Obama: Attacks On Susan Rice For Repeatedly Lying To The American Public About Benghazi “Puzzling To Me”… She knew (along with the rest of the administration) it was a pre-planned terror attack and that there were no protests preceding the assault, then went on several Sunday talk shows and swore up and down it was the result of a protest gone awry… and GOP attacks on her because of this “puzzles” him? Via Red Alert Politics: During an extremely rare interview with Meet the Press on Sunday, President Barack Obama told host David Gregory that he was still puzzled by the attacks on U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, calling them purely partisan. Rice drew criticism this fall after she repeatedly, incorrectly named an anti-Islamic YouTube video as the cause of the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens and three other Americans. “Why she was targeted individually for this kind of attacks that she was subjected to is – was – puzzling to me,” Obama said in the interview, “and I was very clear in the days after those attacks that they weren’t acceptable.” “In the politics and the back and forth in this, do you feel like you let your friend Susan Rice out there to dry a little bit,” Gregory asked Obama. “No… She appeared on a number of television shows reporting what she and we understood to be the best information at the time. This was a politically motivated attack on her,” Obama said. “I mean, of all the people in my national security team, she probably had the least to do with anything that happened in Benghazi.
Senate Report Confirms Obama Lied When He Linked Benghazi To Mohammed Film On September 18th… Not that the MSM will call him on it. (CNSNews.com) – Three days after CIA and State Department eyewitnesses reported on Sept. 15 that there had been no protest in Benghazi, Libya, before terrorists attacked the U.S. diplomatic mission and a CIA facility there on Sept. 11, President Barack Obama and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney both publicly linked the attacks, which killed four Americans, to protests against an anti-Muslim video that had been posted on YouTube. Carney did it at the White House press briefing on Tuesday, Sept. 18, and Obama did it later that same day in a taped interview with David Letterman. However, according to a new report by the Senate Homeland Security Committee, personnel working at the CIA “Annex” in Benghazi on Sept. 11 reported on Sept. 15 that there had been no protest in Benghazi that day, and State Department security personnel who survived the Benghazi attacks told FBI interviewers on Sept. 15 and Sept. 16 that they, too, had seen no evidence of any protest before the attacks. At the White House briefing on Sept. 18, Carney said that there was a protest in Benghazi on Sept. 11 against the anti-Muslim YouTube video and that the attacks there were “sparked” by protests. Obama, appearing on David Letterman’s show that same day, instantly referred to the video and called its maker a “shadowy character” when Letterman asked him what had happened in Benghazi.
White House During Benghazi 7 Hour Seige Home - by Claudia - January 4, 2013 - 20:30 America/New_York - 35 Comments Help Request – White House 9-11-12 Photo During Benghazi 7 Hour Seige…. ? by sundance from The Conservative Treehouse The White House has refused repeated attempts by journalists to produce pictures of President Obama and his team in the White House Situation Room during the 9-11 Benghazi terrorist attacks [3:30pm to 11:00pm Eastern Time]. Personally, after researching the offical reports minute by minute, and comparing them to the media released statements, I believe the Situation Room was empty. Today the White House released this picture taken on 9-11-12. It was included in a White House FLICKR Album “The Year In Pictures“. You Decide: (Sept. 11, 2012) – ”Denis McDonough, Deputy National Security Advisor, left, updates the President and Vice President on the situation in the Middle East and North Africa. National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and Chief of Staff Jack Lew are at right.” (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) A couple of notes: It’s twilight outside, so this is close to sunset on September 11th. The vehicles are noted through the window and you can tell it is twilight. Sunset Was 7:22pm, with end of civil twilight at 7:49pm on Sept 11th 2012. The metadata embedd shows the picture was taken at 7:26pm. So this picture was taken four hours after the fire-fight started, and they are NOT in the “situation room”. We know the video & audio feed from the Benghazi faux-State Dept. Consulate was live; So, simultaneous to this photograph it was 1:26am Benghazi Time. That is the exact time (01:30am) the rescue team of Navy SEAL’s Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty arrived back in the CIA annex with the body of Sean Smith.
