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Panetta: Obama never called back to check on Benghazi
Hot Air.com ^ | February 8, 2013 | ED MORRISSEY

Posted on 02/08/2013 4:28:30 PM PST by Kaslin

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To: Tau Food

They need to put BO under oath and make damn sure that they have evidence to show when he starts lying under oath. They should have done that with Hillary. Presented actual evidence that shows she was lying.


21 posted on 02/08/2013 5:00:31 PM PST by dandiegirl
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To: alloysteel

Panetta said in his testimony that he informed 0bama of the attack in Benghazi. That was a strange thing to say given that he and 0bama had a scheduled meeting in the WH at the very time the attack began. Both would have been independently notified by their own staff, by law, that the attack was happening. Has 0bama ordered his staff not to bother him with trivial events such as attacks on embassies and consulates?


22 posted on 02/08/2013 5:02:09 PM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: RoosterRedux

It doesn’t matter what the MSM wants to report. They can’t hide the FACT that BO was AWOL during this raid. There’s not one thing they can say or do that would make that go away. Where he actually was remains the big mystery. It must be really bad wherever he was.


23 posted on 02/08/2013 5:03:45 PM PST by dandiegirl
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To: Doogle; Travis McGee
The POS is the ONLY one who can deploy forces internationally...this BS line of "leaving it up to Panetta and Hilda" is pure BS

And as Travis has been screaming at the top of his lungs...only the President has the power to issue Cross Border Authority.

Our closest assets were at U.S. Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily. CBA was required to send help to Benghazi.

The President, by his absence--by his refusal to get involved--TOLD OUR FORCES TO STAND DOWN re: the rescue of our Ambassador and SEAL's in Benghazi.

24 posted on 02/08/2013 5:04:56 PM PST by RoosterRedux (Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
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To: Kaslin

The only thing the Obamahole was concerned with was his campaign event the next day.


25 posted on 02/08/2013 5:05:27 PM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Why, oh why, do Freepers still whine about the MSM not reporting the truth?

Because complaining is better than quietly rolling into a ball.

26 posted on 02/08/2013 5:05:53 PM PST by skeeter
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To: skeeter; RoosterRedux

Catharsis


27 posted on 02/08/2013 5:11:59 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: GeronL

Thats the word I was looking for.


28 posted on 02/08/2013 5:13:22 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Venturer

I believe he doesn’t do the CYA all that well, because we know he’s covering his ass. He does it prolifically, but not well me thinks. If he did it well we’d be as ignorant of his antics as the low info voters that support him. We aren’t.


29 posted on 02/08/2013 5:17:30 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Kaslin; alarm rider; Alex1977; at bay; Babsig; BILL_C; bnelson44; ColdOne; DesScorp; G.Love; ...
Uber RINO Lindsey Ping
"Republican by day, Democrat by night."


Want on or off this ping list?
Just FReepmail me.

Let's give Linda her due. She did a great job of hammering Panetta.

30 posted on 02/08/2013 5:20:49 PM PST by upchuck (America's at an awkward stage. Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: Kaslin

As much as Lindsay Graham screws up, and wins dunce of the day award day after day I have to hand it to him on this one. He managed to beat up on Panetta, and Dempsey for the Congressional Record quite well.

He should be commended for a job well done, but he’s like the arrogant little Shitzu we have if we give him a pat on the head he thinks he can do no wrong, and screws up time, and again. Best to leave the kudos unsaid I guess.


31 posted on 02/08/2013 5:22:03 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer: My sources tell me Obama was in the room watching Benghazi attack video 10-27-2012

Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer said tonight that his sources tell him that Obama was one of the people in the room watching the Benghazi attack go down and both he and Col. David Hunt agree it would have taken an order by the president to intervene. Further, Col. Hunt said that we were only 20 min away by jet and a couple of hours away by AC-130 gunships and special forces, and the decision not to intervene had to be political.


32 posted on 02/08/2013 5:30:02 PM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: Kaslin

So Panetta said we were deploying troops...but no troops were deployed. This must have been because they didn’t get authorization from Obama?

So everyone was ready to go but Obama refused to authorize it????

Why are these people covering for him? This is as much treason as Obama.


33 posted on 02/08/2013 5:35:03 PM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: skeeter
See tag line...and don't roll into a ball;-)

This war will break out into the open soon enough. Get ready!

CWII is well underway. But the Communist-owned press is hiding the details.

34 posted on 02/08/2013 5:39:35 PM PST by RoosterRedux (Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
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To: Kaslin

Obama has absolutely no interest in thye military. He distains it. That’s he he appointed Republicans to those posts.


35 posted on 02/08/2013 5:41:05 PM PST by Fido969
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To: RoosterRedux
See tag line...and don't roll into a ball;-)

Roll into a ball, hell. My wife has already written my epitaph.

36 posted on 02/08/2013 5:42:35 PM PST by skeeter
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To: rockinqsranch

I was pretty impressed by good ol’ Lindsay, too.

But this is something that I noticed in the letter sent by 11 Senators to Bambi complaining about his self-appointed judge, jury and executioner drone policy: it was 8 far left Dems and 3 ultra-liberal GOPers.

So you never know where sanity is going to break out. Praise them for this act, which was actually pretty courageous, because Obambi doesn’t like ANYBODY to oppose him, as numerous generals and even WH staffers have found out. And then see what they do next.

Strange times.


37 posted on 02/08/2013 5:46:59 PM PST by livius
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To: skeeter

Well, Hillary too. It was her consulate under fire! Why wasn’t she in on what was going to be done?


38 posted on 02/08/2013 5:48:27 PM PST by jch10 (Hey GOP! Only Conservatives get my vote.)
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To: Kaslin

“Nuclear catastrophe was hanging by a thread ... and we weren’t counting days or hours, but minutes.” -Soviet General and Army Chief of Operations, Anatoly Gribkov

I guess it was a good thing that President John F. Kennedy stayed in the game. I see nothing in the record that indicates that he just slept and then simply flew off to Las Vegas.

Perhaps my memory is failing on this, but I don’t remember an American Ambassador and 3 other Americans getting brutally murdered during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Seems the “Magic Negro” doesn’t have any good magic, just Black Magic.


39 posted on 02/08/2013 5:54:11 PM PST by Gator113 ( REGISTER THE DAMN LIBERALS and leave my guns alone!!)
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To: TigersEye

This is truly bizarre. Was he or wasn’t he there? The initial stories were very conflicting and things don’t seem to have improved much in the interim.

The attack went on for 8 hours, although there was a lull. Perhaps Obama was informed initially (when he called Panetta) and then went off to bed and left strict instructions not to be awakened because he had an early flight to Vegas?

There are two possibilities. Either he was there and didn’t do anything to help or couldn’t make a decision, or he wasn’t there and had been informed but didn’t care enough to follow up on it and then went to bed after his one conversation with Panetta, who seems to have been the only one he spoke to that day.

Neither of these scenarios is a good one. If it were anybody but Obama, he’d already be out of office and probably even looking at criminal charges.


40 posted on 02/08/2013 5:54:18 PM PST by livius
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