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'We Came, We Saw, He Died': Dems' Breathtaking Hypocrisy on War Powers (UPDATE)
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/06/22/we-came-we-saw-he-died-dems-breathtaking-hypocrisy-on-war-powers-n3804046
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Remember Hillary Clinton's chortling over the fall of Moammar Qaddafi and the role she and Barack Obama played in it? … Qaddafi's regime, and left a failed state in its wake: In March 2011, Obama … of collapsing his regime in favor of the rebels in and around Benghazi -- a bitter irony, in the end.…
NY Times Editorial Board: President Trump Must Go to Congress Before Striking Iran
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/06/18/ny-times-editorial-bo…dent-trump-must-go-to-congress-before-striking-iran-n3803942
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Over the weekend, there were strikes against Libyan aircraft on the ground, forces headed toward Benghazi and even Colonel Qaddafi’ … Obama should have brought Congress more into the loop on his decision, and must do so now.There is no perfect formula for military … Former President Barack Obama argued George W. Bush-era war authorizations from the early 2000s covered drone strikes in Yemen.…
Dude, Mirror? Lizard Man Zuck Earnestly Lectures About 'Legacy' Media Censorship
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/01/07/dude-mirro…estly-lectures-about-legacy-social-media-censorship-n3798560
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At the time of viral pandemic this shouldn’t be happening.”...as far back as Benghazi (couldn't allow criticism of The Lightbringer … )...A message posted on Facebook by Navy SEALS claiming that President Obama denied them backup as forces overran Benghazi was taken … SEALs’ message to ‘quietly squelch opposition’ to President Obama’s alleged failures.The message contained in a meme suggesting that Obama…
Catherine Herridge on How Hunter Biden's Laptop Was Dismissed by CBS News
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/11/04/catherine-herridge-on-how-hunter-bidens-laptop-was-dismissed-by-cbs-news-n3796687
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In the 2012 race, Barack Obama had a bad first debate with Mitt Romney, He went into the 2nd debate needing a win. … During the debate, Romney accused him of not declaring the attack in Benghazi a terror attack for nearly 2 weeks. … Obama responded that he'd done so the day after the attack in the Rose Garden.…
Reuters: State Dept managers "baffled" by Pagliano's political appointment
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2016/03/25/reuters-state-dep…managers-baffled-by-paglianos-political-appointment-n232132
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Department — Patrick Kennedy, who oversaw security issues for State, including the security decisions that left the consulate in Benghazi … Let’s not forget that the Accountability Review Board, assembled by State immediately after Benghazi, never bothered to interview Hillary … Last year, news organizations reported that Obama administration officials had discovered an email chain between Clinton and retired…
Hey, who's up for another half-baked intervention in Libya?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2016/04/04/hey-whos-up-for-another-half-baked-intervention-in-libya-n232348
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Remember how Barack Obama argued that his coup d’etat in Libya would provide the model for future American military interventions? … intentions to conduct a “genocide” in Benghazi. … Within months, Libya turned into a failed state, but not before the Hillary and Obama ignored all sorts of red flags in Benghazi and…
Video: What happened to the $4M earmarked for State's Benghazi probe?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2016/05/06/video-what-happened-to-the-4m-earmarked-for-states-benghazi-probe-n233364
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Almost ever since Trey Gowdy launched the House Select Committee on Benghazi, the White House and the State Department have complained … video.foxnews.com
The State Department missed its own target date last year for the establishment of a special unit to review Benghazi … administration is “notorious” for “slow-rolling” investigative panels like the Benghazi committee.…
WaPo fact check rebukes Dem claim over cost of Benghazi select committee
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2016/05/17/wapo-fact-check-r…kes-dem-claim-over-cost-of-benghazi-select-committee-n233669
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this month, House Democrats began to complain that Republicans had spent seven million dollars on the House Select Committee on Benghazi … How much money do taxpayers shell out for a typical two-week Obama family vacation? … (Hint: It’s more than the Benghazi committee’s two-year bill.)…
The State IG report is just the beginning for Hillary Clinton