Benghazi, Four Months Out-No Justice, No Response, Jihadis Celebrating, Taunting U.S. Via The Weekly Standard: On September 21, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke to reporters before a meeting with the Pakistani foreign minister. She addressed the September 11 assault on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya. “What happened was a terrorist attack, and we will not rest until we have tracked down and brought to justice the terrorists who murdered four Americans.” Clinton’s statement was notable. It was the strongest and most direct assessment of the attacks from any Obama administration official in the first 10 days after the deaths. By calling the incident a “terrorist attack,” Clinton acknowledged what President Obama had gone out of his way to avoid. The second part of Clinton’s comment generated little interest. Her vow to bring to justice the perpetrators of the attacks was the kind of perfunctory promise we expect to hear from any politician after any attack, particularly one so brazen. Of course it would be a top priority of the Obama administration and its lead diplomat to understand the attacks and punish those who committed them. Yet four months later, Clinton’s promise is notable precisely because it has gone unfulfilled. No one has been “brought to justice”—a fact that seems unlikely to change anytime soon. “We’re not even close,” says one U.S. official involved in the investigation. And jihadists in the region, no doubt emboldened by the lack of U.S. response to the attacks, have taken to taunting the American investigators and celebrating U.S. feebleness. Washington has very little to show for its investigation of the Ben-ghazi attacks. One leading suspect is in custody—Egyptian custody—and we’re being denied access to him. Another sipped a strawberry frappe in the lobby of a luxury hotel in Benghazi as he told a New York Times reporter that he felt no need to hide from the United States. And when a third suspect was freed from a Tunisian prison earlier this month, the U.S. government was given no warning, but extremists belonging to an al Qaeda-linked group apparently had advance notice.
Benghazi Hearings – The Star Witness Home - by BigFurHat - January 22, 2013 - 20:15 America/New_York - 19 Comments Ambassador Stevens will be front and center at the Benghazi hearings through a cable sent to Hillary Clinton only hours before his death. Washington Guardian The Washington Guardian obtained a copy of the memo, a weekly summary of events in Libya dated just hours before a band of terrorists struck the unofficial U.S. consulate in Benghazi and a nearby annex building where the CIA operated, killing the ambassador and three other Americans. Stevens’ cable is likely to become a central focus of congressional hearings that begin Wednesday — hearings where Clinton will be pressed to explain why security for diplomats in the region wasn’t increased in the weeks before the attack and why so much reliance was placed on local security forces with dubious loyalties. Stevens’ concerns about militia security were previously mentioned by news outlets such as The Daily Beast, but the full details of the diplomatic cable and the exact language Stevens used to alert his bosses in Washington show the State Department had plenty reason to know the city he was visiting was in violent disarray and that there was growing distrust of the security capabilities of local police and militias. The document described a “state of maximum alert” that had just ended a few days earlier in the city, detailed “extra-judicial killings” of Libyan government officials that were ongoing in the vicinity, reported on a deadly car bombing, and noted the destruction of power lines that blacked out part of the region. One Libya security commander “expressed growing frustration with police and security forces” and suggested local security was “too weak to keep the country secure,” the memo said. The cable also warned that Salafists had engaged in a gun battle at a Muslim shrine less than 22 miles (35 kilometers) outside Benghazi three days earlier, killing three and injuring seven. Stevens specifically flagged concerns about official security exposed by that incident, saying a militia brigade sent to protect the shrine was “late responding” and some Salafist members in the brigade “were actually fighting against local residents in support of efforts to destroy the shrine.”
