Friday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” while discussing the lack of a military rescue mission for the American’s trapped in Benghazi during the long siege on the consulate in Benghazi, Fox News strategic analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters told
In response to Confirmed: The House Will Vote To Establish A New Select Committee On Benghazi: Here’s how seriously Democrats are taking the news that Speaker Boehner is establishing a select committee to get to the bottom of what went
Not only are House Republicans forming a select committee to investigate Benghazi, there is now a concerted push from top GOP officials for the appointment of a special counsel on the IRS scandal. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) introduced the IRS
This article was originally posted in National Journal Someone tweets about Benghazi every 12 seconds. Not every 12 days or every 12 minutes, but every 12 seconds. Over the past month, that’s added up to more than 200,000 tweets, according
On Friday, May 2, 2014, a radical Islamist group stormed Libya’s security headquarters in Benghazi, leaving up to nine dead and over a dozen wounded. Libyan army officials said among the dead were some of Libya’s police officers and military
In response to Report: Speaker Boehner To Appoint A Select Committee On Benghazi: Speaker Boehner announced his decision to hold a vote to establish a Select Committee on Benghazi on Twitter: RT to share the news: The House will vote
After more than a year of resisting the calls of a vast majority of his conference, Speaker John Boehner is relenting and forming a special committee to investigate the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya and resulting scandal.
Under fire for new “smoking gun” emails released about the Benghazi terrorist attack, the White House has an unlikely ally: the GOP House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA). McKeon slammed testimony by a key witness at a
Fox News is reporting that House speaker John Boehner will announce the formation of a select committee on Benghazi, to be led by Rep. Trey Gowdy. The Weekly Standard reports that according to a senior GOP leadership aide, “the new emails
On Fox News Thursday night, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) criticized the Obama administration after emails were released showing that the White House tried to spin the details of the attack in Benghazi. Paul said that the email read like a script
On Friday’s “Morning Joe,” National Journal’s Ron Fournier explained how the White House’s short-term strategy dating back to September 2012 on the Benghazi crisis fallout is beginning to backfire… (h/t RNC Research)
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is issuing a subpoena for Secretary of State John Kerry to testify before the committee May 21 about Benghazi, Issa announced Friday. The move comes in the wake of new, “smoking gun” emails that
On Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on Thursday, conservative commentator Mark Steyn weighed in on White House press secretary Jay Carney’s performance as compared to his predecessors and how they handled adversity. Follow Jeff on Twitter @jeff_poor
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney admitted on Thursday that he was tired of Republicans talking about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi. “I wish that rather than spending so much of their time — and we all have limited time
On Thursday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer likened the recent round of Benghazi revelations to the cover-up that led to President Richard Nixon’s eventual resignation. Follow Jeff on Twitter @jeff_poor
Former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor attempted to deflect Bret Baier’s questions on Fox News’ Special Report Thursday by arguing that what was important about what happened in Benghazi “two years ago” [sic] was less important than what happens in the
There were many rich moments in former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor’s interview Thursday on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier about the Benghazi scandal. Certainly his exasperated protest–“Dude, this was like two years ago”–summarizes the callow nature of
A newly-emerged government email directly “contradicts the message that President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice and White House press secretary Jay Carney repeated publicly” in the immediate aftermath of the attack in Benghazi. Per
Thursday on Fox News “Special Report,” host Bret Baier grilled Tommy Vietor, the former NSC Spokesman at the time of the 2012 Benghazi terror attacks, about his role in changing the talking points that then U.N. ambassador Susan Rice used
On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney spun wildly to avoid the evidence that the White House had manipulated the talking points of then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice regarding the Benghazi attacks of September 11, 2012. That evidence showed that
After a second day of tough questioning in the White House briefing room, #JayCarney is trending on Twitter -and not in a good way. Doubling down on yesterday’s lie that the Susan Rice talking points memo was not about Benghazi,
At a press conference Thursday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi dismissed a new “smoking gun”email about the Obama administration’s response to the Benghaziterrorist attack as “diversion” and “subterfuge.” “I haven’t seen it, but I will say this again–diversion,subterfuge–Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi.
California Governor Jerry Brown will be seeking to burnish his foreign policy credentials when he leads a trade and investment mission to Mexico – California’s largest export market – in July. Many Democrat operatives are beginning to whisper that Hillary
“What was causing the protests in Cairo that the CIA mentions? The video.” That’s how Slate’s John Dickerson pushes back against the idea that the new White House emails on (sorry, Jay Carney) Benghazi, obtained via a FOIA request by
Ret. Air Force Brigadier General Robert Lovell, former US Africom Intelligence Director, testified that it was in the early hours of their intelligence gathering on September 11th 2012 they knew the terrorist attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya was
