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Here's the biggest issue the Benghazi committee didn't ask Hillary Clinton about
Business Insider ^ | 10/25/2015 | Armin Rosen

Posted on 10/25/2015 10:56:37 AM PDT by BraveMan

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The questions from the committee touched on everything from Clinton's correspondence with controversial ally and informal adviser Sidney Blumenthal, to the several allegedly ignored requests for increased security at the US diplomatic facility in Benghazi.

But the questioners didn't seem as interested in what the diplomatic facility was actually doing. In her testimony, Clinton said the facility was "placed there to help us make a determination about what we would need going forward in Benghazi," and might have been used to help set up an eventual US consulate in Libya's second-largest city.

But circumstantial evidence quickly emerged after the attack to suggest that one of the more useful roles of the facility was to provide some degree of cover for the CIA's various operations in Benghazi. Those operations clearly involved arranging militia protection for US assets in Benghazi and maintaining ties with the militant groups that would play a role in the country's post-conflict security and political landscape. And they might have involved securing and then transferring loose weaponry.

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1 posted on 10/25/2015 10:56:37 AM PDT by BraveMan
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To: BraveMan
They were expecting the Gauzy tribe to protect them while they were perceived to be supporting the Tripipolitan tribe.
2 posted on 10/25/2015 11:02:45 AM PDT by Domangart
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To: BraveMan
to the several allegedly ignored requests for increased security

Several? It was 600, you leftist hack.

3 posted on 10/25/2015 11:07:01 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

The only people assigned to the “consulate” we’re security people. The same thing is true in other posts where the main purpose is support of cia operations. Like Peshwar.


4 posted on 10/25/2015 11:13:18 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: smoothsailing
Increased security? Hell no, that would interfere with Morsi/Hillary's plot to get the Ambassador kidnapped so Morsi could gain the release of the Blind Sheik before the U.S. presidential election. There wasn't much time left!

Also, those 'nice guys' who found Stevens and took him to the hospital? WHO WERE THEY? They were probably Morsi's men and they needed to keep Chris alive so he could used in the trade for the Blind Sheik. Stevens had NO value to them dead.

5 posted on 10/25/2015 11:14:53 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: Domangart

Benghazi was the communications center for the transfer of weapons from the Muslim Brotherhood operatives in Libya to the Muslim Brotherhood operatives in Syria (later the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, ISIS). The Libyan branch objected to giving up the weapons and the attack was launched to break up this clandestine transfer.

Most of the thrust against the long-standing tyrants of the Middle eastern Islamic countries, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, has been with the active participation of the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Al Qaeda was only one of the franchises.


6 posted on 10/25/2015 11:15:31 AM PDT by alloysteel (Do not argue with trolls. That means they win.)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

You’re right on the money, OISA. It was initially all about the Blind Sheik plot. After that blew up it became protecting Obama’s re-election and covering up the weapons transfers.


7 posted on 10/25/2015 11:23:06 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: BraveMan

The Republicans were too easy on the hard core witch. Hope the Trump ads will expose Hillary with clips and give her hell. There is enough stuff to hardly repeat oneself the rest of the primary time.


8 posted on 10/25/2015 11:30:41 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: smoothsailing
Yep. And the approximately NINE security personnel including two SEALs (Doherty and Woods), all from the Annex being ordered to STAND DOWN and NOT go to consulate to rescue personnel fits into the 'hostage-taking op' and 0bama/Hillary's desperation of not blowing its cover.

Two SEALs went to the consulate anyway to round up staff who were then guided back to the Annex where a full-scale battle ensued.

Why on Earth would security personnel from the Annex NOT BE ALLOWED TO SAVE PERSONNEL AT THE CONSULATE?? The ONLY explanation is that the regime wanted AS FEW PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TO KNOW ABOUT THE 'HOSTAGE-TAKING PLOT' GOING ON AT THE CONSULATE.

9 posted on 10/25/2015 11:35:46 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: BraveMan

tell us about the 35 other people rescued... not a consulate
why so many people?
and what were they there for?
why 600 requests denied

IF HILLARY WAS NOT DISCUSSING BENGHAZI AFTER THE ATTACK.... WHAT WAS SHE DOING? AND WHY THE DERELICTION OF DUTY?
WHAT ACTION DID SHE TAKE AND WHO WAS SHE COMMUNICATING WITH DURING THE ATTACK?

SINCE WE KNOW THE NAMES ADDRESSES AND PHONE NUMBERS OF THE PERPS... AND THE PROMISE TO BRING TO JUSTICE, WHY THE DEALY AND WHAT ONGOING ACTION IS TAKEN?

she asked for the 3 am call
got it
and hung up

UNFIT FOR PUBLIC OFFICE
GUILTY OF AT LEAST 10 FELONIES... called “mistakes” bt Obama
and
GUILTY OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.... just like NIXON


10 posted on 10/25/2015 11:35:58 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: BraveMan
I'm not sure what the author was getting at. This is so obvious to me that it's clear why the House committee has never addressed it.

