Langley Intelligence Group Videos

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden, in an exclusive interview, said that although he does not want to accuse any U.S. officials of wrongdoing in how they handled the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi last September, he is curious about why so few options were available after the attack and why the State Department and the White House weeks later were sticking with the narrative of a demonstration over a video.

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and former New Republic editor John Podhoretz discuss the May 8 House hearing on the September 11, 2012 U.S. consulate in Benghazi in this MSNBC video. Scarborough’s view is that the witness testimony “speaks for itself” while Podhoretz described the testimony as “startling damaging.”

Deputy Chief of Mission Gregory Hicks provides Congressional testimony on the attack at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi in September 2012.

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski chair an MSNBC roundtable on this week’s congressional hearings on the terrorist attacks against the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Scarborough wants to know why the Obama administration did not provide better security to the consulate. Brzezinski thinks criticism of the Obama administration and former Secretary of State Clinton over the attacks has been unfair.

Former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) told LIGNET in this interview that the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detention facility is the best possible place to hold its dangerous terrorist inmates. Hoekstra said he does not understand why President Obama recently said he would resume his efforts to close the Guantanamo prison, but the Congressman believes there is no chance of this happening due to strong bipartisan opposition in Congress.