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Quotes of the day
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2014/11/23/quotes-of-the-day-1920-n194414
– during the period surrounding the Benghazi attack. … “The Select Committee on Benghazi received the Intelligence committee’s report on the Benghazi terrorist attack, and has reviewed it … Obama administration.…
WaPo’s Dan Balz's message to Hillary: Being the first woman president is not a message
https://hotair.com/noah-rothman/2014/11/23/wapos-dan-balz-me…ary-being-the-first-woman-president-is-not-a-message-n194413
– House Intelligence Committee’s report which largely exonerates the conduct of Barack Obama’s administration’s handling of the Benghazi … The report found that State failed to provide its personnel in Benghazi with adequate security, in spite of numerous warnings in writing … step for her is to know exactly why she wants to run for president again and how she is alike and different from her husband and Obama
And another thing about that Benghazi report...
https://hotair.com/noah-rothman/2014/11/23/and-another-thing-about-that-benghazi-report-n194408
– The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s final report on the 2012 Benghazi attack has restored the left’s swagger. … will insist is now well behind us (despite the fact that the House Select Committee on Benghazi led by Rep. … Despite repeated warnings about the deteriorating security situation in Benghazi from Amb.…
NYT: Despite our assurances, it turns out Benghazi was an al-Qaeda-linked attack
https://hotair.com/noah-rothman/2014/11/21/nyt-despite-our-a…it-turns-out-benghazi-was-an-al-qaeda-linked-attack-n194383
– Schiff who has defended the Obama administration on Benghazi and praised the Times piece as adding “valuable insights,” nonetheless … Later, in the year after the Benghazi attack, Ansar al-Shariah of Benghazi “also provided training and logistical support” to Al Qaeda … American diplomatic mission in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, killing Ambassador J.…
E-mails show White House tried to muzzle Sharyl Attkisson
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2014/11/21/e-mails-show-white-house-tried-to-muzzle-sharyl-attkisson-n194379
– 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 ...
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2014/12/05/about-that-house-intelligence-committee-report-on-benghazi-part-iii-n194679
– 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
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2014/12/04/the-curiously-unending-case-of-david-petraeus-n194653
– 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
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2014/12/08/compton-obama-goe…anity-laced-tirades-against-the-media-that-loves-him-n194746
– 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
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2014/12/31/hot-airs-top-50-posts-in-2014-the-top-ten-n195168
– . #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
– 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
– 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
– 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
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2021/09/23/biden-inc-contd-h…own-libya-for-2m-while-joe-was-vp-to-unfreeze-assets-n417828
– 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
– 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
– 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
– 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
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/10/11/open-thread-the-vp-debate-n202064
– 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'
https://hotair.com/marykatharine/2012/10/11/video-jon-stewart-mocks-big-bird-ad-tells-obama-to-let-it-go-n202061
– 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
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/10/11/stephanie-cutter-benghazi-is-only-an-issue-because-of-romney-and-ryan-n202065
– 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
– 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
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/10/11/dws-to-piers-morg…scredited-cover-story-on-benghazi-false-or-something-n202048
– 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
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/10/11/american-embassy-security-leader-assassinated-in-yemen-n202046
– 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
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/10/10/video-mother-of-st…n-benghazi-begs-white-house-to-stop-stonewalling-her-n202043
– 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
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/10/10/exciting-new-obama…idate-in-this-race-wholl-fight-for-big-bird-and-elmo-n202042
– 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?
https://hotair.com/erika-johnsen/2012/10/10/tapper-to-wh-on…it-be-president-obama-who-shot-first-and-aimed-later-n202036
– 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?…
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