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Liz Cheney's New Group Blasts Obama Foreign Policy
Liz Cheney has launched a new group aimed at rallying opponents to President Obama's foreign policy and national security initiatives.
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October 13, 2009 in Afghanistan, CIA, President Obama, The Note | Permalink | User Comments (69)
'Top Line' -- Ridge Regrets Perception of Politics at Homeland Security
ABC News’ Rick Klein reports:
A new book by former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge has grabbed headlines over an explosive suggestion: That he wondered whether an election-eve push inside the Bush administration to raise the terror threat level was "about security or politics?"
Ridge has since downplayed that aspect of his book, "The Test of Our Times," saying that the system for raising threat levels worked because, in that instance, it was left unchanged.
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September 1, 2009 in Afghanistan, CIA, Top Line | Permalink | User Comments (0)
Investigation of Secret CIA Program Turns Into Political Brawl
Republicans immediately denounced the investigation as an effort by Democrats to "tear down the CIA."
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July 17, 2009 in CIA, Congress | Permalink | User Comments (27)
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