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VIDEO: Geraldo On ‘Major Deception’ In Benghazi: Was Mitt Romney Told By CIA’s David Petraeus To Back Off? | Mediaite
By MB Snow at May 10, 2013 | 6:58 am
by Noah Rothman | 8:53 am, May 10th, 2013 On Friday’s Fox & Friends, Geraldo Rivera dove into the news that the intelligence community’s assessment of the reasons behind the attack on an American consulate in Benghazi was “scrubbed” of references to Islamic terrorism. Rivera said that, while he did not believe this was an impeachable offense, he was sure ... Go To Article
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PEGGY NOONAN:The Inconvenient Truth About Benghazi – WSJ
By MB Snow at May 10, 2013 | 5:00 am
By PEGGY NOONAN, DECLARATIONSMay 9, 2013 Peggy Noonan: The Inconvenient Truth About Benghazi Did the Obama administration's politically expedient story cost American lives? he Benghazi story until now has been a jumble of factoids that didn't quite cohere, didn't produce a story that people could absorb and hold in their minds. This week that changed. Three ... Go To Article
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ANDREW C. MCCATHY: Obama’s Betrayal of Islamic Democracy | National Review Online
By MB Snow at May 10, 2013 | 4:55 am
By Andrew C. McCarthym MAY 10, 2013 The mishandling of Benghazi undermined a prominent Muslim moderate. A significant point made in riveting testimony by Gregory Hicks, the State Department’s former deputy chief of mission in Libya, has largely been missed in the coverage of Wenesday’s Benghazi hearing. It is worth highlighting, not least because doing so ... Go To Article
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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Pink line over Damascus – WaPo
By MB Snow at May 10, 2013 | 4:45 am
By Charles Krauthammer, Thursday, May 9, 4:29 PM You know you’re in trouble when you can’t even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Obama’s fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in Syria, the White House leaked to the New York Times that Obama’s initial statement had been unprepared, unscripted ... Go To Article
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BENGHAZI TESTIMONY: Stevens Went to Benghazi Mission on 9/11/12 So Clinton Could Announce on Upcoming Libyan Visit It Had Become Permanent U.S. Post | CNS News
By MB Snow at May 9, 2013 | 6:27 am
May 9, 2013 By Terence P. Jeffrey (CNSNews.com) -- Amb. Chris Stevens--murdered by terrorists in Benghazi, Libya on the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks—was at the poorly secured State Department facility in that city that day at least in part because Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wanted to convert the department compound there into a ... Go To Article
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REVIEW & OUTLOOK: The Benghazi Awakening – WSJ
By MB Snow at May 9, 2013 | 12:35 am
REVIEW & OUTLOOKMay 8, 2013, 7:29 p.m. ET Hillary Clinton's chief of staff told Greg Hicks not to talk to Congress. Miracles happen, and even the sleepy Washington press corps seems to have paid some attention to Wednesday's House hearing on the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission last September in Benghazi. What they and the public heard is the beginning of a ... Go To Article
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JONATHAN S. TOBIN: Hillary Hasn’t Heard the End of Benghazi « CommentaryMagazine
By MB Snow at May 8, 2013 | 5:23 pm
Jonathan S. Tobin | @tobincommentary, 05.08.2013 - 8:00 PM Democrats arrived at the House Oversight Committee’s hearing on the Benghazi terror attack determined to defend the reputation of the person that most believe will be their presidential candidate in 2016. Ranking member Elijah Cummings and his colleagues thundered at Chair Darrel Issa and any other ... Go To Article
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ELLIOTT ABRAMS: Benghazi Truths vs. Washington Politics – WSJ
By MB Snow at May 8, 2013 | 5:13 pm
By ELLIOTT ABRAMS, OPINIONMay 8, 2013, 6:40 p.m. ET Wednesday's hearing turned a light on a previously unnoticed player in the story: Hillary Clinton's chief of staff. 'I was stunned. My jaw dropped," said Gregory Hicks at Wednesday's House hearing on the Benghazi terror attack last fall and its aftermath. Mr. Hicks, deputy chief of mission in Libya under ... Go To Article
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ELI LAKE: Top U.S. Diplomat in Libya Knew Benghazi Was Terrorism – TheDailyBeast
By MB Snow at May 8, 2013 | 4:07 pm
by Eli Lake May 8, 2013 Obama administration officials were adamant that Benghazi was fallout from the protest of an anti-Muslim YouTube video. U.S. diplomats on the ground knew it was a terrorist attack. For 11 days after the 9/11 anniversary assault on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, top Obama administration officials told the public that the assault ... Go To Article
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BENGHAZI HEARINGS:: New Benghazi probe evidence puts spotlight back on Clinton – The Hill
By MB Snow at May 8, 2013 | 1:37 pm
New revelations about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, are pulling Hillary Clinton back into a political firestorm that the presumptive 2016 candidate had so far managed to escape unscathed. House Republicans have unearthed new evidence suggesting the Obama administration could have done more to help the U.S. diplomats under attack last Sept. 11. State ... Go To Article
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