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Has anyone been ‘fired’ because of the Benghazi attacks?

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - May. 22 (Fact Check) - “Why does Benghazi go on? No one was ever fired? So, people made tragic errors. No one’s accepting responsibility and no one was fired.” — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), on CNN’s “State of the Union,” May 19, 2013 Read full article ...

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Tell Me How This Ends

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - May. 22 (Opinion) - SANLIURFA, Turkey — I’ve been traveling to Yemen, Syria and Turkey to film a documentary on how environmental stresses contributed to the Arab awakening. As I looked back on the trip, it occurred to me that three of our main characters — the leaders of t

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The real Obama scandal: fighting illegal wars in Libya and Pakistan

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Michael Cohen - May. 16 (Comment) - The AP, IRS and Benghazi controversies are political sideshows. Obama's use of illegal force abroad is true concern Washington DC appears to have reached peak hysteria this week. The confluence of not one, not two, but three potential scandals involving the White House has given practically every Beltway scribe a case of the vapors as they don their Woodward/Bernstein capes and doggedly uncover the truth behind the Obama Administration's lies. What's missing, however, is actual evidence of wrongdoing. The IRS scandal is certainly the most politically toxic, but it remains unclear that anyone from the Obama Administration knew what the IRS was doing or that the agency was even targeting conservative groups for partisan political reasons. The Department of Justice's subpoena of phone records from the Associated Press is far more troubling because it offers a glimpse into the prosecutorial zeal that has defined DoJ's investigation of leaks from within the Obama Administration. Finally, there ...

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Benghazi Attack, Revisited

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Eugene Kiely - May. 15 (Fact Check) - President Obama says the May 8 House hearing on Benghazi and subsequent reporting about it produced no new information. That’s largely the case, but the president misrepresented some facts at his May 13 press conference in dismissing the House investigation as a “political circus."

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Dick Cheney, Benghazi, and White House Lies

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By David Corn - May. 15 (Opinion) - Dick Cheney has never been short on chutzpah. Jumping aboard the GOP scandal-mongering machine, the former vice president appeared on Fox News (where else?) and declared to Sean Hannity (who else?) that President Barack Obama and his aides "lied" about the attack in Benghazi last September that left four Americans dead. "I think it's one of the worst incidents frankly that I can recall in my career," Cheney huffed—as if 9/11 had never happened. The former veep went the full Monty and echoed (discredited) right-wing charges that the Obama administration refused to deploy military forces to help Ambassador Chris Stevens and other Americans when they were assaulted in Benghazi.

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Has Benghazi become the Obama administration’s Watergate?

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - May. 12 (News Analysis) - New reports show that the State Department 'extensively edited' talking points about the terrorist attack on the US diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya. Most Americans disapprove of the way President Obama has handled it, presenting the administration with a major political problem. ...

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The Benghazi hearings: what’s new and what’s not

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - May. 09 (Fact Check) - “I was stunned. My jaw dropped. And I was embarrassed” — Gregory Hicks, former U.S. deputy chief of mission to Libya, testifying on his reaction to U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice’s remarks on the terror attack in Benghazi, May 8, 2013 Read full article ...

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New Benghazi testimony in Congress sharply critical of Obama administration

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - May. 09 (News Report) - Three State Department officials, referred to as 'whistleblowers' by some on the House panel, testified on the Benghazi attack for hours in an intensely partisan ...

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New Benghazi testimony in Congress sharply critical of Obama administration (+video)

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

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The Benghazi talking points: What’s known and unknown

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - May. 07 (Fact Check) - “I wasn’t involved in the talking points process….As I understand it, as I’ve been told, it was a typical interagency process where staff, including from the State Department, all participated, to try to come up with whatever was going to be made publicly available, and it was an intelligence product.” Read full article ...

