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Diplomatic sources: State Department had credible intel 48 hours before attacks that U.S. embassies might be targeted; Update: White House denies
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/09/13/diplomatic-sources…before-attacks-that-u-s-embassies-might-be-targeted-n201411
– Mission in Benghazi was planned or imminent.” … It claimed that American missions generally, including the one in Benghazi, could be targeted. … Why didn’t that happen in Benghazi?…
WSJ/NBC poll: Obama now leads by five in Virginia and Florida, by seven in Ohio
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/09/13/wsjnbc-poll-obama…ads-by-five-in-virginia-and-florida-by-seven-in-ohio-n201409
– Even more reason not to panic: This poll was conducted from Sept. 9-11, when Obama still had a bit of a convention bounce. … job handling the economy, although Obama has a four-point advantage on this question in Ohio. … Again, this poll was conducted from Sunday through Tuesday, the day of the embassy attacks in Cairo and Benghazi.…
Libyan pol: It was obvious that the consulate in Benghazi needed much better security
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/09/13/libyan-professor-i…he-consulate-in-benghazi-needed-much-better-security-n201404
– As gaffes go, this one’s a biggie: [A]lthough the scene in the American consulate’s canteen in Benghazi on Tuesday morning looked … If only that had been true in Benghazi. … Jake Tapper’s being told the same thing by an Obama administration official.…
Quotes of the day
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/09/12/quotes-of-the-day-1143-n201386
Obama as apologizing for the United States, and his team stuck by it. … Obama has managed the popular uprisings in the Arab world, the aftermath of the war in Libya and the broader battle against Islamic … Obama did not take any questions in his own press conference moments later.…
Administration officials: Romney was right, that statement from the Cairo embassy was awful
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/09/12/administration-off…ight-that-statement-from-the-cairo-embassy-was-awful-n201385
– taken that advice and waited, he would have been concern-trolled then instead for not speaking up and seizing the opportunity to put Obama … It came from people on the ground who are potentially in danger,” Obama said. … Were they fretting over the optics of what Schwartz wrote while the siege in Benghazi was going on?…
Report: U.S. consulate in Benghazi had no Marine protection
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/09/12/report-u-s-consulate-in-benghazi-had-no-marine-protection-n201380
– contingent of Marines that safeguards embassies, POLITICO has learned… A senior administration official Wednesday called the Benghazi … The Benghazi consulate had “lock-and-key” security, not the same level of defenses as a formal embassy, an intelligence source told … Obama had no qualms about sending Marines to Benghazi today to reinforce the building; there’s no reason to think he couldn’t have…
Video: Obama criticizes Romney for politics of Libya statement while headin' off for campaign fun in Vegas
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/09/12/obama-headin-to-ve…n-rally-as-questions-mount-over-libya-intel-failures-n201376
– not too busy with more important stuff: Did he have reason to know that jihadist groups have been threatening the consulate in Benghazi … Why, apparently, didn’t Obama attend any of his daily intel briefings this week with the anniversary of 9/11 bearing down? … Question for CBS: Did you ask him any questions about the security failures in Benghazi yesterday?…
Allen West: Apologizing in Egypt is "rewarding bad behavior"
https://hotair.com/erika-johnsen/2012/09/12/allen-west-apologizing-in-egypt-is-rewarding-bad-behavior-n201367
– developed among reporters and commentators that Mitt Romney made a mistake when he released a statement last night condemning the Obama … As events in Benghazi and Cairo unfolded, the Obama administration’s first instinct was to apologize for any offense Muslims might…
Video: Ambassador Chris Stevens hoped for 'free, democratic, prosperous Libya.'
https://hotair.com/marykatharine/2012/09/12/video-ambassador…s-stevens-hoped-for-free-democratic-prosperous-libya-n201361
– As the conflict in Libya unfolded, Chris was one of the first Americans on the ground in Benghazi. … Prior to arriving in Benghazi, he served in Baghdad, Pretoria, Montreal and most recently The Hague. … President Obama said Stevens’ “legacy will endure wherever human beings reach for liberty and justice.”…
Dueling pressers: Romney takes questions, Obama doesn't on Egypt & Libya attacks
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/12/dueling-pressers…takes-questions-obama-doesnt-on-egypt-libya-attacks-n201366
– Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi.  … ROMNEY: I think president Obama has demonstrated a lack of clarity as to a foreign policy. … , Obama went back into the White House.…
CBS: Libyan security team fingered US ambassador to be killed; Update: Libyan president issues apology
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/12/cbs-libyan-security-team-fingered-us-ambassador-to-be-killed-n201360
– In the confusion surrounding the murders of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya yesterday, the Libyan government — which exists due … The State Department said, however, that no Americans were remaining at the facility in Benghazi. … -made film that ridicules Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, fired guns and burned down the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.…
Is this 1979?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/12/is-this-1979-n201355
– The three Libyan officials who confirmed the deaths were deputy interior minister for eastern Libya Wanis al-Sharaf; Benghazi security … chief Abdel-Basit Haroun; and Benghazi city council and security official Ahmed Bousinia. … The Obama administration failed to learn from the past, and so we get to repeat it.…
Senior administration official: The Cairo embassy's statement does not reflect the view of the U.S. government; Update: Romney calls embassy statement "disgraceful"
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/09/11/senior-administrat…tweets-do-not-reflect-the-view-of-the-u-s-government-n201354
