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**Posted by Phineas And these are people in position to know what happened: Appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will be three career State Department officials: Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time of the Benghazi terrorist attacks and, upon the killing of [...]
**Posted by Phineas But, don’t worry. According to a State Department spokesman, this is just part of a standard review of “the process.” Yeah, sure it is. The State Department’s Office of Inspector General is investigating the special internal panel that probed the Benghazi terror attack for the State Department, Fox News has confirmed. The IG’s [...]
**Posted by Phineas Last November, in a post about the Benghazi consulate massacre and the question of military relief, I wrote about the question of “cross-border authority” – that is, who has the power to order our military to enter another country without their permission, per force an act of war. Quoting an article at PJM by Matt [...]
Disturbing – via Fox News’ James Rosen: At least four career officials at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency have retained lawyers or are in the process of doing so, as they prepare to provide sensitive information about the Benghazi attacks to Congress, Fox News has learned. Victoria Toensing, a former Justice Department [...]
**Posted by Phineas One of your embassies is under attack, your ambassador and other Americans are in grave danger, and forces you’ve sent to their aid are held up at the local airport in a turf dispute. So, what do you do? Do you pick up the phone and call the leader of the host [...]
Oh, what ridiculous pearl-clutching! Via Politico: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) didn’t like Sen. Rand Paul’s comments about firing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at all. “When I heard him say those words, I walked out of the hearing room and listened to him from behind the stage because I was so infuriated at what that [...]
**Posted by Phineas Yes! Exactly! It’s the eternal way in Washington: “We are all responsible” means “No one is responsible” means “Don’t hold me responsible.” Especially when the person saying it really is one of those responsible. I’m liking Rand Paul a lot right now. via the Washington Free Beacon (Crossposted at Public Secrets)
**Posted by Phineas Some of you may recall that I’ve in the past praised Sharyl Attkisson of CBS for her work on the Fast and Furious scandal. For a long time, she was almost the only MSM reporter asking serious questions about what happened in that “felony stupid” fiasco Sharyl’s also been digging into the [...]
**Posted by Phineas This is just outrageous. Four Americans died in Benghazi and the people held accountable for it in the official review whitewash, who supposedly were forced to resign, were instead just given a timeout: The four officials supposedly out of jobs because of their blunders in the run-up to the deadly Benghazi terror attack [...]
**Posted by Phineas Imagine you’ve just helped overthrow a “repressive, but no threat to you” government in a far-off country, but it turns out that many of the residents –your erstwhile allies– are themselves sympathetic your deadly enemies, who’ve proven themselves to be very much a threat. And now imagine you’re going to establish a [...]