Security Failures of Benghazi: Today’s Hearing ("For me, the Taliban is inside of the building")

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[RummyChick]

RSO Nordstrom is a strong and articulate witness. DAS Lamb not so much. U/S Kennedy so-so.

Nordstrom: “For me, the Taliban is inside of the building.”
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[RummyChick]

There are bullet point highlights at the site. I can't find a mainstream title yet of Nordstrom's quote and that is what I really want people to see.

[workerbee]

That was one powerful moment.

[Terry Mross]

That “Taliban inside the building remark” had to sting.

It’s so obvious the two on the right are covering for obama and Hillary. As are the congress folks on the left.

[RummyChick]

It’s not up on youtube yet but this one is:
Libya Embassy Security Officer -Obama’s Plan For Libya: “Hope That Everything Would Get Better”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gv8gSS9cUA

[RummyChick]

tapper’s got it
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/10/security-officer-on-state-department-blocking-requests-for-me-the-taliban-is-inside-the-building/

[RummyChick]

“His response to that was, ‘You are asking for the sun, moon and the stars.’ And my response to him – his name was Jim – ‘Jim, you know what makes most frustrating about this assignment? It is not the hardships, it is not the gunfire, it is not the threats. It is dealing and fighting against the people, programs and personnel who are supposed to be supporting me. And I added (sic) it by saying, ‘For me the Taliban is on the inside of the building.’”

[1066AD]

Tapper's on it:

Security Officer on State Department Blocking Requests: ‘For Me the Taliban Is Inside the Building’

[izzatzo]

So, the State Department is where Teddy Bare, Jr.(Patrick Kennedy) is hiding now, must be great to go from one federal teat to another so easily.

[RummyChick]

video on fox
http://nation.foxnews.com/state-department/2012/10/10/former-regional-security-officer-nordstrom-taliban-inside-building

[RummyChick]

different Patrick Kennedy

[izzatzo]

Really, that’s surprising, I didn’t watch; but, you know what is said about “assume.”

[maggief]

Thanks for the thread.

btt

[RummyChick]

that comment is going to get so much play

funny how it almost didn’t come..only at the very end

Thanks, Eric Nordstrom and Col Woods

[Just mythoughts]

Nordstrom: “For me, the Taliban is inside of the building.”

But Obama, Clinton, and Rice have yet to retract their first announcement. These murders happened because of an offensive '14 minute video'.

I am at a loss for words to describe the utter contemptible presence, presentation and responses given by Kennedy and Lamb.

kabar, can you please explain what went on today by these two state side DOS employees?

[maggief]

That was a direct hit at the State Department, IMO.

Nordstrom and Woods are very brave.

[heylady]

“I have been a career foreign service officer for 39 years,” Kennedy said

I didn’t watch this on tv. Was this the same Patrick Kennedy, Teddy’s son. He wouldn’’t be old enough to have had a career in the foreign service for 39 years.

[B212]

this incident, has the smell of a decision made by senior management, regarding the security out there, and no one is about to risk their career in opposing...one guess who the senior manager is....

[izzatzo]

See numbers 10 and 11. Not the same PK, but, if I were a democrat, my inaccurate comment wouldn’t make any difference.

[RummyChick]

Chaffetz had tears in his eyes when Gowdy was speaking. He went to Libya to try to find out what happened.

I think he knows a good deal of what went down. Probably heard it from the CIA. He was quick to shut down one line of questioning that would have outed CIA and he shut down the photo even though it is on Google.