The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook Is this an impeachable offense? No. Will Hillary Clinton’s evident involvement in the revision of the administration’s line on Benghazi harm her presidential chances in 2016? No. Will this be of great political utility to Republicans? No. Will [...]
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Benghazi Hearings, The 2016 Preemptive Strike
The express purpose now is to protect Hillary Clinton, to make sure none of this touches her. – Rush Limbaugh [Liberals Will Protect Hillary at All Costs] THE BENGHAZI hearings today are trained on Hillary Clinton, which became clear if you’ve been listening to Republicans or Rush on right wing radio. The hyper partisan House [...]
Benghazi “Whistler-blowers” and the Partisan Hacks
Greg Hicks, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, told congressional investigators that the State Department internal review of the catastrophe at the mission in Benghazi “let people off the hook,” CNN has learned. [CNN] THERE ARE no two people more associated with partisan brawls than Joseph diGenova and Victoria [...]
Benghazi? We’re Still Waiting for Bush and Cheney to be Held Accountable for Iraq. [Rachel Maddow Videos]
Hagel saw that, in Iraq, America was taking on an already weakened leader who the senator said probably didn’t have weapons of mass destruction, and at the same time empowering another regime (Iran) that badly wanted WMDs–a dire development further documented on Monday by The Washington Post, which reported that the Iranian-backed Shiite group Asaib [...]
Senator Lindsey Graham to Put Hold on Obama Nominees Over Benghazi
I want to know who changed the talking points. Who took the references to Al Qaeda out of the talking points given to Susan Rice? We still don’t know…. I want to know what our president did. What did he do as commander in chief? Did he ever pick up the phone and call anybody? [...]
Bill Kristol, Kelly Ayotte and the Right’s Ignorant Display on Benghazi Continues [Videos]
“The forces were moving… … There was no time or space available to be able to respond in time.” – Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta [C-SPAN - See video below] CONSERVATIVES STUBBORNLY refuse to accept and understand just how quickly the Benghazi, Libya 9/11 terrorist attack engulfed the consulate and also that the Obama administration, [...]
Obama Cites Fox News in Interview in the Relaunch of The New Republic
IMAGINE THAT President Obama called Fox News Channel out on their unfair and imbalanced baloney. That’s what he does in an interview for the new relaunch of The New Republic, which Dylan Byers breaks down. … The build-up has lasted for almost a year. In June 2012, three months after buying the magazine, Hughes was [...]
Top Story — Obama’s Inaugural Week, Reid and Schumer’s Weaknesses Follow
The joint budget resolution could also call for Medicare reforms and using the chained CPI formula to curb the cost of Social Security benefits. These entitlement reforms combined with tax reform would give Republicans political cover to accept tax increases — or at least more cover than if tax increases were merely packaged as an [...]
Secretary Kerry
With a little prodding, Sen. John Kerry once reluctantly showed me his childhood passport. It was tattooed with border crossing stamps from almost all the Western European countries. From 1951 to 1954, his father Richard Kerry, a career Foreign Service officer, worked as an attorney for what was then called the Bureau of United Nations [...]
State Department Inquiry on Benghazi Finds “Grossly Inadequate” Security, No Video Protest
Finally, the report blamed two major State Department bureaus — Diplomatic Security and Near Eastern Affairs — for failing to coordinate and plan adequate security. The panel also determined that a number of officials had shown poor leadership, but they were not identified in the unclassified version of the report that was released. “Systemic failures [...]
TOP STORY — Amb. Susan Rice Removes her Name from Consideration for Top Diplomat [Obama's Full Statement - Video]
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “If nominated, I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly – to you and to our most pressing national and international priorities,” Rice wrote in a letter to President Obama, saying she’s saddened by the partisan politics [...]
Tide Against Susan Rice Continues to Rise and It has Nothing to Do with Benghazi
THERE CONTINUES to be trouble for Susan Rice as article after article appears revealing why so many, including myself, aren’t enamored with the possibility of her taking over at the State Department. A recent story by Helene Cooper in the New York Times stripped bear Susan Rice’s close working relationship to Rwanda’s president, Paul Kagame, [...]
John Kerry is a Better Choice for State Than Susan Rice
The problem with making Susan Rice secretary of state isn’t Benghazi. It’s war. Rice, like her “mentor,” former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, and the current secretary, Hillary Clinton, has supported just about every proposed U.S. military intervention over the two decades. The president should nominate someone that occasionally opposes a war. [...] Rice is [...]
News Desk: John McCain Set to Join Senate Foreign Relations Committee Before State Confirmation
SETTING UP a potential confrontational confirmation, if President Obama moves ahead to nominate Susan Rice to follow Secretary Clinton, Senator McCain will join the SFRC after the New Year. From Josh Rogin: McCain told The Cable he will join the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) and also remain on the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) [...]
Secretary Clinton on What Lies Ahead in Foreign Policy [Full Remarks]
A FOREIGN policy speech given by Secretary Clinton at Foreign Policy’s “transformational trends” forum, also included a Q&A with Secretary Clinton. The speech comes as anticipation grows for President Obama to soon nominate her successor, perhaps even next week, with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice in the eye of the storm and considered the leading candidate [...]
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