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U.S. State Department's top Libya security adviser: Benghazi decisions were made at the highest leve
Daily Mail ^ | UPDATED: 13:14 EST, 8 May 2013 | By David Martosko In Washington

Posted on 05/10/2013 10:59:33 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

The former Regional Security Officer in Tripoli during the months before the Benghazi terror attack that killed the U.S. ambassador told a congressional panel on Wednesday that the State Department's internal review of the diplomatic disaster unfairly let senior political appointees off the hook.

Choking back tears, Eric Allan Nordstrom said the investigation into the terror attack, continued Wednesday during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, 'matters to me personally, and it matters to my colleagues at the department of state.'

'It matters to the American public for whom we serve, and most importantly, it matters to the friends and family of Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, who were murdered on September 11, 2012.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 91112; benghazi; ericallannordstrom; libya; navyseals; obamaspeople; terrorism; threatmatrix; waronterror
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U.S. State Department's top Libya security adviser: Benghazi decisions were made at the highest leve

1 posted on 05/10/2013 10:59:33 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: MestaMachine; TigersEye; Marine_Uncle; justa-hairyape; onyx; SunkenCiv; Grampa Dave; ...

Just checking to see what the Brits were saying.


2 posted on 05/10/2013 11:01:04 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

At the highest level of a low level administration.


3 posted on 05/10/2013 11:01:20 PM PDT by NoLibZone (None here can be puzzled by why Jews walked into the cars so quietly- we are walking up the planks.)
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To: NoLibZone

The truth to this matter...if the ambassador had grasped just how things were turning....had only called the French ambassador in Libya, and asked for him and the French military folks that they had...to come and save him, I believe they would have moved heaven and Earth to save the ambassador. It would have set off a firestorm that an American ambassador had to be rescued by the French government, but he’d likely be alive today.


4 posted on 05/10/2013 11:06:37 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The most important information that must be learned from sworn testimony is who gave the order to the military to stand down and why. There is no doubt that the 6th Fleet monitored the situation from the beginning and the area commander had an intervention ready to go within minutes. They also have preplanned contingency responses to deal with this type of situation.


5 posted on 05/10/2013 11:07:51 PM PDT by allendale
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" 'it matters to the friends and family of Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, who were murdered on September 11, 2012.'"

TREASON Matters.

Anyone wanting on or off this ping list, please advise.


6 posted on 05/10/2013 11:18:09 PM PDT by MestaMachine
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Thanks so much.
The Marxist knew right from the very beginning.


7 posted on 05/10/2013 11:20:26 PM PDT by onyx
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8 posted on 05/10/2013 11:21:56 PM PDT by onyx
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To: NoLibZone
At the highest level of a low level administration.
At the highest level of a low level life administration.
9 posted on 05/11/2013 12:09:23 AM PDT by lewislynn ( We bet on the black, it came up red.)
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To: pepsionice

damn interestin point..I will due diligence your assertation...thx


10 posted on 05/11/2013 12:20:16 AM PDT by advertising guy (clearly, semi automatic high capacity pressure cookers should be banned)
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To: pepsionice

Interesting point. Where were all of America’s friends in the region? Wasn’t Obama’s election to make the world love us again - and didn’t it succeed? Couldn’t other countries come to assist - was it only up to the US military to help?


11 posted on 05/11/2013 2:06:01 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Democrats: Robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Apparently, they are the only ones that actually are looking for facts and not trying to protect anyone.

The track I’d like to see now is a full-court press line of questioning of those involved about EXACTLY WHERE WAS THE PRESIDENT AND WHEN during all of this.


12 posted on 05/11/2013 2:20:44 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: allendale
The most important information that must be learned from sworn testimony is who gave the order to the military to stand down and why.

Let me guess: It was the Obamanation and it was for political advantage. First, it was to avoid acknowledging that it was a terrorist attack when we'd been told Al Queda had been "decimated;" second, it was to avoid Muslim casualties which would have offended the Muslim world; and last, but not least, it was the lack of courage to make a hard, but right decision. Also, I don't believe the Obamanation had no contact with the State Department after being informed of the attack. Panetta did testify that he had only one telephonic conversation. I believe at some undisclosed subsequent contact the bogus POTUS, with Hildebeast's concurrence, gave the order to stand down.

13 posted on 05/11/2013 3:25:42 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

"The Saudi, Moslem Brotherhood
and al Qaeda monies have already cleared
and are in your accounts.
They are WAITING for your 'green light'
for them to remove the Ambassador,
and finally take down the Seal Team."


14 posted on 05/11/2013 4:18:02 AM PDT by Diogenesis (De Oppresso Liber)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Right. We’re supposed to believe Mr Hands-On Obama all but pulled the trigger on Osama but was out of the loop on Benghazi?


15 posted on 05/11/2013 4:22:44 AM PDT by Lacey
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To: pepsionice

Per this article we had NATO had assets , all we had to do was ask.

http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2013/05/07/clintons-republican-guard/


16 posted on 05/11/2013 4:27:11 AM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: pepsionice

Sorry wrong article although good in understanding the whitewash of the investigation. Here is the one on assets in area.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/what_the_hearings_mean.html


17 posted on 05/11/2013 4:34:46 AM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: Diogenesis

She/he could not respond because it was not 3am yet.


18 posted on 05/11/2013 7:23:04 AM PDT by Eternally-Optimistic (anything is possible)
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