Posted on 10/12/2012 9:49:44 AM PDT by Perdogg
Footage from the night of Sept. 11 might be the clearest evidence yet of a military-style assault on the consulate in Benghazi. Eli Lake reports.
Footage from the night of Sept. 11 might be the clearest evidence yet of a military-style assault on the consulate in Benghazi. Eli Lake reports.
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Excellent Job, boots.
Let me see if I have this straight...
We actually had a drone overhead broadcasting this attack live to a command center somewhere, and for two or three weeks the “Administration,” led by the WH spokesman, our UN ambassador, our Secretary of State, right on up to the President, tried to blame this on a video? Do I have that right?
This is a coverup of the worst sort, by people who are not worthy to be entrusted with our national security. WE MUST VOTE THEM ALL OUT ON NOVEMBER 6. Then we can conduct Holder-style hearings, too.
Boots
Please give your feelings on this.
Follow the trail from Holder and his staff to Gitmo terror subject who was sprung in 2007 by Jennifer Daskal who is currently working in Justice. Does she still have his phone number? What would be the blow back if a person trusted in Justice directly helped the killer of our ambassador get out of GITMO ? What if he was our contact during the support of “freedom fighters” Fast and furious Libya ?
http://www.thedaily.com/article/2012/09/20/092012-news-libya-attack/
DOJ Lawyers Who Represented Terrorism Suspects Detainees Are Identified
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Fox News has identified the seven anonymous Justice Department lawyers who previously represented Guantánamo detainees or terrorism suspects.
Justice Department spokesman Matthew A. Miller confirmed the names to Fox News’ Mike Levine, but did not say whether any of the seven previously anonymous lawyers now work on issues related to Guantánamo detainees.
“Each of the nine people referenced in the letter filed legal briefs that are available by using something as simple as Google,” Miller told Fox News. “We will not participate in an attempt to drag people’s names through the mud for political purposes.”
Miller said “politics has overtaken facts and reality” in the battle over the lawyers’ identities. (Full statement below)
The current Justice Department employees who previously represented Guantánamo detainees or terrorism suspects are:
· Tony West, the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division.
· Jonathan Cedarbaum, of the Office of Legal Counsel.
· Eric Columbus, senior counsel in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General.
· Karl Thompson, of the Office of Legal Counsel.
· Joseph Guerra, Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General.
· Tali Farhadian, an official in the Office of the Attorney General.
· Beth Brinkmann, Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division.
Two other DOJ lawyers — Principal Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal and National Security Division Attorney Jennifer Daskal – also formerly represented detainees, but their identities had already been known.
In response to the DOJ confirmation, Keep America Safe spokesman Aaron Harison said the organization still wants information on which of the lawyers works on detainee issues within the DOJ.
“The American people have a right to know whether lawyers who voluntarily flocked to Guantanamo to take up the cause of the terrorists are currently working on detainee issues in President Obama’s Justice Department,” Harison said. (Full statement below)
Details about the DOJ lawyers’ involvement in Guantánamo detainee cases are available in the article, which also points out that the Justice Department hired several lawyers who represented Guantánamo detainees during the George W. Bush administration
Holder’s former firm, Covington & Burling represented 14 Gitmo detainees. Still looking to see which ones:
“Guantanamo Bay Detainees
We currently represent fourteen men detained at the United States Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Most of the men have been detained for approximately eight years and none have been charged with any crimes. Following the decision by the Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush, 128 S. Ct. 2229 (2008), holding that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus extends to detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, we are challenging the legality of our clients’ detentions in habeas proceedings in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Of the seven cases that have gone to merits hearings thus far, Covington has won four, lost two, and is awaiting a decision in one other. Two prior clients were released without a hearing.
The firm has been involved in the Guantánamo related litigation for the last six years. In addition to the on-going habeas corpus proceedings, our efforts have included: bringing cases for review of enemy combatant classification decisions in the D.C. Circuit under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005; challenging the destruction of CIA torture tapes in federal court; filing amicus briefs and coordinating the amicus effort in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006); filing amicus briefs in support of Supreme Court review in Moussaoui v. United States, 382 F.3d 483 (4th Cir.), cert denied, 544 U.S. 931 (2005); challenging the government’s practice of redacting information from documents given to security-cleared habeas counsel; and challenging the abusive medical and living conditions that the detainees experience at Guantánamo.”
http://www.cov.com/probonooverview/probono.aspx?show=morehighlights
I believe the CCR represented him. The CCR has strong ties to Covington & Burling:
“And then there is the Center for Constitutional Rights, a Marxist organization that for years has coordinated legal representation for terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay. The CCR has been attempting to convince Germany, France, Spain, and other countries to file war-crime indictments against former Bush administration officials, including President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Secretary Rumsfeld. In representing America’s enemies, CCR has collaborated with many private lawyers, who also volunteered their services — several of whom are now working in the Obama Justice Department. Indeed, Holder’s former firm boasts that it still represents 16 Gitmo detainees (the number was previously higher). And, for help shaping detainee policy, Holder recently hired Jennifer Daskal for DOJ’s National Security Division — a lawyer from Human Rights Watch with no prior prosecutorial experience, whose main qualification seems to be the startling advocacy she has done for enemy combatants
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/228146/eric-holders-hidden-agenda/andrew-c-mccarthy
Jennifer Daskal
Jennifer Daskal is an American lawyer who serves as senior counsel for Human Rights Watch, and focuses on issues of terrorism, criminal law and immigration.[1][2] She is also currently a political hire at the Department of Justice, which is seeking to prosecute terror suspects through the criminal justice system instead of through military tribunals.[3][4]
A graduate of Harvard Law School, Cambridge and Brown University and a Marshall Scholar,[5] Daskal garnered attention after traveling to the countries to which Guantanamo captives have been released, to verify that those countries are abiding by the undertakings they made to the US Government to respect the returned captives’ human rights.[6]
On February 23, 2010, the New York Post reported that Daskal, Neal Katyal, and three other lawyers who had worked on behalf of the civil rights of Guantanamo captives, had been serving on the Obama administration’s task force reviewing the status of the remaining Guantanamo captives.[7] The paper had first questioned her appointment to the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, in July 2009, and then again in January 2010
BTW: do we know who the Turkish diplomat was Stevens met with and why?
