(WASHINGTON) — Then CIA-Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points the Obama administration used after …
Libya
Senate Panel Approves U.S. Ambassador to Libya
(WASHINGTON) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday approved President Barack Obama’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to Libya, a post that has been vacant since insurgents attacked the diplomatic mission in Benghazi last September, killing Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
With little discussion, the …
Still More Benghazi
Seems to me that Andrew Sullivan has nailed the import of the latest email revelations. But there is one point to note for future reference.
Michael Crowley on the Politics of Benghazi
TIME’s Michael Crowley joined Morning Joe to talk about the attack last September that continues to dominate conversation in Washington D.C.
Terror, Security, and Hillary 2016: Making Sense of the Benghazi Hearings
A breakdown of the five key Benghazi plot lines, from the military response to Hillary’s role.
Lindsey Graham on Today’s Benghazi Hearings
“The light footprint approach to the Mideast at a time of turmoil is not working.”
GOP Benghazi Probe Stokes Political Controversy
(WASHINGTON) — House Republicans insist the Obama administration is covering up information about last year’s deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, rejecting administration assurances to the contrary …
Months After Benghazi, Kerry Says U.S. Chasing Leads
Secretary of State John Kerry said the U.S. has identified people it believes were involved in the Benghazi attack.
Hillary Clinton: ‘I Take Responsibility’ for Benghazi Security Lapse
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said late on Monday that the buck stops with her when it comes to diplomatic security, not the White House.
The Benghazi Attack: A Bigger Question Missed by All the Finger-Pointing
The facts of the case are this: a Sept. 11 attack carried out by armed extremists in Benghazi, Libya, took the lives of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. Nearly everything else is unclear. Given that it took the …
Did Obama Spin the Benghazi Attack?
UPDATED 9:20 a.m. 9/28/12
The perpetrators behind the assault that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, had been looking for an opportunity to attack …
Obama Comes to New York for Barbara Walters and, sorta, the United Nations
Though Gotham is full of visiting heads of government and state, the President is meeting no one this time around. Is it insurance against possible gaffes? Or just a broader excuse not to meet the Prime Minister of Israel?
How Libya Makes Obama Vulnerable — and the GOP Knows It
Rally-around-the-flag time is over. For the most part, Republicans — with the exception of Mitt Romney — had held their fire in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which claimed the lives of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens. But as …