Petraeus Says U.S. Tried to Avoid Tipping Off Terrorists After Libya Attack (Not satire)

New York Times ^ | November 16, 2012 | By ERIC SCHMITT

[Brad from Tennessee]

WASHINGTON — David H. Petraeus, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, told lawmakers on Friday that classified intelligence reports revealed that the deadly assault on the American diplomatic mission in Libya was a terrorist attack, but that the administration refrained from saying it suspected that the perpetrators of the attack were Al Qaeda affiliates and sympathizers to avoid tipping off the groups.

Mr. Petraeus, who resigned last week after admitting to an extramarital affair, said the names of groups suspected in the attack — including Al Qaeda’s franchise in North Africa and a local Libyan group, Ansar al-Shariah — were removed from the public explanation of the attack immediately after the assault to avoid alerting the militants that American intelligence and law enforcement agencies were tracking them, lawmakers said. . .

[supremedoctrine]

Yes, you remind us of a very important fact which SHOULD be the essential thing any discussion of Benghazi, over and above the blame and obfuscations and cover-ups should center on-and that is that
THE WHOLE THING WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED IF MUBARAK STILL RAN EGYPT!

[supremedoctrine]

Yes, you remind us of a very important fact which SHOULD be the essential thing any discussion of Benghazi, over and above the blame and obfuscations and cover-ups should center on-and that is that
THE WHOLE THING WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED IF MUBARAK STILL RAN EGYPT!

[supremedoctrine]

Yes, you remind us of a very important fact which SHOULD be the essential thing any discussion of Benghazi, over and above the blame and obfuscations and cover-ups should center on-and that is that
THE WHOLE THING WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED IF MUBARAK STILL RAN EGYPT!

[rawcatslyentist]

>" That makes sense to the average idiot, sure. "

As much sense as giving 50cals to Mexican narco terrorists!

[rawcatslyentist]

>"This still does not answer WHY there was no help for the doomed four sometime in their last 7 hours."

"I will stand with them (the mooses) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." BHO.

[eyedigress]

What a strategy. Claim they didn’t do it and soon they believe it.

Good Grief.

[Rappini]

Money talks folks.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Cracks me up.. 0bama bombs Libya without consent of Congress (impeachable offense), then funds the enemy (impeachable offense) who ultimately kills four Americans whom HE abandons to die (impeachable offense) then 0bama goes into cover-up mode (impeachable offense) for political gain and wins re-election through fraud he orchestrates (impeachable offense).

America has become desensitized to criminal behavior by their Dictator.

[cyn]

mark

[piasa]

I haven’t been able to follow the F$F case, just not enough time. Since it involves an international border wouldn’t Obama as Prez have had to give the civilian FBI version of cross border authority in Fast and Furious? And shouldn’t anyone in the chain of command have had to sign off on it?

[editor-surveyor]

Does Petraeus think we’re as stupid as he is?

What a crock of BS!

They just didn’t want to tip off the voters.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “LIARS ALL.” <<

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Do tell...

[rawcatslyentist]

0m0slem as prez should have to provide a hard paper copy of a REAL BC.

There's too many things the _____ has been let skate on! No MORE!