Obama's September 11 Phone Call (during Benghazi attack)

What was President Obama doing Tuesday evening, September 11, while Americans were under assault in Benghazi? Which of his national security team did he meet with, whom did he speak with, what directives did he issue? So far, the White House won't say.

But we do know one thing the president found time to do that evening: He placed a call to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in order to defuse a controversy about President Obama's refusal to meet with Netanyahu two weeks later at the U.N. General Assembly, and, according to the White House announcement that evening, spent an hour on the phone with him:

While Americans were under assault in Benghazi, the president found time for a non-urgent, politically useful, hour-long call to Prime Minister Netanyahu. And his senior national staff had to find time to arrange the call, brief the president for the call, monitor it, and provide an immediate read-out to the media. I suspect Prime Minister Netanyahu, of all people, would have understood the need to postpone or shorten the phone call if he were told that Americans were under attack as the president chatted. But for President Obama, a politically useful telephone call—and the ability to have his aides rush out and tell the media about that phone call—came first.

So here are a few more questions for the White House: While President Obama was on the phone for an hour, did his national security advisor Tom Donilon or any other aide interrupt the call or slip him a piece of paper to inform him about what was happening in Benghazi? Or was President Obama out of the loop for at least an hour as events unfolded and decisions were made? On the other hand, national security staff were obviously with the president during and immediately after the phone call—otherwise how could they have put out their statement right away? Surely his aides told the president about what was happening in Benghazi. Was there then no discussion of what was or what wasn't being done to help, pursuant to the president's first directive that everything possible be done?

Here is a possible scenario for the future.....

Obama steals the election....

GOP wins control of the Senate and the House....

The House impeaches him.....

The Senate convicts him...

He is removed from office...

And they all lived happily ever after.

“Good start for Qatar initiative

Qatar has once again taken the centre stage in helping the world community look beyond the fallout of the popular uprisings in Arab nations. By becoming part of the effort to recover assets from ousted regimes, and restore them to the public, Qatar has also affirmed the participation of the United States as an equal partner.
Addressing the last day of the meeting of the Arab Forum on Asset Recovery held in Doha this week, US Attorney General Eric Holder said: “I want to make clear that the United States intends to serve not as a patron, but as a partner; not as a monitor, but as a collaborator.”
Earlier, the initiative also had the backing of US President Barack Obama, who said it would help to stabilise the economy of North American nations caught up in political turmoil since December 2010.
The inaugural three-day session of the Arab Forum on Asset Recovery brought together G8 countries, as well as several Arab states and Turkey, with the aim of starting a process of collaboration on legislative measures for Arab countries that ousted their dictators.
Qatar’s Attorney General, HE Ali bin Fetais al-Marri, who is also the UN special advocate on stolen asset recovery, called for the prosecution of those responsible for stealing public assets.
With the legal framework in view, it will not be long before the complicated web of financial thievery by despotic rulers starts to unravel.”

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=531208&version=1&template_id=46&parent_id=26

On Holder at the Doha conference on stolen assets of the Arab ‘spring’
http://www.mainjustice.com/justanticorruption/2012/09/11/holder-attending-doha-forum-on-stolen-assets-of-the-arab-spring/

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Attending a conference in Doha, Qatar, US Attorney General Eric Holder said that the bureau has opened an investigation into the deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the three other Americans who were killed during the attack on the consulate. September 13, 2012 Updated 1 hour ago.

www.tri-cityherald.com/ 2012/ 09/ 13/ 2099575/ fbi-libyan-security-probe-embassy.html

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