Clinton and Kerry Play Musical Chairs with U.S. Foreign Policy, Benghazi
Senator John Kerry (D–MA) has announced that he will bow out of chairing the expected Benghazi hearing featuring Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on January… Read More
Nuclear Modernization, the State Department Would Have You Think
The State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance recently published a fact sheet on “U.S. Nuclear Security Enterprise Infrastructure Modernization.” The name is… Read More
Shining the Light of Transparency on U.S. Public Diplomacy
Transparency in government took a huge step forward on January 3. On that day, President Obama signed into law the Smith–Mundt Modernization Act as an… Read More
Best of the Morning Bell in 2012
Continuing our series highlighting the best of 2012, we wanted to bring you the most popular Morning Bells of the past year. The Morning Bell… Read More
State Department Board Recommendation: Ignore the Constitution, Break the Law
On November 27, a State Department advisory board, the International Security Advisory Board (ISAB), recommended that the Obama Administration ignore the Constitution and break the… Read More
Report on Benghazi Attack Falls Short on Investigation
Today, State Department officials testify before the Senate and House of Representatives’ respective foreign affairs committees on the findings of the Accountability Review Board’s (ARB)… Read More
Morning Bell: What’s at Stake in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Hollywood actor Ben Affleck brings his star power to Congress today to testify on the security situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)… Read More
Your Opinion Needed for the State Department
The State Department wants your opinion. No, not on weighty matters like the Arab Spring/Winter, relations with Russia, the state of NATO, or Chinese free-trade… Read More
Select Committee on Benghazi: Precedent Exists
In the aftermath of the September 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, the Obama Administration announced efforts to investigate the facts behind… Read More
China’s Claims on Its Neighbors Are No Laughing Matter
The Chinese continue to unite their neighbors against them. The most recent controversy is a map featured in new PRC passports that poses particular problems… Read More
India’s Execution of Mumbai Attacker Is Reminder of Pakistani Foot Dragging
Nearly four years after the horrific Mumbai attacks that left more than 160 dead, including six Americans, India put to death the lone surviving gunman,… Read More
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Was There Ever a Real “U.S. Consulate” in Benghazi?
In the many news reports published since the tragic and mysterious assassinations of four Americans in Libya on September 11, 2012, the scene of the… Read More
Morning Bell: Benghazi Hearings Begin on Capitol Hill
Today, hearings begin in the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House and Senate Intelligence Committees on the terrorist attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens… Read More
Congress Seeks Answers on Benghazi
On Thursday, members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House and Senate Intelligence Committees should bring us closer to an understanding of what… Read More
Benghazi: Implications for U.S. Public Diplomacy
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 Bureaucratic Attack on International Broadcasting
The recent layoff of Voice of America (VOA) employees in Russia comes at a time when U.S. international broadcasting is also losing ground to bureaucratic… Read More
Clinton Attempts to Dismiss Leaked Benghazi E-Mails
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
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
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
Clinton, Obama Try to Rewrite History on Benghazi
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
Unraveling the Libya Debacle: Biden’s Disregard for the Facts
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
VP Debate: Joe Biden’s Three Most Misleading Foreign Policy Statements
During Thursday night’s vice presidential debate, Vice President Joe Biden made numerous misleading or outright inaccurate claims regarding American foreign policy and the Obama administration’s… Read More
Libya Security Lapse: The Budget for Embassy Security Is Not Responsible
There has been some back and forth between Republicans and Democrats over funding for security in Libya in the wake of Ambassador Chris Stevens’s death…. Read More
House Oversight Committee Probes Security Arrangements at Libyan Diplomatic Mission
The Obama Administration’s continually evolving narrative about the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, prompted the House Committee on Oversight and Government… Read More
Morning Bell: There Was No Protest, Only a Terrorist Attack, in Libya
The Obama Administration’s story on the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens has changed yet again. In advance of a hearing on diplomatic security in… Read More
An Incriminating Timeline: Obama Administration and Libya (VIDEO)
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
Libyan Consulate Attack: More Disturbing Facts Emerge
As the Obama Administration’s account of the terrorist attack on the Benghazi consulate continues to evolve, disturbing new information has emerged about the consulate’s security… Read More
Oversight Committee Seeks Answers About Libya Security Lapse
In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is seeking answers from the State Department about its… Read More
Is the State Department Squelching Documents on Libya Attack?
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
Morning Bell: The Administration’s Messy Story on Libya Attack
Washington is notorious for dropping news it doesn’t want scrutinized too closely on the last day of the work week. So last Friday was a… Read More
