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Intercepts showed AQ terrorists celebrating success hours after Benghazi attack
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Yesterday, Fox News reported that the Obama administration designated the sacking of the American consulate in Benghazi as an act … intercepted a number of communications within the local branch of al-Qaeda congratulating each other for the successful mission in Benghazi … :
In the hours following the 9/11 anniversary attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, U.S. intelligence agencies monitored…
Bipartisan: Senate Foreign Relations Committee wants answers on Libya attack from State Department
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Quote: “Every step of the way, the information that we have provided to you and the general public about the attack in Benghazi has … , Libya, today, Obama administration officials told ABC News they were concerned after the White House began pushing the line that … film in Benghazi occurred outside the U.S. diplomatic post.…
The War on Bacon
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Today, school lunch revolt, revelations about Benghazi, a movie you should see this weekend, and Caleb Bonham takes his camera out … again among the Obama-adoring crowds to get some answers, and Obama asks us for a “new economic patriotism.”…
McCain: "It was obvious ... this was a planned attack"
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After scoffing at the initial Obama administration’s story that the sacking of the Benghazi consulate came from a spontaneous demonstration … the subject after McCain directs his scorn towards O’Donnell:
Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., has been highly critical of the Obama…
Breaking: Fox News confirms Obama admin designated Benghazi sacking a terror attack within first 24 hours
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Ambassador Chris Stevens, confirming from their own sources that the US knew within the first twenty-four hours that the sacking of the Benghazi … Two senior U.S. officials said the Obama administration internally labeled the attack terrorism from the first day in order to unlock … Eli Lake let loose a bombshell yesterday: “Within 24 hours of the 9-11 anniversary attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi…
Hillary Clinton: You know, AQ might have had something to do with that consulate sacking after all
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Another day, another step in the Obama administration’s narrative collapse. … The Wall Street Journal rips the Obama administration for its lax approach to security in Benghazi, which has long been an area where … Neither the consulate in Benghazi nor the embassy in Tripoli were guarded by U.S.…
Wrap up: The second debate; Update: Obama wins CBS insta-poll narrowly, but Romney wins big on economy; Update: Actually, Romney had a point, says Crowley
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Romney seemed unprepared for the pushback from Obama and his pal Candy on what he said about “acts of terror” in the Rose Garden on … CharlieKayeCBS: In the @CBSNews Instant Poll, 65% say Romney won on the issue of the economy. 34% say Obama won on the economy … Update: I didn’t see it, but the word on Twitter is that Frank Luntz’s focus group tonight on Fox was simply brutal to Obama.…
Open thread: The second debate
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Benghazi is one obvious line of attack. … Another, I hope, is Mitt trying to pin Obama down on what exactly he intends to do with a second term. … Obama, who’s been banking on a vanishing “likeability gap” with Romney to put him over the top, really can’t.…
Obama spokesman: Of course he's ultimately responsible for security in Benghazi
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Expect Romney to tell Obama to man up and come clean about what he knew; expect Obama to hem and haw and then perform some “buck stops … Two clips for you, the first of Psaki and Shep and the second, via RCP, of Obama ducking a question about whether Hillary’s to blame … for Benghazi.…
Rice: My talking points were "purely a function of what was provided to us" by intelligence
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State Hillary Clinton took (pretty much symbolic, showy) responsibility for the security failings during the terrorist attack in Benghazi … criticizing a few individuals’ impetus for posting a mean video (“the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam,” Obama … Somebody still has a lot of explaining to do; we’ll see if we can glean anything from Romney’s plans to ask Obama to “man up” on the…
Hillary in 2008: "That buck stopped in the Oval Office"
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The same woman who just took responsibility for this administration’s failures in Benghazi, as it turns out. … Bottom or Langley:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took “responsibility” for the lack of security at U.S. consulate in Benghazi … But in 2008, then Senator Clinton criticized then Senator Obama during the Democratic primary seizing on comments Obama had made about…
Hillary: I take responsibility for Benghazi
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Clinton insisted President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are not involved in security decisions, Clinton said. … Here’s the real question: Did Obama put Hillary up to this or did she do it on her own initiative to put O on the spot? … Expect Romney to hammer that point, especially given how much he enjoys playing the Clintons off of Obama.…
NYT: Most weapons shipments to Syrian rebels are flowing to jihadists, not secularists
