Posted on 05/10/2013 7:33:49 AM PDT by Springfield Reformer
What is Sen. Tom Coburn getting at here?
Oklahoma senator Tom Coburn revealed that he believes “the State Department has real trouble” after yesterday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on Benghazi, but said this morning that, at the moment, he can’t reveal why.
“Having sat on the Intelligence Committee and seen the review of e-mails that went back and forth as they developed the list, there’s a glaring problem there that will eventually come out — and I can’t talk about it now — but there was an omission that was given to the intelligence committee,” Coburn said on Morning Joe today.
An “omission.” What could that be?
Ed Morrissey speculates that it could have to do with Greg Hicks’ conversations with Hillary Clinton and Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Beth Jones. Hicks testified that he briefed Clinton during the attack and never said anything about a YouTube movie. The movie was, in his words, a “non-event” in Libya. Clinton, Rice, et al blamed the movie starting on September 12, and Hicks asked Jones why. She answered that she didn’t know, and soon after that she went on the bureaucratic warpath against Hicks resulting in his eventual demotion. But an email produced by Rep. Trey Gowdy showed Jones telling the Libyan president that Ansar al-Sharia was behind the attack. That email was from September 12, before Ambassador Rice went on her magical Benghazi movie tour on five Sunday talk shows, so the State Department was already aware that the movie had nothing to do with the attack. Yet they blamed the movie, from the top down. They even cut a PSA in Pakistan apologizing for it, one of the more craven acts ever undertaken by a US administration, even if the movie had caused the attack. Which it didn’t.
The email is significant in addressing the state of knowledge at the top level of the State Department during and immediately after the attack. I don’t think that that email is the omission, unless State failed to provide it to the ARB. If State did fail to provide it to the ARB, that in and of itself would be significant, and open up obvious questions about what else State omitted delivering to its hand-picked internally controlled “investigation” that failed even to interview Clinton herself.
Let us hope this is true, and when does Jim Inhofe chime in as well....
At the time the cost of this PSA was given as several hundred thousand dollars, I think. It may be comparatively trivial but if actual charges ever arise from this affair - criminal or for impeachment purposes - I hope it is remembered that taxpayer money was spent as part of the conspiracy to deceive the American public. That much is quantifiable.
Read an ex-Muslim saying that phrase, “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam,” would resonate with Muslims as the functional equivalent of a death threat, as in those who have no future are dead, or the dead have no future. Naturally, I’ve mislocated the link. :( But I think it was that older ex-Muslim woman who has been on a number of conservative talk shows recently.
No way around it. He either ordered the 'stand down' or approved someone else's decision.
The only other defense he has is claim he was unaware . But that opens a whole new can of worms. ie.
His staff felt he is too incompetent to allow making a decision.
He is culpable, one way or the other.
Will anything befall him? NO.
Timing is everything.
zero knows what they have, can't do anythng about it, and they'll let him squirm until the time is right.
That's what I'm prayin', anyways.............
You have a great point...
On Gun Control, Immigration, Cap and Trade, and every other initiative that Obama has failed on since being re-emaculated, I heard that we had to wait him out 10 weeks. 10 Weeks because, once the Summer House -Senate Recess kicks in, they are in Campaign mode for 2014.
Perhaps they are waiting until this kick-off, which also signals the further cementing of his lame-duckness if their is such a word. Also they will use it to extract more out of the Dem's in 2014, to really weaken him going forward...
Time will tell..
Two stand down orders were mentioned in the hearing. When asked, Hicks (I think it was he) said “ask Col. Gibson”. (hope I got his rank right).
Pinging MM and Nachum to taildragger’s comment above.
Will anything befall him? NO.
Pre-emptive defeat. Not good. We don’t know. The fiend is not superhuman and needs to fall, hard, and everyone who helped him and put him where he is. This isn’t over, it’s just beginning,
Which was exactly why o-islama issued that edict at the UN. The muslims knew what we in the West were too uneducated in islam to understand.
And special ping to post #21.
Anyone wanting on or off this ping list, please advise.
OK, we know for sure that Obama and Hillary knew this had nothing to do with that movie. Why did they make that commercial?
What good is a ping if you don’t ping nobody? Dang.
Don't let forgetting a little thing like the actual list get you down Mesta.
I have done that an embarrassing amount of times with Sarah's list ;p
No problem Mesta. My habit is to not ping ... LOL. Love pinging to your pings though.
Third time is the charm.
I’ve pinged my lists without pinging the list....
It’s always sumthin’.
Maybe they need to subpoena Valerie Jarrett and ask (1) what she was doing the evening of Sept. 11, 2012, (2) did Obama try to get in touch with her, and (3) if he did reach her, did she tell him to "stand down" and not try to save the Americans under attack?
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