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On Wednesday, Kathleen Troia “K.T.” McFarland, a former national security aide to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, claimed that United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice is being promoted to National Security Advisor in order to shield her from congressional scrutiny over her role in the response to the Benghazi attacks. “I figure that was the payback for Benghazi,” McFarland said of Rice’s promotion to NSA on Wednesday. “The fact that she carried the administration’s water – carried it very badly, I might say – but carried it.” [...] “Obviously, they have a close, personal relationship,” noted Fox News...

A conversation that began in jest and that led to a passing comment at the end of my interview with General David Petraeus has turned into a firestorm of speculation and an attempt to denigrate Fox. Today, I’m bewildered by the reaction of the press to Bob Woodward’s story in the Washington Post. Though Bob is in possession of a secretly recorded tape of my conversation with the general...

Under direct questioning, and given several opportunitites to do so, Republican candidate for NY Attorney General Jeanine Pirro refused to say that she would vote for Hillary's Republican Senate opponent. There will be a Republican primary on Sep. 12th between former State Department official KT McFarland and former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer. Pirro was a guest on Tucker Carlson's MSNBC show this afternoon. Pirro declined to answer Carlson's repeated questions as to whether she would vote for the Republican candidate for Senate, replying only that she was "focusing on her own race."

Republican Kathleen (KT) McFarland's bid for a second ballot line in November's Senate race is in trouble amid allegations she filed nearly 5,000 too few signatures. The Conservative Party, which backs her rival, John Spencer, in the Sept. 12 GOP primary, filed a challenge to her petitions yesterday. Spencer spokesman Rob Ryan said McFarland filed only 10,266 signatures at the state Board of Elections last week - far short of the 15,000 required. "They probably figured if nobody checks and nobody files a complaint, nobody is going to know," Ryan said. "This is just another example of the desperation of...

Associated Press Says Senate hopeful's claim of abuse by father was made up, punishment was "acceptable' NEW YORK - The ongoing family drama involving Republican Senate hopeful Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland took a new turn Thursday when a brother publicly denounced McFarland as "evil" for accusing their father of child abuse. "It's a complete fabrication," McFarland's brother, Tom Troia, told the New York Post in an interview published Thursday. "If I had one word to describe my sister, it would be "evil.' " The story came the same day McFarland prepared to host the first major fundraiser of her campaign,...

The GOP candidate seeking to unseat Hillary Rodham Clinton outed her gay brother dying of AIDS to her family and blamed his sexual orientation on her father - before cutting off family ties, New York magazine reports. Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland, 54 - who once briefly declared Clinton's helicopters were buzzing her beach house to take pictures - shot off long, angry letters to her parents shortly after she discovered her brother Michael Troia had AIDS, the magazine is reporting in its new issue. "Have you ever wondered why I have never had anything to do with Mike and have...

Advisers to Republican Senate hopeful Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland said Thursday they will launch a petition drive to place her name on an independent line on the November general election ballot _ a move that could keep her candidacy alive if she loses the Sept. 12 GOP primary. But an aide to McFarland's GOP primary rival, former Yonkers mayor John Spencer, dismissed the move as "desperate" and said it would only help Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton win re-election.

ALBANY, May 10 — There are the children he fathered with a subordinate while he was still married to someone else. Add to that some charges of nepotism. And for good measure, throw in a top aide who pleaded guilty to sodomizing a 15-year-old boy. It is not a soap opera. It is opposition research, the dark political art known to practitioners simply as "oppo." Its subject is John Spencer, the former mayor of Yonkers, who is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. The research is being rolled out by the campaign of a fellow Republican,...

A former Pentagon spokeswoman under President Reagan launched a Web site Friday to solicit donations for a possible run against Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Republican Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland is still gauging support and has not actually decided whether to run, said adviser William O'Reilly.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A former Defense Department official who has been out of government for 20 years is considering entering the race for the Republican nomination to challenge Hillary Rodham Clinton's re-election bid. Kathleen "K-T" McFarland of Manhattan says she'll decide within two weeks whether to run for the G-O-P's Senate nomination. McFarland was a deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs from 1982 to 1985. She has been out of government since then and has never run for public office. Republican Party leaders in New York have been looking for an abortion-rights-supporting woman to challenge Hillary Clinton....