"When it became clear last fall that the CIA’s now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents reviewed by Congress suggest a different story. ... 

"White House emails reviewed by ABC News suggest the edits were made with extensive input from the State Department.  The edits included requests from the State Department that references to the Al Qaeda-affiliated group Ansar al-Sharia be deleted as well references to CIA warnings about terrorist threats in Benghazi in the months preceding the attack. 

"That would appear to directly contradict what White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said about the talking points in November."

"Benghazi is not going away. 

"On Wednesday, U.S. diplomat Gregory Hicks came to Congress with headline-worthy testimony. ... 

"Hicks raises big questions – serious ones about what the Obama administration (especially Hillary Clinton) knew and did in response. ... 

"Benghazi has already cost the president his first choice for secretary of State. What could stonewalling cost the White House this time?"

"It’s on. As the White House grapples with a growing backlash over its Libya lies and lapses, President Obama’s apologists are gearing up for battle. Put on your hip waders. Grab those tar buckets. Get ready for Operation Smear Benghazi Whistleblowers. ... 

"If you thought Chicago-on-the-Potomac was dirty, you ain’t seen nothing yet. No stone will be left unturned in the effort to slime, sully, and squelch the Benghazi truth tellers. Mark my words: This is how Obama’s thugs roll."

"An exhaustive study by the Heritage Foundation has found that after amnesty, current unlawful immigrants would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits and services and pay more than $3 trillion in taxes over their lifetimes. That leaves a net fiscal deficit (benefits minus taxes) of $6.3 trillion. That deficit would have to be financed by increasing the government debt or raising taxes on U.S. citizens.

"For centuries immigration has been vital to our nation’s health, and it will be essential to our future success. Yet immigrants should come to our nation lawfully and should not impose additional fiscal costs on our overburdened taxpayers. An efficient and merit-based system would help our economy and lessen the burden on taxpayers, strengthening our nation. ...

"In addition to costing taxpayers, amnesty is unfair to those who came to this country lawfully. More than 4 million people are waiting to come to the United States lawfully, but our dysfunctional bureaucracy makes it easier to break the law than to follow it."

"On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department's own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision-making, according to a 'whistle-blower' witness from that bureau who will soon testify to the charge before Congress, Fox News has learned. 
 
"That witness is Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for operations in the agency’s counterterrorism bureau. Sources tell Fox News Thompson will level the allegation against Clinton during testimony on Wednesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif."

"Next week, the House Oversight Committee, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), will open new hearings on Benghazi — and they could be explosive. He promises to expose new information the administration 'has tried to suppress.' ... 

"The administration plainly wishes the whole subject would go away. The attack happened 'a long time ago,' President Obama’s spokesman, Jay Carney, said this week, complaining about being questioned on the matter. Earlier, Secretary of State John Kerry, testifying before Congress, whined, 'We got a lot more important things to move on to and get done.'

"But they won’t 'get done' — not until the administration finally comes clean about Benghazi."

"'We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked,' Secretary of State Dean Rusk famously said during the Cuban missile crisis. Barack Obama has been doing a lot of blinking lately. On Syria especially. ...   

"Blinking at the evidence that Syria has crossed what he called a 'red line,' Obama may be hoping to avoid getting bogged down in a military quagmire there. But weakness is provocative, and appeasement can lead to a wider war."

"Yesterday, President Obama turned into Chip Diller. Who is Chip Diller? He is the college boy who keeps screaming, 'Remain calm! All is well!,' as the town of Faber collapses around him at the end of 'National Lampoon’s Animal House.' 

"With his own administration saying chemical weapons have been used in Syria, a Democratic senator saying ObamaCare has become a 'train wreck,' and others worrying that the failure to neutralize the Tsarnaev brothers before the Boston massacre indicates a systemic failure in the nation’s homeland defense, Obama spent an hour in a press conference yesterday morning Chip-Dillering America."

"Members of the Senate's bipartisan Gang of Eight stress that under their new immigration plan, currently illegal immigrants will have to wait more than a decade before achieving citizenship. Newly legalized immigrants will be given a provisional status and 'will have to stay in that status until at least 10 years elapse and (border security) triggers are met,'  Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio told Fox News on April 14. After that, Rubio said, they'll have to wait longer for a green card and, ultimately, citizenship. 

"Unless they don't. A little-noticed exception in the Gang of Eight bill provides a fast track for many -- possibly very many -- currently illegal immigrants. Under a special provision for immigrants who have labored at least part-time in agriculture, that fast track could mean permanent residency in the U.S., and then citizenship, in half the time Rubio said. And not just for the immigrants themselves -- their spouses and children, too."

"KABUL, Afghanistan — For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan’s president — courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency. 

"All told, tens of millions of dollars have flowed from the C.I.A. to the office of President Hamid Karzai, according to current and former advisers to the Afghan leader. ... 

"[T]here is little evidence that the payments bought the influence the C.I.A. sought. Instead, some American officials said, the cash has fueled corruption and empowered warlords, undermining Washington’s exit strategy from Afghanistan."