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On Monday, retired four-star general and MSNBC "military analyst" Barry R. McCaffrey posted a clip of video game footage to Twitter. Alongside it he claimed it was a display of strength from Ukraine's air defense. It's actually footage from a video game.

WASHINGTON -- Sandy Berger now admits that it was no "honest mistake" when he took classified documents from the National Archives. The former Clinton national security adviser pleaded guilty Friday to taking the documents and cutting them up with scissors. Berger told a federal judge in Washington that he intentionally took three copies of a document about terror threats, and destroyed them. The documents deal with the government's anti-terror efforts during the 2000 millennium celebration. Under a plea deal that the judge must accept, Berger will serve no jail time for the misdemeanor. He's to pay a $10,000 fine and...

Speculation Rises on Greenspan's FutureWASHINGTON - His pointed criticism of the Bush tax plan showed that Alan Greenspan (news - web sites), often taken to task for being too murky in his economic pronouncements, can be crystal clear when he wants to be The Federal Reserve (news - web sites) chairman warned that further tax cuts should be paid for, leading Democrats to proclaim that Greenspan had delivered the "kiss of death" for President Bush (news - web sites)'s $1.3 trillion proposal. GOP lawmakers fumed. Greenspan, himself a Republican, had stabbed them in the back, they said. The White House...