Category: Libya

Whistleblower Claims Clinton Attempted To Cut Counterterrorism Bureau Out Of Benghazi Loop

Posted on by William Teach

The House hearings are going to be very, very interesting…well, not in most news outlets, which have decided that the deaths of 4 Americans, including an Ambassador, in an attack on September 11th, is no big deal, nothing to see here, not even worthy of front page coverage, at least not under a Democrat Administration. […]

 

A hapless journey’s end

Posted on by Josh Bernstein

What happened in Boston last week was truly a tragedy. Two Muslim brothers detonated two bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Unless you have been living in a cave or under a rock somewhere you already know what happened. The sad fact is the Obama Administration, The FBI, and the entire Intelligence […]

 

Did Administration Threaten Benghazi Whistleblowers?

Posted on by William Teach

Their lawyer says the O admin did (Fox News) At least four career officials at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency have retained lawyers or are in the process of doing so, as they prepare to provide sensitive information about the Benghazi attacks to Congress, Fox News has learned. Victoria Toensing, a former […]

 

700 Retired Spec Ops Ask House To Do Full Investigation Into Benghazi

Posted on by William Teach

Unsurprisingly, most of the legacy media have ignored this. Now, if it was 2 people complaining about a mildly religious piece of art in a school, it would be huge news (Breitbart) Seven hundred retired Military Special Operations professionals from the organization “Special Operations Speaks” sent a letter to the House of Representatives urging members […]

 

Hacker To Distribute Confidential Hillary Clinton Emails On Benghazi

Posted on by William Teach

What’s in them? We don’t know yet. Will they be big? That remains to be seen, but why bother if they are tepid and meaningless? (The Smoking Gun) Armed with confidential memos to Hillary Clinton that were stolen from the e-mail account of a former White House aide, a hacker has distributed some of the […]

 

Panetta Claims Obama Absent Night Of Benghazi Attacks

Posted on by William Teach

Just to be clear, the absence is from Panetta’s point of view. Which was, you know, the POV of the Secretary of Defense (Weekly Standard) Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testified this morning on Capitol Hill that President Barack Obama was absent the night four Americans were murdered in Benghazi on September 11, 2012: Panetta said, […]

 

WH Spokesman Carney Slams GOP’s ‘Obsession’ With Anti-Islam Film

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the days following the attacks on our embassy in Benghazi, Libya last year the Obama administration insisted the whole thing was a result of Muslim ire at an anti-Islam film posted to Youtube. Today, after Hillary testified in front of the Senate over her role in the debacle, White House spokesman Jay Carney is […]

 

Obama Squee Interview: Blaming Americans On Guns And Benghazi Sloppiness

Posted on by William Teach

David Gregory, sans illegal gun magazine, provided the type of softball interview we all expected. He started off by allowing (NMP) Obama the opportunity to bloviate, lie, stretch the truth, and blame Republicans regarding the fiscal cliff, along with yammer about a balanced approach (which he did not offer, nor would the Democrat controlled Senate […]

 

Shockingly, Benghazi Probe Finds Failures, But No One To Be Disciplined

Posted on by William Teach

Who could have seen this coming when no underling wants to indict their superiors? (The Hill) An independent review of the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi made public Tuesday night faults “systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels” of the State Department. The report by the Accountability Review Board […]

 

Steve King Calls Benghazi 10 Times Bigger Than Watergate

Posted on by William Teach

Now that Susan Rice has dropped out in the race to be the next Secretary of State (she whines about making the right call), perhaps we can finally get to the inquiry regarding the real issues surrounding Benghazi (Washington Times) Rep. Steve King, Iowa Republican, said Wednesday that the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the […]

 

Surprise! Obama Admin Approved Weapons Transfers End Up In Jihadi Hands In Libya

Posted on by William Teach

Now that the election is long over, the NY Times decides to do a little real reporting The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the weapons over to Islamic militants, […]

 

NY Times: Hey, We’re Missing The Big Issues While Focusing On Benghazi Talking Points

Posted on by William Teach

Scott Shane, writing for the Fish Wrap, makes a darned good point, part of one that I’ve been making in blog posts and on Twitter for well over a month. Much of the article is focused on providing cover for Susan Rice, Barack Obama, and others involved in giving us the stupid “it was a […]

 

Exposing Benghazi Baloney

Posted on by Michael Fell

After a Tuesday morning meeting with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, Senators John McCain, Lindsay Graham and Kelly Ayotte said concerns they had about Rice’s misleading statements regarding the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya which resulted in the deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans have grown, not diminished. McCain, R-AZ, […]

 

Washington Post Inadvertently Makes A Good Point On Susan Rice Talking Points

Posted on by William Teach

Instead of running a “we’re thankful for…” editorial Thursday, something positive, the Washington Post editorial board attempted some tushy covering for Team Obama and Susan Rice The GOP’s bizarre attack on Susan Rice SINCE THE Senate is solely responsible for the confirmation of Cabinet officers, it’s not often that members of the House of Representatives […]

 

Petraeus Testimony: Someone Changed CIA Talking Points Memo

Posted on by William Teach

Surprise! (Fox News) Former CIA Director David Petraeus stoked the controversy over the Obama administration’s handling of the Libya terror attack, testifying Friday that references to “Al Qaeda involvement” were stripped from his agency’s original talking points — while other intelligence officials were unable to say who changed the memo, according to a top lawmaker […]

 

