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Hillary Clinton was not
a great secretary of state

Washington Examiner [DC], by Editorial

Original Article

Posted By:StormCnter, 1/26/2013 5:51:31 AM

If there was one constant through Secretary of State Hillary Clinton´s appearances before congressional committees Wednesday, it was that lawmakers fell all over themselves heaping praise on her for the job she has done. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., was typical, saying: "Madame Secretary, you have represented us with tremendous strength and poise. You have won us friends." Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., gushed, "We don´t have time to give a full listing of the achievements you deserve credit for."

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: nevernaught, 1/26/2013 5:55:36 AM     (No. 9140025)

Well, she´s a superb liar... almost.


Reply 2 - Posted by: miceal, 1/26/2013 5:56:52 AM     (No. 9140028)

I thought "Halfbright" won the booby prize until PIAPS took the job. Absolute worst SoS in my lifetime. However, the rats in the House and Senate treated her like the second coming. I live in a world turned upside down...


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: ersatzluci, 1/26/2013 6:09:49 AM     (No. 9140035)

Has anyone ever seen a list of the actual achievements of PIAPS as SOS? If there´s no list there are no achievements! I don´t know of any.


Reply 4 - Posted by: JAN, 1/26/2013 6:29:36 AM     (No. 9140053)

I watched for the entire day. She did not impress, she did not tell the truth. She did not answer a single question put to her.

The republicans made their points very well. Buying into the msm mantra that she was equisite in her performance is ludicrous.

Do we believe the lying media? What happened to our common sense. Are we so willing to blame republicans for her every failure?

This blaming of our side is akin to the ´won´ blaming Bush for everything. Have adopted that same mentality?

Seems so.


Reply 5 - Posted by: coldoc, 1/26/2013 6:48:04 AM     (No. 9140074)

I got sick to my stomach and turned off the TV watching those sycophants called politicians make fools of themselves slobbering over this colossal failure. We are toast.


Reply 6 - Posted by: Aunt Agnes, 1/26/2013 6:56:22 AM     (No. 9140081)

To answer No. 3´s question. Look it up - she has never achieved anything on her own except being married to Bill. He knows her better than anyone else does & even he stays as far away as he can from Nanny McPhee. In her "career" she´s done a lot of lecturing, pandering, campaigning, yelling, intimidating, harassing, traveling & just being an over all boor. In other words, she is all TALK. We only have her & James Carville´s hype that she is the smartest woman in the world, but there is NO tangible evidence of it, anywhere. She is a tough-talking, mean-mannered feminist & that is the ONLY reason she is admired by the fools who are taken in by her. She is a bigger zero than president zero.


Reply 7 - Posted by: ROLFnader, 1/26/2013 7:11:31 AM     (No. 9140091)

Watching the senators drool over her and John Kerry, I´ve finally been convinced, without a doubt, that term limits are a necessity. If you´ve been a member of their royal debating club, you will be nominated for any post that a president decides for you -unless of course you happen to be a true conservative. Ask Clarence Thomas.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: kenecarroll, 1/26/2013 7:14:01 AM     (No. 9140093)

She is a murderer, a liar and a thief. She might as well have killed those American Patriots herself...she did bu NOT sending help.


Reply 9 - Posted by: oldselzer, 1/26/2013 7:14:26 AM     (No. 9140094)

Like Obama, Hillary is also a Saul Alinsky acolyte. She married a proud draft dodger because she too hated the idea that America stood in the way of the ´wave of the future.´ And she was up to no good in Arkansas either as she was a co-conspiritor in White-Water (remember that?) She moved to NY as a Democrat carpetbagger and traded on her weepy scorned woman creds to get elected senator. The house she bought with Bill was paid for by someone else -- McAuliff -- who is now running for senate as a Democrat carpetbagger here in VA. Finally, she helped Bill pick out the White House furniture they stole and even her dipstick brother got involved in arranging the pardons of criminals by Bill during his last days in office -- all done with connivance of our current Attorney General. She is a foul mouthed mean-spirited, pampered witch who furthered the disastrous foreign policy dictated by Obama. And all of lowly citizen-taxpayers will pay for their folly sooner than we think. A nuclear Iran, Al Qaeda-everwhere, and a weakened military to ´defend´ us and Western civilization. The Democrats in both houses were pitiful toadies. They were unwatchable wretches in the hearings and madam secretary got away with lies and dissembling. What have we become?


