http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/threatmatrix/ en-us Sat, 25 May 2013 20:44:58 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023825/posts The complexity of Washington scandals as they unfold usually involves many moments at which it is possible to lose sight of the forest for the trees. Two such instances have come into sharper relief in recent weeks. One is that we still have no good explanation for U.N. ambassador Susan Rice’s talking points for her round of talk show appearances the Sunday after the 9/11/12 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi. A second is that focusing on the question of whether the loss of four lives there could have been avoided is actually a clever diversion from a... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023825/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 20:44:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3023750/posts This week the AP reported the United States government knows who are responsible for the murders of Americans at the U.S. Mission in Benghazi. Despite Mr. Obama’s promise to punish the terrorists he is doing nothing. Talk is cheap. The White house resident could easily order armed drones to target these thugs but he doesn’t. This is a feckless President whose inaction can be easily explained by the Limbaugh theorem. If he gave the order to kill the terrorists, Obama would be seen as governing. Should anything go wrong he just might have to accept responsibility. Such a possibility is... Coach is Right http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3023750/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 15:23:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023017/posts Three U.S. senators have identified the missing parts of the response to the Benghazi terror attack. In a statement, Senators Kelly Ayotte, Lindsey Graham, and John McCain list "What We Do Not Know" about Benghazi: · We do not know whether the President was made aware of the classified cable that, according to published media reports, Ambassador Chris Stevens sent in August 2012, stating that the U.S. Mission in Benghazi could not survive a sustained assault from one or more of the threatening militia groups that were operating in eastern Libya. · We do not know whether the President’s national... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023017/posts#comment Thu, 23 May 2013 16:07:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022434/posts Voters think President Obama could have done more to help the Americans at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya when it was being attacked, according to a Fox News poll. In addition, a majority says the Obama administration is trying to cover-up what happened there. The new poll, released Tuesday, shows 62 percent of voters think Obama could have done more to help those at the consulate in Benghazi on the night of the attack. Even Democrats are about equally likely to say the president could have done more (44 percent) as to say he did all he could (43... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022434/posts#comment Wed, 22 May 2013 12:18:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022461/posts The White House Counsel’s office advised senior Obama officials to keep quiet about the attack in Benghazi during the weeks preceding last year’s November presidential election, according to two administration sources. BuzzFeed has learned that key members of President Obama’s national security team, including deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes, pushed to release a comprehensive timeline of events documenting the attack that would also synthesize the views of the various government agencies into one report. The CIA also wanted the White House to put out such a timeline, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. Buzzfeed http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022461/posts#comment Wed, 22 May 2013 13:21:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3022328/posts At the risk of being investigated by the by the Gestap---er,uh---, Infernal Revenue "Service" (no typo), I bid you greetings, fellow patriots. Just for fun and an undying thirst for the truth, let's talk about the infiltration of of radical Islamonazis of the State Of Confusion Department under Hitlery Clinton, friend of the PLO and Hamas. Now before we get started, a little housekeeping is in order. I am not a conspiracy theorist. I'm not an Alex Jones groupie. I'm not a Paultard who blames Mossad or the CIA for 9/11/01 between bong hits. I'm simply an observant person who... Alan Levy, gun owner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3022328/posts#comment Wed, 22 May 2013 02:02:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022197/posts <p>WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — U.S. officials say they have identified five men they believe might be behind the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year. The officials say they have enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists — but not enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court as the Obama administration prefers.</p> TheBlaze.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022197/posts#comment Tue, 21 May 2013 19:59:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022152/posts Will Rogers, the great humorist, once said, “If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.” If you injected truth into the teleprompter during one of Obama’s speeches, there would be nothing left but an empty chair. Fourteen days after the September 11, 2012 attacks, Obama appeared at the United Nations to deliver a eulogy for the man he had not troubled to save and to declare that the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. Obama denounced the “crude and disgusting video” that had “sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world” and... FrontPageMag.