Posted on 02/01/2016 7:45:41 AM PST by Texas Fossil
Deceit: Newly declassified transcripts show top defense officials who briefed Obama on the day of the Benghazi attack described it as a terrorist attack and told the president so, yet he pushed a false narrative about a video.
Just as the new book by former Defense Secretary Bob Gates confirmed what many believed, that President Obama was a politically motivated commander-in-chief who had no faith in an Afghan surge he put 30,000 Americans in harm's way to execute, transcripts of congressional testimony by military leaders confirm that President Obama knew Benghazi was a terrorist attack before he went to bed to rest for a Las Vegas fundraising trip.
Fox News reporter James Rosen examined 450 pages of declassified testimony given by senior Pentagon officials in closed-door hearings held last year by Congress. In those hearings, Gen. Carter Ham, who at the time headed Africom, the Defense Department combat command with jurisdiction over Libya, testified that he learned about the assault on the consulate compound within 15 minutes of its start, at 9:42 p.m. Libya time, from the Africom Command Center.
Ham said he immediately contacted Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey to say he was coming down the hall at the Pentagon to meet with him.
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yes
And the evidence of that is sub-par security for that compound, in spite of repeated desperate pleas for more security, in an area so dangerous that the Red Cross and all other nations’ personnel had already left. EVERYBODY knew it was a hotbed of terrorists, and the Obama regime deliberately left our people unprotected in the middle of that.
Ignoring the RESOUNDING cries for help - from EVERYBODY within the system - that night was just a continuation of what their plan had been all along. And exactly what that plan was NEEDS to be found out and exposed. Obama should be removed from the Office of President immediately, until he can give good reasons to believe he is NOT committing treason against the US Constitution, the US military, and the citizens of the USA.
#GolfGamesMatter
Some would say Joe Biden would be as bad as Obama, but Biden is at least American. While recognizing that Obamacare was a “big f-ing deal”, do we really think he would order an Iranian EMP attack against the US in November or December to extend Obama’s “presidency” to the 8-10 years he said he’d be POTUS back in July of 2008?
I have no doubt that Obama would be willing to do it. Biden, I’m not so sure about. Because he’s American, there may still be some sentimental desire to keep America in existence. And that is why Biden is better to have as CINC than Obama, as we near the 8-year mark in what Obama said would be his 8-10-year “Presidency”.
He wrote in one of his books that he would side with the moslems over usins. What a posterior orifice he is.
Oh, Obama was merely “politically motivated.” How quaint. How about Obama purposely ALLOWED 4 AMERICANS TO DIE SO HE COULD GET RE-ELECTED!!!?
THEY’RE DEAD AND OBAMA HAS THEIR BLOOD ON HIS HANDS! MURDERING BASTARD!!
‘It is a disgrace that the only person ever jailed for the Benghazi attack was the maker of that irrelevant video.’
Surely the terrorists had info from Hillary’s server that she refused to protect our embassy making it a likely and easy target.
Here’s what I think I know. Someone please correct me wherever I’m wrong:
1. Both Hillary and President Obama were briefed that our ambassador was under attack.
2. The attack was ongoing.
3. The attack was conducted by terrorist organizations.
4. The military had assets ready to help.
5. The military was not given authorization to intervene.
6. Good people died who might not have had the military intervened.
The obvious questions are how high up the chain of command at Pentagon, the State Department, and the President’s staff did the request for a military intervention go, how did those three parties argue the case (intervene or don’t intervene), and who made the final decision to deny the military assistance?
For a highly unlikely example: Maybe Hillary and Obama wanted to intervene but they were talked out of doing so by the Joint Chiefs.
Whatever the answers are, we need to know them before the next election. We won’t, of course.
Hillary friends telling Obama they have sharp claws? And will talk? Hillary doesn't want to go to prison.
“Hillary doesn’t want to go to prison. “
But she deserves to.
How High?
Real or Not Real, you make up your mind.
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“U.S. General Arrested for Activating Special Forces Teams; Ignoring Libya Stand-Down Order”
Yes, he lies 24/7. If he told the truth he would be in GITMO himself.
Yes, I totally agree.
I think you might be right on that...
#5. The military was not given authorization to intervene.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/presidential-debate-full-transcript/story?id=17538888
OBAMA: ...Now with respect to Libya, as I indicated in the last debate, when we received that phone call, I immediately made sure that, number one, that we did everything we could to secure those Americans who were still in harm's way;
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/16/163050988/transcript-obama-romney-2nd-presidential-debate
PRESIDENT OBAMA: ...So as soon as we found out that the Benghazi consulate was being overrun, I was on the phone with my national security team, and I gave them three instructions.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/10/198791.htm
I neglected to mention from the top that that agent from the top of this incident, or the very beginning of this incident, has been on the phone. He had called the quick reaction security team, he had called the Libyan authorities, he had called the Embassy in Tripoli, and he had called Washington. He had them all going to ask for help.
Obozo failed to give cross border authorization?
Yes, I read about that concept long ago.
It is said, one of the military commanders was about to ignore the lack of authority and go ahead and deploy rescue effort. And is rumored to have been removed from command for it. (from what I have read, Obama Administration denies that happened)
“we did everything we could to secure those Americans”
That means EVERYTHING including cross border authorization, unless Panetta, Demsey, Ham, or anyone else on ‘my national security team’ testifies otherwise.
This shows from the beginning the whole chain of command is aware and was given an order that no one obeyed.
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