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E-mails show White House tried to muzzle Sharyl Attkisson
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Readers can thank Judicial Watch for prying the latest embarrassing documents out of the Obama administration, as part of its effort … document dump deals with a related matter — the attempt to keep the media at bay and spin the news to the best advantage of Barack Obama … Which is highly revealing: the Obama administration expects reporters to be under control.…
About that House Intelligence Committee report on Benghazi, Part III ...
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White House meeting on the Benghazi talking points. … story: What was Rogers' motive for tanking #Benghazi report? … approach to Benghazi, helmed by someone with more distance from the intelligence community.…
The Curious(ly unending) Case of David Petraeus
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2012, after a sexual affair with his would-be biographer Paula Broadwell came to light in the middle of the controversy over the Benghazi … While the FBI has cleared Broadwell of those charges, and Obama has said Petraeus never endangered national security, the FBI’s probe … And the speculation swirls around [that] the best way to keep David Petraeus quiet, if he has any criticism of the Obama administration…
Compton: Obama goes on profanity-laced tirades against the media that loves him
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The difference between Barack Obama and the rest of us, especially on the Right, is that the rest of us don’t get an easy ride from … Retired ABC correspondent Ann Compton opened up about Obama to C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb, who notes that the President usually keeps his … I have seen in the last year Barack Obama really angry twice. Both were off the record times.…
Hot Air’s top 50 posts in 2014: The Top Ten
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#9: Marco Rubio just made Hillary’s Benghazi problem worse – Hillary Clinton dismissed a question from Diane Sawyer about security … in Benghazi by saying that she wasn’t equipped to deal with those questions. … (Noah, 123,488)
#4: Obama: Health insurance isn’t expensive – just cancel cable and phones; Update: White House responds – It’s not…
Ocasio-Cortez: All the single-payer VA needs is more money to succeed
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2019/04/25/ocasio-cortez-single-payer-va-needs-money-succeed-n271378
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Barack Obama ran in 2007-8 on failures at the VA, promising more resources and better management. … In comparison to that final Bush budget — don’t forget that Obama signed the FY2009 budget in March 2009 with the omnibus spending … The amount of increase in the VA’s budget in the Obama era, $65.9 billion, exceeds the entire VA budget in the FY2004 budget.…
Biden: Hey, we don't maintain troops in Syria to fight terrorism, do we?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2021/08/19/biden-hey-we-dont-maintain-troops-in-syria-to-fight-terrorism-do-we-n410067
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It’s worth noting, however, that the need for over-the-horizon counterterror operations in Libya comes from the Obama-Biden administration … How’d that work out for our consulate in Benghazi?…
SecDef: Guess who might come back to fill the vacuum we left in Afghanistan?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2021/09/09/secdef-guess-who…come-back-to-fill-the-vacuum-we-left-in-afghanistan-n414623
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The Obama administration didn’t learn that lesson from Libya, at least not until the terror networks that took over in that failed … state assaulted our consulate in Benghazi and killed four of the Americans in it.…
Biden Inc cont'd: Hunter tried to shake down Libya for $2M while Joe was VP to "unfreeze" assets
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Who had the juice inside the Obama White House to pull that off? … Did Joe Biden and the Obama administration know of Hunter’s activities? … terror networks in the failed state Obama and Biden created out of Libya.…
Hollywood Reporter: Critics say Bret Baier is professional but leans to the right
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2020/05/27/hollywood-reporter-bret-baier-cultivates-impartiality-leans-right-n343267
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He was always professional,” a former Obama administration official says of Baier. … A former Obama official thinks Baier is too aggressive on Fast and Furious and Benghazi? … Media Matters, the Obama admin and a Democratic strategist think he’s not fair. Who would have guessed.…
Shorter LA Times: Hey, at least Biden is no Hillary Clinton
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2020/06/22/shorter-la-times-hey-least-biden-no-hillary-clinton-n344690
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The phrases “doddering Obama administration relic” and “glad-handing phony” are invoked. … The Benghazi debacle didn’t do much for her reputation either.…
Susan Rice: Trump's Senate backers belong in the "trash heap of history"
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2020/06/20/susan-rice-trumps-senate-backers-belong-trash-heap-history-n344596
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Why didn’t he stop Barack Obama from dividing the country along racial lines? … Why didn’t he stop Barack Obama from trashing police across the country? … She was in the middle of each and every debacle that occurred during the Obama administration – besides Benghazi, there was the ill-advised…
Open thread: The VP debate
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With Obama advisors now telling Politico to expect a “very aggressive” debate, I’ll stand by that. … (Besides, it’s the first step in the inevitable “Obama comeback” narrative.) … One obvious X factor: How much time will moderator Martha Raddatz spend on the White House’s Benghazi clusterfark?…
