During the Vice Presidential debate on Oct. 11, when challenged to defend the Obama administration’s failure to protect the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Joe Biden made two commitments on President Obama’s behalf: Chris Stevens was one of our best.
QUESTION: On Libya, there are now reports that the CIA station chief in Libya sent a cable 24 hours after the attack in Benghazi saying that it wasn’t carried out – that it was carried out by militants. Did that
Another day, another stonewalling for reporters at the State Department over Libya. Today, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland refused to comment on reports that the CIA had sent a cable 24 hours after the Benghazi assault, explaining that it was
The CIA is indicating that they told Washington the Benghazi attack was militant in nature, rather than spontaneous, within 24 hours of its occurrence. According to a report released today, the “CIA station chief in Libya” alerted Washington that the attack
There are claims being floated now by military sources that the Benghazi attack may have been part of a larger effort to drive Western forces out of eastern Libya. There were hundreds of security incidents preceding the September 11 attack,
What we saw in the second presidential debate when it came to questions surrounding the security failures in Libya and the subsequent cover up, is that President Obama answered neither. Obama talked around the security issue and then when Romney
A Republican member of the House intelligence committee is vigorously disputing a new claim by Democrat and fellow committee member Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois that intelligence officials told the committee there had been a “demonstration that was going on”
In June 2008, I happened to be traveling through Washington D.C. on the day then-Sen. Barack Obama addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). In line at the airport ticket counter, I encountered some of those who had attended.
(AP) CIA found militant links a day after Libya attackBy KIMBERLY DOZIERAP Intelligence WriterWASHINGTONThe CIA station chief in Libya reported to Washington within 24 hours of last month’s deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate that there was evidence it was
It appears Obama surrogates in the mainstream media are circling the wagons in the days leading up to the Oct. 22 foreign policy debate. Case in point — the Wall Street Journal’s Oct 18 report providing a smokescreen for U.S. Ambassador
Less than a week after Sec. of State Hillary Clinton fell on the sword for Obama over Benghazi, her husband Bill Clinton has sided with Mitt Romney’s charge that Obama hasn’t fixed economy. Soon after arriving in Peru earlier in
Today, according to the White House pool report, President Obama told Jon Stewart during a Comedy Central Daily Show taping that the deaths of our ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were “not optimal.” This comes just weeks after
Today, the Libyan government announced that it had discovered the identity of the terrorist behind the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, resulting in the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. According to a senior
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Wednesday said the administration initially linked the attack to an anti-Islam video based on the assessment of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
It has taken more than four weeks, but the facts of the assault on the American consulate in Benghazi are slowly emerging. It is now known that on the evening of September 11, 2012, Ambassador Christopher Stevens conducted a scheduled
In light of the Sept. 11 Benghazi attack, Obama may be reworking his stump speech to take out claims that “Al Qaeda is on the run” or on its way to defeat. Sadly, the ugly truth is that Obama’s minimal
In 2009, Carlos Bledsoe, a Bible Belt Christian converted to Islam and murdered Andy Long, a U.S. Army soldier, in Little Rock. The U.S. Government refused – and still refuses – to call it terror. This American nightmare is now
Former Governor Elliot Spitzer on the “Bill Press Show”: “The emotional highlight of the night — was the one that the Republicans are gonna go crazy about — was when Candy Crowley turned to Mitt Romney and said, ‘No, you’re
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, the 21 year-old Muslim who attempted to blow up the Federal Reserve Building in New York City and was caught in a sting operation, was a devotee of Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda. Al
The terrorist attack in Benghazi was never politicized. Not by Mitt Romney, not by President Obama, and not by the press. The terrorist attack in Benghazi is – by its very nature – political, as are all foreign policy failures
Author Nelson DeMille says we need a Churchillian leader to rally the West in the fight against global terrorism. President Barack Obama hardly qualifies, says DeMille, the best-selling author behind “The General’s Daughter,” “The Gold Coast” and the new terrorism
ADDED: Via Twitter, Tom Vaughn catches something I missed. Wemple also reported this: [emphasis added] President Obama, though, wasn’t done with Kerry Ladka. “After the debate, the president came over to me and spent about two minutes with me privately,”
Last week, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland answered several questions on the Benghazi attacks on our consulate and the murder of our ambassador. She also made a fool of herself by stating, “Look, I’m generally dumber than most of the
Last night President Obama got wee-weed-up claiming it was “offensive” to suggest that he or anyone on his team would mislead the public on the Benghazi attack. He then went on to immediately mislead the public about his own record
Candy Crowley, who was suspected of being one more liberal moderator in the tank for Barack Obama, was more than just in the tank for him; she dove in and sucked all the water out for him so he could
(AP) Group: Libya militias ‘executed’ Gadhafi loyalistsBy MAGGIE MICHAELAssociated PressCAIROLibyan rebels appear to have “summarily executed” scores of fighters loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, and probably the dictator himself, when they overran his hometown a year ago, a human rights group
On CNN’s “State of the Union” on September 30, Candy Crowley asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) why he thought it took the administration 17 days after the Benghazi attacks to give a “sort of definitive statement” that terrorists orchestrated the
On CNN’s “State of the Union” on September 30, Candy Crowley insisted David Axelrod, President Barack Obama’s chief strategist, was wrong when Axelrod tried to claim President Barack Obama called the Benghazi attack “an act of terror” on the day after. “First,
News agency CNN reported on September 20th that the White House characterized the September 11th attack in Benghazi, Libya as terrorism “for the first time.” This report, published over a week after the attack, contradicts the assertion by Barack Obama
While the left cheers President Obama’s second debate performance with the excitement of Chris Matthews on a prom date with The One, the fact remains that this was not just a bad debate for President Obama. It was a disastrous
Tonight’s debate was a tense clash between incumbent President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney. The theme of the night was obvious: Mitt Romney answered the questions. Barack Obama did not. But he was flinging his fists so wildly
8:45 p.m. EDT: Welcome to our live fact-check of the Second Presidential Debate. I will be fact-checking, in real time, the statements of both candidates and the moderator, as well as–when necessary–the members of the audience who will be posing
Jeffrey Goldberg, official Obama brownnoser for The Atlantic, has decided that he, and he alone, knows who is responsible for allowing the terrible murders in Benghazi of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. So just which great personage is
Last night, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared on CNN, where she claimed “full responsibility” for security failures at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya – security failures that resulted in the murder of our ambassador and three other Americans.
In a CBS interview that aired on CBS This Morning Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she did not brief American United Nations ambassador Susan Rice prior to her disastrous September 16 television appearances. On that day Ambassador Rice told
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly accepting blame for the security failures in Libya the night before a hugely important presidential debate might be nothing more than a fabricated set-up to allow President Obama to dig himself out of a
Following yesterday’s pre-debate claim of “responsibility” by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the death of four Americans during an apparent 9/11 terrorist attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya, the Obama campaign sent a well-timed fundraising email out
