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Benghazi chill ripples through State Department
The Hill ^ | December 2, 2015 | Julian Hattem

Posted on 12/02/2015 4:04:29 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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The Left never lets a crisis go to waste.

This administration is deliberately crippling whatever intelligence we might be able to collect.

1 posted on 12/02/2015 4:04:30 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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One of the things a new president will have to do is clean out the State department and staff it with people who act in the interests of the United States.


2 posted on 12/02/2015 4:09:00 AM PST by Tench_Coxe (For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
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> One of the things a new president will have to do is clean out the State department and staff it with people who act in the interests of the United States.

DC needs to be gutted and much of Congress shown the door. Same with the SC.

3 posted on 12/02/2015 4:12:34 AM PST by jsanders2001
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The State Department is riddled with career staffers and diplomats who swing on the left side of the jungle. They’ve been like this for decades. They will be very difficult to get rid of.


4 posted on 12/02/2015 4:14:49 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Basically, under obama any ambassador is subject to sacrifice for political gains.


5 posted on 12/02/2015 4:16:29 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Political fallout my behind.

State Department employees now know they work for a government that will not have their backs when they are in danger in a foreign country.

6 posted on 12/02/2015 4:18:02 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Donald Trump = Elmer Gantry (w/o the booze) + Huey Long (w/o the sweat and Southern Accent))
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what a load.


7 posted on 12/02/2015 4:18:47 AM PST by semaj (Audentes fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold. Be Bold FRiends.)
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As expected.... vote-crazed Democrats criticized the Benghazi panel. Vote-crazed Dems question whether Republicans can offer a way forward in balancing the post-Hillary foreign service's handling of security.......versus diplomacy.

Oh, please....let me help Braindead Dems w/ that:

WRT Obama/Hillary's gun-running (Fast and Furious and so on): When Putin finds out that US arms that were sent on a circuitous route from Venezuela to Benghazi to Syria to overthrow Assad, Putin can go to the Hague and diplomatically demand action be brought against the Government of the United States...including every House and Senator and government official that was involved in this... (And that goes for Obama and Hillary, as well.)

There you go... security AND diplomacy ... all rolled into one.

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WHAT DID THE CONGRESS KNOW ABOUT GUN-RUNNING? Read on.

SOURCE: http://www.state.gov/t/pm/rsat/c14027.htm

CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF ARMS TRANSFERS
Third party transfers are subject to requirements for Congressional notification under AECA, §3(d) (reference (c)), using guidelines similar to those for AECA, §36(b) (reference (c)) notifications (see Chapter 5, section C5.6).

A 30-day prior Congressional notification is required for third-party transfer requests that involve defense articles and services with original acquisition values that fall in one of the following categories: Major Defense Equipment (MDE) with an acquisition value equal to or greater than $14,000,000 for non-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) recipients and $25,000,000 if the recipient is a member of NATO, Australia, Israel, Japan, New Zealand or Republic of Korea; or any other defense article or related training or defense service with an acquisition value of $50,000,000 or more for non-NATO recipients and $100,000,000 or more for NATO, Australia, Japan, and New Zealand recipients.

Approval is granted after the 30-day (including weekends) period has expired if no objections are raised.

8 posted on 12/02/2015 4:22:43 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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The State Department is riddled with career staffers and diplomats who swing on the left side of the jungle. They’ve been like this for decades. They will be very difficult to get rid of.

I am reminded of a set of lyrics from the legendary Frank Zappa:

We are millions and millions, we're comin' to getcha
We're protected by unions, so don't let it upset ya,
Can't escape the conclusion that it's probably God's will
that civilization will grind to a standstill,

And we are the people who will make it all happen
while your children are sleepin' and your puppy is crappin'
You might call us 'flakes', or something else you might coin us,
we know you're so greedy that you'll probably join us...

9 posted on 12/02/2015 4:36:02 AM PST by Old Sarge
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The million dollar question is, Is it worth it to Obama/Clintons/McCain starting a REAL fighting war with Putin when Putin gets close to the evidence of FFII?

