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Hillary Clinton: "I've Always Tried To Tell The Truth To The American People"; The American People Disagree

Hillary Clinton: "I've Always Tried To Tell The Truth To The American People"; The American People Disagree

Below is a notable exchange between the person who may be America's next president and CBS' Scott Pelley:

Key excerpt:

PELLEY: You know, in '76, Jimmy Carter famously said, "I will not lie to you."

 

CLINTON: Well, I have to tell you I have tried in every way I know how literally from my years as a young lawyer all the way through my time as secretary of state to level with the American people.

 

Rubio’s Shirking in the Senate

The Tampa Bay Times digs into Rubio’s record in the Senate and finds unsurprisingly that he has skipped out on most of his committee responsibilities:

A new, sweeping review of all committees Rubio has sat on since taking office in 2011 paints a bleak picture of participation in the day-to-day responsibilities of the job.

Rubio is on the Foreign Relations, Intelligence, Commerce and Small Business and Entrepreneurship committees. The Florida Republican has missed 68 percent of hearings, or 407 of 598 for which records were available.

US Airstrikes Target ISIS Leader In Libya

US warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on an ISIS base in western Libya, targeting a leader linked to last year’s beach massacre in Tunisia. The air strikes on Friday came just hours after it was reported that the Obama administration had planned to veto a proposal to bomb ISIS targets in Libya. Noureddine Chouchane, the operative suspected of being behind two Tunisia attacks last year, was most likely killed in the strikes, according to the Pentagon.

Japan Goes Full Goebbels: Government Cracks Down On Media Over Negative Economic Reporting

Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg

Their imminent departure from evening news programmes is not just a loss to their profession; critics say they were forced out as part of a crackdown on media dissent by an increasingly intolerant prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and his supporters.

 

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