Results for: obama benghazi

Leno: Hey, Obama might be in trouble if journalists start asking questions
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/11/30/leno-hey-obama-mi…be-in-trouble-if-journalists-start-asking-questions-n203148
– Fox to wonder who changed the administration’s initial talking points for Susan Rice to avoid admitting that the attack on our Benghazi … point where hardly anyone got the joke: “This week, CBS News became the first news organization besides Fox to ask President Obama … ‘Who changed the Benghazi talking points?’”…
New Rice controversy: business ties to Iran?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/11/30/new-rice-controversy-business-ties-to-iran-n203149
– First, her bosses send her out to sell what turned out to be a false narrative about the Benghazi attack on five news shows, despite … the fact that — as Barack Obama himself said — Rice had nothing to do with what happened in Benghazi.  … — and perhaps Obama should rethink his plans to replace Hillary Clinton instead.…
Rubio: We still need answers on Benghazi
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/11/29/rubio-we-still-need-answers-on-benghazi-n203125
– s political future have been the real failures of the State Department and the White House to properly secure our consulate in Benghazi … Well before the Benghazi attack, our intelligence agencies, Department of Defense and State Department cables from the U.S. … real issues are why the Obama administration didn’t recognize the danger and respond to it properly.…
Conflict-of-interest issue for Rice on Keystone XL project?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/11/29/conflict-of-interest-for-rice-on-keystone-xl-project-n203123
– nomination, nor to those who oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, two very different constituencies that might have a common cause if Obama … White House official and Democratic aides said they think that Rice could win Senate confirmation for the top diplomatic job if Obama … The NRDC is opposed to the construction of the $7 billion pipeline. … At a time when Obama is fighting Republicans opposed to Rice…
Quotes of the day
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/11/28/quotes-of-the-day-1213-n203116
– wealthy began to show cracks on Wednesday after a conservative congressman said he would back an agreement with President Barack Obama … Which is to say that Obama didn’t have a very good answer, because this time isn’t all that different. … While a recession would be terrible for the country, it may not be terrible for the Obama presidency.…
Scarborough: If the GOP wants to go after Susan Rice, why not go after her over her temperament?
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/11/28/scarborough-if-the…susan-rice-why-not-go-after-her-over-her-temperament-n203114
– Barack Obama, D-Illinois. … Hoping to bridge that chasm, the Obama campaign and Democrats harped on comments McCain made on the Today show this morning, repeatedly … So evergreen is the “temperament” attack that Obama threw it at Romney after his initial statement on the Benghazi attacks, even though…
WH: Obama's "not particularly concerned" about whether Rice misled the public
https://hotair.com/erika-johnsen/2012/11/28/wh-obamas-not-pa…arly-concerned-about-whether-rice-mislead-the-public-n203111
– In response to a question from Major Garrett on whether or not the Obama administration’s decidedly botched handling of the 9/11/12 … What the president is worried about, Major, is what happened and why in Benghazi. … administration for the Benghazi attack?…
Video: Ayotte pledges a hold on a Rice nomination
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/11/28/video-ayotte-pledges-a-hold-on-a-rice-nomination-n203099
– Senator Kelly Ayotte appears to have taken the lead on Republican efforts to stop President Obama from nominating Susan Rice to replace … have been answered: The accusation of being misleading isn’t limited to Benghazi, either. … That assumes that Obama still intends to nominate Rice for anything at all. …
Susan Rice to meet with GOP critics on Capitol Hill tomorrow
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/11/26/susan-rice-to-meet-with-gop-critics-on-capitol-hill-tomorrow-n203073
– On those shows, Rice said U.S. intelligence believed the Benghazi attack was not a planned act of terror, but instead a demonstration … If McCain really did mean to block her nomination as Secretary of State rather than simply to hassle Obama, he sure picked a goofy … Exit quotation from Eli Lake’s piece linked above: McCain isn’t the only Republican pursuing the Benghazi line.…
Will Hillary Clinton testify to House, Senate committees on Benghazi?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/12/14/will-hillary-clinton-testify-to-house-senate-committees-on-benghazi-n203408
– Almost three months have passed since terrorists sacked the oddly-undefended American consulate in Benghazi, and the head of the State … The House and Senate foreign relations committees have already announced that Secretary of StateHillary Clinton will testify on Benghazi … In other words, the internal investigation that the Obama administration has used to keep Hillary and other State personnel at arms…
Quotes of the day
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/12/13/quotes-of-the-day-1228-n203406
– On Thursday I asked that President Obama no longer consider me for the job of secretary of state. … President Obama didn’t want to be seen as backing down. … critics and distract from a pending report on what happened in Benghazi.…
Breaking: Susan Rice withdraws from consideration as Secretary of State
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/12/13/breaking-susan-rice-withdraws-from-consideration-as-secretary-of-state-n203399
– If her confirmation had been a pure referendum on Benghazi, Senate Democrats probably would have gone to bat for her. … Per James Antle, Obama might like that just fine. … Update: BuzzFeed accuses Obama of “weakness”: “Susan Rice is essentially a repeat of Gitmo in 2009,” a former Obama Administration…
Obama: America now recognizes Syria's opposition as the legitimate representative of the Syria people
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2012/12/11/obama-america-now…as-the-legitimate-representative-of-the-syria-people-n203349
