Posted on 10/14/2012 11:06:17 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
The State Department has said that it never believed the September 11th attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was the result of a protest over an anti-Islam movie - directly contracting the rest of the Obama administration.
By trying to distance her department from the inept and deceptive handling of the Benghazi attack, which left U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American officials dead, Hillary Clinton could help herself politically for a 2016 presidential run.
A dramatic new account by the State Department reveals that Stevens was locked inside a 'safe room' choking to death from diesel-heavy smoke as the building around him burned to the ground.
Alongside him was a security guard, tasked with the impossible choice between staying in the deadly room - or facing the rocket-propelled grenades and machine-guns outside.
Eventually the guard slipped through the window (cut)
No-one saw the ambassador alive again - another agent tried desperately to enter the safe-room, but could not find him anywhere.
The State Department's insistence it never bought the story - expressed by the White House and Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations - that a crude anti-Islam film made in California triggered the attack gives ammunition against Obama both to the Romney campaign and congressional Republicans.
State Department sources have said that Clinton has never forgotten that Rice, who served in her husband Bill's administration, was an early supporter of Obama. Rice has ambitions to take over from Clinton if Obama is re-elected but the Benghazi debacle could scupper her chances.
In a briefing on Tuesday, State Department officials said 'others' in the executive branch concluded initially that the attack was part of a protest against the film, which ridiculed the Prophet Muhammad. That was never the State Department's conclusion, reporters were told.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I can never see Biden or hear his name without flashing back to his despicable treatment of Clarence Thomas. Biden’s sneering bullying will stay in my brain forever.
I think that’s part of the whole ruse that they trid to sell. It’s the Straw Man case that Clinton is so good at. Fabricate an issue, then further it thru outrage, apology (in this case), to give it legs.
The idea, like Axelrod says, that Romney and Ryan are politicizing this is a laugh, considering the ads run in Cairo.
I mean’t obvuously to say that they are NOT nice people
“Any other time were told it is under investigation to determine...blah, blah....”
Let’s not forget that they IMMEDIATELY had a cause of death for the ambassador, even before his rotting body made the detour to a campaign speech before funerary processing.
Thank you. The constant misuse of the word "tragedy" to describe atrocities really infuriates me.
That's interesting. That attack began about 3:30 PM EST and was all over by at least 8:30 PM EST.
Yes, exactly my point.
Details, links, please.
HF
Back in the first half of the year, whenever the first administration dupe noticed the video trailer, probably before it had undergone dubbing, I believe an administration wonk in the loop made the connectIon to the Feb17th Italian attack in Libya. With the right dialog, the trailer could become a 21st century "Molotov Cocktail". Pavlov's dog, the February 17th Martyr's Brigade (herein after "F17MB"), could be made to drool. Shortly after 9/11/12, some actors that played in that video attested that it had been dubbed and the original dialog should not have been remotely incendiary. Those actors now have seemingly been disappeared and Nakula is in jail, just like Jim MacDougal was.
Violent reactions to unflattering depictions of "the Prophet of Islam", as Barry called the child molester before the UN, are the highest call of the F17MB, with whom the US chose to work for its Libyan local security, entrusted with protection of the Benghazi Consular assets, human, intel, and monetary.
I believe the Egyptian Embassy statement of 9/11/12 was instigated by Barry himself and was intended to inflame our many diplomatic outposts that--golly gee, like synchronized AQ clockwork--we're in fact the sites manifesting protesters gone wild. An effort had been made to advertise the video through the internet and a talk-showmullah, who got play via Al Jezeera.
The purposely nearly-defenseless ambassadorial outpost (particularly when the F17MB is seen for their legacy, and that the DoS was sitting on $2b that easily could've paid for robust security in a dangerous Benghazi) with the complicity or, at minimum, knowledge of the local police to stay away and keep other Benghazians at a safe distance, was absolutely made ripe for an attack. The F17MB absented any protester group, probably for their own safety and so as not to muck up the planned attack. They knew the buildings, their purpose, vulnerabilities and who would be where. Such was also true for the annex two clicks away.
