“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…
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.…
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…
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…
(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…
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?…
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.”…
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.…
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. …
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…
“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 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?…
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.…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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.”…
“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.…
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.)…
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?…
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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.…
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.…
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.…
