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NYT: Hillary e-mails included contradiction of early talking points on Benghazi
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/05/21/nyt-hillary-e-mai…ed-contradiction-of-early-talking-points-on-benghazi-n224633
– Clinton was circulating information about the attacks in Benghazi that contradicted the Obama administration’s initial narrative of … That information contradicted the Obama administration’s narrative at the time about what had spawned the attacks. … Christopher Stevens, the ambassador who died in the Benghazi attacks, was asked by Mr.…
CNN: Yes, Hillary has serious problems with Libya
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/06/09/cnn-yes-hillary-has-serious-problems-with-libya-n225051
– No kidding, but it’s not just Hillary Clinton who will struggle with the outcome of the Obama administration’s Libyan intervention … already grappling with the political headaches from deleted emails and from the terror attack that left four Americans dead in Benghazi … She’ll also have to answer for misfires in the Obama administration’s wider foreign policy as GOP candidates who have not faced the…
Quotes of the day
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2015/06/14/quotes-of-the-day-2113-n225185
– First, Obama didn’t really run as a polarizing figure in 2008. … The Obama veterans around Clinton boast of their willingness to break with the practices of the past. … When Republicans lost two elections to Obama, it was easy to explain away as a special phenomenon.…
Video: White House "disgusted" by Hillary e-mail scandal -- and it's getting worse
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/06/29/video-white-house…sted-by-hillary-e-mail-scandal-and-its-getting-worse-n225527
– The group advocating to implement Sharia, Ansar al-Sharia, is a designated terrorist group that played a role in the Benghazi attacks … That is why the Obama administration instructed its agencies not to use personal e-mails unless those communications were copied to … That’s not to say that the Obama administration is entirely enamored of her flouting of the law.…
State: Hillary didn't give us 15 of Blumenthal's e-mails
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/06/26/state-hillary-didnt-give-us-15-of-blumenthals-e-mails-n225473
– After Sidney Blumenthal turned over his cache of e-mails to Hillary Clinton, the House Select Committee on Benghazi pointed out that … Department said Thursday that it could not locate “all or part” of 15 e-mails provided last week to the House Select Committee on Benghazi … repeated questions about whether Clinton covered up her activities related to theSeptember 2012 attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi
Quotes of the day
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2015/07/02/quotes-of-the-day-2131-n225622
– to contemporary politics, from Tim Pawlenty’s refusal to double down on “Romneycare” to Mitt Romney’s own pass given to President Obama … on Benghazi during their third and final debate. … When he captured the Democratic nomination for president in 2008 Barack Obama conceded that Hillary Clinton made him a better candidate…
Obama administration invokes executive privilege on Benghazi probe?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/07/01/obama-administration-invokes-executive-privilege-on-benghazi-probe-n225578
– Democrats have insisted that the House Select Committee on Benghazi has done nothing but rehash already-known elements of the attack … “In return, the Benghazi Committee has agreed that, in the event that it considers it integral to the satisfaction of the Benghazi … The Benghazi Committee has agreed to consider such requests in good faith prior to making any such release.”…
Quotes of the day
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2015/07/17/quotes-of-the-day-2144-n225994
– “They have this great indignation, whether it’s Benghazi or the emails… nothing ever happens.”… New Hampshire voters said Trump spoke … “Whether it’s Donald Trump or Barack Obama, their rhetoric of divisiveness is wrong,” the former governor said. … Technocrats flocked to Barack Obama, sure that “No Drama Obama” with his perfectly creased pants would be the return to competence.…
Transparency: Hillary, State withheld two Benghazi-related e-mails from select committee
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/07/14/transparency-hill…d-two-benghazi-related-e-mails-from-select-committee-n225862
– The “transparent” Obama administration tells the court that the release of Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi email chain “could reasonably … As I just told one media interviewer, I interpret this to mean “we can’t give out info about the Obama/Clinton Benghazi cover-up because … The Obama administration also sent false talking points about the attack to Congress.)…
Gowdy: State's been very transparent -- about Richard Gere
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/07/11/gowdy-states-been-very-transparent-about-richard-gere-n225805
– The State Department has insisted that it’s complying with the House Select Committee on Benghazi and brags about the number of pages … Will the media begin asking why the Obama administration wants to keep blocking this probe?…
Quotes of the day
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2014/10/05/quotes-of-the-day-1873-n193198
– . *** If Mitt Romney had said in 2012 that a second Obama term would bring not just continued economic uncertainty, but also the … Ironically, that was the charge levied at the Bush administration by none other than Senator Obama, speaking on ABC’s This Week on … And yet, it wasn’t Obama who misled the public about Saddam Hussein or the Vietnam War or Watergate.…
Intel and military sources: We could have hit "Khorasan" in June
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2014/10/02/intel-and-military-sources-we-could-have-hit-khorasan-in-june-n193143
– advisers in the Obama administration could still have their jobs. … have gone up under Obama; that Obama spends his weekly counterterrorism hour leafing through binders of aspiring targets to select … Let’s say, though, that Obama was justified in blaming the intelligence community for the failure.…
Christie: I am certainly unimpressed with Obama's leadership on ISIS
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2014/10/01/christie-i-am-certainly-unimpressed-with-obamas-leadership-on-isis-n193098