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Bachmann Bungles Benghazi, Food Stamps

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Robert Farley - Mar. 23 (Fact Check) - Rep. Michele Bachmann used misleading and at times wildly inaccurate portrayals of two key domestic and foreign policy issues — food stamps and the response to an attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya — to paint President Obama as someone who doesn’t “care.” Her account of the White House … More >>

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Violent tide of Salafism threatens the Arab spring

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Angelique Chrisafis, Patrick Kingsley, Peter Beaumont - Feb. 10 (News Analysis) - A series of repressive dictatorships have been brought down in north Africa, but the ensuing struggles for power have left a vacuum that has allowed the rise of an extremist movement that is gathering both force and supporters.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Break All the Rules

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - Jan. 23 (Opinion) - At a time when we measure our secretaries of state more by miles traveled than milestones achieved, what’s the next secretary to do? Here’s a plan.

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Jihadists’ Surge in North Africa Reveals Grim Side of Arab Spring

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By ROBERT F. WORTH - Jan. 19 (News Report) - As the uprising closed in around him, the Libyan dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi warned that if he fell, chaos and holy war would overtake North Africa. “Bin Laden’s people would come to impose ransoms by land and sea,” he told reporters. “

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Hostages, Militants Reported Dead In Algerian Assault

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - Jan. 19 (News) - Algerian special forces stormed a gas installation where militants were holding several hostages on Saturday, according to Algeria's state media. The reports claim 11 militants and seven hostages were killed during what is being described as a final assault to end the four-day crisis.

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Space Pictures This Week: Space "Horse," Mars Rover, More

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

National Geographic - By Photograph by Greg Parker, Your Shot - Nov. 26 (News) - The Horsehead Nebula rears its pretty head in a November 17 photograph submitted to National Geographic's Your Shot photo community. Taken from the New Forest Observatory in the United Kingdom, the image shows how the nebula's horse head is part of a lar

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Rice defends Benghazi remarks

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - Nov. 22 (News) - Rice defends Benghazi remarks

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Did the Obama administration know its Libya protest talk was inaccurate?

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Josh Hicks - Nov. 19 (Opinion) - “It was clear that the State Department was able to witness this in real time. There is no indication that there was a mob. There is no indication that a video was the genesis of this. Why did the administration, for weeks, mislead the American people?

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The Right-Wing's Most Brazen Lie of the Election -- Debunked

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland - Nov. 06 (News Analysis) - While the attacks were still underway, the Romney campaign released a statement claiming that the president of the United States, upon hearing that our embassies were being attacked, felt a rush of sympathy with the attackers, and immediately responded by “apologizing for our values.” The idea that a sitting president, of either party, would feel sympathy for extremists killing Americans overseas -- and would actually apologize for America's values in such a circumstance -- is something that no normal person could possibly believe. Only those on the hard Right, who have been told for the last four years that a moderate Democrat is in fact a wild-eyed radical and a crypto-Muslim who doesn't really understand America could possibly buy that spin.

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Benghazi Timeline

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Eugene Kiely - Oct. 27 (Fact Check) - The question won't go away: Did President Obama and administration officials mislead the public when they initially claimed that the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi began "spontaneously" in response to ... More >>

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Foreign Policy Really Is Foreign to Mitt Romney

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By John Nichols - Oct. 23 (News Analysis) - Mitt Romney’s just not that into foreign policy. The hapless Republican nominee for president spent most of the only foreign-policy debate of the 2012 fall campaign mumbling lines like: “I want to underscore the -- the same point the president made…” “That was something I concurred with…”

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'Horses and bayonets' a quick hit; how Obama and Romney's third debate came off online

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Oskar Garcia - Oct. 23 (News Analysis) - President Barack Obama countered Mitt Romney's Big Bird and binders on Monday night with horses, bayonets and Battleship. Who won? The Internet, of course. Obama's broadside reply to Romney's shot at the size of the Navy took off instantly on social netw

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Obama’s foreign policy offers tempting targets, but can Romney hit them?

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Yahoo! News - Oct. 22 (News Report) - Romney comes into tonight's debate on world affairs effectively the underdog, and not just because he isn't the commander in chief.

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Dorothy Rabinowitz: The Unreality of the Past Four Years

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Oct. 21 (Opinion) - The Benghazi fiasco is a brutally illuminating portrait of the Obama White House in crisis mode.

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The Three Benghazi Timelines We Need Answers About

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By James Rosen - Oct. 20 (Opinion) - Every White House sooner or later succumbs to the temptation to cover up an embarrassment.

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