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022152/posts#comment Tue, 21 May 2013 18:10:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022182/posts More whistleblowers will emerge shortly in the escalating Benghazi scandal, according to two former U.S. diplomats who spoke with PJ Media Monday afternoon. These whistleblowers, colleagues of the former diplomats, are currently securing legal counsel because they work in areas not fully protected by the Whistleblower law. According to the diplomats, what these whistleblowers will say will be at least as explosive as what we have already learned about the scandal, including details about what really transpired in Benghazi that are potentially devastating to both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The former diplomats inform PJM the new revelations concentrate in... http://pjmedia.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022182/posts#comment Tue, 21 May 2013 19:14:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022052/posts With three full-blown scandals currently surrounding the Obama administration, there are too many “-gates” to name just one. There is the cover-up of the fatal Benghazi terrorist attack, the IRS targeting conservatives, and the Justice Department spying on members of the press. The level of corruption is so high right now it is like Saul Alinsky is running the White House. Alinsky, the radical activist who wrote Rules for Radicals, which he dedicated to Satan, taught the radical left to use dishonest tactics in order to achieve their agenda – “by any means necessary.” He advocated lying and harassing those... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022052/posts#comment Tue, 21 May 2013 14:54:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022036/posts May 21, 2013 New whistleblowers coming forward on Benghazi? Ed Morrissey At the end of the Benghazi hearing in the House Oversight Committee almost two weeks ago,chair Darrell Issa welcomed anyone else with knowledge of what happened before, during, and after the terrorist attack on the consulate to come forward and testify. According to PJ Media founder Roger L. Simon, that may happen soon. Two former diplomats told Simon that their colleagues have specific knowledge, but need legal protection before they can tell more of the story — and there is more to tell: According to the diplomats, what these... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022036/posts#comment Tue, 21 May 2013 14:25:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021938/posts More whistleblowers will emerge shortly in the escalating Benghazi scandal, according to two former U.S. diplomats who spoke with PJ Media Monday afternoon. These whistleblowers, colleagues of the former diplomats, are currently securing legal counsel because they work in areas not fully protected by the Whistleblower law. According to the diplomats, what these whistleblowers will say will be at least as explosive as what we have already learned about the scandal, including details about what really transpired in Benghazi that are potentially devastating to both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. snip... Stevens’ mission in Benghazi, they will say, was to... PJ Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021938/posts#comment Tue, 21 May 2013 08:01:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021848/posts Grief and politics don't mix. When raw, aching grief and the dirtiest kind of politics meet, a hot volcano of pain and outrage erupts that is unstoppable. But it is necessary. It is the only way things might ever be clean again. I am thinking of recent casket transfer ceremonies that have taken place at Dover Air Force Base, where senior administration officials have used the solemn occasions -- Benghazi, the shoot-down of Extortion 17 -- less to comfort grieving families than to lay blame; to establish a narrative; to lie. Think of Sean Smith's mother. Think of Tyrone Woods'... Town Hall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021848/posts#comment Tue, 21 May 2013 00:48:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021822/posts Benghazigate: The lack of a timeline for what the commander-in-chief was doing the night terrorists murdered our ambassador to Libya and three others is an "irrelevant fact," according to a key White House aide. Playing the role Sunday of former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who last Sept. 16 went on all five talk shows to parrot the administration line that Benghazi was provoked by a video, was White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer. Following in Rice's footsteps, he announced that the details of where President Obama was and what he was doing that fateful night were an "irrelevant fact." "Fox... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021822/posts#comment Mon, 20 May 2013 23:05:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021705/posts South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy has a prosecutorial demeanor, which is focused on the emerging Obama administration scandals. Gowdy’s experience of prosecuting an “America’s Most Wanted” suspect before coming to Congress makes him a valuable truth-seeker in the House of Representatives. Now, as a member of the oversight and judiciary committees, he has a front-row seat to ask questions of critical witnesses, as he did in the most recent Benghazi hearing. Some Democrats blame inadequate congressional funding for diplomatic security for last year’s terrorist attack against America’s consulate in Benghazi, but Gowdy says that’s just not so. Daily Caller http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021705/posts#comment Mon, 20 May 2013 18:19:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021748/posts Raymond Maxwell, the only official at the bureau of Near Eastern Affairs to lose his job tells Josh Rogin that he’s been scapegoated by Hillary Clinton’s team. Following the attack in Benghazi, senior State Department officials close to Hillary Clinton ordered the removal of a mid-level official who had no role in security decisions and has never been told the charges against him. He is now accusing Clinton’s team of scapegoating him for the failures that led to the death of four Americans last year. The Daily Beast http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021748/posts#comment Mon, 20 May 2013 20:02:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021475/posts