F17MB had already earned their legacy when Stevens was appointed ambassador in April.
With the serious armaments Barry provided through the Saudis to overthrow Qadaffy still largely unused (call it "overkill", especially as we see the future unfold) even Barry knew those weapons need(ed) to be gotten back before they filter back through Mexico and start taking down American passenger aircraft, which will surely happen.
Democrat elites dare not allow themselves to be fingered for this coming debacle, lest the party become histoire. We don't know whether Stevens was going to buy back such weapons or play the pawn in a hostage situation for the blind sheik, but apparently, the ubiquitous Libyan street thugs thwarted Barry's better plans, or perhaps stole the money meant to be exchanged for the arms, which the Libyans were probably always loath to give up.
It might've been a nice foreign policy/negotiating feather if Barry had exchanged a kidnapped Stevens for a dying, blind sheik and secretly gotten Stinger-like missiles out of Libyan hands, perhaps all of which, in addition to some amount of unknown quantity of money, were necessary to extricate the Soetero Administration's breast from the wringer and allow the democrat party/Left to continue the transition to full-on Communism.
In doing this, Barry may have incompetently bet his party's survival. If unsuccessful, Hillary may just have to unleash the dogs onto Barry personally, in a bid to have the remainder of a party to let her organize her control.
HF
A window in a safe room? That sounds kinda fishy.Why wasn’t the consluate and safe house harderend? Why wasn’t the Marines assignerd to protect a new embassy and consulate in a country that has been our enemy for decades? Somebody needs to get fired and it is fat butt Hillary before she can sweep this thing under the rug and then run on her record for president four years from now.
If anything in this world can be traced, it’s missiles. F&F Libya, soon to be every country in the area.
That’ll show ‘em “how to deal with Israel,” right, 0bama?
HF
everything is hidden in plain sight , it was never pushed by the MSM , all one has to do is connect the dots
http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/20/news/economy/Libyan_assets/index.htm
you probably already know about the terrorist mercenary , the alleged perp, who was released from Gitmo by Eric Holder in '06
hundreds of billions in Libyan assets held in US and EU banks went poof when Kadaffy got whacked , not to mention the massive debts owed to Libya for oil purchases
every time I do a google search the numbers of Libyan assets owed keeps shrinking as they cook the book, IIRC it started out around 700 billion now it is down to about 200 billions
the speculation is over Stevens being liasion and arbitrating on behalf of the Libyans to try and get some of the funds to Libya
dead men tell no tales
So much for your excitement that Hillary and Obama were about to get it on. Fox News just reported that Hillary is taking full responsibility for Bengazi. I posted several times yesterday that this stuff between Hillary
And Obama was just a diversion and rope-a-dope. It now appears I was
Correct.
Or, the SEAL team that was there to recover weapons HAD recovered a large number of weapons, and had stored the weapons in the consulate building. Then al-Queda attacked the building to seize the arms cache.
They had forces and arms pre-positioned to attack. They may or may not have known that the ambassador was coming.
and this is just what the MSM is reporting, imagine what is happening in the smoky backrooms, just do a search for "Libyan assets missing"
I'm thinking they must have known. For one, Hillary had hired local Libyans as security and they had full access to the layout of the consulate and the goings-on internally. For another, intercepted correspondence showed the rebels had planned to strike a high-up American in retaliation for our killing their higher-ups, and planned to do it on 9/11.
I'm thinking they must have known. For one, Hillary had hired local Libyans as security and they had full access to the layout of the consulate and the goings-on internally. For another, intercepted correspondence showed the rebels had planned to strike a high-up American in retaliation for our killing their higher-ups, and planned to do it on 9/11.
” - - - Fox News just reported that Hillary is taking full responsibility for Bengazi. “
Thanks for the update. Hilly beat the debate # 2 deadline! Whew!
This proves that Hilly was a better man than Obama. But Obama is used to leading from behind.
It was all a diversion and Rope-A-Dope as I mentioned in numerous posts yesterday. I wonder if all the folks here who were willing to give Clinton a pass
because they thought she was turning on Obama still feel that way now.
Should have put her under oath during the hearings.
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