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Benghazi Hearing

Why One Issue Won't Go Away

AP | CONNIE CASS | Posted 05.18.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, i...

What's Behind the Benghazi Hearings?

Barbra Streisand | Posted 05.14.2013 | Politics
Barbra Streisand

Sometimes in the face of national tragedy, politics should take a backseat. The hypocrisy of turning Benghazi into a deliberate cover-up scandal is preposterous at a time when the nation faces so many serious problems.

With Benghazi, Republicans Recruit Beltway Press For Another Whitewater Production

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.14.2013 | Media
Eric Boehlert

Like Whitewater, look at how the Benghazi production now comes complete with dubious claims about whistleblowers (and their unreliable advocate), controversial talking points, and leaked Congressional testimony used to whip up media anticipation.

Jason Linkins

Toward A Better Benghazi Inquiry

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.13.2013 | Politics

The state of play on the ongoing Benghazi inquiry, in terms of the partisan backbiting, seems to be rather simple. GOP interlocutors on the House Over...

Hillary Was Right!!

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 05.14.2013 | Politics
Patricia DeGennaro

You heard it here, the former Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton was right. Like she said, "what does it matter?". What does matter is that the Congress is wasting our time and money rehashing rhetoric instead of reason.

Munich on the Potomac: The Republican Take-No-Prisoners Strategy -- and Obama's Conciliation

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.12.2013 | Politics
Robert Kuttner

The more that the Obama Administration tries to meet the Republicans half way, the more extreme and implacable their demands become. Obama's term still has more than three and a half years to run and Democrats still have a 55-45 majority in the Senate, but the Republicans are treating him like the lamest of lame ducks. It should be clear by now -- meeting these people halfway only whets their appetite. In his remaining days in office, Obama can insist until the cows come home that he has been the president who tried to change the tone in Washington, to find areas of common ground and to show that there is more that unites Americans than divides us. But until he finds some inner toughness, the Republicans will continue to stymie his every move and he will be a feeble president at a moment when we need a resolute one.

GOP Rep Issues Prediction On Benghazi 'Whistle Blowers'

Reuters | Posted 05.12.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) - A top Republican on Sunday said he expected more witnesses to step forward with information about last year's deadly ...

Benghazi debate sparks little formal lobbying

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.10.2013 | Politics
The Center for Public Integrity

By Dave Levinthal May 9, 2013 This story was originally published by The Center for Public Integrity, which is a nonprofit, n...

Amanda Terkel

Dick Cheney Suggests Republicans Subpoena Hillary Clinton

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.09.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney met with House Republicans on Thursday morning, suggesting they may need to subpoena former Secretary ...

Boehner Demands More Information Over Controversy

Reuters | Posted 05.09.2013 | Politics

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, May 9 (Reuters) - The Republican leader of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday added to the...

Luke Johnson

Benghazi Hearing Reveals Something Worse Than A Cover-Up: Incompetence

HuffingtonPost.com | Luke Johnson | Posted 05.09.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Months-long wrangling over the attacks at an American outpost in Benghazi, Libya, was given a new platform Wednesday when House Oversigh...

With Re: Benghazi -- We've Met the Enemy and It Is Not Us!

Douglas Kmiec | Posted 05.08.2013 | Politics
Douglas Kmiec

More than anything else, the attack of 9/11/12 reveals a bureaucracy's tendency to believe its own press.

Republicans and the Benghazi Hearings: A Show of Force or Just a Show?

Dee Evans | Posted 05.08.2013 | Politics
Dee Evans

History shows that each of the presidents of the past few decades have had to deal with embassy attacks and bombings but for some reason, I don't ever recall there being so much unrest following an attack as there is now under President Obama.

Megyn Kelly: Fox News Benghazi Coverage 'Lopsided'

Posted 05.08.2013 | Media

Fox News host Megyn Kelly announced to her viewers on Wednesday that her network's coverage of the Benghazi hearings on Capitol Hill had been "lopside...

Dick Cheney Bashes Obama 'Failure' On Benghazi

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.08.2013 | Politics

President Barack Obama's administration exhibited a "failure of leadership" with the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya, former Vice President ...

McCain's Benghazi Fishing Trip Lands Gregory Hicks

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.08.2013 | Politics
Steve Clemons

Gregory Hicks has emerged with a story outlining requests made on his end for the movement of a U.S. Special Forces unit that he says was blocked. Hicks matters because none of us knew about his requests or role until a few days ago.

Mother Of Benghazi Victim: 'I Blame' Hillary Clinton

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.08.2013 | Politics

The mother of one of the state department officials killed in the Sept. 11 Benghazi attack pointed the finger of blame directly at former Secretary of...

GOP Senator 'Satisfied' Despite Big Hearing

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 05.08.2013 | Politics

Just before House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) began a potentially explosive hearing Wednesday on t...

GOP Mission Stokes 2016 Controversy

Posted 05.08.2013 | Politics

By DONNA CASSATA, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — House Republicans insist the Obama administration is covering up information about last year'...

Howard Fineman

Campaign 2016 Begins In Benghazi

HuffingtonPost.com | Howard Fineman | Posted 05.08.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Darrell Issa, who made a fortune in car alarms, is now blaring his sirens before the start of a Wednesday hearing on the 2012 terro...

It's Not Benghazi, It's President Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.07.2013 | Politics
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Some in the GOP aren't content to wait for that. GOP stalking horse and talk show host Mike Huckabee typified that with the outlandish quip that Benghazi will sink the Obama Administration before his term ends.

Jason Linkins

Benghazi Will Totally Be 'The Next Watergate' Unless It Isn't

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.08.2013 | Politics

This week, your House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will bring us the latest in l'affaire Benghazi with a set of hearings titled "Exposing...

Issa: State Department 'Whistleblowers' Will Testify On Benghazi

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 05.04.2013 | Politics

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said three witnesses will testify Wednesday on the 2012 terrorist attack on the American diplomatic post in Benghazi, Lib...

Leon Panetta Faces Questions On Benghazi

AP | DONNA CASSATA and RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is determined to position small, quick reaction forces closer to global crises after the rapid assault on the U.S...

Don't Let Your Children Watch the Bullying on C-Span

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 04.06.2013 | Politics
Judge H. Lee Sarokin

I suspect that a political party that seeks to suppress voting under the guise of non-existent voter fraud has no difficulty in presuming the existence of a lie to cover a true purpose.