Gillibrand: Some Commanders Can’t Differentiate ‘slap on the ass and a rape’ (VIDEO)
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., addresses a panel of military officials Tuesday during a hearing on sexual assaults within the U.S. armed services.
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Rachel Maddow: Obama to Take on GOP Anew over Guantanamo Closure
Rachel Maddow reports on how much political will there was for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, including support from leading Republicans such as President Bush once-presidential candidate John McCain, and how that all disappeared once Barack Obama became president and signed a presidential order to close the prison. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world […]
Breaking: Man Fatally Shot by FBI Connected to Tsarnaev
Central Florida News 13 is reporting that a violent confrontation between FBI agents and a friend of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev resulting in the fatal shooting of Ibragim Todashev, 26, in Orlando. Friends of Todashev say he is from Chechnya and knew Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev but was not involved in the bombings. In a statement, […]
McCain Defends Obama Against Impeachment
Senator John McCain defended President Obama on ABC’s This Week Sunday. The Senator cautioned his Republican colleagues to calm down regarding talk of impeaching the President over the attack in Benghazi. In response to a clip of Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) using the “I word,” McCain told host Martha Raddatz: “With all due respect, I […]
Robt. Gates: Benghazi Decision Correct (VIDEO)
Robert Gates, the former Secretary of Defense under Presidents George W. Bush and President Obama, forcefully defended the Obama administration’s handling of the events surrounding the recent tragedy in Benghazi on CBS’s Face the Nation. Gates even went as far as saying that critics of the Obama administration have a “cartoonish impression of military capabilities […]