White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that “there is a long precedent here for protecting internal deliberations.” The answer came in response to a call from Speaker of the House John Boehner for the White House to release the
When asked if the White House should have handled anything relating to the attacks on the U.S. special mission in Benghazi differently, Press Secretary Jay Carney said “no” and that he was confident the Administration’s handling of the attack and
Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney blamed Mitt Romney and Republicans for “politicizing” the Benghazi terrorist attacks. Harkening back to a Mitt Romney press conference on September 12, 2012, which addressed the Benghazi attacks only in passing while focusing
In a contentious press briefing on Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney came out swinging – and fibbing – about the Benghazi talking points. Early on Friday morning, ABC News reported that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s spokeswoman Victoria
David Letterman just can’t find anything funny about President Barack Obama. So he resorts to taking jabs at his favorite target–conservatives. Meanwhile, the soon to be unemployed Jay Leno continues to do what he’s paid handsomely to do–mock the President
Congressional and Cabinet-level staff members are cashing in on their high power connections and regulatory knowledge by moving to Wall Street investment firms that often double, and in some cases quadruple, their paychecks. “It has really turned around,” says Wall
The Washington Post hit a new low Friday morning when the same outlet that owned Watergate sent its FACTchecker Glenn Kessler out on a suicide mission to speculate that the Obama Administration talking points edit might have simply been the
In the White House’s latest efforts at transparency, the administration announced to reporters that it would brief reporters on the latest shocking developments about the Benghazi situation … behind closed doors. Politico reports that the meeting started at approximately 12:45
On Friday morning, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) demanded a government-wide review of the IRS’ new admission that they targeted conservative groups in 2012 for special scrutiny. Calling the Obama administration’s acknowledgement that such activity occurred “insufficient,” McConnell said
Friday afternoon MSNBC’s Luke Russert anchored “Now with Alex Wagner” when the news of the altered Libya talking points finally made their way to the left-wing network hours after ABC’s Jonathan Karl first broke the story. After Kelly O’Donnell finished
ABC News’ Jonathan Karl expects all his colleagues on the front row of the White House briefing room to pepper spokesperson Jay Carney with multiple questions today following his exclusive story exposing the multiple revisions to talking points related to
As the May 8, House Oversight Committee hearings into Benghazi were winding down, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said, “There’s no evidence of conspiracy to withhold military assets for political reasons, no evidence of a cover-up.” Instead, Cummings claimed the hearings
Jonathan Karl of ABC News has finally obtained the smoking gun. We now know that the Obama Administration was actively engaged in scrubbing all references to al Qaeda from the infamous CIA talking points surrounding Benghazi. Therefore, we also know
ABC News has posted twelve different versions of the Obama administration’s talking points on the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sep. 11, 2012, showing that the White House and State Department did all they could to remove
Barack Obama won two historic elections by effectively changing the composition of the electorate. Record turnout by young and minority voters enabled him to contest, and win, states thought to be out of reach for Democrats in presidential elections. Last
***UPDATE: Here are the 12 talking point revisions. Keep in mind the Obama Administration has repeatedly denied making these revisions and denied straight through to Sept 19 that there was any evidence of a terror attack. It looks as though
(AP) Obama wades back into the health care debateBy JULIE PACEAP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama is launching a new effort to rally the public around his hotly disputed health care law, a strategy aimed at shoring up key components
Speaking on May 8, White House spokesman Jay Carney said edits made to Benghazi talking points were “stylistic and not substantive.” Said Carney: The fact that there are inputs is always the case in a process like this. Edits made
On the first day of voting on the comprehensive Senate immigration bill, Democrats defeated an amendment by 12 votes to 6, that would have frozen the conditional legalization process until the White House actually completed construction of a two-layer fence all
Thursday was the first opportunity for White House reporters to ask questions of spokesman Jay Carney following the explosive hearings on the Benghazi terror attack of September 12, 2012. President Obama was travelling to Texas to deliver a speech
Former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett figured he could translate his Oval Office days into a successful political comedy for NBC. Lovett’s 1600 Penn, a series which never caught fire with critics or the public, instead couldn’t make it to season
On Thursday, a group of House Republicans including Speaker John Boehner demanded that the White House turn over emails regarding the Benghazi terrorist attacks on September 11, 2012 that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Boehner wrote, “The
With reports suggesting that CBS News brass is unhappy with reporter Sheryl Attkisson for her focus on the White House’s actions surrounding the Benghazi attacks of September 11, 2012, new questions are being raised about the relationship between CBS News and the
There has been a lot written about a Politico piece that ran Wednesday in the wake of a Washington Post profile of CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson. The Post profile was mostly positive, painting the picture of an intrepid
(AP) House to vote to prioritize US debt paymentsBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Republican-controlled House is moving to put U.S. bondholders and people on Social Security at the front of the line to be paid if the government hits its borrowing
