Obama Administration Didn’t Reach Benghazi For 17 Days Because They Were WAITING ON Visa’s (Video)

Gateway Pundit ^ | 10-13-2012 | Jim Hoft

[servo1969]

THIS IS INSANE…
The Obama State Department testified this week that the rational that they were not on the ground for 17 days in Benghazi was because they could not get Visa’s.
Former CIA officer Gary Bernsten was on with Judge Jeanine Saturday:

Gary Bernsten:

“It’s about leadership. In this particular case I saw the Department of State and I heard testimony that said that the rational that we were not on the ground in Benghazi after 17 days is because they couldn’t get Visa’s. Which is insanity. They should have gotten people on planes, both the agency and the FBI, and similarly they should have had military people there, moving there to aid an embassy that was under attack that was sovereign US territory in an area that weakly controlled by the government. And even if it’s a diplomatic problem, you move to save your people first.”

It’s true… Press TV reported on this back on October 6th.

According to the report, security concerns had kept the American intelligence agents and investigators from traveling the 400 miles from the American embassy in Tripoli to gather evidence at the US consulate in Benghazi. Administration officials on Thursday attributed the delay to the Libyan government, which they said was slow in granting approval for the US operation.

Terrorists attacked our consulate and murdered our ambassador on 9-11 and the Obama administration waited 17 days to investigate the crime scene because they were waiting on visas.
Unbelievable.

[kevao]

All of the Sunday morning operatives are chiming in unison The Republicans cut the embassy security budget as to why this happened.

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Someone should ask, So then where did the money come from to fund Marine security at our embassy in Barbados?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2944046/posts

If embassy security cutbacks really have to be made, I would think we should begin in peaceful tropical island paradises rather than terrorist-filled hotbeds for violence.

[Since98]

“Visa problem” and all the other excuses are camouflage. The real reason for the 17-day delay had to have been on this end. The Obama administration was no doubt waiting and counting on evidence destruction.

Seventeen days should have been enough for sympathizers and hot heads to destroy cameras, videos, paper or electronic trails and physical evidence around the consulate area. Also to remove possible witnesses.

I’m glad it didn’t work very well. This mess and coverup are more outrageous with dangerous ramifications than any of the previous messes.

[HangnJudge]

If I’m not mistaken
An attack on an embassy is an act of war

One responds accordingly

[Travis McGee]

In a heated and dramatic congressional hearing today, witnesses who served with the U.S. diplomatic corps in Libya and pushed for a stronger security presence repeatedly faulted the State Department for standing in their way – one even referring to the State Department officials he described as obstructionist as if they were Taliban terrorists.

The former regional security officer in Libya, Eric Nordstrom, recalled talking to a regional director and asking for twelve security agents.

“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.’”

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

[rawcatslyentist]

They had to wait for the wind to pick up at Waco.

[Verginius Rufus]

If they couldn't get Visas, why didn't they just use MasterCard?

I don't think the US Marines worried about Visas in 1805.

[Madame Dufarge]

‘For me the Taliban is on the inside of the building.’”

I hope Romney finds a way to work this into the debate.

The "too polite" Kenyan will probably go completely bonkers.

[1_Rain_Drop]

I thought American Express was the card not to leave home without.

I wonder if next they’ll tell us there was a delay because they had to make sure there were no peanuts on board.