This would be laughable if there weren’t dead Americans involved.
Knowing that this was a CIA operation makes some of the comments about “lack of real-time intelligence” much more understandable. The attack might have been an organized military attack rather than “just” a terrorist strike.
If the CIA was totally responsible for the consulate, why did the ambassador have to beg the State Dept. for more security?
FUBAR
The cover-up is as heinous as the crime.
It is widely known that CIA operatives can pose as State Dept. staff... Nothing new in that.
This has got to be the largest collection of sycophantic dumbasses I've ever seen assembled in one place.
OK. So what? Why were all of the security briefs and requests submitted to the State Dept.?
Harry Truman: The buck stops here.
Obama: Who, me?
fter 8 WEEKS, this is just now coming out?? There is SO DAMN MUCH that we don’t know.....and wil NEVER know because the DEMS are covering up.
Baing a dumb-ass myself it looks to me as if Obama is trying to use a de facto CIA operation as an excuse for letting these people be murdered.
If it’s the CIA and not State he thinks he can just wsh his hands on the whole deal.
Problem is lies , lies, and more lies. More incompetence from the most incompetent person to ever sit in the White House.
The only thing Obama knows how to do is protect his past, and perhaps one day even that will come out.I will say that the Media , and the Congress and even the Supreme court are just as guilty in this vetting process as Obama is.
They never asked the questions before an they still don’t.
It looks like the Benghazi “consulate” was a CIA mission, and that is why all the information concerning this attack is a huge clusterfrack.
It looks like the White House, CIA and Foggy Bottom are covering their backsides for reasons that they don’t want the public to know.
It might also explain the liberal media blackout.
Whatever they are trying to cover up, it is either to protect national security assets or their own incompetence, or both.
Eventually, Leon Panetta will blame Ham or some other flag officer for the inaction, although he will say "I take full responsibility" adding another layer to absorb more damage.
The apex (or nadir) of this pyramid ends in one place. "Who gave the order that my son had to die?"
Having great difficulty believing this story.
So we have Obama implicated in two illegal gun-running operations (Fast and Furious and Benghazi) and the MSM is turning its usual blind eye to these travesties. Had the media done its job of rooting out the truth in these failed illegalities involving the deaths of Americans, this President would have been run out of town on a rail long ago. How many more innocent Americans have to die before the MSM stops being complicit in these crimes?
MEMRI.org - Spech Dispatch No. 5034: "ARAB TV REPORT EXPOSES LAX SECURITY AT U.S. CONSULATE IN BENGHAZI PRIOR TO AMBASSADOR STEVEN'S ARRIVAL AND SECURITY BREACH PRIOR TO ATTACK -- REVEALED BY DOCUMENTS GATHERED AT CONSULATE FOLLOWING ATTACK" (November 1, 2012) (Read More…)
MEMRI.org - Video Clip no. 3629 Broadcast: November 1, 2012: "TV CHANNEL EXPOSES SECURITY BREACH AT U.S. BENGHAZI CONSULATE IN DOCUMENTS GATHERED FOLLOWING ATTACK" (November 1, 2012) (Watch Here)
Oh, that all makes sense now. That in a "Closed Session," members of Congress who are all supposed to be "cleared" for sensitive classified information and hold "OVERSIGHT" responsibility, now, are somehow, considered as NOT being "trustworthy" to have access to this information?
Makes sense to me. (major sarc)
So much bovine excrement....so little time!
Drip, drip, drip!
Just another attempt by this corrupt, Regime to obfuscate, dissemble, backtrack and muddy the waters hoping to run the clock out until next Tuesday.
This WILL turn out to be much more significant than Watergate and eventually, some heads will roll, but unfortunately, not in time to affect the outcome of the election...thanks to the sycophant, leftist, Lame Stream Media.
This answers some questions and raises others.
If true, this would answer my and others' inquiry as to why these 30 or so personnel have disappeared off the face of the earth and no one has heard a peep about what happened to them or where they are.
That said, when I worked as a covert, military, intel agent I frequently interacted with CIA staff out of an embassy. Not only were we military personnel armed at all times, albeit, handguns (though we did have access to auto weapons in our own civilian compound) but so were the CIA staff.
These "agents" (and I have no reason to believe things have changed) were all "trained" and had gone thru rigorous courses prior to having been assigned overseas.
So why were these 23 or so CIA agents not armed as well and why (I would be surprised if this was not the case) did they not have auto weapons available to them in the Consulate with which to defend themselves.
Something does not compute and the more we learn, the less any of this makes sense.
Alinskyites like Hillary and Obama hate the CIA and the U.S. military. Q.E.D.