Behind the Benghazi Cover-Up

Behind the Benghazi Cover-Up

By Patrick J. BuchananOn Sept. 11, scores of men with automatic weapons and RPGs launched a night assault on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and set the building ablaze. Using mortars, they launched a collateral attack on a safe house, killing two more Americans, as other U.S. agents fled to the airport.On Sept. 14, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Continue reading...

Why This Obsession With Iran?

By Patrick J. Buchanan"Iran is not seeking to have the atomic bomb, possession of which is pointless, dangerous and is a great sin from an intellectual and a religious point of view."Thus did supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declare in February that Iran's possession of atomic weapons would be a mortal sin against Allah.It is also the unanimous judgment of the U.S. intelligence Continue reading...

Will Heads Roll for the Stuxnet Leak?

By Patrick J. BuchananWithin days of SEAL Team Six's killing of Osama on that midnight mission in Pakistan, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, reading all about the raid in the press, went to the White House to tell President Obama's national security adviser pungently to "shut the (bleep) up."Leaked secrets of that raid may have led to the imprisonment for 33 years of a Pakistani doctor who Continue reading...

Something Rotten in the State

By Patrick J. BuchananWith the number of Secret Service members and agents caught up in the partying-with-prostitutes scandal in Cartagena now at a dozen, and six already gone, how much wider and deeper does this go?No one can take pleasure in seeing Secret Service agents -- whose deserved reputation is that they will "take a bullet" for the president, his family and all whom they protect Continue reading...

Will Bibi Break Obama?

By Patrick J. BuchananThe prime minister of Israel is angry with Barack Obama and is coming here to force a hardening of U.S. policy toward Iran."Bibi" Netanyahu had his anger on display at a meeting in Israel with Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham.McCain emerged saying he had never seen an Israeli prime minister "that unhappy." "He was angry," said McCain. "I've never seen Continue reading...