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Benghazi Question Lara Logan’s apology does not answer

60 Minutes’ Lara Logan appeared on CBS This Morning today to inform viewers that the program would be issuing a formal apology during its November 10th broadcast. The apology will be about relying on a British security contractor’s account of events on the ground in Benghazi on 9/11/12. The contractor – Dylan Davies – went […]

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Was British Soldier told to Stand Down in Benghazi?

When we chimed in on Lara Logan’s 60 Minutes piece on Benghazi, what caught our attention was a glaring discrepancy between a claim made by Logan and a diametrically opposing claim by the Accountability Review Board (ARB). Logan reported that CIA Annex personnel “ignored orders to wait” while the ARB said “the Annex team was […]

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CBS’ 60 Minutes avoids Egyptian Connection to Benghazi

The 60 Minutes piece by Lara Logan on the Benghazi attacks was well done. It included excerpts of interviews with State Department whistleblower Gregory Hicks, Lt. Col. Andrew Wood, and a British security official who was in charge of the Libyans who were hired to provide security, Libyans he didn’t seem impressed by. Here’s the […]

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Must See Video: Interview with former Gulen Charter School Teacher (Paging Leslie Stahl)

Folks, this is a must-see video of an exchange between Frank Gaffney, Jr. and a woman named Mary Addi, who used to work for a Gulen Charter school. Addi relays a chilling account of her experiences. At one point, she said that Americans are referred to by the Turkish school administrators as “foreigners” (yes, in […]

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The Case of Democratic Congressman Bob Filner and the Gulenist movement

This entry is a separate follow-up to this post from last week. In particular, it focuses on the ties of Democratic Congressman Bob Filner (CA-51) – who is currently running for mayor of San Diego – to the Fethullah Gulen movement as well as the degree to which he is beholden to that movement. The […]

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