Reply 10 - Posted by: PoliticalJunky, 1/26/2013 7:23:37 AM     (No. 9140104)

Well, No. 9! Other than that, how do you feel about her?


Reply 11 - Posted by: 901AtTheRiver, 1/26/2013 7:32:02 AM     (No. 9140111)

#9 explains why the over-much heaping of praise was 100% irony. Irony that was totally lost on Herself.


Reply 12 - Posted by: Freeloader, 1/26/2013 7:32:44 AM     (No. 9140113)

Anyone interested in examining/auditing the books of how many hundreds of millions Madame Secretary´s non-stop "joy riding" to, and partying at, the the world´s exotic locations, since January 21, 2009, has cost The United States Department of the Treasury/Taxpayers, please signify by raising your right hand!


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: kanphil, 1/26/2013 7:37:12 AM     (No. 9140118)

Hillary has TOO accomplished something! She has substantially increased infiltration of Islamists into the Department of State.


Reply 14 - Posted by: miceal, 1/26/2013 7:44:07 AM     (No. 9140121)

Thank you #9 and might I add "ditto´s."


Reply 15 - Posted by: Crosscut, 1/26/2013 7:53:54 AM     (No. 9140134)

Also indicates what kind of POTUS she would be. Yikes!


Reply 16 - Posted by: franq, 1/26/2013 7:56:14 AM     (No. 9140136)

What the headline states is impossible. Sir Edmund is the smartest woman in the world. And her husband has a 160 IQ. JFK was the most athletic president we ever had. Jimmy Carter was a nukulah engineer. Hussein was a law professor. Michelle is a fashion plate. Remember all this. You will be quizzed!


Reply 17 - Posted by: Mr. Hanky, 1/26/2013 8:00:47 AM     (No. 9140143)

Just what exactly are her ´accomplishments´?

She has presided turning over the Middle East to Islamists, the weakening of prospects for peace in Israel, drone killings everywhere without useful information, North Korean long-range middle tests aimed at America, the rise of al queda in North Africa, the murder of an Ambassador in Libya...in short: She and her boss stink.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: TheNewColdWar, 1/26/2013 8:02:50 AM     (No. 9140145)

We live in the Age of Deception.


Reply 19 - Posted by: a man over thirty, 1/26/2013 8:16:47 AM     (No. 9140164)

Agree, #19. We no longer share a common language. Political Correctness has perverted English.


Reply 20 - Posted by: uno, 1/26/2013 8:22:17 AM     (No. 9140176)

#9 - Dittos and Kudos!


Reply 21 - Posted by: avikingman, 1/26/2013 8:23:46 AM     (No. 9140181)

I´m with #9 and dittos too.

I watched, swearing, until I could take it no longer. The Hag is unbearable/unwatchable.

Think about it, the US face to the world is Obama, The Hag, perhaps Reid and Panetta. What a disgrace. And as the Mid-east and north Africa crumble, their collective bungling becomes more apparent each day.

Fie on them.


Reply 22 - Posted by: IDestroyObamasGoons, 1/26/2013 8:30:56 AM     (No. 9140191)

Poster Aunt Agnes @ #6 gets it. Hillary is like Obama in so many ways: ultra-liberal, mean-spirited and nasty in-your-face when it comes to political opposition, and an Alinsky disciple, but, most of all, for her lack of accomplishments of her own. Hillary is "great" simply because people say she is, not for any real achievements. Hillary is like those vapid celebrities of the ´60s and ´70s who were "famous" for being famous. Even going back to her so-called "stellar" career as a lawyer. She was with that Rose Law Firm in Little Rock and messed that up. She was the head of education reform/improvement in Arkansas and the state went from 49th to 50th in educational quality. If it were possible to be even more empty than Obama, it is Hillary. Yet probably a majority of the electorate will flock to this lousy bum in ´16.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: radvet1, 1/26/2013 8:41:36 AM     (No. 9140209)

Rand Paul was the only person representing me in that room. "I would have fired you."


