Jeffrey Scott Shapiro
Articles by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro
Hillary Clinton undercut on Libya war by Pentagon and Congress, secret tapes reveal
Top Pentagon officials and a senior Democrat in Congress so distrusted Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2011 march to war in Libya that they opened their own diplomatic channels with the Gadhafi regime in an effort to halt the escalating crisis, according to secret audio recordings recovered from Tripoli. Published January 28, 2015
John Kerry seeks Nigeria’s help battling Islamist terrorism, pushes for peaceful vote
Secretary of State John F. Kerry flew to Nigeria over the weekend to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan and his challenger in the upcoming Nigerian presidential election to push for a peaceful vote and to seek enhanced cooperation in the fight against Islamist terrorism. Published January 25, 2015
John Kerry breaks protocol, flies to Nigeria to discourage election violence
Amidst rising civil unrest in Nigeria, Secretary of State John F. Kerry flew there this weekend to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan and his challenger in the upcoming Nigerian presidential election to discuss the vote and discourage violence from each party's supporters, and also to enhance cooperation in the fight against Islamist terrorism. Published January 25, 2015
Martin Luther King III sees Ferguson riots, violence against police as setbacks
NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: On the holiday commemorating his father's epic civil rights legacy, Martin Luther King III says he is dismayed by recent violence against police, the destructive protests in Ferguson and the trashing of a U.Va. fraternity falsely accused of sexual assault because they don't reflect his father's own approach to advocate for change peacefully. Published January 18, 2015
Obama economy: Welfare dependency peaks as rich get richer
As Barack Obama enters the twilight of his presidency, he presides over an America vastly different from the one he envisioned building during his 2008 campaign that promised to empower everyday Americans on Main Street over wealthy bankers and investors on Wall Street. Published January 4, 2015
Sweetheart deal? Unions allowed to cut retiree benefits rather than fix underfunded pensions
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union is a heavyweight on the labor scene. It pays its president $350,000 a year. It's holding its next executive board meeting in February at a swanky beachfront resort in Hollywood, Florida. And it just doled out nearly $8 million to influence the last election and lobby Washington. Published December 29, 2014
Obama community policing effort falls short as funds mishandled, diverted
President Obama has used the Ferguson and NYPD controversies to campaign for increased community policing tactics. But on his watch, federal funding for such initiatives has plummeted and money has been mishandled or diverted to such things as drones that have done little to further the cause, a Washington Times review of federal documents shows. Published December 23, 2014
Rolling Stone University of Virginia rape story sparked unpunished rampage
In the wee morning hours after Rolling Stone's now-retracted gang rape story roiled the University of Virginia campus, a masked group of five women and three men unleashed their fury on the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the center of the controversy. Published December 21, 2014
Alan Dershowitz sees political double standard in vandal attack on U.Va. fraternity house
Alan Dershowitz, one of the nation's premier defense lawyers and a Harvard law professor, believes universities display a double standard in excusing violence from the political left, and failing to punish activities like a fraternity house attack can have dangerous consequences. Published December 21, 2014
U.Va. rape accuser’s friends begin to doubt story
Three friends of the alleged University of Virginia rape victim are growing more skeptical about her account, saying they have doubts about information she gave them and why she belatedly tried to get herself deleted from the Rolling Stone article that engulfed their campus in controversy. Published December 15, 2014
Should Rolling Stone blame ‘rape victim’ or itself?
University of Virginia (UVA) rape rage should not be misdirected upon the alleged victim in wake of the magazine's retraction. Published December 5, 2014
Obama immigration action headed for the courts
The battle over Barack Obama’s immigration overhaul is likely headed to the courts, but legal scholars say the president's specific tactics in acting unilaterally may be difficult to overturn. Published November 20, 2014
Harvard, UNC sued over race-based admissions policies
The Alexandria legal advocacy group that sued Harvard University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill this week for capping the number of Asian-Americans they admit says it hopes to file more lawsuits against other colleges for race-based admissions policies in the coming days. Published November 18, 2014
Orbital Sciences to end use of Soviet engines after rocket crash
Orbital Sciences Corp., the Northern Virginia aerospace company whose Antares rocket exploded shortly after liftoff last week, will "likely" end its use Soviet-made engines in future missions for NASA, the company said Wednesday. Published November 5, 2014
Virgin Galactic crash probe focuses on descent system
Federal investigators probing Friday's fatal crash of a Virgin Galactic private space tourism craft say they now suspect the rocket plane's descent system deployed prematurely, sending the ship's tail into a rise and causing the craft to "disintegrate." Published November 3, 2014
Commercial spaceship suffers catastrophic failure, at least 1 dead
A Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket exploded after taking off on a test flight in Southern California's Mojave Desert, a witness said Friday. Published October 31, 2014
Rocket contracted by NASA explodes after Virginia launch
An unmanned NASA-contracted rocket powered by a Soviet-era Russian rocket engine exploded Tuesday night along the northeastern Virginia coast, flaring into a massive fireball shortly after it launched from Wallops Flight Facility. Published October 28, 2014
Ex-political prisoner: Putin’s regime destined to fall
The billionaire Russian oil tycoon who lost his assets and freedom after defying Vladimir Putin says the Kremlin has co-opted the country's legal system and hijacked its armed forces to benefit a plutocratic regime that is destined for collapse. Published October 16, 2014
Holocaust denial video praised in letters from lawmakers’ offices
A Holocaust denial video that suggested Jews were not exterminated by gas chambers at the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp mysteriously received flattering praise in letters from the offices of one U.S. representative, a Maine state representative and a high-ranking policy adviser to the president of Hungary who now works for NATO. Published October 13, 2014
Pentagon spokesman moonlighted as provocative photographer
By day, Army Col. Steve Warren has helped news reporters for years navigate the military, securing them the data and comments they needed for their stories. Published September 30, 2014
