No media questions that day as Obama rushed off to Las Vegas fundraisers. … The report blamed Benghazi lapses on systemic bureaucratic problems. No one was charged. No one was fired. … And among the more than 17,000 words uttered in that debate on national TV the word “Benghazi” was totally absent. Pfft.…
In a 2008 email recommending Kadzik for a job in the Obama administration, Podesta wrote, “Fantastic lawyer. … Another Wikileaks email shows Kadzik had dinner with John Podesta the day after Hillary Benghazi testimony.…
The dinner was set for 7:30 that evening, just one day after Clinton gave 11 hours of testimony to the Benghazi Committee. … He was recommended for his current job by that same Podesta during the latter’s stint in the Obama Administration. … He dined privately with Podesta during the Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi testimony.…
position in the aftermath of last Friday’s shakeup, a person closely tracking the transition told POLITICO…
By comparison, the Obama … Many of the CIA officers who survived the Benghazi attack have loudly opposed the Rogers report since it was released, particularly … objecting to the report’s claim that no CIA officer on the ground in Benghazi was told to “stand down” from a rescue attempt.…
He and Tom Cotton accused the Obama administration of signing secret side agreements to the Iran deal, allegations which the White … Pompeo is also a member of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, so he understands the lessons of the Libya debacle all too well.…
— hinted at similar criticism of Barack Obama in the 2007-8 primary campaign, too.) … the Qaddafi government that turned Libya into a terror-ridden failed state on the Mediterranean, and which led to the debacle in Benghazi…
Gowdy’s tough focus on Hillary Clinton in the Benghazi select committee investigation will not give him the necessary detachment to … The CNN list also includes John Pistole, who worked in both the Bush and Obama administrations, and who has 26 years in the FBI.…
judge ordered the State Department to do a search of its own email archives for anything Hillary Clinton may have written about Benghazi … In all, State found 348 Benghazi-related messages or documents that were sent to or from Clinton in a period of nearly five months … Clinton appears to be ascribing the attack to a terrorist group, although the Obama administration later described it as the result…
focus on restoring public safety than otherwise would be the case:
From attacks on our own soil and overseas to the tragedy in Benghazi … , the policies of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have left us vulnerable. … But viewers should keep an eye out especially for Pat Smith, the mother of Benghazi victim Sean Smith, who has kept the pressure on…
They and the Obama administration also rode the gun-control bandwagon for all it was worth, with a few moments to blame Republicans … That kept the Obama administration from having to answer tough questions about its counter-terror operations at home and abroad. … It’s the YouTube video and Benghazi all over again.…
Obama did mention his one-time bitter party rival Hillary 31 times. … Nothing about Benghazi or emails, pay-to-play, the phony video excuse, and the rest of that stuff. … Bush has been about Obama, despite countless provocations.…
tonight was a little more than 4,100 words, almost as long as a State of the Union, which he won’t be giving again either.
11:44pm Obama … side waving to the crowd.
11:40pm Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus issues a statement saying:
“President Obama … 11:06pm Obama endorses Hillary Clinton. He recalls eight years ago how tough his competition was with Clinton.…
Scheduled speakers include Joe Biden, Tim Kaine and Barack Obama.
11:14pm Hillary Clinton via live video: “Thank you all, Philadelphia … They remember Benghazi. They remember the fictitious video tale. … They remember her pushing with Obama for the hasty withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq that produced ISIS.…
defense of Hillary, and Republicans don’t shy away from talking about ISIS at all:
Clinton served as the chief architect of the Obama … Clinton foreign policy failure #3: failing in Libya and Benghazi, creating ISIS’s new safe haven.…
Manchin once fired a rifle through an Obama administration proposal for a carbon-trading scheme, but has generally been a pretty good … She still hasn’t taken responsibility for a long string of lies on that point, nor for the lies she told about the Benghazi attack…
Patricia Smith, mom of Benghazi fatality Sean, let out her anger for all to feel. “I blame Hillary Clinton,” she said. … And it was graphic as Mark Geist and John Tiegen took 24 minutes to describe graphically the long night of Benghazi fighting, the consulate … Michael Flynn took apart Obama-Clinton national security policies that cripple and endanger the military.…
Dorothy Woods, the widow of Tyrone Woods who was killed in Benghazi, appeared on the Hugh Hewitt show where she was asked about her … However, she does have a problem with Clinton telling America to “move on” from Benghazi:
HH: Did you follow the controversy to its … It’s characteristic Obama. You know, let’s go ahead and sweep that under the rug.…
began attacking ISIS positions in Sirte in May, a location about halfway between the capital in Tripoli and the free-for-all in Benghazi … At least the Obama administration is setting expectations comfortably low by noting that it will take “weeks and even months” of air … We can thank Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the necessity of cleaning up that mess in this manner now, and it’s almost certain…
Obama needed reconciliation. He needed unity. The 2008 primary was brutal between the Obama and Clinton camps. … In return, Obama would support Hillary when it was her turn in 2016. But was there more to it? … That’s where Barack Obama and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz come in.…
Bush and Barack Obama to step in and “outline a national plan of action” and then insist that Trump follow that plan. … in the United States; who took a break from crisis management to go on Twitter and complain about Hillary Clinton’s emails and Benghazi…
Remember, though Joe Biden has been historically wrong on foreign policy decisions throughout his 40 plus year career, Barack Obama … The Obama-Biden administration completely caved to Iran, apologized throughout the world for the successes of the United States, bungled … withdrawal efforts in Iraq, sat by and watched during the Arab Spring, and where was Joe Biden as Ambassador Stevens died in Benghazi…
Hillary lost that primary race to Barack Obama. She went on to try again in 2016. … Does anyone remember Benghazi? What real success does she have to point to from her time in that role? … Barack Obama will join the roster of high-profile Democrats supporting Biden. It’s all hands on deck.…
Obama and his advisers are left to consider whether to scale back diplomatic activities in the region. … …
[Obama] has struggled to find a balance between supporting the growth of democracy and guarding national interests in the region … Like I said, no novelist would contrast Chris Stevens on the streets of Benghazi and Barack Obama on stage in Vegas.…
