Petraeus and Panetta Speak—But Not the President

the Weekly Standard ^ | 10/31/12 | WILLIAM KRISTOL

[Nachum]

Seven weeks later, the White House still hasn't explained what President Obama did and didn't do during the seven hours of the attack on Benghazi on September 11. And there's been no response from the White House to questions asked by senators or THE WEEKLY STANDARD or David Ignatius in the Washington Post.

We have, to be sure, heard from some government officials. But the information they've provided raises still more questions.

CIA director David Petraeus authorized a statement pointedly saying that "No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate"—which strongly suggests that Petraeus believes or knows that officials in other parts of the government may have told subordinates "not to help those in need."

[GOPJ]

Would the press have been be up in arms if some police chief had listened to Matthew Shepard’s screams for help for 6 hours while he was being murdered - and done nothing? I suspect the MSM and Hollywood would still be talking about it. This? Not so much - well, not at all...

[null and void]

Why do you pick on Shep? I would have had Chrissy M doing the screaming and getting sodomized.

That'll give him a tingle...

[null and void]

#5: I heard on the radio Monday that lots of internet sites have been slowed down, but no one knows how, who, or why.

On the 29th, one of my contacts said:

Been doing tracert to FR from command prompt.
Interesting results.
The problem is NOT FR's servers.
It's the internet backbone itself.
It's as if traffic to FR and other sites that have been
critical of Dear Leader has been... helped.

To which he added today:

DemUn was rather fast last I was able to check.

Now isn't that a remarkable coinky-dink?

[Nachum]

Now isn't that a remarkable coinky-dink?

Just as my site (nachumlist) was attacked the day before the first convention. Just a coincidence I'm sure.

[null and void]

Still think Republicans should call him up for a committee hearing and suggest he resign should be hanged for treason if he usurped authority, or let them know the decision wasn't made by him by was in fact made by Obama.

There. Fixed.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Just wait until next Tuesday, we may have no internet service at all. Just sayin’...

[Nachum]

Exellent work, my dear Holmes. It warrants posting elsewhere...

[sten]

traceroutes look fairly normal with consistent ping times

any slow down seems to be on the server and not the network

[null and void]

I sure hope so.

[null and void]

Just wait until next Tuesday, we may have no internet service at all. Just sayin’...

Yeah.

Unless the box cars have WiFi.

Let's all meet at the Washington Monument afterwards, as a gathering of spiritual warriors, if you will...

[null and void]

Would you be so kind as to occasionally check and let us know if that suddenly changes?

[Red Badger]

Not denial of service, just a slooooooooooooooowing of service...........

[sten]

for those wishing to see the data, type the following into a windows command shell:

tracert freerepublic.com

the final ip address is: 209.157.64.200

to monitor the connectivity to that server, type:

ping -t 209.157.64.200

a sample from my pings:

Pinging 209.157.64.200 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 209.157.64.200: bytes=32 time=82ms TTL=45
Reply from 209.157.64.200: bytes=32 time=80ms TTL=45
Reply from 209.157.64.200: bytes=32 time=80ms TTL=45
Reply from 209.157.64.200: bytes=32 time=77ms TTL=45
Reply from 209.157.64.200: bytes=32 time=80ms TTL=45

the time from my system to FR's server is hovering between 77 and 82 ms, fairly acceptable times from FL to CA

[null and void]

Windows command shell?

Do you happen to know the Macintosh method?

[MestaMachine]

I ran a trace and found something kind of interesting. The first time I found it was by accident...and it disappeared. I couldn't get it back to save my life.
Then yesterday, bam, there it was again. This time I got it. Look.

All the hops between PSI and NTT are Afrinic nodes.

I checked for the 154 designation and lo and behold:

It's Mauritius, the huge banking center.

Since we are having a Freepathon, I was wondering if they might be up to no good. Another reason might be that we have been following Benghazi so closely, but the slowdown started before that, didn't it?

Here is the whois:

% This is the AfriNIC Whois server.

% Note: this output has been filtered.

% Information related to '154.0.0.0 - 154.255.255.255'

inetnum: 154.0.0.0 - 154.255.255.255
netname: AFRINIC-20090508
descr:
descr: AfriNIC - www.afrinic.net
descr: Allocation for Africa - This block is in use
descr: by AfriNIC for allocating/assigning to networks
descr: in the AfriNIC service region.
descr: More information - whois.afrinic.net.
descr: Abuse - please querry the whois db for the
descr: contacts of the assigned/allocated prefix.
descr:
country: MU
org: ORG-AFNC1-AFRINIC
admin-c: EMB2-AFRINIC
tech-c: EMB2-AFRINIC
status: ALLOCATED-UNSPECIFIED
mnt-by: AFRINIC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower: AFRINIC-HM-MNT
source: AFRINIC # Filtered
parent: 0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255
organisation: ORG-AFNC1-AFRINIC
org-name: African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC Ltd)
org-type: RIR
country: MU
address: 11th Floor,
address: Raffles Tower,
address: Lot 19
address: Cybercity
e-mail: contact@afrinic.net
e-mail: cto@afrinic.net
phone: +230 941 6610
fax-no: +230 466 6758
admin-c: AF7-AFRINIC
tech-c: AF7-AFRINIC
mnt-ref: AFRINIC-HM-MNT
mnt-ref: AFRINIC-DB-MNT
mnt-by: AFRINIC-HM-MNT
remarks: =======================================
remarks: For more information on AFRINIC assigned blocks,
remarks: querry whois.afrinic.net port 43, or the web based
remarks: query at http://whois.afrinic.net or
www.afrinic.net
remarks: website: www.afrinic.net
remarks: Other Contacts:
remarks: ===============
remarks: hostmaster@afrinic.net - for IP resources
remarks: new-member@afrinic.net - for new members and other
remarks: inquiries.
source: AFRINIC # Filtered
person: ERNEST MWIRIMA BYARUHANGA
address: AfriNIC
phone: +230 403 5100
fax-no: +230 466 6758
e-mail: ernest@afrinic.net
nic-hdl: EMB2-AFRINIC
mnt-by: ernest-mnt
source: AFRINIC # Filtered

[Son House]

In the 2nd debate, he never said there was a rescue attempt being made, he talks as if the event had already passed. Here’s the 3rd debate quote and comparison;

Obama “as I indicated in the last debate, when we received that phone call, I immediately made sure that, number one, that we did everything we could to secure those Americans who were still in harm’s way”?

Transcript of Second Presidential Debate
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/16/transcript-second-presidential-debate/

OBAMA: “So as soon as we found out that the Benghazi consulate was being overrun, I was on the phone with my national security team and I gave them three instructions.

Number one, beef up our security and procedures, not just in Libya, but at every embassy and consulate in the region.

Number two, investigate exactly what happened, regardless of where the facts lead us, to make sure folks are held accountable and it doesn’t happen again.

And number three, we are going to find out who did this and we’re going to hunt them down, because one of the things that I’ve said throughout my presidency is when folks mess with Americans, we go after them.”

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[DallasDeb]

Perhaps that episode with the FBI and the internet last summery was a practice run for shutting down some sites.

[Nachum]

Obama “as I indicated in the last debate, when we received that phone call, I immediately made sure that, number one, that we did everything we could to secure those Americans who were still in harm’s way”?

But, if he received the call and no help came, that surely makes the lie worse. He could not walk it back. It simply looks like an attempt to simply talk enough so that everything sounds like nonsense.

[bgill]

Ham and the other guy know exactly who told them to stand down. But, hey, it’s just another coinky dink they were suddenly replaced and not a peep out of either.