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• Tweet Obama, Putin exchange letters amid troubled US-Russia relations - RT
  RT Obama, Putin exchange letters amid troubled US-Russia relations RT US President Barack Obama has received a personal response to his letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin: Moscow and Washington must work to overcome antagonism and deal with global political issues as partners, not foes. The [...]
• Tweet Holder Letter on Counterterror Strikes Against US Citizens - New York Times
  Fresno Bee Holder Letter on Counterterror Strikes Against US Citizens New York Times The day before President Obamas planned speech on drone policy, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. wrote a letter to members of Congress acknowledging the deaths of four Americans, including Anwar al-Awlaki, in co [...]
• Tweet IRS Official Invokes 5th Amendment at Hearing - New York Times
  NPR (blog) IRS Official Invokes 5th Amendment at Hearing New York Times WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service official who first disclosed that the agency had targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny, and in doing so ignited a controversy that has ensnared the White House, denied on [...]
• Tweet US Takes Steps to Add Security at Embassies - New York Times
  New York Times US Takes Steps to Add Security at Embassies New York Times WASHINGTON — By late this summer, the State Department plans to send dozens of additional diplomatic security agents to high-threat embassies, install millions of dollars of advanced fire-survival gear and surveillance came [...]
• Tweet Ex-US Attorney in Arizona Is Criticized for Leak to Fox - New York Times
  Headlines & Global News Ex-US Attorney in Arizona Is Criticized for Leak to Fox New York Times Mr. Burke, who resigned in August 2011, was the United States attorney in Arizona at the time of the investigation, which ran from late 2009 to early 2011. He admitted shortly before his resignation t [...]
• Tweet Billionaires Now Own American Politics - Mother Jones
  Mother Jones Billionaires Now Own American Politics Mother Jones Not since the days before a bumbling crew of would-be break-in artists set into motion the fabled Watergate scandal, leading to the first far-reaching restrictions on money in American politics, have you been so free to meddle. There [...]
• Tweet Republicans Expand IRS Inquiry, With Eye on White House - New York Times
  New York Times Republicans Expand IRS Inquiry, With Eye on White House New York Times WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans, not resting with the Internal Revenue Service scandal, are moving to broaden the matter to an array of tax malfeasances and “intimidation tactics” they hope will ensna [...]