[piasa]

Note to Hayes Brown.

It comes down to this, Brownnoser:

Only the President has the authority to grant CBA.

No CBA was granted.

The President decided for whatever reason that the people at Benghazi were not worth the risk of rescue.

Go ahead, try to spin that. No conspiracy theory there to be debunked- Obama either issued CBA or he didn't.

And he is TOO GUTLESS and TOO SELFISH to tell us why HE and HE ALONE chose to withhold CBA.

You can't debunk that, so instead you want to trot out the straw man arguments about conspiracies- some of which the left invented and fed to Obama critics to begin with, to make them look as silly as the typical leftist. You want to trick people into dismissing the real issue as yet another convoluted conspiracy theory.

Which is why no one on the left side of the aisle or in the "progressive" press wants to talk about CBA.

It's that simple.

[no-to-illegals]

Will say it again or type it again ... There was blood, in the water from nearly day one. Something has changed. Something else has become known. There is something else going on ... don’t ask me what ... I do not know.

[RetSignman]

Thanks to the member who spotted the 'white washing' image.

[uncommonsense]

This needs to be kept front-of-mind with the DemocRat's talking points about anything regarding Benghazi:

Issues:

1) the State Department had the necessary budget
2) wanted Benghazi to become a permanent consulate
3) it was 1 of only 15 sites out of 300 globally to be rated at the 2 highest levels, is legally required to conform to upgraded security standards, and the Secretary of State (Clinton) must sign off on operating at substandard levels
4) and MOST DAMNING – Clinton ignored multiple formal requests to bring it up to legal standards after multiple, serious security incidents
5) The false narrative of a protest based on a YouTube video caused irreparable harm to the newly elected Libyan leader and caused a delay of the FBI getting to the scene by 18 days or more

There are only 15 facilities around the world rated "high" or "critical" - out of almost 300. The Benghazi site was rated "critical" (the highest threat) and needed H.R. Clinton's authorization to operate it while at the officially documented, legally deficient state of security , before the attack.

H.R. Clinton told Stevens, presumably ordered by Obama, that this admin's goal was to make Benghazi a permanent consulate. But, career state department employees were threatened, and demoted, for using official channels to make basic requests for security before the mid-term election.