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Establishment Republican Senators John McCain (AZ) and Lindsey Graham (SC) defended State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland on Friday, shortly after President Obama nominated the Benghazi talking points manipulator for a promotion. She would be up for the position of Assistant

Late on Friday, the New Yorker‘s Ryan Lizza reported that the Obama administration did not merely greenlight a search warrant on Fox News reporter James Rosen’s email account – it “fought” to prevent Rosen from learning about it. Ronald C.

With President Obama’s decision to promote central Benghazi talking points manipulator Victoria Nuland, her position as State Department spokeswoman opens up. And continuing his pattern of giving plum jobs to his former campaign officials, Obama is slated to hand that

After State Department Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell praised the agency’s support of a “free press” on Thursday, Associated Press reporter Matt Lee engaged Ventrell over the release of Department records and the Department of Justice’s investigation into James Rosen’s activies. 

The State Department announced on Thursday that it had no involvement in the decision of retired diplomat Thomas Pickering to meet in a closed session of the House Oversight Committee with Chairman Darrell Issa. Pickering, along with former Joint Chiefs

State Department Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell announced on Monday that employees identified by the Accountability Review Board as responsible for the security failures that lead to the Benghazi attacks are receiving pay after five months on administrative leave. They are

Reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who has been dogged in her reporting on administration scandals including Fast and Furious and Benghazi, believes her computers have been compromised. Attkisson tells Politico “I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under

Working together again, the White House and Media Matters have spent the last week attempting the herculean task of turning the Benghazi-scandal battleship around in the hopes of attacking conservatives. Washington Post factchecker, Glenn Kessler, just destroyed that cynical maneuver.

CBS News has a piece quietly mocking a Benghazi whistleblower for writing poetry in a classic example of how the MSM marginalizes opponents of Barack Obama: Raymond Maxwell, who was one of Hillary Clinton’s State Department officials who was disciplined

On Monday it was reported that several Fox News reporters were targeted by the Department of Justice over interaction with an employee(s) at the State Department. In the investigation, Fox News’s James Rosen was fingered by the DOJ not just

The Daily Beast reports that one of the Benghazi fall guys is refusing to take the fall. Raymond Maxwell was put on indefinite leave by the State Department after its Administrative Review Board (ARB) investigation of Benghazi for reasons that

With new reports today that the Obama Department of Justice leaked documents intended to smear a whistleblower in the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal, it is now more obvious than ever that this administration has, in the words of Senate

One of the earliest reporters revealing the internal emails about Benghazi exchanged between the U.S. Department of State and the intel community was CBS’ Sharyl Attkisson. Her original report was based on “written notes” and, as she said from the

The Obama Administration, which has pursued more cases involving leaks from the government to the press than all other administrations combined, has been acting in this fashion since 2009, well before the current AP scandal. A case in point is

North Korea on Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, a Seoul official said. The guided missile was fired into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) on Sunday afternoon, a defence ministry spokesman

(AFP) – When Malcolm X’s grandson was beaten to death in a seedy Mexico City bar last week his name joined the hundreds of US citizens who have been murdered in this country in recent years. Excluding terror attacks and

When asked on Friday to give details on an upcoming peace summit, State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki awkwardly tried to dodge announcing the location of the international meeting. Psaki was informed by members of the press that President Obama and

State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Friday would not give any condemnation to the Iranian government for excluding women from being candidates in the upcoming elections. When asked for the official State Dept stance on the policy, Psaki said the

Bob Woodward appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” this Friday morning and, in stark contrast to his less-concerned Watergate colleague Carl Bernstein, he admonished the show’s hosts to “not dismiss Benghazi” and compared the White House’s behavior over CIA/State Department talking

Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s longtime confidante and wife of disgraced former Congressman and soon-to-be New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, did not disclose that she consulted for outside groups while still employed by the State Department. According to reports in the New

State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki revealed on Thursday that the employees who were relieved of duty as a result of the Benghazi review board report are still drawing paychecks five months after their change of status. Psaki had no specifics

I just finished one of the best books I’ve read in a long time, In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson, which tells the story of Ambassador William Dodd, President Roosevelt’s first Ambassador to Hitler.  The book chronicles the

Ari Fleischer knows what it’s like to take the podium in the White House briefing room, especially with a hostile press corps.  As the spokesman for the White House during the George W. Bush Administration, he had to deal with

Wednesday night, the White House dumped 94 emails that only in part help to explain how top administration officials in the White House, FBI, and State helped to shape the CIA talking points that would serve to set up a

(AP) GOP demands more despite Benghazi email releaseBy DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe White House release of some 100 pages of emails and notes about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year has failed to satisfy

This afternoon the White House released a 100 pages of repetitive emails from September 14th and 15th. The emails confirm that the State Department was deeply concerned about a bullet point highlighting prior attacks in Benghazi. The email release shows

(AP) – Then CIA-Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, because he wanted to see more detail publicly

Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter to former UN Ambassador Thomas Pickering to see if he is still willing to participate in a transcribed interview over his work in the State Department’s Accountability Review Board (ARB) report

(AP) US ambassador summoned by Russian foreign ministryMOSCOWThe U.S. Ambassador to Russia was summoned by the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday over Moscow’s claim it caught a U.S. diplomat disguised in a blond wig trying to recruit a counterintelligence officer. Michael