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On Sunday, former Secretary of Defense Bob Gates dismissed critics of the Obama administration for not doing more to respond to the attack on our consulate in Benghazi as having a "cartoonish impression of military capabilities and military forces."

According to John McCain, the President only releases information when events show him in a positive light, and alleged that's the reason no photo was ever released the night of the deadly attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi.

Perhaps during his next partisan exploitation of the tragic death of Americans at Benghazi, Libya, in political hearings paid for by American taxpayers, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) can replay then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warning him, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and other Republicans that their efforts to cut diplomatic security spending will endanger American lives.
As Welch said to McCarthy: Have they no shame? It will be a test of the integrity and professionalism of the media to watch whether Issa and Chaffetz are asked to apologize for their efforts to cut diplomatic spending every time they parade before the cameras in their partisan shtick.

Israel rushed to beef up its rocket defenses on its northern border Sunday to shield against possible retaliation after carrying out two airstrikes in Syria over 48 hours — an unprecedented escalation of Israeli involvement in the Syrian civil war.

Despite a recent clamor within Washington policy circles and troublesome commentary in the US media regarding further military intervention in Syria's ongoing civil war, a new survey of US opinion shows little appetite for another war of choice in a region far from home.

The charge connects Velazquez to a highly damaging spy case. During the 16 years Montes was a U.S. intelligence analyst for the DIA, she revealed the identities of four undercover agents to Cuban officials.

If the two 21st century superpowers trusted each other well enough to act together, the world could take an irreversible step away from the twin perils of environmental degradation and war.

DynCorp has a history of waste, fraud and abuse, including under U.S. government contracts to provide police training in Afghanistan and Iraq, similar to their program in Haiti. They could not account for $1 billion dollars spent training Iraq Police.

Italian lawmakers failed on Thursday to elect the nation's president during an initial two rounds of voting, the latest worrisome evidence of the political discord that has thwarted the formation of a government for two months.

The U.S. government has begun notifying lawyers of Guantanamo Bay prisoners if the men they represent are being force-fed to prevent them from starving to death in a hunger strike that has dragged on for more than two months.