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But Obama rejected suggestions by several senators that he lead an intervention. … Fixed on his campaign slogan that “the tide of war is receding” in the Middle East, Obama claims that intervention would only make … make that point often and loudly at the foreign policy debate next week, if only in the course of his criticism of security in Benghazi…
Giuliani: The WH is trying to "run out the clock" on Benghazi investigation
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Soledad O’Brien tries to challenge him on his uncomortable-for-the-Obama-administration version of events and indict his use of “coverup … ” as too harsh a term, but he’s just not having it:
The coverup of Benghazi is startling. … I mean, the reality is, he said, ‘ … As Giuliani points out, the reality of what happened in Benghazi is just the tiniest bit inconvenient for Team Obama’s “I have killed…
Lindsey Graham: Obama administration misleading, covering up on Benghazi attack
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Graham told Schieffer that the Obama administration was deliberately deceptive, and that the incident shows the incompetence of the … Graham gets in a shot at Obama himself, noting that the President made an appearance on the David Letterman Show two days after Rice … Meanwhile, The Hill publishes a timeline of the events leading up to the Benghazi attack which puts the YouTube video in its proper…
Video: Axelrod won't specify if Obama held national-security meeting after Benghazi attack
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own QOTD, Fox News’ Chris Wallace asks the question everyone except the media has been asking since the terrorist attack on our Benghazi … Wallace doesn’t get to ask Barack Obama whether or not he bothered to hold a national-security meeting in the aftermath of the attack … The question wasn’t whether Obama gave an order; it’s whether he bothered to make time to find out what happened. …
Obamateurism of the Day
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Where was President Obama? … Obama appeared on the Miami radio station Y100 Friday, where he weighed in on the Mariah Carey v. … In this case, Obama picked the right man for the interview. …
Quotes of the day
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presidential nominee Mitt Romney this morning on “This Week” for his use of the deadly incident in Libya to criticize President Obama … When did the president learn there was no mob in Benghazi protesting the film?
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There was no “intelligence” suggesting a movie protest in Benghazi.…
Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?
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Goes to Las Vegas fundraiser after attack on Benghazi consulate
No time to meet with Netanyahu, makes time for the Pimp with a Limp … 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.…
Open thread: Sunday morning talking heads
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Axelrod/Gibbs/Gillespie battle o’ the talking points, alas, but Darrell Issa’s preview on “Meet the Press” of the next round of Benghazi … Norton Smith, presidential historian; George Will, ABC; Donna Brazile, Democratic strategist
Fox News Sunday: David Axelrod, Obama … Washington Post; Laura Ingraham, radio show host; Jeff Zeleny, New York Times
CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Senior Obama…
Quotes of the day
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The Obama campaign keeps complaining about how Romney-Ryan have politicized this issue, but in fact the Obama campaign has played this … So media outlets fret that Benghazi could be “bad” for Obama — by which they mean he might be hitting the six-figure lecture circuit … The Obama lies about Benghazi and Biden's deliberate lies Thursday night should be a bigger scandal than Nixon
— Newt Gingrich (@…
New Obama ad: Few presidents have faced so many challenges
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The Obama campaign released a new ad this morning in which we’re treated to an epical presentation of President Obama’s hard-fought … Sure, I’ll grant that President Obama “inherited” a financial crisis, an economic recession, and the War on Terror — but our economy … has seen little-to-nothing more than stagnation for almost four years now, and as evidenced by the recent attacks in Benghazi, we…
Romney lands the coveted Lindsay Lohan endorsement
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be all the Lindsays of the world are watching, if they’re watching that much, and between the economic news and the news from Benghazi … We’re now eight days out from Denver and Gallup’s tracker stands at Romney 49, Obama 47, a point higher for Romney than yesterday and…
Is the White House throwing Hillary under the bus on the Benghazi attack?
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It’s State that’s responsible for protecting U.S. diplomats in the field, which means if the buck doesn’t stop with Obama here, then … The committee will also examine the apparent Obama administration cover-up that followed the Benghazi attack. … Her husband, who’s out on the trail for Obama as I write this, may be even more popular than she is.…
Columbus Dispatch editorial rips Obama administration "incompetence or dishonesty" on Benghazi
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White House’s “incompetence or dishonesty” in their handling of security in Libya and the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the Benghazi … deaths of four Americans in the attack a “preventable tragedy” — in fact, that’s the title of the editorial — the editors blast Obama … on Benghazi, and its lack of attention to security in one of the most dangerous corners of the world. …