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The Benghazi Scandal
The Weekly Standard ^ | The October 22, 2012 Issue | Stephen F. Hayes

Posted on 10/13/2012 10:12:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 10/13/2012 10:12:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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..”There are two possibilities. Either the intelligence community had a detailed picture of what happened in Benghazi that night and failed to share it with other administration officials and the White House. Or the intelligence community provided that detailed intelligence picture to others in the administration, and Obama, Biden, Clinton, Susan Rice, and others ignored and manipulated the intelligence to tell a politically convenient—but highly inaccurate—story.”

I'm surprised at the Weekly Standard. The answer is a third likelihood (not possibility)... that the whole thing was preplanned and staged and somehow failed. It's becoming pretty clear that this is a scandal of enormous proportions.

2 posted on 10/13/2012 10:21:49 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
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I agree with the conclusion that we were lied to, but hard to understand why. No matter what the truth was going to come out. The CHAOS mongers will meet their day of reckoning...sooner than later I hope.


3 posted on 10/13/2012 10:26:56 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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Everyone keeps saying this was Al-qaida, but where’s the proof on that?


4 posted on 10/13/2012 10:30:26 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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They’re too beltway establishment to go there. Remember: Bill Kristol owns that outfit.


5 posted on 10/13/2012 10:31:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Let’s not forget about the dozens of people that were killed and injured around the world protesting at our Embassies because this administration put the focus on a film that no one would have even know or heard about if they weren’t so adamant about blaming it and talking about it.


6 posted on 10/13/2012 10:32:52 PM PDT by Linfell
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[I]s it conceivable that White House officials at the highest levels were not actively engaged in inter agency meetings to determine what happened in Benghazi?

It seems to stand as a fact they did not lift a finger before or during the attack to project anything but groveling before our enemies, so yes, it is conceivable they would be negligent in any follow up as well, even to the point of forensically destroying the scene of the "crime".

7 posted on 10/13/2012 10:32:53 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (ABO to the core.)
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BTTT

VOTE HIM OUT.

His entire regime must go.


8 posted on 10/13/2012 10:42:25 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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Intellegence agencies Intercepted communications detailing attack right after attacks. That has been repeatedly reported this week..


9 posted on 10/13/2012 10:43:55 PM PDT by VRWCarea51
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Thank you posting this. Finally, the first coherent version of the right questions being asked and threads being pulled.

I get it that a reflexive assumption could possibly be made that desk jockies might assume a protest, given the Cairo protest going on nearly simultaneously, but only for about 15 minutes, until you see full assault under way with major weapons, and you hear screams, “ATACK!” over and over. But two weeks calling it a protest? Come on...

What I don’t get is WHO came up with the youtube video fiction? What was THAT fiction suppose to accomplish?

You know there are people who think this was about scoring a point against free speech and give the treatment of the American Coptic Christian who produced it, you have to wonder.

That is another thread that needs to be pulled by Issa.


10 posted on 10/13/2012 10:47:49 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY)
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The Bengzazi consulate was in continuous radio communications with what would be a large group of people beyond just the State Department. It wasn’t a communications failure. We are to believe that during a six hour attack, with a one hour lull in the action, that nobody asked for approval to react or at least stage personnel and equipment? Patently absurd. The White House has a situation room for “situations”. This all was happening in the middle of the afternoon in Washington. Benghazi isn’t a story about failed intelligence...it’s about failed decision making before, during and after the attack.

Here is a thoughout assessment...

Col. Hunt On The Newest Libyan Revelations http://audio.wrko.com/a/64657882/col-hunt-on-the-newest-libyan-revelations.htm


11 posted on 10/13/2012 10:49:10 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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Makes one wish again for a parliamentary democracy. The entire Cabinet resigns.


12 posted on 10/13/2012 10:50:51 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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Very darn good point! Hillary and brack must have gotten a kick out of that. An open invitation to a party against free speech across the Middle East, and dang, they couldn’t make it.


13 posted on 10/13/2012 10:56:06 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY)
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Therein lies the rub. He was NOT a Coptic Christian either, let alone American. He was an Egyption muslim felon, an FBI snitch, whose partner was a known falsestinian terrorist.
First they tried to blame Israel, (Israeli Jew billionaire.) That didn’t work so then they tried to blame Egyptian Christians, but that was foiled because the terrorist’s partner was Walid Shoebat’s first cousin and he KNEW these people.
The maker of the film is either dead or in ‘protective’ custody. Either way, he is disappeared.


14 posted on 10/13/2012 11:06:09 PM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and none dare call it treason)
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REMEMBER BENGHAZI


15 posted on 10/13/2012 11:12:19 PM PDT by Slyfox
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You know there are people who think this was about scoring a point against free speech and give the treatment of the American Coptic Christian who produced it, you have to wonder.

There is a blogger, Walid something, who credibly claims that Nakoula Nakoula, the producer of "Innocence of Muslims", is:

1. Not Nakoula Nakoula, nor an American, nor a Coptic Christian.

2. Instead, he is, in fact, a Palestinian.

And that the production was a Pallywood propaganda special -- perhaps designed for this administration's use.

16 posted on 10/13/2012 11:18:00 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA; Ignorance on parade.)
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READ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2944272/posts
Colonel Hunt on the newest Libyan revelations.

This subject was discussed in depth and MORE in the above thread. This article must be read by everyone and then we have to once again be the town criers and get this information out to all conservative media sources, to everyone you know. Listen to what Col. said at the link. Read about what was said by the State Dept. at Congressman Issa’s investigative committee and view the CNN video of same. All roads are leading to oboma, and that what happened at Benghazi was all by design. Read the article and the comments, which contains much new information and links. This story is huge, and the blood of Ambassador Stevens and those who died with him are on the hands of oboma, hillary, valerie jarrett and everyone else who was involved in this coverup of the truth.

17 posted on 10/13/2012 11:24:40 PM PDT by itssme
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To: Sioux-san
Everyone keeps saying this was Al-qaida, but where’s the proof on that?

Right here...

* As first reported by Newsweek’s Eli Lake, within hours of the attack, “U.S. intelligence agencies monitored communications from jihadists affiliated with the group that led the attack and members of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the group’s North African affiliate.” Lake reported that the intelligence was so detailed, U.S. officials “had even pinpointed the location of one of those attackers.”

18 posted on 10/13/2012 11:25:34 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA; Ignorance on parade.)
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No, I didn’t know these updates on this guy’s identity, who was arrested in CA. Last I heard was Rush understanding why he had his face covered while being perp walked by police.

The video cartoon on utube was about the most absurd fairy tale to try and tack on to the fiction of a “protest” in Benghazi. And to keep both pieces of fiction going for days when the world sources were all intercepting the truth through their own feeds for themselves is too bizarre.


19 posted on 10/13/2012 11:29:41 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY)
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One theory is that it was suppose to be a hostage situation to make obama look good by getting the ambassador released right before the election but it went south instead. It would also explain the low security and why they were told to quit asking for more. Not my theory but it kind of makes sense if you look at the details.


20 posted on 10/13/2012 11:29:47 PM PDT by Linfell
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