Go After Obama

Posted on by Michael Fell

Former CIA Director David Petraeus testified Friday that “Al Qaeda involvement” references were removed from the CIA’s original talking points, which had indicated that the CIA knew immediately that an Al Qaeda linked group was responsible for the 9/11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which led to the brutal murder of four […]

 

Penitentiary President

Posted on by Michael Fell

Why is Barack Obama about to be sworn in for a second term instead of being fingerprinted and booked into a federal penitentiary? There are at least three people who may eventually be able to respond to that question. In a joint press conference, three Republican senators said the only way for Congress to get […]

 

Sean Smith’s Mother Believes Obama Murdered Her Son

Posted on by William Teach

Just imagine yourself in a time when George Bush was president. After a heartfelt meeting with Cindy Sheehan, Cindy decided to become a liberal darling by accusing Bush of all sorts of things, including murdering her son. The majority of the Credentialed Media covered Sheehan on a daily basis, often with lead stories. Flash forward […]

 

Feinstein Blames Intelligence, State For Libya Debacle

Posted on by William Teach

Chucking them under the bus, or reality? We certainly know that the State Department screw the pooch royally, in that they wanted a low key security presence in Libya, and particularly the Benghazi Consulate, depending upon a local militia group, the February 17 Martyrs Brigade (which supposedly has links to the same group that attacked […]

 

On 9/11/12, There Was A Marine Detachment In Barbados, But Not Benghazi

Posted on by William Teach

I supposed they’re there to protect the diplomats from drinking too much rum and avoid gun wielding pot growers if the diplomats take a drive up into the mountains (CNS News) When terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 of this year and killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, […]

 

ABC News’ Tapper asks ‘didn’t President Obama shoot first and aim later?

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Does anyone remember when President Obama and some in the media chastised Mitt Romney over his: remarks: after the Cairo protests and the Libyan terrorist attack on our embassy in Benghazi, which led to the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens? : Who remembers when the media, by and large, ignored the true story, which surrounded the state of […]

 

Piers Morgan Gets Tough With DWS On Libya

Posted on by William Teach

Yesterday, Congress held a hearing into exactly what happened in Libya, and who knew what and when. Boy Wonder Jay Carney had a few problems answering questions from Jake Tapper and others as to the Obama administration’s response. Debbie Wasserman Schultz had even more problems (The Blaze) Appearing as a guest on Piers Morgan’s CNN […]

 

State Department To Benghazi Security: “Hey, Stop Asking For Help”

Posted on by William Teach

Smart power (CBS News) One of the men who was in charge of security for U.S. diplomats in Libya says he feared for their safety long before the attack last month on the consulate in Benghazi. Four Americans were killed in the attacks on the Libyan consulate, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. The concerned military security […]

 

Ambassador Susan Rice Decides To Blame Intelligence Community For Foolishly Blaming Mohammed Video

Posted on by William Teach

This seems to be much the consensus amongst the Obama administration, which has repeatedly blamed a “lack of intelligence” for coming out and blaming the video time and time again, including when Obama gave his speech at the United Nation, despite knowing within hours that the attack was most likely a pre-planned terrorist attack by […]

 

MSNBC Continues to Push ‘Nothing to See Here’ Narrative About Libya Debacle

Posted on by Matt Vespa

In the October 1 broadcast of NewsNation with Tamron Hall, a segment featuring former State Department Middle East officer Joel Rubin focused on how the Romney campaign was “trying to put all of these things in a big pot hoping that something picks up steam” concerning President Obama’s foreign policy. Yep, it’s still the same […]

 

Obama Admin Knew Within Hours That Benghazi Attack Was Terrorism

Posted on by William Teach

I know many are talking about the bombshell of Obama’s speech in 2007, which I really don’t see as that big of a deal: we knew back then that Obama hadn’t divorced himself from Jeremiah Wright, that he was (and still is) a race hustler, and that he attempts to divide people. I find this […]

 

Clinton: Hey, The Benghazi Attack Could Have Been Al Qaeda

Posted on by William Teach

A spoonful here, a spoonful there…..it’d be nice if the Credentialed Media were doing their jobs and asking the hard questions from day 1 instead of waiting for the (supposedly) most transparent administration ever to dole out drips and drabs (NY Times) Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday suggested there was a link […]

 

PBS Anchor Gwen Ifill Touts Pro-Obama Polls, Dismisses Mideast Violence As a ‘Dust Up’

Posted on by Matt Vespa

On the September 19 broadcast of the PBS Newshour, anchor Gwen Ifill discussed the latest polls with Pew’s Andrew Kohut and Mark Blumenthal, “senior polling analyst” of The Huffington Post. : Her talk about voter engagement and enthusiasm got a little hazy — if not completely insensitive — when she referred to last week’s embassy attacks […]

 

HuffPo Contributor: ‘Why Should I Care’ About Death of Ambassador Stevens

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Huffington Post contributor Sharmine Narwani took the occasion of the murder of our ambassador to Libya to launch into an anti-American diatribe that culminated in her asking why she is supposed to care about Ambassador Chris Stevens’ death or that of the other two killed with him. Sharmine Narwani, who is also a correspondent for […]

 

Libya and Egypt; Mumbling, Bumbling and Stumbling

Posted on by Michael Fell

The killing of Chris Stevens and three staffers in Benghazi, Libya was tragic.:  Heartfelt condolences to their families and friends areperfectly in order.:  However, compared to coverage by international news sources, the way coverage is being handled by the American news media is revealing. Iran’s Gooya News uses the headline: America’s ambassador to Libya killed […]