The White House was asked this question today about the IRS probe of conservative nonprofit groups: Can you say categorically that nobody at the White House and nobody on the president’s political team had any knowledge or was involved in...
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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
White House: No Role in IRS Tea Party Exam, AP Saga News to Them
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Retired Army General David Petraeus, pictured as the top U.S. commander in Iraq, in 2007.
Petraeus ‘All In’ for Private Equity?
KKR & Co. the private-equity firm run by Henry Kravis and George Roberts, is in discussions with former Central Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus about a role at the company, according to a person with knowledge of the talks....
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President Barack Obama at the White House.
Washington Daybook: Welcome to Dinner, Ladies
President Barack Obama continues his effort to improve relations with Congress, this time focusing on the ladies. He’s invited 20 female Senators from both parties to dinner at the White House tonight. The Boston Marathon attacks, and whether the FBI...
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The suspects from the Boston Bombing are seen in this handout photo released to the media on April, 18, 2013.
FBI’s Boston-Bombing Suspects: One Caught, One Dead
Written with Emma Fidel. Updated at 8:45 p.m., April 21, 2013 It ended as it began, with surveillance. The helicopter-taken heat-sensitive footage of the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect hiding in a boat stowed in a Watertown back yard revealed...
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‘Terror’ in Boston, by Any Other Name — Obama Today: ‘Terrorism’
Updated at 11:35 am EDT President Barack Obama acknowledged a federal investigation of terrorism today, the day after the fatal bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. “This was a heinous and cowardly act,” Obama said at a...
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Gen. Davis Petraeus with biographer Paula Broadwell, co-author of 'All In: The Education of General David Petraeus' on July 13, 2011.
Broadwell: No Cyber-Stalking Charge
Paula Broadwell, the biographer and mistress of former CIA Director David Petraeus, will not face charges for cyber-stalking, according to federal prosecutors. In a Dec. 14 letter to Broadwell’s lawyer, U.S. Attorney Robert O’Neill advised the West Point graduate that...
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Members of the Connecticut state police during a memorial service for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Dec. 16, 2012.
Newtown Shooting Spurs Legislative Response to Agencies’ Role
While the question remains whether the killings at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school will prompt major changes to U.S. guns laws, lawmakers did take action yesterday on another issue raised by the mass shooting: the role of federal law enforcement...
Read more »Obama: No Security Breach in Petraeus Affair
President Barack Obama said today that he has seen no evidence of a breach of national security in the FBI investigation of e-mails involving retired Army General David Petraeus and a woman with whom the former CIA director was having...
Read more »Obama: `Very Clear Deadline’ — Don’t `Hold Middle Class Hostage’
“We face a very clear deadline,” President Barack Obama said today of the so-called “fiscal cliff” looming at year’s end. “There’s only one way to solve these challenges and that is to do it together… I am open to compromise,...
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Photograph by Scott Eells/Bloomberg
Pelosi: Would’ve `Been Nice to Know’
If there was no question about national security, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said today, the requirement for the FBI to notify Congress would not have been triggered in its probe of e-mails involving retired Gen. David Petraeus, who quit...
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