By Ben Barrack I’ll never forget that moment in 2008, just days before America elected Barack Obama as President of the United States. It was a video excerpt from a 1982 documentary. The excerpt featured a man named Larry Grathwohl, who little more than a decade earlier had infiltrated the Weather Underground for the FBI […]
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Rep. Frank Wolf: Benghazi Question #5
Last week, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) pledged to go to the House floor every day until the August recess with a new question about Benghazi. Today, the congressman gave us Question #5, which has to do with who told the CIA Annex security team to stand down. Is it a good thing to be afflicted […]
Christian Given Life Sentence In Pakistan
On the evening of July 21, 2013, another Blasphemy case was registered against the Christian couple in Gojra City in Punjab province. From our contact in Pakistan… Shafaqat Masih and his wife Shagufta Bibi were accused of blasphemy and arrested on July 21, 2013. The First Investigation Report (FIR) (No. 407/13) was registered under 295-B […]
Marine Col. who was ‘Retired’ (but wasn’t) to Testify on Benghazi
It started with a report from Sharyl Attkisson. The CBS reporter – whose computers were hacked as she investigated Benghazi – reported that the Pentagon said Marine Corps. Col. George Bristol was retired and could not be compelled to testify. We now know that Bristol isn’t retired. Now the Pentagon is willing to let him […]
Is Yusuf al-Qaradawi under house arrest?
There has been very little information to come out about Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader Yusuf Al-Qaradawi since it was reported earlier this month that Qatar was going to expel him. The most recent report on his status comes from Ahlul Bayt News Agency, which cites ‘unconfirmed reports’ that Qaradawi’s fate is not all that dissimilar […]
Today’s Ben Barrack show…
On today’s show… Calls for a House Select Committee into what happened at Benghazi grow louder as Rep. Frank Wolf’s bill gets renewed attention and interest. Wolf got some backup from Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) this week when Stockman indicated that he would force the issue. This all happened as a House Foreign Affairs Committee […]
Why is Al-Jazeera giving Money to Weiner?
Those puzzled by the notion of New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner accepting money from Al-Jazeera may want to consider a better question: Why is Al-Jazeera giving him money in the first place? We can’t figure it out except for one reason – his wife is a devout Muslim with extensive, irrefutable familial connections […]
Calls for House Select Committee on Benghazi Growing
By Ben Barrack Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) began calling for a House Select Committee to investigate Benghazi three months after the attack. He has been met with resistance by House leadership that has demonstrated more interest in pushing Barack Obama’s immigration agenda. Wolf’s bill, H.Res.36 has 161 sponsors. This week, after a House Foreign Affairs […]
Huma Abedin Apologists Losing but Huma still Winning
There’s an old adage in court that says when the facts are not on your side, discredit the opposition. Nowhere is this strategy better exemplified than in the case of Huma Abedin’s defenders. The latest case-in-point comes from Brian Tashman at Right Wing Watch. In his embarrassing missive, Tashman neither addresses nor responds to one […]
CNN Host Vindicated after Grilling leader of Brotherhood Delegation last year
A news anchor at an unlikely source – CNN – repeatedly challenged the senior member of a Muslim Brotherhood delegation that visited the White House in April of 2012. Hala Gorani, who speaks Arabic and whose parents are from Syria, had little patience for Abdulmawgoud Dardery’s spin. Most telling perhaps is that after more than […]
Janine Turner has Walid back on to talk Benghazi
Janine Turner had Walid back on her show to talk on a variety of subjects, to include what really happened in Benghazi, the connection of President Obama’s brother to the IRS Scandal, and much more… Is it a good thing to be afflicted with Islamophobia? Get the new book from Walid Shoebat, The Case FOR […]
ARB Chairman on Islamic Forum Attendee List in Qatar
Accountability Review Board (ARB) Chairman Thomas Pickering appears to have attended the U.S.-Islamic World Forum (IWF) in Doha, Qatar last month. This conference, co-sponsored by an arm of the left-leaning Brookings Institute, was rife with Muslim Brotherhood members and sympathizers. As Chairman of the ARB, which was commissioned by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton […]
Did Pentagon Lie about potential Benghazi Witness?
Back on July 5th, Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News reported that the Pentagon would not divulge the whereabouts of Marine Corps. Col. George Bristol, who may have valuable information about what happened in Benghazi, to those in Congress who wanted to talk to him because they “cannot compel retired members to testify before Congress.” According […]
Flashback: Christopher Stevens found ‘Alive’
In light of developments since the 9/11/12 attacks in Benghazi, we thought we’d take another look at the video purporting to be the late U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens being pulled from the Special Mission Compound (SMC) the night of his death. In this video, what looks like the body of Stevens is seen being pulled […]
Iraq ‘Air Bridge’ open to Iran’s Syrian-bound weapons
Iraq’s Foreign Minister has insisted that he is powerless to stop weapons transfers from Iran to Syria across what’s been called an ‘air bridge’ over his country. However, Hadi al-Ameri, Iraq’s Transportation Minister, who has been implicated in the 1996 Khobar Towers bombings (among other things), has expressed loyalty to Iran’s Ayatollah in the past. […]
Patterson accused of belonging to ‘Sleeper cell’
Anne Patterson, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, was accused by an Egyptian politician of belonging to a Muslim Brotherhood ‘sleeper cell’. Despite its attempts to convince the world that it’s neutral when it comes to who leads Egypt, the new Egyptian government isn’t buying what the Obama administration is selling. At least one Egyptian politician thinks […]