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Obama’s favorite scapegoat is also his ‘first choice’ for new attorney general?
https://hotair.com/noah-rothman/2014/09/26/obamas-favorite-s…at-is-also-his-first-choice-for-new-attorney-general-n193002
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President Barack Obama is reportedly interested in nominating a candidate to replace retiring Attorney General Eric Holder quickly … Okay, maybe Obama was merely playing a word association game. … “The White House Counsel’s office advised senior Obama officials to keep quiet about the attack in Benghazi during the weeks preceding…
Exonerated, Chris Christie taunts the press by embracing Roger Goodell
https://hotair.com/noah-rothman/2014/09/19/exonerated-chris-christie-taunts-the-press-by-embracing-roger-goodell-n192824
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“Bridgegate has become your Benghazi.” For the left, those are words that cut like a knife. … The New Jersey governor who had just cruised to reelection in a state Obama won in 2012 by nearly 18 points consistently demonstrated…
Navy SEAL raid nets Benghazi attack leader
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2017/10/31/navy-seal-raid-nets-benghazi-attack-leader-n250895
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It’s doubtful it will be fast enough to satisfy former Marine Mark Geist, one of the survivors of the Benghazi attack. … Earlier this month, another man accused in Benghazi, Ahmed Abu Khattala, went on trial in federal court. … The Obama-era Department of Justice sought and won an indictment against Al-Imam more than two years ago.…
Gates: Hillary really blew it on Libya, huh?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/05/20/gates-hillary-really-blew-it-on-libya-huh-n224608
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to ask about “more recent” decisions — the decapitation of the Qaddafi regime in Libya, conducted by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama … Knowing then what we know now about ISIS in Iraq, was it a mistake for President Obama not to have pushed harder to keep U.S. troops … I mean, the genocide in Benghazi was prevented, and yet you look at what’s going on in Libya, it’s hard to argue that the Obama administration…
NYT: Gowdy to subpoena Sid Blumenthal for Benghazi committee
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/05/19/nyt-gowdy-to-subpoena-sid-blumenthal-for-benghazi-committee-n224573
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Still, the move to collar longtime Clintonista Sid Blumenthal qualifies as a major development for the Benghazi Select Committee investigation … Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, a Republican who is leading the congressional committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi … She and Obama turned it from a dictatorship with some vested interest in fighting al-Qaeda and its affiliates into a failed state where…
State Department to release Hillary emails in January 2016
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2015/05/19/state-department-to-release-hillary-emails-in-january-2016-n224566
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(And while Kerry may be in charge today, it’s all part of the larger Team Obama, so they’re not exactly hostile to Clinton.) … We’re not going to find anything along the lines of, “let them know I won’t make the Benghazi funerals because it would look pretty…
NYT: Banned from State Dep't, Clinton Foundation crony advised Hillary on Libya anyway -- while pursuing business there; Update: Another e-mail lie
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2015/05/18/nyt-banned-from-st…lary-on-libya-while-trying-to-drum-up-business-there-n224563
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Blumenthal, who had been barred from a State Department job by aides to President Obama, was also employed by her family’s philanthropy … Did Gowdy’s Benghazi committee get it first and leak it to them?…
Fox: Newly released Benghazi documents show Obama admin lied about attack
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/05/18/fox-newly-release…enghazi-documents-show-obama-admin-lied-about-attack-n224549
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First, September 16 is an infamous date in the Benghazi timeline, as the date on which Susan Rice did a full Ginsburg to insist that … Obama was in the middle of an election, and didn’t want to acknowledge that he’d been caught with his pants down. … The DIA tried to warn Congress about the threat in January 2014, which is when Obama compared them to the “jayvees.”…
Politico: Trey Gowdy ‘likely’ to reject Clinton’s one-time Benghazi Committee appearance; Update: Clinton testimony delayed
https://hotair.com/matt-vespa/2015/05/14/politico-trey-gowdy…ommittee-appearance-update-clinton-testimony-delayed-n224493
https://hotair.com/matt-vespa/2015/05/14/politico-trey-gowdy…ommittee-appearance-update-clinton-testimony-delayed-n224493
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State Department turns over the rest of the documents on Libya (via National Journal):
The GOP-led House panel probing the 2012 Benghazi … Trey Gowdy, chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi. … Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the Benghazi panel.…
Did Clinton ask Blumenthal to look for information about Libya?
https://hotair.com/matt-vespa/2015/05/28/did-clinton-ask-blumenthal-to-look-for-information-about-libya-n224787
https://hotair.com/matt-vespa/2015/05/28/did-clinton-ask-blumenthal-to-look-for-information-about-libya-n224787
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The network included former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal who was prevented from taking a job at State in 2009 by the Obama White … Blumenthal has been subpoenaed by the House Select Committee on Benghazi regarding these communications. …
Surprise: State Department labeled Benghazi 'terrorism event' within hours
https://hotair.com/guy-benson/2015/05/27/surprise-state-department-labeled-benghazi-terrorism-event-within-hours-n224748
https://hotair.com/guy-benson/2015/05/27/surprise-state-department-labeled-benghazi-terrorism-event-within-hours-n224748
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email (which also contradicted the administration’s story) wasn’t about Benghazi. … Team Obama carefully calibrated and coordinated their public statements about Benghazi because, as off-the-books consigliere Sid Blumenthal … The Obama administration, while busy dismissing Benghazi as a “phony scandal” and old news, claimed to have surrendered all pertinent…
Quotes of the day
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“That’s simply insufficient to create a security force, which is why they crumbled.”
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While President Obama still opposes the … If our aim is really to “destroy” the group, as Obama says, then we would have to wade into the Syrian civil war. … Bush bequeathed to Obama a success. By whose measure? By Obama’s.…
Blumenthal: I'd be happy to talk with the Benghazi select committee
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/05/22/blumenthal-id-be-happy-to-talk-with-the-benghazi-select-committee-n224658
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/05/22/blumenthal-id-be-happy-to-talk-with-the-benghazi-select-committee-n224658
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Blumenthal actually didn’t say much at all, other than his e-mails to Hillary Clinton on Benghazi were just unsolicited information … How much those conflicts of interest drove US policy in Libya will be of considerable interest to the Benghazi Select Committee. … from Obama that snuggled up close to an endorsement for blasphemy laws?…
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
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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
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/06/09/cnn-yes-hillary-has-serious-problems-with-libya-n225051
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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
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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
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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
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/06/26/state-hillary-didnt-give-us-15-of-blumenthals-e-mails-n225473
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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
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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
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/07/01/obama-administration-invokes-executive-privilege-on-benghazi-probe-n225578
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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.…