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...

Behind the Benghazi Cover-Up

The Unraveling of Obama’s Foreign Policy
By Patrick J. BuchananThree days after Ambassador Chris Stevens was assassinated, Jay Carney told the White House press corps it had been the work of a flash mob inflamed by an insulting video about the Prophet Muhammad.As the killers had arrived with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, this story seemed noncredible on its face.Yet two days later, U.N. Ambassador Susan Continue reading...
The Cost of Winning Ugly
By Patrick J. BuchananThis week, the friends of Barack Obama introduced into the political battle of 2012 the moral equivalent of poison gas.In an ad produced by the super PAC Priorities USA, Mitt Romney is charged with moral, if not material, complicity in the cancer death of the wife of a Missouri steelworker.Speaking straight into the camera, Joe Soptic, 62, charges Romney with 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...
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