Hillary’s New Benghazi Cover-Up
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 4th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Hillary’s New Benghazi Cover-Up
Dick Morris, RealClearPolitics
When Hillary Clinton sat down to pen “Hard Choices,” her memoir that comes out next week, she had a simple explanation for her repeated insistence that the Benghazi raid was motivated by a “hateful video” rather than a terrorist attack. All she had to say was that we relied on the best intelligence available at the time. True, the CIA talking points did not mention a video and, true, Mike Morrell, the former deputy director of the CIA, told Congress that he was surprised to hear U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, while on the Sunday talk shows after the attack, blame the video. “That’s not something…
Ernst Coasts in Iowa Senate Primary, Avoids GOP Convention
Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
State Sen. Joni Ernst took a giant step forward in her bid to become Iowa’s first woman ever elected to federal office, winning Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary by an unexpectedly comfortable margin. With 76 percent of precincts reporting, Ernst had 55.7 percent of the vote, easily surpassing the 35 percent threshold required to avoid a June 14 state party convention that would have determined the GOP nominee. College professor and talk radio host Sam Clovis was in a distant second place with 18 percent of the vote, while businessman Mark Jacobs was close behind in third with 17.3…
Four Key Questions on Primary Day in Iowa
Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
An open U.S. Senate seat in Iowa is a rare and precious commodity. After all, Republican Chuck Grassley has won re-election by at least a 30-point margin since he was first voted into office as part of the 1980 Reagan wave. And while Democrat Tom Harkin has had some closer shaves, he will have held his seat as the state’s junior senator for three decades by the time he retires at the end of his term in January. Among the Republicans aiming to succeed Harkin, there are four credible — but still largely unknown — candidates vying for their party’s nomination in Tuesday’s…
