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Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland admitted that she provided false information Friday about the State Department's hiring of private security firms for the American mission in Benghazi attacked on September 11th: QUESTION: You also said there was no contract with a private security firm in Libya, and yet apparently some British security guards were hired. Is that your way of saying you didn’t contract with a firm but you did hire individual security guards? MS. NULAND: Thank you for that, because there was an error in what I said. The external security, external armed security, as we have been saying, outside...

House Speaker Dennis Hastert demanded Wednesday that the FBI surrender documents it seized and remove agents involved in the weekend raid of Rep. William Jefferson's office, under what lawmakers of both parties said were unconstitutional circumstances. "We think those materials ought to be returned," Hastert said, adding that the FBI agents involved "ought to be frozen out of that (case) just for the sake of the constitutional aspects of it." The Saturday night search of Jefferson's office on Capitol Hill brought Democrats and Republicans together in rare election-year accord, with both parties protesting agency conduct they said violated the Constitution's...

NORTH BELLMORE, Long Island There was another home invasion on Long Island. This time a North Bellmore, Long Island man who was about to step into the shower heard his front door open downstairs. Bart Salamone says he opened the bathroom door a crack and saw a stranger walking around. Salamone says he called 9-1-1 from a cordless phone in the bathroom -- but the intruder apparently heard him and kicked in the bathroom door. Salamone says he and the intruder struggled, and the thug was able to run out. Salamone says about an hour later after as he was...