Foundation

White House Spins Obama's Role in Benghazi: From Competence to Irrelevance

With the weekend's grand slam appearance on the Sunday talk shows by yet another official unqualified to talk about Benghazi, the Obama Administration has again shot itself in the foot.

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Related Topix: Zero Dark Thirty, Terrorism, Hillary Clinton, US Politics, US News, Entertainment, Drama, Television

8 hrs ago | National Public Radio

Looking Ahead: Peter Bergen on Al-Qaida

Two years after the death of Osama bin Laden, the U.S. continues to warn of the threat posed by the terrorist organization he led.

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Related Topix: Terrorism

20 hrs ago | KMAG99.1

Court: You Don't Get to See bin Laden Death Photos

It doesn't look like the CIA's photos of a dead Osama bin Laden will ever see the light of day.

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Related Topix: Oklahoma

Tue May 21, 2013

Bloomberg

Bin Laden Corpse Photos Can Be Secret: Court

Photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse and burial at sea were properly classified by U.S. officials and can be withheld from the public, a federal appeals court ruled.

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Related Topix: World News, Pakistan, Terrorism, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, US News

Common Dreams

Security Trumps Justice in Upcoming Manning Trial

Prosecutors will proceed with the charge that Pfc. Bradley Manning "aided the enemy" when the trial of the alleged whistleblower commences next week.

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Related Topix: World News, Iceland, US News, Liberal Political News

Baltimore News

Deal on bin Laden evidence made in WikiLeaks case

Lawyers in the court-martial of an Army private who gave U.S. secrets to WikiLeaks say they've reached a deal on evidence involving Osama bin Laden.

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WPTV Local News

US doesn't have to release Osama photos

A federal appeals court said the US can keep photos and video, taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed, under wraps.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, US News

Mon May 20, 2013

The Republic

Column: Americans agree on Obama's course to intervene with Syria

Polls during the 2012 campaign consistently showed President Barack Obama with a significant advantage on foreign policy, thanks largely to the killing of Osama bin Laden and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Sat May 18, 2013

The Virginian-Pilot

Pocket knife from bin Laden raid sells for $35,400

This book cover image released by Dutton shows "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden," by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer.

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Related Topix: Laden, KY, Books, No Easy Day

Thu May 16, 2013

NewsBusters.org

CBS's Rose Defends Obama After Rumsfeld Cracks He's Only...

Charlie Rose acted as an apologist for President Obama on Wednesday's CBS This Morning , after former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld asserted that the second-term executive was avoiding responsibility for the recent spate of scandals surrounding his administration.

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Related Topix: CBS This Morning, Entertainment, Television, US Politics, Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives

Wed May 15, 2013

Examiner.com

Bin Laden son-in-law warning: Judge warns Ghaith of a 'conflict of interest'

Bin Laden son-in-law warning: The son-in-law of Osama bin Laden chose a famous Jewish lawyer to defend him in his terrorism case he is currently facing in the United States after his recent arrest, a decision that caused controversy in court Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, Prison

Salon

Absolutely outrageous: Big Brother is watching

Over a six-week period last April and May, a flood of new information on our counterterrorism programs came out: a John Brennan speech and high-profile stories that claimed the drone killing program was narrowly targeted; stories revealing that Brennan had recently changed that process and adopted the use of strikes targeted at patterns , not known ... (more)

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BizPacReview.com

Jon Stewart relentlessly mocks Obama in wildly funny clip

Amid a growing number of administration scandals, Obama is beginning to field criticism from numerous members of the media, and now even Jon Stewart is weighing in.

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Related Topix: Opinion

Mon May 13, 2013

The Daily Caller

Navy SEAL auctions knife from bin Laden raid

The auction item is the Emerson CQC-7 folding knife that was carried by "Mark Owen," a SEAL who was sent to kill or capture now-deceased terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden on May 1, 2011.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, Conservative Political News, US News

Newsday

Royal Marines' Afghanistan memories

Royal Marines carried out patrols in the Nahr-e-Saraj district as part of their duties in their final deployment The unit's involvement began when they supported Special Forces in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden in the Tora Bora mountain caves.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, US Military, US Marine Corps

Sat May 11, 2013

Charleston Gazette

Susanna Rodell: Solution to terrorism must be found

Unless you're very old, or a student of early 20th century anarchism, probably not.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, Opinion

Free Republic

Doctor who helped CIA track Osama bin Laden on hunger strike in jail

Islamabad: Shakil Afridi, the doctor who allegedly worked for the CIA to help track down Osama bin Laden, is on hunger strike at a jail in Pakistan's Peshawar city to protest the jail administration's "ill-treatment". Dr Afridi, through a fake vaccination campaign, had reportedly provided a lead for the US Navy Seals operation in which the Al Qaeda ... (more)

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Related Topix: Prison, World News, Pakistan, Asia,

Fri May 10, 2013

OttawaHerald.com

Stamper Brown: Covering up Benghazi? Or just foolishness?

It seems like only yesterday when President Obama stood in front of an electrified audience at the 2012 Democratic National Convention just days before the deadly Sept.

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Related Topix: US News, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, Entertainment, Democratic National Convention, Television, Hillary Clinton, Andrews Air Force Base, US Military, US Air Force, Opinion

KABC-AM Los Angeles

Manhunt: Meet the CIA - Sisterhood' That Tracked Bin Laden

Years before Osama bin Laden became a household name, a group of female analysts at the CIA was so determined to find and stop the terror leader that one said she was once counseled by an Agency superior that she was spending "too much time" on the bin Laden hunt.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, Pakistan,

Thu May 09, 2013

Albany Times Union

Secrecy shrouds pretrial hearing in WikiLeaks case

In this June 25, 2012 file photo, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., after a pre-trial hearing.

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Related Topix: Fort Meade, US Military, US Army, Fort Meade, MD, World News, Pakistan,