wonder what will come first, heads sawed off, or a plane downed...
Posted on 09/24/2012 1:25:01 PM PDT by xzins
The sheer incompetence of our State Department and the Obama administration is once again being trotted out for the world to see.
The tip of the iceberg was exposed last week when CNN reported on the journal of slain US Ambassador Christopher Stevens that one of its news crews had recovered from the smoking rubble of the former US consulate in Benghazi. One had to wonder what possessed a US ambassador to carry a paper journal outside the US embassy in this day and age and how in the name of heaven such a document was left unattended after the attack on the consulate.
Now it appears that the “safe house” where Stevens and others were supposed to find security during the attack was a treasure trove of CIA and State Department information on efforts to recover MANPADS and the identities of local nationals who were working on our behalf.
“It’s a catastrophic intelligence loss,” said one American official who has served in Libya and who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the F.B.I. is still investigating the attack. “We got our eyes poked out.”
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American intelligence operatives also assisted State Department contractors and Libyan officials in tracking shoulder-fired missiles taken from the former arsenals of the former Libyan Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces; they aided in efforts to secure Libya’s chemical weapons stockpiles; and they helped train Libya’s new intelligence service, officials said.
Senior American officials acknowledged the intelligence setback, but insisted that information was still being collected using a variety of informants on the ground, systems that intercept electronic communications like cellphone conversations and satellite imagery. “The U.S. isn’t close to being blind in Benghazi and eastern Libya,” said an American official.
Spokesmen for the C.I.A., the State Department and the White House declined to comment on the matter on Sunday.
Adding to the general aura of disarray was the rather hilarious exchange between one of Hillary’s spokestoads, the French sounding Phillipe Reines, and Buzzfeed’s Michael Hastings when Buzzfeed decided to try to commit a random act of journalism. (You really have to read the article at the link. Trust me your day won’t be complete without it.)
From the tenor of interview, it seems that not only does Mr. Reines have a problem keeping his hands to himself but there is a much larger compromise of intelligence than is currently been reported. In the midst of a slanging match over State’s unprecedented attack on CNN’s reporting, we get this gem:
I do agree that the media has lots of responsibilities, and CNN fulfilled its responsibility by returning the diary while still managing to inform the American public of newsworthy information. So it’s unfortunate that you are trying to make a scapegoat out of CNN. That State was forced to flee Benghazi–again, because of such inadequate security, leaving behind all sorts of sensitive information–tells us more about DoS than CNN.
The lies and dissimulation of this administration in the aftermath of 9/11/12 have been stunning in both their scope and amateurishness. It paints the picture of an incompetent and insular regime only now confronting the first actual questions by the previously stump-trained media and failing miserably in the process.
But of course.
Dems and especially Clintons have always had the opinion that government is so easy, anyone can do it. They treated it that way before, hired and appointed that way and continue to treat it that way.
A Clinton in State GUARANTEES incompetence.
LOLOL!
It was classic.
We should post it, but I think it might take approval due to the language. What do you think?
>> The sheer incompetence of our State Department and the Obama administration is once again being trotted out for the world to see.
And these dirtbags decided to sacrifice the 1st Amendment as a diversion.
“by the previously stump-trained media “
LOL
So NOW we have some idea why he was killed.
I don't find this "Chillin"". I find it chilling...
If I weren’t on my cell and in the Middle of physical therapy I’d do it with a proviso warning .
It was too much!!!
If its not on the list maybe it could be edited appropriately.
Make Hillary start flying commercial. Then, she’ll care.
bump
All foreign Intel Operations should be removed from the oversight & control of the State Department & Sec of State. It needs to be placed under the Pentagon where more rational minds can discern the collected information and coordinate responses if needed. The State Department as far as leaks and bad judgement goes has been compromised for decades.
Our state department is incompetent.
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Incompetant...or sticking to the plan?
Boy, if we have planes getting shot out of the sky over the US, wouldn’t that be just what is needed to declare martial law right around election time?
The "safe house" was reported to be just a regular house with no security and no defense other than the mistaken belief that it was indeed secret and unknown.
Doesn't sound like the kind of place knowledgeable, competent professionals would store important intelligence information.
But then we are talking about the Obama administration and the Clinton State Dept.
wonder what will come first, heads sawed off, or a plane downed...
This is appalling. The 2 former Seals who were murdered were probably going ballistic over what they were seeing.
An intelligence treasure trove in an unsecured house. This isn’t even done in the movies. Even movie directors know that a safe house has to have something....booby traps, document destruction capabilities...something.
Absolutely amazing incompetence.
OK - so AQ had no plans to start shooting jets out of the sky with the 15K manpads they acquired UNTIL Hillary! and zero started cramming some video AQ hadn’t even heard of down Arab Spring throats.
I wouldn’t want to be one of the Libyans who helped us who have been compromised. My guess is that some of them are already gone.
No one will trust us.
That is another disaster.
wouldn't surprise me a bit and it's prolly part of the boy's plan to alienate us from the rest of the world by making us look untrustworthy, which under his term, we are...
Are these the ones that have the GPS in them similar to OnStar®?
We just call them and they phone back their location?
This just sounds ominous.
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