Posted on 09/12/2013 9:02:31 AM PDT by Starman417
Yesterday John Kerry informed Congress that he would not be making the Benghazi survivors available to testify before Congress:
Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News tweeted today that "Secy Kerry tells congress he will not honor the request to make Benghazi survivors available for questioning."The stonewalling of the Obama Administration on the Benghazi survivors is incredibly frustrating, but made worse by the complete lack of interest by the mainstream media. Kerry has faced the question of the Benghazi survivors on numerous occasions and has effectively dodged the issue at every turn.
In March, Secretary of State John Kerry was asked by Fox News correspondent James Rosen why nobody has “heard from” the Benghazi survivors. Kerry stumbled through the answer, saying
“Well, I – I mean, I can't tell you the answer to that.”
Rosen pressed John Kerry on the issue by asking, “Will we hear from them?”
Kerry responded:
“I can't tell you- I don't know what the circumstances are of any requests to talk to them or not."
It can't be easy to remember all the lies. Additional information has been uncovered by the Guardian and it is chilling. You will know why Kerry absolutely does not want any survivors to testify. There are highly significant differences between the Obama regime's account and the truth.
Security
Event Staff at the US special mission in Benghazi woke on 11 September to the sight of a Libyan policeman, deployed to guard them, filming the compound from a neighbouring rooftop. When challenged, he vanished. Later, an unmarked car made lazy circles around the compound, a walled redoubt rented in the southern suburbs of the Libyan city.US version The state department says there were no warning of impending attack, a spokesman insisting there was "nothing unusual during the day at all".
Conflicting evidence Two days earlier, the ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, had received a veiled warning. According to one of his cables, one of his diplomats had a meeting with two Islamist militia leaders in which they complained that the US was supporting a secular leader, Mahmoud Jibril, in a vote for prime minister due on 12 September. If Jibril won, they warned, they would "no longer guarantee security". The consulate was already relying on one of the militias, the February 17th Martyrs Brigade, for armed protection.
In the words of a subsequent report by the US Senate's homeland security committee, warning lights were "flashing red". As the day went on, news came in of attacks by radicals on the US embassy in Cairo, a response to a film, the Innocence of Muslims, released in America which mocked Muhammad. The CIA sent a cable to its foreign stations warning of possible copycat incidents.
The compound
US version The state department insists the compound had been well fortified in the spring. The walls had been raised to 3.6 metres (12ft) and topped with barbed wire and concertina barbed wire. The villa had been prepared as a redoubt in the event the walls were breached. It was surrounded by sandbagged emplacements and fitted with grilles on the windows and bulletproof steel doors. Security cameras covered the site.Conflicting evidence Most of the wall running around the compound had not been heightened beyond around 8ft. The rear wall also had no wire. Two days after the attack the landlord showed the Guardian where attackers had scrambled over. "It was easy for them," he said. Whether cameras were mounted outside the compound is unclear. But failure to see what diners at the Venezia could see in the 10 minutes before the attack would have catastrophic consequences.
Protection
US version The state department insists security was more than adequate that night, because five DSS agents were in place, more than the recommended three, supported by five unarmed Libyan guards and three armed militiamen from the February 17 brigade.Conflicting evidence In the preceding months Stevens had cabled three times (7 June, 9 July, and 15 August) asking for more protection or that plans to draw down security be halted, according to the House oversight report. Those months had seen escalating attacks against foreign targets in the city. Commonwealth war graves had been smashed, the Tunisian consulate stormed, a Sudanese diplomat attacked, a UN convoy bombed and the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross rocketed. After two bodyguards of British ambassador Dominic Asquith were wounded in a rocket attack on the UK consulate, London closed its mission down. The US mission had been struck twice by home made bombs thrown at the outside wall.
But even as attacks in Benghazi escalated, Washington decreased security, in line with its official position that Libya, post revolution, was normalising. Three quick-reaction DSS units, named situation security teams, deployed in Tripoli, were withdrawn in the summer, despite objections from their chief, Colonel Andrew Wood. He later told CBS that losing those units was like "being asked to play the piano with two fingers".
On 15 August, the day after Wood was withdrawn, Stevens cabled Washington to say that security in Benghazi was left dangerously exposed. He worried that February 17 was becoming unreliable: a dispute over payment by the embassy meant the brigade's militiamen no longer guarded convoys outside the compound. In addition, the police officers supposed to guard the mission were often late. "Many hours pass when we have no police support at all", he wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
What is lacking in today’s body politic is a philosophy that can be advanced BECAUSE of the veiled threats of doom by the opposition.
Without that “Damn the torpeodes! Full speed ahead!” philosophy, the meekest member of the opposition can turn us into sniveling, sobbing, cowards such as Boehner and McConnell.
For example, the manipulating, fear-mongering, threat of doom and gloom promoted by the supporters of Government harm to our Republic that a certain Republican action would “shutdown the Government” SHOULD be a clarion call for Republicans to shut down the Government to right the wrong that the Government is currently doing.
