Former US Senator Edward W. Brooke dies at 95

Mark Feeney The Boston Globe 1/3/2015

Edward W. Brooke, the Massachusetts Republican who was the first African-American to be elected to the US Senate since Reconstruction, died today, according to Kirsten Hughes, chairwoman of the Massachusetts Republican Party. He was 95.

Mr. Brooke served in the Senate from 1967-1979. Elected attorney general in 1962 and […]

State Department’s Benghazi review let senior officials off the hook, report finds

Catherine Herridge FoxNews.com 9/15/2013

The State Department review of the Benghazi terror attack let senior officials off the hook for the policy decisions that led to sub-standard security at the U.S. compound in eastern Libya, according to a draft House committee report obtained by Fox News.

The nearly 100-page report concludes that the State Department’s […]

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