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October 10, 2012 | | BUBBA'S SPARK From his blockbuster convention speech to his mocking dismissal of Mitt’s move to the center, Bill Clinton keeps knocking it out of the park. Paul Begala on how he does it. THE DIRTY DETAILS It might soon get harder for the world’s greatest cyclist to live strong and prosper. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said Wednesday that it will make public its entire file on Lance Armstrong, which reportedly says that he was central to one of the most “sophisticated” doping rings in sports history. Armstrong's friend George Hincapie has also come forward and admit to doping. The report will include sworn testimony from 26 people—including former teammates who implicated themselves in the doping ring in order to nail the seven-time Tour de France winner. The agency’s evidence, which climbs to more than 1,000 pages, will be posted Wednesday afternoon on its website. “It’s shocking, it’s disappointing,” says Travis Tygart, chief executive of the agency, of the report. “But we did our job.” Benghazi-Gate In the first Congressional hearings on the attacks in Benghazi, a top U.S. security officer toned down his indictment of the State Department, while State defended its actions. Eli Lake reports. Not That Into You At least they broke up before they started dating. Aerospace companies EADS and BAE systems have ended merger talks after European governments failed to reach an agreement. EADS, which manufactures Airbus passenger planes, announced they were in discussions for a merger with BAE in September, and the combined market value of the new company would have been nearly $50 billion. But the governments of France, Germany, and Spain, which are all shareholders in EADS, could not agree about their holdings in a combined company. It was also unclear how BAE Systems could continue to operate in the United States if European governments kept a large stake in the company. FALLEN HERO The mother of a Navy SEAL who was killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi slammed Mitt Romney on Wednesday for mentioning her son on the campaign trail. At a campaign event in Iowa on Tuesday, Romney said that he once met Glen Doherty, the slain SEAL, at a Christmas party a few years ago and the news of Doherty’s death “broke my heart.” Doherty’s mother, Barbara Doherty, said she doesn’t “trust Romney.” She continued by saying that the Republican “shouldn’t make my son’s death part of his political agenda. It’s wrong to use these brave young men, who wanted freedom for all, to degrade Obama.” | | 
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