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The Obama administration is lobbying Congress to support a proposed military intervention in Syria. Secretary of State Kerry claimed that traces of sarin gas were found in samples from Damascus on Aug. 21. The USS Nimitz carrier strike group headed towards the Red Sea; the US naval presence in the eastern Mediterranean has doubled in the past week. A classified budget document shows that in recent years, 20 percent of "a small subset" of CIA job applicants "were found to have significant connections to hostile intelligence services and or terrorist groups."