US officials announced Tuesday that a joint Special Forces and FBI operation successfully nabbed Libyan national Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the man suspected as the “ringleader” for the 2012 attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Just one month following
President Obama announced plans to create the world’s largest ocean sanctuary on Tuesday, expanding 87,000 square miles of protected ocean into 782,000 square miles of protected ocean–a nearly ninefold increase. According to Fox News, Obama is proposing an expansion of
Last week, former Secretary of State and presumed Democratic 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton writes that her handling of the Benghazi crisis of September 11, 2012 actually provides more impetus for a White House run. Clinton told ABC News’ Diane
President Obama’s State Department is holding a conference about the ecological threats facing the world’s oceans, and actor Leonardo DiCaprio will be a featured speaker. Upon the announcement of the actor’s participation in the Our Ocean conference, Secretary of State
The Guardian published a little something from Owen Jones on Sunday evening on the back of all of this talk about ‘British values’. His article entitled, “Sorry, David Cameron, but your British history is not mine” discusses the differences between
(AFP) About 275 US military personnel are being deployed to Iraq to help American personnel and protect the embassy in Baghdad, President Barack Obama said Monday in a letter to Congressional leaders. The force, which began deploying on Sunday, has
On Monday at the State Department daily briefing, spokeswoman Jen Psaki declined to say that Islamic extremists are on the march, in light of al Qaeda affiliate ISIS invasion of Iraq as an attempt to establish a “caliphate. When asked
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is willing to talk with Iran over deteriorating security conditions in Iraq and is not ruling out potential U.S.-Iranian military cooperation in stemming the advance of Sunni extremists, Secretary of State John Kerry said
On Friday, State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf said the United States was “very concerned” about the kidnapping of three Israeli boys, including American citizen Naftali Frankel, 16, by terrorist group Hamas. “We are working with the government of Israel
BAGHDAD (AP) — Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq’s Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in
In the time since our April expose titled “California: Here Come the Oil Trains“, pressure has been mounting on state and federal officials to disclose the number of hundred tank-car trains that are rumbling into California carrying highly combustible crude
As of Friday, California state department officials have declared the state is in the midst of a whooping cough (pertussis) epidemic. Officials are urging everyone living here to get vaccinated, placing a particular emphasis on pregnant women and infants. “Preventing
At a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on Nigeria this week, about 60 members of the media and general public waited in the hallway, unable to find seats inside a packed hearing room. It was the second “sold-out” hearing on
The United States condemned a Wednesday rocket attack from Gaza on southern Israel, but maintained that it wasn’t ready to hold the new Palestinian unity government responsible for the attack, reports Israeli news site Ynet. “We condemn all rocket fire
The Benghazi attackers on September 11, 2012 used State Department cell phones they seized from State Department personnel during the attacks and were overheard usign them to contact senior terrorist leaders regarding the ongoing attack, according to a Fox report.
The Islamist terrorists that were responsible for attacking the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and killing four including Ambassador Chris Stevens were overheard by multiple US spy agencies communicating by means of State Department cell phones they seized during the
Appearing Monday on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell, Marie Harf, spokeswoman for the State Department, referred to the Taliban terrorist masterminds released from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for suspected Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl as “gentlemen.” Pushing back against Mitchell’s contention that Congress
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that although she had disagreements with President Obama during her time at the State Department, she was largely proud of her career. In her new book Hard Choices, Clinton expresses disagreements with Obama
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could not give her signature achievement as head diplomat when asked by ABC’s Diane Sawyer in an interview that aired on Monday night. When asked about criticism that she had failed to achieve any
In response to Victims of Taliban Atrocities Horrified By Bergdahl Prisoner Swap: That Washington Free Beacon post you mentioned is significant news, because it adds a lot of weight to the speculation that the Obama Administration is lying about the
Afghan victims of Taliban atrocities are giving Obama’s decision to release 5 Taliban commanders in exchange for American deserter, Bowe Bergdahl, an unambiguous thumbs down. The five are accused of terrorizing “large swathes of Afghanistan and carrying out atrocities which
Amid news of the release of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for five high-level Taliban leaders, North Korea announced that it had arrested yet another American without indicating what crime the American had committed. According to the nation’s Korean Central
In comments first reported in USA Today, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf defended President Obama’s decision to release the world’s five most dangerous terrorist detainees for the return of an alleged army deserter. She stated that Obama did not demand
It’s an old American saying: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me!” President Obama’s National Security Adviser went on another Sunday show last weekend. She proceeded to tell the nation and the world that the
In the wake of the Obama administration’s decision to trade five high-level Taliban officials to free Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the only Taliban captive in the American military’s history, those concerned about arrested USAID worker Alan Gross are beginning to ask