Reply 24 - Posted by: walcb, 1/26/2013 8:45:51 AM     (No. 9140219)

H. Clinton´s agenda as SOS was to eat and drink. She was successful.


Reply 25 - Posted by: Teleologicus, 1/26/2013 9:29:04 AM     (No. 9140273)

Like Obama, Hillary is an example of Leftist fantasy ideology as purveyed in academia and the media. Her main value is symbolic. It is not what she has done or not done that matters but what she represents. For many people, Hillary Clinton is the incarnation of a political logos next to which mere reality, e.g. facts, truth, documentation, logic, even rationality, counts for less than nothing. Hillary Clinton is the representation and carrier of the hopes, dreams, and deepest and dearest beliefs of a segment of the population. This is why she is able to act indignant at being asked to give an account of her official actions and to utter irrational non sequiturs such as "What difference does it make?" what happened in Benghazi, who did it, why they did it, and whether Americans were deliberately misled by their own government about what happened.

The shorthand for this phenomenon is called the cult of personality. It seems to be something to which Leftists are peculiarly vulnerable, especially when combined with celebrity worship as a feature of mass culture.

As far as I am aware, Hillary Clinton has never in her entire life actually done or accomplished anything of special note - but that is entirely beside the point for her admirers. What she has done is to be Hillary Clinton, and for them, that is more than enough.


Reply 26 - Posted by: farmwife, 1/26/2013 9:34:37 AM     (No. 9140281)

Look at the people who are heralding her great successes. They haven´t passed a budget in four years but continually pat themselves on the back for their public service.


Reply 27 - Posted by: EnsignO´Toole, 1/26/2013 9:40:36 AM     (No. 9140287)

#9, I join #15 and others in thanking you for your post and adding my dittos.

May I add to your list, the outrageous pandering to the Jews of New York when she ran for the Senate seat! I was sickened when she did that, and I had the feeling that not a word she uttered was honest. Yet the gullible Jewish voters fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Now look what she has "accomplished" in North Africa. Does anyone honestly think that the US would come to the aid of Israel?


Reply 28 - Posted by: artsy, 1/26/2013 9:49:40 AM     (No. 9140299)

Let´s give 0bama and his mentor Valerie J. half of the "credit". Hillary was following orders.


Reply 29 - Posted by: wyowumin, 1/26/2013 9:51:30 AM     (No. 9140303)

If I lived in Florida I might possibly vote for Marco Rubio for Senator. MIGHT. However, as far as voting for him as President of the United States it just won´t happen. He´s too squishy on too many things.


Reply 30 - Posted by: spengler, 1/26/2013 9:52:08 AM     (No. 9140304)

This homicidal old hag cackled with glee after she killed Gaddafi on the orders of TPTB. She is an errand girl for Global Inc.


Reply 31 - Posted by: saucy, 1/26/2013 10:21:45 AM     (No. 9140336)

...while we´re adding to the list:
Madison Guarantee S&L scandal, Jim and Susan McDougle, Bimbo eruption, Vince Foster, Craig Livingston, Travel gate, WhitewaterGate, missing files in office, Web Hubble, FALN Terrorists in NY, phallic Christmas trees....
suicides (?) in Clinton ranks, missing furniture in WH.....
...oh gosh.....
There is SO much.....


Reply 32 - Posted by: caddyjak, 1/26/2013 10:22:21 AM     (No. 9140338)

Married to a convicted felon and disbarred laywer. Started career by taking a 100K bribe. CEO of large political hit squad. Who says that crime does,t pay......


Reply 33 - Posted by: caddyjak, 1/26/2013 10:22:59 AM     (No. 9140342)

Married to a convicted felon and disbarred laywer. Started career by taking a 100K bribe. CEO of large political hit squad. Who says that crime doesn´t pay......


