Posts Tagged ‘Attack’

Kerry: US condemns rocket attack on Baghdad camp

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry says the U.S. “strongly condemns” a rocket attack on a Baghdad camp housing Iranian exiles. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Embattled IRS makes debut in House GOP attack ads

A House Republican group is launching an ad campaign against four incumbent Democrats this week that aims to tie the lawmakers to the Internal Revenue Service, a government agency under scrutiny after officials admitted earlier this month to targeting conservative groups applying for nonprofit status. The National Republican Congressional Committee will dispatch thousands of trucks [...]

Benghazi Attack, Revisited

President Obama says the May 8 House hearing on Benghazi and subsequent reporting about it produced no new information. That’s largely the case, but the president misrepresented some facts at his May 13 press conference in dismissing the House investigation as a “political circus.” Obama said Republicans acted “as if … More Politics News Headlines [...]

RNC targets Hillary Clinton in its first 2016 attack ad

Not that we needed any more evidence, but the Republican National Committee’s newest 30-second YouTube ad couldn’t be clearer about the fact that for Republicans, the only important thing about Benghazi is Stop Hillary Clinton: Tweet This Post

RNC targets Hillary Clinton in its first 2016 attack ad

Not that we needed any more evidence, but the Republican National Committee’s newest 30-second YouTube ad couldn’t be clearer about the fact that for Republicans, the only important thing about Benghazi is Stop Hillary Clinton: Tweet This Post

Former US official describes Libya attack

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former top diplomat in Libya on Wednesday delivered a riveting minute-by-minute account of the chaotic events during the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi last September, with a 2 a.m. call from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and confusion about the fate of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. [...]

U.S. diplomat recounts frustration at lack of help during Benghazi attack

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former U.S. diplomat in Libya gave a dramatic account on Wednesday of the attack on the mission in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador, and told lawmakers that more could have been done to stop the assault by suspected Islamist militants. Gregory Hicks, the second in command at [...]

FBI seeks data on 3 in Benghazi attack

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI announced Wednesday that it is seeking information on three people who were on the grounds of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, when it was attacked last year. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post