Posted on 10/28/2012 3:35:53 PM PDT by markomalley
That according to a National Security Council spokesman.
Rick Moran breaks down the past few days (via Doug Ross):
The CIA is denying. The Pentagon is denying. And now the White House is denying that anyone refused to send help to our embattled CIA and State Department personnel engaged in a seven hour running firefight with more than 150 jihadists.
It just doesn’t get any lamer than this:
The White House on Saturday flatly denied that President Barack Obama withheld requests for help from the besieged American compound in Benghazi, Libya, as it came under on attack by suspected terrorists on September 11th.
“Neither the president nor anyone in the White House denied any requests for assistance in Benghazi,” National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor told Yahoo News by email.
Why was this so hard for President Obama to say on Friday when asked a direct question about assistance to Americans under fire?
President Barack Obama said repeatedly Friday that his administration would “find out what happened” and punish those responsible, but he twice ducked questions about whether U.S. officials denied requests for help.
As Bill Kristol points out, Obama doesn’t have to “find out what happened” in the White House — he was there and presumably was kept informed.
Retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer said his sources told him President Obama watched the attack from the Situation Room. It shouldn’t exactly be a bombshell to discover a president had been monitoring an ongoing attack on an ambassador and his detail — that’s exactly what we’d expect a president to do. However, the pickle for the administration is that the only way they can distance Obama from the “who denied requests for help” question is to allow everybody to believe that Obama wasn’t doing what everybody would expect a president to be doing under those circumstances: Closely monitoring the situation.
Leon Panetta said help wasn’t sent because they didn’t have enough information about what was going on before the attack was over. There might be a bit of semantics playing out here. Assuming for a moment no US official literally said “request denied,” most people would still consider doing nothing to be tantamount to a denial of request.
If nobody either in or connected with the Obama administration specifically denied requests for military back-up or gave any “stand down” orders during the Benghazi attack as Fox News reported, why didn’t the administration use the golden opportunity presented by the Sunday morning news shows to go out and rip Fox News apart at the seams much to the delight of disenchanted people who voted for Obama in 2008 who are desperately in need of motivation to get to the polls next Tuesday? Instead David Axelrod was worried about how Hurricane Sandy could harm Obama’s re-election chances and Stephanie Cutter was saying the Des Moines Register’s endorsement of Romney is not based in reality. The latter was during the “Pot Meets Kettle” segment of ABC’s This Morning.
A couple of Sunday show clips from today…
Sen. John McCain on CBS: It’s either a massive cover-up or incompetence:
Democrat Sen. Udall, who sits on the Intelligence Committee, won’t tell Chris Wallace if the drones above Benghazi that day were armed:
Gingrich: Obama canceling campaign trips due to hurricane but didn’t after Benghazi?
Per some reports, besides Woods and Doherty, 2 other Americans and some 60 Libyan security guards initially accompanied them.
Those other 2 were the ones who recovered the body of the Ambassador’s aide, Sean Smith, IIRC.
I understand that there were people evacuated from the embassy, or whatever it is called today. Some numbers I’ve heard are 20-30 were helped by the two SEALS who then went back to find/help Stevens.
If this is true, I wonder why we have heard nothing from any of them as to what was going on....you know, like a protest, or an ambush or whatever.
Put they are not saying he made a request either........he must have been remembering his Senate days and voting present!!!!!!!
I bet you a dollar to a dog hockey that the lovely and charming Val Jarrett was calling the shots.
41 days. Obama has been stone walling for 41 days.
Two are denying, Obama is lying.
Not until the Dime Store Media says so, this is all so much inside baseball to the lemmings.
Oh gee, you had to go and discover that?/sarcasm.
Bet that idiot don't get sent out again to speak.
Got to TAG someone else for tomorrow to deny what this aide said.
Freeper Sleuths are just hard to beat.
Ummm, Mr. President, this took place over SEVEN WEEKS AGO. Exactly how long is it going to take you to find out? You were supposedly there in the situation room as it was unfolding. Were you unaware of what was happening at that time? And if so, how can you credibly say that you are qualified for the office that you hold?
Whatever happened or didn't happen begins and ends w/ POTUS.
End of story.
Report: Obama Watched Benghazi Attack From 'Situation Room'
Justice with Judge Jeanine 10/27/12 - CIA talks about latest news about Benghazi coverup
Judge Jeanine speaking with Charles Woods, father of Benghazi slain SEAL Ty Woods
9 more days and he’s free......
Both Benghazi and WTC attacks occurred on 9/11.
By 10/7, Bush had the military invading Afghanistan to track and kill everyone involved. He knocked over two whole countries in retaliation for the 9/11 events.
It’s 10/28, and the Obama is pointing fingers.
But, from the GLD story, (if true) armed aerial assets were overhead with a designated target (the mortar) -- and "Weapons Free" was never issued.
Sounds like denial by omission", to me...
Dude couldn’t be bothered with no Benghazi stuff, yo, it was VEGAS TIME!
Why is that no one asks the next question-well, who did?
The Dems have fallen embarrassingly far from where they stood in Truman's day.
Charlene Lamb refused (”denied or ignored”) to extend the security Strike Force (despite dispatches about growing local threats).
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“......The colonel and Mr. Nordstrom were fighting a long-distance battle of emails and phone calls with the State Department to maintain a large security presence.
But Charlene Lamb, who was in charge of international programs for the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, rejected their requests. State wanted to create a picture of normal operations in Libya......”
Read more: Lack of strike force impeded Benghazi response - Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/28/lack-of-strike-force-impeded-benghazi-response/#ixzz2AfsQ2tDs
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