Posted on 05/12/2013 3:43:26 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
May 12th, 2013
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Adam Smith, D-Wash.; Rep.-elect Mark Sanford, R-S.C.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.; Sen. Dianne Feinsweine, D-Calif.; former diplomat Thomas Pickering, who helped lead the State Department's review of the attack against the U.S. in Benghazi, Libya.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Pickering; former Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Sens. Da Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Jack Reed, D-R.I.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine; Pickering; Reps. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii.
My wife and I are spending Mother’s day with the kids in Key West, went fishing yesterday at the Dry Tortugas scored big! We had tuna and grouper for dinner last night. Looks like the Great Gatsby in 3D later today(no more rum runners)Happy Mothers’ Day to all Freeper moms!!
Good for you. Did you use your own boat or charter ? If charter who would recommend.
I doubt any military help would have stopped the initial attack. We should never have been there in the first place. The cardinal rule of diplomatic security is that you don’t go places where the host government cannot protect you.
That is obvious as is leaving the Embassy open after every other country left. That said, we had enough firepower to disperse that crowd in the area. Many reports initially said we had a C-130 circling and is why Thomas? was painting the targets.
The bottom line is we had the forces and need to know who told them to stand down?
Sharyl is rumored to have a job offer from Glen Beck at the Blaze, if she is smart she will take it.
Gregory acts like a ‘boy cheerleaders’ in some high school Cheering squad. Lot’s of enthusiasm for dems - limited IQ. He’s the opposite of Tim Russert.
Gregory’s not even listening to Issa’s answers - just blankly looking at him - waiting for his ‘turn’ to come up again to speak.
Issa could be saying ‘red, orange, yellow and blue’ and Gregory would move on to the next prepared question. If someone asked Gregory what Issa had said, he would be clueless. Really, someone needs to do that just for the fun of it. Guy’s an airhead.
NBC needs to get someone smarter...
Hicks said the forces were pissed they could not go when they were a half hour away to break it up. Everyone knows who made the order and he was not sleeping in his warm bed. He was watching and cowering then making up the America’s fault excuse.
To send troops would have meant we were at war. No way Obama wanted
That right before the election.
This is late, but it’s the thought that counts.
To all you Mothers out there, Happy Day!!
Many of us have been disappointed in Rubio. But, do we really want to Mitt him now when we have no other feasible candidate in the wings? Is that a good wining strategy?
But Gregory speaks French, how much smarter do you want? He makes a great cheerleader for the Democrat media. You must not want his utopia and are a hater.
Pray for America to Wake Up
Benghazi was a diplomatic mission. Our embassy was in Tripoli.
The only aircraft over Benghazi was an unmanned drone, which was replaced with another one after the first one went low on fuel. There was no C-130 circling over Benghazi. Supposedly, none were available. We need more info on what assets were available. I wonder why just Aviano AFB was cited as a possible supplier of air support. I thought we had some assets available in Kuwait and perhaps Saudi Arabia.
The bottom line is we had the forces and need to know who told them to stand down?
I agree forces should have been sent regardless. We had no way of knowing how long the attack would last. We had wounded and dead plus over 30 people on the ground awaiting evacuation from Benghazi.
Hillary Clinton must never be President.
Hooboy! DiFi is really acting nervous.
They are covering up.
At least she admits they got caught with their drawers down.
This aint about Hillary.
It is about Obama.
WTF was Obama?
And in the wider sense this is about the Democrat party.
WTF were we even doing in Libya? or Egypt?
IF we are going to have CIA in Libya why were they out there with no plan B?
There is a huge military presence just on the other side of the Med.
Why did they let Stevens Et al twist in the wind?
The flight time to Benghazi was one hour. The first team had already departed Benghazi at around midnight Benghazi time. The second team that was told to stand down was scheduled to depart at around 6:30 AM after the annex had been attacked and Woods and Doherty had been killed. The flight went anyway without the special ops people and flew to Benghazi. It evacuated our folks from Benghazi flying back to Tripoli.
David Gregory asserts that this is not watergate.
That’s right Greg.
This is worse.
It is also know that F-16s from Italy had the range and could have been on station in under 2 hours. Remember no one asked for flyover rights that day. The drone had clearance only because it was asked for prior to the attack.
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