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Post by boxcar on Sept 20, 2012 14:36:59 GMT -5
There has been a conflict in the stories over the Benghazi attack. Was it a spontaneous attack or was it a planned terrorist attack?
UN ambassador Rice has stated the attack was spontaneous.
The Libyan authorities state that they gave us a three day warning.
Secretary of State Hilleary Clinton said today that she would not disclose known facts until after the election.
Will the details be brushed under the rug as they were in Fast and Furious? Why was our Libyan ambassador in Benghazi in the first place?
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Post by boxcar on Sept 20, 2012 14:56:12 GMT -5
Guy Benson
2) "Witnesses tell CBS News that there was never an anti-American protest outside of the consulate. Instead, they say it came under planned attack." As I wrote this morning, the administration is at last beginning to acknowledge the latter fact, but the former element is crucial, too. If there really were no protests outside the consulate before the ambush began -- as multiple news outlets are now reporting -- even the premise of the administration's fictional account is false. CBS says the facts on the ground are in "direct contradiction" to the White House's statements. The administration is still saying that the raid could have spun out from spontaneous protests that didn't even exist. (3) "What's clear...is that the public won't get a detailed account of what happened until after the presidential election." This conclusion strongly reinforces several of my theories about the White House's foot-dragging and misdirection on the Benghazi raid. We have a murdered ambassador and sensitive intelligence missing, and the administration is in pure political CYA mode.
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Post by boxcar on Sept 20, 2012 15:13:22 GMT -5
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Post by Swampy on Sept 21, 2012 10:20:55 GMT -5
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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Sept 21, 2012 12:48:38 GMT -5
One would think that with Obama's previous experience with the Islamic world, he would have been better able to assess the results of appearing weak
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Post by boxcar on Sept 21, 2012 15:17:32 GMT -5
And while the attack was ongoing, the United States failed to consider sending in the military, doing so only after Ambassador Chris Stevens was dead. The Pentagon waited for the State Department to make a decision since it oversees diplomatic missions and State doubted the Pentagon could mobilize quickly enough.
(The Libyan administration had warned our State department about the possibility three days previously, and now state says the Pentagon could not ot mobilize quickly enough? This is just more State CYA. The Dept of Justice is incompetent and now it looks like the State Dept is also. I think we need a new administration.)
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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Sept 21, 2012 15:25:35 GMT -5
Just OMO but I think the State Department has been incompetant for a long time.....All the way back to Dom Rep and Vietnam....
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Post by mcnoch on Oct 3, 2012 5:15:37 GMT -5
The cooperation between the local police and the US teams dispatched after the attack are still very difficult. As it is known that the attack was initiated by Sallafists, a radical-conservative stream of the Islamistic movement, it makes is even more complicate for the more moderate Brotherhood to move against these militia groups as it might be seen as treachery of the Isamistic movement as a whole. The New York Times reports that the US government is currently investigating the best possibilities to retaliate against this group without causing too much political out-fall. There are three options: SF troops on the ground try to capture or kill persons responsible for planning and execution of the attack, b) use drones to kill them or c) collaboration with military/police units from Libya.
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Post by boxcar on Oct 8, 2012 13:34:09 GMT -5
The former head of a Special Forces "Site Security Team" in Libya tells CBS News that in spite of multiple pleas from himself and other U.S. security officials on the ground for "more, not less" security personnel, the State Department removed as many as 34 people from the country in the six months before a terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others. Lt. Col. Andy Wood will appear this week at a House Oversight Committee hearing that will examine security decisions leading up to the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi. Speaking to CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson, Wood said when he found out that his own 16-member team and a six-member State Department elite force were being pulled from Tripoli in August - about a month before the assault in Benghazi - he felt, "like we were being asked to play the piano with two fingers. There was concern amongst the entire embassy staff."
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Post by mcnoch on Oct 8, 2012 13:50:40 GMT -5
Indeed, the US Diplomatic Security Service seems to suffer from a number of problems. Taking into account that the British ambassador's motorcade came under attack in the same city and that the building was just a temporary solution not matching the security requirements the level of security should have been higher, even when the security forces are under pressure to the retiring agents and many new hot-spots. www.stratfor.com/weekly/diplomatic-security-light-benghazi
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Post by boxcar on Oct 10, 2012 11:38:19 GMT -5
State Department statement yesterday: >>The State Department said Tuesday it never concluded that the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam<< (raising further questions about why the Obama administration used that explanation for more than a week ) Contrast that with a statement of last month by UN ambassador Rice. (Note audio where it is stated emphatically that it was spontaneous and related to the video) abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/ambassador-susan-rice-libya-attack-not-premeditated/>>CBS says the facts on the ground are in "direct contradiction" to the White House's statements. The administration is still saying that the raid could have spun out from spontaneous protests that didn't even exist.<< “You can fool some of the people some of the time…..” but eventually you are going to get caught.
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Post by boxcar on Oct 14, 2012 13:20:57 GMT -5
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Post by boxcar on Oct 24, 2012 23:36:08 GMT -5
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Post by boxcar on Oct 26, 2012 14:33:43 GMT -5
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Post by boxcar on Nov 13, 2012 15:40:23 GMT -5
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