You know Putin has the intel but he has to put his hands on the evidence. Where is that evidence located? Northern Syria or Turkey?


10 posted on 12/02/2015 4:42:23 AM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I am having trouble understanding all the reluctance to going oversea.

Obama promised us the world was going to love us.

AND he put someone in charge who would answer that 3AM phone call.

I really hope to see Hillary! as the Dem Candidate against Trump.

Even if the debates have to be conducted from somewhere inside a prison.


11 posted on 12/02/2015 4:45:56 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: eartick

Ask NSA-—they know everything.


12 posted on 12/02/2015 4:50:21 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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The political fallout from the 2012 terrorist attacks on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, has had a chilling effect on the Foreign Service

Who would volunteer to go to a post where, when under attack, you would be abandoned by a drunk Sec of State and a so-called POTUS more interested in fund raising?

I honestly don't know how they recruit Foreign Service or Military personnel under this regime.

13 posted on 12/02/2015 5:04:00 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Social Security Retirees and Vets eat dog food in order to fund 0bama's lavish vacations.)
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John, I'm telling you I'm really scared man. These guys are killers. Clinton won't even answer my calls about beefing up security. Can you help us? .... John? John?

14 posted on 12/02/2015 5:08:45 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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We’re supposed to believe something will happen to Hillary with this scandal? Is Trey still huffing and puffing?


15 posted on 12/02/2015 5:11:37 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Some Animals are more equal than others.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.


16 posted on 12/02/2015 5:19:48 AM PST by gusopol3
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17 posted on 12/02/2015 5:27:42 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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Her victory vid where she throws up her arms is very Nixonesque.


18 posted on 12/02/2015 5:31:44 AM PST by tioga ( Psalm 109:8 for Obama. Can I get an Amen?)
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The most”frustrating” thing for a diplomat is to “not be able to do anything?” I would think the most frustrating thing would be getting tortured, dragged through the streets and killed. Like when Hillary The Cold and Joyless was Secretary of State


19 posted on 12/02/2015 5:36:55 AM PST by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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Her victory vid where she throws up her arms is very Nixonesque.

Only Nixon was battling communist traitors from within, and Hillary was one of them.

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Hillary and the [original 1960s] Black Panthers: The Real Story


Legaled.com ^ | Aug 19, 2003 | Richard Poe

I can't take it anymore. If one more person sends me that e-mail about Hillary and the Black Panthers, I'll have to be dragged away screaming in a straitjacket.

You know the e-mail I'm talking about. It accuses Hillary of helping the Black Panthers get away with torture and murder during the early 1970s. With the 2004 presidential race drawing near, the spam mills are creaking to life, flooding the Internet once more with this agitprop classic.

Unfortunately, the e-mail mingles good information with bad, sowing more confusion than enlightenment. Some versions, for instance, carry the byline of radio talk jock Paul Harvey, who says he did not write it. Such misrepresentations help Hillary defenders dismiss the e-mail as a hoax.

The story is no hoax, though. Its basic elements can be found in respected Hillary biographies and exposes such as Barbara Olson's "Hell to Pay," David Brock's "The Seduction of Hillary Rodham," Joyce Milton's "The First Partner" and Carl Limbacher's "Hillary's Scheme."

Here are the facts:

In May 1969, fishermen discovered the body of Black Panther Alex Rackley floating in Connecticut's Coginchaug River. Rackley's captors had clubbed him, burned him with cigarettes, scalded him with boiling water and stabbed him with an ice pick before finally shooting him in the head.

New Haven detectives learned that the Panthers suspected Rackley of being a police informer. Panther enforcers had tied him to a chair and tortured him for hours. Police arrested eight Panthers and later extradited Panther leader Bobby Seale from California, after a witness accused Seale of ordering Rackley's death. (1)

Campus radicals supported the Panthers. They organized mass protests in support of the so-called "New Haven Nine." Hillary was right in the thick of it.

