Benghazi whistle-blower Hicks: Internal review ‘let people off the hook’

Jake Tapper The Lead CNN.com 5/5/2013

Greg Hicks, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, told congressional investigators that the State Department internal review of the catastrophe at the mission in Benghazi “let people off the hook,” CNN has learned.

The Accountability Review Board “report itself doesn’t really ascribe blame […]

Michele Bachmann responds to attacks after she calls for investigation into Muslim Brotherhood

Glenn Beck 7/19/2012

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann joined The Glenn Beck Radio Program on GBTV (soon to be known as TheBlaze) this morning to discuss the growing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Washington, DC and the attacks on her in the wake of her calls for an investigation.

The transcript of the interview is […]

Officials from Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood at White House

AFP via Yahoo! News 4/4/2012

White House officials held talks with representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood in Washington this week, as the Islamist group threw itself into the fray in Egypt’s presidential election.

The meeting on Tuesday with low-level National Security Council staff was part of a series of US efforts to broaden engagement with […]

Samantha Powers to be the next Secretary of State?

Irish-born adviser now key to Obama foreign policy

Cathy Hayes IrishCentral 4/2/2011

A flattering New York Times profile has increased speculation that Samantha Power, the Dublin-born aide to President Obama, could be his next Secretary of State or National Security Adviser.

She has been the main architect, along with Hillary Clinton, of the Libya policy […]

Obama NSC meets with Egypt democracy advocates

Laura Rozen Politico 11/2/2010

Top Obama National Security Council officials met Tuesday with a bipartisan group of Washington foreign policy experts who advocate that the United States push for more free and fair Egyptian elections.

The National Security Council’s top two senior Middle East officials Dennis Ross and Dan Shapiro, as well as the NSC’s […]

Niall Ferguson Blasts Obama’s Foreign Policy

Niall Ferguson The Daily Beast via Business Insider 2/14/2011

Newsweek’s new columnist makes his debut in this week’s issue with a cover story on Obama’s Egypt debacle and the strategic vacuum it exposes in the White House.

“The statesman can only wait and listen until he hears the footsteps of God resounding through events; […]

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