Posted on 11/07/2012 8:30:24 PM PST by Dave Mellon
I am still recovering from the election but I feel a deep commitment to getting the true story of what happened at Benghazi out to the public. I originally posted this article at 12:49 AM PST yesterday morning and that was a mistake. So I hope it is okay to repost it tonight at a more decent hour.
This is a draft version. It is brief, 5 min 05 seconds, because I realized after posting Part 1 (14 mins+) that it is too much to ask my fellow Freepers to watch a long video with no knowledge of who I am (a newbie). I will do a substantial update to both videos as soon as I recover from sleep deprivation (working on the videos) and acute depression/anxiety (election night loss syndrome). I know I need better scripts and a narrator with a clear voice (not me). I added some facts by typing them right on to the video stills and photos.
This video answers many questions about what happened to Ambassador Stevens from the time he was abandoned by his State Department employees at 11:20 PM and the time he was taken out of the Main Building of the American Consulate in Benghazi Libya. It also raises many new and disturbing questions as well. The worldwide news media has overwhelmingly pronounced the retrieval and transport of Ambassador Stevens to the Benghazi Medical Center as a kind hearted gesture of good will but this video cast significant doubt on that assessment. I too once believed that it was a gesture of good will until I examined the long version of the amateur video of the retrieval. That video is available as "The Retrieval of Ambassador Stevens at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi Libya" on my YouTube page. The fact that there was a splice in the video at a key point and then a "new" pulse check of the Ambassador raised doubts in my mind. I then completed a frame by frame examination of the video and was stunned at what I found. I then found a few new key photographs on the internet that led me to piece together critical aspects of what happened that night.
Amen!
I think you nailed it TigersEye. If we don't “bring to life” the story of what happened to our fallen heroes no one will care. It is the humanization of this story that must happen to get the American people to care enough to demand answers. Our news media has done a great disservice to our diplomatic corps serving abroad by ignoring a story that has real human interest aspects to it. They all came so close to surviving the two attacks despite the pathetic security you point out. It really pains me.
Curious as to how you obtained these videos and photos, but I understand if you are not at liberty to disclose this.
Good night.
That is the human interest aspect of it to me. 0bama thought nothing of turning his back on over three dozen of his own emissaries. How much of a sociopathic monster is the POTUS?
Just occurred to me.. Did 0bama downplay this by describing it as a ‘protest over a video’ so he could cover his bad move of flying off to Vegas to campaign the following morning? In other words, if he said ‘terrorist attack’ then flying off to Vegas wouldn’t be forgiven. If he says ‘protest’ then it’s okay to fly to Vegas or afterwards it WAS okay to fly to Vegas. Perhaps NOTHING was going to stop the Vegas trip and he needed to portray that he thought it was a protest over a video to justify making that trip. Sick.
Excellent points. If however the Ambassador and Sean Smith had made it to the roof, they would have all been able to pile into the armored SUV way earlier than when they finally did leave at 11:20 PM and before more bad guys arrived. The time they spent looking for the Ambassador led to their late departure. The late departure led directly to their vehicle being shot at, losing two tires, and most likely being tailed to the CIA mission annex. There is no doubt in my mind that the military assets needed to save everyone at the annex were available and the two former SEALs died waiting for help from the military that never came. I am waiting for their posthumous awards from the President . Imagine what would have happened if we lost them all or they were taken hostage? It was all so Jimmy Carterish but so much worse. At least Carter eventually tried a rescue.
I think the cellphone held low is just incidental to him holding that phone then using his arm to hold Stevens up. He later (or beforehand) shifts the phone to his mouth to make better use of his hand.
Unfortuantely with a complicit news media it did not much matter. He got away with it. It blows my mind that Romney was somehow made the bad guy here. He got some bad advice early on and then some more bad advice before the second and third debates. Obama should give Candy Crowley the Presidential Medal of Freedom for best save in a debate ever.
And are ALL the survivors under security clearance restrictions and not able to talk?
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Either that or threats. Look at what happened to Nakoula.
“Curious as to how you obtained these videos and photos, but I understand if you are not at liberty to disclose this”
No problem, I searched using Arabic.
Oh, yeah! 0bama owes this election and his presidency to those two SEALs he killed.
Give us more, put us on a PING LIST, please.
I have wondered that myself. My guess is that they have been told not to talk to anyone other than official investigators until told otherwise. We know from the Congressional hearings and the news media that the surveillance video is classified. Same with the drones’ video. I am not very knowledgeable about communications but I have wondered what the tower in Benghazi Gates Part 1 was for. If it is communications I have never seen one like it before. Also the gray building was not discussed in the Congressional hearing.
What is a pings list and how do I do that?
Yikes.. Just occurred to me, when was that Secret Service agent murdered, uh urr, I mean committed suicide? Uhhh, 5 days BEFORE the election? Perhaps he knew of 0bama’s whereabouts and activities the day of the terrorist attack?
That may have been the plan. Rescue before election, however.
You believe everything you hear? Like ‘protest over a video’ too? Even AFTER they knew otherwise? Catch my drift?
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