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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. Please note: a classified document seen in this photograph has been obscured. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

joshsternberg:

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. Please note: a classified document seen in this photograph has been obscured. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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Viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it’s real news,” Clinton said. “You may not agree with it, but you feel like you’re getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news which, you know, is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners.

Hillary Clinton Calls Al Jazeera ‘Real News,’ Criticizes U.S. Media

Internet freedom is about defending the space where all these things occur, so that it remains not just for the students here today but for your successors and all who come after you. This is one of the grand challenges of our time.

Secretary Hillary Clinton today, speaking at Georgetown University on internet freedom. (via cheatsheet)

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High-res Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waits for President Barack Obama, not in picture, to leave the Sao Bento Palace in Lisbon, on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. U.S. President Barack Obama and the leaders of NATO’s 27 other member nations will open a two-day summit Friday aimed at finding ways to keep the Cold War alliance relevant in the 21st century with revamped roles including ballistic missile defense, anti-piracy patrols, and counterterrorism.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waits for President Barack Obama, not in picture, to leave the Sao Bento Palace in Lisbon, on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. U.S. President Barack Obama and the leaders of NATO’s 27 other member nations will open a two-day summit Friday aimed at finding ways to keep the Cold War alliance relevant in the 21st century with revamped roles including ballistic missile defense, anti-piracy patrols, and counterterrorism.

Woodward in interview says his (as usual, unnamed) sources tell him the idea within the White House of Biden and Hillary swapping jobs for 2012 race is “on the table.” Not so farfetched, really, but David Axelord today called the rumors “absolute fiction.

Greg Mitchell