Posted on 11/17/2012 10:14:50 PM PST by WilliamIII
WASHINGTON — David H. Petraeus, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, told lawmakers on Friday that classified intelligence reports revealed that the deadly assault on the American diplomatic mission in Libya was a terrorist attack, but that the administration refrained from saying it suspected that the perpetrators of the attack were Al Qaeda affiliates and sympathizers to avoid tipping off the groups. Mr. Petraeus, who resigned last week after admitting to an extramarital affair, said the names of groups suspected in the attack — including Al Qaeda’s franchise in North Africa and a local Libyan group, Ansar al-Shariah — were removed from the public explanation of the attack immediately after the assault to avoiding alerting the militants that American intelligence and law enforcement agencies were tracking them, lawmakers said.
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Nobody had to worry about tipping off anyone after the attack. During it they knew they were being watched. I bet you can find a shot of one of them flipping off the camera in the sky.
I think you have that wrong. What you should say is that it is sad how naive the U.S. government and the New York Times thinks we are to belive such nonsense.
Stevens went for the ostensible purpose of dedicating a “cultural center,”something that would have been planned with at least some advance notice. However, he was also scheduled to have a meeting with a Turkish ship owner who was thought to be involved in or knowledgeable about weapons smuggling and shipping. He met with him, and it was right after the meeting, when he got back to the consulate,that the attack began.
since AQ was publicly taking credit, I doubt the administration was trying tohide our knowledge of who did it from AQ. More rational explanation isthey didn’t want public to know that Bambi’ allies had attacked us
So not providing security must have been a ruse, too....just to fool them....right??
This is what the Whitehouse is providing to the media??
since AQ was publicly taking credit, I doubt the administration was trying tohide our knowledge of who did it from AQ. More rational explanation isthey didn’t want public to know that Bambi’ allies had attacked us
Every terrorist KNOWS it is open season on Americans,
thanks to the CRIMINALS in the MSM, and Congress.
Hate to risk tipping off the terrorists, but the U.S. was not just “playing” dumb.
I still want to know who was in the White House Situation Room watching all this go down and where the P0TUS was?
Hey Betrayus, you are lying again for your master.
He didn’t want to take any offensive OR defensive action so close to election after his “Obama is dead, GM is alive” and declaration that alqueda has disappeared.
I recall the perps posting / bragging on Facebook after the attack?
“If this is true,”
It’s not true, although you are right about the government thinking they can outsmart someone, it’s us they think they can outsmart. I am praying a lot of people are waking up and realizing what’s happening.
OUTSTANDING thread! President Plunder and General Disaster. Twin towers of TREASON.
Most of the sheep [those who voted for obama and Democrats] not only don’t remember the disclosure, they don’t give a damn about the disclosure.The only thing they care about is what the Democrats will steal from the rightful owners and give to them.
"I wanted Al Qaeda to think that I was dumb."
Yep!
On Dec. 8, 1941, the U.S. government announced that there was a spontaneous demonstration in the territory of Hawaii that damaged federal property and, unfortunately, cost several Americans their lives. The demonstration was linked to outrage over the latest Bing Crosby movie.
The director of that film, known to be a shady character, has since been arrested and jailed on unrelated charges.
President Roosevelt assures Americans that he has ordered a full investigation of the matter. He went on to say that the United States government had nothing to do with creating such a disgusting film and fully condemned all “On the Road” movies and fully understood the outrage these movies have caused, especially among the Japanese.
When asked if this were a premeditated, surprise attack, the President said he has ordered a full investigation into the matter but there was no reason to believe that the destruction of much of the United States Navy’s 7th Fleet could be linked to military imperialism in the Pacific.
Sure - the terrorists claim responsibility early on and we wanted to pretend we had no clue it was terrorism. I’m wondering if Zero purposely over-classified the truth of the matter to use it as a hammer if anyone dared speak the truth...
It's not just about terrorism, it's about protecting Islam and sliming America and free speech.
More malarkey!
Throughout our history we have lost our finest men on battlefields in foreign countries...for this?
“—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
It's not just about terrorism, it's about protecting Islam and sliming America and free speech.
Sharia markers and totalitarian treason coming at us. Fast and Furious.
Total crock, indeed. We’re supposed to swallow “We need to convince the terrorists we’re not onto them. I know, let’s call it a ‘spontaneous protest’ in reaction to a YouTube video that’s had five hits over the past six months. We’ll get everybody in the administration to pitch this klunker; the American people and the terrorists are so stupid they’ll both swallow it.”
Wow, keeping this a secret must be the same reason we have not seen any retribution, retaliation, or visible action by the US against those who murdered four American citizens.
This is like giving the enemy a license to kill Americans.
This needs to be the end of the Obama Administration.
Now we’re to believe our enemies are as dumb as our media?
Sadly true, and these sheep do not deserve the country they feed off of. Soon the parasites will bring down the host and then they will blame everyone but themselves.
This entire subject is a feint.
The real issue concerns the who and why of the fact that the U. S. refused to send military help to the victims of the attack.
The who part is so obviously Obama that it isn’t even a stretch. The why needs to be discovered.
I think that I figured out both the who and the why. Like you said, the who has to be Obama. The why is because they were watching the attack in real time from the surveillance cameras inside the compound. They knew that the ambassador was dead and issued a Stand Down, never giving a thought to the rest of the people at the CIA facility a mile away and by the time the second wave of the attack had begun, Obama had gone to bed to make sure that he got his beauty sleep for the campaign trip the next day. Obama slept through the second wave of the attack and his senior advisors, down in the situation room made the decision not to do nothing to rescue the rest of the people in Benghazi, who were still waiting for help to arrive.
My guess is that Clapper was in that situation room and that he is the one who concocted the story about the video, denying that it was an Al Qaeda terror attack because it had been their advice to Obama that persuaded him to prematurely issue the Stand Down. Those advisors were already in CYA mode the night of 9/11.
While Obama didn’t know about the second wave of the attack until the next morning, he most certainly knew that there was no peaceful protest.
You have to remember that to post modernist progressives, truth is a relative term and that everything depends on what the definition of “is” is. One man’s terrorist, is another man’s freedom fighter, …or protester. To the Obama administration, the video is simply symbolic of everything that the West has done to offend the Islamists. To the Obama people, a lie is not a lie, unless it is told by a capitalist conservative.
I agree, the excuse that they deleted the information to keep it classified because they were tracking the Al Qaeda groups is BS. I heard that they were indeed tracking the Al Qaeda group, they were tracking them because they had information that some of the weapons that the US had supplied to Libyan rebels were in the hands of the Al Qaeda group.
There was no need to keep it a secret because the Libyan officials had been saying it since before the attack began. Even if the Obama people did want to keep the Al Qaeda connection a secret, that doesn’t excuse the lie about the video and the peaceful protest. It just doesn’t follow.
They think us stupid at their peril.
this may be nothing more than NYSlimes parsing Patreaus testimony
“the names” of the specific terrorist groups may have been left out; the fact, and the mention that terrorists were behind the attack was not
I guess , like they’ve never heard of Facebook and My’Air’Space and Tweeter
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