Benghazi, Libya
Libyan Defense Minister Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Bargati (C) looks on during a meeting with elderlies and tribe chiefs on the security situation on May 18, 2013 in Benghazi, Libya. A bomb exploded Saturday in a Tripoli street housing the Algerian, Greek and Saudi embassies, lightly damaging a car, hours after a soldier was wounded in a bombing in Libya's second city Benghazi. A security source said the homemade bomb, locally known as 'gelatina', had been placed near a car on a street in the central district of Dahra where the three embassies are located.
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showed that the talking points had been altered to remove references to al Qaeda and a Libyan jihadist militia as well as to CIA warnings before the attack about an extremist threat in Benghazi.
Slim majorities of Americans are very or somewhat closely following the situations involving the Internal Revenue Service (54%) and the congressional hearings on the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and its aftermath (53%)
An email discussion about talking points the Obama administration used to describe the deadly attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, show the White House and State Department were more involved than they first said...More quotes »
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Blasts rock Libya's capital and eastern city
-- Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi , but no casualties were reported.A security official says one bombing targeted an abandoned church in Benghazi that had been previously damaged by 2:29 PM Read more »
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Krauthammer: Redacted truth, subjunctive outrage
Hicks, the honorable, apolitical second-in-command that night in Libya , movingly and grippingly demolish the president's Benghazi mantra that "what I have always tried to do is just get all the facts" and "every piece of information that we got, as we got Read more »
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Benghazi emails describing 'talking points' released to the public
100 pages of e-mails and notes related to the Obama administration's response to the attack on a diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya , last September.The White House had until now declined to make the documents public and had let congressional investigators Read more »
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Petraeus email objected to Benghazi talking points
final talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya , because he wanted to see more detail publicly released, including a warning issued from the CIA about plans for a break-in Read more »
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Hudson: Not everyone is out to destroy Hillary Clinton
on Thursday afternoon: "Republicans now seem willing to cast the State Department response to the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Libya as a referendum on Hillary Rodham Clinton 's fitness to lead the country - and are abandoning a long-held hands-off-Hillary strategy Read more »
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B-list scandals begin to take the shine off Barack Obama's halo
government. The first relates to the death of four American officials in last September's attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The second concerns the secret seizure by the Justice Department of journalists' phone records, and the third the targeting 7:23 PM from The Independent Read more »
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Column forgot careless comment by Clinton
Brown's column May 11 asks if we are a nation run by fools because of the fiasco in Benghazi wherein the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three military personnel were killed in a terror attack. She mentioned the talking points offered by the Obama administration 6:52 PM from Victoria Advocate Read more »
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President Obama checks for rain before golf outing just days after causing uproar by having uniformed soldier hold an umbrella over him
Usually a marine guard would be in force at an overseas diplomatic compound but in Benghazi the government opted to use a private Libyan security team. Stevens had made repeated appeals for improved security at the Libyan base but to no avail. Tyrone S. Woods 3:26 PM from Daily Mail - UK Read more »
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Blasts rock Libya's capital and eastern city
that no one was killed and that there... The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual... 2:54 PM from San Diego Local News 1 Read more »
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Blasts rock Libya's capital and eastern city
Libya (AP) — Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported. A security official says one bombing targeted an abandoned church in Benghazi that had been previously damaged 2:36 PM from ABC-KVUE Austin Read more »