Reply 34 - Posted by: oh-heck, 1/26/2013 10:24:00 AM     (No. 9140346)

Its a matter of Democrat theology that the People are stupid and can be lied to at will because the People´s watchdogs the Press are owned and fed by the Democrats.


Reply 35 - Posted by: starboard, 1/26/2013 10:29:02 AM     (No. 9140351)

Her appearance speaks volumes about her performance as SOS. In a word...sloppy.


Reply 36 - Posted by: bogeegolf, 1/26/2013 10:55:18 AM     (No. 9140442)

Rubio will not be my choice for pres.


Reply 37 - Posted by: fed-up, 1/26/2013 11:00:00 AM     (No. 9140453)

According to her testimony, she didnt see requests for help, didnt send Susan Rice out to lie to us, didn´t have anything to do with the talking points about the video (although she spewed them for days in an outraged voice). She says she takes full responsibility for what happened, but didn´t admit any mistakes. Huh?

I had almost forgotten how horrid she was because we have found someone that is worse! God help us.


Reply 38 - Posted by: velox, 1/26/2013 11:17:25 AM     (No. 9140486)

This is what the Alinsky program calls for.
Repeat a lie over and over until it becomes "common knowledge".
They did this with Kennedy. Clintoon, Obama and now Hillary.
We need to counter that lie everytime we hear it with facts.
She had NO good results as SS. The middle east has become major radical islamic strongholds because of her and Obama. There is not peace anywhere there was not peace before her time in the SS position. The world is in worse condition becaues of her.


Reply 39 - Posted by: capt scurvey, 1/26/2013 11:29:40 AM     (No. 9140512)

To help complete your mental picture of this vile Harpy, it has been long reported by those who know, or have to be around her, that personal hygiene has never been one of her priorities.


Reply 40 - Posted by: T-Bubba, 1/26/2013 11:33:40 AM     (No. 9140522)

You know, I´m beginning to dislike Hildebeest.


Reply 41 - Posted by: BaseballFan, 1/26/2013 11:35:43 AM     (No. 9140528)

What, are you people kidding here?
Achievements?!? From Hillary! Clinton?

Realize that this is a politician of the type where "rolling up my sleeves and going to work for the American people" was considered more than enough experience when she carpet-bagged her way into that Senate seat.

Rolling up her sleeves is her ONLY real accomplishment. Though a caveat here is we´ve heard from no one who can truthfully claim to have seen her actually rolling up those sleeves.


Reply 42 - Posted by: yo-yo, 1/26/2013 11:37:30 AM     (No. 9140533)

Well, that´s partially true, it should say:
Hillary Clinton was, and still is not, a great, or much less, even close to competent, SOS.


Reply 43 - Posted by: krause, 1/26/2013 11:40:29 AM     (No. 9140539)

The democrats have no standards, so everything they do is wonderful. By the way, what is the job description for SOS?


Reply 44 - Posted by: veritas, 1/26/2013 11:53:04 AM     (No. 9140570)

"Not a great secretary of state"?

I´d go much further. I´d say she was "not optimal."

#6: Accomplishments? How about: a. making a killing trading futures "thanks to reading the Wall Street Journal"; and b. tolerating Slick Willie long enough to jackpot the gravy train?

#7: The Constitution provides "term limits," or better. We get to exercise them every 2 years. If we still have problems with these tools in hand already, it´s because we´re not using them effectively, not because we lack the right ones. And would the people who voted to allow themselves legal insider trading be likely to stand and watch while we term-limit them back to reality?

#27: Seconded, with full agreement. For the Left, there is The Narrative. The Image. To them that is Received Truth. It´s kind of like the "celebrities" who are "famous for being famous." The rational mind says, "Well, but -- ?"

#29: The US would aid Israel. Obama, not so much.

#31: Rubio, like Jindal and Obama, isn´t legally qualified to be President. Period.

#43: Only because you´re a sexist. Only because you´re a sexist. But it works for me -- any reason´s a good reason.


