Starting with the Live Thread on Congressional Hearings, 10 October 2012:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2942726/posts
Benghazi Worse than Watergate
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2938014/posts
For over forty years now, the Watergate scandal — the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and the subsequent cover-up by the Nixon administration — has been the sine qua non of American political malfeasance. It has been followed by myriad other “gates” affecting both parties but has never been superseded.
Until now.
Benghazi or Benghazigate, as some call it, is worse. Far worse. Incomparably worse....
(Pat Caddell & Kirsten Powers agree)
Great thread from last night with a lot of links and theories:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2944081/posts
Libyan president: ‘No doubt’ attack ‘preplanned’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2932036/posts
Thread with many more links.
read later
Benghazi Timeline - Fox News Special Report with Bret Baier, October 10, 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY7ExPd9sq0
I think this is of key importance as the WH keeps saying they didn't know of these threats and need for increased security. This came out 1 day prior to the attacks and then fell by the wayside.
I think this is of key importance, as the WH keeps saying they didn't know of these threats and need for increased security. This came out 1 day prior to the attacks and then fell by the wayside.
Likewise, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor fired back the following response to Politico via email:
“The President is among the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet,” National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor wrote in an e-mail. “He receives and reads his [Presidential Daily Brief] every day, and most days when he’s at the White House receives a briefing in person. When necessary he probes the arguments, requests more information or seeks alternate analysis. Sometimes that’s via a written assessment and other times it’s in person.”
White House disputes report on intel briefs
Carney made a direct comparison between Obama’s administration and the one Thiessen worked for. “I believe if you compare our foreign policy record with the one … that proceeded this one, we’re comfortable with that comparison,” he said at the White House’s daily press briefing. “This president is very much steeped in the details of national security issues.” Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/80992.html#ixzz29CtOaWIr
Great idea bookmark.
I did not know this:
“... Susan Rice married Ian Cameron on September 12, 1992 in Washington, DC; the two met while at Stanford. Cameron is executive producer of ABC News’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” The couple have two young children....”
http://womensissues.about.com/od/influentialwomen/p/SusanERice.htm
(Putting it here for the record)
Reuters – Tue, 9 Oct, 2012, Excerpt:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. security officer twice asked his State Department superiors for more security agents for the American mission in Benghazi months before an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, but he got no response.
The officer, Eric Nordstrom, who was based in Tripoli until about two months before the September attack, said a State Department official, Charlene Lamb, wanted to keep the number of U.S. security personnel in Benghazi “artificially low,” according to a memo summarizing his comments to a congressional committee that was obtained by Reuters.
(...)
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a conference in Florida on Tuesday that there was no advanced warning about the Libya attack.
He scoffed at media portrayals of him as “hapless and hopeless” for acknowledging on September 28 a shift in the intelligence assessment of the Benghazi assault, calling it a deliberate terrorist attack instead of an event stemming from spontaneous protest, as initially thought.
Clapper suggested it was unrealistic for anyone to expect the U.S. intelligence community to have a “a God’s eye, God’s ear certitude” right after an attack like the one in Libya.
Link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2942469/posts
"Body Of Lies From Benghazi To Barack"...
"Weapons Hunting - The Reason For The 9-11 Murders In Libya"...
Henry I. Miller, a physician, and the Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution,ASKS:
Don’t voters have a right to know whether Biden is ill or merely unlikeable, impulsive and prone to deceitfulness?
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Start here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2827536/posts?page=628#628
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2827536/posts?q=1&;page=651
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2827536/posts?q=1&;page=701
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2827536/posts?q=1&;page=751
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2827536/posts?q=1&;page=801
Washington Examiner on 10/12/12, Excerpt:
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland ended a series of questions about the Obama Administration’s changing narrative about the terrorist attack in Benghazi by saying that she’s paid to be “dumber” than other government officials.
“Look, I’m generally dumber than most of the rest of the government,” Nuland told reporters yesterday. “I mean, that’s what I’m paid to be.”
The comment drew a laugh, but Nuland was serious about not taking any more questions on the topic. “We’re not going to parse this any further,” she said sternly. “We’re just not.”
(You can watch video of Nuland’s briefing above. To see these remarks, made towards the end of that dialogue, start at the 21:45 mark.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2944261/posts