By the time she entered Yale Law School in 1969, Hillary was already a radical celebrity on campus. Life magazine had featured Hillary in a piece titled, "The Class of '69," which showcased three student activists whom Life's editors deemed the best and brightest of the year. A line Hillary used in her Wellesley College commencement speech appeared under her photo: "Protest is an attempt to forge an identity." (2)

At Yale, Hillary helped edit the Yale Review of Law and Social Action -- a left-wing journal which promoted cop-killing and featured cartoons of pig-faced police. (3)

A series of hard-Left mentors introduced Hillary to the brass-knuckle realities of revolutionary activism. As a Wellesley undergraduate, she met and interviewed radical organizer Saul Alinsky, whose Machiavellian tactics she admired. Hillary's senior thesis supported Alinsky's call for class warfare. (4)

At Yale, Hillary found a new Svengali in the form of left-wing law professor Thomas Emerson, known around campus as "Tommy the Commie." Emerson recruited Hillary and other students to help monitor the trial of the New Haven Nine for civil rights violations. Hillary took charge of the operation, scheduling the students in shifts, so that student monitors would always be present in the courtroom. She befriended and worked closely with Panther lawyer Charles Garry. (5)

Some believe that the enormous pressure exerted by the Left helped ensure light sentences for the New Haven Nine. Whether or not this is true, the punishments were mild.

"Only one of the killers was still in prison in 1977," reports John McCaslin in the Washington Times. "The gunman, Warren Kimbro, got a Harvard scholarship and became an assistant dean at Eastern Connecticut State College. Ericka Huggins, who boiled the water for Mr. Rackley's torture, got elected to a California school board." (6)

Hillary's defenders argue that she played no "significant" role in the New Haven Nine's defense. This is semantic hairsplitting. Obviously, Hillary was less "significant" than Charles Garry or "Tommy the Commie" Emerson. But Hillary served as a trusted lieutenant to these movers and shakers. Moreover, she had a national profile as a campus activist. Hillary was no rank-and-file student protester, as her apologists claim.

Indeed, Hillary's work for the Panthers won her a summer internship at the Berkeley office of attorney Robert Treuhaft in 1972. A hardline Stalinist, Treuhaft had quit the Communist Party in 1958 only because it was losing members and no longer provided a good platform for his activism. (7) "Treuhaft is a man who dedicated his entire legal career to advancing the agenda of the Soviet Communist Party and the KGB," notes historian Stephen Schwartz. (8)

The defense of the New Haven Nine marked Hillary's initiation into the sinister underworld of the hard-core, revolutionary Left. To my knowledge, Hillary has never publicly renounced nor apologized for her role in that movement.

Richard Poe is a New York Times best-selling author and cyberjournalist. For more information on Poe and his writings, visit his Web site, RichardPoe.com. He may be reached at richardpoe@....

References
1. Joyce Milton, The First Partner: Hillary Rodham Clinton. William, Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1999, p. 35. Barbara Olson, Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C., 1999, p. 55.
2. Milton, 1999, p. 34; Olson, 1999, pp. 40-45.
3. Olson, 1999, p. 59-61; Evan Gahr, "Hillary and the Cop-Bashers: Will the Real Ms. Rodham Please Stand Up?" JewishWorldReview.com, June 20, 2000.
4. David Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham. The Free Press, New York, 1996, pp. 14-17; Olson, 1999, pp. 46, 48, 50.
5. Milton, 1999, p. 17; Brock, 1996, pp. 31-32; Olson, 1999, p. 54-56.
6. John McCaslin, "Hillary for the Defense." Inside the Beltway, The Washington Times, June 12, 1998, p. A9.
7. Olson, 1999, pp. 56-57.
8. Brock, 1996, p. 33.

http://www.legaled.com/hillaryatyale.htm

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20 posted on 12/02/2015 5:52:52 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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