Roger Aronoff

Roger Aronoff is the executive director and Editor of the Citizens Commission on National Security. Aronoff founded the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi. He has produced and directed six documentaries, and produced a weekly series on PBS called “Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg.”

Most Recent Articles by Roger Aronoff:

The media played an active role in deflecting Romney’s barbs, not just Romney himself

Westerner’s eyewitness account of the dramatic events that happened last year on September 11 and 12, during the Benghazi attacks

We hear that “60 Minutes” is planning additional stories on the Benghazi scandal in the near future. Hopefully, they will advance the story further, and attempt to hold senior people accountable

Excruciatingly embarrassing for the White House and for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Has Obama so burned the bridge with House Republicans, that he is effectively a lame duck?

According to members of the crew, Phillips failed to follow anti-piracy protocols

President Barack Obama remains in an intense public relations war with the Republican-led House of Representatives

Citizens' Commission on Benghazi

Benghazi: One Year Later September 11, 2013
Who, then, will be held accountable for the Administration’s failures in Benghazi?

Nidal Hasan trial

There are a lot of ways this fiasco can play out, and none of them are pretty

“Phone logging effort” made by the NSA was not critical to thwarting 54 plots

Obama Administration scandal known as Benghazi, or BenghaziGate

Today is the 17th anniversary of that tragic event

MSNBC’s ratings might not be tanking as much if they could get basic reporting right.

Watergate-style scandal

College tuition rates continue to rise at an exorbitant rate

The “Chicago way”

Politics trumps the truth at the State Department

While Rice’s controversial remarks are well known, Samantha Power’s are less public

A job killer while raising healthcare costs and reducing quality--indeed, a train wreck

The President and his subordinates would rather meet with reporters to solidify their good relations with the press than address the issues at hand

Biggest scandal the Obama Administration facing right now—the Department of Veterans’ Affairs disability claims backlog

Social welfare activities

How far, exactly, is the Obama Administration willing to go to harass journalists who are just doing their job?

While Obama may continue to claim he had no personal knowledge of the targeting that took place by the IRS, it is now clear that his White House counsel and chief-of-staff did

Conservatives told media the IRS asked for donor lists, Facebook conversations, copies of minutes, notes, lists of meeting participants

We know the Obama administration is capable of misusing the IRS

A cynical game

Obama’s idea of ‘rational debate’ involves trotting out grieving parents and presenting their pain as if it were an argument