– Interestingly, Christie takes Obama at his word on that point, at least in this exchange, when it has already been made very clear … Long wait times were hardly a secret, with Obama himselfcampaigning on VA reform as a candidate. … To his credit, Obama signed legislation reforming the VA and replaced embattled Secretary Eric Shinseki.…
Intelligence warned Obama of ISIS since 2012?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2014/09/30/intelligence-warned-obama-of-isis-since-2012-n193074
– We saw this after the Benghazi attack in 2012, in an almost identical sequence. … Obama has taken the country to war again, and yet cannot articulate that one simple fact. … Obama wants to eat his Nobel Peace Prize cake and have his war, too. But he can’t have it both ways.…
Obama meets Ebola survivor Nina Pham in the Oval Office
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2014/10/24/obama-meets-ebola-survivor-nina-pham-in-the-oval-office-n193671
– And of course it’s good politics for Obama, who somehow seems to be on the golf course every time a crisis erupts. … This is basically the story of the Obama presidency, where nearly all of the staggering failures and crises–Ebola, ISIS, Obamacare, … Benghazi, et al.…
Quotes of the day
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2014/10/18/quotes-of-the-day-1886-n193506
Obama convened his top aides in the Cabinet room after canceling his schedule on Wednesday. … Obama said of the response, according to people briefed on the meeting. … My advice to Team Obama – encourage the Big Guy to take a look around.…
Pentagon lashes out at ISIS war "micromanagement" at WH
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2014/10/31/pentagon-lashes-out-at-isis-war-micromanagement-at-wh-n193835
– Martin Dempsey has publicly chafed at the “no ground troops ever” policy from Barack Obama, and recently told PBS Frontline that he … Obama with his recommendations of military action against the Islamic State. Defenders of Mr. … Obama tends to hand delicate assignments to his most trusted advisers. Mr. Kerry and Mr.…
Reporters in the Obama era basically living in an episode of "Scandal"
https://hotair.com/marykatharine/2014/10/28/reporters-in-the-obama-era-basically-living-in-an-episode-of-scandal-n193765
– But the Obama administration is determined to make “Scandal” blush. … Read Erik Wemple’s entire write-up of Sharyl Attkisson’s account of the bugging of her computer at the height of her Benghazi reporting … At a White House Correspondents’ Association seminar on Saturday, Page described the Obama administration as “more restrictive” and…
Attkisson: CBS buried an Obama quote in 2012 on Benghazi
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2014/11/10/attkisson-cbs-buried-an-obama-quote-in-2012-on-benghazi-n194090
– Did executives at CBS News sit on a clip from an exclusive interview with Barack Obama to protect his election chances in 2012? … It would have to me proven Romney’s point against Obama. But that clip was kept secret.” … Rather than speak truth to power, CBS went silent — to preserve it, perhaps, on behalf of Barack Obama?…
Obama hails Obama for his anti-terror work
https://hotair.com/latimestot/2016/12/08/obama-hails-obama-for-anti-terror-work-n240319
Obama has struggled to seem relevant in these waning 43 days of his lame-duckness. … As usual, Obama’s report had a strong emphasis on Obama. … Obama did remind us that Osama bin Laden still sleeps with the fishes.…
Hot Air's Top 50 posts in 2016: The runners-up
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2016/12/26/hot-airs-top-50-posts-in-2016-the-runners-up-n240832
– Today, though, let’s step through the five that just missed the list: #55: Film Review: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi … prevarications. #52: The truth about gun deaths: numbers and actual solutions (10/4/15 — see update) – No matter how many times the Obama … This particular misuse was an implicit argument for why Obama seemed more interested in gun control than dealing with terrorism, but…
NBC's list of "most telling" Obama quotes missing a few
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2017/01/10/nbcs-list-of-most-telling-obama-quotes-missing-a-few-n241218
– When Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize — despite having done nothing at all by that point in pursuit of peace except be elected … That’s hardly the only legacy quote on national security from Obama. … This isn’t even an attempt at a serious look back at the Obama years; it’s cheap propaganda.…
WaPo columnist: Say, this 13 Hours actually is political
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2016/01/18/wapo-columnist-say-this-13-hours-actually-is-political-n230208
– acerbic look at 13 Hours that objects to the supposedly dishonest marketing of Michael Bay’s presentation of the sacking of the Benghazi … of their mouths when it comes to the political nature of the film, and the film itself of a dishonest approach to the story of Benghazi … Few people would presume that a recap of Benghazi would hurt Hillary Clinton or Democrats more broadly right before their primaries…
Film Review: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
https://hotair.com/crankytrex/2016/01/16/film-review-13-hours-the-secret-soldiers-of-benghazi-n230169
– Until this weekend, the story of the 2012 attack on our consulate in Benghazi has been almost exclusively in the hands of the Obama … caused a spontaneous protest that turned violent and could not have been prevented or mitigated.  13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi … Instead they are able to hammer home the horrible truths about Benghazi that have thus far been written off as Republican political…
Hillary e-mail exchange debated kick-starting Palestinian protests to pressure Israel
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2016/01/11/hillary-e-mail-ex…ick-starting-palestinian-protests-to-pressure-israel-n230041
– The State Department chose Pickering to review the events surrounding the sacking of our consulate in Benghazi as chair of the so-called … This exchange confirms the tendency of the Obama administration to treat Israel with arrogance, if not outright hostility. … t raise legal issues, but it raises serious political issues, especially for Hillary Clinton’s orientation toward Israel and the Obama
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