Benghazi, Libya
Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan gives a press briefing on the security situation on May 19, 2013 in Tripoli. A bomb exploded on May 18, in a Tripoli street housing the Algerian, Greek and Saudi embassies, lightly damaging a car, hours after a soldier was wounded in a bombing in Libya's second city Benghazi.
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The inquiry led by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee into the slaying of four Americans at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year has been attention-grabbing, but some senior GOP aides are worried that the partisan overtones are diverting Congress from identifying and addressing the real lessons learned from the attack
showed that the talking points had been altered to remove references to al Qaeda and a Libyan jihadist militia as well as to CIA warnings before the attack about an extremist threat in Benghazi.
Slim majorities of Americans are very or somewhat closely following the situations involving the Internal Revenue Service (54%) and the congressional hearings on the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and its aftermath (53%)More quotes »
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Goff: Could Chelsea Clinton hurt Hillary in 2016?
Senate campaign.) While conservatives try desperately to stop Clinton's seemingly unstoppable momentum by making Benghazi, Libya , a permanent, tragic albatross around her neck, there is one more obstacle to her White House hopes emerging: her daughter. Chelsea 5/22/13 Read more »
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Officials say Benghazi suspects under surveillance
round-the-clock U.S. surveillance in Libya, wanted for questioning in the attack last year on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The White House believes there is enough proof for a military force to seize them as terrorist suspects, officials say, Read more »
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Blasts rock Libya's capital and eastern city
-- Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi , but no casualties were reported.A security official says one bombing targeted an abandoned church in Benghazi that had been previously damaged by Read more »
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Krauthammer: Redacted truth, subjunctive outrage
Hicks, the honorable, apolitical second-in-command that night in Libya , movingly and grippingly demolish the president's Benghazi mantra that "what I have always tried to do is just get all the facts" and "every piece of information that we got, as we got Read more »
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Benghazi emails describing 'talking points' released to the public
100 pages of e-mails and notes related to the Obama administration's response to the attack on a diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya , last September.The White House had until now declined to make the documents public and had let congressional investigators Read more »
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Lindsey Graham: Obama Doesn't Want Benghazi Truth
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham charged that President Barack Obama doesn't want to get to the truth concerning the Benghazi terror attacks in order to protect his legacy. "I don't think this president is very interested in finding out about the truth 45 m ago from NewsMax Read more »
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American politics: How to save Obama’s second term
PRESIDENTS often have no choice but to react to events. When a giant tornado struck a suburb of Oklahoma City on May 20th, Barack Obama declared a disaster and ordered the federal authorities to help search for survivors. As emergency workers pulled chil 47 m ago from Economist Read more »
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Tough times for Obama apologists
in the rear-view mirror did the bulk of the non-conservative press even acknowledge, for example, that the attack on the Benghazi, Libya, diplomatic compound was a legitimate story . The administration’s serial scandals , dissembling and half-truths followed 10:31 AM from The Washington Post Read more »
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Poll: Majority Say Administration Hiding Facts on Benghazi
Americans believe the Obama administration is trying to cover up facts about the terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, a new poll has found. According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll, 55 percent of respondents say the Obama administration 9:10 AM from NewsMax Read more »
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White House Probes Create Immigration Magic as Proposal Advances
and the State Department initially glossed over the seriousness of last September’s attack on consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead. “The timing of all of this is kind of interesting in that it probably took a bit of heat off the markup 5/22/13 from NewsMax Read more »