To not shut down the Government is to support continuation of the wrong that the Government is currently doing.
Whatever wrong is being protected by the supporters of Governmental wrong, SHOULD BE our signal that we should focus on undoing what they are trying to protect, coverup, or hide.
What is required to right the wrong is known to all Warriors: THE COURAGE OF ONE’S CONVICTIONS.
Instead, today in our sorry body politic, these are times of whimpering, timid, compromise-away-one’s-values in the false hope of achieving the equivalent of a 1960’s group hippie hug.
These are times when we wait silently for a larger than life, Warrior to swoop in on a white horse and make everything nicey-nice again.
These are times when the majority of people who vote choose politicians that promise pie-in-the-sky to them, and then these same politicians get put in charge of increasing the debt burden on our Grandchildren’s descendants.
Thus, we have a self-caused burden of a virtual cycle of debt to our descendants caused by promises that we choose to vote for.
These are the times when the obvious solution to these problems can be seen by “The Man in the Glass.”
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BTW, look up the above quoted poem for suggestions to improve one’s response-ability.
53 posted on September 12, 2013 10:39:37 AM CDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts’ Commune-Style Obama’care’ violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Graewoulf
The Man in the Glass
by Dale Wimbrow, (c) 1934
1895-1954
When you get what you want in your struggle for self,
And the world makes you King for a day,
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that man has to say.
For it isn’t your Father, or Mother, or Wife,
Whose judgment upon you must pass.
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the man staring back from the glass.
You may be like Jack Horner and “chisel” a plum,
And think you’re a wonderful guy,
But the man in the glass says you’re only a bum
If you can’t look him straight in the eye.
He’s the fellow to please, never mind all the rest,
For he’s with you clear up to the end,
And you’ve passed your most dangerous, difficult test
If the man in the glass is your friend.
You may get what you want down the pathway of years,
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be heartaches and tears
If you’ve cheated the guy in the glass.
Truth will out!
ISSA, EITHER POOP OR GET OFF THE POT AND LET GOWDY TAKE OVER. ARE YOU PURPOSEFULLY RUNNING OUT THE CLOCK FOR ØBAMA?
“I don’t know what the circumstances are of any requests to talk to them or not” the other jfk...2013
What a mangled bag of jibber jabber
ISSA, EITHER POOP OR GET OFF THE POT AND LET GOWDY TAKE OVER. ARE YOU PURPOSEFULLY RUNNING OUT THE CLOCK FOR ØBAMA?
Ummm... was that actually a question?
Perhaps Issa is afraid he’ll get the same treatment that Michael Hastings did for investigating the CIA’s John Brennan. No one dare expose that our government has been overthrown by Marxist terrorist-sympathizers.
Reminded me of a story Ann Coulter told once:
At a cocktail party in DC - John Kerry walks right up to her and looks through her.
An aide instantly comes up and says to Ann: "Senator Kerry would like you to move so he can walk through".
That's still funny..........
The whole administration - and their international stooges - need the gallows treatment.
Unfortunately, there will be a holocaust first.
This is by far, the worst, most corrupt and harmful president and administration that has ever been elected and assembled. They are swiftly turning the United States into an international joke, and an impoverished banana republic, while the media refuses to tell the truth and reveal it. In fact, they worship Obama as some God, like some amazon jungle tribe worships an airplane that flew by. Not for any real reason, they just do, because they simply liked the color of it, or they simply lack the intellectual abilities to know any better, and don’t care.
Sharyl Attkisson doesn’t seem to be backing down.
Benghazi bump.
Issa is a former Army bomb disposal expert....I would guess he is not easily intimidated.
yes
It is beginning to smell like that murder of the four were caused by this Administration.
Everybody knows this administration and this government is corrupt but no one with clout is willing to say the word corruption publicly. Pro constitutionalists, Tea Party folks, are labeled as anarchists by the insider DC politicians. In turn, those politicians need to be tagged as corrupted and are bad for this country. How can the dems, the RINOs or any other POS insider possibly argue convincingly against the monumental evidence that supports that point? CALL IT WHAT IT IS!!
Hey homie, Is that available on a bumper sticker?
Time for a short dance on the end of a long rope for these monstrous pieces of collectivist / eliminationist filth.
Nothing short of another cilvil war will be needed to sort this out.
Today, CIA Director John Brennan said that Benghazi survivors haven't been threatened...to the best of his knowledge [typical weasel words]. Brennan tells Congress that Benghazi survivors will be made available for questioning. Maybe Brennan should consult with John Effen Kerry!
In the meantime, one year after the murders, we have 5 separate House Committees investigating Benghazi, and even though 12 probable suspects have been identified in Libya, no one has been held accountable.
Can he legally do that? If true there must be more than one way to skin a cat.
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