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							<title><![CDATA[Cyber Chief Confirms 2016 'Stand Down' Against Russians]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-cyber-chief-confirms-stand-order-russian-cyberattacks-summer-2016-204935758.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Isikoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michael Daniel, Obama White House's chief cyber official testified that proposals he was developing to counter Russia's attack on the U.S. presidential election were put on a back burner after he was ordered to stand down his efforts in the summer of 2016.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside Obama's Response to Putin's 2016 Attacks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/why-the-hell-are-we-standing-down/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Isikoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CIA Director John Brennan was angry. On August 4, 2016, he was on the phone with Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia&rsquo;s FSB, the security service that succeeded the KGB. It was one of the regularly scheduled calls between the two men, with the main subject once more the horrific...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mueller Probe Outgrows Its 'Witch Hunt' Phase]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/mueller-probe-outgrows-witch-hunt-phase-100045988.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Isikoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Steve Bannon&rsquo;s eyes lit up. Several months before he left his job as a senior White House adviser last August, Bannon was talking to President Trump about the brewing political storm over the Justice Department investigation into his campaign&rsquo;s alleged ties to the Kremlin....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An EPA Expert's &quot;Crime of Massive Proportion&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/16/21911592-climate-change-experts-fraud-was-crime-of-massive-proportion-say-feds?lite</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Isikoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The EPA&rsquo;s highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change deserves to go to prison for at least 30 months for lying to his bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could avoid doing his real job, say federal prosecutors.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Monica: The Inside Story of an Epic Scoop]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/12/23/monica-lewinsky-backstage-at-the-ultimate-washington-drama.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Isikoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It isn't often in this business that you're sitting at your desk and you get a phone call from a source that causes you to nearly fall off your chair. But that's exactly what happened in my office at Newsweek's Washington bureau early on the afternoon of Jan. 13, 1998. "There's a little...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trail to Bin Laden Began With Harsh Interrogations]]></title>
							<link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42863247/ns/world_news-death_of_bin_laden/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Isikoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The trail that led to the doorstep of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan began years earlier with aggressive interrogations of al-Qaida detainees at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and CIA "black site" prisons overseas, according to U.S. officials.It was those sometimes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cyberattacker Arrest Highlights 'Scary' Risks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40306517/ns/us_news-security/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Isikoff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; How did a hacker in Malaysia manage to penetrate a computer network operated by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland?And what was the same accused cybercriminal doing this summer when he allegedly tapped into the secure computers of a large Defense Department...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Not Keeping Promise of Transparency]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/202875</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Isikoff</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Takes Fire from His Liberal Base]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/198706</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Isikoff</author>
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					Obama's liberal base takes aim over terror policies.Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.Separate multiple addresses with commasFending off criticism from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trying to Make Sense of the Torture Memos]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/194595</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Isikoff</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fed Who Blew the Whistle on Wiretaps]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/174601</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Isikoff</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Considers Commission on Torture]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/170368</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Isikoff</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Lobbyist Connection]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/138519</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Isikoff</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Clinton Have a Delegate Loophole?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/123495</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Isikoff</author>
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