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Intel sources: Video from Benghazi attack debunks administration claim about protests
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I can heartily recommend everything Eli Lake of Newsweek has written on the Benghazi attack. … Today, he reports that the FBI and administration are examining closed-circuit video from the Benghazi compound at the time of the … There was no protest at the Benghazi consulate that day:
Video footage from the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya, taken…
Gingrich: Biden's Benghazi response will "haunt" Obama
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However, he tells CBS that Biden’s deception on Benghazi will “haunt” Barack Obama in the final three weeks:
Gingrich, who appeared … on “CBS This Morning” alongside Democratic former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, accused the Obama administration of knowingly … “Biden on Benghazi was so wrong last night it will haunt them,” Gingrich told CTM hosts Norah O’Donnell and Charlie Rose.…
Video: Biden lied about voting against wars
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Considering the Obama administration’s constant prevarications on the Benghazi terror attack, though, this kind of lie might stick…
Biden: Hey, none of us knew that the Benghazi consulate wanted more security! Update: CBS News: Biden's got some clean-up to do on Libya; Update: White House: No, really, we had no idea
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When Martha Raddatz opened the event by talking about Libya, Paul Ryan hammered the Obama administration for not heeding the calls … The Obama administration has been under fire for initially linking the attack on the U.S. … So … it’s official that no one at the White House had a clue what was happening in a mess Obama helped create in eastern Libya?…
Open thread: The VP debate
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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'
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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?…
Romney won't tell story of meeting former SEAL killed in Benghazi after SEAL's mom objects Update: Widow of another SEAL says Romney mention 'greatest honor'
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Doherty was killed in the attacks on the Benghazi consulate in Libya last month. … It’s wrong to use these brave young men, who wanted freedom for all, to degrade Obama,” said Barbara Doherty, the mother of the slain … Apparently they have made it to Tripoli but haven’t been allowed to enter Benghazi.…
Obama rep: All of these Republicans politicizing the Benghazi attack are just so outrageous
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Prior to today’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the security failures in Benghazi, Obama campaign traveling … And let’s not pretend nobody in the Obama administration got political with this by trying to portray a dishonest narrative downplaying … Sure, everybody wants to get to the bottom of this — but the Obama administration also has a very vested interest in misdirecting voters…
VP debate: An epic non-event?
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Nor do the next two debates look promising for Obama. … The final debate will focus on foreign policy, which has become a trap for Obama…
Even if Obama does well in these debates, though … Obama and groom Julius Genachowski, whom Obama would later tap to head the Federal Communications Commission, were Harvard Law School…
WaPo wonders: Say, where's Hillary these days?
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, the State Department actually conducted the dog-and-pony show on behalf of the White House after the terrorist attack on our Benghazi … administration’s narrative collapse on Benghazi. … That buck either stops with Hillary or with Barack Obama himself.…
On eve of House hearings, State Department finally admits: No, there was never any protest outside the Benghazi consulate before the attack
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If you’ve been following the news about Benghazi, you’ll have two questions after watching this clip. … consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam, raising further questions about why the Obama…
CBS reporter blasts Obama claim that AQ "on its heels"
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presidential debate last Wednesday, but we’ve heard nothing about Benghazi or Libya. … I said I’d end the war in Afghanistan, and we are,” said Obama. … Clearly, AQ isnot “on its heels,” as Obama claims. …
Former U.S. security team leader in Libya: We told State we needed more security there, not less
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State Department officials have told CBS News that Wood was not part of the security assessment in Benghazi and that his assignment … personnel from the State Department’s elite security detail – the two teams which left Libya in August – would have traveled to Benghazi … Obama has one chance left to get something right.…
Can Romney sustain the post-debate "bounce?"
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With Romney clearly and decisively out-debating Obama, it has elevated him perhaps past Obama in stature, a very bad outcome for an … As I recall, Obama vowed to cut the deficit in half. … Combine this with the month-long-and-still-continuing debacle of the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi terror attack,…
Romney goes on offense on foreign policy; Update: Live video embed added
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against Barack Obama on what Democrats had bragged about being the incumbent’s strong suit — foreign policy. … And the fault lines of this struggle can be seen clearly in Benghazi itself.” … With the Obama administration still fumbling on Benghazi and new revelations surfacing daily, Romney can win simply by projecting an…
Murdered ambassador sent cable warning of threats on day of Benghazi attack
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A number of media sources have fresh looks at the Obama administration’s handling of security in the weeks before the terrorist attack … on our consulate in Benghazi drove us out of eastern Libya and killed four Americans, including US Ambassador J. … State Department decided to stick to its schedule of rotating out a 16-man Special Ops team assigned to diplomatic security 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.…
Quotes of the day
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asked not to be named said they expected more attacks from Obama. … “It is not that Obama likes to be a hatchet man. … The reason is that, as the Obama coalition diminished, Obama no longer disguised the prejudices, inflections, outlook, and approach…