1. The U.S. Marine Corps is responsible for guarding U.S. embassies around the world.

2. The facility in Benghazi was not an embassy.

3. The U.S. Marines were apparently nowhere to be seen when U.S. Ambassador Stevens was abducted and killed in Benghazi.

4. The "former Navy SEALS" who came to the aid of the U.S. State Dept. staff in Benghazi were working for a private security contractor.

Put these four factual points together, and here's what is clear as day to me:

A. Ambassador Stevens wasn't just an ambassador. He was over there engaged in some kind of covert operation on behalf of the CIA, a foreign government, or both.

B. Congress knows all about this.

C. It will never be brought up in these hearings because the U.S. government's role in whatever operation went bad in Benghazi can't be made public.

11 posted on 10/25/2015 11:43:07 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: BraveMan

The committee had three years to prepare and 11 hours to grill Hillary to get the story out

They had all the facts they needed to demonstrate what a total incompetent Hillary is, how she failed to do her job, how she covered it up and how her conduct led to the deaths of four Americans.

But they didn’t get the job done in a way that would convince the world of her culpability.


12 posted on 10/25/2015 11:52:53 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Alberta's Child; BraveMan

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3352624/posts?page=124#124


13 posted on 10/25/2015 12:01:48 PM PDT by Qiviut
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To: BraveMan

There were two U.S. facilities involved in this fight.

The first is where the Ambassador was. Call it “The Annex”.

The second facility is where the CIA employees were. Call it “The CIA Facility”.

The Annex was attacked first.

Regardless of what it was actually used for, the Obama Administration has consistently portrayed The Annex as a diplomatic facility.

When the attack started, everyone (with the exception of the enemy) thought it was an attack only on the American diplomatic facility.

There were no reports of the enemy scouting the CIA Facility or preparing to attack it.

So, in the first few hour of the attack, Hillary and Obama know the enemy is attacking The Annex. They immediately begin searching for lies to explain why the enemy attacked The Annex.

Why?

They should have been totally focused on saving American lives. Even if you give them a break and say, “Well, maybe during a break they thought they should come up with a story to coverup why the enemy attacked The Annex so they wouldn’t look bad.”

At that point in time, knowing what they know and surmising that the world would find out about the attack on The Annex, why would they be worrying about shaping how the world viewed the reason for the attack on The Annex?

Everyone would think,

“Eh, it’s the Middle East. They hate us.”

They have to make up a lie to distract us from that?

That kind of thinking helps them.

They behaved like guilty people.

They behaved like people who were really worried about the world finding out why the enemy attacked the Annex in Benghazi.


14 posted on 10/25/2015 12:08:37 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6
The first facility attacked was the 'consulate', that's where Ambassador Stevens was.

The second facility is the 'Annex', where the CIA was.

After the SEALs departed the Annex against orders to go rescue staff at the consulate, they brought the staff back over to their Annex because it more heavily armed and not set ablaze as the consulate was. The fight at the Annex lasted over 8 hours and that's where Doherty and Woods fought to their deaths with no U.S. rescue in sight.

0bama went to bed in preparation for his Las Vegas fundraiser while Doherty and Woods were manning machine guns trying to stay alive, waiting for their rescue that never came.

15 posted on 10/25/2015 12:32:49 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

You can call them Facility 1 and Facility 2 or Facility A and Facility B.

One was the diplomatic facility and one was the CIA facility.

The two SEALs were flown in from Tripoli on a chartered private jet.

They went to the CIA facility. The fight at the diplomatic facility was over by the time they got to Benghazi.

At least that’s what the security guys on the FOX news special on Benghazi said last night.


16 posted on 10/25/2015 12:44:53 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: BraveMan
Since the hearings have wrapped up, I see now why Trey Gowdy is always sporting that tussled hair. It's because when Hillary commands him to heel and he sits at her feet, she rubs his head with those crooked, sticky fingers. I'd say the committee had an opportunity to put this wretched, treasonous whore in jail; somehow their reluctance to mess with the next president got to them and now they've essentially paved the way for our first female president. I'll admit that I was initially hopeful that there would be some justice earned for her going into this. Now I remember why I shouldn't be so optimistic. I can't wait to see the FBI's exculpatory evidence rendered from her server investigation.
17 posted on 10/25/2015 12:52:29 PM PDT by La.daddyrabbit (Obama could f**k-up a cup of coffee.)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Not long after, reports came in saying that:
1. Stevens was known to be gay by the bearded goat f-ers.
2. When they got to him, he was alive. So they sodomized him, including with objects.
3. Then he died.

Lots of pics including selfies backed it up. Then they went down the wormhole.


18 posted on 10/25/2015 4:28:40 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Trump: Black Swan Event--Black Swan Don)
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To: miele man

book mark


19 posted on 10/25/2015 4:38:29 PM PDT by miele man
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