Posted on 05/22/2014 11:11:00 AM PDT by kristinn
I think it’s possible the DC brass was telling the SEALS there were inbound aircraft in order to get them to laze targets, thereby revealing their positions to the enemy mortar team.
The key armed resistance would be ended, and then Stevens could be kidnapped per the original plan, the better to make Obama the big negotiation swap hero right before his squeaker re-election.
This is a theory, but it would help to explain why the SEALS were designating targets, something that otherwise would be totally illogical.
Why was the White House so blindingly fast in dredging up Nikoula?
Because the entity with the best knowledge of the delicate timing and high stakes involved in Bengazi was again the White House.
It was simple contingency planning.
Spoken as the American people SHOULD speak it: Hillary Clinton is a BAD employee; Barack Obama is a BAD employee. What will it take to make low-information Americans realize that we EMPLOY these people, and we can FIRE them?
It seems to me, based on the time the email was sent, was that the YouTube video scapegoating was part of a contingency plan..
Thanks. That is earlier than I would have guessed. The time zone difference messes me up.
This white house ‘outreach’ to youtube is an attempt to procure a pretext. The deems are liars. There is nothing so low as what they will not do. Once they found the youtube video in question they simply confabulated a cover story around it. That is their story and they are sticking to it.
Who did the “outreach” ? Who sent the email?
Isssa needs to back off th e Benghazi issues and defer to the new Select Committee.
When the attacks were taking place, how many times had the video been viewed on YT? Ten? Twenty times? When I first heard of this video on the afternoon of the 12th or 13th and went to YT to see it there were still less than 10K views.
I find it difficult to believe they truly thought a video had anything to do with the attack. I think they did it to intentionally deceive.
I'm not exactly sure what he meant by that but there must have been recoverable info from Google about when the video was viewed and/or copied. I was yelling at the TV to follow up on that but the TV anchor moved quickly on to their next question, as they so often do.
I also heard a reporter say shortly after the attack that they, or someone, had checked the video stats and there were only a few viewings of the video prior to 9-11.
Are we sure the barbarians over there even know how to access the Internet, much less go to YouTube?
The email was sent at 9:11 EST?
What are the odds of THAT?
“Odd” than none of the moles that want to leak government documents care to expose the smoking gun(s) in Obama’s scandals.
My guess was that this was a standard preemption strategy employed for anything that went wrong in the mid-east: latch onto a localized disgruntlement and obfuscate
” the White House believed it was in retaliation for a controversial video”
No the White house DID NOT genuinely believe the attack was over a video the White House was covering their asses.
This has probably been suggested by others, but just in case it hasn’t, what is the likelihood that the guy who made the video was a CIA cover special ops that went bad?
Why would they have a target designating laser in Benghazi? Because it was part of their defensive plan. Communications always goes to crap in a fight and you fall back on the original plan. The original plan was to use American ground attack aircraft to take out any mortars or artillery attacking the CIA facility. They didn’t follow the plan outside of Benghazi because Obama had surrendered to Al Qaeda.
Good point, and I concede that the entire issue with the film started before and in association ith the issues in Egypt.
Also tieing it to Benghazi was a “target of opportunity,” for them in their own minds.
I still believe, that this administration, as a result of both the Egyptian issues and the Benghazi issues, was itself looking to hang the troubles on something...anything, other than their own clear policy failures, and their misguided (and in my view anti-American interests) foreign policy.
There is no doubt in my mind that Benghazi and this administrations entire debacle with the Muslim Bortherhood in Egypt are tied together at the hip.
And they are covering up for those failings and realities with all of this.
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