Articles by Helle Dale

 

Benghazi: Implications for U.S. Public Diplomacy

Helle Dale | November 14, 2012

An obvious conclusion from the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi is that whatever the Obama Administration’s effort has been to deprive al-Qaeda and… Read More

 

The Holes in the CIA’s Benghazi Timeline

Helle Dale | November 07, 2012

In yet another attempt to counter the mounting evidence against the Obama Administration in the handling of the September 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya,… Read More

 

Media Scandal in the Making: CBS Posts Still More of President’s Benghazi Interview

Helle Dale | November 05, 2012

On Sunday night, a full 54 days after the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, CBS finally posted a critically important segment of the 60 Minutes… Read More

 

Benghazi: U.S. Counterterrorism Group Not Consulted

Helle Dale | November 02, 2012

The outrage continues to mount over the lack of response at the highest levels of the U.S. government to the terrorist attack on Benghazi on… Read More

 

Secret Cable Revelation Blows Open Benghazi Cover-Up Story

Helle Dale | November 01, 2012

The revelation of a classified cable dated August 15 from Ambassador Christopher Stevens to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton describing in detail the security threats… Read More

 

Clinton Attempts to Dismiss Leaked Benghazi E-Mails

Helle Dale | October 25, 2012

Yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responded in an interview with television reporters to the leak of incriminating State Department e-mails from September 11. It… Read More

 

Contradictory Evidence Swallows Administration Libya Cover-Up

Helle Dale | October 24, 2012

The e-mails sent around the federal government on the night of the September 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, have finally been obtained by the U.S…. Read More

 

A Damning Indictment of State Department Security in Benghazi

Helle Dale | October 22, 2012

Last Friday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released 120 pages of documents on the situation in Benghazi, Libya, from March 2011 to September… Read More

 

Obama Changes Stump Speech: Al-Qaeda No Longer “on the Run”

Helle Dale | October 18, 2012

President Obama has changed his tune on al-Qaeda. Gone from his stump speeches is the boast that al-Qaeda has been decimated. This was President Obama… Read More

 

Clinton, Obama Try to Rewrite History on Benghazi

Helle Dale | October 17, 2012

For more than a month, Obama Administration officials have shifted blame for lack of intelligence or diplomatic security in Benghazi, Libya, where terrorist attacks on… Read More

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Obama’s “Reset” with Russia: A Long Retreat

Helle Dale | October 17, 2012

The disgraceful firing of Radio Liberty’s loyal Moscow staff on September 20 and 21 is the latest chapter in the Obama’s Administration’s Russia policy retreat,… Read More

 

U.S. Fires Its Own Broadcasters in Russia

Helle Dale | October 15, 2012

The treatment inflicted on 41 Russian journalists in Moscow’s Radio Liberty office is nothing less than scandalous, and it threatens to silence American broadcasting into… Read More

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Unraveling the Libya Debacle: Biden’s Disregard for the Facts

Helle Dale | October 12, 2012

Vice President Biden’s assertions during the debate last night showed either a lack of information or a willful disregard for the facts. Biden stated in… Read More

 

An Incriminating Timeline: Obama Administration and Libya (VIDEO)

Helle Dale | October 08, 2012

The latest incriminating information on the U.S. consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya indicates that the State Department turned down a request for additional security from… Read More

 

Global Verdict on Obama’s Crumbling Foreign Policy

Helle Dale | October 02, 2012

Recent survey results show that the Obama Administration’s foreign policy has been unsuccessful in the promotion of America and in improving hostile relationships, especially in… Read More

 

Is the State Department Squelching Documents on Libya Attack?

Helle Dale | October 01, 2012

Is the State Department trying to cover up for its own negligence that cost four Americans, including the American ambassador to Libya, their lives on… Read More

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Public Diplomacy as Apology

Helle Dale | September 27, 2012

Judging by President Obama’s speech to the U.N. General Assembly yesterday, U.S. public diplomacy messaging on the Middle East crisis is stuck perpetually on a… Read More

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Free Speech Threatened at United Nations

Helle Dale | September 27, 2012

The skies over New York are thick with chickens coming home to roost for the Obama Administration. No sooner had President Obama delivered his oration… Read More

 

What Did the Obama Administration Know and When Did It Know It?

Helle Dale | September 27, 2012

Mounting evidence suggests that Obama officials may have been less—much less—than forthright with the facts of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya,… Read More

 

Obama at U.N. in Defense of Free Speech—Sort Of

Helle Dale | September 25, 2012

Speaking at the United Nations this morning, for the first time since anti-American violence erupted in the Middle East on September 11, President Obama found… Read More

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Comedian in Chief: Obama Snubs World Leaders for Talk Shows

Helle Dale | September 24, 2012

Where is President Obama? Yakking it up on television and radio with comedians and chat shows. That is, when he is not out raising funds… Read More

 

The Apology Tour Continues: Obama, Clinton Say “Sorry” to Rioting Pakistanis

Helle Dale | September 21, 2012

Yesterday, the President and Secretary of State of the United States of America went on Pakistani television to apologize. In a commercial containing clips from… Read More

 

The White House Disinformation Campaign on the Libya Attack

Helle Dale | September 20, 2012

The Obama Administration has now acknowledged the glaringly obvious: that the four Americans who died in the September 11 attack in Libya “were killed in… Read More

 

The Death of U.S. Public Diplomacy and Lessons on How to Resurrect It

Helle Dale | September 17, 2012

“The death of U.S. public diplomacy” was how one Twitter user last Tuesday described the now-infamous apology from the U.S. embassy in Cairo for the… Read More

 

The Right to View Even Ridiculous and Offensive YouTube Videos

Helle Dale | September 17, 2012

Censorship of the Internet is one of the distinguishing features of autocratic governments from China to Cuba. Is this the direction the U.S. government might… Read More

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Cairo Embassy Statement in Tune with Obama U.N. Resolution

Helle Dale | September 13, 2012

The statement Tuesday from the U.S. embassy in Cairo apologizing to Muslims and condemning “the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings… Read More

 

Can China’s Social Media Break the Chains of Censorship?

Helle Dale | September 11, 2012

Social media in China are pushing the envelope of government control, but China’s censors are demonstrating that they still have the stuff. For instance, where… Read More

 

President Obama’s Dangerous Dream of a Nuclear-Free World

Helle Dale | September 10, 2012

One of the attention-grabbing scenes in the movie 2016: Obama’s America shows the President’s nuclear summit in 2009. The idea behind the summit was that… Read More

 

“2016: Obama’s America” Looks for Obama, the Man

Helle Dale | September 06, 2012

If the film 2016: Obama’s America preaches to the choir—as critical reviews of the movie contend—then the choir of Americans curious about Barack Obama is… Read More

 

What Makes America Exceptional? Hint: It Is Not Social Security

Helle Dale | September 05, 2012

In Alan Colmes’s view, social welfare programs have made America “exceptional.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Colmes’s preposterous article in The Wall Street… Read More