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CURL: Benghazi is the only scandal that matters
Washington Times ^ | May 19, 2013 | Joseph Curl

Posted on 05/20/2013 4:28:02 AM PDT by don-o

Meanwhile, no one even knows where the president was the night a U.S. ambassador was murdered, or why the U.S. military sent no help. No one knows who inserted into official talking points a false story that an anti-Islam video led to the massacre. And no one seems to care — least of all the White House.

But be warned, White House: Bob Woodward, who knows a thing or two about scandals and cover-ups, isn’t falling for the double head fake.

“If you read through all these emails,” the Watergate reporter said, “you see that everyone in the government is saying, ‘Oh, let’s not tell the public that terrorists were involved, people connected to al Qaeda. Let’s not tell the public that there were warnings.’ I have to go back 40 years to Watergate when Nixon put out his edited transcripts to the conversations, and he personally went through them and said, ‘Oh, let’s not tell this, let’s not show this.’”

“I would not dismiss Benghazi.”

Too bad, Bob. Washington’s press corps already has.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: armsdeal; benghazi; bobwoodward; hillary; illegalarmstransfer; libya; muslimbrotherhood; obama; obamascandals; scandals; syria; treason; turkey; watergate; woodward
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To: ken5050
The obvious first one is: Who issued the stand-down order? I can't believe that we don't already know. Maybe the House investigators do, and they're playing it close to the vest.

I have a sneaking suspicion the House does know the answer to this and is just giving Team O enough rope to hang themselves. Once they're backed into a corner by their lies, that's when more people will begin talking.

41 posted on 05/20/2013 6:04:33 AM PDT by Kharis13 (That noise you hear is our Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: Travis McGee

There were definitely enough inside the White House Islamic Brotherhood connections, to pull off the attempted Capture of the American Ambassador. Pulling security off that man is a dead giveaway, that something wasn’t right. Ordering stand downs of forces that could and wanted to rescue him and the others is another giveaway.

This is a seriously bad administration.


42 posted on 05/20/2013 6:06:43 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (bahits.com)
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To: FreeAtlanta

Don’t forget...nobama and his minions (clintoon, et al) KILLED the Americans in Bengazi. nobama and his minions have blood on their hands. Commies!


43 posted on 05/20/2013 6:21:01 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: don-o

Glenn Beck: Benghazi is about running guns to Muslim Brotherhood.


44 posted on 05/20/2013 6:24:50 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: don-o

The hell it is (the only scandal that matters that is). Obama and his minions are blowing up this nation section by section, using federal agencies to silence opposition, using the military to promote Islamism and radical jihad, using the media to propagandize the low information voter and using race to promote his agenda. Obama’s administration is for nothing less than a hostile take over of America by disparate group politics. Obama is a foul stench in the nostrils of Constitutional law abiding Americans... dammit ya’ll...


45 posted on 05/20/2013 6:26:43 AM PDT by dps.inspect (rage against the Obama machine...)
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To: don-o

Bengazi is a major scandal that demonstrates just how self-centered the drug-addled narcissist is. The IRS targeting of conservatives in order to influence the election is a major scandal that demonstrates just how corrupt the communist thug in our White House is. The AP phone record monitoring is a major scandal that demonstrates just how indifferent to the Bill of Rights the petty tyrant from Chicago is. None of these scandals are minor. All three are worse than anything since Bill Clinton’s perjury, and in combination they are worse than any scandal or combination of scandals in our country’s history.


46 posted on 05/20/2013 6:36:12 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Kharis13; Mountain Mary

If Jarrett gave the order...that’s game, set and match..you have have someone NOT in the constitutional authority/chain of command..the general officer who received that directive from her, before sending it down the chain of command..would have carefully documented/recorded it..because he would have questioned it,then been appalled when it was confirmed.

The basic technique of any interrogator is to first get the suspect to commit to a story..lock him in...then tear it apart..


47 posted on 05/20/2013 7:05:40 AM PDT by ken5050 (Due to all the WH scandals, MSNBC is changing its slogan from "Lean Forward" to "BOHICA")
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To: don-o
“I would not dismiss Benghazi.”

Too bad, Bob. Washington’s press corps already has.

Because they know this is where the real story is....they are in Washington and know the rumors going around in the intelligence community, the gun running, the wag the dog scenario and who had to give the stand down order for the military not to be sent and they know the rumors of why the military protocol in the danger to an ambassador was stopped. They know how bad it looks a general was relieved of command, that 2 CIA operatives broke 3 stand down orders and saved 30 "State Department" employees then left to die while painting a target for the asset in the area to take it out and that the director of the CIA was gotten rid of by scandal because he was not towing the line.

The know on several points this is impeachable and they know the IRS has been thrown under the bus to save the president from this scandal because they think they can insulate the president from blame on this issue which they can not on Benghazi.

You really have to think that one through....The IRS scandal which the dems themselves threw out into the public spotlight....proves just how wrong dems are on the dangers of big government...they could lose everything they have worked for in growing this government just to save Obama from scrutiny on Benghazi. IRS loses them the Senate next election, Benghazi loses Obama the presidency and stains the dem party for 50 years like Watergate did to republicans.

48 posted on 05/20/2013 7:14:06 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: GizzyGirl

Charlie Rangle was super critical of the Obama regimes illegal use of the IRS. That is a DEAD GIVEAWAY that the left is trying to distract from Bengahzi. I mean, come on! Rangle critcizing president Santa Claus?!! Its a ruse people!


49 posted on 05/20/2013 9:48:29 AM PDT by subterfuge (CBS NBC ABC FOX AP-- all no different than Pravda.)
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To: don-o
Benghazi is the only scandal that matters

I'm not so sure about that.

IRS AND AP SCANDALS CAST A BIG CHILL ON FREE SPEECH

You might not know it from reading much of the press, but Obama's administration has been much more aggressive in investigating leaks than Bush's ever was.

The BS media might have a surprise.

True Scandal - A tea-party group targeted by Democrats gets attention from the IRS—and the FBI, OSHA, and the ATF.

It's not just the politicization of the IRS.

50 posted on 05/20/2013 4:34:48 PM PDT by neverdem (Register pressure cookers! /s)
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