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Clinton: We Hacked Yemeni al-Qaeda Sites

Rob Quinn — Thu, 24 May 2012 02:54:11 CDT

Al-Qaeda has issued a call for "electronic jihad," but it looks like the terror group has been outgunned by State Department experts. Hillary Clinton, speaking at the Special Operations Command gala dinner last night, said that American specialists had hacked into al-Qaeda sites in Yemen that "bragged about killing Americans,...

Report: Obama Snubs Zardari as Relations Unravel

Mark Russell — Mon, 21 May 2012 04:46:32 CDT

President Obama has said that Pakistan is the key to the future of Afghanistan and the region—just as US-Pakistan relations appear to be deteriorating. Obama is now refusing to meet with President Asif Ali Zardari at the NATO summit in Chicago, reports the Guardian . For Obama, the most important...

Dissing Hillary's No-Makeup Look? 'You're an Idiot'

Evann Gastaldo — Sun, 13 May 2012 19:00:05 CDT

The world was aflutter this week over pictures of Hillary Clinton sans makeup, with Matt Drudge and Fox News acting particularly smug about the whole thing. “I guess we're all supposed to gasp and feel faint, to acknowledge that yes, Hillary Clinton is a real live human with monstrous, terrible...

Bill Wants Hillary to Take On 'Amateur' Obama: Book

Kevin Spak — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:16:05 CDT

Bill Clinton considers Barack Obama such an "incompetent" president that he begged Hillary last summer to quit the State Department and run against him in 2012—or at least, that's the story a new, unauthorized Obama biography is telling. "Barack Obama is an amateur," Clinton is quoted as telling his...

Joe Biden's Gay Marriage Motive: the 2016 Election

Neal Colgrass — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:45:05 CDT

Joe Biden's support for gay marriage may not have been a political "trial balloon" or a typically Bidenesque case of loose lips. "No one knows quite what to make of Joe Biden’s apparent endorsement of same-sex marriage on Sunday," writes Steve Kornacki at Salon . But "if you consider Biden’s gay...

Chen: China's Promises 'Just Empty Words'

Kevin Spak — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:46:07 CDT

Chen Guangcheng says he's being treated well enough at the hospital where he's recuperating , but that he doesn't trust the Chinese government to continue being so kind. In an interview with der Spiegel —which the paper says was plagued by a connection that cut out multiple times—Chen confirms that...

Clinton to India: Back Off the Iran Oil

Sun, 06 May 2012 06:47:11 CDT

Hoping to wean India from Iranian oil imports, Hillary Clinton is urging Indian leaders to explore alternative suppliers as she opens a three-day visit to the energy-starved South Asian giant. Clinton arrived in the eastern city of Kolkata today as officials traveling with her said the Iranian oil imports would...

Clinton to N. Korea: Change, and We'll Work With You

Matt Cantor — Fri, 04 May 2012 08:35:05 CDT

It's not too late for North Korea's new leadership to mend its ways, Hillary Clinton says. "If they focus on honoring their commitments and rejoining the international community, and on feeding and educating their citizens, the United States will welcome them and work with them," the secretary of state said...

Bill Clinton: Hillary Didn't Tell Me About bin Laden

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 03 May 2012 09:45:40 CDT

So much for spousal privilege. On the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, Hillary Clinton yesterday revealed that her husband had no idea the raid was going on. Today on the Ellen DeGeneres Show the former president himself backs that up in a discussion about how he found out,...