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Military Briefed Obama On Benghazi Terrorist Attack
Investors Business Daily ^ | 2-1-2016 | editor

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: beghazicoverup; benghazi; carterham; dempsey; obama; obamabenghazi; panetta
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To: Son House

Obama Lies 24/7!

FACT.

So never listen to anything he says, only look at his actions.

Yes, he is guilty of intentional destruction of the US and our natural allies.


41 posted on 02/02/2016 5:04:05 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

You cannot dismiss this as a lie until Panetta, Demsey, Ham, or anyone else on the ‘national security team’ testifies otherwise.


42 posted on 02/02/2016 5:11:19 AM PST by Son House (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; the Original Legislative Fraud.)
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To: Son House

Obama: “we did everything we could to secure those Americans”

Was/is a lie.

Was there a brief mutiny of the military, probably.


43 posted on 02/02/2016 5:39:31 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Not saying I disagree, just get Panetta, Demsey, Ham, on record saying they never got the order.


44 posted on 02/02/2016 2:15:21 PM PST by Son House (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; the Original Legislative Fraud.)
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To: annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; Nachum; onyx; ...

Benghazi ping.

Let Republicanprofessor know if you want on or off this ping list.


45 posted on 02/03/2016 3:20:37 AM PST by Republicanprofessor
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To: Texas Fossil

I’m surprised to see Dempsey actually tried to proceed as if it were a terror attack...


46 posted on 02/03/2016 6:36:26 AM PST by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe)
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To: cardinal4

Nothing surprised me anymore.


47 posted on 02/03/2016 7:05:05 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

And .. I don’t have any transcript to prove it, but I heard that General Ham was livid at Obama over Benghazi. And, as a result, General Ham apparently was ready to march on the WH. Obama fired him.

And .. because of that incident, Obama began demanding his Generals (primarily) agree to fire on American citizens. If they refused, they were told to resign or they would be fired. I had this confirmed to me as being true.

This President has no regard for our military. And, I believe he’s done just about everything short of actually shooting them .. to try and destroy our whole military complex.


48 posted on 02/03/2016 9:00:58 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The Fields are White Unto Harvest")
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To: The Final Harvest

The ComDems have hated the military most of my lifetime.

I’ve acted to expose Leftist Liars since the 1970’s. Their presence in government has become much worse.

It’s TIME to DownSize DC! Close entire Rogue/Unconstitutional Departments, including their SWAT Teams.

That is the only path to remove the subversives from government. Most are protected from firing. So, close the Department, reorganize government selectively.

Move the center-of-gravity of government aways from DC.


49 posted on 02/03/2016 9:14:35 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Thanks for posting it.


50 posted on 02/03/2016 9:15:19 AM PST by Dante3
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To: Texas Fossil

The unions in government hold all the cards. The DemocRATS and Repubs will not fire people .. because I think they’re afraid of losing their donations from the UNIONS.

This is so incestuous .. it’s just sickening.

We really do need a COMPLETE HOUSE-CLEANING .. and I do so agree about the SWAT teams. They only came about because Obama removed all the military from the WAR zones, and all this equipment was left over .. so since taxpayers paid for the equipment anyway, some of these departments just took possession of the stuff and formed their own little armies.

And, we have seen on TV, that all the equipment we left behind in Iraq and Afghanistan have been used by ISIS .. which I’m sure is okay with Obama.


51 posted on 02/03/2016 9:32:37 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The Fields are White Unto Harvest")
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To: The Final Harvest

No, it happened because it was Obama’s plan from the beginning to have an illegal national police force. These are his brownshirts.


52 posted on 02/03/2016 9:39:17 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Yes, you’re right.

I believe it was Obama’s plan from the beginning; and it just became easier when they had all that left-over equipment from the Wars. This way, all these units were put into action by stealth .. because they didn’t have to spend any money to buy all that equipment.


53 posted on 02/03/2016 9:55:35 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The Fields are White Unto Harvest")
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To: The Final Harvest

People cost money. Even Obot true believers expect to be paid.


54 posted on 02/03/2016 10:03:12 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: butlerweave; Texas Fossil

Where then do we have General Ham’s “demotion” of command and also the Admiral???


55 posted on 02/04/2016 1:56:15 PM PST by danamco
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To: danamco

General in Benghazi Scandal Suddenly Retires

http://www.westernjournalism.com/general-in-benghazi-scandal-suddenly-retires/

I don’t believe a word of this from Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.

He is covering Obozo’s ass and blackmailed Ham into retiring.

The statements that he was insubordinate to orders sounds credible and there is no way this officer is responsible for the stand down.

Remnants of the rumors are scattered over the web, with the content missing. Obozo’s fingerprints.


56 posted on 02/04/2016 5:20:49 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: danamco

October 28, 2012

Benghazigate: General Ham: “No Order to Protect Consulate”

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/163039/benghazigate-general-ham-no-order-protect-daniel-greenfield

Defense Secretary Panetta had claimed that the refusal to use force had come from him, General Dempsey and General Ham.

General Ham appears to have broken with that story and is taking no responsibility for the decision not to bail out the consulate and the Navy SEALS. There have been rumors that General Ham has been fired or forced out. There is no way to confirm them at this point until they come from more reliable sources. Even major sites are running things based on internet forum rumors or speculation with nothing behind it. And that’s not the way to go. It’s the way to sabotage the investigation of this story which is to proceed from known information and tie it together with reliable reports.

Excuses back an forth, but in my opinion, the Bitch & the Bastard were both responsible for this. All else is lies and cover-up.


57 posted on 02/04/2016 5:30:57 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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