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Retired officer: Obama watched Benghazi attack happen, sources say (and did nothing)
the examiner ^ | October 28, 2012 | BY: JOE NEWBY

Posted on 10/29/2012 3:14:31 AM PDT by tobyhill

On Saturday, retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer told Fox News that according to his sources, President Obama watched the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, from the White House as it took place.

“This was in the middle of the business day in Washington, so everybody at the White House, CIA, Pentagon, everybody was watching this go down,” he said on Fox News’ “Justice with Judge Jeanine.”

“According to my sources, yes, [President Obama] was one of those in the White House Situation Room in real-time watching this,” he added.

Video: Military analyst says Obama watched Benghazi attack in real time. Col. David Hunt, a Fox News military analyst, said the "entire U.S. government was paying attention," since this was the fourth embassy to have been attacked in a 24-hour period.

But President Obama said Friday that he was "not personally aware" of any requests for additional security.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benrhodes; christopherstevens; foxnews; jaycarney; libya; shadowwars; soshillary; susanrice; threatmatrix; tonyshaffer; usembassy
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Note: this topic was posted 10/29/2012. Thanks tobyhill.

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Romney?????

ROFLOL!!!

42 posted on 05/02/2014 2:28:03 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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