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Paul Ryan: 'For this administration, it's always politics first, even at the Pentagon'
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2016/09/06/paul-ryan-administration-always-politics-first-n237316
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September 6, 2016
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise called referred to it as “cynical political games”:
It's shameful for the Obama … Scalise (@SteveScalise) September 6, 2016
The memo revealed today also sheds some new light on the sparring match between the Benghazi…
Presidential debate moderators announced
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2016/09/02/presidential-debate-moderators-announced-n237221
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(That was the debate where Crowley dubiously “fact-checked” Romney on whether Obama had ever called Benghazi a terrorist attack.) … problematic as a solo moderator: After all, she took heat four years ago as the moderator of the VP debate when it came out that Obama…
CBS News edits out Bill Clinton's 'frequently' remark about Hillary's fainting episodes
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2016/09/13/cbs-news-edits-bill-clintons-frequently-remark-hillary-fainting-n237555
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identified the Benghazi attack as an “act of terror” in a speech given the next morning. … In the edited segment Obama agreed he had avoided labeling the attack terrorism. … SA: I did not know about it at the time and wouldn’t have because I wasn’t covering Benghazi.…
Scarborough: Chris Wallace is right to refuse fact-checker status as debate moderator
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2016/09/21/scarborough-chris…ce-right-refuse-fact-checker-status-debate-moderator-n237825
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Former CNN host Candy Crowley derailed the second presidential debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama in 2012 by “fact checking … ” Romney’s statement that Obama waited more than a week to call the Benghazi attack terrorism.…
Can we talk about Hillary Clinton's embarrassing response to the Chelsea bombing?
https://hotair.com/larry-oconnor/2016/09/19/attack-trumps-re…helsea-bombing-straight-2012-romneybenghazi-playbook-n237714
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Let’s be clear about Romney’s criticism of the Obama Administration. … Obama and Clinton hammered Romney about his condemnation and the media played along. … In other words, the Benghazi murders needed to be linked to the video.…
Kasich: I'm going to a same-sex wedding soon
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/04/20/kasich-im-going-to-a-same-sex-wedding-soon-n197735
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Meanwhile, we still don’t know whether Hillary Clinton would sign the deal with Iran or why she refused to bolster security around the Benghazi … He doesn’t criticize his fellow Republicans or even the GOP’s favorite punching bag, President Barack Obama. … This is just another media squirrel designed to distract from the failures of the Obama administration and the incompetence and corruption…
Obama administration "declined to organize a rescue mission" for Americans in Yemen?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/04/17/obama-administrat…to-organize-a-rescue-mission-for-americans-in-yemen-n197689
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The final collapse appears to have caught the Obama administration so off-guard that it didn’t have time to organize an evacuation … left, and McClatchy’s John Zarocostas reports that no rescue plans will come in the immediate future, either (via Twitchy):
The Obama … Substitute Libya and Benghazi for Yemen and Sana’a, and it seems we haven’t learned a damned thing in three years.…
NYT: Congress asked Hillary in December 2012 about private e-mail
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/04/15/nyt-congress-asked-hillary-in-december-2012-about-private-e-mail-n197634
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Congress only asked the former Secretary of State about private e-mail records in August 2014, when the House Select Committee on Benghazi … Issa was leading an investigation into how the Obama administration handled its officials’ use of personal email. … We already know that the Obama administration had sent out advisories on the need to conduct official business on official accounts…
Who is really drawing out the Benghazi investigation?
