The House Benghazi Select Committee recently held their second public hearing on the 2012 terrorist attack in Libya that claimed the lives of four Americans. This hearing went much like the first hearing. Little new information was gained due to obvious stonewalling efforts on the part of State Department employees testifying before the Committee, according… [Read More]
Trey Gowdy Captains Benghazi Investigation As The Anti-Issa
WASHINGTON — As he strode into the hearing room in the Capitol Hill visitor’s center on Sept. 16, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), chair of the special congressional committee investigating the 2012 attack in Benghazi, made a quick beeline to a member of the crowd. It wasn’t a fellow lawmaker. They were already on the dais… [Read More]
Benghazi a potential Death Star battle heading into the 2016 Election
Four months after a White House email uncovered by Judicial Watch forced the appointment of a special House committee on Benghazi, the curtain went up Tuesday on the next stage of the investigation. Committee chairman Trey Gowdy led hearings into the State Department’s implementation of recommendations to prevent future attacks on U.S. facilities abroad. The witnesses were members of… [Read More]
Liberal View: On Benghazi hearing’s non-partisan miracle
Ari Rabin-Havt, On Wednesday, the Benghazi Select Committee, led by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., held its first public hearings since forming last spring. The focus was ensuring that recommendations by the Accountability Review Board (ARB) to better protect State Department diplomats are being implemented. From the outset, it was obvious to many that the committee… [Read More]
Trey Gowdy Just Dug Up What This State Dept Official Hoped Wouldn’t Be Exposed
Trey Gowdy questioned Gregory Starr, Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security, as part of the review board investigation on the American consulate in Benghazi two years ago. Mr. Gowdy read from a 1999 Accountability Review Board report to Mr. Starr: “We are disturbed that the inadequacy of resources to provide security against terrorist attacks. … [Read More]
Benghazi and Hillary
Bruce Bialosky By now you must be pretty sick of reading and hearing about Hillary Clinton. Personally, I am ready for No Mas. But after I wrote my first column about Benghazi many readers wrote and asked me to promise I would not let the subject die. Since nothing has happened that has warranted dropping… [Read More]
MUST READ: Ted Cruz Lays Out 10 Questions About Benghazi [VIDEO]
After the House of Representatives announced the formation of a special Benghazi Select Committee, Senator Ted Cruz renewed his call for a Senate select committee on Benghazi that would work jointly with the House committee. Senator Cruz has long been critical of the lack of action on the part of the Obama administration in dealing… [Read More]
Insanity: The Guards Hired to �Protect
Britney Logan, A chilling piece of information was revealed in the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of Benghazi. We know that Hillary Clinton cut security just weeks before our embassy in Benghazi was attacked, leading to the murders of four Americans. The group she hired to replace them? A known affiliate to al Qaeda… who we… [Read More]
State Dept renewed lease on Benghazi consulate � with security waiver
Just two months before the attack on our consulate in Benghazi killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, the State Department approved the renewal of its lease while once again waiving security requirements. CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson reports that the security waiver came just one month after an IED blew a hole in the wall… [Read More]
Zero accountability: token Benghazi scapegoats reinstated
The delirious farce of the Obama Administration’s deadly blunder and cover-up in Benghazi is now complete, as the Daily Beast reports that new Secretary of State John Kerry has reinstated the four State Department employees selected for symbolic token punishment by his predecessor, Hillary Clinton: Last December, Clinton’s staff told four mid-level officials to clean out their desks and… [Read More]