Jun

9

PRISM: Did Maxine Waters Tip Us Off a Few Months Ago?

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This is from back in February, but I thought it was worth a flashback considering recent events: I’m sure the New York Times and NBC News are digging hard to find out if any information gleaned from PRISM was shared with OFA… just kidding!

Jun

3

Heh: Al Qaeda starts a ‘complaint department’

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What kind of complaints might they get? “The coffee cream in the bomb vest assembly room is a little sour”? From the UK Telegraph: The organisation is the leading militia in the north-eastern part of rebel-held Syria, and has taken control of parts of the civilian administration in the city of Raqqa. It posted a [...]

May

29

AP: Al Qaeda Fires Operative for Not Filing His TPS Reports; Operative Starts Competing Terror Organization

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With a hat tip to @NickConfessore, this Associated Press story could serve as the synopsis for the script to “Office Space II: Peter Gibbons Goes Rogue”: After years of trying to discipline him, the leaders of al-Qaida’s North African branch sent one final letter to their most difficult employee. In page after scathing page, they [...]

May

23

Obama: No, Really, We’re Going to Start Closing Down Gitmo Pretty Soon

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In 2008, candidate Obama made numerous promises that if elected president he would immediately close the prison at Guantanamo Bay: Today, some five years later, Obama’s going to call (again) for steps that could culminate in the shuttering of the prison. Problem is, those steps involve sending some of the suspects back to one of [...]

May

14

WaPo Fact Checks Obama Claim That He Referred to Benghazi as an ‘Act of Terrorism’ From Day 1

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“The day after it happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism.” – President Obama, May 13, 2013 ***** Four Pinocchios, according to Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post. I’d throw in a fifth Pinocchio just because Obama has repeated this lie so many times. He never used the word “terrorism” in reference [...]

May

13

Obama on Benghazi Controversy: There’s No ‘There’ There

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“There’s no ‘there’ there” is the new “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”: Well, there’s no “there” there now because people angry about an offensive YouTube video terrorists destroyed the place. Obama today also called the Benghazi investigation a “sideshow.” It must be distracting from the IRS’s efforts to crack down on [...]

May

8

House Benghazi Hearing Open Thread

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It’s on. If you want to watch online, the second video here seems to be the least glitchy feed. So far the “whistleblowers” are testifying what they’ve previously been reported as saying — that there was no demonstration prior to the attack and that rapid rescue troops in the country were ordered (by somebody) to [...]

May

3

Well What Do You Know… the Defense Department Did Have Assets Off the Coast of Libya if Needed for a Rescue

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Just not for Chris Stevens and not last September: When then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unannounced part-of-the-day visit to Tripoli, Libya, on Oct. 18, 2011, the U.S. Defense Department pre-positioned assets off the Libyan coast in case it needed to rescue the secretary of state. The fact that the assets were pre-positioned for [...]

May

1

Remember To Yell ‘Benghazi’ — Preferably When Someone Scores in Basketball

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Guest post written by Joyanna Adams ***** In his second term, Obama is fearless. When the news came out that the administration had threatened the witnesses of Benghazi against testifying — hindering all requested lawyer representation — Obama immediately called a press conference, and looked down at his notes and asked himself the question he [...]

Apr

24

Of Course: Boston Marathon Bomber was Supported by Taxpayers

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This guy’s crime wouldn’t have been any less horrific if he’d have been self-sufficient, but it does add a bit of insult to the injury to find out he was sponging off the same people he hated, maimed and killed: Marathon bombings mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev was living on taxpayer-funded state welfare benefits even as he [...]

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