Peninsula readers' letters: May18
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 19:28:38 -0700 | political-news
Font Resize From Daily News Group readers Issa the opportunist Dear Editor: How opportunistic for Darrell Issa, the Republican representative from California, to now attack Democrats about the terrorist attack in Libya. He loves to paint Democrats in a bad...
BENGHAZI PROBE:Issa Subpoenas Diplomat, Wants Private Briefing
Source: Fox
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 16:45:11 -0700 | political-news
Published May 17, 2013 FoxNews.com A top House Republican has subpoenaed the co-chairman of the Obama administration's internal review board for the Benghazi attack -- escalating his own inquiry amid a report that showed administration officials expressing regret about their...
Where gas is cheaper than water
Source: CNN
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 19:30:10 -0700 | political-news
Homemade anti-tank weapons Bourdain meets Libyan Boy Scouts What American food is a hit in Libya? Libya's population is small, just more than 6 million, more than 80% inhabiting the coastal region. More than half of that is concentrated in...
Benghazi probe co-chair subpoenaed by House panel
Source: Seattle Times
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 12:13:03 -0700 | political-news
Page modified May 17, 2013 at 12:02 PM Benghazi probe co-chair subpoenaed by House panel The chairman of the House Oversight committee has issued a subpoena to compel the co-chairman of the independent review board that investigated last year's attack...
Reporter Turned White House Spokesman Enjoys the Hot Seat
Source: The New York Times
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 12:44:54 -0700 | political-news
For the better part of a decade, Jay Carney sat slumped in his tiny chair in the White House briefing room, parsing, challenging and at times pillorying the words of an array of press secretaries. But over the last week...
SNC-Lavalin says former executive's illegal actions justify firing
Source: The Globe & Mail
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 11:38:15 -0700 | political-news
EDT Montreal headquarters of engineering giant SNC-Lavalin. S (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press/Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press) SNC-Lavalin says it was justified in firing a former executive last year because it says he acted illegally to help smuggle the son of Libya's...
KUHNER: Lawless in office
Source: The Washington Times
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 04:24:38 -0700 | political-news
President Obama is facing a perfect storm of scandals, cover-ups and criminality that threatens to sweep him from power. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the first Watergate hearings. They eventually brought down President Nixon, forcing him to resign....
House committee to grill ousted IRS chief
Source: SF Gate
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 12:49:41 -0700 | political-news
Lawmakers are ready to question the ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service as Congress holds its first hearing on the tougher scrutiny the IRS gave tea party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. With the scandal...
Libya: Benghazi Insecurity Persists
Source: Africa Headlines
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 03:54:36 -0700 | political-news
Benghazi The security situation in the Libyan city of Benghazi continues to deteriorate. In the latest of a series of attacks, gunmen assaulted and burnt the al-Hadek police station on Wednesday (May 15th)...The same police station was attacked on three...
Benghazi: What Did the CIA Know, and When Did It Know It?
Source: Mother Jones
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 14:57:36 -0700 | political-news
GOP scandal-chasers have been obsessed with the Obama administration's talking points about the attack on US facilities in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead, and the White House on Wednesday tried to put the pseudo-scandal to rest by releasing...
A Field Guide To Democratic Responses To Scandals
Source: National Public Radio
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-18 00:46:45 -0700 | political-news
President Obama's first term was free from the kind of scandal that consumes every ounce of political oxygen in Washington. Now, in light of a trio of controversies, his supporters find themselves in the uncomfortable and unaccustomed position of having...
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