Throughout the weeks between Sept. 11 and election day in Nov. 2012, President Obama claimed he acted the minute he found out the attack on the Benghazi consulate was taking place. However, in his Thursday testimony before the Senate, Secretary
The New York Times has called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to remove New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez from his chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Under the editorial headline “Mr. Menendez’s Ethics Problem,” the newspaper said
There’s a clever loaves and fishes trick going on with today’s major anti-GOP narrative. It begins with a sequester story Politico published last night. The story opens with the splashy claim, “Republicans open to letting billions in sequester cuts go
With Karl Rove under heavy fire after his group, the Conservative Victory Project, took to the pages of the New York Timesto attack the Tea Party, donors are beginning to turn on the Project. Politico reports Friday morning that the Project will “essentially
Breitbart News has learned that one of the witnesses at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on immigration next week will be outspoken illegal immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas–who will be seated at the same table as Chris Crane, leader of the
According to the Brady Campaign, California already has the nation’s toughest gun laws. But after the Sandy Hook massacre, Democratic lawmakers in California are pushing harder than ever for even more laws, despite the fact that enforcement of current laws
During questioning at Thursday’s Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing, members learned from outgoing defense secretary Leon Panetta and General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the US military’s joint chiefs of staff, that the Obama administration supported a plan to arm
If the chances of Chuck Hagel withdrawing his nomination as Secretary of Defense are truly “50-50,” as Thomas E. Ricks of Foreign Policy suggests, then time is running out for Democrats to push a vote through the Senate. With each passing
Because most people agree that a president should get the cabinet he wants, it is unlikely former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel would have lost a Senate vote to become President Obama’s next Defense Secretary, even after a historically disastrous performance at
On Thursday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, said it could be “difficult” for the Senate to confirm Barack Obama’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew, if Congress did not receive documents from the
(AP) Senators seek deal on gun-sale background checksBy ALAN FRAMAssociated PressWASHINGTONA bipartisan quartet of senators, including two National Rifle Association members and two with “F” ratings from the potent firearms lobby, are quietly trying to find a compromise on expanding
Democrats’ latest defense of Chuck Hagel, whose confirmation as Secretary of Defense has bogged down in the Senate Armed Services Committee, is the argument that the Republicans are holding Hagel to a higher standard than any previous nominee. In fact,
Nothing. That is what President Barack Obama did on the night of September 11, 2012, as terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and killed four Americans, among them Ambassador Christopher Stevens. President Obama’s inaction was revealed in testimony before
Today at the Senate Committee Hearing Senator Marco Rubio confronted CIA Director Nominee John Brennan with some hard questions
Breitbart News Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro reported Thursday that Senate sources believe that one reason Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel has not submitted requested financial disclosures is that one of his funders is called “Friends of Hamas.” While the White
Despite Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel’s refusal to turn over documents disclosing his foreign donors over the years – and reports that he has received donations from highly controversial groups — Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) stated
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who is leaving his post, is confessing that the roads of America are crumbling because there simply isn’t enough money in the government’s coffers to fix them. LaHood said, “America is one big pothole right now.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) has indicated that he wants to schedule a committee vote on the confirmation of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) as Secretary of Defense “as soon as we’re ready to have a vote,”
General Dempsey, Chair of the Joint Chiefs, told the Senate today that the intelligence in the region and the amount of attacks prior to the attack on the US Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya, should have made it “crystal clear”
While giving Senate testimony regarding Benghazi on Feb. 7, Sec. of Defense Leon Panetta said Obama was not present nor did he communicate with the Sec. of Defense during the Benghazi attack. Panetta was answering questions from Sen. Kelly Ayotte
An informal poll conducted at MediaBistro yesterday carried disappointing results for Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), the embattled politician at the center of a firestorm over an alleged prostitution scandal in the Dominican Republic. MediaBistro’s readers – who are largely liberal
The Chair of the Joint Chiefs, General Martin Dempsey, told the Senate today that the attack on the US Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya was not an “intelligence failure” but a “gap.” Dempsey said that we currently have a “gap”
On Thursday, Senate sources told Breitbart News exclusively that they have been informed that one of the reasons that President Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, has not turned over requested documents on his sources of foreign
In an attempt to broaden the Republican Party’s appeal to minorities, particularly Hispanics, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will deliver the Republican response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday in both English and Spanish. In announcing
The Senate Armed Services Committee has delayed a vote on the nomination of Chuck Hagel to serve as Defense Secretary after he failed to turn over requested financial information. Hagel had been asked to disclose details about foreign funding he
