House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa issued a press release, today, announcing that his committee will resume hearings next month that will focus on information turned over to the committee by Regime whistleblowers on the Benghazi terrorist
A reported issued Tuesday by Republicans heading up five different committees concludes that Secretary Clinton’s involvement in Libyan security “do not reconcile” with statements she made a public hearings in January. In her January 23, 2013 testimony before the House
A report on the Benghazi attack by five different House committees has made the following findings. [Note this is a report issued by House Republicans including Howard McKeon chairman of Committee on Armed Services, Ed Royce chairman of Committee on
As media ruminate about Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s possible motives in the Boston Marathon terrorist attacks, one that can be laid to rest is any suggestion that the U.S. has failed to assist financially the countries associated with the ethnic
By NOMAAN MERCHANT and JOHN L. MONEAssociated PressWEST, TexasRescuers searched the smoking remnants of a Texas farm town Thursday for survivors of a thunderous fertilizer plant explosion, gingerly checking smashed houses and apartments for anyone still trapped in debris while
(AFP) – US Secretary of State John Kerry pledged Wednesday that nobody had lied about last year’s attack on a US mission in Libya that killed four Americans, and urged US lawmakers to move on. The former senator found the
This week’s episode of Hawaii Five-O correctly portrayed North Korea as a brutal, isolated nation that harbors terrorists. But the CBS show’s latest installment, which aired on the 101st birthday of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-Sung, jumped the shark all
Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell told the State Department press pool not to “read too much into” the fact that the press was cut out of a meeting on Tuesday with Secretary Kerry and the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia. Ventrell
A massive probe was under way Tuesday after two bombs struck the Boston Marathon, killing at least three and wounding more than 100. Monday’s blasts near the finishing line raised fears of a terrorist attack more than a decade after
On Thursday, Patricia Smith, mother of State Department employee Sean Smith, who was killed by terrorists in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, called for a Congressional select committee to investigate just what happened that fateful night. Writing to Rep.
Did you know that the Obama Administration considers tulips, violas, and begonias essential to our national security? The State Department has plans to spend more than $700,000 for gardening at a U.S. Ambassador’s residence in Belgium. Truman Hall, located in
(AP) – Russia’s non-governmental organizations on Thursday demanded President Vladimir Putin prove they received nearly $1 billion from foreign sponsors, a claim he has used to justify sweeping raids on hundreds of groups. The crackdown has drawn strong criticism from
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: All right, here are the two questions. One is the fact that it’s — it’s sort of annoying that we’re having this conversation one year later and that virtually nothing was done and all
(AFP) – The United States reacted with concern Wednesday after Iran unveiled a new uranium production facility and two extraction mines, but said it had not been “blindsided” by the news. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hailed the advances on Tuesday
QUESTION: All right. And I just want to – following up on the question from yesterday about this Jay-Z-Beyonce thing.MR. VENTRELL: Yeah.QUESTION: It is correct that the State Department had nothing to do with this at all, is that right?MR.
MATT LEE, ASSOCIATED PRESS: Korean Peninsula.PATRICK VENTRELL, ACTING DEPUTY SPOKESMAN, STATE DEPARTMENT: Yeah.LEE: What do you make, if anything, of the North’s latest attempt at fear-mongering by telling people that they might want to leave South – or that they
A new book by Holocaust scholar Rafael Medoff argues that Franklin Delano Roosevelt, far from being the friend of the Jews in whom many elderly Jews still believe, may have held deep antisemitic prejudices. Newly-unearthed private remarks and actions, many of which
It’s perhaps no accident that what was once simply called the Clinton Foundation has now been renamed the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. The change was made a few weeks ago, just after Hillary left her job at the
The death of at least five Americans, in the deadliest day for foreigners in Afghanistan this year, has highlighted fears about Taliban strength ahead of NATO’s withdrawal in 2014. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy in the southern
In the latest controversial move in the US Embassy in Cairo’s ongoing Twitter saga, the Embassy removed its Twitter account for a few hours on Tuesday after the Embassy tweeter got into a fight with the Egyptian president’s account. Mohammed
(AP) Colo. prosecutors seeking death penalty for HolmesBy DAN ELLIOTTAssociated PressCENTENNIAL, Colo.Prosecutors on Monday said they will seek the death penalty against the man accused in last year’s movie theater attack that killed 12, wounded 70 and spurred new gun
Republican subcommittee chairs of the House Committee on Homeland Security, led by Chairman Mike McCaul (R – TX), sent a letter on Wednesday to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano regarding their concern over DHS’s action to extend
The United Nations announced on Wednesday that they were assembling a team to go to Syria on a “fact finding mission” to determine whether the Syrian Army or the rebels have acquired chemical weapons. Transcript: QUESTION: Do you have any
State Department Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell during the State Department daily press briefing on Wednesday: QUESTION: Since I brought up the question of same-sex marriage, much was made today after the hearings about the fact that under DOMA, Defense Of
Two years after the U.S. intervened in Libyan affairs to have Muammar Gaddafi overthrown under the guise that a freer, more tolerant society would be ushered in, an American Christian has been imprisoned for allegedly proselytizing in Benghazi. News of
