Posted on 01/13/2014 3:32:32 PM PST by jazusamo
Minutes after the American consulate in Benghazi came under assault on Sept. 11, 2012, the nation's top civilian and uniformed defense officials -- headed for a previously scheduled Oval Office session with President Obama -- were informed that the event was a "terrorist attack," declassified documents show. The new evidence raises the question of why the top military men, one of whom was a member of the president's Cabinet, allowed him and other senior Obama administration officials to press a false narrative of the Benghazi attacks for two weeks afterward.
Gen. Carter Ham, who at the time was head of AFRICOM, the Defense Department combatant command with jurisdiction over Libya, told the House in classified testimony last year that it was him who broke the news about the unfolding situation in Benghazi to then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The tense briefing -- in which it was already known that U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens had been targeted and had gone missing -- occurred just before the two senior officials departed the Pentagon for their session with the commander in chief.
According to declassified testimony obtained by Fox News, Ham -- who was working out of his Pentagon office on the afternoon of Sept. 11 -- said he learned about the assault on the consulate compound within 15 minutes of its commencement, at 9:42 p.m. Libya time, through a call he received from the AFRICOM Command Center.
"My first call was to General Dempsey, General Dempsey's office, to say, 'Hey, I am headed down the hall. I need to see him right away,'" Ham told lawmakers on the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation on June 26 of last year. "I told him what I knew...
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That sounds pretty plausible. The only thing I might question is that if these muslim bastards had those Stingers, wouldn’t they have been firing them off at USA Commercial Airliners non stop since they received ‘em? I don’t think the muzzies could resist!
From the article:
"Ham's declassified testimony further underscores that Obama's earliest briefing on Benghazi was solely to the effect that the incident was a terrorist attack, and raises once again the question of how the narrative about the offensive video, and a demonstration that never occurred, took root within the White House as the explanation for Benghazi."
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I don't know what happened to republicanprofessor but I am sure she'll be back.
Anyone wanting on or off this ping list, please advise me or Republicanprofessor.
Thank you for the heads up.
OMG!!! We were lied to by the government. Inconceivable!
What late arrival? You always have perfect timing!
courtesy ping.
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my greatest respect General Ham!
Obama needs to be impeached for using deceit and fraud to win the last presidential election:
* Obamacare - at least 10 of his statements are proven lies
* Benghazi - ditto
* add more, please.....
This being the case, the regime should be made to tell the American people why they knowingly lied to them. The WH reporters need to ask Jay Carney, “Where did this story about response to a film causing a spontaneous demonstration originate?”
Well said...I would add 0bama’s lies by omission regarding his AG Eric Holder and his support for him, the most corrupt AG in American history.
The originators ... dr. obama, dr. hillary and dr. valerie.
So the stand down order came from Obama.
The Regime pissed on the 1st Amendment!!!
obama or hillary or valerie but yes one of them gave the order of Stand Down.
MSM to Obama If he lies, no problem, he's a democrat.
MSM to Panetta ..If he lies, not problem, he's a democrat.
MSM to H.Clinton ..If she lies to the public, no problem, she's a democrat.
MSM to Christie ..If he lies to the public, he's toast.
I am no Christie sycophant, but this simply demonstrates the duplicity of the MSM.
MSM to Obama If he lies, no problem, he's a democrat.
MSM to Panetta ..If he lies, not problem, he's a democrat.
MSM to H.Clinton ..If she lies to the public, no problem, she's a democrat.
MSM to Christie ..If he lies to the public, he's toast.
I am no Christie sycophant, but this simply demonstrates the duplicity of the MSM.
You know jazusamo, as do all here that when we call up the lame-stream media, their mind is engaged. It is past the time when the lame-stream media acts their age. Their children’s lives are in the mix as are all American’s children’s lives. Past time the lame-stream acts their age.
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