Posted on 09/15/2012 7:55:52 AM PDT by KansasGirl
While the Obama administration says there was no "actionable intelligence" foreshadowing the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, there were at least four attacks on diplomatic and western targets in Benghazi leading up to the murder of the U.S. ambassador.
“This (the U.S. Consulate) was a place that was targeted months before with an IED (improvised explosive device)," Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House intelligence committee who has been briefed on the attack and investigation, told Fox News. “It's clearly a target that they wanted to hit and they wanted to cause casualties. ... It's just too many coincidences here”
On June 6, an IED was thrown at the perimeter of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. On June 11, the British ambassador's motorcade came under attack by a rocket-propelled grenade, or RPG. Two security personnel were injured. Seven days later, on June 18, armed gunmen attacked the Tunisian consulate and burned its flag. And on Aug. 5, five weeks before the assault on the U.S. Consulate, the International Committee of the Red Cross building in Benghazi was also struck by RPGs.
On Friday, the chairman and ranking members of the Senate homeland security committee, Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins, sent a letter to the State Department inspector general requesting an investigation into the U.S. Consulate’s security posture at the time of the attack. The letter specifically references the previous attacks in June on the consulate and the British ambassador’s convoy, adding:
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Anyone saving the actual website page before it gets pulled?
These 2 people are shameful cowards...they are not being asked to take a bullet...just tell the truth. But the truth would destroy their political plans. They are a shame to this country.
Were family present to be used as photo ops for Barry and Billary?
If I were a family member of one of the victims, I would tell both of them to go to Hell.
Yes, family members were present when the bodies were received at the hanger.
“Hillary has blood on her hands.”
We should call for her resignation.
I do believe that this is a huge weak spot on the part of the WH which has only been briefly touched on so far.
Obama NEGLECTED his daily briefings. Carney was clearly flustered by this question last week, not knowing exactly what to say.
This issue needs to be pressed hard.
Thanks. From Barry’s weekly address concerning this violence (the obligatory apology for insulting Islam) and this, “...And so long as I am Commander-in-Chief, the United States will never tolerate efforts to harm our fellow Americans....”
If I were in the military, I wouldn’t believe this man. How many servicemen are still being murdered by “friendlies” in Iraq and Afghanistan by his Rules of Engagement?
I despise Barry.
Look at his statement...it is logically contradictory. Well, here we are and it was tolerated. Moreover Obama/Clinton were enablers of this event by virtue of not even providing reasonable security, but opted to provide what they called security which was provided by radical muslims. Did the Libyan securities turn over the location of the diplomat to the 140 terrorists who were there with arms and RPGs to kill our people? Yes, Obama enabled the muslims to kill our people. It was blamed on a fiction of a homemade movie. That's their story and they are sticking to it. How is that not tolerating efforts to harm Americans?
Maybe this should be in breaking news.
It was. The moderator moved it.
Just get out people out of that region!
His statement, if not so tragic, would be a laugh.
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