Reply 45 - Posted by: Billyc, 1/26/2013 12:00:58 PM     (No. 9140588)

The Democrats gushing over Hillary. Even many Republicans were gushing over her and on a defensive posture. The main questions to ask this bumbling liar was did you go along with the Video which caused the rabble rousing in Benghazi! The US UN ambassador proclaimed to the world that the video was the cause.Where were you Madam Secretary when 4 US patriots were fighting for their lives.( span of 5 hours ). Who gave the Command not to help these unfortunates in the compound. There is only one person who could have given the order and that was Obama Commander in Chief who was more concerned about getting re-elected by dancing off to Vegas for more moula.Any questioning concerning Panetta´s public statement , it´s unreal ´that their was no help nearby or a force ready to come to the aid of these 4 US citizens who were being murdered . Fighter aircraft 15 to 30 mins away , troop carriers 45 to an hour. Finally why the gag on the compound injured being treated in Hospital ? Not one question asked Panetta for his reasoning . Help was too far away . Mind boggling.


Reply 46 - Posted by: Nevadadad46, 1/26/2013 12:22:02 PM     (No. 9140621)

"Hillary Clinton was not a great Secretary of State"??

Wow! These Washington Examiner people are sharp! And, to think, it only took them four years to figure this revelation out! Amazing mental acuity!


Reply 47 - Posted by: Aria, 1/26/2013 12:27:32 PM     (No. 9140632)

So what exactly does "taking responsibility" mean when you then go on to make excuse after excuse why this had nothing to do with you??? She lied, dodged, and filibustered with a bunch of crap to run down the clock - using her screeching as a "best defense if a good offense" ploy.

But I have finally realized what her great accomplishment is - what she really is a genius at! Self-Promotion! Just like her boss, her husband....so many in D.C. Real accomplishments are just so passe in this brave new world.


Reply 48 - Posted by: Grambo, 1/26/2013 12:31:48 PM     (No. 9140640)

Well, in her defense, Huma thinks she’s hot. Those two are quite a pair. Huma chose the weenie for her beard, and Hillary chose the bent one. You can’t say they don’t have a sense of humor.


Reply 49 - Posted by: obviousity, 1/26/2013 12:32:44 PM     (No. 9140644)

Did Barbara Boxers´ face crack as she uttered "Madame" before she got to the second word "Secretary" ?


Reply 50 - Posted by: whyyeseyec, 1/26/2013 12:36:07 PM     (No. 9140651)

@#6: Your post states - `She is a tough-talking, mean-mannered feminist` - is that a nice way of saying Hillary is a mean-faced clipped haired lesbian b***h from hell?

/s


Reply 51 - Posted by: Caveman, 1/26/2013 1:54:31 PM     (No. 9140791)

Thanks #9 for saving all of us some typing!

Never forget she had, and more than likely still has the FBI file on every single politician, their staff members, and their friends. That can be the only explanation for idolizing the PIAPS.


Reply 52 - Posted by: redwhite&blue2, 1/26/2013 2:14:05 PM     (No. 9140822)

An ugly screeching conniving liar pig in a pantsuit is a darling hero of the left.

That tells you ALL you need to know about lefties. Unfortunately, they permeate our existence in masses much like cockroaches, and we cant use DDT on them because they knowingly banned it ahead of time!

I´d say shame on you Hillary Clinton, but as we all know, lefties were born WITHOUT the shame gene.


Reply 53 - Posted by: Dante, 1/26/2013 2:17:01 PM     (No. 9140828)

Her political career is a consolation prize which moronic voters gave her after Bill´s public cheating. She is patently unqualified for anything other than mouthing trite platitudes, much like her pathetic boss in the White House.


Reply 54 - Posted by: Chicagoan, 1/26/2013 3:00:26 PM     (No. 9140901)

Did anyone note the irony of Barbara Boxer in her obsequious statement preceding a "question" using the term NO BRAINER?

Want to see a 120 IQ in the Congress? Add Boxer´s and Maxine Waters´. Throw in Pelosi´s for another 10 points.


Reply 55 - Posted by: wsdiego, 1/26/2013 3:09:42 PM     (No. 9140916)

I wouldn´t put her in the satisfactory column! Poor would be appropriated!


