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"John Kelly's trying to keep his job. He will say anything," says @RepWilson in response to Trump's staff chief who ripped her for disclosing details of controversial call with soldier's widow. "There were other people who heard what I heard."

CIA head Leon Panetta, a former politician, has not strayed from his roots, despite his obligation to be above politics. The Associated Press reports that Panetta has told the New Yorker that Dick Cheney's criticism of Obama administration policies almost suggests "he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point." Can you imagine George Tenet stating in 2001 that he thought that a Democratic critic of the Bush administration wanted Americans to die to prove a point? This is proof that a political hack like Panetta shouldn't be running what is supposed to be...

Rev. Jackson Brands Bush's Foreign Policy Neither Humble Nor Consistent (CHICAGO, IL) Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., founder and President of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, issued the following statement regarding the Bush Administration’s foreign policy: “When he campaigned for President, George W. Bush promised us a humble foreign policy, and criticized the Clinton/Gore years for their lack of consistency. But there is nothing humble about claiming the right to go to war unilaterally, circumventing the United Nations, splitting NATO between “new” and “old” Europe, and ignoring the treaties and rules of international law that George W. Bush overrode with his pre-emptive...

<p>The Democratic Party is at war with itself over what to do in Iraq. As U.S. and British warplanes pounded Iraq this week in preparation for a major, perhaps pivotal ground assault on Baghdad, the divide among Democrats over the Middle East conflict was deepening.</p>