[media-downloader media_id=”1950″] On December 10th, the House Select Committee on Benghazi will convene just the second hearing since it was authorized in May. Like the first, it will focus on a discredited report by the so-called Accountability Review Board (ARB), a group charged by the State Department with investigating the murderous attack on U.S. facilities … Read more
By STEPHEN F. HAYES and THOMAS JOSCELYN | THE NATIONAL REVIEW | DEC 15, 2014 | VOL. 20, NO. 14 | After a long day on November 13, 2013, Speaker of the House John Boehner walked down the marble hallways of the Longworth House Office Building to the personal office of Representative Devin Nunes for … Read more
By CATHERINE HERRIDGE | FOXNEWS.COM | Newly declassified testimony shows at least five Republican lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee suggested former CIA Director David Petraeus provided bad information, or even misled them, after the 2012 Benghazi attack when he blamed an obscure Internet video and downplayed the significance of mortar attacks that night. The … Read more
By ROGER ARONOFF | ACCURACY IN MEDIA | The Washington Post, like The New York Times, is intent on declaring the Benghazi scandal dead and buried, as suggested in this recent cartoon, and in this more recent editorial. The latest item these papers are hoping will provide the final stamp on the story is a recent report … Read more
By KRIS ‘TANTO’ PARONTO and JOHN ‘TIG’ TIEGEN | BREITBART.COM Since the release of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee’s report on the Benghazi attacks this November, many uninformed people in the political and media world insisted the report “debunks” claims that the government did not sufficiently defend its embassy on September 11, 2012. The report, however, is full of inaccuracies–but … Read more
Retiring Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Roger’s (R-MI) Benghazi report released last Friday, is deeply duplicitous in its wording, omissions and redactions. Given all that is known about Benghazi today, this report can be seen as a careful effort to leave a false impression. Many are left wondering why would Mike Rogers do this on his … Read more
By JUDICIAL WATCH “From the Annex in Benghazi, the CIA was collecting intelligence about foreign entities that were themselves collecting weapons in Libya and facilitating their passage to Syria. The Benghazi Annex was not itself collecting weapons.” –Final House Intelligence Report on Benghazi, P. 16 The final House Intelligence Committee Report on Benghazi received its … Read more
By Ginni Thomas Having participated in politics and journalism from the front lines of our nation’s capital for many years, Sharyl Attkisson, the veteran former CBS correspondent, worries that when our government can get away with lies, a “climate of distrust in America” spreads. Speaking about the Benghazi terrorist attack that happened on Sept. 11, … Read more
At tonight’s Colorado Senate debate held in Denver, incumbent Sen. Mark Udall was asked what he believes is the biggest non-issue that Congress keeps debating needlessly. Udall answered Benghazi. His opponent, Republican Rep. Cory Gardner, disputed that. QUESTION: Senator, what’s the biggest non-issue in your mind that Congress keeps debating needlessly? SEN. MARK UDALL: Benghazi. … Read more
The DOJ produces another brazenly politicized set of charges. By Andrew C. McCarthy NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE On September 10, 2012, al-Qaeda’s emir, Ayman al-Zawahiri, issued a lengthy statement to his fellow jihadists in Libya. He called on them to avenge the American military’s killing of Abu Yahya al-Libi, the highest ranking al-Qaeda operative in that country. His … Read more