– the Syrian population that we consider them the legitimate representative of the Syrian people in opposition to the Assad regime,” Obama … said… “Obviously, with that recognition comes responsibilities,” Obama said of the young coalition. … minority rights.”… “Not everybody who’s participating on the ground in fighting Assad are people who we are comfortable with,” Obama
Benghazi security unarmed when attack started?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/12/11/benghazi-security-unarmed-when-attack-started-n203325
– How well prepared was the security team at the Benghazi consulate on the night of September 11th, in an area known to be rife with … August didn’t prompt State to ramp up their own security at all: A source with personal knowledge of the security situation in Benghazi … Riots had erupted at the US Embassy in Cairo, a fact that the Obama administration used to insist that the Benghazi attack was a spontaneous…
NYT: Obama admin approved secret weapons deals that ended up arming Islamists in Libya
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/12/06/nyt-obama-admin-a…eapons-deals-that-ended-up-arming-islamists-in-libya-n203256
– The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials … The US knew that Islamist terrorists operated in eastern Libya for years before Obama came into office.  … If that’s the case, how could they possibly have left the consulate in Benghazi as unprotected as it was?…
Poll: OOTY Prelims, Flight 8
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/12/24/poll-ooty-prelims-flight-8-n203586
– Goes to Las Vegas fundraiser after attack on Benghazi consulate No time to meet with Netanyahu, makes time for the Pimp with a Limp … radio show Previous Obamateurisms of the Year: Giving 2 minutes of “shout-outs” before getting to the Fort Hood shooting (2009) Obama
Clinton's State deputies testify: "We have to do better"
https://hotair.com/erika-johnsen/2012/12/20/clinton-deputy-weve-started-to-fix-security-problems-at-state-n203523
– Board’s report on the “systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies” that led to the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi … that the State Department has “already begun to fix” the security lapses that allowed the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi … Administration on what went so tragically wrong in Benghazi that resulted in the deaths of four patriotic Americans.…
WaPo/ABC poll shows Americans opposed to intervention in Syria, unless ...
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/12/20/wapoabc-poll-shows-americans-opposed-to-intervention-in-syria-unless-n203517
– chemical weapons, as do 63 percent if the Assad regime used these banned weapons against its own people – an action that Barack Obama … Gee, I wonder where (benghazi) Americans might have gotten (Benghazi) the idea that Arab revolutions would make it more difficult to … fight terrorism (BENGHAZI)?…
Three State Dept officials resign in the wake of damning Benghazi report
https://hotair.com/erika-johnsen/2012/12/19/three-state-dept…icials-resign-in-the-wake-of-damning-benghazi-report-n203507
– The Accountability Review Board report on Benghazi now making the rounds did not come up favorably for the State Department — “systemic … Consulate in Benghazi in the run-up to the terror attack that killed four Americans. … This has been a chief Republican talking point against Obama since the Benghazi attacks occurred on Sept. 11.…
Independent report: "systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies" at State led to Benghazi deaths
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/12/19/independent-repor…agement-deficiencies-at-state-led-to-benghazi-deaths-n203495
– Congress now has the Accountability Review Board report on the Benghazi terrorist attack that killed four Americans, including the … to the late Ambassador Chris Stevens — and unequivocally states that there never was a protest in front of the consulate, as the Obama … Hillary Clinton herself said that the buck stopped with her on Benghazi. …
State Dept: Clinton may be up for testifying on Benghazi, in the future
https://hotair.com/erika-johnsen/2012/12/17/state-dept-clint…n-may-be-up-for-testifying-on-benghazi-in-the-future-n203463
– withdrew her name from the running for Hillary Clinton’s successor as secretary of State; but there are still questions about Benghazi … that need answering for which Secretary Clinton and Barack Obama are liable. … AQIM is also at work in Libya, especially around Benghazi.…
Hot Air's Top 40 for 2012: 11-20
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/12/31/hot-airs-top-40-for-2012-11-20-n203668
– #20 – Video: Romney roasts Obama at the Al Smith Dinner – Mitt Romney may have had trouble connecting with voters through most of … the campaign, but this was one of his best moments. #19 – Breitbart tells CPAC: I have videos of Obama in college and they’ll come … In this case, it apparently wasn’t desperation — just childishness. #11 – Obama admin recalibrating Benghazi narrative — again — before…
Obama: Say, there was a little "sloppiness" in State Department security, huh?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/12/31/obama-say-there-w…a-little-sloppiness-in-state-department-security-huh-n203671
– After the attack in Benghazi, is there a need for more accountability so that this doesn’t happen again? … PRESIDENT OBAMA: Two points. … Thank goodness Obama had to face a real journalist when giving that answer. …
Did the Obama admin sit on an FDA report for political reasons?
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2012/12/30/did-the-obama-admin-sit-on-an-fda-report-for-political-reasons-n203664
– plagued with scandals of one sort or another, and you probably won’t be terribly surprised if the same thing comes to pass for Barack ObamaBenghazi? Fast and Furious? Something to do with the UN? … But even more to the point, Obama originally swept into office claiming that the Republicans were the “anti-science party” and he was…
Poll: OOTY Semifinals #2
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2012/12/30/poll-ooty-semifinals-2-n203655
– Goes to Las Vegas fundraiser after attack on Benghazi consulate “If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal.” … Skipped daily security briefing before and after Benghazi attack Previous Obamateurisms of the Year: Giving 2 minutes of “shout-outs … ” before getting to the Fort Hood shooting (2009) Obama leaves Clinton at press conference podium on tax deal to attend Christmas party…
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