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Let the leaks begin
American Thinker ^ | October 12, 2012 | Rosslyn Smith

Posted on 10/12/2012 5:45:07 PM PDT by Snuph

Vice President Biden doubled down on the bad intelligence excuse in last night's debate when the question of the deaths of American personnel in Libya was raised. Among other stories today, Senator Bob Corker and The Daily Beast's Eli Lake apparently seem to know at lot more about what happened in Benghazi that night than the President and Vice President.

Senator Corker will become the senior Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee next year. The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin reports: This week he had extensive meetings with the FBI and intelligence officials on the ground in Benghazi as well as officials from the Libyan government. He was emphatic: "What I know is our intelligence officials on the ground in real time and also in Washington within 24 hours knew what had happened." How much was known at the time of the attack? Eli Lake reports: In addition to the footage from the consulate cameras, the U.S. government is also poring over video taken from an overhead U.S. surveillance drone that arrived for the final hour of the night battle at the consulate compound and nearby annex. One doesn't have to be a world class analyst to make the distinction between the random acts of a mob and a coordinated attack. And if a drone was sent in when it became known the consulate was under attack, why wasn't it an armed drone that could have tried to stop the assault?

I expect more damaging information to come out in coming days.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/10/let_the_leaks_begin.html#ixzz298SJwsk6

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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The dam is breaking despite the Ministry of Propaganda's best efforts to hide the truth. Help keep the pressure on the Regime and the MOP
1 posted on 10/12/2012 5:45:12 PM PDT by Snuph
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To: Snuph

Why did the head of the CIA claim that it was because of a video. He should be called up to answer that question.

His claim gives Obama an out


2 posted on 10/12/2012 5:48:15 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Snuph

If it happens, it could be Obama’s spiking the ball and leaking information about the Osama mission coming back to haunt him. They didn’t like that.


3 posted on 10/12/2012 5:50:23 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: RummyChick
Why did the head of the CIA claim that it was because of a video. He should be called up to answer that question. His claim gives Obama an out

Are you sure it was David H. Petraeus Director of the Central Intelligence Agency? Wasn't it Clap on .... Clap off Director of National Intelligence?

4 posted on 10/12/2012 5:56:29 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Please help Todd Akin defeat Claire and the GOP-e send money!!!!!)
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To: Just mythoughts

Yes, it was the head of the CIA. His claim confused those that had been in a briefing that indicated otherwise. You will come across the story.


5 posted on 10/12/2012 5:59:35 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Snuph

The concluding paragraph in the article is excellent.

Neither the State Department, Hillary Clinton, nor the intelligence community are going to allow themselves to be thrown under the bus just to prop up Obama.


6 posted on 10/12/2012 5:59:50 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Just mythoughts

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/10/11/you-know-who-still-hasnt-called-benghazi-a-terrorist-attack/


7 posted on 10/12/2012 6:01:58 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: TomGuy

This whole thing points right to the head of the CIA. It is him that claimed it was caused by a video.


8 posted on 10/12/2012 6:04:29 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

With the head of the CIA claiming it was a video - knowing it full well wasn’t a video and there was no protest- you all should be wondering with the Head of the CIA is trying to cover up.


9 posted on 10/12/2012 6:07:51 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

the head of the CIA is allowing himself to be the scapegoat for the big lie? Well that wouldn’t happen unless there’s something bigger going on over there in Libya that they don’t want us to know about. I’m of the opinion that those missing 30000 weapons have something to do with it.


10 posted on 10/12/2012 6:08:28 PM PDT by uncitizen (Religion of Peace my hind end !)
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To: Just mythoughts

sadly Petraeus has drunk the Kool-Aid. Apparently he thinks he must still say yes sir yes sir three bags full


11 posted on 10/12/2012 6:08:45 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: uncitizen

Why would he put his entire career on the line? To save Obama? Doesn’t make sense.


12 posted on 10/12/2012 6:15:23 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: jersey117

maybe because he wants a life after the career? like as a un weapons inspector general or such?


13 posted on 10/12/2012 6:16:42 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
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To: Snuph

Throwing the Clintons under the bus will be Obama’s death knell. I can’t wait to watch. I’m very sorry the Administration’s incompetence caused people to die, but the fingerpointing match between the thugs from Arkansas and the thugs from Chicago is going to be fun fun fun to watch.


14 posted on 10/12/2012 6:20:22 PM PDT by old and tired
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To: Snuph

I AM SICK AND TIRED OF EVERYONE SAYING BIDEN DOUBLED DOWN LIKE HE WAS PLAYING BLACKJACK!!!!! IT IS JUST CRUEL!!!!! Everybody knows Crazy Joe can’t count.

“Let’s seee....l’ve got a ten and a queen.....that’s ah what....four? ‘Hit me.’”

Oh, the casino owners smile when Crazy Joe comes to town.


15 posted on 10/12/2012 6:22:01 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: uncitizen

How about using a GITMO detainee that was released by someone in Justice as your conduit for weapons in the revolt who then turns on you and kills the ambassador ?

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?

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


16 posted on 10/12/2012 6:22:33 PM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: crosslink

Obama administration idiocy, thy name is legion.


17 posted on 10/12/2012 6:23:44 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
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To: RummyChick
Thank you, I missed that article.
18 posted on 10/12/2012 6:24:27 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Please help Todd Akin defeat Claire and the GOP-e send money!!!!!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

So are we to conclude that Petraeus is not a man of integrity?


19 posted on 10/12/2012 6:28:55 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: crosslink

There is a lot of history about Tony West.

Campaign bundler.

Ties to an enemy of Fienstein’s buddy who ended up dead.The one who might have seen/heard something about Obama during some event.

What if the Ambassador - who I believe was involved in arming the rebels- was to meet with someone - and that someone was behind the assault? A former Gitmo detainee

That would be reason for a coverup

Among many other possibilities.

This looks more and more like a CIA fiasco

Remember that there had been talk of transferring the Blind Sheik.

There is still the Hillbuzz story about a planned kidnapping of Stevens that went wrong - possibly an asset that turned against them.


20 posted on 10/12/2012 6:30:21 PM PDT by RummyChick
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