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Catherine Herridge: State Department Culpable in Death of Ambassador & Three Americans (Video)
Video from Fox News via Gateway Pundit ^ | Wednesday, October 31, 2012 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 10/31/2012 8:07:37 PM PDT by kristinn

FOX News foreign policy analyst Catherine Herridge told Greta Van Susteren Wednesday, "From what I see the State Department has culpability in the death of the US Ambassador and three Americans."

This followed the damning memo that was released today signed by Ambassador Stevens in August and sent to the State Department. The classified cable on August 15 warned the Obama Administration that the Benghazi consulate could not withstand a "coordinated attack."

Link to YouTube video of Catherine Herridge interview

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911ii; benghazi; benghazigate; catherineherridge; christopherstevens; glendoherty; hillaryclinton; obama; seansmith; standdown; statedept; tyronewoods
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Catherine Herridge is a straight news reporter, but she can barely contain her anger and disgust over what she has learned about the State Department letting the Benghazi consulate be fed to the jihadi wolves and her realization the Obama administration flat out lied about the anti-Muslim video causing the attack.
1 posted on 10/31/2012 8:07:38 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

Catherine Herridge, I have learned to trust and depend on you.


2 posted on 10/31/2012 8:14:16 PM PDT by Gator113 (I would have voted for NEWT, now it's Romney & Ryan.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: Gator113

Poor Hillary


3 posted on 10/31/2012 8:15:11 PM PDT by scooby321 (AMS)
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To: kristinn

Know what I heard her say? She gave obama an out. It’ll all be laid at the State Department. And probably someone well below Hillary.

And she said someone once told her not to look for a conspiracy when it may be incompetence. Not an exact quote.


4 posted on 10/31/2012 8:15:23 PM PDT by Terry Mross (To former friends and relatives. Don't ever contact me if you still support obama.)
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To: kristinn

Please Cathrine, you Little Doll, don’t go near Fort Marcy Park. Stay Safe Babe!


5 posted on 10/31/2012 8:17:22 PM PDT by TaMoDee ( Lassez les bons temps rouler dans les 2012! Allez Pack!)
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To: kristinn

Thanks for posting! Saw this tonight. Noticed that Katherine gave Obama credit for being incompetent on this and didn’t appear to suggest sinister movtives to what happened in Bengahzi... instead mentioning the election.

I think more sinister issues will surface, particularly with regard to why what was going on there in the first place, including who was really behind the video... see a common element in the spin below?

1.
Hillary Clinton Speaking at a press conference from the State Department on September 13, 2012
“Let me state very clearly — and I hope it is obvious — that the United States Government had absolutely nothing to do with this video.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXYdb57P7T4

2.
Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney — Golden, CO, 9/13/12
“As Secretary Clinton said today, the United States government had nothing to do with this movie.”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/13/press-gaggle-press-secretary-jay-carney-golden-co-91312

3.
Hillary Clinton Speaks at Ceremony as Bodies of Americans Killed in Libya Arrive in the US September 14, 2012
“We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful internet video that we had nothing to do with.”
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/09/14/transcript-video-hillary-clinton-speaks-at-ceremony-as-bodies-of-americans-killed-in-libya-arrive-in-the-us/
4.
White House spokesman Jay Carney held a press briefing September 14, 2012
“The reason why there’s unrest is because of the film. This is in response to the film… this is not a film that the United States government had anything to do with. We reject its message and its contents we find it both reprehensible.”
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/09/14/carney-anti-islam-video-completely-to-blame-for-unrest/

5.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, goes on morning shows at NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX and CNN. September 16, 2012
Rice called the attack a “direct result of a heinous and offensive video that was widely disseminated, that the U.S. government had nothing to do with.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501713_162-57541739/timeline-of-comments-on-attack-on-us-consulate/

6.
Sept. 18: Obama was asked about the Benghazi attack on “The Late Show with David Letterman.”
“As offensive as this video was and, obviously, we’ve denounced it and the United States government had nothing to do with it.
http://factcheck.org/2012/10/benghazi-timeline/

7.
President Barack Obama’s speech to the UN General Assembly — full text September 25, 2012
“That is what we saw play out the last two weeks, as a crude and disgusting video sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world. I have made it clear that the United States government had nothing to do with this video”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/president-barack-obamas-speech-to-the-un-general-assembly-full-text/

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/09/2012915181925528211.ht


6 posted on 10/31/2012 8:21:26 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
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To: kristinn

Listened to Mark Levin tonight...he thinks she deserves a Pulitzer Prize. I agree.


