EDITORS’ NOTE: According to a source close to Breitbart News and high up in the intelligence community, the Obama administration’s policy following Muammar Gaddafi’s death has been to keep a “low profile” during a chaotic time. For this reason, according to the source,
The U.S. State Dept. issued a travel warning telling Americans to avoid Libya two weeks before the deadly attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others. In addition, a recently updated threat assessment for Libya demonstrates the State Department
Today, UN Ambassador Susan Rice explained to Jake Tapper of ABC News that America wasn’t “impotent” in the Middle East. What was her proof? Let’s look at what’s happened. It’s quite the opposite of being impotent. We have worked with
(AP) US orders some diplomats out of Sudan, TunisiaBy MATTHEW LEEAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe State Department on Saturday ordered the departure of all family members and non-essential U.S. government personnel from its embassies in Sudan and Tunisia and warned U.S. citizens against
WASHINGTON —An elite Marine rapid response team has arrived in Yemen’s capital in the wake of violent protests at the U.S. Embassy over a film critical of Islam, the Pentagon said Friday, as a nervous Obama administration watched anti-American demonstrations
Now that the White House and State Department have made clear that they believe movies compel terrorists to terrorize, it’s time for them to get ahead of this problem. And one thing the White House can do immediately is to
The State Department has announced it will answer no more questions on the deaths of four Americans at a Libya consulate until the Justice Department completes an investigation of the September 11th incident. Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland passed responsibility to the
US senators called for a comprehensive probe into security protocols at US facilities worldwide Friday after protests that left four Americans dead and several missions torched or breached. Two different sets of lawmakers wrote letters to US officials, including Secretary
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Fox News military analyst Colonel David Hunt laid the blame for the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at the Benghazi, Libya American mission on Hillary Clinton and the State
This morning on CNN’s “Starting Point,” Obama’s incredibly revealing admissionWednesday night that he might have lost Egypt as our biggest and most important (besides Israel) ally in the Middle East, was treated as a brilliant tactical move to get the Egyptians
White House spokesman Jay Carney claims that reports of advance warning to the State Department are false and the Administration had “no actionable intelligence” to act upon in advance of the Sept. 11 attacks on US Embassies in Egypt and
Paul Mirengoff at Powerline reported that the Marine Corps issued a statement on Thursday confirming that prior to the September 11 murder of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya, no Marines were stationed in Libya, either at
Responding to the murders of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other American diplomats on the anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich asserted: No American should be confused about the fact that
The “movie” was an excuse and the attack on our Libyan consulate was planned, claims one paper. The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious
Instead of questioning President Barack Obama about the intelligence and security failures that led to the deaths of four diplomatic personnel in Libya Tuesday, the media has focused its ire on a California private citizen. The filmmaker allegedly behind the
Today, the Independent is reporting shocking details about the attack on the Libyan consulate that resulted in the death of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. The details are so explosive that they will result in a Congressional investigation. In
Jimmy Carter sounds more confident in his assessment of our ally status with Egypt than the White House and State Department, who are currently publicly contradicting each other over the matter. (Gaffe?) President Carter spoke to Drake University in Des Moines and
The Cairo Embassy’s controversial statement about “abuse” of free speech was written by a senior public affairs officer and approved by the Chargé d’affaires. A draft of the statement was sent to the State Department; officials there recommended against it
President Obama compared his campaign volunteers to the murdered consulate staff in Libya at a Wednesday stump speech in Las Vegas: “And obviously [our] hearts are broken for the families but I wanted to encourage those folks at the State Dept.
