Posted on 03/07/2014 7:44:55 PM PST by kristinn
Three days after she claimed to have been brutally attacked, stomped on, her arm ripped out of its socket and ligaments torn by Egyptian authorities trying to deport her from the Cairo airport, Susan ‘Medea’ Benjamin appeared to be miraculously healed as shown on a video of an interview recorded Friday.
Benjamin, leader of the terrorist support group Code Pink, spoke to Bill Hughes at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The camera shot is tight from the shoulders up. Benjamin looks quite healthy. No scabs, no bruises, no swelling, no torn scalp, no broken teeth. When the camera pulls back to show her torso, her left arm which she claimed was broken, dislocated and had ligaments torn, is seen free of any sling, cast, or means of support. Benjamin is wearing two pullover shirts, meaning she had to lift her arms to get dressed. She does however hold her left arm folded against her abdomen.
Link to YouTube video of Medea Benjamin interview from Friday.
Benjamin claimed in a Code Pink press release on Tuesday that in addition to her other claimed wounds, her wrists bled from two sets of handcuffs being placed on her too tightly. The video at 2:20 shows both wrists. Neither wrist is swollen or scabbed. Her left wrist has a wristwatch on it.
Earlier Friday, Code Pink posted a photo of Benjamin wearing the same outfit with something that might pass as a sling on her left arm—but she was using her left arm and hand to use a portable electronic device. Note in the photo Benjamin is able to lift her left arm and flex the fingers on her left hand to use a pointer.
Benjamin’s own statements show that she was forcibly handcuffed after she refused to go along peaceably with her deportation.
Also on Friday, the State Department said that Benjamin had submitted a signed Privacy Act waiver and therefore the government was free to discuss her tale of woe in Egypt this week. The State Department press corps spent quite a bit of time today on Benjamin, even more than they did earlier in the week.
The entire relevant portion of the transcript published by the State Department is preserved for the record at Free Republic.
Here is an excerpt:
MS PSAKI: …We can confirm that Medea Benjamin was – so because she signed a Privacy Act waiver, we can confirm that she was detained by Egyptian immigration authorities upon her arrival in Cairo on March 3rd, 2014. Egyptian authorities reported to the U.S. Embassy in Cairo that they were holding a U.S. citizen around 3:00 a.m. local time on March 4th. A consular officer attempted to contact Ms. Benjamin directly multiple times. The consular officer was unable to make contact with her prior to her deportation at 11:53 a.m. that same day, but was able to talk to immigration officials and several of her friends as well as inform U.S. consular staff in Turkey. While in Turkey – because she was put on a plane back to Turkey – on March 4th, Ms. Benjamin was contacted by phone by a consular officer at 8:30 p.m. local time to check on her welfare and to arrange a visit the following morning. The U.S. Embassy in Ankara also requested that the Turkish authorities grant Ms. Benjamin humanitarian parole to allow her to seek appropriate medical care for the injuries she sustained in Egypt. She was transported to a local hospital, where she received a medical examination and treatment for a dislocated shoulder. A consular officer then visited with Ms. Benjamin at the airport the next morning at 10 a.m. She was given a Privacy Act waiver to sign, but she deferred, as we all know, stating that she wished to consult with her legal team first. She was then deported, arriving in the United States the evening of March 1st. And she signed –
QUESTION: No, no, no.
MS. PSAKI: March 5th, sorry.
QUESTION: March –
MS. PSAKI: March 5th, and she signed – that would be reversing – that would be time travel and backwards – and signed a Privacy Act waiver, which was delivered to the Department of State just today…
Left it’s see lying as a useful tool
Yup. Trouble is it works so well ONLY because most are too gutless to call them on it.
“Coward” forehead tattoos should be offered freely. I’ll bet there would be lots of proud takers.
Alluh healed her!
Alluh healed her (except mentally, that was impossible...)
Can you call a woman a prick?
Thread winner!
The correct sling would support the elbow, so as to not put tension on the broken pieces in the shoulder girdle.
It took a couple of months until I could even take a decent shower.
Yes, it's that painful.
And yes it does limit your mobility.
You may be technically "able" to, but you don't WANT to move the lower part of the arm, because it hurts.
Keeper of odd knowledge.
The Code Pink people are pink slime, but that picture was photo-shopped. A number of conservative websites had to retract statements or apologize for printing it. Code Pink did not say they support murdering American troops.
It was photo-shopped, and a number of conservative websites had to apologize for putting it on their sites.
Plenty of money to support her travels etc..
What kind of job does she have to support herself?
Independently wealthy?
Hands in George Soro’s pockets?
Where do activists (terrorists) get all this money????
What a letdown. What she really needs is a good old fashioned mahogany shampoo
Still ugly!
Yes that is a photo-shop. They haven’t verbalized it, but their actions prove it.
1:40 PM - 7 Mar 2014 · Details
Busboys and Poets @busboysandpoets @medeabenjamin welcome back celebration @ 5th & K @codepink pic.twitter.com/Ga5cOxWNUZ
5:34 PM - 7 Mar 2014
Follow john zangas @johnzangas Medea Benjamin speaking about incarceration in Egypt "They grabbed me handcuffed, tore my arm out of its socket" pic.twitter.com/HEgLckplE5
DCMediaGroupOccupy Washington DCMichael J. Buellbrenboo1Voices OutsideHarris from the Post 5:43 PM - 7 Mar 2014
Follow john zangas@johnzangas A shero snd a hero @medeabenjamin and @andyshallal at BB&P "This isn't going to stop me" @codepink @DCMediaGroup pic.twitter.com/7oSj832whZ
7:29 PM - 7 Mar 2014
john zangas @johnzangas Medea Benjamin is back in the US with Tighe and Alli of @codepink for a presentation of Medea's trip to Egypt pic.twitter.com/JEZ36nMveF
4:56 PM - 7 Mar 2014
Someone should innocently suggest that North Korea needs a good demonstration or two! Maybe they’ll keep her!
Medea was really working that sling last night. There’s no business like show business!
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