Benghazi attack

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

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Polls on the IRS controversy, Christie’s popularity, and older Americans’ views of same-sex relations

What you may have missed in the polls this week.

Karlyn Bowman and Jennifer Marsico | June 7, 2013, 8:30 am

The President’s Standing: The new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows the president’s approval rating holding steady. The pollsters were in the field after the recent developments on Benghazi, the IRS, and the Justice Department’s subpoenas of journalists’ phone records. … read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy, Terrorism

Between Benghazi and Ankara, Team Obama learns the definition of ‘an act of terror’

Marc Thiessen | February 5, 2013, 9:59 am

They may be slow learners at the White House, but at least they learn. The Wall Street Journal report on the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, which killed a Turkish security guard and wounded several others, included … read more >

Politics and Public Opinion

Banter #78: An interview with Bill Kristol

Stuart James | December 4, 2012, 10:57 am

Editor-in-Chief of the Weekly Standard Bill Kristol takes time out of his busy schedule to sit down with us this week and discuss some current events. Kristol, who started the magazine with Fred Barnes and friend of the show John Podhoretz back … read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy

Eulogy for an African despot — another reason Susan Rice should not become secretary of state

Roger Bate | November 26, 2012, 2:26 pm

The likely nomination of Susan Rice as secretary of state has met with much conservative opposition due to her pronouncements surrounding the debacle in Benghazi. While I don’t disagree with that opposition, Susan Rice’s support for oppressive despots in Africa, … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy

Yes, the White House knows who changed Rice’s talking points

Marc Thiessen | November 19, 2012, 10:00 am

Fox News reports that intelligence officials told members of Congress they do not know who changed Ambassador Susan Rice’s talking points on Benghazi to remove references to al Qaeda for her five Sunday show appearances: Former CIA Director David Petraeus … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East and North Africa

Yes, the CIA does still have ‘detention authority’

Marc Thiessen | November 14, 2012, 1:06 pm

A CIA spokesman recently denied claims the agency was holding prisoners at its Benghazi annex, declaring: The CIA has not had detention authority since January 2009, when Executive Order 13491 was issued. Any suggestion that the Agency is still in … read more >

U.S. President Obama watches as the body of an American killed in Benghazi is placed in a hearse during a return of remains ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington. Image Credit: Reuters/Jason Reed

Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East and North Africa

Forget the gossip: Focus on Benghazi

Paul Wolfowitz | November 14, 2012, 9:28 am

Fascination with the general’s personal story must not divert attention from the very significant policy failures that helped produce a chaotic security situation in Libya. read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy

Was Obama told about the threat of a ‘coordinated attack’ in Benghazi at his September 10, 2012 NSC meeting?

Marc Thiessen | November 1, 2012, 10:33 am

In yesterday’s Washington Post, I reported that while the president’s public schedule for September 10 is blank, the president did in fact have a briefing that day with the NSC Principals Committee “to review 9/11 threats and mitigation efforts.” Since then, … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy

More lies, more scandal, more politics: Benghazi

Danielle Pletka | October 31, 2012, 11:43 am

If the administration is willing to lie about this in the face of massive evidence of a terrorist attack, what else will they lie about in order to protect the president’s political life? read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East and North Africa

Distrust but verify

Paul Wolfowitz | October 31, 2012, 9:19 am

The administration has only itself to blame for its credibility problem. It is the result of a general lack of transparency and particularly of the fact that senior officials, including the president and the secretary of state, persisted for so long in offering the American people misleading suggestions that the attacks in Benghazi were a response to an obscure anti-Islamic video. read more >