Interview with Senator McCain re Benghazi (John McCain Spitting Fire; Vows to Put Obama Officials Un

Hugh Hewitt Show ^ | 10/29/2012 | Self

[SC_Pete]

Excellent. Let the investigations begin. The LEFT must be exposed in everything they have attempted.

[cripplecreek]

While the hero of Benghazi was spitting fire, did he happen to spit out a reason for Americans getting involved in the first place? He must know since he was all for it. Maybe he’d like to explain why he feels a need to protect the muslim brotherhood while he’s at it.

[DBrow]

” and vows to put the responsible parties under oath before his committee when the GOP retakes the Senate.”

Why not before the election? Then he can be sure. The implication here is that if the progressives keep the Senate he won’t do anything.

[FlingWingFlyer]

They can’t talk right now. They’re all really busy “monitoring” the hurricane. LOL!

[bcsco]

...when the GOP retakes the Senate.

IOW, talk's cheap.

[hinckley buzzard]

We'll see. John Glenn turned chickenshit when the chips were down. We'll see if McCain has anything left. I'm not betting the farm.

[uncitizen]

An oath means nothing to the evil Traitor and his minions. Lying is like breathing to them. this situation requires more than words from our politicians. We all are witnesses to the treason. It requires someone to take the lead and make the arrest!

Before it is too late!

[Walkingfeather]

Bull $hit. mccain will block and hide deceive and lie for this administration. TOTAL COMPLETE BS.

[hinckley buzzard]

Why not before the election?

C'mon. The Senate is in recess until after the election. There are no committees. Just because it's McCain is no excuse to get dumb.

[cripplecreek]

I think he’s just trying to distract the simple minded from his part in it. Besides, what better way to cover his own butt than lead an investigation of someone else.

[Travis McGee]

Will one freaking reporter in this country please ask President Obama if he granted or withheld

CROSS-BORDER AUTHORITY?

Everything I have read and seen so far on Benghazi is still confirming my initial thinking on the matter, going way back to my days as a NavSpecWar officer who took a SEAL det to Beirut a long time ago.

Once the alarm is sent from Benghazi, dozens of HQs are notified and are in the loop in real time, including AFRICOM and EURCOM, both located in Germany.

Without waiting for orders, they begin planning and executing rescue operations, including getting air support over Benghazi ASAP. But one thing they CANNOT DO without explicit orders from the POTUS is cross an international border. That is the big “red line.”

All POTUS has to do is NOT grant cross-border authority, and the entire air-armada of military rescue (already in progress) must stop in its tracks. Ships can loiter on station, but planes fall out of the sky, so they must be redirected to an air base (Sigonella Sicily) to await the POTUS decision on granting CBA. If it never comes, the men in Behghazi must rely only on assets already “in country” in Libya, such as the Tripoli QRF and the Predators.

(And possibly AC-130s that might already have been in Libya: they were last year, but their location on 9-11-2012 is unknown. If they were “in country” but were prevented from firing, that is another situation.)

So if at the 5 pm DC-time meeting with Panetta and Biden, Obama said, “No outside military action,” meaning no CBA will be granted, then THAT IS IT. Case closed.

That constitutes “standing orders” all the way down the chain of command via Panetta and Dempsey to Ham and the subordinate commands trying to rescue the men in Benghazi.

If Obama then goes upstairs to the family quarters to watch TV or sleep, or otherwise makes himself “unavailable,” then his last standing orders will stand until he changes them, even if he goes to sleep until the morning of 9-12.

Nobody in the chain of command below him can countermand his “standing orders” not to send military forces from outside of Libya into Libyan air space.

Nobody.

Personally, I think he left “no outside miltary intervention, no cross-border authority” standing orders, and then he went to bed. Damn him to hell.

(And to me, the most damning aspect of all is that Obama went to bed while his Ambassador was still missing and presumed kidnapped by Al Queda. Ambassador Stevens might have been on a Youtube video pleading for his life, ready to get the Nick Berg/Danny Pearl “intro to jihad” treatment, and Obama WENT TO BED to rest up for his much more important fund raiser in Las Vegas!)

[G Larry]

Can’t bring the fight to the floor without a majority!

Nice to see Mr. “compromise when we’re winning” finally get PO’d enough to take a stand!

He did everything but use the word “liar”, when announcing his disgust with Obama.

[C. Edmund Wright]

McCain can go set himself on fire as far as I'm concerned. We all remember this when WE all KNEW BETTER but the feckless McCain was too blind to see it: We have nothing to fear from an Obama Presidency, my friends...

[TigersEye]

Only the POTUS had the authority to act!

0bama was notified immediately and automatically when the Benghazi consulate triggered the "Imminent Danger Notification System" alert. He did nothing.

There are three scandals here...

• 1) The inexcusable lack of security.
• 2) The near inaction and denials of aid when the call for help came.
• 3) The bizarre "video did it" fraud that the Pres., Sec. State, UN Ambassador and other administration spokesholes perpetrated on the public.

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Denial of requests for security were a dereliction of duty. The lies and misdirection about the "video" after the attack were fraud and malfeasance under the color of authority. The inaction during the attack was something more than that.

The failure to act during the attack is the direct equivalent of desertion IMO.

ONE man had the authority to act that night.

ONE man deserted his post!

EXCLUSIVE: CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say

0bama Is A Deserter!

[eeriegeno]

C'mon. The Senate is in recess until after the election. There are no committees. Just because it's McCain is no excuse to get dumb.

Hmm?

So I don't have to go to work until after the election either? SWEET!!!!!!!

[blueunicorn6]

Obama is a putz, but I think it’s something else. He would like this whole Benghazi thing to die down or take the eye off the real story. Why has he been using our government assets to overthrow the governments of Libya, Egypt and Syria? Because he wants to free the people in those countries? Please.....we all know him better than that. There has to be money involved. Go to illinoispaytoplay.com and read the three part story. I think that Obama set the Middle East on fire so him and his buddies could make some serious cash rebuilding those countries. It’s the only thing that makes sense. Benghazi is just a small piece of the puzzle.

[Always A Marine]

Why not before the election? Then he can be sure. The implication here is that if the progressives keep the Senate he won’t do anything.

Because the GOP is in the minority in the Senate. You can huff and you can puff, but you can't force an investigation unless you win the majority. As Obama said, "Elections have consequences."

[DBrow]

I think that if it were important to the Senate, they’d pull together six or seven senators and a scribe or two and issue subpoenas, then hold a hearing.

McCain sounds tough but he built in an out.

After the election, this won’t be so much of an issue. Obama will deflect it if he wins, and Republicans never go after Democrats when they win.

[matthew fuller]

Just my own humble personal opinion, but I think that the responsible leaders need to be tried for treason, and hung or watever the method is now. Obama, Clinton, and Panetta, and probably more.