Posted on 05/02/2014 5:46:40 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.
Baier has another Special Report airing tonight and a couple more times over the weekend.
My son at 19 years old is in the AIR Guard, Top Secret clearance, well spoken, well enter college in the FALL. He is more qualified than Vietor.
The National Security Advisor... was a fiction writer, with zero international experience...
Unreal.
(We could go on... Obama's Science Advisor, John Holdren, wrote in 1969, "if the population control measures are not initiated immediately, and effectively, all the technology man can bring to bear will not fend off the misery to come." (zero confidence in science and technology and American innovation... but a firm love of government control)... And in 1973, Holdren encouraged a decline in fertility to well below replacement in the United States, because "210 million now is too many and 280 million in 2040 is likely to be much too many." (We passed 280 million in 2000, in 27 years not 67, and we still have plentiful food and resources... so he was horribly wrong on population growth prediction, and he was just as wrong on population sustaining... and he is the Science Advisor to the President...)
At first, I when I heard what Vietor said, I though he was whistle blowing. Then I heard the interview and thought, WOW, this guys is actually trying to help the administration. Now he could be the subject of a criminal cover-up. Maybe Obama is not so dumb sending out a F*tard to FOX to deflect the cover-up.
As I’ve posted before, the entire Benghazi operation has only nibbled around the edges. By the time all the facts emerge, Barry will be living in his beachfront estate in Hawaii, having become a multi-millionaire from giving speeches at $400,000 a pop.
So many unanswered questions, and the GOP efforts to get answers have often resembled a blind hog in search of an acorn. Here are just a few matters that remain unresolved:
- Thanks to “Dude” Vietor, we have confirmation that Zero was not in the White House situation room that night. That leads to the logical question: who was running the show? An American embassy is under attack; our ambassador is missing and someone is supposed to be in charge at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
- What were the comms that night? In this era of secure video teleconference capabilities, chat, e-mail and all the other tools of the digital age, there had to be a stream of communications between the White House, State Department, the Pentagon and military elements in Europe and the Middle East. Who was talking to whom? Based on yesterday’s testimony, we can assume that Brigadier General Lovell was present in Stuggart (AFRICOM HQ). Who else was in the “battle cab” that night, and what was said between General Ham, and his superiors in D.C.?
- Where were SecDef Panetta and General Dempsey? They coversation with the Commander-in-Chief (as part of a 5 pm, scheduled meeting on 11 September) started the “official” Washington reaction. We know that Obama was missing in action after that, but what about his defense secretary and chairman of the joint chiefs? As far as I can tell, there whereabouts after the 5 pm meeting have never been established.
- And what about Hillary Clinton? She was traveling in the Far East, but a cabinet official on the road has secure comm capabilities as well. There was nothing to keep her from participating in a continuous conference call, but (as far as we know), her conversations on Benghazi (on 11 September 2012) were limited to a brief phone call with the POTUS around 10 pm eastern time.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what actually transpired. All key players in the national security chain (including the President) knew the Benghazi consulate was the center of an arms-running operation to the Syrian rebels. Early reports were probably bad—in fact, no one has bothered to check on FLASH/CRITIC reporting from NSA that likely preceded the Panetta/Dempsey meeting with the president. The military advisers confirmed that it would take “a while” to mount a rescue operation, but there was also great concern about exposing the covert ops being run out of the consulate. And of course, the president was up for re-election in less than two months, and a successful terror attack in Libya went against the theme that Al Qaida was on the run.
So, the President went to his quarters; Hillary went comm out, the gang at Foggy Bottom dawdled and the Pentagon kept waiting for someone to make a decision. Meanwhile, four good men died, and the collective might of the United States of America sent a Predator drone to provide overwatch, and record the final moments of their lives.
Did I mention that Congress (as far as I can tell) has never acquired a copy of that UAV video, and a member of the drone unit told Sean Hannity—months ago—that he (and other members of his squadron) were never questioned about what they observed or recorded that night?
“Dude, what difference does it make?”
“Then there is Valerie Jarrett, who appears to be running the country while Obama plays golf, shoots hoops, parties, and has “downtime,” as Michelle Obama recently called it, with his family, watching TV.” from the Thinker article.
Why did I feel much more confident when Al Haig was running the white house while Nixon was battling Watergate?
Vietor is the equivalent of Josh Steiner...the Clinton official who told a Senate committee that “he lied to his diary.”
Wasn't Haig running the WH when Reagan was shot?
“Ben Rhodes .....Rhodes had just earned a master’s degree in fiction writing ....
Saw Vietor (the “van driver”) with Baier last night .... juvenile and disgraceful, frankly ... and obviously lying his @ss off.”
Obama needs to keep these token white guys around to make the minorities on his staff look smart by comparison.
Dude!!! I saw it and thought Vietor was fairly effective.
Dooooooood!!!
Tommy Vietor’s journey with Obama: From van driver to National Security Council spokesman
By Jonathan Karl, Richard Coolidge, and Jordyn Phelps March 6, 2013 7:28 AM Power Players
Politics Confidential
Tommy Vietor started working for Barack Obama when he was still Senator Obama—well before he became a presidential candidate—and until Friday, the 32-year-old Vietor hadn’t stopped. His first job for Obama was as the driver of a press van, and he rose up the ranks through the 2008 campaign, and then the White House press office, to become the National Security Council spokesman.
Now leaving the White House to open a political communications firm with the president’s departing speechwriter Jon Favreau, Vietor says it’s been the privilege of a lifetime to work for the president.
“It’s been kind of a front seat at some historic events—killing bin Laden, ending the Iraq war, a whole bunch of things—so it’s been extraordinary,” Vietor says.
The longtime Obama staffer says it’s not without some sadness that he moves on, recalling a recent conversation he had with the president.
“I said ‘Sir, you know, talking about it, and I feel it’s a little sad to be leaving,’ and he was like ‘what do you mean sad for you?’ he said, ‘it’s sad for me! You guys are you know, ditching me’,” Vietor recalls to Politics Confidential of his conversation with the president. “But you know I think he’s excited. The turnover is good for the administration, for him, get some new faces in there, new energy.”
Of all the memories that Vietor takes with him, his best was being with then-candidate Obama when he won the Iowa caucus in the 2008 campaign.
“We went to a caucus location that day, I went with him. We saw these huge lines of people out to vote, or caucus,” Vietor recalls. “You could sort of feel there was a palpable sense, there was something building you know we were getting calls in from all the people in the field about the numbers they were seeing, and it was, you know, the culmination of a year-long process to build this grassroots campaign. It was extraordinary.”
Haig of course made the famous “I am in control” comment which the press quickly changed to I am in “charge” quote trying to make him look like a meglio maniac. He was secretary of state under Reagan for a short time and he and the Gipper disagreed on foreign policy issues, so he left.
Gen Haig IMO was one of the last great general officers politicians this country produced, again IMO.
I recall he was accused of having sent “assassination squads to central america to kill nuns” by the lefties. He pointed out in an interview about it, his sister was a nun in that country so he undercut that baseless accusation entirely.
Ambassador Bolton said I love children; but I will not put them in charge of foreign policy.
How is possible that the American people voted twice for somebody whose only qualifications in life was to be a community (communist) agitator? Will Al Sharpton , or Rev Wright be the next U.S. president?
If only he’d been asked the next logical question—where was Reggie Love that evening?
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