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Panetta says he personally told Obama about Benghazi attack
wash times ^ | 2/7/13 | g taylor

Posted on 02/07/2013 11:24:17 AM PST by bestintxas

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta revealed on Thursday that he personally broke the news to President Obama that an attack was unfolding on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012.

Mr. Panetta said he was given an alert about the attack just before arriving at the White House for an unrelated and prescheduled meeting with the president.

“It’s something I introduced to the president,” the defense secretary said, acknowledging for the first time that he and Mr. Obama were well aware that the attack was occurring while they met at the White House that day.

Mr. Panetta, who appeared on Capitol Hill on Thursday beside Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asserted that the U.S. military “spared no effort to save” the lives of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and the three other Americans who were killed in the Benghazi attack.

“In the months since the tragedy at the Temporary Mission Facility and nearby Annex in Benghazhi, we’ve learned these were actually two short duration attacks that occurred some six hours apart,” Mr. Panetta testified before the Senate Committee on Armed Services.

“The bottom line is this: We were not dealing with a prolonged assault that could have been brought to an end by a U.S. military response,” Mr. Panetta said.

Furthermore, the defense secretary said, while the Pentagon was “prepared for a wide range” of possible attacks on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, “unfortunately there were no specific indications of an imminent attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazigunrunning; benghazihearing; impeach; impeachobama; leonpanetta; libya; navyseals; obama; obamaawol; panettahearing; terrorism; threatmatrix; waronterror
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To: bestintxas
Q: Why did the First Undocumented Moslem-Communist
sleep so well that night while the Ambassador
was gang raped and murdered on US "soil" in Benghazi?

A: Because the pRes_ _ent KNEW
that MANPADs and WMD were FINALLY
on their way to al Qaeda, the Moslem Brotherhood,
Iran and his other controllers and terrorist-friends.
And to his long-deserved sleep he went.


21 posted on 02/07/2013 1:20:25 PM PST by Diogenesis (De Oppresso Liber)
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To: PieterCasparzen
Numerous whistleblowers need to blow the whistle simultaneously.

and who would they be telling the truth to that could be trusted and would actually do what is right? I ask that with the fact that the obozo is clearly a fraud and LEGALLY unqualified and yet is still in the WH. Just curious.

22 posted on 02/07/2013 1:51:15 PM PST by drypowder
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To: Noamie
However, there are certain events that would make you put down your ribs and make a couple of phone calls. (Heck, Pres. doesn’t even have to dial for himself)

All he had to do was say "Ok". Try it. Say Ok. How long did that take ?
23 posted on 02/07/2013 3:10:17 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

So there was not enough time for armed military assets to respond ... if you don’t count the seals that ran over and responded.


24 posted on 02/07/2013 3:27:56 PM PST by willyd
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To: SMARTY
No Liberal on the face of the earth is capable of decisive action. NONE!

A) In this case, no liberal had to take any action. Obama, as President, simply had to say "Yes" to authorize the military to do its normal job.

B) This administration is quite proud of the fact that Obama supposedly took decisive action in ordering the osama bin laden kill. So Obama is certainly capable of authorizing the military to do things when he wants to.

C) It would have been far more politically expedient for Obama to say "Yes" and authorize an attempt to save his own personal representative, the Ambassador, and all other Americans at the site. The media would have presented the story exactly as the White House wanted, so "hiding arms transfers" would not have been an issue at all. Instead, Obama cost himself politically from every angle by effectively restraining the military in this instance - as opposed to how he gleefully employed military options in numerous other instances.

D) IMHO, this points to only one conclusion: Obama took a dive on this, with no upside for himself, which can only mean that he did this at the behest of someone other than himself (who this might be in particular I have no idea). No President in their right mind would have acted as Obama did in this situation if he was acting solely from his own personal perspective.
25 posted on 02/07/2013 4:15:09 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: bestintxas

“The bottom line is this: We were not dealing with a prolonged assault that could have been brought to an end by a U.S. military response,” Mr. Panetta said.

Liar! I never trusted this self-serving oaf and never will.

May he quickly recede into oblivion.

BTW, Leon, when is your buddy at the White House going to remove the “Silence” order from the dozens of other Americans who were rescued at Benghazi?


26 posted on 02/07/2013 4:15:40 PM PST by miserare
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To: MestaMachine

Thanks for the ping, MM. Most of the time I don’t comment because I am in total shock at what is going on in our nation, and therefore am rendered speechless. This latest report is abominable.


27 posted on 02/07/2013 4:16:19 PM PST by Faith
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To: MestaMachine

Right again, Mesta!


28 posted on 02/07/2013 4:22:49 PM PST by miserare
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To: MestaMachine
best guess is Netanyahu Connected the dots!. If had not the story line (as you mentioned) would be entirely different. Think the trip to Israel (by zer0 upcoming) is to beg Netanyahu not to retaliate. Have to believe Netanyahu has zer0's number.
29 posted on 02/07/2013 5:16:04 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: Diogenesis

I believe your answer under question to be absolute truth.


30 posted on 02/07/2013 5:19:05 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: Diogenesis

Never Forget!


31 posted on 02/07/2013 6:49:53 PM PST by miserare
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