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At an April 17 session before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the new Secretary of State, John Kerry, lightly dismissed the assassination of a U.S. ambassador and three security personnel in Benghazi, Libya, saying "I don't think anybody lied to anybody. And let's find out exactly, together, what happened, because we need – we got a lot more important things to move on to and get done." This has been the party line of the White House since the attack occurred on September 11, 2012. The initial response was to send out the hapless lackey, then-US Ambassador to the United...

Edward Jay Epstein has a large and distinguished body of work on intelligence and intelligence-related issues. Among his books in the field are Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald and Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA. Ed has also taken to the ebook form. His ebooks on intelligence-related issues include Killing Castro and James Jesus Angleton: Was He Right? This morning Ed has forwarded the following questions on the Petraeus scandal: Before we can walk the cat back, and establish the chronology of a possible penetration, we need to answer the following ten...

Newspeople, this is not rocket science. You would not be interfering with any investigation by asking these questions of the President's Press Secretary. We know minute by minute what President Bush was doing on September 11, 2001. It is high time we learn what President Obama was doing on September 11, 2012. We demand answers to the following: When was the White House duty officer informed of the attack in Benghazi? When was President Obama notified of the attack? Where was President Obama at the time he was notified? When did President Obama return to the White House? Obama had...