https://hotair.com/noah-rothman/2015/04/23/who-is-really-drawing-out-the-benghazi-investigation-n197844
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On Thursday, the chairman of the select committee tasked with investigating the Benghazi attacks, Rep. … Rather than respond to the Benghazi committee, Clinton’s campaign apparatus issued a public statement described by CNN as “blistering … But who is truly holding up the work of the Benghazi committee?…
Humanitarian disaster: UN estimates more than 800 dead after fleeing failed state of Libya
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/04/21/humanitarian-disa…re-than-800-dead-after-fleeing-failed-state-of-libya-n197759
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information that Qaddafi was about to attack Benghazi. … NATO took charge later, led mainly by British and French military commanders, but it started with the US and Barack Obama. … Obama later bragged about the ease of the decapitation of the regime, declaring it to be the model for regime change in the future…
Quotes of the day
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Earnest said Obama “was informed last night of the violence outside Dallas.” … Geert Wilders, for instance, but nothing about the far more offensive actions of Keith Ellison and André Carson, who asked Barack Obama … In the wake of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, President Obama announced that “the future must not belong to those…
Former CIA deputy: Yeah, our bad on that whole "al Qaeda is on the run" claim
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/05/04/former-cia-deputy…h-our-bad-on-that-whole-al-qaeda-is-on-the-run-claim-n198071
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Three years ago, Barack Obama and Joe Biden took a victory lap across America, celebrating the successful mission that tracked down … Obama repeatedly insisted, “al-Qaeda is on the run!” … over the course of the campaign, and then had to parse that claim very narrowly after the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi.…
Gowdy: I'd take Hillary's word on deleted e-mails -- if it's under oath
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2015/05/01/gowdy-id-take-hillarys-word-on-deleted-e-mails-if-its-under-oath-n198036
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Yesterday, the chair of the House Select Committee on Benghazi offered the former Secretary of State a path out of the scandal involving … Trey Gowdy, who heads the House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks that left four Americans dead, says he might be willing … Even if Hillary thought she could resolve the e-mail situation by testifying under oath, the committee — whose scope is the Benghazi…
Justice Department drops charges in case that could have exposed Hillary's Benghazi/gun running connections
https://hotair.com/larry-oconnor/2016/10/06/justice-departme…ase-exposed-hillarys-benghazigun-running-connections-n238273
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Fox News’ Catherine Herridge revealed documents last year showing the Obama Administration not only knew the Benghazi terror attacks … Obama was locked in a tight reelection race. … Thanks to the Obama Justice Department, we won’t soon find out.…
John Kerry: 'I've argued for the use of force' in Syria
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2016/10/03/john-kerry-ive-argued-use-force-syria-n238175
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Kerry may be blaming Congress but his real argument is with Barack Obama. … It was Obama who originally drew the red line over the use of chemical weapons in Syria and it was Obama who backed away from it later … In Libya we got the Ansar al Sharia goons who killed our people at Benghazi.…
British Parliament panel condemns 2011 NATO war in Libya
https://hotair.com/taylormillard/2016/10/02/british-parliament-panel-condemns-2011-nato-war-libya-n238152
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Conservative MP Crispin Blunt, who chairs the select committee, said the original aim of the military intervention to protect Benghazi … The report finds: “If the primary object of the coalition intervention was the urgent need to protect civilians in Benghazi, then this … It was her arm-twisting which got the Obama Administration to sign off on another war without end.…
"Check out sex tape": Trump wants the media talking about Alicia Machado for another day for some reason
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2016/09/30/trump-wants-media-talking-alicia-machado-another-day-reason-n238113
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Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) September 30, 2016
You may remember that the 2008 election was neck and neck down the stretch until Obama … Trump could have mentioned her in relation to Benghazi, like, er, Newt did.…
Here's the script for the video defense of her emails that Hillary never delivered
https://hotair.com/larry-oconnor/2016/10/14/heres-script-video-defense-emails-hillary-never-delivered-n238540
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When President Obama asked me to serve as Secretary of State, it seemed simpler to have just one email address. … any time and anyplace, in October I’ll be on Capitol Hill before the committee looking at the tragic events of September 2012 in Benghazi … It’s unclear to me how it will help us understand what happened in Benghazi or how to help prevent future tragedies – but I’m going…
5 takeaways from the Trump-Clinton debate that hasn't happened yet
https://hotair.com/latimestot/2016/10/07/what-trump-needs-to-do-against-clinton-n238319
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She may lie about her emails, Benghazi, the Clinton Foundation and Chelsea-knows-what-else. … Breaking news to Benghazi families.
And how, Mrs. … Clinton, did you come up with that cockamamie anti-Muslim video fable so Obama could get to his Vegas fundraisers on time?…
What you surely missed in that final Trump-Clinton debate
https://hotair.com/latimestot/2016/10/21/debate-benghazi-hillary-clinton-trump-n238763
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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.…
CNN's Jake Tapper: Which accusers do you believe?
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2016/10/17/cnns-jake-tapper-accusers-believe-n238637
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I can’t help but be reminded of the decision by CBS News to sit on video of President Obama admitting he had not called the Benghazi…
Peter Kadzik gave John Podesta a 'heads up' on Clinton email developments at DOJ
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2016/11/02/peter-kadzik-gave-john-podesta-heads-clinton-email-developments-doj-n239156
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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.…
Of course the DOJ assigned a Clinton crony to oversee the new email investigation
https://hotair.com/larry-oconnor/2016/11/01/course-doj-assigned-clinton-crony-oversee-new-email-investigation-n239093
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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.…
Natsec advisor Mike Rogers resigns as Trump culls transition team of Christie allies
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2016/11/15/natsec-advisor-mik…ns-as-trump-culls-transition-team-of-christie-allies-n239584
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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.…
Nat-sec appointments: Pompeo to CIA, Flynn as top adviser
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2016/11/18/nat-sec-appointments-pompeo-to-cia-flynn-as-top-adviser-n239697
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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.…