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Whistleblowers say State cut security in Libya over last six months
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/10/04/whistleblowers-say-state-cut-security-in-libya-over-last-six-months-n201869
– Plenty of people wonder why the Obama administration didn’t do more to secure our consulate in Benghazi — but did they do less?  … Did the State Department reduce security in Benghazi and Libya over the last six months? … Jason Chaffetz, the Utah Republican leading a House investigation on the Benghazi attacks, regarding alleged security defects in Benghazi
Cheney: Looks like Obama tried to cover up the terror attack on Benghazi consulate
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/10/03/cheney-looks-like…to-cover-up-the-terror-attack-on-benghazi-consulate-n201851
– feature=player_embedded&v=yxbsqZ9i2TM ORMER VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY: I think the danger from [the Obama Administration’s] standpoint … is that this whole episode of Benghazi demonstrates that they don’t have a handle on foreign policy and national security matters. … But the real smoking gun is whether the Obama administration was warned in advance that al-Qaeda was planning an attack.…
Sessions: DHS hiding immigration-enforcement data; Update: Comments open
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/10/03/sessions-dhs-hiding-immigration-enforcement-data-n201841
– With the Obama White House deep in cover-up mode on the terrorist attack on our consulate in Benghazi, it’s easy to forget that they … This fight began over the summer, when Barack Obama unilaterally decided to stop enforcing immigration law in certain cases that matched…
Debate preview: How Romney can win
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/10/03/debate-preview-how-romney-can-win-n201846
Obama than Romney. … Will Barack Obama be prepared for that?  … In contrast, Obama has not debated in four years.…
Video: Stewart rips Obama admin "duck and cover up" on Benghazi
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/10/03/video-stewart-rips-obama-admin-duck-and-cover-up-on-benghazi-n201844
– Via Breitbart, this could be a potentially important moment in the Benghazi cover-up collapse for the Obama administration.  … Most of the time, Stewart works a little pox-upon-all-houses criticism when he goes after Barack Obama and his administration.  … The consulate in Benghazi was a terrorist attack that was “planned and coordinated.  Our response?  Ehhhh — not so much.”…
US planning to attack terror networks in Benghazi?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/10/03/us-planning-to-attack-terror-networks-in-benghazi-n201840
– Now that the Obama administration has belatedly admitted that the sacking of our consulate in Benghazi was a terrorist attack — and … Pentagon and the C.I.A., the command is preparing the dossiers as the first step in anticipation of possible orders from President Obama … to take action against those determined to have played a role in the attack on a diplomatic mission in the eastern city of Benghazi
Open thread: Hannity and the Daily Caller on the Obama tape
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/10/02/open-thread-hannity-and-the-daily-caller-on-the-obama-tape-n201837
– @DrewMTips the #drudgetape was actually leaked by Obama to get @ac360 from asking Libya questions — Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) … And thanks to Democratic wagon-circling, he doesn’t seem to have paid a serious political price for the Benghazi debacle — yet. … If it’s an Obama scandal you want, you got it.…
WSJ/NBC poll: Yep, this race is statistically tied; Update: Tied at 47 in new National Journal poll too
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/10/02/wsjnbc-poll-yep-this-race-is-statistically-tied-n201830
– More from NBC: Obama edges Romney by three points among likely voters, 49 percent to 46 percent, which is within the survey’s margin … Romney are nearly tied on which candidate would better handle the economy, with 45 percent picking Romney and 42 percent choosing Obama … The survey had Obama winning 81 percent of the nonwhite vote and Romney carrying 55 percent of white voters.…
Pelosi: The audacity of these GOPers, asking for a State Dept probe
https://hotair.com/erika-johnsen/2012/10/02/pelosi-the-audacity-of-these-gopers-asking-for-a-state-dept-probe-n201829
– In the fallout from the 9/11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, the White House has had more than a little difficulty getting … security situation in Libya in the lead-up to the Sept. 11 attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, the Obama
Issa to Hillary: Why did State refuse requests to bolster Benghazi security?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/10/02/issa-to-hillary-w…d-state-refuse-requests-to-bolster-benghazi-security-n201818
– Despite the CNN discovery of the late Ambassador Chris Stevens’ journal in which Stevens outlined his fears of terrorist attacks, the Obama … The Libyan security guards in the Benghazi consulate had been receiving warnings for weeks before the attack to quit, as an attack … scene”: The Obama administration has withdrawn all official government personnel from Benghazi, the Libyan city where the country…
WaPo: Obama admin considered attacking AQ in north Africa before Benghazi attack
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/10/02/wapo-obama-admin…attacking-aq-in-north-africa-before-benghazi-attack-n201815
– The story itself — that the Obama administration considered launching attacks against al-Qaeda in north Africa — may be intended to … If that was the case, then how could the Benghazi consulate have been left so unsecured?  … in the wake of the Benghazi terrorist attack. …
USA Today editorial: This Libya mess sure does look like incompetence
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/10/02/usa-today-editorial-this-libya-mess-sure-does-look-like-incompetence-n201811
– of a US Ambassador and the sacking of a consulate in Benghazi?  … In June, an improvised explosive device damaged a perimeter wall at the Benghazi compound. … Until the Benghazi attack, Obama was considered to have greatly improved Democrats‘ standing with the public on issues of national…
Pat Caddell: Let's face it, media bias has reached a new level of corruption
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/10/01/pat-caddell-lets-f…it-media-bias-has-reached-a-new-level-of-corruption-n201805
– harsh to Romney, by far the more damaging bias, I think, is when the coverage is unduly disinterested in serious errors made by Obama … Same goes for Caddell’s point in the clip about Obama merrily jetting off to Vegas for a fundraiser the day after Chris Stevens was … murdered in Benghazi.…
McCain: The White House spin on the Benghazi attack had "political overtones"
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/10/01/mccain-the-white…spin-on-the-benghazi-attack-had-political-overtones-n201782
– Senator John McCain had already begun accusing the Obama administration of attempting to protect Barack Obama’s re-election chances … by attempting to build a false narrative on the sacking of our Benghazi consulate on the anniversary of 9/11 during the week, with … Five days later, Susan Rice and the Obama administration kept insisting that this was a demonstration that “spun out of control.” …
Christie responds to Obama whopper: 'Stop lying, Mr. President.'
