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White House spokesman Jay Carney speaks May 22, 2012, during his daily news briefing at the White House. (Associated Press)

Following his attorney Frederick D. Cooke, Jr., (left) Thomas Gore, a campaign treasurer for Mayor Vincent C. Gray, makes his exit from the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse after his plea hearing in the District on Tuesday, May 22, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Education Secretary Arne Duncan speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington on Friday, April 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Members of the Just Russia opposition party wear white ribbons during a session of the Russian parliament in Moscow on Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Party members boycotted debates on a new bill introducing new tough sanctions against protesters. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

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Among the members of Russian President Vladimir Putin's new Cabinet are (from right) Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, shown attending a Cabinet meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow on Monday, May 21, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Government Press Service)

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** FILE ** Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy (left) poses for a photo after protesters marched to President Obama's campaign headquarters in Chicago on Monday, May 21, 2012, the final day of the NATO summit. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, May 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

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** FILE ** Colin Powell, a secretary of state in the George W. Bush administration and a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, meets with President Obama in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington in December 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Glyn Davies, U.S. envoy to North Korea, answers reporters' questions after meeting with South Korea's chief nuclear envoy, Lim Sung-nam, and Mr. Lim's Japanese counterpart, Shinsuke Sugiyama, at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Monday, May 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)