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Roger Aronoff

Roger Aronoff is a member of Citizens Commission on National Security. Roger is the writer/director of Confronting Iraq: Conflict and Hope

Most Recent Articles by Roger Aronoff:

Benghazi Investigation Heats Up with New Books, Hearings and a Documentary

With the anniversary of September 11, 2001, coming up next week, the left is lining up to undermine various and ongoing efforts to get to the truth about what led to the events of September 11, 2012. The latter terrorist attack took place two months before a presidential election. The U.S. Special Mission Compound (often mistakenly referred to as a consulate) in Benghazi, Libya, and the nearby CIA Annex were brutally attacked--killing our U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.
- Friday, September 5, 2014

The Media at War With the Obama Administration?

While the media are usually doing the bidding of President Obama and the Democrats, and are deep in the President’s pocket, there are cases in which they are very unhappy with his actions. New York Times reporter James Risen has become famous not only for his ongoing Espionage Act case, but also for his willingness to call President Obama the “greatest enemy to press freedom in a generation.”
- Friday, August 29, 2014

MSNBC’s Conflict of Interest: Al Sharpton

MSNBC’s Conflict of Interest: Al Sharpton
The day before Al Sharpton's particular brand of civil rights activism led him to speak at Michael Brown's funeral, The New York Times was celebrating him with a softball piece that outlined Sharpton's strong connections to the Obama administration, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, and even New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. What do all these leaders have in common? They lean left--hard left. Or as the motto of MSNBC, where Sharpton has a weekday show, puts it, they "lean forward."
- Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Civil War in the Democratic Party?

While the media have feasted on the perceived civil war in the Republican Party, based on a few close races involving the Tea Party versus the establishment and differences in how to handle immigration reform, the makings of a very real civil war have emerged in the Democratic Party that has the left in a quandary. But now, just days after reports first broke about Hillary Clinton’s attacks on President Barack Obama’s weak and confused foreign policy decisions, Politico is reporting that Hillary has declared a cease-fire, for now, as the two met in Martha’s Vineyard Wednesday night at the home of one-time Democratic fixer Vernon Jordan.
- Friday, August 15, 2014


Time Runs Out on Counting Casualties in Gaza

Last week I received an email from Time magazine, asking if I “would be interested in contributing a piece for Time.com on the casualty numbers being reported in Gaza. These come mostly from Hamas, and we’re interested in a piece on how reliable/unreliable the numbers are,” the email said. But the magazine apparently wasn’t interested in the product they requested. I immediately responded that I would be willing to provide them with a piece, and, at their request, suggested what I would plan to say. They wrote back the following: “I think we need a piece that focuses on the reported casualties and how we can/should unpack those numbers as reliable or not. What source or sources should we be going to, and how should the casualty count be done? I don't think we need to address Israel being treated as the aggressor since I think many will be familiar with that perspective and its counter.” When I submitted a full piece targeted more toward what they suggested, they decided to pass. It wasn’t “quite what we’re looking for so will have to pass.”
- Tuesday, July 29, 2014




Mr. Milbank's Muddled Misfire

The press is geared toward sensationalism, and this is understandable. But Milbank's misrepresentation of the facts is inexcusable
- Thursday, June 19, 2014

VA Crises Getting Lost in Scandal Overload

President Obama is embroiled in two Veterans Affairs scandals: 1) fabricated documents and secret waiting lists for health care, with dozens of veterans dying while waiting for appointments; and 2) waiting lists for disability benefits. The former is now the subject of a criminal investigation opened by the Phoenix office of the FBI just days after the release of a bipartisan letter from 21 U.S. senators to the Department of Justice calling for a criminal investigation.
- Thursday, June 12, 2014



CNN's "Chicagoland" Charade

It was recently revealed by the Chicago Tribune that CNN coordinated a series it aired called "Chicagoland" with Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The purpose was to make him look good, no question about it.
- Thursday, May 1, 2014


President Obama’s War on Journalists

Critics on both the left and the right are lambasting President Obama for his ongoing policies restricting the freedom of the press, ostensibly in favor of national security, which in some cases amount to a vendetta against reporters who publish what leakers leak, rather than just going after what the leakers have done themselves. “The Obama administration’s unprecedented pursuit of criminal liability against security leakers threatens to rope in the Fourth Estate,” wrote Stanford’s Jennifer Granick and Morgan Weiland for Forbes. (Weiland used to work for the far-left Media Matters.) “The message? Don’t report national security stories or you will become a target.”
- Thursday, March 27, 2014

Obamacare's Tough Day in Court

Since its passage, a number of lawsuits have attempted to undermine Obamacare as a law, with varying degrees of success. The individual mandate challenge failed before the Supreme Court in 2012, despite what seemed like positive reception to the challenge during oral argument. Hobby Lobby went before the Supreme Court on March 25 to challenge the religious liberty implications of the contraception mandate portion of the law.
- Thursday, March 27, 2014

The Liberation of Sharyl Attkisson

Sharyl Attkisson has been “liberated” from her post at CBS, finally resigning after months of rumors of a rocky relationship with the broadcast news company. It turns out that she planned on leaving CBS a full year ago, but was persuaded not to at the time. Now the American mainstream media have lost one of the greats of modern journalism.
- Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Clintonworld Determined to Contain Latest Controversy

Much of the media have been obsessed with "Bridgegate," the local New Jersey story about traffic jams caused by the closing of some lanes on the George Washington Bridge leading into Manhattan--and other potential scandals--simply because the person who figures into it most--Chris Christie--is the governor, and was considered by many to be the Republican with the best chance to beat Hillary Clinton in a 2016 matchup.
- Thursday, March 13, 2014

Susan Rice's Revealing Encore on "Meet the Press"

We have often pointed out how NBC, along with its cable-news arm MSNBC, are networks that work in the service of the Obama administration. That was never more clear than when National Security Adviser Susan Rice visited a Sunday morning talk show last weekend for the first time since her disastrous and dishonest appearances on September 16, 2012, just days after the terrorist attacks in Benghazi took the lives of four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens.
- Friday, February 28, 2014

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