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Senators: 'What We Do Not Know' About Benghazi
The Weekly Standard ^ | May 23, 2013 | Daniel Halper

Posted on 05/23/2013 9:07:52 AM PDT by don-o

Three U.S. senators have identified the missing parts of the response to the Benghazi terror attack. In a statement, Senators Kelly Ayotte, Lindsey Graham, and John McCain list "What We Do Not Know" about Benghazi:

· We do not know whether the President was made aware of the classified cable that, according to published media reports, Ambassador Chris Stevens sent in August 2012, stating that the U.S. Mission in Benghazi could not survive a sustained assault from one or more of the threatening militia groups that were operating in eastern Libya.

· We do not know whether the President’s national security staff made him aware of the attacks on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi that occurred in April and June of last year and the assassination attempt on the British Ambassador in Benghazi around the same time.

· If the President was informed, we do not know what actions, if any, he ordered.

· We do not know who within U.S. Special Operations Command, Africa ordered a U.S. special forces detachment in Tripoli not to go to Benghazi to assist the Americans under attack, and why that “stand down” order was given, as the former Deputy Chief of Mission in Tripoli, Gregory Hicks, testified to Congress.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 20120911; benghazi; navyseals; obamaspeople; terrorism; threatmatrix
Yes. It's the McCain gang asking the questions. Still, good questions.
1 posted on 05/23/2013 9:07:52 AM PDT by don-o
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To: don-o

We don’t know what 30+ CIA Operatives were doing in Benghazi.


2 posted on 05/23/2013 9:14:58 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("The White House can't be trusted." - Ron Fournier, National Journal)
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To: don-o

Just who are they asking the questions of? Obama? Harry Reid? John Kerry? Good luck with that!


3 posted on 05/23/2013 9:23:25 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: don-o

We don’t know why McCain is still a Senator.


4 posted on 05/23/2013 9:23:28 AM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: don-o

I don’t trust McCain (or his shadow). He was in on the Libya overthrow from the beginning.


5 posted on 05/23/2013 9:27:45 AM PDT by McGruff (I can't speak to the law here. The law is irrelevant,)
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To: don-o

Why would Zippy/Holder send the FBI to a foreign country? We’re they supposed to investigate/arrest Americans?


6 posted on 05/23/2013 9:29:46 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Uncle Miltie

we don’t know what bo has done to put the perpetrators of work place violence to justice.


7 posted on 05/23/2013 9:32:11 AM PDT by genghis
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To: Uncle Miltie
We don’t know what 30+ CIA Operatives were doing in Benghazi.

Where are these people? There were many survivors there that night and they seem to have disappeared. No doubt Team O desperately wants to keep them away from prying eyes.

8 posted on 05/23/2013 9:36:34 AM PDT by Kharis13 (That noise you hear is our Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: don-o

When I see the “3 Sttoges of the Republican Party” my first thought is that try are trying to shaft the country.


9 posted on 05/23/2013 9:39:19 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Democrats: Robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote.)
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To: don-o

Obama is going to resign, and the Democrats are going to blame the racist Republicans and they’ll keep the Americans who are black vote for the next 50 years.


10 posted on 05/23/2013 10:06:53 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: don-o

[[In a statement, Senators Kelly Ayotte, Lindsey Graham, and John McCain list “What We Do Not Know” about Benghazi]]

It’s pretty friggin simple- Dear leader had a massive fund raiser the next day- He got drunk in giddy anticipation of lining his pockets with idiot’s money, and he went to bed with orders NOT to be disturbed

What the hell is so hard to udnerstand about that?


11 posted on 05/23/2013 10:17:13 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; Nachum; onyx; ...
john mccain was all in favor of arming Libyan thugs. Someone should question him about what he knew and when HE knew it.

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


12 posted on 05/23/2013 10:22:42 AM PDT by MestaMachine
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