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Benghazi Index
SEN. GRAHAM: Are you surprised that the president of the United States never called you, Secretary Panetta, and say, ‘how’s it going?’
SEC. PANETTA: I — you know, normally in these situations –
SEN. GRAHAM: Did he know the level of threat that –
SEC. PANETTA: Let — well, let me finish the answer. We were deploying the forces. He knew we were deploying the forces. He was being kept updated –
SEN. GRAHAM: Well, I hate to interrupt you, but I got limited time. We didn’t deploy any forces. Did you call him back — wait a minute –
SEC. PANETTA: No, but the event — the event was over by the time we got –
SEN. GRAHAM: Mr. Secretary, you didn’t know how long the attack would last. Did you ever call him and say, Mr. President, it looks like we don’t have anything to get there anytime soon?
SEC. PANETTA: The event was over before we could move any assets.
SEN. GRAHAM: It lasted almost eight hours. And my question to you is during that eight-hour period, did the president show any curiosity about how’s this going, what kind of assets do you have helping these people? Did he ever make that phone call?
SEC. PANETTA: Look, there is no question in my mind that the president of the United States was concerned about American lives and, frankly, all of us were concerned about American lives.
SEN. GRAHAM: With all due respect, I don’t believe that’s a credible statement if he never called and asked you, are we helping these people; what’s happening to them? We have a second round, and we’ll take it up then.
Graham just demolished the entire White House defense on Benghazi in less than ten minutes of cross-examination.
Repeatedly, in answer to Ayotte's probing about communications between Panetta and the White House, Panetta explains plainly that, apart from a scheduled meeting in the afternoon of September 11, he had no contact with Obama that day. The president was not involved, and did not wish to be involved, in the communications and decision-making processes of that day. An ongoing terrorist attack on his administration's diplomatic mission in a volatile region on the eleventh anniversary of September 11, 2001 was not considered worthy of his direct involvement.
Ayotte: Did he ever call you that night to say, "How are things going? What's going on?"
Panetta: No, but we were aware that as we were getting information on what was taking place there, particularly when we got information that the ambassador -- his life had been lost, we were aware that that information went to the White House.
Ayotte: Did you communicate with anyone else at the White House that night?
Panetta: No.
Ayotte: No one else called you to say, "How are things going?"
Panetta: No.
Through it all, Obama's White House simply did not respond or engage. Given the auspiciousness of the date and the seriousness of the attack, we must now ask, with the utmost gravity, "Why not?"
It just doesn’t make sense. He is aloof? Two months before a very important election, and he is ALOOF? Look, the man is generally stupid, but even HE is not THAT stupid. There is something else going on here and we need to get to the bottom of it PRONTO.
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“The secretary of defense and his military commanders did nothing. The secretary of state did nothing. The president never called to ask, “How are things going?”...”
Unfortunately, I’m guessing that many of the Obama voters in this country agree with these (non) actions. There will be no hue & cry from them.
Did General Hamm ever testify? We know he resigned over this issue (retirement, yeah right!). And we know Petraeus was booted out after saying no one in HIS command gave a stand down order. So that only leaves SECDEF, SECSTATE, possibly the NSA, and the CINC.
They’ve circled the wagons to protect each other. But hey, this is what America voted for. And the idiot half of the US will vote for Hillary in 2016 because “Let’s make history!”
The Preezy and Madame Secretary were incommunicado for purposes of plausible deniability. A cynical person would believe it was a failed hostage taking event which was originally planned to use Am. Stevens as a bargaining chip for the release of the blind sheik, all coordinated with our MOTUS (Muslim of the United States).
“.....Panetta has at last set the record straight.”
Actually, Panetta has helped to rewrite the record..... with lies.