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Obama deplores sex crimes in military, says there’s ‘no silver bullet’
www.washingtonpost.com-May 17, 2013
President Obama summoned the Pentagon’s leadership to the White House on Thursday for a crisis meeting about sexual assault in the armed forces, but the commander in chief said that “there’s no silver bullet to solving this problem.”
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Obama Tells Pentagon Leaders Sexual Assault Is ‘Shameful’
www.nytimes.com-May 17, 2013
With arrests in the military continuing to shadow its program to combat sexual harassment, President Obama summoned the Pentagon’s senior leaders to the White House on Thursday, telling them that the levels of sexual assault across the armed services were a disgrace that undermined the trust essential for the military to carry out its mission effectively.
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Benghazi e-mails unleash flood of questions
www.usatoday.com-May 17, 2013
Dozens of e-mails released by the White House reveal that Obama administration officials were behind the crafting of a false narrative about the attack in Benghazi, Libya. The communications raise questions about who called the shots and why, say an analyst and a lawmaker involved in the investigation.
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Barbara Boxer’s claim that GOP budgets hampered Benghazi security
www.washingtonpost.com-May 16, 2013
Politicians often play games with budget numbers, and so one must be careful at accepting numbers at face value. Note how Boxer asserted that House Republicans “sought to cut more than $450 million from President Obama’s budget request.” That means she is talking about the president’s proposed budget — which in any administration is often a pie-in-the-sky document.
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Some in Congress want changes in military law as a result of sex scandals
www.washingtonpost.com-May 16, 2013
Members of Congress said they are so angry about the crescendo of sex-crime scandals in the armed forces that they are considering fundamental changes to military law and other measures that the Pentagon has resisted for years.
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Multiple Proposals on Assault in Military, but Also Disagreement
www.nytimes.com-May 16, 2013
President Obama, military officials and lawmakers on Capitol Hill are in broad agreement that the sexual assault problem in the military has reached a level of severity that can no longer be tolerated. But that is far different from concurring on how it should be fixed.
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Hagel orders retraining of sex-assault prevention officers; Army sergeant investigated
www.washingtonpost.com-May 15, 2013
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday evening ordered the armed services to immediately “re-train, re-credential and re-screen” tens of thousands of military recruiters and sexual-assault prevention officers as the revelation of another sex-crime scandal rocked the Pentagon.
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Sexism must be treated like racism, top officer says
www.usatoday.com-May 15, 2013
The Pentagon's sexual assault crisis will be solved only when troops treat sexist remarks with the same disdain as racial slurs, the officer in charge of preventing the crime told USA TODAY Tuesday.
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Obama to announce Afghanistan troop plans shortly: Kerry
www.reuters.com-May 15, 2013
President Barack Obama will announce in the next few weeks how many combat troops the United States will leave in Afghanistan in 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday.
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US Army generals ordered to testify in sex case
http://news.yahoo.com-May 15, 2013
A military judge on Tuesday ordered two U.S. Army generals to testify about whether they were pressured by superiors to charge another general with the sexual assault of a female captain.
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Russia detains U.S. diplomat, accuses him of trying to recruit Russian agent
www.washingtonpost.com-May 14, 2013
An American diplomat was briefly detained by the Russian State Security Service and is being accused of trying to recruit a Russian officer to work as a U.S. agent, Russian officials told news services on Tuesday.
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Obama’s claim he called Benghazi an ‘act of terrorism’
www.washingtonpost.com-May 14, 2013
Once again, it appears that we must parse a few presidential words. We went through this question at length during the 2012 election, but perhaps a refresher course is in order.
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Fact Check: Timeline of statements raises questions on Obama’s Benghazi claims
www.foxnews.com-May 14, 2013
Faced with mounting scrutiny over his administration's initial narrative on the Benghazi attack, President Obama on Monday called the debate a "sideshow" -- arguing he labeled the attack terrorism from the start and even dispatched a top official to the Hill to clear things up.
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Obama dismisses Benghazi criticism as 'sideshow'
www.la.times.com-May 14, 2013
A defiant President Obama dismissed as a "sideshow" the controversy over his administration's handling of last year's armed assault in Benghazi, Libya, accusing critics of trying to make political hay from the deaths of four Americans.
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Pentagon grapples with sex crimes by military recruiters
www.washingtonpost.com-May 13, 2013
Military recruiters across the country have been caught in a string of sex-crime scandals over the past year, exposing another long-standing problem for the Defense Department as it grapples with a crisis of sexual assault in the ranks.
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