Posted on 10/12/2012 10:52:25 AM PDT by seanmerc
Vice President Joseph Biden speaks only for himself and President Barack Obama, and neither man was aware that U.S. officials in Libya had asked the State Department for more security before the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, a top White House official told The Cable.
Biden has come under fire for saying at Thursday night's debate, "We weren't told they wanted more security. We did not know they wanted more security there."
The Cable asked Deputy National Security Advisor for Communications Ben Rhodes whether Biden was speaking for the entire Obama administration, including the State Department, which acknowledged receiving multiple requests for more Libya security in the months before the attacks. Rhodes said that Biden speaks only for himself and the president and neither of them knew about the requests at the time.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecable.foreignpolicy.com ...
When you have an organistaion named Martyrs of the Feb. 17th Revolution who are in actuality members of the Muslim Brotherhood guarding and American Embassy , I don’t care if there are a hundred thousand of them they do not have the safety of Americans as their primary goal.
Someone should be hanged for allowing that.
Bush forgot to tell them.
So I guess they must have fired the people who turned down the requests for security once they found out.
?4. Maybe they should STOP blaming people who are NOT allowed to answer back.
5. Maybe they should take responsibility for their mistakes.
VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: I will be very specific. Number one, the — this lecture on embassy security — the congressman here cut embassy security in his budget by $300 million below what we asked for, number one. So much for the embassy security piece.
A classic Limbaugh line applies:
“The buck never got here!”
This stuff is above Obama’s and Biden’s pay grade.
“I didn’t know” is not a defense. Has any WH ever before used incompetence as an excuse for the deaths of embassy staff? Should Americans respond “Oh, alright then.” and gloss over this newly admitted “Choom-gang” incompetence?
embassy security budget-
I watched the (C-span) hearing Wed. the budget issue was addressed. The question was asked to Ms Lamb. She said funds were not an issue. They had the funds to support added security.
Did anyone else hear that?
Biden was off in a corner picking lint from his belly button and hussein was eating ice cream. Give them a break. Priorities, man, priorities.
We should be reminded that when the intelligence community was heavily criticized in the past, some very damaging information was leaked by the intel community about the source of the criticism...and those guys always know where the skeletons are hiding out...
When Obama gets that 3:00 am phone call, he assumes its a wrong number and does not bother answering.
I think this goes a lot higher than Hillary, although I’m sure she was involved. Now that the administration has decided to throw her under the bus, I’m looking forward to watching the meltdown.
Obama and Biden participated in the COVERUP!!
(coverup: an attempt to prevent people’s discovering the truth about a serious mistake or crime.)
IMPEACH the bastards....then send them to GITMO.
EXCELLENT additions to the list!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LRKGOrRkT4&feature=youtu.be
State Department: Budget Had Nothing To Do With Security Decisions At Benghazi
Yup. They could have had an F-16 there in 20 minutes, but Obama said it could wait until the next day. By then, the damage was done. That is not leadership, unless you call it leadership for our enemies and then it becomes treason.
That is one good golly GOTCHA! No member of the Mouthpiece Media will think to ask that as a follow-up though.
Interesting catch Terry.
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