Barack Obama
A man points at a picture released by the US Treasury Department on Twitter showing US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew's new signature on a bank note in Washington on June 18, 2013. Lew was chided by President Barack Obama for his unusual loopy signature which he said could 'debase' the US currency.
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You need to reduce the political risk to Obama, and that means repositioning the opposition as humanitarian, rather than Islamist. It’s difficult
When a decision comes down, the administration has said they will implement any Supreme Court ruling in compliance with the law, and we have every reason to believe that’s what they’ll do. President Obama has a record of advancing equality for gay and lesbian Americans, and we have confidence the president will move to protect our families.
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Luttwak: 5 rules to keep in mind while arming Syrian rebels
was for several good and solid reasons that U.S. President Barack Obama's administration long resisted pressures to intervene more forcefully in Syria's civil war.To start with, there is the sheer complexity of a conflict at the intersection of religious, 2:42 PM Read more »
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U.S. and Taliban to start talks in Qatar office
and will replaced, if approved by the Afghan government, by a much smaller force that will only train and advise.President Barack Obama has not yet said how many soldiers he will leave in Afghanistan along with NATO forces, but it is thought that it would 12:31 PM Read more »
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Seeking a Syria consensus despite US-Russia divide
were also showing cracks in their unity. Britain and France appear unwilling -- at least for now -- to join President Barack Obama in arming the Syrian rebels, a step the U.S. president reluctantly finalized last week.Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security 1:24 AM Read more »
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Obama: NSA secret data gathering 'transparent'
-- President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent -- even though they are authorized in secret."It is transparent," Obama told PBS's Charlie Rose in an 12:16 AM Read more »
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Letter: Not reassured by Obama's safeguards
doesn't comfort me to read that President Barack Obama "strongly defended the government's secret surveillance" of Americans as a means of safeguarding us ["Defense of surveillance," News, June 8].This is a man who finds out what constitutional rights the Read more »
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Walter Reed plans to furlough thousands- Obama family trip under fire amid sequester cuts
as sequester have caused a number of other spending decisions to be called into question. Among them are plans for President Obama and the first family to take an eight-day trip to Africa that is projected to cost as much as $100 million. Walter Reed’s Department 3 m ago from FOX News Read more »
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U.S. military team in Jordan planning ways to deal with Syria’s chemical weapons
before the Obama administration said it had concluded that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against rebels, the Pentagon began drawing on the expertise of obscure military experts to develop plans to reduce the risks from Syria’s massive stockpile 6 m ago from The Washington Post Read more »
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The Handover - An FP Slideshow
2010, when President Barack Obama accelerated training as part of his rapid surge of forces into the country, the Afghan National Army has grown from around 100,000 members to 195,000. But it still faces a number of challenges, including a desertion rate so 8 m ago from Foreign Policy Read more »
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New Terence Jeffrey for 06/19/2013
Barack Obama, Sen. John McCain and al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri now share a common goal: They support Syrian rebels seeking to overthrow Bashar Assad. Zawahiri announced his support for the Syrian rebels last year in an online video. "I appeal to every 9 m ago from Creators Syndicate Read more »
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When Adam Smith Was A Fetus, He Gave Himself An Invisible Handjob
It is his experience in those industries rather than as a regulator, Mr. Wheeler said, that provides his primary strengths. Obama’s nomination to head a major regulatory agency who brags about being an anti-regulatory industry lobbyist says a lot about how 11 m ago from Dohiyi Mir Read more »
