Emails released by the White House contradict some of the quotes from versions of the same emails Republicans in Congress leaked to the media. The White House recently released the emails in response to allegations of a coverup by Obama Administration officials relating to the administration’s knowledge of Al-Qaeda’s involvement in the attacks on the [...]

The 2016 presidential election campaign apparently began today as the House Oversight Committee continued its seemingly eternal probe into the attack on the US embassy in Bengazhi. And now there is a new twist as Hillary Clinton may be gearing up for a presidential run. New revelations about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, are [...]

Russia Today has released emails that were reportedly hacked from Sidney Blumental’s email account. Blumenthal has a close personal relationship to the Clinton family. The emails pertain to the attacks in Benghazi Libya on the American embassy.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took full responsibility for the security situation during the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, saying that the State Department held full control over embassy security and not the White House.

OK, here’s a somewhat better story on a pretty depressing day. The chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, tried to put a hold on foreign aid to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. It was a manifestation of the same old AIPAC-driven politics, where the US acts punitively toward one side [...]

The Syrian regime, after agreeing to a cease-fire with protesters, announced today that they would really, truly get around to enforcing the cease-fire in eight days. Syria has agreed to a 10 April deadline to begin implementing a six-point peace plan, UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has said, according to diplomats. The plan calls for [...]

In a press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, President Obama calmly explained that his Administration asked Iran nicely for their drone back. “We’ve asked for it back. We’ll see how the Iranians respond,” Obama said. He added that the matter was classified, but the acknowledgement that someone wrote a note to the Iranian [...]

Pepperpot 1: Burma! Pepperpot 2: Why’d you say Burma? Pepperpot 1: I panicked. -Monty Python’s Flying Circus Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Burma, the first visit from a top-level diplomat in 50 years. The move reflects the increased liberalization of the country, which has been under a military junta for decades. Mr Obama [...]

Fox News has an ignorant story today on their website. I’m thinking this won’t particularly surprise you. But here’s something surprising: it’s an ignorant story with news value! The Obama administration has decided to drop the number of U.S. troops in Iraq at the end of the year down to 3,000, marking a major downgrade [...]

I actually agree with much of Hillary Clinton’s assessment of the Administration’s Syria policy. “It’s not just brute force, it’s not just unilateralism, it’s being smart enough to say: ‘You know what? We want a bunch of people singing out of the same hymn book,’ ” said Clinton, who appeared with Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta [...]

For the next several months, every public appearance by a member of the Obama national security team will be accompanies by a warning about how allowing triggered cuts to the Defense Department would threaten the United States. The amount of cuts, combined with the up-front cuts in the debt limit deal, aren’t even as much [...]