By Hunter Walker 10/23/12 5:20pm

Gaffes

Obama And Romney Spar In Final Debate Before Presidential Election

CBS News Site Omits Bob Schieffer’s ‘Obama bin Laden’ Slip From Debate Transcript

One of the biggest gaffes during last night’s presidential debate came from the moderator, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer, who accidentally referred to the late Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as “Obama bin Laden” while discussing Pakistan. Though this was one of the most talked about moments of the evening, for over twelve hours after the debate, there was no mention of the mistake on CBS News’ website where the posted transcript of the debate omits the exchange. Read More

By Colin Campbell 10/11/12 9:31pm

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Joe Biden Opens Debate With Osama

Well, the vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan started off with a bit of a bang. In her opening question, moderator Martha Raddatz asked Mr. Biden whether President Barack Obama’s administration responded properly in its controversial reaction to the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Libya. After calling it a “tragedy” and vowing to hunt down those responsible, Mr. Biden directly went after Mitt Romney.

“When you’re looking at a president, Martha, it seems to me that you should look at his most important responsibility, that’s caring for the national security of the country, and the best way to do that is to take a look at how he’s handled the issues of the day.”

Mr. Biden went on to praise the president for the military operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden and suggested Mitt Romney would not have killed the Al Qaeda leader. Read More

By Hunter Walker 8/16/12 6:00pm

Under Siege

Ryan Zinke in his Navy days. (Photo: IraqVetsForCongress.com)

Former Navy SEAL Team Six Commander Says Special Ops Assault on Obama Is Just Beginning

Earlier this week, Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund Inc., a group of former U.S. intelligence and Special Forces personnel, launched a campaign criticizing President Barack Obama for unfairly taking credit for killing Osama bin Laden and leaking national security information for political gain. This is the second high-profile attack on the president from ex-elite military operatives. Last month, Ryan Zinke, a Montana State Senator and former commander of Navy SEAL Team Six, started a super PAC, Special Operations for America, which is dedicated to supporting Mitt Romney and hitting President Obama on leaks and on politicizing Bin Laden’s death. According to Mr. Zinke, these two super PACs are just the first salvo in what will be a sustained assault on the president by high-level ex-soldiers.

“There’s a number of groups out there,” Mr. Zinke told Politicker this morning. “I think what it demonstrates is, there’s a lot of anger, there’s a lot of concern among the former military community.” Read More

By Hunter Walker 7/18/12 2:01pm

Special Forces

Ryan Zinke in his Navy days. (Photo: IraqVetsForCongress.com)

Former Navy SEAL Launches PAC To Fight Obama

Today, Ryan Zinke, an ex-Navy SEAL and Montana State Senator, announced the launch of Special Operations for America, a political action committee dedicated to “the election of Mitt Romney and like-minded candidates.”

“Navy SEAL’s, Special Operations Personnel and Veteran’s across America have been outraged since Barack Obama conveniently took credit for killing Osama Bin Laden for political gain,” a statement announcing the launch of SOFA said. “The active duty military has no voice as they are forbidden to publicly engage in the political campaign process and it is career suicide for senior military leaders to speak out against the President.” Read More

By Hunter Walker 5/07/12 5:01pm

Classified Information

President Barack Obama walking outside the White House. (Photo: Pete Souza)

The White House Didn’t Want New Underwear Bomb Plot to be Revealed

There’s an interesting detail in the Associated Press’ scoop about a new plot by an Al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen to mark the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death by blowing up a passenger plane with “an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009.” According to AP reporter Adam Goldman, the White House and the CIA both asked the news organization to keep quiet about the upgraded underwear bomb story.

“The AP learned about the thwarted plot last week but agreed to White House and CIA requests not to publish it immediately because the sensitive intelligence operation was still under way,” Mr. Goldman wrote. “Once officials said those concerns were allayed, the AP decided to disclose the plot Monday despite requests from the Obama administration to wait for an official announcement Tuesday.” Read More

By David Freedlander 4/30/12 5:49pm

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Roundup: Even Jimmy Carter

Rudy Giuliani will campaign with Mitt Romney at a midtown fire house tomorrow.

Peter King thinks that  Obama should not campaign on the Osama bin Laden killing.

Mitt Romney said that “even Jimmy Carter” would have ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Since Mayor Bloomberg is calling for the public release of teacher evaluations, Bill de Blasio is calling for the public release of performance evaluations of Bloomberg staffers. Read More

By Reid Pillifant 8/10/11 6:45pm

Hollywood Endings

Peter King Trades Barbs with White House Over Bin Laden Movie; 'I Must Have Hit a Really Sensitive Nerve'

The White House offered an aggressive response to today’s letter from Homeland Security Chairman Peter King — based on a New York Times column by Maureen Dowd — which called for an investigation into whether the administration had provided special access to two filmmakers making a movie about the mission that killed Osama bin Laden.

“First of all, the claims are ridiculous,” Press Secretary Jay Carney said this afternoon, according to a transcript. Carney characterized the administration’s cooperation generally as trying to make sure facts are correct, and called it “hardly a novel approach to the media.” Read More

By Reid Pillifant 8/10/11 12:12pm

Hollywood Endings

Peter King Questions White House About Bin Laden Blockbuster

Peter King is not excited about the Hollywood version of the Seal Team Six mission that killed Osama bin Laden.

The chairman of the Homeland Security Committee — who previously praised President Obama for his handling of the mission — sent a letter today questioning whether filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal were reportedly being given unprecedented access to produce a movie about the raid. Read More

By Reid Pillifant 5/13/11 12:15pm

After Bin Laden

Peter King Says Bin Laden Photos Aren’t So Bad [Video]


 

Congressman Peter King traveled to the C.I.A. headquarters this morning to view the photos of Osama bin Laden.

“Clearly he was shot over the left eye,” King told Fox 5. “So that area of his head is done. And also part of his skull. Other than there are no distortions to the face.”

When President Obama was debating whether to release the photos, King said he’d favor making them public, but deferred to the president’s judgment when the administration decided not to.

“Certainly if it were in black and white it wouldn’t be that bad,” he said after seeing them, but stopped short of calling for their release. “Again, how would this play in the Muslim world? How would this play in the Middle East? I don’t know.”

King said he saw 5 or 6 photos, maybe as many as 7–including shots of Bin Laden’s body in a shroud, and of it being washed, in accordance with Islamic death rites.

Video after the jump. Read More