Rowan Scarborough

Indictment of suspect in Benghazi attack Ahmed Abu Khatallah debunks the Obama tale

The Obama administration's just-released criminal complaint against the alleged mastermind of the Benghazi terrorist attacks provides a final contradiction to its own evolving explanations for what happened that day.

July 1, 2014

Air Force secretary gets sick flying with Thunderbirds

Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James hitched a ride with the storied Thunderbirds aerial acrobatic team this week — and it didn't go quite as she planned.

June 28, 2014

ISIL terrorists aim to attack U.S., congressional report says

The al Qaeda-linked army now conquering territory in Syria and Iraq ultimately wants its new Islamic state to be a launching pad for attacking the U.S. homeland, says a new congressional report.

June 24, 2014

U.S. troops set stunning record in evading capture by Taliban

On June 30, 2009, the day Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked into captivity, American forces in Afghanistan had not allowed a single service member to fall into enemy hands.

June 22, 2014

For any U.S. airstrike to succeed, the Iraqi army must stand and fight, experts say

As the U.S. masses air power on Iraq's doorstep, analysts are warning that missiles and bombs will have limited impact on Islamic militants unless the Iraqi army stops running and starts fighting.

June 16, 2014

Obama ignored general’s pleas to keep American forces in Iraq

The last American commander in Iraq recommended to the Obama administration that 23,000 U.S. troops remain to cement the victory, but no deal was ever reached with Baghdad, and all combat forces went home.

June 15, 2014

Taliban 5 in Bergdahl trade have plenty of time to rejoin fight in Afghanistan

The five Taliban commanders freed by the Obama administration will find an Afghanistan in 2015 that is still home to nearly 10,000 American troops and still in a war that likely will go on for years.

June 12, 2014

Pentagon believes Bergdahl was drugged in proof-of-life video

A Pentagon agency has concluded that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl showed definite signs of being drugged by his captors for a pivotal December 2013 video that spurred the Obama administration to trade five Taliban commanders for his release.

June 10, 2014

Bergdahl’s parents got rare access to insiders; data for sympathizer of Gitmo detainees

The Obama administration gave the parents of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl extraordinary insider access to the military's hunt for their son by having them take part in a series of secure video conferences with senior commanders as well as White House and State Department officials.

June 8, 2014

Haqqani Network, Pakistan terror group, grows into worst enemy for U.S.

The Haqqani Network, the terrorist group that the U.S. command in Afghanistan says is its most formidable enemy — worse than the Taliban or al Qaeda — has operated for a dozen years across the border in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area with little to fear other than sporadic drone strikes.

June 5, 2014

POW Bergdahl’s haggard look could have been terrorist ploy to free Taliban

The Haqqani terrorist group kept Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in relatively good health the past five years because it was always its goal to trade him, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

June 3, 2014

Administration mum on Bowe Bergdahl discipline

His former war buddies call him a deserter, but initial statements from President Obama and his aides indicate they don't want a criminal case against Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

June 2, 2014

White House’s release of Taliban follows its criticism of Afghan prisoner release

The White House has released Taliban leaders just four months after condemning Afghan President Hamid Karzai's release of 65 Taliban fighters.

June 2, 2014

Pentagon wrestles with false climate predictions as military funds shifted to green agenda

Consultants told the military that, by now, California would be flooded by inland seas, The Hague would be unlivable, polar ice would be mostly gone in summer, and global temperatures would rise at an accelerated rate as high as 0.5 degrees a year. None of that has happened.

June 1, 2014

GOP lawmakers warn of Taliban incentives in freeing American POW

Two Republican defense leaders in Congress warn that trading terrorists for an American POW now gives al Qaeda and the Taliban a bigger incentive to capture U.S. service members.

June 1, 2014

Sponsors of Pentagon’s alarm-raising climate study could benefit from action

Retired military officers deeply involved in the climate change movement — and some in companies positioned to profit from it — spearheaded an alarmist global warming report this month that calls on the Defense Department to ramp up spending on what it calls a man-made problem.

May 26, 2014

House leaders nix bill that would give Obama power to kill Benghazi terrorists

The House Republican leadership has abolished an amendment that would have given President Obama the authority to kill the terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, according to a legislative aide.

May 25, 2014

Senator, VFW spar over VA Department scandal

Sen. Richard Burr accuses the VFW of kowtowing to the Department of Veterans Afffairs.

May 24, 2014

MEMORIAL DAY: Pentagon not revealing efforts to free POW

It will be five years next month that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl fell into the hands of the most ruthless terrorists fighting U.S. and local troops in Afghanistan.

May 22, 2014

Father of nuclear Navy — Film shows how Capt. Rickover bucked authority, helped win Cold War

Dressed in his starched, white dress uniform, Capt. Hyman Rickover basked in a ticker-tape parade, waving from the Canyon of Heroes to New Yorkers celebrating the Navy officer's phenomenal creation.

May 14, 2014