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• Matthews: Obama spoke authentically about protecting US
  
  
  
  
• IRS official Lerner placed on leave
  Lois Lerner, the IRS official who oversees the agency’s division in charge of tax-exempt organizations, has been placed on administrative leave, a source told NBC News on Thursday. The IRS has selected Ken Corbin as acting director during Lerner's absence.Lerner, whose responsibility for the targeting of conservative groups at the IRS has become a point of scrutiny in the controversy, had come und...
  
  
  
• Obama’s defense address covers drones, security, Gitmo
  
  
  
  
• Obama reframes counterterrorism policy with new rules on drones
  In a major address Thursday President Barack Obama sought to reframe the nation’s counterterrorism strategy, saying, “Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue. But this war, like all wars, must end. That's what history advises. That's what our democracy demands.”He said in a speech at the National Defense University in Washington, “America is at a crossroads. We mus...
  
  
  
• Obama defends drones, renews pledge to close Gitmo in counterterror speech
  
  
  
  
• Obama: Gitmo a symbol that US 'flouts the rule of law'
  
  
  
  
• AP controversy shows test of striking a security balance
  
  
  
  
• 'Our actions are effective,' says Obama of drone strikes
  
  
  
  
• Obama addresses US citizen drone strike deaths
  
  
  
  
• Obama: Preference is to capture suspects, not use drone strikes