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8:56 am
Thu March 22, 2012

As 'Murdoch's Scandal' Unravels, Many Implicated

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News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, testifying alongside his son James, said his July appearance before a British parliamentary inquiry in London was "the most humble day of my life."
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Lowell Bergman is a producer and correspondent for the PBS documentary series Frontline. He is also a professor at the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
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Allegations of phone hacking and bribery brought down Rupert Murdoch's tabloid News of the World. Criminal and parliamentary investigations are now under way in the U.K., and dozens of journalists and top executives from Murdoch's paper have been arrested.

Scotland Yard has been investigating the scandal, but several police officials from that iconic institution have also been implicated; they're accused of accepting bribes from reporters at Murdoch's papers.

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The Two-Way
8:30 am
Thu March 22, 2012

Video Of Copter Crash In Afghanistan Goes Viral; Army Investigating

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From video of the incident, as the helicopter swooped low over a snowy base in Afghanistan moments before crashing in the distance.
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If you haven't seen it yet, you probably will soon if you're watching the cable news networks:

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Opinion
8:29 am
Thu March 22, 2012

Weekly Standard: Where Is Karfan?

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Kurds hold up Syria's pre-Baath and Kurdish flags, chanting slogans against the Syrian regime as they celebrate Noruz spring festival in the lebanese capital Beirut on March 21, 2012.
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By Lee Smith

Originally published on Thu March 22, 2012 7:19 am

Lee Smith is a senior editor of The Weekly Standard.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey testified earlier in March on Syria. It seems that a large part of the administration's thinking concerning military intervention touches on the regime's air defenses.

"That air defense system," said Panetta, "is pretty sophisticated."

How sophisticated? "Approximately five times more sophisticated," says Gen. Dempsey, "than existed in Libya,"

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Opinion
8:29 am
Thu March 22, 2012

New Republic: Syria Is The Balkans All Over Again

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Syrian rebels, headed by their leader nick named " Abu Suleiman" in the north of northern Syria's Idlib region, on March 18, 2012. Saudi Arabia is delivering military equipment to Syrian rebels in an effort to stop bloodshed by President Bashar al-Assad's regime, a top Arab diplomat said.
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By Radwan Ziadeh

Originally published on Thu March 22, 2012 7:18 am

Radwan Ziadeh is a spokesperson for the Syrian National Council and executive director of the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Washington.

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It's All Politics
8:28 am
Thu March 22, 2012

Thursday Political Grab Bag: Obama Energy Tour Rolls On

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President Obama defends his energy policies, using as a backdrop an oil and gas production field on federal land in New Mexico, Wednesday, March, 21, 2012.
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Originally published on Thu March 22, 2012 7:40 am

President Obama continued to defend his administration's energy policy in a multi-state tour by arguing that energy production has risen during his time in office and that his favored approach is to increase U.S. production from all energy sources. To underscore that, the Obama White House engineered a Thursday executive order for Obama to sign expedite the building of the Keystone XL pipeline from Cushing, OK to the Gulf.

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