By JENNIFER STEINHAUER JULY 9, 2014 WASHINGTON — Representative Trey Gowdy was cutting the grass in the front yard of his Spartanburg, S.C., house when Speaker John A. Boehner called with a special assignment. Mr. Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican and a former prosecutor whose peculiar hairstyle has generated almost as much news media coverage … Read more
By LAUREN FRENCH | 5:58 PM EDT | Updated: 7:45 PM EDT There are no Benghazi hearings on the House calendar, but the silence doesn’t mean the investigation is fading away. Rep. Trey Gowdy is launching a special committee to wrangle a probe that’s sprawled across the jurisdictions of multiple headline-hungry committee chairmen. And while … Read more
The Justice Department’s charges against Khatallah are curiously sparse. By Andrew C. McCarthy What happens when the president who has politicized law-enforcement to a degree unprecedented in American history meets a terrorist responsible for killing Americans he has recklessly failed to protect, decimating his pretensions about “decimating”al-Qaeda? What happens is: You get the most politicized … Read more
By: Susan Davis USA Today WASHINGTON — Two months after the House of Representatives chartered a new committee to investigate the 2012 Benghazi attacks, the panel will begin getting down to work in July, Chairman Trey Gowdy said, but it will not be in a hurry to make headlines. “We live in a society and … Read more
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