is being withheld by the State Department
Not sure what that means...
Where ARE the emails...if it is an “exchange” then Fox has their copies...print them!
The media and the administration official in the White House were both ragging on Fox. They were watching Fox. They were watching the O'Reilly Factor and they were e-mailing each other back and forth.O'Reilly was going back and forth how Benghazi was a big thing and the media was missing it and clearly the video had nothing to do with it. And these two people, one a Drive-By reporter, the other an administration official, were both writing back and forth about what B.S. Fox was talking about...
AP reporter Matt Lee and Regime official Victoria Nuland, State Department, were writing back and forth. E-mails to each other about what a bunch of B.S. is on Fox as O'Reilly is discounting the Regime theory on the video explaining why there were protests in Benghazi and that's why the Ambassador is dead.
So the point is you have a State Department official writing back and forth with a news media person, Matt Lee. If you read it, it's clear that Matt Lee from the Associated Press is offering his assistance to the regime.
Judge Napolitano saying they’ll have to get a federal judge to force the release like they did with Nixon.
Carter: "Worst Presidency? LOL"
Nixon: "I think we are off the hook."
It was a an organized attack on our personnel. Fine. That’s clearly been established. They really need to move on from that and have the important questions answered: What was Stevens’ mission? Where was the president during the crisis? Who gave the ‘stand down’ order?
it was 9-11...They knew after 10 minutes that it was a terrorist attack.....
Republicans need to learn to play the game the way the leftist democrats play the game.
Guilty until proven innocent.
Have a press conference and let the press know they have enough info to know what happened at Benghazi and the WH is withholding the info because it confirms their conclusion as to what happened.
If the WH has info to contradict their conclusion, release the info.
I’m thinking that if this was just about providing illegal arms to Syrian rebels, the truth would have come out long ago. The administration could have weathered that long before the mid-term elections came up and the public would be over it by now. For them to stonewall this long and continue to drag their feet, it must be something much more sinister.
My bet is on the ‘kidnapping gone awry’ theory. That explains why the stand down order was given and that the Ambassador was killed because the kidnappers acted in revenge in retaliation because they were promised there would be no armed opposition.
"...The Freedom of information Act is perhaps the most powerful instrument we have for making our government honest and transparent, and of holding it accountable. And I expect members of my administration not simply to live up to the letter, but also the spirit of this law... Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency."...
Denis McDonough took over as White House chief of staff on Jan. 25, and what has followed has been a pretty terrible year. The president’s top legislative priority, fixing immigration laws, has stalled out. His plan to stop Syria’s descent into chaos was a pure debacle. And the implementation of his most important domestic policy accomplishment, the health care overhaul, is a mess. Obama is less popular than ever.
McDonough then served as a senior foreign policy advisor to Senator Tom Daschle. After Daschle's re-election defeat in 2004, McDonough became legislative director for newly elected Senator Ken Salazar. McDonough later served as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in 2004.
May 23, 2013
At the end of last Wednesday’s 7:45 a.m. senior staff meeting in the chief of staff’s roomy West Wing office, a dozen scandal-fatigued loyalists surveyed the trifecta of embarrassments that threatened to derail the president’s second-term agenda. The ongoing controversy over Benghazi, the IRS admission that it had improperly targeted Tea Party groups, and the Justice Department’s subpoena of Associated Press phone records were all driving the media narrative and forcing the administration onto the defensive. Political strategist Dan Pfeiffer got a laugh as he called out mordantly, “One team, one fight ...”
McDonough got a bigger laugh with his feisty response: “One team, a shitload of fights!”
And by all accounts, McDonough—just four months into the job—has acquitted himself well during the past few weeks. It was McDonough, say White House aides, who on May 15 advocated declassifying and publicly releasing previously confidential interagency emails about the controversial Benghazi talking points. Those emails helped turn the conventional wisdom on Benghazi from “White House cover-up” to “Republican overreach”—with news reports suggesting that a GOP source had misrepresented a key communication from Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes to make the White House and the State Department look far worse than was justified. Meanwhile, after Obama’s initially passive response to the IRS scandal, McDonough was central in the decision to fire the acting commissioner and send the president in front of television cameras to express his anger at the tax collection agency’s alleged misdeeds.
McDonough is fiercely protective of Obama, and quick to reprimand anyone he feels has undermined his boss. He once savagely dressed down the late Richard Holbrooke, the special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan and three decades McDonough’s senior, for cooperating with a splashy New Yorker profile. “I would definitely not want to undercut the president in some way and then have a sit-down with Denis McDonough,” says a senior White House staffer.
Indeed, some Democrats dismiss the McDonough charm offensive as little more than window dressing. “It’s not a helluva lot better now,” complains a Democratic senator who asked not to be identified for fear of White House retribution. “Denis McDonough is very good at returning phone calls—I don’t know when he finds the time to sleep—but I’m not certain that anything is happening other than that. In terms of things actually getting done in the White House, it’s still not any better than it was before. It’s still the feeling of a lot of us here that the White House doesn’t consult with us. Instead, it tells us what they’ve done. You know, there are instances where they might have talked to us beforehand, and maybe we would have had some input into that, and it would come out better if we just had some upfront idea about this or that before it happened.”
McDonough has regular contact with key reporters
Thanks for posting. Great thread.
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