libya

Review chairman: Clinton didn't make Benghazi call

By: Associated Press 05/12/13 8:10 PM

The seasoned diplomat who penned a highly critical report on security at a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, defended his scathing assessment but absolved then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. "We knew where the responsibility rested," Thomas Pickering said Sunday. "They've tried to point a finger at people more senior than where we found the decisions were made," Pickering, whose career spans four decades, said of Clinton's critics. Read More

Kerry says he'll answer questions on Benghazi

By: Associated Press 05/09/13 7:07 PM

Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday he's determined to answer any questions related to the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, as the House Republican leader pushed for more information from the Obama administration. Read More

Astrologists foretell a cloudy forecast for 2012

By: Andrea Koskey 12/31/11 8:00 PM

It’s the end of the world as we know it. Well, not exactly. In 2011, we saw earthquakes, tsunamis, a royal wedding, a continued stagnant economy and civil uprisings in the Middle East and at home. What can beat all that in 2012? Perhaps only the end of the world. Read More

Heads of State

By: Nate Beeler 10/20/11 10:58 PM

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“Mission Accomplished” in Libya?

By: Gene Healy 08/30/11 6:55 PM

Mission accomplished! As Libyan rebels took Tripoli last week, liberals practically draped that banner across the nation’s op-ed pages. Now was the time for all good men to come together and praise a famous victory. In Newsweek, liberal columnist Michael Tomasky what we did in Libya “completely the right thing to do,” and President Barack Obama was on his way to becoming “a great foreign policy president.” Read More

Libya unrest stirs up questions over fate of Lockerbie bomber

By: Tod Lindberg 08/29/11 10:50 PM

An intriguing sideshow to the Libyan revolt is the fate of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the convicted Lockerbie bomber released to Libya from a Scottish prison two years ago, supposedly on the “compassionate” grounds that his terminal prostate cancer left him with less than three months to live. The Libyan government lobbied the U.K. government of Gordon Brown hard and heavy for his release. He received a hero’s welcome at the airport upon his return to Libya in August 2009. Read More

Libya’s underprotected atomic materials could make dirty bombs

By: Staff report 08/24/11 10:52 PM

WHAT: As the Libyan revolt enters a period of chaos, looters might find easy pickings in little-protected stocks of radioisotopes, radioactive waste and low-enriched uranium fuel at the Moammar Gadhafi dictatorship’s inactive Tajoura nuclear research laboratory. Read More

Gadhafi's Rule Crumbles

By: Nate Beeler 08/22/11 11:05 PM

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If Obama ignores the debt limit, he’ll totally get away with it

By: Conn Carroll 07/05/11 5:33 AM

For months Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has been warning Congress that a failure to raise the federal government’s $14.3 trillion debt limit would have “catastrophic economic consequences.” But now that financial Armegeddon is supposedly just weeks away, Geithner is raising the possibility that he may ignore the law en Read More