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Was there an embarrassing gaffe in Thursday night’s debate? Vice President Biden gave a bungled and misleading answer about the situation in Benghazi in which he stated that “we” did not know security requests had been made. Biden’s statement is

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney dodged a question about whether the President has asked for any change in procedure when Embassies request more security. Carney said that the President and the administration is waiting for recommendations from the investigatory

After a new Virginia poll showed Romney with a 7-point lead over Obama in the state, Mitt Romney campaigned in Richmond, Virginia on Friday and put more pressure on the Obama administration to tell Americans the truth about what they

When State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland was pressed about the possibility that Al Qaeda could have a list of Yemenis nationals that help the United States, Nuland ignored the question and said that the “Yemenis are investigating.” She went on

Yesterday, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland objected to the very presence of a Fox News reporter in the press pool. Here’s the transcript: QUESTION: As a follow-up to the hearing yesterday, how was — MS. NULAND: Can you tell me

In a disastrous question-answer session at the State Department yesterday, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland first tried to claim that the murder of our ambassador to Libya may have been touched off by a demonstration about the YouTube video after

Yesterday afternoon, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland admitted in the aftermath of the murder of one of our Yemen embassy security forces that al Qaeda may have a complete list of our Yemeni embassy personnel: QUESTION: Is it safe to

Last night during the debate Vice President Biden was asked about the security forces in Libya and told the moderator, Martha Raddatz, that “we didn’t know” the Benghazi consulate requested more security. This appeared to be a direct contradiction to

CBS’s Jan Crawford “Now Biden wanted to obviously stop Romney’s momentum from last week and change the subject but he may have some clean up of his own to do today on Libya,. He said last night the administration didn’t

Vice President Joe Biden on the attack in Libya: “We weren’t told they wanted more security there. We did not know they wanted more security [inaudible]. And by the way, we were told — we said exactly what the intelligence

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, may be ready to take on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her numerous failures leading up to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. consulate in Libya

The Washington Times is reporting that at the same time State Department officials were cutting security for our diplomatic stations in Libya, they were increasing the budget for our embassy in Austria in order to purchase Chevrolet’s electric powered Volt:

Congressman Jason Chaffetz told his collegues yesterday that he “dropped everything” and went to Libya immediately after the attack to assess the situation and find out the security failures. Chaffetz said that the State Department assigned an attorney to “shadow”

U.S. Representative Jason Chaffetz: “I wish that I could tell you everything that I learned. I did go to Libya, I did drop everything. I had the same type of notice that was given to the Democrats. In fact, the

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) on Wednesday — at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Libya — said the State Department made a photo of the U.S. consulate in Libya public after telling members of Congress over the weekend that the

Eric Nordstrom relayed to Congress during a hearing yesterday his frustrations with the State Department denying added security during his tour in Libya.

CSPAN – WASHINGTON, DC – Wednesday, October 10, 2012 – U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed September 11th in an assault on the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Wednesday, the full House Oversight and Government Reform

(AP) Ex-head of military team in Libya: security weakBy LARRY MARGASAK and BRADLEY KLAPPERAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe former head of a 16-member U.S. military team in Libya said Wednesday the consulate in Benghazi, where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were

As frustrated as I am with the media’s refusal to give the Benghazi security failures and subsequent White House cover up the coverage and attention deserved — you know, like half the coverage Big Bird got yesterday — there are

The former security chief for the US Consulate in Benghazi Libya testified today in the House of Representatives that the US State Department asked him to stop asking for increased security prior to the deadly terrorists attacks on Sept. 11,

James Clapper, director of National Intelligence (DNI), has come out swinging against his critics, just two weeks after his public affairs director said that US intelligence had initially labeled the attacks on our Benghazi consulate “spontaneous.” Back on September 28,

During a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the September 11, 2012, attacks against U.S. diplomatic facilities in Libya, a top State Department official refused to characterize the attacks as “terrorism.” “I have just presented the facts as they’ve come

TAPPER: President Obama shortly after the attacks told “60 Minutes” that regarding Romney’s response to the attack, specifically in Egypt, the president said that Romney has a tendency to shoot first and aim later. Given the fact that so much

Congressman Darrell Issa said today that he had phone conversations with Secretary Clinton and other State Department officials that claimed they never believed or assumed that the attack in Benghazi was spontaneous or a protest that escalated.

Congressman Darrell Issa scolded State Department officials today for releasing information and statements to the press that were previously classified without giving the newly declassified information to Congress to aid in their ongoing investigation of the security failures at the

Today’s congressional hearing on the Sep. 11, 2012 attacks across the Middle East, that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans in Benghazi, have destroyed the Obama administration’s lies about the event. There was not enough security

On Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland confirmed that Charlene Lamb, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security, and Eric Nordstrom, the former State Department Regional Security Officer for Libya,  will testify at House hearings today on the attacks that killed

(AP) State Dept. description of attack in sync with GOPBy LARRY MARGASAK and BRADLEY KLAPPERAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe State Department now says it never believed the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was a film protest gone awry,

CBS News State Department correspondent Margaret Brennan has learned new details from State Department sources on what happened the night of the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

A State Department official told Capitol Hill staffers the Islamist attacks in Benghazi, Libya were planned and highly organized the day after they occurred, contradicting the Obama Administration’s scapegoating of a YouTube clip.  Fox News reported on Monday that Under Secretary of

Tomorrow marks the beginning of a major Congressional hearing on the terror attack In Libya and in a desperately transparent attempt to get ahead of damaging news, at the very last minute tonight, the State Department finally came clean: – –

By BRADLEY KLAPPER and LARRY MARGASAKAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe State Department said Tuesday it never concluded that the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam, raising further questions about why the Obama administration used that explanation

Heritage Foundation: New evidence shows there were security threats in Libya in the months prior to the deadly September 11 attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Despite these threats, the State Department left its personnel

Father Christiaan Kappes, a priest for the Indianapolis Archdiocese, went missing in Greece last Monday after telling his family he feared for his life. His father, Virgil Kappes, encouraged his son to go to the US Embassy for help. While at the

CBS News: (CBS News) The former head of a Special Forces “Site Security Team” in Libya tells CBS News that in spite of multiple pleas from himself and other U.S. security officials on the ground for “more, not less” security