Reply 56 - Posted by: jeffkinnh, 1/26/2013 3:10:17 PM     (No. 9140918)

The dems have found that if they pat each other on the back often enough, even though there is no factual basis for doing so, the sheeple fall for it. Let´s face it, without such false praise the dems would have no praise at all.


Reply 57 - Posted by: Blue-Z-Anna, 1/26/2013 3:12:55 PM     (No. 9140924)

"Traveling millions of miles" is not the same when the whole damn plane is your bed,bath and lounge.

Funny, how travel has now become a torture for commoners and a breeze for politicos.

When you are on the street or at the airport you have no stinking rights !

After the guns are gone travel will be the exclusive privilege of government types and friends.

Haven´t we all seen this movie before ?


Reply 58 - Posted by: NoodlesNoodlemann, 1/26/2013 5:51:51 PM     (No. 9141127)

Hillary has gone through life believing she is smarter than Bill. But upset that the only way she could get anywhere is on his coattails. And somehow those coattails have gotten her pretty far. The bottom line is that she really isn´t that smart. She´s good at lying and cheating, but other than that she´s pretty much a flop. And as SOS she has really shown that.


Reply 59 - Posted by: jorgecito, 1/26/2013 6:11:58 PM     (No. 9141153)

Well, there was one good thing about sitting through all that gushing:

It was a perfect set-up for Rand Paul´s brilliantly cutting opening remark.

In fact, Paul ripped Hillary so subtlly, but so effectively, the whole time, she was thrown off her game.


Reply 60 - Posted by: larryp, 1/26/2013 9:32:04 PM     (No. 9141372)

Shrillery and Barbara Boxer are in-laws,remember? Hillary brother Hygh Rodham son is married to Boxer"s daughter or v.v.
So it is a piece-of-cake for Boxer to help Hil.

speaking of relations -Nancy Pelosi´s husb is related to Gavin Newsome, the Lt Gov of CAlif.


Reply 61 - Posted by: Flyball dogs, 1/26/2013 10:14:50 PM     (No. 9141416)

And don´t forget the trips she and Chelsea took before they left the WH.


Reply 62 - Posted by: artlover, 1/26/2013 10:50:29 PM     (No. 9141466)

I just had a post on my face book wanting people to send thanks to Hillary for her job as Sec. of State. It made me sickkkkkk,
I just saw the post here saying Rubio would not be his choice for President. That´s what happened in the last election. 3 million Republicans would not vote for Romney, so just did not vote. Now look what we have. A country that will never be the same - will be a socialist country before Obama stops.



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She weathered Whitewater. She made it past Monica ?Lewinsky. Now Hillary Clinton is hoping to beat the rap on Benghazi and make it to the White House. The Clinton political machine is in full campaign mode already, preparing for 2016 and hoping voters forget by then that she had a key role in the Obama administration’s handling of the terror attack. But that’s becoming more difficult as the GOP appears to be laying the groundwork for tying Clinton to Benghazi and making sure it stays front and center in the next campaign.Some of the testimony from State Department whistleblowers

The Benghazi patsy
Politico, by Rich Lowry    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 5:28:57 AM     Post Reply
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula deserves a place in American history. He is the first person in this country jailed for violating Islamic anti-blasphemy laws. You won’t find that anywhere in the charges against him, of course. As a practical matter, though, everyone knows that Nakoula wouldn’t be in jail today if he hadn’t produced a video crudely lampooning the prophet Muhammad. In the weeks after the attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, the Obama administration claimed the terrorist assault had been the outgrowth of a demonstration against the Nakoula video.