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2016/05/28/the-state-ig-report-is-just-the-beginning-for-hillary-clinton-n234022
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At some point in the next month, the House Select Committee on Benghazi is also set to release its long-awaited report about … There is no doubt Democrats will shrug off the Benghazi report. … “It’s clear that the attorney general, who serves at the pleasure of President Obama, is going to have very little incentive or intention…
Spokesman floats conspiracy theory when asked why Hillary refused to cooperate with IG (Update)
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2016/05/26/clinton-spokesman-flo…hillary-refused-to-cooperate-with-inspector-general-n233959
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This Inspector General was appointed by President Obama. She ran the State Department for four years. … Fallon spends about 30 seconds filibustering about the Benghazi committee but Blitzer finally cuts him off with this:
Blitzer: It…
State: On second thought, let's reinvestigate the edited video and transcript
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2016/06/08/state-on-second-t…t-lets-reinvestigate-the-edited-video-and-transcript-n234365
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This follows the sterling Obama administration tradition of having agencies investigate themselves, only to discover that they did … Justice (Fast and Furious), James Clapper’s ODNI (lying to Congress about surveillance), the “Accountability Review Board” on Benghazi … appointees at State, or the IRS looking for Lois Lerner’s hard drives, nothing says most transparent administration evah like an Obama…
Gorka on Orlando: It's not a hate crime, it's a holy war
https://hotair.com/larry-oconnor/2016/06/13/gorka-on-orlando-its-not-a-hate-crime-its-a-holy-war-n234516
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Obama was lambasted and damaged by his refusal to call the terror attacks in Benghazi in 2012 “terrorism.” … Clinton famously blamed the Benghazi terror attacks on a YouTube video, despite the fact that she told her own family and other world…
More Benghazi report: 'No help from Washington ever arrived'
https://hotair.com/larry-oconnor/2016/06/28/more-benghazi-report-no-help-from-washington-ever-arrived-n235024
https://hotair.com/larry-oconnor/2016/06/28/more-benghazi-report-no-help-from-washington-ever-arrived-n235024
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The 800-page Benghazi report released by Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) today in Washington is a thorough retelling of the events leading … But, if you don’t have time or the interest to go through all of the various details of the Benghazi report, if you can only take away … At no time, Hugh, was there ever a U.S. armed aircraft en route to Benghazi, Libya. At no time.…
Benghazi report details Obama/Clinton failures before, during and after deadly attacks
https://hotair.com/larry-oconnor/2016/06/28/benghazi-report…nton-failures-before-during-and-after-deadly-attacks-n235014
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And after that deadly failure, the Obama/Clinton spin machine lied for political purposes. … Even President Obama has called the Libya aftermath the “greatest mistake” of his presidency. … the Obama Administration.…
Who made the decision to redact the Orlando shooter transcripts?
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2016/06/21/who-made-the-decision-to-redact-the-orlando-shooter-transcripts-n234774
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This has turned into quite the debacle, and the New York Post asks why Obama would humiliate his Attorney General in this fashion. … Benghazi attack on an Internet video, rather than on the terrorist plot they all knew it was. … Miller at the Washington Times reports that the White House Press Secretary insists the order didn’t come from Obama.…
Flashback: "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam"
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2015/01/07/flashback-the-futu…not-belong-to-those-who-slander-the-prophet-of-islam-n195312
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Remember, Obama gave this speech just two weeks after protesters stormed the U.S. embassy in Cairo and jihadis killed Chris Stevens … in Benghazi. … The White House, in the person of Jay Carney, criticized them for doing so less than a week before Obama delivered this line.…
Quotes of the day
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2015/01/13/quotes-of-the-day-1968-n195452
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And oddly enough, thanks in part to the Obama administration, the flipping Mormon has emerged from 2012 with his reputation enhanced … In the general election, he could not pluck any states off the Obama 2008 landslide map, save North Carolina and Indiana. … This despite the fact that the dynamics were much less favorable to Obama than they were in 2008.…
Does any feminist care that Susan Rice is this White House’s scapegoat?