https://hotair.com/marykatharine/2012/10/01/christie-responds-to-obama-whopper-stop-lying-mr-president-n201781
– declaration on “trickle-down policies that led to the crisis in the first place,” Three Pinnocchios, concluding “[i]t’s time for Obama … Stephanopoulos may be squeamish about using the word “lying”— would he use it for the administration’s last two weeks’ response on Benghazi
Axelrod: We don't need a President who shoots first and asks questions later ...
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/10/01/axelrod-we-dont-n…president-who-shoots-first-and-asks-questions-later-n201784
– On one hand, you have to admire the chutzpah it takes to say this to Candy Crowley’s face when she accuses Barack Obama of doing what … Axelrod tried rewriting history in another part of the same interview: White House officials are now insisting that President Barack Obama … has always treated the Sept. 11 strike in Benghazi, Libya as a terrorist attack by jihadis.…
Quotes of the day
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/09/30/quotes-of-the-day-1161-n201777
– Mitt Romney is about as close to defeating President Barack Obama as any Republican could have hoped to be. … It was President Romney, not Obama, who set aside time to visit victims of Hurricane Isaac. … It was President Romney, not Obama, who laid out a practical plan for the housing crisis.…
Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/30/poll-what-was-the-obamateurism-of-the-week-160-n201767
– Previous weekly “winners” in 2012: Goes to Las Vegas fundraiser after attack on Benghazi consulate No time to meet with Netanyahu … If you see a foul-up by Barack Obama, e-mail it to me at [email protected] with the quote and the link to the Obamateurism. … And unlike Slate, I promise to end the feature when Barack Obama leaves office.…
Quotes of the day
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/09/29/quotes-of-the-day-1160-n201772
– The Obama administration’s shifting accounts of the fatal attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, have left … President Obama suddenly exposed on national security and foreign policy, a field where he had enjoyed a seemingly unassailable advantage … over Mitt Romney in the presidential race… The Benghazi attack calls into question the accuracy of intelligence-gathering and whether…
¡NARN, La edición de Rápido y Furioso!
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/29/narn-la-edicion-de-rapido-y-furioso-n201766
– Today, Mitch and I will discuss all of the news from the campaign trail, the continuing collapse of the Obama White House’s narrative … on the Benghazi terrorist attack, and the upcoming exposé from Univision on Operation Fast and Furious.  … Will Romney be prepared to beat Obama in this week’s debate? Join us and find out!…
Quotes of the day
https://hotair.com/erika-johnsen/2012/09/28/quotes-of-the-day-1159-n201759
– Extremists from groups linked to al Qaida struck the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in a “deliberate and organized terrorist attack … ,” the top U.S. intelligence agency said Friday, as it took responsibility for the Obama administration’s initial claims that the deadly … publicly.” *** On Sept. 12, the day after the attack, White House press secretary Jay Carney was asked whether “the attack in Benghazi
Bloomberg poll: Obama losing support on national security
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/28/bloomberg-poll-obama-losing-support-on-national-security-n201748
– This appears to be the first national poll taken after the White House’s Benghazi narrative began to collapse.  … Obama has a six-point lead in this poll among likely voters, 49/43, but there are other danger signs.  … So how did Obama end up with a six-point lead? …
FBI probe in Benghazi as close as 400 miles away
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/28/fbi-probe-in-benghazi-as-close-as-400-miles-away-n201746
– How is that FBI probe in Benghazi going?  It’s not, according to the New York Times, going at all.  … Due to concerns over security in eastern Libya, the FBI can’t get to Benghazi — so they’re investigating the terrorist attack, er,  … Seventeen days ago, the Obama administration was so concerned with security in Benghazi that they didn’t lift a finger to bolster protection…
Yahoo News: White House treated Benghazi as a terrorist attack on "Day One"
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/28/yahoo-news-white…se-treated-benghazi-as-a-terrorist-attack-on-day-one-n201745
– Eli Lake has owned the reporting on what the White House knew and when it knew it on the Benghazi attack, but he’s not the only reporter … Olivier Knox at Yahoo News confirms Lake’s reporting with his own story from last night showing that the Obama administration believed … Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 of this year, the response from American officials was almost simultaneous: They immediately…
Time: WH sticking to "spontaneous" attack story, kind of
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/09/28/time-wh-sticking-to-spontaneous-attack-story-kind-of-n201743
– “Did Obama Spin the Benghazi Attack?” … attack was terrorist-related, when four days earlier the Obama administration designated it as such.  … They have not traveled to Benghazi. They have not examined the scene. They have not collected evidence.…
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