Video: Jon Stewart mocks Big Bird ad, tells Obama to 'let it go'
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Stewart congratulates President “Costanza” on his next-day comeback and declares the most damning part of the ad, “I’m President Obama … My Humps,” Wil.i.am, even comes in for some uncustomary ridicule for his “half-assed remix” of “Sesame Street’s” theme song at an Obama … It’s a hallmark of the Obama campaign to fan any flimsy story line or one-off gaffe to distract from the economy or the debt or Benghazi…
Stephanie Cutter: Benghazi is only an issue because of Romney and Ryan; Update: NYT more or less agrees
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you to watch her blithely assure CNN at the beginning that “the administration has been open and honest since day one about the Benghazi … Ace thinks this is a consummate Kinsleyan gaffe, revealing the Obama campaign’s survival instinct at its most rat-like in the aftermath … of Benghazi.…
Benghazi: Obama lied, media shied away
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/10/11/benghazi-obama-lied-media-shied-away-n202055
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Yesterday’s hearings on the Benghazi terrorist attack that left four Americans dead, including our Ambassador, provided a rather enlightening … jaw-dropping highlights, including the State Department assertion post-attack that we “had the correct number of [security] assets in Benghazi … In my column for The Fiscal Times today, I argue that whether or not the response to the security situation in Benghazi before and…
DWS to Piers Morgan: How dare you call our entirely discredited cover story on Benghazi false, or something
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Pretend that the topic isn’t the terrorist attack on Benghazi in 2012, but the WMD case in Iraq in 2003-4. … This time, the White House pushed the false narrative out for more than a week after the attack, despite the fact that the Obama administration … un-American” is that a few seconds before that clip starts, DWS was calling Republicans un-American for asking tough questions about the Benghazi…
American embassy security leader assassinated in Yemen
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On the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington DC, our consulate in Benghazi was sacked, and four Americans murdered … The Obama administration considered that just a coincidence in its public statements on the attack for several days, insisting that … Later, we discovered that there was no protest at the time, and the Obama administration had designated this a terrorist attack within…
Video: Mother of State Dep't worker killed in Benghazi begs White House to stop stonewalling her
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You’ve watched a lot of clips about Benghazi today but none of them bring home the anguish of Stevens and his team finding themselves … Her exasperation at the administration is gut-wrenching, all the more so because she met personally with Obama, Hillary, Panetta and…
Exciting new Obama talking point: There's only one candidate in this race who'll fight for Big Bird and Elmo
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until November 6…
The “kill Big Bird” line is standard Obama fare. … So it’s not new that Obama is being unserious. He’s been running a Big Bird campaign all along. … In Noah Rothman’s phrase, they’ve stopped filling in the blanks for Obama — for the moment.…
Tapper to WH on Benghazi: So, wouldn't it be President Obama who shot first and aimed later?
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If you’ll recall, in the immediate wake of the breaking news of the riots in Cairo and Benghazi in September, the biggest question … , but rather, Did Mitt Romney get ahead of himself by issuing a statement that criticized the Obama administration’s handling of the … there wasn’t even a protest outside the Benghazi post, didn’t President Obama shoot first and aim later?…
Romney won't tell story of meeting former SEAL killed in Benghazi after SEAL's mom objects Update: Widow of another SEAL says Romney mention 'greatest honor'
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Doherty was killed in the attacks on the Benghazi consulate in Libya last month. … It’s wrong to use these brave young men, who wanted freedom for all, to degrade Obama,” said Barbara Doherty, the mother of the slain … Apparently they have made it to Tripoli but haven’t been allowed to enter Benghazi.…
Obama rep: All of these Republicans politicizing the Benghazi attack are just so outrageous
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Prior to today’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the security failures in Benghazi, Obama campaign traveling … And let’s not pretend nobody in the Obama administration got political with this by trying to portray a dishonest narrative downplaying … Sure, everybody wants to get to the bottom of this — but the Obama administration also has a very vested interest in misdirecting voters…
VP debate: An epic non-event?
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Nor do the next two debates look promising for Obama. … The final debate will focus on foreign policy, which has become a trap for Obama…
Even if Obama does well in these debates, though … Obama and groom Julius Genachowski, whom Obama would later tap to head the Federal Communications Commission, were Harvard Law School…
WaPo wonders: Say, where's Hillary these days?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/10/10/wapo-wonders-say-wheres-hillary-these-days-n202019
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, the State Department actually conducted the dog-and-pony show on behalf of the White House after the terrorist attack on our Benghazi … administration’s narrative collapse on Benghazi. … That buck either stops with Hillary or with Barack Obama himself.…