Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) on Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe: “I think the State Department has real trouble… Having sat on the Intelligence Committee and having seen the review of emails that went back and forth that developed the list,
On May 8, Liberty Counsel Action delivered to Congress a petition signed by 102,453 American citizens, calling on lawmakers to launch a bipartisan investigation of the Benghazi terrorist attack on the U.S. Mission in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012 that
Speaker of the House John Boehner called on President Obama on Thursday to release unclassified emails sent between State Department officials describing the attacks in Benghazi as terrorist attacks. He went on to ask that the administration reject the talking
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) had very critical words for former Secretary of State (and potential 2016 presidential rival) Hillary Clinton this morning on “Fox and Friends.” What I think is sad is how many people that are around the
According to testimony offered at Wednesday’s hearing regarding the Benghazi terrorist attack, the State Department’s Accountability Review Board (ARB) was negligent in its failure to deal with the lack of communication between the State Department’s upper levels. In addition, ARB
Three State Department whistleblowers told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday that bureaucratic wrangling led to the tragedy in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012 that left four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, dead. The whistleblowers included Gregory
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice was honored Tuesday night with the 2013 Louis E. Martin Great American Award. The annual award, presented by The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, is given to “an exemplar of change, progress
Gabriel Gomez, the Republican nominee in the June 25th Massachusetts special Senate election, told Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr on Wednesday that he will “absolutely” call on the State Department to release the State Department Rules of Engagement for
Today Dave Weigel focused on a question that ought to be getting more attention than it has. Where did we get the idea that there was a protest in Benghazi? To answer that question we have to parse the talking
In response to Here’s How the LATimes Covered Today’s Explosive Benghazi Hearings: As we watch the Left furiously attempt to wish Gregory Hicks away into the cornfield, we can easily appreciate why Obama’s campaign operation – the only truly functional
Gregory Hicks, former deputy chief of mission in Libya, testified that U.S. special forces were told to “stand down” instead of carry out a relief mission to Benghazi once the terror attack was under way. Hicks said the special forces
Apparently the two big revelations today were Partisan Politics As Usual and Apricot Salsa. Allah discusses this here, but even more interesting is his synthesis of two different stories: Left-wingers freaking out that the LATimes might become non-, um, neutral,
On Wednesday, the Associated Press mischaracterized the Benghazi hearings as merely a Republican event, even though it is an official House committee investigation. In the headline of its report, the Associated Press downplayed the official hearings of the House Oversight
Congressman Jason Chaffetz openly cries while discussing the four Americans who were murdered during the Benghazi terrorist attacks
Two weeks after the attacks on the US Embassy in Benghazi, President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations General Assembly: “And on this we must agree: there is no speech that justifies mindless violence. There are no words that excuse
Gregory Hicks was the Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) of the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli during the September 11, 2012 assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. On Wednesday, he told the House Government Oversight Committee that the State
Just days after the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, President Obama appeared on tLate Show with David Letterman and continued to cite an anti-Muslim Internet video as cause for the unrest.
During today’s hearings, Democrats have suggested that cuts to the State Department’s budget may have played a role in the lack of security in Benghazi. This claim was addressed during the previous hearings which took place on Oct. 10, 2012.
Former U.N. Ambassador Tom Pickering and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen refused an invitation to testify at the Benghazi hearings on Wednesday about their Accountability Review Board (ARB) report on the attack. The panel
Fresh off his sister’s humiliating defeat at the hands of Mark Sanford in a South Carolina Congressional special election yesterday, Stephen Colbert came out swinging … against Republicans who dare to question the Obama administration’s story on Benghazi. This warrior
After the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed a YouTube video for the attack. However, No. 2 US Envoy to Libya Greg Hicks revealed his phone calls with Clinton
Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of mission for the United States in Libya, and the top US official in Libya after the September 11, 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks, testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today – and he
1. Two “stand-down” orders were given while the Benghazi attacks were in progress. 2. The “protest” about a YouTube video was a complete fabrication by the Obama administration. 3. Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s lawyer at the State Department, told witnesses not
1. Two “stand-down” orders were given while the Benghazi attacks were in progress. 2. The “protest” about a YouTube video was a complete fabrication by the Obama administration. 3. Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s lawyer at the State Department, told witnesses not to