I can not find his name anywhere. I did see the Turks have 2 in custody .
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article3560219.ece#
Per John Bolton the last visitor was the Turkish Ambassador.
You have a lot more info. and sources on this than I do (but now I do too!) Great work, and thanks!
Now, here’s my question. Doesn’t Rep. Issa need to be putting Petraeus in front of his committee, up front and center, as soon as possible?
read this over at hillbuzz. Just a thought, but it sounds like something that narcisist would do.
Did Obama deliberately try to stage a hostage takin in Benghazi as an October Surprse PR stunt that blew up in his face?
The plan — if you were paying attention — was set in motion at the Democrats’ convention in Charlotte in early September when repeated mentions of Obama as a “foreign policy president” were made.
This was timed to lead up to September 11th…when deliberately lowered security at the Benghazi consulate (and OTHER consulates and embassies in the Mideast) was supposed to encourage Muslims to take Americans hostage like they did in 1979. Only, Obama’s plan was to negotiate their quick released by trading the “Blind Sheik” from the 1993 World Trade Center bombings for any Americans taken hostage on 9/11/2012.
The plan was to make Obama look like “a badass” and a to have him revel in this through October and into the November election. In fact, the hostages were probably planned for release not long before the Foreign Policy Debate (the last of the three presidential debates this year) in Boca Raton, Florida.
This was supposed to show Obama standing up to Muslims, negotiating “peace”, and proving to the world what an effective and strong leader he was.
Only…it blew up in his face and the administration has been in overdrive trying to cover this stuff up ever since.
The only way any of this makes any sense, including the deliberate lowering of security and the disregard of Ambassador Chris Steven’s multiple pleas for help on the ground in Libya in the weeks prior to his murder, is that Barack Obama WANTED a hostage situation to happen so he could “look presidential by resolving it in October”… but the Muslims in Libya went overboard and killed people instead of just taking them hostage.
This also explains why no effort was made to even look for the Ambassador and others missing from the consulate for many hours: Obama’s gang just assumed he was taken hostage as planned and were STUNNED to learn the ambassador was murdered.
Awful Video of US Ambassador After Attack In Benghazi Libya - GRAPHIC
http://youtu.be/ZuTHmLEy5BE
This is almost unbelievable. It would seem to mean that Petraeus is willing to let himself and his people be thrown under the bus. Issa has to pursue this, from Petraeus on down, until someone who won't allow themselves to be sacrificed to save this foul administration is found.
I should add that I am shaken: I honestly thought much more of Petraeus than this. Maybe there is something more to his statements and motives than trying to save some political skins, but what could it be?
“But, the WH didn’t know. :o/”
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Yeah, Riiii-i-ight. Maroons... I bet anything that someone here in the states was watching the attack real time.
I, too, will be completely floored if Petreaus is actively involved in this incompetence/coverup. Regardless, though, it does appear to indicate a level of incompetence on the part of his position/level(allowing for possibility he happened to be on vacation or such), or at best (for him) his underlings.
“The only way any of this makes any sense, ... is that Barack Obama WANTED a hostage situation to happen so he could “look presidential by resolving it in October”… “
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Hmmmm... put this in the brain basket to consider...
I keep wondering exactly WHEN Obama is now going to launch his “retaliatory attack.” You can be sure that it will NOT be after the first week of November, if ever.
Yes, but who’s to say he already hasn’t...on classified material.
A ‘Congressional source’? Which Muslim staffer or Keith Ellison type would that be? How many traitorous Congresspeople are there in Congress now? Who has supported the Soros-funded “General Betray Us” meme from a few years ago?
Let’s say that H3ll and 0bama are trying to avoid impeachment for dereliction of duty. They need a patsy.
Petraeus could get his people out of Benghazi, but State orders H3ll’s guy to stay, as he doesn’t work for CIA but rather for State. Maybe he stays due to a request from Holder over at Doha. Three people stay behind to guard Stevens, who doesn’t have deep relationships in country. Steves is either 1) naïve in his trust and/or 2) the AQ weapons contact who funneled supplies and missiles to ‘rebels.’
If info was going to unravel in Libya during or after the Doha conference over weapons, Holder gets to “come home early” and collect “assets,” doesn’t he.
Dead men tell no tales.
Go find the pic of Holder sitting at the conference table in Doha. He looks odd.
The thing stinks and points to the WH, all right. So, someone has to fall. Do we really think the Administration would not do everything in its power by any means necessary to deflect, defame and otherwise attack yet another American presence—the CIA?
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