U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice was honored Tuesday night with the 2013 Louis E. Martin Great American Award. The annual award, presented by The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, is given to “an exemplar of change, progress
Gabriel Gomez, the Republican nominee in the June 25th Massachusetts special Senate election, told Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr on Wednesday that he will “absolutely” call on the State Department to release the State Department Rules of Engagement for
Today Dave Weigel focused on a question that ought to be getting more attention than it has. Where did we get the idea that there was a protest in Benghazi? To answer that question we have to parse the talking
Gregory Hicks was the Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) of the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli during the September 11, 2012 assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. On Wednesday, he told the House Government Oversight Committee that the State
During today’s hearings, Democrats have suggested that cuts to the State Department’s budget may have played a role in the lack of security in Benghazi. This claim was addressed during the previous hearings which took place on Oct. 10, 2012.
Former U.N. Ambassador Tom Pickering and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen refused an invitation to testify at the Benghazi hearings on Wednesday about their Accountability Review Board (ARB) report on the attack. The panel
After the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed a YouTube video for the attack. However, No. 2 US Envoy to Libya Greg Hicks revealed his phone calls with Clinton
Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of mission for the United States in Libya, and the top US official in Libya after the September 11, 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks, testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today – and he
1. Two “stand-down” orders were given while the Benghazi attacks were in progress. 2. The “protest” about a YouTube video was a complete fabrication by the Obama administration. 3. Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s lawyer at the State Department, told witnesses not
1. Two “stand-down” orders were given while the Benghazi attacks were in progress. 2. The “protest” about a YouTube video was a complete fabrication by the Obama administration. 3. Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s lawyer at the State Department, told witnesses not to
Representative Chaffetz read an email between Mark Thompson, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism, and a State Department official in which Thompson tells the officials that a plane with reinforcements and rescue teams was four hours away and could immediately
(AP) Rodman to Kim: ‘Do me a solid’ and free AmericanSEOUL, South KoreaFormer NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to ask for the release of a Korean-American man sentenced to 15
Breitbart News will provide live updates and analysis of today’s hearings before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the Benghazi terror attack of September 11, 2012. Todays testimony will feature whistleblowers who are expected to provide information supporting
As the Benghazi hearings begin anew on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, it is worth remembering that Dave Weigel of Slate.com, the former Journolist member who delights in attempting to debunk conservative narratives, declared in December that Republican suspicions of a
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee say there will be “explosive” revelations that will come forth during the Committee’s hearing on Wednesday when three State Department witnesses reveal what they knew the night the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in
On CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper, Pat Smith, mother of slain State Department information officer Sean Smith, blamed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for failing to protect her son and other civilians in Benghazi, Libya, during the September
Left-wing political strategist Robert Creamer has published a piece pushing back on renewed interest in Benghazi. Creamer makes a number of claims, several of which can be rebutted. Let’s walk through his argument: The original Republican narrative about the attack
As the congressional investigation into the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, continues to heat up, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters on Monday that the administration is allowing survivors of the attack and other Department
A source with intimate information about the events that happened on the ground in Benghazi the night the U.S. Consulate and the CIA annex was attacked by terrorists told Breitbart News that, ultimately, only the President of the United States,
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Senator Lindsey Graham says when you hear more from the State Department whistleblowers this week, it’s going to make you mad. Senator Graham joins us. Nice to see you, sir. SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, R-S.C.:
CNN Foreign Affairs Correspondent Elise Labott slammed Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell for saying that the State Department hasn’t had access to transcripts of interviews with upcoming witnesses in the Benghazi hearing scheduled for Wednesday. “Come on, Patrick,” Labott said. “You
Associated Press reporter Matt Lee pointed out to State Department Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell that the U.S. has not been moving quickly on their threats to Bashir Al-Assad’s regime in Syria. “We’ve long said that the Assad regime’s days are
During the 2nd Presidential Debate on October 16, 2012 the issue of Benghazi came to the forefront after a question about security arrangements at the consulate. The President used his answer to criticize Gov. Romney for playing politics while the
Ahead of Wednesday’s long-awaited hearings at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the Benghazi terror attack of Sep. 11, 2012, Democrats have a clear agenda: protect Hillary Clinton at all costs. Clinton, the former Secretary of State and
Mark I. Thompson will make the allegation that Hillary Clinton “tried to cut the department’s own counter-terrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision-making” as they responded to the Benghazi attacks. Thompson is a former Marine and the
Bob Schieffer now carries the mantle of “elder statesman” at CBS News. This is the vaunted position that was held by Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow. As electronic media goes, CBS News is the “Old Gray Lady”
Greg Hicks, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, told congressional investigators that the State Department’s internal review of the Benghazi attack “let people off the hook.” Hicks also contradicted the administration’s talking points that were
The White House budget office is using an obscure budget rule to restore $5 billion in sequester-related cuts. The recalculation trick will mean the State Department will no longer have to furlough employees, will spare the Pentagon $4 billion in
The names of the witnesses who will be at the House Oversight Committee Hearing next Wednesday relating to last September’s attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi on have reportedly surfaced. Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy
The attorney claiming to represent an unnamed Benghazi whistleblower, Victoria Toensing, is demanding an apology from Secretary of State John Kerry after a State Department spokesman said she was “lying.”
The names of three men who will testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee next week on Capitol Hill have been released. Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the
On September 14, just three days after the attack in Benghazi, Breitbart News published a story titled “Pattern of Targeting Diplomats in Benghazi Should Have Been Warning.” The same day that story went up, the State Department and the White
The State Department has had a “Free Press” campaign for the past two weeks. Each day the Department highlights an imprisoned activist or journalist facing unreasonable conditions and imprisonment from countries around the world. After Tuesday’s journalist was described a
State Dept Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell on Tuesday used harsh language to condemn Victoria Toensing, a lawyer claiming to represent a Benghazi whistleblower, for “taking to the airwaves” with “patently false” statements. “We’ve had an individual who’s been out there
Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell announced on Tuesday that the House committee meeting next week to discuss security failures that led up to the attack on the U.S. Special Mission in Libya has not reached out to the State Department to
NBC Bay Area: More than 40,000 guns in California may soon be off the streets. A first of its kind program in the nation will take guns away from people who are not supposed to have them. There are 20,000
Less than a week before the House Oversight Committee is due to have its hearing examining the attacks on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Office of the Inspector General is expected to do a special review of the Accountability
Department of Defense and State Department officials have responded to letters sent by Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, in regards to legal representation for whistleblowers of the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on the U.S. consulate
Bolivian President Evo Morales has ejected the U.S. Agency for International Development, citing the ill-considered words of Secretary of State John Kerry as why. Kerry had appeared before a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in April and referred to Bolivia
