BY DEBORAH WEISS | FRONTPAGEMAG.COM During a recent Heritage Foundation event on Benghazi’s unanswered questions, Brigitte Gabriel, President of Act! for America, proclaimed that the peaceful majority have been irrelevant to history’s outcome when tyrannists have had the power and motivation to destroy freedom. But a Muslim audience member whose question prompted Brigitte’s comments, insists … Read more
by Bruce Bialosky 6/29/2014 12:02:00 AM By now you must be pretty sick of reading and hearing about Hillary Clinton. Personally, I am ready for No Mas. But after I wrote my first column about Benghazi many readers wrote and asked me to promise I would not let the subject die. Since nothing has happened … Read more
Thursday, June 26, 2014 A plurality of voters continues to believe the Benghazi controversy will negatively impact Hillary Clinton’s expected bid for the presidency, little changed in surveys since last fall. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters think the circumstances surrounding the murder of the U.S. ambassador … Read more
Warns of ‘tragic consequences’ for those on the ground BY: Adam Kredo June 26, 2014 5:00 am U.S. diplomatic compounds overseas continue to be endangered by lax security measures and, in many cases, are highly vulnerable to potential attack, a fact that the State Department has failed to address for nearly 10 years, according to … Read more
Josh Siegel June 25, 2014 State Department officials hope the Foreign Affairs Security Training Center, proposed for land at Fort Pickett in Virginia, would help embassy security agents defend against terrorist attacks such as those on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Photo: UPI/Tariq AL-hun) With the deadly Benghazi attacks providing impetus and momentum, the State … Read more
In her interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer last week, Hillary Clinton said “I was not making security decisions” about Benghazi, claiming “it would be a mistake” for “a secretary of state” to “go through all 270 posts” and “decide what should be done.” And at a January 2013 Senate hearing, Mrs. Clinton said that security … Read more
Just days after author and terrorism expert Brigitte Gabriel made headlines for firmly responding to American University law student Saba Ahmed’s question during a panel discussion about Benghazi, TV host Sean Hannity decried radicalism and challenged Ahmed, a Muslim, to also speak out against it. Hannity, who had Ahmed and Gabriel on his show Thursday, said that … Read more
By Roger Aronoff When conservatives taunt Muslims in the room, they apparently thank them for their questions, and say, “Well, I’m glad to see you’re representing Muslims in this company.” This is then translated by the press into the “ugly taunting” of an innocent American University law student who just wanted to ask a question … Read more
By BRADLEY KLAPPER June 18, 2014 4:52 PM WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department promised Wednesday to cooperate with the House special committee looking into the deadly 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, expressing hope the new investigation is conducted in a fairer and more bipartisan manner than previous Republican-led probes. In a letter to the … Read more
By: Andrew C. McCarthy I’m out on the Left Coast to talk about Faithless Execution again today. But at theBenghazi Accountability Coalition, which I chair, we’re closely following the apprehension of Ahmed Abu Khatallah. Here is my statement on it: When it comes to the Benghazi Massacre, what the American people want is accountability. The long overdue … Read more