The Humiliation of John Kerry
PJ Media, by Michael Ledeen    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 5:18:13 AM     Post Reply
The secretary of state was back in Washington on Thursday, begging the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to take it easy on the poor Iranians. Enough with the sanctions, he said. Secretary Kerry has joined decades of his predecessors, buying into the latest version of the 30-year old illusion that we can make a deal with the Tehran regime if only we deal properly and humbly with them. He said there was a “window of opportunity” for a couple of months. It doesn’t much matter if he really believes this legend,

House Armed Service chair
denied access to Benghazi files
Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 5:10:03 AM     Post Reply
One question left mainly unaddressed by yesterday’s hearing on Benghazi — and by others, as well — is the lack of preparation by the Obama administration and the US military for the potential for attack in Benghazi. After all, terrorist attacks had been increasing steadily since the fall of the Qaddafi regime in 2011. Other Western nations had already withdrawn from Benghazi due to the security risks in the region, specifically from the radical Islamist terror networks able to operate freely in eastern Libya because of the removal of Qaddafi. Our own State Department personnel in Libya

US Ambassador Makes Secret Crossing
Into Syria to Briefly Meet With Rebels
ABC News, by Luis Martinez    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 4:58:38 AM     Post Reply
U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford briefly crossed into northern Syria on Thursday to meet with Syrian opposition leaders. It is Ford’s first visit back to Syria since he left in February, 2012, when the U.S. embassy suspended operations in Damascus as the opposition effort to oust Syrian President Bashar al Assad developed into a full-blown civil war. Since then, Ford has become the Obama administration’s point man on Syria and point of contact with the Syrian opposition. A U.S. official confirmed Ford’s secret visit, which occurred along the Turkey-Syria border. He briefly crossed into Syria



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Obama´s Demeaning
Commencement Address

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American Thinker, by Janice Shaw Crouse    Original Article
Posted By: DW626- 5/10/2013 6:54:38 AM     Post Reply
As a presidential speech writer for the first Bush White House, I am always very interested in what presidents say in their formal speeches. They know, of course, that their remarks will be widely covered by the press, studied by analysts, and influential in contemporary political debates. For that reason, presidents rarely speak off-the-cuff, and their every word is carefully chosen for exactly the message the White House wants to convey to the public. Their graduation speeches, like all presidential addresses, go through many drafts and are reviewed by high-level administration officials

Earthquake: Did Carney
Presser End MSM Monolith?

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PJ Media, by David Steinberg    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/10/2013 8:54:15 PM     Post Reply
The most notable takeaway from Jay Carney’s incomprehensible Friday appearance had little to do with his Klingon grammar. Carney does not represent the historical value of the event – you should be wise to forget his performance, and instead take note that he was flanked by the entire room, without exception. Do not underestimate the significance: the Obama administration has not faced such an onslaught of truth-seeking since he took office in 2008, and further, no Democratic administration has been charged from all sides like this in recent memory. That press conference was unthinkable just days ago

Carney Blames Romney for
Politicizing Benghazi

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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Ben Shapiro    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/10/2013 9:49:16 PM     Post Reply
Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney blamed Mitt Romney and Republicans for “politicizing” the Benghazi terrorist attacks. Harkening back to a Mitt Romney press conference on September 12, 2012, which addressed the Benghazi attacks only in passing while focusing instead on the assault on the American embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Carney suggested that Romney had tried to target the innocent Obama administration for telling the truth about Benghazi. “Republicans, again, in this ongoing effort that began in the hours after the attack when Mitt Romney put out a press release to try to take political

Exclusive: Benghazi Talking
Points Underwent 12 Revisions,
Scrubbed of Terror Reference

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ABC News, by Jonathan Karl    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/10/2013 6:54:20 AM     Post Reply
When it became clear last fall that the CIA’s now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the document 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 show they were extensive edited as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA to the final version distributed to Congress and to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after that attack.

White House hopes under fire
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Boston Herald, by Joe Battenfeld    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 5:37:55 AM     Post Reply
She weathered Whitewater. She made it past Monica ?Lewinsky. Now Hillary Clinton is hoping to beat the rap on Benghazi and make it to the White House. The Clinton political machine is in full campaign mode already, preparing for 2016 and hoping voters forget by then that she had a key role in the Obama administration’s handling of the terror attack. But that’s becoming more difficult as the GOP appears to be laying the groundwork for tying Clinton to Benghazi and making sure it stays front and center in the next campaign.Some of the testimony from State Department whistleblowers

Benghazi Whistleblower Attorney:
Congress Must Subpoena Hillary
Clinton to Testify Again

