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Panetta: Obama Absent Night of Benghazi
Weekly Standard ^

Posted on 02/07/2013 9:53:27 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Panetta: Obama Absent Night of Benghazi Daniel Halper February 7, 2013 12:05 PM

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testified this morning on Capitol Hill that President Barack Obama was absent the night four Americans were murdered in Benghazi on September 11, 2012:

Panetta said that Obama left operational details, including knowledge of what resources were available to help the Americans under siege, "up to us."

In fact, Panetta says that the night of 9/11, he did not communicate with a single person at the White House. The attack resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Panetta said that, save their 5 o'clock prescheduled meeting with the president the day of September 11, Obama did not call or communicate in anyway with the defense secretary that day. There were no calls about what was going on in Benghazi. He never called to check-in.


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To: Sub-Driver

I have maintained from the beginning that Buckwheat was “doin lines” or smoking crack.....we got a crackhead for president.


81 posted on 02/07/2013 10:54:07 AM PST by matthew fuller (Fast and Furious fizzled- Enter Sandy Hook.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Thinking out loud here.... What if Zippy knew in advance all this was going to happen? After all, he is best buds with Erdogan, the Prime Minister of Turkey. I bet Erdogan knew his diplomat was going to Benghazi on 9/11 to meet with the American ambassador.

And no-one thought to call Biden in a time of terrorism against our nation? Since Zippy had made himself unavailable somehow?? What effing president gets to make himself unavailable during a time of crisis? Only a president who knew full well what was going to happen in advance. including the ill conceived trip to Vegas the next day.

he chooses to look stupid and incompetent, in order to hide his real intentions. Which is running weapons to the Muslim Brotherhood slash Al Qaeda in Syria via Turkey.


82 posted on 02/07/2013 10:56:25 AM PST by bergmeid (I told you so - now pass the ammo.)
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To: Sub-Driver

So Hillary wasn’t around, obama wasn’t around....who told the CIA people to stand down? Panetta? Dempsey? Ham?


83 posted on 02/07/2013 10:59:56 AM PST by Girlene
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To: kcvl

>>> “So it’s the State Department’s fault?”

“I’m not blaming the State Department,” Dempsey responded. <<<

Petraeus testified, it was not CIA’s fault either.


84 posted on 02/07/2013 10:59:56 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sub-Driver
0bama's cult of LIV (low information voters), Marxists, welfare queens, and media sycophants will say: What difference does it make?

This bastard should be impeached, convicted and sent to Leavenworth.

5.56mm

85 posted on 02/07/2013 11:02:22 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Sub-Driver


IRANIAN-BORN VALERIE JARRETT


"Well- let me commend you...."
"No no! - let me double-commend you!"



86 posted on 02/07/2013 11:03:05 AM PST by devolve ( -------- ------ --It's not where Obama was born that's the problem - it's where he's living now--)
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To: Sub-Driver

No Word from Hillary During Benghazi Attack

Panetta, Dempsey did not speak to Clinton.

12:55 PM, Feb 7, 2013 • By MICHAEL WARREN

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/no-word-hillary-during-benghazi-attack_700410.html


87 posted on 02/07/2013 11:06:24 AM PST by sheikdetailfeather (Yuri Bezmenov (KGB Defector) - "Kick The Communists Out of Your Govt. & Don't Accept Their Goodies.")
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To: bergmeid

Sounds plausible.

I think they should have the families of Tyrone Woods and Glenn Doherty standing in front of these people when they testify, so they have to at least THINK about the cost of their treason.

I am so angry. I better just be quiet or I’m going to say something I regret. These steaming piles of dog poop aren’t fit to shine the shoes of our faithful military people - and here they are galavanting off as if those lives weren’t worth the effort it takes to get up off the toilet. @#$&%$&@&*


88 posted on 02/07/2013 11:06:24 AM PST by butterdezillion
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To: annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; Nachum; onyx; ...
It is time for them to go. To hell if possible as fast as possible.

Anyone wanting on or off this ping list, please advise.


Benghazi Index

89 posted on 02/07/2013 11:06:49 AM PST by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

You are 100% correct. I’ll take Biden any day. I don’t think he would dare TRY to get away with the stuff obama does. Now I’m wishing Biden would turn on zero for a shot at the presidency.


90 posted on 02/07/2013 11:08:41 AM PST by jersey117
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To: kcvl


IRANIAN-BORN VALERIE JARRETT


"Well- let me commend you...."
"No no! - let me double-commend you!"



91 posted on 02/07/2013 11:09:29 AM PST by devolve ( -------- ------ --It's not where Obama was born that's the problem - it's where he's living now--)
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To: All

I think Carl Levin just addressed Panetta’s statement that obama was not around - I thought he mentioned his staff was in contact with white house staff - what did other people hear Panetta say?


92 posted on 02/07/2013 11:11:45 AM PST by Girlene
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To: austinaero

The left still likes to make it see like Bush was totally out to lunch because he happened to be at that school when the attacks happened.

Obama literally wasn’t even in charge when this took place!


93 posted on 02/07/2013 11:15:04 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: austinaero

The left still likes to make it see like Bush was totally out to lunch because he happened to be at that school when the attacks happened.

Obama literally wasn’t even in charge when this took place!


94 posted on 02/07/2013 11:15:04 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Sub-Driver

Barry was at the Bathhouse getting a “steam”.


95 posted on 02/07/2013 11:15:28 AM PST by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: Sub-Driver

King Bammy only sits in the photo ops when he can get the glory like killing Osama. When our ambassador and his team were in dire conditions he can’t even be connected in by high tech networks? Bulls sheets on this one.


96 posted on 02/07/2013 11:15:44 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: wetgundog

Q: Why did the First Undocumented Moslem-Communist
sleep so well that night?

A: Because he KNEW that MANPADs and WMD were FINALLY
on their way to al Qaeda, the Moslem Brotherhood,
Iran and his other controllers and terrorist-friends.


97 posted on 02/07/2013 11:18:03 AM PST by Diogenesis (De Oppresso Liber)
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To: Sir Napsalot

“Petraeus testified, it was not CIA’s fault either.”

It was nobody’s fault! It ‘just happened’...I bet Bush would have liked to have that explanation accepted when he was President.

None of these liberals are ever responsible for anything, ever! Just ask them.

Panetta on Benghazi: We did “everything we could”

Tell that to the family of four dead Americans, jerk!


98 posted on 02/07/2013 11:24:01 AM PST by kcvl
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To: munin
...seems I remembe reports of Obama beein present and watching the live stream video from Bengazi on 911, anybody knows better?

I remember the same report. Don't have time to look for it.

99 posted on 02/07/2013 11:24:24 AM PST by WVNan
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To: VanDeKoik

Asked by Graham if he was “stunned” that Clinton was unaware of an August cable from slain Ambassador Chris Stevens saying the consulate wouldn’t be able to withstand a coordinated attack, Dempsey said he was “surprised.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57568199/panetta-on-benghazi-we-did-everything-we-could/


100 posted on 02/07/2013 11:27:13 AM PST by kcvl
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