Did the State Department ban Marines from carrying ammo at the U.S. embassy in Cairo? That’s what some are reporting, as well as claiming our Ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson, had forbidden it. U.S. Marines defending the American embassy in
The mainstream media are laboring hard to turn Gov. Mitt Romney’s strong defense of American interests and values into a “gaffe” that reflects the Obama campaign’s claim that Romney is somehow not ready for the foreign policy duties of the
US President Barack Obama said the killers of the American ambassador to Libya would be brought to justice, as the United States dispatched two destroyers and a unit of Marines to Libya. Tuesday’s assault on the Benghazi consulate followed a
During an interview aired on “60 Minutes,” President Obama attempted to deflect some of the heat off himself and onto the staff at the the U.S. embassy in Cairo. When he’s not throwing scapegoats under the bus he’s comparing his
Today, speaking about the despicable and stomach-wrenching attacks by Islamists on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and our embassy in Cairo, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked: “How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city
MSM was furious with Mitt Romney today after he issued a strongly-worded condemnation of the state department’s initial apology and today criticized the Obama administration for attempting to placate our attackers. Romney didn’t apologize. He condemned. More importantly, he led.
On a target date like the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, it is quite the jaw-dropping revelation to learn that there were no Marines guarding the U. S. consulate where Chris Stevens, our ambassador to Libya, was brutally murdered yesterday: Marine Corps spokeswoman
(WaPo) — U.S. Ambassador to Libya John Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed Tuesday in an assault on the American consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, the White House said. In a statement issued by the White
The U.S. embassy in Cairo issued apologetic statements on 9/11–both before and during attacks by a radical mob. Those statements, condemning the supposed abuse of free speech by Americans who had criticized Islam, were later disavowed by the White House–though
Early reports of the militant attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed our Ambassador, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans offer a confusing picture of the facts surrounding these murders. CBS News is reporting that Ambassador Stevens
US ambassador Chris Stevens had hailed the Libyan revolt that overthrew Moamer Kadhafi, but now appears to have been struck down in a rocket attack by forces unleashed after the strongman’s fall. Stevens was killed in an attack on the
(AP) US ambassador killed in consulate attack in LibyaBy ESAM MOHAMED and MAGGIE MICHAELAssociated PressTRIPOLI, LibyaThe U.S. ambassador to Libya and three American members of his staff were killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern city
Following a White House disavowal of apologies by the U.S. embassy in Egypt on 9/11 for insulting Islam–a disavowal which was itself soon contradicted by the State Department–the embassy has begun deleting tweets from its Twitter feed (@USEmbassyCairo). The embassy–and
For the second time in as many weeks, the State Department has contradicted President Barack Obama, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton re-affirmed the apologetic stance disavowed earlier this evening by the White House in reacting to the storming of
The Obama Administration is letting Israel twist slowly in the wind. The Israeli government, desperately trying to convince the U.S. government to draw a line in the sand that Iran must not cross, is pleading to a president deaf, unconcerned,
Egypt’s ruling party, the extremist Muslim Brotherhood, blasted the United States after an angry Islamist mob stormed the U.S. embassy’s walls and shredded an American flag over alleged offenses in a film that no one can name. Said the spokesman
The Democratic National Convention, reeling from today’s chaotic fiasco surrounding the reinsertion of pro-Israel, pro-God language into the party platform, has announced that President Obama personally intervened to ensure that that language was revived. But Politico is now reporting that
Pipeline operator TransCanada on Wednesday offered to re-route its planned Keystone XL pipeline to avoid environmentally sensitive areas as it carries oil from Canada’s tar sands to US refineries. The new route was designed based on feedback from Nebraska’s environmental
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of farmers’ markets is up by 9.6% from last year, and in 2011, the number of farmers’ markets had increased by 17% from 2010. USDA administration states, “Farmers markets are a
By ROMINA RUIZ-GOIRIENA and MARTHA MENDOZAAssociated PressGUATEMALA CITYA team of 200 U.S. Marines began patrolling Guatemala’s western coast this week in an unprecedented operation to beat drug traffickers in the Central America region, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday. The
Naomi Rivera, a 49-year-old Democratic assemblywoman from the Bronx, likes to give her boy-toys more than just pleasure; she gets them good-paying jobs for which they are unqualified, too. Now the FBI, the state attorney general, the Bronx DA and
