FBI identifies consulate attack suspects
Source: Al Jazeera English
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-24 17:02:16 -0700 | disasters-news
56 The FBI has identified five men it believes were involved in last year's deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. Washington has not officially asked the Libyan government to apprehend the men, but Al Jazeera has learned that...
Additional Embassy Guards Will Come at Steep Price Each
Source: Newyork Times
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-24 17:03:08 -0700 | political-news
When the State Department fields the first of 350 additional Marine security guards at high-risk embassies and consulates around the world later this year, the price tag will be steep: about $1.6 million per Marine...It turns out that about $525...
Controversies do little to change views of President Obama
Source: Kansas City Star
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-25 01:57:13 -0700 | political-news
May 24 The Kansas City Star Seems you either despise or defend your president...More News Beset by a trio of controversies over the handling of attacks on a Libyan consulate, revenue agents targeting conservative groups and the Justice Department snooping...
Months into Obama term, GOP seeks 2016 leader
Source: Denver Post
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-24 16:36:04 -0700 | political-news
09 PM MDT Updated: 05/24/2013 02:34:27 PM MDT Seeking to raise money for the New Hampshire Republican Party, state chairwoman Jennifer Horn recently called the party's national boss, Reince Priebus, with a question: Could he get Rand Paul to...
Since America lost its nerve long ago, Obama officially renounces War on Terror
Source: Canadian Free Press
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-24 15:52:52 -0700 | political-news
Oh, they supported it in the early going, even giving Bush authorization to attack Afghanistan and invade Iraq, not because their hearts were in it but because the political dynamics of the time would murdered them if they had done...
Issa's panel inching closer to asking for Hillary Clinton's testimony on Benghazi
Source: The Hill
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-23 16:02:35 -0700 | political-news
We have a number of steps that we are taking to get full and complete discovery, Issa said. He added that the committee members don't want to waste the former secretary's time by calling her before they do their full...
FIELDS: Barack Obama as the Great Gatsby
Source: The Washington Times
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-23 04:51:26 -0700 | political-news
The nation's capital has wonderful art museums, concerts and theaters, but they're only supplements to the big story playing out on the front pages always the government. We often miss the delicious ironies and insights that the literary and artistic...
TYRRELL: The beauty of confusion in officialdom
Source: The Washington Times
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-23 04:51:17 -0700 | political-news
Where are we now in this morass of Obama administration scandals?...Well, a synonym for imbroglio is confusion, and in all the above cases, replace the word imbroglio with the word confusion and you will get a hint of where I...
Syrians seeking refuge in Libya
Source: IRIN
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-23 04:16:54 -0700 | political-news
Two years ago Syrians in the relative security of their own country watched the unfolding crisis in Libya descend into a devastating civil war. Since then the tables have turned, and many of those same families find themselves in Libya...
Jay Carney: Criticisms over handling of scandals legitimate
Source: The Hill
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-23 03:11:32 -0700 | political-news
After tense and combative press briefings on Monday and Tuesday, press secretary Jay Carney took a different tack Wednesday, acknowledging there were legitimate criticisms about how we're handling this. The admission crystallized a sense within the press that Team Obama,...
Begnhazi whistle-blower's lawyer demands leaks probe
Source: Fox
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-23 21:30:42 -0700 | political-news
Attorney Victoria Toensing said Wednesday she will ask the State Department's inspector general to launch an investigation into claims that employees there leaked personal information on her whistle-blower client to members of the media as an intimidation tactic ahead of...
In Sprinter case, buck must stop at the top
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-22 18:18:35 -0700 | political-news
F516; Save The buck stops here! so said the plaque that famously sat atop President Harry S...How quaint and old-fashioned that sentiment seems when compared with the way our government operates at virtually every level today. In our nation's...
Lawmaker Gives Atheist ‘Prayer,' Glenn Beck's Latest Controversial Comment, and More
Source: Truthdig
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-22 18:06:18 -0700 | political-news
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa has agreed to withdraw a subpoena of Thomas Pickering over the Benghazi, Libya, attacks after the retired diplomat agreed to a private, closed door meeting. The panel had wanted Pickering to respond to questions...
Obama team not exactly going all out to capture Benghazi attackers
Source: Canadian Free Press
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-22 14:44:20 -0700 | disasters-news
They have let it slip by because of politics, and now we've taken all the correlation we had and dropped the ball because of risk (aversion)and now the security in Libya is more fragile than ever, one U.S. special operator...
House committee withdraws subpoena after Benghazi investigation leader OKs private meeting
Source: Star Tribune
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-24 03:06:44 -0700 | political-news
A House committee chairman has withdrawn a subpoena to compel a retired diplomat to answer questions in private about an independent investigation of last year's attack in Benghazi, Libya. Rep. Darrell Issa (EYE'-suh) says he acted after Thomas Pickering agreed...
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