7 posted on 10/31/2012 8:21:29 PM PDT by Haddon
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To: Terry Mross
Yes, that seems to be what she is saying, but I see it as only and up to the night of the massacre 9/11/12, by refusing to give them more Security.

After that, it was THE someone who told them to STAND DOWN, and THE someone who refused to send in help when help was nearby.

8 posted on 10/31/2012 8:21:41 PM PDT by annieokie
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To: kristinn

Noticed how she reiterated her disgust in response to Greta’s allowance for incompetency.


9 posted on 10/31/2012 8:24:28 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: kristinn
This just confirms what I have been saying for some time. In order to occupy this consulate, an interim facility that did not meet required security standards, a signed wavier had to be issued. The only people that can do that are the A/S Secretary for Diplomatic Security (Eric Boswell), the U/S for Management (Pat Kennedy), or Hillary Clinton.

I am 100% certain that this wavier exists because it is a Congressional requirement. I say this advisedly having served 28 years as an FSO and supervised post RSOs.

10 posted on 10/31/2012 8:26:06 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kristinn

Good for Catherine Herridge, proves she’s human and cares about what’s right.

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, that whole repulsively putrid bunch and their horrendous inaction and lies should have every reporter screaming about Benghazi.


11 posted on 10/31/2012 8:26:11 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Sleeping Freeper

Sorry for the spelling and link to Aljazeera in the last post.... the link is not directing like I thought to the story from them about the video after the attack.


12 posted on 10/31/2012 8:26:42 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
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To: kristinn

In the absence of answers from the White House, people will begin speculating.

I myself cannot think of any reason why someone would lower security and then flat out deny military assistance it in a situation where threats of violence are increasing... especially on the anniversary of 911 weeks before a presidential election UNLESS... this was far more than incompetence and more like an orchestrated October surprise.

A caller in to Hannity today made a very good observation that Hannity really didn’t pick up on very well.

These bozos in the white house were watching real time the events that were unfolding as these Navy Seals were requesting permission to go in and assist when they were told to stand down.

This means that observers in the white house were not content to just watch 4-5 servicemen and an ambassador be killed... they were prepared to watch at least 30 people be killed or ABDUCTED.... and the 4-5 navy seals pretty much foiled whatever plans had been laid to create a situation that Obama could manipulate and resolve right before the election.

That’s right... I think Obama actually set this thing up.

And until he is willing and able to come forth with viable answers as to what happened and why, I must assume as a matter of speculation that he had a hand in orchestrating this attack at some level... most likely by proxy.

High treason is punishable by death.

Time for Obama to start answering questions... TRUTHFULLY! or like the birth certificate issue, it will never go away.


13 posted on 10/31/2012 8:33:04 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: Terry Mross; All

I heard the same thing, Terry... I dig Catherine Herridge and all, but with the WH tuned in to the fire fight in Benghazi live as it happened, Zero and company beyond State are just as culpable. She shouldn’t narrow the blame to just being related to the prior requests for more security. How about more security the night it all went down?! More than State were involved with that part of the event, that’s for sure.

FYI, I think I read a few years back that CH took Fox to court, wanting a raise and the judge threw it out, saying half a million a year was more than enough. I guess she’s earning that paycheck now, though. Stay on ‘em, Cat!


14 posted on 10/31/2012 8:38:50 PM PDT by Unc1e_Ivan (People sleep peaceably at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.)
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To: Safrguns

“In the absence of answers from the White House, people will begin speculating.”

You are so right. I was wondering do we know whose bullets killed the two ex-seals on the rooftop?


15 posted on 10/31/2012 8:39:18 PM PDT by bunster
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To: Safrguns

I too believe that The Traitor is behind the attack!


16 posted on 10/31/2012 8:40:22 PM PDT by uncitizen (Arrest The Traitor Today!)
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To: smoothsailing

Side note about Cathy, she gave about half her liver for her child...


17 posted on 10/31/2012 8:43:27 PM PDT by cmsgop ( The left always accuses the right for the sins of the left. from FReeper Just Lori, RIP)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

Wow. Excellent compilation. Methinks they doth protest too much...


18 posted on 10/31/2012 8:44:19 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: scooby321

That’s gonna force Hillary to leak docs to salvage her reputation.


19 posted on 10/31/2012 8:47:37 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
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To: cmsgop

Thank you, I didn’t know that. May the Dear Lord Bless her and her child.


20 posted on 10/31/2012 8:47:40 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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