Outside the Beltway

CNN reports that CIA is going to great lengths to keep operatives from talking about what happened at Benghazi.

I have for months taken it as a given that she went on five Sunday morning talk shows and lied about what happened there. Did she?

How would the addition of Susan Rice and Samantha Power to the President’s foreign policy team affect policy toward Syria’s civil war?

Denied her chance at being Secretary of State, Susan Rice will be moving to a position that is arguably just as important in shaping American foreign policy.

So far, three weeks of bad news hasn’t really had much of an impact on the public’s view of how President Obama is handling his job.

The Obama Administration’s response to the Benghazi attack is approaching critical mass. It’s not going away any time soon.

Would more information about the Benghazi attacks have changed the outcome of the Presidential election?

The talking points prepared in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack were heavily edited at the request of the State Department.

Republicans looking to Benghazi for political ammunition are likely going to be disappointed.

Yesterday’s hearings shed more light while also raising yet more questions to which we’ll likely never get a satisfactory answer.

Whether in the blogosphere or on television, people are increasingly only accessing sources of news and opinion that confirm their pre-conceived ideas.

Despite some tough questions, Congressional Republicans didn’t land a glove on Secretary of State Clinton.

The David Petraeus/Paula Broadwell story gets curiouser.

An attempt to lay down some basic groundwork for discussing this story.

What’s the truth about last night’s debate exchange about Libya?

A round of finger pointing in the aftermath of the Benghazi attack.

Questions about why the Obama administration pretended the attacks on our Embassy in Libya were a spontaneous reaction to a video rather than a coordinated terrorist attack are gaining steam.

The Administration’s decision to stick with the meme that the Benghazi attack was about a movie becomes more puzzling.

Good journalism? Or, bad ethics?

The Administration’s narrative regarding the attack that resulted in the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens no longer holds water.

It’s still possible for Mitt Romney to win this election, but is it probable?

Contrary to what was believed, it does not appear that there was any protest taking place when the Benghazi Consulate was attacked.

The White House’s theory of what happened in Benghazi is become less and less credible.