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DOJ protocol let FBI remain silent on Petraeus
Roll Call
Monday, November 12, 2012
News
DOJ protocol let FBI remain silent on Petraeus
Lawmakers from both parties expressed frustration Monday that the FBI did not inform them that it was conducting an investigation that included former CIA Director David Petraeus. But it’s not at all clear that the agency violated protocol. Read more…

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2nd-term curse: Political irrelevance and scandals
Yahoo News
Monday, November 12, 2012
Commentary
2nd-term curse: Political irrelevance and scandals
The re-elected president should be worrying about the Second-Term Curse. Second presidential terms have almost always been disappointing and sad with thwarted ambitions, scandal and a slow slide towards political irrelevance. Read more…

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Petraeus’ other love affair was with media
CNN
Monday, November 12, 2012
News
David Petraeus had another love affair long before the one that cost him his job running the CIA. It was with the press. The retired general’s skillful courtship of journalists brought him a career’s worth of favorable headlines. Read more…

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FBI kept Petraeus probe private until election over
McClatchy Newspapers
Monday, November 12, 2012
News
FBI Director Robert Mueller’s top aide was told former CIA chief David Petraeus was having an extramarital affair that might have compromised national security a week before the Nov. 6 elections, a congressional official said Monday. Read more…

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/12/obamas-second-term-bowing-begins/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS The head of the Palestinian Authority verbally smacked down the president of the United States, and the White House responded with a conciliatory note. Welcome to President Obama’s more flexible second term. Shortly after his Nov. 6 victory, Mr. Obama telephoned Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the Palestinians’ drive for U.N. recognition […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/matthew-vadum/was-petraeus-sacrificed-for-obama/print/ As the scandal regarding the Obama administration’s deadly bungling in Benghazi, Libya, begins to heat up, suddenly CIA director David Petraeus is out, felled by his own sex scandal. Complicating matters further, Ronald Kessler reports at Newsmax that “Senior FBI officials suppressed disclosure of the highly sensitive case, apparently to avoid embarrassment to Obama […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/pushing-back-against-stealth-jihad-charter-schools/ Americans may not realize it yet, but Turkey’s regression from a secular democracy into an Islamic state may be based on an educational movement that has also taken root in America. Imam Fethullah Gülen and his Gülen Movement (GM) have had enormous influence in setting the increasingly Islamist agenda of Turkey’s ruling Justice and […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/a-conservative-sellout-is-not-the-solution/print/ Many of you reading this probably felt a kick in the gut when the election results came in. Filled with optimism by Republican pollsters predicting a landslide victory, the outcome came as an even bigger shock. Losing is never fun or easy and can lead to a temporary state of shell shock in which […]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323894704578114591174453074.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop Sometimes the revolution politicians seek isn’t the one they get. Consider the irony—and the opportunity—in Monday’s report that the U.S. is likely to surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer as early as 2020. In its annual world energy outlook, the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) says the global energy map “is […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/retaliate-yet-again?f=must_reads For the most part Israel’s military responses can be summed up with one word; “Restraint.: I understand the reasoning, from politics to world view, I get it, I don’t always agree, but I do understand. But at what point does Israel stop worrying about world view, which we all know will always be against […]

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ On the corner of the street a giant rat squats over the sidewalk, its shadow blocking the cold winter sun, while at its feet, hired men, some with heavy accents, hand out leaflets and chant, “Who are we, What do we want” in the familiar hymn of the hired union protester, not a member […]

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=2858 Obama’s election and Gaza It sure didn’t take long for the effect of the U.S. election to be felt around the world, particularly in the Middle East. Within days of President Barack Obama’s victory, Israel found itself under missile and mortar attack on two fronts. Though the bulk of the blitz is coming from […]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324439804578115081454748210.html?mod=opinion_newsreel If you’re a conspiracy theorist, the timing of David Petraeus’s resignation was perfect. He stepped down as CIA director Friday, six days before he was to have testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the 9/11 attacks in Benghazi and three days after Barack Obama’s re-election, thereby shielding Obama from both pre-election embarrassment and […]