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Fox News, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/10/2013 10:05:44 PM     Post Reply
Earlier today, we learned about a bombshell report that said the CIA´s Benghazi talking points were changed 12 times, with extensive input from the State Department. It comes after State Department whistleblower Gregory Hicks testified Wednesday that he was shocked when he saw Susan Rice blaming a protest for the attack on numerous talk shows. Martha MacCallum discussed the next steps in the investigation of what happened in Benghazi with Hicks´ attorney, Victoria Toensing. At this point, she thinks "it´s about time" that House Republicans start issuing subpoenas,

Pelosi: Sequestration Preventing Me
from Visiting Troops on Mother´s Day

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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 5:55:08 AM     Post Reply
"Every year for the past few years, on Mother´s Day, I´ve gone--I´ve taken a delegation--into Afghanistan or Iraq, we´re alternating now, now Afghanistan--for Mother´s Day to say thank you to our moms and, by the way, our grandmothers, who are serving there. Some young grandmothers. But, nonetheless, grandmothers. To also thank all of our troops for what they do to protect America´s families. I won´t be going this particular weekend because we don´t have--you know, under sequestration, we don´t have codels."

The Benghazi Lie
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National Review Online, by Mark Steyn    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/10/2013 5:16:17 PM     Post Reply
Shortly before last November’s election I took part in a Fox News documentary on Benghazi, whose other participants included the former governor of New Hampshire John Sununu. Making chit-chat while the camera crew were setting up, Governor Sununu said to me that in his view Benghazi mattered because it was “a question of character.” That’s correct. On a question of foreign policy or counterterrorism strategy, men of good faith can make the wrong decisions. But a failure of character corrodes the integrity of the state. That’s why career diplomat Gregory Hicks’s testimony

IRS Apologizes for Targeting
Conservative Groups

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Associated Press, by Stephen Ohlemacher    Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.- 5/10/2013 11:14:39 AM     Post Reply
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status were singled out for additional reviews. Lerner said the practice, initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati, was wrong and she apologized while speaking at a conference in Washington. Many conservative groups complained during the election

Report: Patriots coach Bill Belichick
´hates´ Tim Tebow as a player

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CBS News, by Ryan Wilson    Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/10/2013 10:10:49 PM     Post Reply
It´s been 11 days and counting since the Jets cut ties with Tim Tebow and 13 months since they traded for him. Much of the conversation in the past week and a half has been about which teams -- if any -- would be interested in the former Heisman Trophy winner. The usual suspects include Tebow´s hometown Jacksonville Jaguars, but new general manager David Caldwell has said in no uncertain terms that Tebow isn´t an option (laudatory commercials from local lawyers notwithstanding). The other, less conventional landing spot: New England. Coach Bill Belichick sees value where other talent evaluators don´t

Let Benghazi´s Chips Fall
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Wall Street Journal, by Editorial    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/9/2013 9:27:45 PM     Post Reply
Congressman Frank Wolf of Virginia has written House Speaker John Boehner, requesting the creation of a bipartisan Select Committee to investigate the Benghazi terror debacle. It is an excellent idea. A Select Committee is the only means available now for the U.S. political system to extricate itself from the labyrinth called Benghazi. There have been two fulcrum events in the accounting of what happened in Benghazi. The first was U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice´s September 16 declarations on TV that Benghazi was part of the Islamic world´s violent, spontaneous reaction to the incendiary California YouTube video.

In Dublin, former US President
Carter calls on EU to start labelling
products from ‘illegal’ settlements´

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European Jewish Press, by Yossi Lempkowicz    Original Article
Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/11/2013 7:46:55 AM     Post Reply
DUBLIN -Former US President Jimmy Carter said in Dublin “the EU should move to introduce proper labelling of goods produced on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.” (snip)It could therefore introduce a clear labelling of products made in Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law,” he added. Ireland currently holds the rotating EU presidency until end of June. Mary Robinson said this was not “an anti-Israel move,” but rather “a concrete step, supported by many of our Israeli friends, to revive the hope of a future state of Palestine


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