With Susan Rice moving from the UN to the West Wing, the game of musical chairs needed another player, and it didn’t take long for Barack Obama to pick another insider to fill Rice’s seat.  Longtime adviser Samantha Power will replace Rice, but unlike the first move today, Power will have to face a Senate [...]

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When it became clear last fall that the CIA’s now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents reviewed by Congress suggest a different story. ABC News has obtained 12 different versions of the talking points that [...]

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via Official: We knew Benghazi was a terrorist attack \”from the get-go\” (CBS News) “Everybody in the mission” in Benghazi, Libya, thought the attack on a U.S. consulate there last Sept. 11 was an act of terror “from the get-go,” according to excerpts of an interview investigators conducted with the No. 2 official in Libya [...]

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President Barack Obama got ahead of himself and his advisers when he said that Syria using chemical weapons would cross a “red line,” the New York Times reports. “How can we attack another country unless it’s in self-defense and with no Security Council resolution?” an unnamed Obama administration official tells the paper. “If he drops sarin on [...]

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via Rep. Trey Gowdy: further Benghazi hearings \’coming quickly\’ If you thought the Benghazi cover-up story was a thing of the past, think again.  According to Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC), more hearings are imminent, and they promise to be “explosive.” Appearing on Fox News yesterday afternoon, Gowdy indicated that they may also – for the [...]

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(CNSNews.com) – A disclosure on Capitol Hill that the Defense Intelligence Agency believes North Korea has developed the know-how to mount nuclear warheads on ballistic missiles made international headlines Thursday, before Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called it into question. Clapper said in a statement that a passage read out during a House Armed [...]

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(CNSNews.com) – As tributes pour in and Britons wrestle over her legacy at home, few around the world would dispute that Margaret Thatcher’s foreign policy left Britain more respected, and the West stronger, during a pivotal decade of the 20th century. Britain’s first woman prime minister, who died Monday at 87, will be remembered for [...]

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(CNSNews.com) – With just three days to go before her last day at the State Department, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues to be dogged by questions about the deadly terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi last fall. In a letter sent late on Monday, three Republican House committee chairmen asked Clinton to [...]

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President Barack Obama on Friday called Sen. John Kerry “a perfect choice” to lead American diplomacy forward as he nominated the Massachusetts Democrat to be the next secretary of state. “He is not going to need a lot of on-the-job training,” Obama said in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, with Kerry by his [...]

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Why is the UN rewarding the Palestinian Authority this time? A very bright fellow, a dear friend of mine, asked me in synagogue the other week: “Why do the Palestinians shoot rockets at Israel if they know they will get blasted in return by far greater firepower?” “This is their fundraising season,” I replied. “The [...]

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