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BREAKING: Obama made no phone calls on night of Benghazi attack, White House says
Washington Times ^ | February 14, 2013 | Stephan Dinan

Posted on 02/14/2013 1:19:27 PM PST by gwgn02

President Obama didn’t make any phone calls the night of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the White House said in a letter to Congress released Thursday.

“During the entire attack, the president of the United States never picked up the phone to put the weight of his office in the mix,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, who had held up Mr. Obama’s defense secretary nominee to force the information to be released.

Mr. Graham said that if Mr. Obama had picked up the phone, at least two of the Americans killed in the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi might still be alive because he might have been able to push U.S. aid to get to the scene faster.

The White House has said Mr. Obama was kept up to date on the attack by his staff, though after being alerted to the attack in a pre-scheduled afternoon meeting he never spoke again with the defense secretary or the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 20120911; abandonerinchief; awol; benghazi; chrisstevens; libya; nationalsecurityfail; obama; obamasfault; obamaswars; terrorism
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1 posted on 02/14/2013 1:19:38 PM PST by gwgn02
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; MestaMachine; Nachum; Travis McGee; RedMDer; gwgn02

We knew it.


2 posted on 02/14/2013 1:21:06 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: gwgn02
put the weight of his office

In all fairness, that's a pretty light weight.

3 posted on 02/14/2013 1:21:26 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

In all fairness, that’s a pretty light weight.”

In more ways than one but the phone records they should check are more likely Valerie’s, our pseudo-President.


4 posted on 02/14/2013 1:23:51 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: gwgn02
As another FReeper posted a day or so ago, he was probably sleeping like a baby getting rested up for his campaign trip to Las Vegas the next day.

I believe that because he's always about himself.

5 posted on 02/14/2013 1:27:03 PM PST by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: onyx

So, who is going to be the brave reporter who asks the pres-ent why he didn’t contact his national secuity team that evening?

Crickets....


6 posted on 02/14/2013 1:27:49 PM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: gwgn02

“What difference does it make?”


7 posted on 02/14/2013 1:28:10 PM PST by TonyInOhio (H-O-L-D F-A-S-T)
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To: annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; Nachum; onyx; ...
Yes, he did. He called Benjamin Netanyahu and bit off his ear for an hour. WHY?

Anyone wanting on or off this ping list, please advise.


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8 posted on 02/14/2013 1:29:41 PM PST by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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To: gwgn02

So when will he be impeached?

Yeah...I know...CRICKETS!

Actually, he should be in jail. As president and commander in chief, he has a higher standard of responsibility. That he didn’t bother to act, or be sure others acted, caused four Americans to die. He is negligent. He is just as responsible for their deaths as the savages who did the actual killing.


9 posted on 02/14/2013 1:30:35 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: gwgn02

IMPEACH THE MUTHER FARKER!!!


10 posted on 02/14/2013 1:31:04 PM PST by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: gwgn02

Cut to the chase and ask them what President Jarrett did and whom she was in touch with. We all know Obama’s just a pawn on the big, Marxist chessboard.


11 posted on 02/14/2013 1:31:29 PM PST by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


12 posted on 02/14/2013 1:34:15 PM PST by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


13 posted on 02/14/2013 1:35:30 PM PST by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: gwgn02

Don’t those Benghazi victims deserve a VOTE?

C’mon members of Congress!

Where’s the Gab-by for these folks?


14 posted on 02/14/2013 1:36:21 PM PST by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: liberalh8ter

Obama is always talking about people “punching above
their weight” in this he just threw in the towel
and went to bed, big day tomorrow in Vegas.


15 posted on 02/14/2013 1:37:28 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: gwgn02

Can we impeach this usurping imposter and wannabe dictator yet?


16 posted on 02/14/2013 1:38:50 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: MestaMachine
Yes, he did. He called Benjamin Netanyahu and bit off his ear for an hour. WHY?

I don't know Mesta, but I could bet you money that it involved words like Kike, Heeb, Hymie, lots of F words and Ubama probably told Netenyahu he could munch on his matzah's for now but he will find a way to turn people's opinion against the Jews.

I don't know of course I wasn't there.

But I do know how Ubama thinks.

17 posted on 02/14/2013 1:39:40 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: tet68

It p*ssess me off to no end that no one will do anything about this.


18 posted on 02/14/2013 1:40:07 PM PST by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: jazusamo
He's only concerned with how much fun he can have, with no interest in doing the work he's supposed to do. Besides, if he actually does something, he could be blamed for the outcome. Far easier to just sleep in.
19 posted on 02/14/2013 1:44:13 PM PST by ken in texas (I was taught to respect my elders but it keeps getting harder to find any.)
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And the media covered it all up in the run up to the November election.

Had this been a (R) in office, the media would be asking “What did he know, and when did he know it?” and running polls asking if the (R) Incumbent should be Impeached, etc...

Instead, they were too busy e-fellating Obama and lied by omission about Benghazi and continue to do so.

FUBO
FUMSM


20 posted on 02/14/2013 1:44:13 PM PST by Rodney Dangerfield ("Lean Forward" = "Bend Over")
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