See the video of the exchange via the link DAN PFEIFFER, SENIOR WHITE HOUSE ADVISOR: The point that our Chief of Staff is making is that this is the Republican playbook here which is try, when they don't have a positive agenda, try to drag Washington into a swamp of partisan fishing expeditions, trumped up hearings and false allegations. We're not going to let that distract us and the President from actually doing the people's work and fighting for the middle class. BOB SCHIEFFER, HOST: You know, I don’t want to compare this in any way to Watergate. I do... News Busters - CBS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021475/posts#comment Mon, 20 May 2013 01:42:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3021427/posts A senior adviser to President Obama mounted a combative defense of the administration on Sunday, saying that the controversies enveloping the White House were the result of Republican lawmakers trying to “drag Washington into a swamp of partisan fishing expeditions, trumped-up hearings and false allegations.” The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3021427/posts#comment Sun, 19 May 2013 21:47:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3021348/posts Israel Radio reported this morning (Sunday) that the United States has apologized to Israel for disclosing that Israel was behind the strikes on Damascus two weeks ago. According to the report, the decision to disclose that Israel was behind the strikes was made at a low level in the Pentagon, and the US Department of Defense is investigating how that happened. According to the report, Israel believes that it is now facing much stronger threats from Bashar al-Assad as a result of the disclosure. Israel Matzav http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3021348/posts#comment Sun, 19 May 2013 17:07:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021318/posts May 19, 2013 It DoesnÂ’t Matter Where Obama was While Benghazi Happened, Says Obama Aide Daniel Greenfield Only crazy conspiracy theorists think that the Commander-in-Chief’s presence and attention count when an American diplomatic facility is under siege.VIDEO According to Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer, Obama’s whereabouts during the attack don’t matter. Oddly enough Bush taking the time to finish reading a children’s book to a class of nervous children did. WALLACE: with all due respect, you didn’t answer my question. what did the president do that night?PFEIFFER: kept up to date with the events as they were happening.WALLACE: he didn’t talk... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021318/posts#comment Sun, 19 May 2013 15:24:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021170/posts Military Response Questioned in Benghazi Attack The latest Congressional hearing on the attack at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya focused on whether the U.S. military could have responded more quickly to end the assault. (May 8) WASHINGTON (AP) — Steady drips of information about a horrific night in Libya are fueling Republican arguments and ads designed to fire up the conservative base and undercut the Democrats' early favorite for president in 2016.Strategists in both parties disagree on the issue's power to influence elections next year and beyond. But after eight months of trying, Democrats are still struggling to move... yahoo.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021170/posts#comment Sun, 19 May 2013 00:23:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021124/posts WASHINGTON (AP) — The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute. Why was a diplomatic outpost left so poorly protected? Should the Pentagon have rushed jets or special forces to the rescue when the assault began? Did President Barack Obama's administration obscure the true nature of the terrorist attack to help him get re-elected? Congressional Republicans are poking for evidence of incompetence and cover-up in the ashes of the Sept. 11 anniversary attack.... Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021124/posts#comment Sat, 18 May 2013 21:55:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021118/posts What would you be focusing on in the Benghazi investigation?” I spent many years in the investigation biz, so it’s only natural that I’ve been asked that question a lot lately.… So if I were investigating Benghazi, I’d be homing in on that 10 P.M. phone call. That’s the one between President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — the one that’s gotten close to zero attention.... We have heard almost nothing about what Obama was doing that night. Back in February, though, CNS News did manage to pry one grudging disclosure out of White House mendacity mogul Jay... NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021118/posts#comment Sat, 18 May 2013 21:20:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021117/posts “The day after it happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism.” — President Obama, remarks at a news conference, May 13, 2013 Once again, it appears that we must parse a few presidential words. We went through this question at length during the 2012 election, but perhaps a refresher course is in order. Notably, during a debate with Republican nominee Mitt Romney, President Obama said that he immediately told the American people that the killing of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya “was an act of terror.” But now he says he called it... Wa Po http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021117/posts#comment Sat, 18 May 2013 21:20:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020968/posts --snipp- Strange says they made his son, a SEAL Team Six Special Forces serviceman, a target. "How'd they know 10 days after killing bin Laden that it was SEAL Team Six? It was our government. Our government did that, put a tag on my son's back. They marked him," Strange said. "My son never had a chance to get married. So, I want some answers." Strange says his main goal is to convince Congress to launch an investigation. MyFoxPhilly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020968/posts#comment Sat, 18 May 2013 13:25:54 GMT