https://hotair.com/noah-rothman/2015/01/27/does-any-feminist-care-that-susan-rice-is-this-white-houses-scapegoat-n195744
https://hotair.com/noah-rothman/2015/01/27/does-any-feminist-care-that-susan-rice-is-this-white-houses-scapegoat-n195744
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The administration knew perfectly well by this point, days after President Barack Obama joined Bergdahl’s parents in the White House … Nations Ambassador Rice was responsible for the now infamous claim on five Sunday news programs in the autumn of 2012 that the Benghazi … In fact, the House’s investigation into the response to the Benghazi attacks is still out and so should be the public’s final judgment…
Attkisson, Engelbrecht added to witness list for Lynch confirmation hearing
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/01/27/attkisson-engelbr…added-to-witness-list-for-lynch-confirmation-hearing-n195735
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the confirmation hearing for Loretta Lynch:
A former CBS investigative reporter who has filed a $35 million lawsuit against the Obama … Sharyl Attkisson has accused the Obama administration of breaking into her computer and phone after she reported stories that were … critical of the administration, such as the events surrounding the 2012 attack on an American compound in Benghazi, Libya, and the…
Sure sign of an Obama foreign-policy success: the evac
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/01/23/sure-sign-of-an-obama-foreign-policy-success-the-evac-n195661
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In Benghazi, the Obama administration (with Hillary Clinton in charge at State) left US personnel in an inadequately-secured facility … And now the US retreat has reached Sana’a, which Barack Obama and his team hailed as a foreign-policy and counterterrorism success … Obama said.…
Distance: Hillary advisor says Obama "hasn't gotten s*** done"
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/01/22/distance-hillary-aide-says-obama-hasnt-gotten-s-done-n195653
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It turns out that Barack Obama isn’t the only one living in a world of denial this week. … Her challenge is to convince voters that, unlike Obama, she can deliver on her promises. … Good luck, Team Hillary, trying to sell this as a distancing strategy from Barack Obama. …
New video from conservative group: Jeb Bush is unelectable
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2015/02/19/new-video-from-conservative-group-jeb-bush-is-unelectable-n196305
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“Anytime Jeb calls Hillary ‘Obama 2.0,’ any criticism he makes of her awful record as Secretary of State, any time he shows how much … That said, I think the Benghazi line of attack here is going nowhere. … will come to be seen as a microcosm of catastrophic Obama/Clinton haplessness.…
Take David Axelrod’s word for it: Obama’s White House remains untouched by any ‘major scandals’
https://hotair.com/noah-rothman/2015/02/17/take-david-axelro…white-house-remains-untouched-by-any-major-scandals-n196256
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Both President Barack Obama and the administration he leads are ethical paragons. Don’t believe me? … of Politics during an event promoting the release of his memoirs, Axelrod said that he was perhaps proudest of the fact that the Obama … that the multi-stage Benghazi attack that claimed the life of four Americans including a U.S. ambassador was inspired by a YouTube…
Judicial Watch FOIA: State knew Ansar al-Sharia claimed Benghazi attack in first hours
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/02/27/judicial-watch-fo…sar-al-sharia-claimed-benghazi-attack-in-first-hours-n196479
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What did Hillary Clinton know about the Benghazi attack, and when did she know it? … The Ambassador is present in Benghazi and currently is barricaded within the compound. … Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi has stopped and the compound has been cleared.…
Maddow: Media idiots don’t ‘know how to talk about’ the Clintons
https://hotair.com/noah-rothman/2015/03/11/maddow-media-idiots-dont-know-how-to-talk-about-the-clintons-n196793
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fellow MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell by suggesting that there was some manner of hypocrisy or contradiction in the fact that both Benghazi … when Maddow sought to impugn the press for daring to question why the former secretary flagrantly violated State Department and Obama … The New York Times breaking two stories about Hillary Clinton, one involving her alleged violation of an ethics agreement with the Obama…