State Dept memos show security guards were bugging out months before Benghazi attack

Ed Morrissey Hot Air 9/12/2014

Hey, maybe this is why the embassy in Tripoli was so insistent on getting US Marines back for security in Benghazi. A FOIA request from Judicial Watch produced 130 pages of State Department documents regarding assessment of the use of local militias for security at the Benghazi consulate in the […]

Pentagon briefed do-nothing President on ISIS at least 70 golf games and two Martha's Vineyard vacations ago

 

 

Robert Laurie CainTV.com 9/3/2014

‘Strategy-free since 2013!’

When the President threw on his nicest tan suit and announced that “we don’t have a strategy yet” to deal with ISIS, the world cringed. Even many of his closest allies admitted it was a disastrous moment that would haunt Barack Obama for the rest […]

Islamic State militants capture key Syrian air base - giving them open road to the sea and massive store of weapons and ammunition

Jihadists began long-anticipated attack on sprawling Tabqa base last week Militants reportedly killed dozens of soldiers as they seized control today It means Raqqa province is entirely out of control of the Syrian government

 

 

Dan Bloom The Daily Mail 24 August 2014

Islamic State militants have seized a major Syrian air base, […]

Obama administration broke law in Bergdahl exchange: audit

Stephen Dinan The Washington Times 8/21/2014

Obama administration officials broke two federal laws when they exchanged Taliban warriors for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the government’s top investigative office said in a legal report Thursday.

Officials should have given Congress a 30-day heads-up, and also illegally switched money from one account to another to conduct the swap, […]

James Foley Went Looking to Support Terrorists in Syria, Instead They Cut Off His Head

Daniel Greenfield FrontPage Magazine 8/19/2014

James Foley was one of a new breed of activists calling themselves journalists. He didn’t travel to report on a story, but to promote an agenda. And the agenda was obvious from his Twitter feed.

Any human life lost is tragic, but a moral individual would have much more empathy […]

Retired Intel Officer: Foley Rescue Attempt Failed Because Obama ‘Dragged His Feet’

Larry O’Connor The Washington Free Beacon 8/21/2014

…Thursday morning, [Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer (Ret.)] appeared on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C., to discuss the ISIS execution of American journalist James Foley earlier this week. He told me and co-host Brian Wilson that the recently revealed rescue attempt led by Special Forces earlier this summer failed […]

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