Posted on 10/12/2012 11:17:06 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
WASHINGTON — In the weeks leading up to the attack last month on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, diplomats on the ground sounded increasingly urgent alarms. In a stream of diplomatic cables, embassy security officers warned their superiors at the State Department of a worsening threat from Islamic extremists, and requested that the teams of military personnel and State Department security guards who were already on duty be kept in service.
The requests were denied, but they were largely focused on extending the tours of security guards at the American Embassy in Tripoli — not at the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, 400 miles away. And State Department officials testified this week during a hearing by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that extending the tour of additional guards — a 16-member military security team — through mid-September would not have changed the bloody outcome because they were based in Tripoli, not Benghazi. . .
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I remember when newspapers wrote for the benefit of their readers ... now they write for the benefit of liberal politicians needing an excuse...
Hillary’s a past master at spinning yarns and telling them to the American people in her best “schoolmarm” dialect, talking down to them like she’s the “smartest woman in the world”. The Clintons spin until everyone is dizzy if they listen to the Clintons. - Darn it; this SOS gig was Hillary’s stepping stone to bigger and better things. Now, she, like Bill and Hussein, just looks like “Ned in the First Reader”.
WHY....WHO SENT HIM TO BENGHAZI???? He KNEW ther were threats against him??
VERY STRANGE.....Did OUR side WANT him dead??
HILLARY and OBAMA have BLOOD on their hands.
They are getting closer to the truth in a Roundabout way.
According to Glen Becks source weeks ago The reason The ambassador Stevens was in BenGahzi in the First Place was that he was On a CIA mission to retrieve Guns that the US had Given to Rebels to Oust Ghadafi,Problem is those Rebels were AlQuaida,Now Obama sure does not want it to be known that we Gave Guns to them thats why they cant and dont even want to be asked Why was Stevens in BenGhazi in the First Place? The Embassy is in Tripoli,why do we Need Security in Benghazi,people would start asking Questions ,what is going on down there just ignore the requests. Problem is Folks,the whole thing just Blew up in their Face.
Intresting...now where have I heard of this administration putting guns in the hands of criminals resulting in the death of innocent people before...
The question..... are security guards fungible?
Could not the security requested for Tripoli be TAD with the ambassador to Bengazi?
Lawyerly splitting of hairs is no defense for failure.
My Question: With all the differing stories between the State Department and the White House, how long before the administration tries to establish where the “Buck Stops” and how convincing can it be? Someone will have to take the fall for dropping the ball. Will it be Hillary or Obama?
There is/are reason(s) why the accounting of some questionably made video, first blamed on Coptic Christians, continues to be used as means and methods to create deception. I think that video did not just suddenly appear, it was made for a specific purpose, and not made by an Christian. Wonder why Egypt has not demanded US return that so called Coptic Christian for prosecution? No they want a blind criminal returned.
The Clintons standard method of operation is to run out the 'statute of limitations' clock, and that clock ends this case on election day.
The press has been over Libya since we began arming Obama's rebels always positive. And the Obama Libyan operation armed everybody and his brother, including AlQaeda, and there is no way Obama or Hillary did not know who was fighting to take down Q-man. Obama's foreign rebels are still armed and sending in an Ambassador without security to deal with armed AlQaeda for return of weapons makes no sense whatsoever.
Tuff Joe Biden all but said they knew who killed the Ambassador and 3 other Americans, and they would be called to justice. So their claimed ignorance is a big time joke.
I think they Obama and Hillary are waiting to find out what the ransom will be for the intel looted from that compound. Now if they can keep the chaos and deception flowing until after the election they consider themselves home free.
I don’t remember exactly where I got that. It was in early reports.
Here is proof that at least one of them was a released terrorist.
Report: Militant Connected to Libya Consulate Attack Freed From Prison During Arab Spring
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/10/02/militants-libya-attack-freed-prison/
There is proof that 20 former ‘terrorists’ were released and I am still looking for it.
Col. Hunt On The Newest Libyan Revelations (huge coverup!)
Everyone was informed of the attack in Benghazi in real time. Sec. State, Pres., the Pentagon, the CIA ... It's automatic, required by law and all logged.
Obama could have had rapid response team in Benghazi in twenty minutes. That’s all the time it would take for military jets to fly the 450 miles from the base in Southern Italy.
And THAT is the bottom line.
All Hillary does is read from a piece of paper.... one--word--at--a--time.
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