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.
I want to talk to the command in Sigonella Italy.
There was is a huge presence in Rota Spain.
There are folks in Toulon France
Rand is more credible and has announced his intention. Unless Cruz - my first choice, or Palin - my second, steps forward I'll go with Rand. Rubio is down around 5 or 6. Somewhere below Scott Walker.
I'll throw you a carrot however. Rubio is better than Jeb or Christie.
I know it was a mission and Hicks was at the Embassy in Tripoli with the Seals wanting to go help a half hour away. Canada had closed their Tripoli Embassy a month earlier and we left ours open and why we would send an Ambassador to Benghazi defies logic.
This was manslaughter and no different from leaving the gate open on a lion’s den. You know what the possibilities of death are and not only do you ignore them, you don’t send help. Who made the Stand Down order?
Then you don’t ask Hicks or the people on the ground what happened and make up a lame excuse? They are so lucky they are Party members like the old Soviet Guard or they would be gone.
Spot on!
Gregory was way out of his league and Pickering came off badly. Looked smarmy and shifty.
Who hired Craig Livingston?
How 'bout a national biometric data base that out does anything in "1984?"
I thought that was the case, so it was the President and why didn’t anyone ask Hicks who gave the Stand Down order or didn’t he know?
Here is the wider issue with all of the arab spring BS.
Obama is allowing, and dare I say enabling Al Queda to build a beach head in Africa.
They hold the entire Northern coast of Africa now and this Benghazi gate matter makes us look impotent.
I think This is all purposeful telegraphing of intent on Obamas part.
FUBO!!!
Dick Durban on Disgrace the Nation: The Fox witch hunt continues.
RE sexual assaults in the military.
You are a soldier.
Do something about it besides whine.
Sat No! Put a knee in.
This is BS designed to make all our soldiers pussies.
So this brings up the question
Where was Obama when the phone call came in?
Hillary does not own this, although she was culpable.
I almost feel sorry for Hillary.
Almost.
It is Negligence at the least, and Nefarious at the worst.
Dempsey is not technically in the chain of command but Panetta relied heavily on his Joint Chiefs. My suspicion is Dempsey advised that the situation did not justify military intervention and Panetta never elevated it to the President. I am confident that Obama had made it clear to Panetta that he wanted “plausable deniability” if anything went south. I do not trust Demsey any more than I trusted Mullen.
Sure. Policymakers can choose to hang embassy people out to dry and NOT attempt a rescue. But the idea that the military would say no to a rescue flies in the face of the entire purpose of special ops, rapid deployment, and all related strategies. Or, the idea that a member of the military hierarchy would go to the Hill and say, “Give us our money, but, no, we can’t even try to save Americans.”
BTW, does anyone remember the last day in Vietnam and the rooftop of our embassy in Saigon? There was an army of 10,000+ bearing down on the city. Did our military hierarchy say, “Well, too bad, we’ll just have to let the diplomats be captured, tortured or murdered.”
Some of the stuff being said by “military” leaders about Benghazi is disgraceful. They should be offering to give the American people their money back.
I agree. But once identified, you would then have to go through the bureaucratic requirements to use them. I want a complete accounting of what assets were available. I understand from some who have knowledge that there were other assets that were available that could have prevented the attack on the annex.
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.
As the retired general said on ABC, it is not a matter of just getting the keys out and jumping into an aircraft. Flight clearances, mobilization, arming the aircraft, etc. would add time. And according to Panetta and Dempsey there were no tankers available.
Personally, I believe that flight clearances were not asked for political reasons--domestic and foreign. Obama would have has to notify Congress this was happening and there were probably concerns that our bilateral relations with Libya would be harmed, especially if there was collateral damage. And Obama was scared to death of a Desert One replay.
Outstanding music and song Shalom.....thank you so much for posting this on Mothers Day.....perfection!
I will surely be listening to this group frequently...I didn’t even know they were out there!
Hicks named the Colonel or Lt. Col who gave the order. He told Hicks we’ve been ordered to stand down. Hicks suggested they ask this Colonel who gave him the order (up the chain).
Maybe the next guy will say, “I know nutz-ingk”.
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