Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed a high-level delegation from Afghanistan to the State Department. She said the goal of the meetings was to negotiate a new security agreement on the future US-Afghanistan relationship.
On Thursday, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland doubled down on claims that the three week lapse between the September 11, 2012 attack on the American mission in Benghazi and the arrival of an American crime investigation team had not compromised
(AP) FBI came to Benghazi and left in past 24 hoursBy EILEEN SULLIVAN and LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated PressWASHINGTONA team of FBI agents arrived in Benghazi, Libya, to investigate the assault against the U.S. Consulate and left after about 12 hours
Everytime you think the administration’s failure in Benghazi couldn’t get worse, it gets worse. Eli Lake reports that in the six months leading up to the September 11 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, security was not only not
Just two weeks after the US Embassy in Egypt was ransacked by terrorists and a band of Egyptian thugs, President Obama announced that he would provide Egypt’s new Muslim Brotherhood government with an emergency infusion of $450 million in US
(Reuters) – Libya and the United States have yet to agree how a U.S. investigative team will cooperate in a probe into a deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, a senior Libyan official said on Tuesday. FBI
The death of ICE Agent Jaime Zapata is rarely reported. People accuse the media, including Breitbart News, of ignoring him or excluding him from Operation Fast and Furious coverage. The fact is Agent Zapata isn’t connected to Fast and Furious
Today, Reps. Issa and Chaffetz sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking why requests for more protection at the Benghazi embassy were denied. Rep. Issa is the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee and Rep. Chaffetz is
Federal law mandates that the Supreme Court’s annual Term begins the first Monday of October. And so on Oct. 1, Chief Justice John Roberts gaveled the Court to order to hear its first case since June’s historic Obamacare decision, in
(AP) State Dep’t rejects call for UN ambassador to quitBy BRADLEY KLAPPERAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Obama administration on Monday rejected a demand from a senior Republican lawmaker that the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to resign. Rep. Peter King of New
The US State Department said Monday it would work with Congress to try to unblock some $450 million in economic aid for Egypt, after a lawmaker froze the funds. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland confirmed the US administration had asked
If you want to look for a motive behind the White House deceiving, and in some instances, outright lying about what really happened in Libya on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, look no further than this Washington Post story: Security
A former foreign policy official in George W. Bush’s administration said Congress must immediately hold hearings to prevent the Obama administration from covering up its national security failures leading up to the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens. Richard Grenell, Bush’s
Peter King (R-NY), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, called on US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice to resign Friday evening. King told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: I believe that this was such a failure of foreign policy
On September 27 the State Dept. announced it is temporarily withdrawing more staff from its embassy in Tripoli, Libya. State Dept. officials say they hope staff members can return to the embassy early next week but admit the situation will
Five days before the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Libya, the U.S. state department posted an Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) memo saying there was no credible threat of violence against the U.S. for the then-upcoming September 11 anniversary.
After Libyan President Mohamed Magarief told NBC News that the anti-American violence in the Middle East was not a “spontaneous” reaction to an anti-Muhammed film, NBC maintained that the video did spark the attacks, contradicting its own scoop. Here
The Hillary Clinton State Department has finally come up with an honest answer to reporters on its disgraceful failure to protect our ambassador to Libya: “F*** off.” In an email exchange this morning with Buzzfeed’s Michael Hastings, Clinton spokesperson Philippe
Heaven help us. This president just goes out there and says whatever sounds good at the moment, and the Activist Old Media watches from the sidelines, or often, encourages the deception. Or, I could use the harsh word and call
Over the past two weeks, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has never missed the opportunity to publicly denounce the YouTube video called “Innocence of Muslims” in the strongest and most unequivocal way. “To us, to me personally, this video is
CNN’s report today that they found Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens’ diary lying on the floor of the “largely unsecured consulate compound where he was fatally wounded,” four days after Stevens’ death, raises serious questions about State Department security procedures.
Tonight, the State Department blasted CNN for releasing any details at all regarding the discovered diary of Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens. In fact, the State Department seems far more concerned about CNN reporting on a legitimately-obtained news story than
According to CNN, four days after the murder of US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, their reporters found his journal lying on the floor of the consulate. CNN, it says, “notified Stevens’ family about the journal within hours after it
Not only are we seeing the White House and State Department call more attention to the Mohammed-mocking “Innocence of Muslims” than any terrorist network ever could’ve hoped for, but the President’s indefensible scapegoating of the film and filmmaker to draw
House Republicans rode into the majority on a Tea Party wave in 2010. Americans were rightly unhappy with the crony corporatism of the Obama administration, the overweening redistributionism of a Democratic Congress, and a myopically narrow appeal to the far
