[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

comments?

[Former Proud Canadian]

Excellent post.

It is high time the media started with the facts. The fact is that this was a CIA operation from start to finish.

[Uri’el-2012]

If it was not a consulate, then it was not sovereign United States territory. This fact has important legal consequences -- as was only just touched upon (at ~13:00, but pick up at ~10:00 for full context) by Newt Gingrich on Fox News in his appearance on Greta Van Susteren's Oct. 30 show

An American CIC would have gone in and worried about feelings later.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Related article from AT ...FR Thread:

Benghazi Reveals Obama-Islamist Alliance ^

[TigersEye]

If the administration is willing to admit that and disavow the facilities as part of the State Dept.'s diplomatic mission they could make that argument. They would have to explain why all the requests for improved security were going to the State Dept.

But how would they make that case for the personnel? I presume that ambassador Stevens and all the rest were there with the knowledge and permission of the provisional gov of Libya. Wouldn't we have the 'right under international law' to defend officials of the U.S. gov who were present in the country with Libyan approval?

[count-your-change]

If a member of your family was being murdered in the house next door would go to a judge for a warrant to enter the house?

[Choozer]

Did we have legal authority to fly into Pakistan and nab OBL?

[blueunicorn6]

What is the current status of those two facilities? Do we own them, or are they unprotected?

[justa-hairyape]

What a shock. We elect a Chicago Mob bagman to be President and he ends up running guns all over the world. Who could ever see that coming ?

[Travis McGee]

My “cross-border authority” meme is picking up steam.

Here is the current Friday FR thread with the PJ Media essay I wrote for them today:

“The Smoking Gun of Benghazi? Only the president can grant cross-border authority.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2953720/posts

The original PJ Media link:

http://pjmedia.com/blog/benghazis-smoking-gun-only-president-can-give-%e2%80%98cross-border-authority%e2%80%99/?singlepage=true

If you post a comment to the PJ Media thread, it might stay on their home page longer, and eventually be seen by a reporter who gives a damn about discovering the truth about Benghazi.