Washington Post Story on Libya Stinks to High Heaven

[rkoliver]

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/world/cia-tried-to-save-envoys-in-libya-660276/

Please read the entire article and tell me of you can find the rotten fish heads. As a former newspaper editor, it stuck out immediately in the first sentence.

[Sequoyah101]

Where is the link?

[Travis McGee]

Link to story.

The CIA story is a head-fake, misdirection to by the White House time to get past the election. Don't go for the sleight of hand.

The issue is the MILITARY QRF waiting for the "launch order" at Sigonella, the same distance from Benghazi as Tripoli.

By the time the pathetic little ad-hoc CIA "rescue team" found its way to the Benghazi annex, they should have been met by 100+ Force Recon Marines, who had already been sent from Sigonella. With USN and USAF jets controlling the sky all the way to space, ready to spit death down at anybody holding a weapon near our property.

Benghazi's Smoking Gun: Only President Can Grant Cross-Border Authority."

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[Sirius Lee]

Bump

[humble and shy]

I wish I could say unbelievable, but it’s not. Why is the press so invested in this failure of a President? It boggles my mind. Our slain American heroes deserve better than this. We need someone to step forward and blow this story wide open. To tell the truth. Then again, I wonder if anyone knows what that word means anymore.

[Sequoyah101]

Fabrication is what the post story is. You’re rigt... head fake, watch my other hand etc. The more they release the more they lie and the deeper the hole gets. They really don’t seem to be very good at this.

[fireman15]

You are right... the story is pathetic from start to finish. It was known from the beginning that this was a coordinated and organized attack not a mob action. It is also known that CIA leadership told the persons who responded to the consulate to “stand down” at least twice before the men disobeyed orders. This could only have come directly from the Obama administration.

[Mouton]

The byline should read it was drafted by His Excellency’s press corpse!

[drunknsage]

That story is pathetic. It doesnt ask the right questions and apparently they arent calling in any analysts, other than pro democrat ones, to take a look at the information and really process it. They see the CIA responded and think, “Look, SEE, Obama did something case closed!”

The new information from the CIA has alot written between the lines. They are laying out a timeline of events and showing that they were the ONLY ones to respond and that help did not come from outside the country, furthering the idea that CBA was not granted.

BTW, way to go Freepers for following up on this story and staying all over it. Thank you to the veterans for taking the time to educate us because without that we would be in the dark.

[RobertClark]

I read this article earlier. I was over at the DUmpster earlier to do my daily opposition research an they are fanatical about the fact that this story proves that “Obama knew what he was doing all along”. How in the hell does one arrive at that conclusion based on this story? They easily arrived at the justification of allowing our ambassador to be paraded, dead, through the streets as a trophy by savage islamic extremists. How does the alleged CIA involvement change any of the facts thus far? It doesn’t - period. The CIA (Cheney’s killing machine) were reviled under the past administration, and now they are revered by the libtards today.

[Travis McGee]

The real story is CBA, and the fact that Obama wouldn't grant it to the military, who had forces waiting to go.

The pathetic little ad-hoc CIA "rescue team" in the chartered twin engine should have been met by the Marines who had already arrived in Benghazi before them.

Former SEAL: Obama Never Gave ‘Cross-Border Authority’ Orders

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[TomGuy]

It only took them about 53 days to come up with this narrative.

They’ve been working on and revising the narrative for nearly 2 months now.

This one just ignores the several ‘stand down’ orders to Woods, Doherty and 2 other CIA contractors. It ignores that those four, per earlier reports, disobeyed orders and went to the fighting.

This version ignores the movie that the Obama Administration claimed as the culprit for several weeks.

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If this version IS a true representation of what happened, why did it take 53 days for the Obama Administration to come up with it?

[MestaMachine]

So much for anyone who entertained the thought for more than a minute that petraeus was anything close to a straight shooter. The operating procedure for Benghazi and everything it entails from this administration is TRUST NO ONE and VERIFY EVERYTHING against the evidence to the bery best of our ability. We WILL get this story right and we WILL continue to search for the truth regardless of what they say or what they do because we NEED to honor our Brothers in Arms and the oath we took to protect and defend against all enemies foreign and domestic.
The barbarians are not at the gates. They sit at the head of this government which is the most corrupt of my lifetime. I thought it couldn’t get worse than clinton. I was wrong. ..although for my money, this is simply the extension of the clinton regime with a black face.

[TomGuy]

Two CIA contractors, both former Navy SEALs, were killed: Tyrone Woods, a security officer based in Benghazi, and Glen Doherty, who was part of the team rushed by air from Tripoli.

That is news.

Per previous reports, Doherty was a part of the same group as Woods, and they were in Benghazi investigating some 20,000 missing surface-to-air missiles.

This is the first I have seen that Doherty came with a team from Tripoli.

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“.....The American special operators, Woods, Doherty and at least two others were part of the Global Response Staff, a CIA element, based at the CIA annex and were protecting CIA operators who were part of a mission to track and repurchase arms in Benghazi that had proliferated in the wake of Muammar Qaddafi’s fall. Part of their mission was to find the more than 20,000 missing MANPADS, or shoulder-held missiles capable of bringing down a commercial aircraft. According to a source on the ground at the time of the attack, the team inside the CIA annex had captured three Libyan attackers and was forced to hand them over to the Libyans. U.S. officials do not know what happened to those three attackers and whether they were released by the Libyan forces.......”

Source: israpundit.com

[MestaMachine]

bery
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First post out of the box. Phooey.

[MestaMachine]

“Two CIA contractors, both former Navy SEALs, were killed: Tyrone Woods, a security officer based in Benghazi, and Glen Doherty, who was part of the team rushed by air from Tripoli.”

Straight up BS.
And you don’t hear anything about the two members of the team that DID fly in that were killed trying to just get TO the firefight. They were ambushed on the way. Six Americans died that night. We only hear about four. WHY?

[Hanna548]

What a bunch of BULL! Do they really think we are this stupid? The CIA has to wait around for a ride...REALLY?? The CIA trying to get weapons, REALLY??? Big bad guys were around the hospital so they couldn’t go there???? REALLY???? What is this, the Keystone Cops??? Actually this is more like Looney Tunes. I am so furious over this I could spit. How dare them try to convince the American people of this BS! We are talking the CiA!!! The people that TAKE cars and airplanes and even tanks if they need them. The people that leap tall buildings and walk through fire. They are the best in the world right? Or is that REALLY the fairytale? Are we really in this much trouble??? If so, we better all arm up and take turns standing guard. Sorry, I need to go punch a wall. Btw............I am a 66 year old widow. Someone better be glad!

[Hanna548]

We have a lot of Veterans out there, and others familiar with military history. Is there an instance in the past when we have mounted a rescue such as what would have been necessary in Lybia?

[SC_Pete]

The main stream media is assisting a coverup of a story they didn’t even cover. If anyone had any doubt that journalism is dead, this is the autopsy.

[TigersEye]

Outstanding!