In response to Boehner On the Hot Seat,Benghazi Investigation Begins To Take Form: Speaker Boehner this afternoon confirmed that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) is his choice to head the Select Committee to investigate the Benghazi. “With four of our countrymen killed at
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) confirmed today that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) will serve as chairman of the select committee to investigate the terrorist attacks in Benghazi. Gowdy’s name quickly rose to the top of the list after Bohener announced
It seems as if there could be a little internal Republican strife going on in Washington about who will lead the House Select Committee investigation on the consulate attack in Benghazi. First of all, everyone should take issue with Boehner
CBS News President David Rhodes described what the “government” believed about the Benghazi attack the day after it happened, saying it was not just a “mob reaction” to a film. He also predicted the incident would quickly become part of
After CBS News reporter and “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan admitted her report on the September 11, 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi was “wrong,” she took a leave of absence. That was back in November. Now the
Monday on “Fox and Friends,” former CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson said the left is trying to kill the Benghazi story with a “well-orchestrated strategy to controversialize a story they really don’t want to hear about”… Follow Pam on Twitter
With Congress breathing down his neck on Benghazi, President Obama has a legal ace in his hand – executive privilege – which he could assert to protect the documents explaining exactly why the White House came to blame the attack
While generally not a big fan of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, if one comes across this current Reuters’ version of his most recent “Face the Nation” appearance, you might get the idea that Graham is accusing the GOP of
In the past few days, as new evidence emerged that the White House was directly involved in misleading the public with the lie that the Benghazi terror attack of Sep. 11, 2012 was motivated by outrage at a YouTube video,
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” former White House green czar and current CNN “Crossfire” co-host Van Jones attacked former President George W. Bush in an attempt to deflect the criticism being hurled at President Barack Obama over politicizing Benghazi. Jones
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” former White House senior adviser David Plouffe who was copied on the “smoking gun” Ben Rhodes email, attacked Republicans for investigating Benghazi saying they are becoming ‘a loud delusional minority’… Follow Pam on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
On “Fox News Sunday,” Brit Hume had a heated exchange with former Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) after she said Benghazi was an “intelligence failure” and not a conspiracy to divert attention from the terrorist attacks weeks before the 2012 presidential
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin blasted the Obama administration for lying about the Benghazi attacks last week again and praised House Republicans for deciding to form a Select Committee to try to unearth what led to the deaths of four
In an apparent attempt to divert the media’s attention away from the newly released email in which White House adviser Ben Rhodes pushed the “narrative” that a YouTube video caused the attack in Benghazi to then-U.N. ambassador Susan Rice before
At the opening of his radio show on Friday, conservative talk show host Mark Levin laid out his ideal scenario for the Select Committee on Benghazi announced by House Speaker John Boehner earlier in the day…
Friday at President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s joint news conference, Obama echoed the words of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). In 2012 McCain repeatedly said the proof Benghazi was not a spontaneous protest in reaction to a YouTube
On Friday’s “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) levied the charge that the Obama administration has purposefully withheld documents from Congress on the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack. Partial transcript as follows: VAN
Speaking of free expression versus mob rule, chalk up another win for the Heckler’s Veto, as a gang of whiny malcontents manages to scuttle Condoleeza Rice’s commencement address to Rutgers. The Associated Press reports: Rice said in a statement Saturday
In response to More Buffoonery: Obama Flacks Mock Fox News’ Benghazi Coverage : I think of all this as a series of coded commands to the White House’s media allies, calling the Praetorian Guard together one last time to close
On Wednesday, an email emerged from White House in which national security aide Ben Rhodes instructed UN Ambassador Susan Rice – copying President Obama’s entire political team at the White House – that her goal on the Sunday shows following the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks
In response to Harry Reid Spox Mocks Benghazi Probe: ‘Speaker Boehner literally changes name to Speaker Benghazi’: It really is beginning to look like the brain trust of dorks who flack for Democrats have decided on a defense strategy for
Friday on Fox News Channel’s “The Five,” co-host Bob Beckel got animated with his colleague Eric Bolling over the Benghazi scandal:
Sens. John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) wrote to Obama Friday to ask him simply: Where were you during the Benghazi attack? They referenced ex-National Security Council (NSC) spokesman Tommy Vietor’s appearance on the Fox News
Friday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” while discussing the lack of a military rescue mission for the American’s trapped in Benghazi during the long siege on the consulate in Benghazi, Fox News strategic analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters told
In response to Confirmed: The House Will Vote To Establish A New Select Committee On Benghazi: Here’s how seriously Democrats are taking the news that Speaker Boehner is establishing a select committee to get to the bottom of what went
Not only are House Republicans forming a select committee to investigate Benghazi, there is now a concerted push from top GOP officials for the appointment of a special counsel on the IRS scandal. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) introduced the IRS
This article was originally posted in National Journal Someone tweets about Benghazi every 12 seconds. Not every 12 days or every 12 minutes, but every 12 seconds. Over the past month, that’s added up to more than 200,000 tweets, according
On Friday, May 2, 2014, a radical Islamist group stormed Libya’s security headquarters in Benghazi, leaving up to nine dead and over a dozen wounded. Libyan army officials said among the dead were some of Libya’s police officers and military
In response to Report: Speaker Boehner To Appoint A Select Committee On Benghazi: Speaker Boehner announced his decision to hold a vote to establish a Select Committee on Benghazi on Twitter: RT to share the news: The House will vote
After more than a year of resisting the calls of a vast majority of his conference, Speaker John Boehner is relenting and forming a special committee to investigate the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya and resulting scandal.
Under fire for new “smoking gun” emails released about the Benghazi terrorist attack, the White House has an unlikely ally: the GOP House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA). McKeon slammed testimony by a key witness at a
Fox News is reporting that House speaker John Boehner will announce the formation of a select committee on Benghazi, to be led by Rep. Trey Gowdy. The Weekly Standard reports that according to a senior GOP leadership aide, “the new emails
On Fox News Thursday night, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) criticized the Obama administration after emails were released showing that the White House tried to spin the details of the attack in Benghazi. Paul said that the email read like a script
On Friday’s “Morning Joe,” National Journal’s Ron Fournier explained how the White House’s short-term strategy dating back to September 2012 on the Benghazi crisis fallout is beginning to backfire… (h/t RNC Research)
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is issuing a subpoena for Secretary of State John Kerry to testify before the committee May 21 about Benghazi, Issa announced Friday. The move comes in the wake of new, “smoking gun” emails that
On Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on Thursday, conservative commentator Mark Steyn weighed in on White House press secretary Jay Carney’s performance as compared to his predecessors and how they handled adversity. Follow Jeff on Twitter @jeff_poor
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney admitted on Thursday that he was tired of Republicans talking about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi. “I wish that rather than spending so much of their time — and we all have limited time
On Thursday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer likened the recent round of Benghazi revelations to the cover-up that led to President Richard Nixon’s eventual resignation. Follow Jeff on Twitter @jeff_poor
Former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor attempted to deflect Bret Baier’s questions on Fox News’ Special Report Thursday by arguing that what was important about what happened in Benghazi “two years ago” [sic] was less important than what happens in the
There were many rich moments in former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor’s interview Thursday on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier about the Benghazi scandal. Certainly his exasperated protest–“Dude, this was like two years ago”–summarizes the callow nature of
