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Media discover Benghazi, notice Obama stonewalling
washingtonpost.com ^ | 11/2/2012 | Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 11/02/2012 7:41:37 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

Well, it finally happened. The mainstream media have figured out that Benghazi is a big story and potentially a serious national security scandal. After weeks of silence, a plethora of mainstream media news stories have popped.

*snip*

CBS News reports: “CBS News has learned that during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Obama Administration did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource: the Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG). ‘The CSG is the one group that’s supposed to know what resources every agency has. They know of multiple options and have the ability to coordinate counterterrorism assets across all the agencies,’ a high-ranking government official told CBS News. ‘They were not allowed to do their job. They were not called upon.’ ”

As conservative critics have pointed out for weeks, the White House cover story didn’t match the information held by intelligence agencies:

In the days after the assault, counterterrorism officials expressed dismay over what they interpreted as the Obama Administration’s unwillingness to acknowledge that the attack was terrorism; and their opinion that resources which could have helped were excluded.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazicoverup; benghazipress; cbs; coverup; jenniferrubin; libya; threatmatrix
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To: The_Media_never_lie

but this is so blatantly incompetent they are in an indefensible position.

If anything good comes out of their reporting it is that they will lose creditability with a few more of their public. Sad that Americans had to die to prove once again the incompency of this administration and the corruption and bias of the mainstream media.


21 posted on 11/02/2012 8:56:40 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: MestaMachine
Thank God--and I mean that literally!--for Catherine Herridge, Jennifer Griffin and Fox News.

Herridge and Griffin especially--they both deserve Pulitzers for their reporting, and so do Greta and Bret Baier for their bull-dog efforts to pull the rug out from under O and those "sicko"phants in his administration and the LSM who have used it to cover-up the truth about "Benghazigate"!

22 posted on 11/02/2012 8:57:04 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement.)
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To: RoosterRedux

 

23 posted on 11/02/2012 9:08:12 AM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Are you kidding? Hurricane Sandy is the big story - local paper hasn’t mentionned Benghazi since last Friday, and that was quoting the administration line.

I don’t watch television, and I don’t know what the papers are running outside of the NYC/NJ/Philadelphia .

It probably doesn’t matter much - what could make NJ swing Republican, for instance? More than Benghazi and foreign sex trips for our senator, that’s for sure.

But really people - for nearly all of us the storm damage will affect us two weeks tops - the election will take us four years and beyond.

Take your flashlight, hold your nose and vote for Romney.

Which is what I would say if I had a newspaper.


24 posted on 11/02/2012 9:11:15 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: MNGal

Agree.


25 posted on 11/02/2012 9:14:50 AM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Nevadan

Amazing, isn’t it? What part of Nevada you from?


26 posted on 11/02/2012 9:26:09 AM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: rurgan

how many have even heard of Benghazi?

Most won’t learn of Benghazi until after the election and only if the leftist idiots in the MSM decide to tell them.


27 posted on 11/02/2012 9:29:53 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: heartwood
Just have a look at Google news. Their lead story for the past week has been Sandy. All Sandy all the time. Today they took a break to report that the latest jobs report shows "Persistent Growth". Yah, right.

Maybe by Monday they may notice that there is an election coming.

28 posted on 11/02/2012 9:48:21 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Ecclesiastes 1)
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To: Bitsy; RoosterRedux

NO, they are NOT waking up, they knew it all along the way, but swept it under the Soetoro’s “silence” rug!

They are now afraid to be left behind with rotten eggs on their faces!!

Because they see now that FOX is prying this criminal war case wide open with help of many whistle-blower officials and military outrage!!!


29 posted on 11/02/2012 9:49:52 AM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: RoosterRedux

I think the media is covering this just in passing a milestone of sorts. They need some credibility and/or traction should a story break in the next three days, they’ll need to put out that fire. Can’t be seen as totally unaware.


30 posted on 11/02/2012 10:03:06 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: SC_Pete

Las Vegas


31 posted on 11/02/2012 10:44:16 AM PDT by Nevadan
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To: Nevadan

Searchlight is killing us.


32 posted on 11/02/2012 11:14:16 AM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: Bitsy

No the media will not cover Benghazi. Probably only a few token Internet articles but not the massive coverage Benghazi would be getting if this were a Republican president( it would have been more than the Sandy coverage it would be on every 2 minutes on the news). Look at how much coverage the media gave Abu Gharib when one died there.


33 posted on 11/02/2012 11:14:44 AM PDT by rurgan (give laws an expiration date:so the congress has to review every 4 years to see if needed)
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To: rurgan
Benghazi would be getting if this were a Republican president( it would have been more than the Sandy coverage

You are right. People better start letting them know we know what biased, leftist elitists they are. When Romney becomes president it will be all out war on him. We better be prepared for the return volley.

34 posted on 11/02/2012 11:49:56 AM PDT by Bitsy
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