Tag: Osama bin Laden

Emails: Clinton upset about being photoshopped out of White House picture

Sarah Bedford · January 1, 2016 7:52 pm

"I think that they did not meet a narrative the White House needed. And I'll be very candid with you, they just didn't," said retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. (Photo courtesy of screen shot)

National Security

Former official: Islamic State left out of White House’s 2012 ‘narrative’

Anna Giaritelli · December 1, 2015 10:53 pm

It began with the speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Germany in June 2008, when Barack Obama took his act to an international audience. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Words and the wise

Noemie Emery · November 24, 2015 5:01 am

Not a Conspiracy

Thomas Joscelyn · November 16, 2015 5:00 am

Pakistani Prime Minister NawazÂ Sharif did not give way on Pakistan's growing nuclear arsenal in his Oct. 22 meeting with President Obama. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Can we ever trust our ‘frenemy’ Pakistan?

Charles Hoskinson · November 2, 2015 5:01 am

Shaker Aamer, a Saudi who emerged as a defiant leader among prisoners during nearly 14 years of confinement on the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has been released to join his family in Britain. (International Committee of the Red Cross via AP)

National Security

Controversial detainee freed from Guantanamo Bay

Charles Hoskinson · October 30, 2015 1:10 pm

Biden in 2012: Clinton ‘Hedged’ Her Bet on Bin Laden Raid

Daniel Halper · October 20, 2015 7:45 pm

White House tap dances around Biden’s bin Laden flip-flop

Nicole Duran · October 20, 2015 7:14 pm

Washington Secrets

Biden: ‘I think you should turn right’ Obama: ‘No, I’m going left’

Paul Bedard · October 20, 2015 5:11 pm

Majority-Christian Ethiopia has angered Islamic groups due to its periodic armed conflicts with neighboring Somalia, which is mainly Muslim. (AP Photo)

National Security

Al Qaeda now at war with ISIS

Curt Mills · September 11, 2015 7:23 pm

President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and others observe a moment of silence to mark the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks onÂ Friday, Sept. 11, 2015.Â (AP Photo)Â

9/11 anniversary disappearing from front pages

Becket Adams · September 11, 2015 7:01 pm

"Bin Laden was the first time [were were told], 'This is a kill mission, not a capture mission, unless he was naked with his hands up,'" a Team 6 source is quoted inÂ Relentless Strike.

National Security

Book: bin Laden always a ‘kill mission,’ Obama told SEALs fight, not surrender, if caught

Paul Bedard · August 27, 2015 4:26 pm