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James Rosen GRILLS State Dept. on why it took so long to capture Benghazi suspect (VIDEO)
The Right Scoop ^ | June 17 2014 | The Right Scoop

Posted on 06/17/2014 12:02:36 PM PDT by PoloSec

Earlier in the State Department briefing, AP reporter Matt Lee pointed out that Ahmed Abu Khattala was not in hiding as Bin Laden was for so many years, and basically asked why it took so long to capture him, especially when he did several news interviews.

Lee got little in response to his question from State Dept. spokeswoman Jen Psaki, other than there were a ‘range of factors’ that led to Khattala being captured on Sunday and her reasoning that terrorists would gladly meet with news reporters to get their message out but wouldn’t likely meet with US Special forces if they scheduled a meeting with him.

Following up on Lee’s questioning, Fox News reporter James Rosen took the questioning further, asking why US Special Forces couldn’t have made an ‘unscheduled’ meeting with Khattala over the past 2 years to capture him.

Psaki dodged the question, suggesting, once again, that terrorist are likely to meet with news reporters to get their message out and that there was a ‘range of factors’ that only made Khattala’s capture recently.

Pushing his point, Rosen asked why US Special Forces couldn’t have pretended to be news reporters to capture Khattala. Psaki quipped that if he were volunteering himself for future endeavors they would take that into account.

Rosen pushed back, telling Psaki she wasn’t answering his question and decided to put it in the most simplest of terms, asking why a reporter was able to get within six inches of Khattala but the US Special Forces weren’t able to do so for more than two years.

Psaki still didn’t have a good answer, telling Rosen that it’s more complicated for US Special Forces to nab a terrorist that it is to call him up for an interview.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; benghazi; bobbergdahl; bowebergdahl; gettherope; gitmo; impeachnow; irs; loislerner

1 posted on 06/17/2014 12:02:36 PM PDT by PoloSec
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To: PoloSec

It’s not easy to find a patsy.


2 posted on 06/17/2014 12:06:08 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: PoloSec

It’s not an hour melodrama on TV where they capture the bad guy at the end ...


3 posted on 06/17/2014 12:07:20 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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To: PoloSec
Hysterical. This administration and its whores editing the news can't seem to find their fannies with both hands anymore.

BTW the only reason we hear about this is there are still a few reporters from the legacy press willing to ask tough questions, and other reporters from alternative news sources present at the briefing willing to bring the news to us.

Otherwise these stories would be left on the cutting room floor.

4 posted on 06/17/2014 12:10:40 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: PoloSec

Why did it take so long?

Because for a long time it appeared they might well get away with it ALL, scott-free.

But beyond a threshold point the evidence got pretty thick —apparently it WASN’T quite totally going away.

So the calculus shifted, and now it makes more sense for Hillary for THE REGIME’S PARTNER to turn himself in and…

SAY HE WAS MOTIVATED BY THE ***VIDEO***.

Yes, a partner now just as then.


5 posted on 06/17/2014 12:13:24 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: PoloSec
"We were praying, as usual, the merciful Allah be praised, with our AK's stacked in the corner. It seemed a Benghazi day like any other, inshallah. And then from the YouTube flicker devil screen the most slanderous, apostate video played forth, and we were sad and angered as never before. And my worshippers looked about the room, searching one another's eyes. And we KNEW with the consulate 5 blocks away WHAT WE HAD TO DO…!!"

Impossible? WATCH.

He's going to say this, and get Hillary off the hook, and he'll be PAID.

Later after the kidnapping of who know whom from our side he'll be swapped back.

In your heart you were already thinking this.

6 posted on 06/17/2014 12:21:29 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: PoloSec
Cause the US Administration didn't want him to be found?
He may have some damaging information.
If the suspect dies, or DOJ foists a lawyer on him like they did for Tsarnaev, before he can give any answers, that would confirm it for me.

7 posted on 06/17/2014 12:21:38 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: PoloSec

They knew right where he was and how to get him when they wanted to. He is their ace up their sleeve.


8 posted on 06/17/2014 12:22:03 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: BitWielder1
From CNN on July 31, 2013: Lawmaker: If CNN can interview suspect in Benghazi attack, why can't FBI?

Chaffetz was referring to CNN's recent interview with Ahmed Abu Khattala, who Libyan and U.S. officials have described as the Benghazi leader of the al Qaeda-affiliated militia group Ansar al-Sharia -- one of many groups that filled the vacuum of authority following the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi.

9 posted on 06/17/2014 12:32:38 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: PoloSec

State Dept.: Because we weren’t finished coaching him on what to say.


10 posted on 06/17/2014 12:32:58 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: PoloSec

It’s an obama concession to rel;easing the five terrorists who will murder again. And it’s probably killing him. He’ll find some way to keep this pig poop of allahs alive.


11 posted on 06/17/2014 12:44:56 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: servo1969
Bingo! "That's You-tube!! Say it was You-tube"
12 posted on 06/17/2014 1:43:40 PM PDT by CharleysPride (aut numquid tute es legere me translate)
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To: PoloSec
there were a ‘range of factors’ that led to Khattala being captured on Sunday

Say, uh, Abu..? Hill, here. Yeah, inshallah, indeed..! Back at ya..!

Good times, right..?

Say, Abu, ole' buddy, ole' pal, we, uh…have a situation here we really need to iron out, and we have TONS of money, you know?

For the right price and a prisoner swap later, what we need from you is to consider "getting captured" and then confessing that it was THE VIDEO that motivated you and your guys to attack the facility..?

How does $50 million sound for two years, huh?

Whaddya say..?

13 posted on 06/17/2014 2:33:00 PM PDT by gaijin
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