New Report Condemns Obama, State Dept On Actions Before And After The Attack In Benghazi Four months and counting… Via WFB: Government watchdog Judicial Watch released a report Tuesday criticizing the State Department’s and President Barack Obama’s actions both before and after the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in which United States Amb. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed. “The September 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi resulted from a wide range of strategic and tactical failures by State Department officials,” according to the report. “Chief among them was the fateful decision to circumvent established security regulations by designating the diplomatic post in Benghazi a ‘Special Mission Compound,’ ignoring repeated requests for additional security resources by Diplomatic Security personnel on the ground.” The report also criticized the State Department for being “well aware of the escalating violence in Benghazi and the political threat it posed to the U.S mission there.” The report criticized the president and administration officials for continued insistence that the attack was triggered by “an obscure Internet video.” “Our concern is that security has taken a back seat to politics at the State Department,” stated Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton in a press release. “The willingness of the State Department and the White House to lie about the Benghazi attack does not inspire confidence that the Benghazi security failures will be seriously addressed. In the meantime, our diplomatic personnel may remain at risk as politicians and bureaucrats avoid accountability.” The press release also notes “Judicial Watch has more than 10 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests pending with various executive departments and agencies seeking records relating to the Benghazi attack.”
W had seven years to get the guy responsible for the original 9-11.....the worst attack on continental American soil in history and fortunately for him Obama stayed the course and got Bush's man. This whole thing puzzles me too and smacks of political zealousness that the GOP is so known for these days and is one the biggest reasons I despise them. Like Hillary said..... WTF difference does it make what they called it....the 4 deaths occurred before any white house statements about what caused them! Hussein was said by the Bush Administration to have weapons of mass destruction or so it was said and thousands upon thousands of Americans died over that little lie......and they died because of the lie..... :roll:
The bastards watched the killings in real time. They had special forces in Italy that could have tried to rescue the besieged. One of the former SEALS was up on the roof "painting" the attackers with infrared expecting air support. The lying bastards did nothing to help them. The ambassador had asked for increased security in the months before the attack but the administration that pisses away billions on phony "green" companies like Solindra couldn't find it in the budget to protect them. What difference does it make now???? And if any left supporters want to keep score, the lies Johnson told and the whole Gulf of Tonkin **** resulted in many more deaths in Vietnam. The delusional left never is accountable and when someone calls them on it its always "political zealousness."
:roll: Then they covered it all up to get past the election with a lying story about a film that had never even been shown in the Middle-East. All these months later, the only one in jail is the innocent film maker...
This is one of our nation's darkest moments. And liberals could not care less. Hillary's performance the other day was a disgrace.
Well you'd never find any real news in the liberal main stream media. You don't think the embassy reported the attack? You don't think that we have special forces in Italy. Or YOU DON"T THINK!
The fact that you and many other hard right wingers actually believe that is downright scary. Been snowmobiling lately up at your Michigan thumb hideout/house? :lol:
You're one of the few people around that would assign a laughing face emoticon to this topic. You're really ****** up.
Just laughing about the ridiculous.....preposterous.... dangerous....paranoid notion that the mainstream media can no longer report factual news but unabashed right wing bloggers and media talking heads do. Excuse me for not accepting as fact those arguments or statements made by Judicial Watch...... a conservative watchdog group. You gotta be kidding me. :roll: I should just counter by saying...."that's not how Bill Maher sees it".... etc. etc.
From the official report of the Accountability Review Board on the Benghazi incident.....the Secretary of State was incompetent, failed to provide adequate management and leadership and responses to repeated calls for additional security for Embassy personnel and our Ambassador and 3 others were murdered in our diplomatic compound. She should have resigned herself or the President should have asked for her resignation....the murder of an ambassador in the Embassy compound as a result of her incompetence and lack of leadership is a national disgrace. Obama and his advisors lied and misled the public as to the cause of the attacks and performance of his adminstration so as not to risk his chances prior the election.....another national disgrace and inexcusable. With these people, it's all about appearances and the politics. National security and our status as a world power appears to be a secondary concern..... http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/202446.pdf
That should have been front page news in the New York Times....in fact, it would have been if Bush had been president. They bury stories like that of hide them behind Candy Crowley.
....and the lead on every news broadcast. I can only imagine the coverage of this issue had Bush been in office. Even the most objective observer must cringe at the state the media bias.... As it stands, the main stream media lauds her performance in the hearings, she rides off into the sunset to write a book, collect $millions$ in royalties and appearance fees and prepares her campaign organization for the 2016 run.....disgusting