– urge citizens to express their opinion peacefully — Ikhwanweb (@Ikhwanweb) September 11, 2012 Update: Like I was saying, Obama … outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi … It’s disgraceful that the Obama Administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize…
The Ed Morrissey Show: Andrew Malcolm
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/26/the-ed-morrissey-show-andrew-malcolm-67-n201694
– The Prince of Twitter and I will discuss the media’s curious lack of curiosity over the collapse of the Obama administration’s Benghazi
Hot Air Exclusive*: Reince Priebus on polling, the election, and the Benghazi attack
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/26/hot-air-exclusive…ebus-on-polling-the-election-and-the-benghazi-attack-n201687
– intend to do with their fundraising advantage in the general election, but we also discussed the foreign-policy debacles of Barack Obama … Priebus also slammed Obama for “shooting first and aiming later” on the first official narrative of the Benghazi attack, only to be … is that the Governor Romney, could be tied or leading with independents in those polls and yet losing the net poll to President Obama
House Armed Services chair: Obama admin hiding truth on Libya until after election; Update: "Full explanation"?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/26/house-armed-servi…ama-admin-hiding-truth-on-libya-until-after-election-n201692
– The outrage over the Benghazi attack and the Obama administration’s response has percolated for two weeks on Capitol Hill, but it’ … Howard “Buck” McKeon told Fox News that the Obama administration seems to be deliberately hiding the “truth” about the Benghazi attack … McKeon still has no idea whether the FBI is in Benghazi at all, or whether the “crime scene” has been secured, more than two weeks…
Bombshell: US knew Stevens assassination was work of terrorists within 24 hours of attack
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/26/bombshell-us-knew…ion-was-work-of-terrorists-within-24-hours-of-attack-n201684
– Five days after the attack on the Benghazi consulate that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador J. … Christopher Stevens, the Obama administration sent UN Ambassador Susan Rice onto five Sunday talk shows to insist that the sacking … Today, however, Eli Lake reports for the Daily Beast that the Obama administration knew within 24 hours that the attack had not been…
Libyan president: Of course the violence had nothing to do with a YouTube video
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/26/libyan-president…the-violence-had-nothing-to-do-with-a-youtube-video-n201681
– This rebukes Barack Obama for his speech at the UN, which was predicated on the assumption that the attack on Benghazi and demonstrations … Perhaps if Obama had met with Magarief while the UN General Assembly was in session this week, Obama might have rewritten his speech … — but Obama was too busy appearing on The View.…
Romney on Libya: Why doesn't Obama want the American people to know what happened?
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/09/25/romney-on-libya-wh…obama-want-the-american-people-to-know-what-happened-n201679
– in saying that it’s up to Americans to decide why The One is reluctant to use the word “terrorism” to describe what happened in Benghazi … He then suggested the Obama administration was trying to hide the truth behind what really happened in Benghazi. … Romney’s answer: It’s proof that Obama misunderstands.…
Benghazi consulate security didn't meet minimum standards
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/25/benghazi-consulate-security-didnt-meet-minimum-standards-n201658
– The timing matches what CNN’s Arwa Damon, who has been reporting from Benghazi, said about the September 11 attack. … administration’s story fell apart: Two days after State clammed up, the Obama administration sent U.N. … Fox News’ Chris Wallace grilled Obama adviser Robert Gibbs on Libya and foreign policy.…
Quotes of the day
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/09/24/quotes-of-the-day-1155-n201648
– ABC: President Obama last night on 60 minutes the president referred to the situation in middle east as one of those bumps in the … If there was no intel, then clearly the CIA and other intel agents stationed in Benghazi weren’t doing their jobs well. … just the trauma of losing four good men, it’s hard for me to say at this point.
 *** A leading House Republican criticized the Obama
Obama on "The View": "I've been told I'm just eye candy here"
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/09/24/obama-on-the-view-ive-been-told-im-just-eye-candy-here-n201645
– I don’t want to raise expectations, but the most irritating Obama interview ever could be a mere 14 hours away. … When host and veteran journalist Barbara Walters kidded Michelle Obama about bringing the president as her “date,” Obama quipped, “ … President Obama continued the shift in his administration’s language in explaining the terrorist attack on the U.S.…
The Ed Morrissey Show: Kevin McCullough
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/24/the-ed-morrissey-show-kevin-mccullough-117-n201634
– Kevin and I will talk about the “catastrophic” intel loss in Benghazi, the collapse of the Obama administration narrative on foreign … Binge Thinker, Kevin and Stephen’s exploding success in independent talk radio, as well as Kevin’s new book, No He Can’t: How Barack Obama
Sacking of Benghazi consulate "a catastrophic intelligence loss"
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/24/sacking-of-benghazi-consulate-a-catastrophic-intelligence-loss-n201628
– Among the more obvious catastrophes of the terrorist attack on our consulate in Benghazi — the loss of a dedicated diplomat in J. … The New York Times reported last night that the CIA considers the loss of the Benghazi consulate as “a catastrophic intelligence loss … ,” which prompts even more questions about security for the site: The attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J.…
Rasmussen: Only 23% believe embassy sieges related to YouTube video
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/24/rasmussen-only-23-believe-embassy-sieges-related-to-youtube-video-n201632
– Just eight days after UN Ambassador Susan Rice went on five Sunday talk shows to insist that the sacking of our consulate in Benghazi … Only one demographic has a majority which backs the Obama administration’s original spin on this story — the political class, with … Adding it all up, it shows that voters don’t think the Obama administration’s response adds up. …
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