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Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014, about the current state and future of American foreign policy. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Dick Cheney’s re-emergence complicates Obama’s response to Islamic State threat

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Retired Major General Antonio Taguba (Associated Press)

HAYDEN: Democrats ‘shaping’ attack on CIA interrogation program

By Mike Hayden

In this Tuesday, June 17, 2014, image taken from video obtained from British Broadcaster Sky, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Kurdish pehsmerga forces leave a vehicle, near Jalula, Iraq. (AP Photo/Sky via AP video)

DNC: Dick Cheney’s criticism of Obama foreign policy needs dose of reality

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In this March 9, 2006 file photo, a large dozer sit ready for work at Peabody Energy's Gateway Coal Mine near Coulterville, Ill. A 10 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions will mean a decline of 180 million tons, or 18 percent, in U.S. coal production, according to Bernstein Research. That would hurt miners such as Peabody Energy, Alpha Natural Resources and Arch Coal. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

MICHAELS: Obama’s cold political calculus on global warming

By Pat Michaels

President Barack Obama autographs a banner while visiting a wounded service member at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., June 28, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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Obama warned about VA wait-time problems during 2008 transition

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This March 27, 2014, file photo shows Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. At the center of a hotly disputed Senate torture report is America’s biggest counterterrorism success of all: the killing of Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Senate report: Torture didn’t lead to bin Laden; CIA disputes conclusion

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

File- This March 13, 2014, file photo shows Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., listening on Capitol Hill in Washington, during a Senate Transportation subcommittee hearing. In the aftermath of committee chairwoman Sen. Feinstein’s accusations that the CIA’s intimidating tactics and breaching of its constitutional authority for filing a criminal complaint against congressional aides, observers say the U.S. intelligence community and its congressional minders have committed serious missteps over the 13 years since the 9/11 terror attacks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Former CIA probers urge new investigative panel

By STEPHEN BRAUN - Associated Press

In this March 11, 2014, photo, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. talks to reporters as she leaves the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, after saying that the CIA's improper search of a stand-alone computer network established for Congress has been referred to the Justice Department. For President Barack Obama, a public spat between his trusted ally at the CIA and a loyal Democratic senator has put into sharp focus his complicated role in managing the post-Sept. 11 anti-terror programs he inherited from George W. Bush. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obama refuses to ‘wade into’ CIA-Senate fight between Sen. Feinstein, Brennan

By Julie Pace - Associated Press

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. talks to reporters as she leaves the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, after saying that the CIA's improper search of a stand-alone computer network established for Congress has been referred to the Justice Department. The issue stems from the investigation into allegations of CIA abuse in a Bush-era detention and interrogation program. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senator: CIA improperly searched computer network

By DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press

Christian Marrone helped send his father-in-law and former boss to prison and blamed the culture of south Philadelphia politics for his own actions. (defense.gov)

White House doubles down on Homeland aide tied to Pa. scandals

By Jim McElhatton and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Turnabout: As members of the Senate, Joseph R. Biden (above), Chuck Hagel (below left) and John F. Kerry in particular defended Syrian President Bashar Assad against the demonization from the Bush administration. Now on President Obama's national security team, they have taken a starkly different view. (Associated Press)

Bashar Assad loses U.S. friends as Kerry, Hagel and Biden take Bush’s stance on Syria

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

**FILE** James Comey will be nominated by President Obama to replace FBI Director Robert Mueller. (Associated Press)

Obama to officially nominate Comey for FBI

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Republican Darrell E. Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has become a thorn in the Obama administration's side, investigating a series of scandals. (Associated Press)

Rep. Darrell Issa’s tough oversight part of a long tradition

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

President Obama (center) walks out of the Oval Office of the White House with former Presidents Bill Clinton (left) and George W. Bush to deliver remarks in the Rose Garden in Washington on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010. Mr. Obama asked the former presidents to help with U.S. relief efforts in Haiti after the earthquake. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Bush policies still alive in Obama White House

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Models of a mock North Korea Scud-B missile (center) and other South Korean missiles are displayed at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul on March 17, 2013. (Associated Press)

U.S. missile defense plans will raise Korea tensions, China warns

By Shaun Waterman and Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

President Obama at the White House on Monday formally announced he is nominating John O. Brennan (right) to be director of the CIA and Chuck Hagel to be secretary of defense. Mr. Brennan has served as Mr. Obama’s chief counterterrorism adviser, while Mr. Hagel is a former U.S. senator from Nebraska. (Associated Press)

Bipartisan blows stand  between Brennan and  post at helm of CIA

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Chuck Hagel, a potential nominee for defense secretary, called the 2007 troop surge in Iraq a “blunder” and advocated talks with Iran with no strings attached. (Associated Press)

Hagel’s foreign policy record could doom chances for top Pentagon post

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

**FILE** Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Indonesia's Foreign Minister R.M. Marty Natalegawa at the State Department in Washington on Sept. 20, 2012. (Associated Press)

AP sources: U.S. to take Iran group off terror list

By Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Former President George W. Bush (AP photo)

Democrats recall Bush more than GOP did

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

Libyans search for documents inside Abu Salim Prison, Libya's most notorious prison during Col. Moammar Gadhafi's regime and the scene of a 1996 massacre of prisoners, in Tripoli, Libya, on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Rights group: Evidence of wider U.S. waterboarding

By Lee Keath and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press