BREAKING: The president knew the truth about Benghazi

Washington Post ^ | Posted at 05:18 PM ET, 11/16/2012 | Jennifer Rubin

[SeekAndFind]

In a blockbuster report, John Solomon, the former Associated Press and Post reporter, has ferreted out the president's daily brief that informed him within 72 hours of the Sept. 11 attack that the Benghazi attack was a jihadist operation.

Citing officials directly familiar with the information, Solomon writes in the Washington Guardian that Obama and other administration officials were told that "that the attack was likely carried out by local militia and other armed extremists sympathetic to al-Qaida in the region."

He adds:

The details from the CIA and Pentagon assessments of the killing of Ambassador Chris [Stevens] were far more specific, more detailed and more current than the unclassified talking points that UN Ambassador Susan Rice and other officials used five days after the attack to suggest to Americans that an unruly mob angry over an anti-Islamic video was to blame, officials said.

Most of the details affirming al-Qaida links were edited or excluded from the unclassified talking points used by Rice in appearances on news programs the weekend after the attack, officials confirmed Friday. Multiple agencies were involved in excising information, doing so because it revealed sources and methods, dealt with classified intercepts or involved information that was not yet fully confirmed, the officials said.

Solomon cautions that there were bits of evidence pointing to a spontaneous attack but, as Eli Lake of the Daily Beast and others have reported, he writes: “Among the early evidence cited in the briefings to the president and other senior officials were intercepts showing some of the participants were known members or supporters of Ansar al-Sharia — the al-Qaida-sympathizing militia in Libya — and the AQIM, which is a direct affiliate of al-Qaida in northern Africa, the officials said.”

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

People people, please PLEASE! Obama is a Democrat and partially black, so it’s OK! He’s allowed to do this kind of stuff! *Sheesh!

[Nita Nupress]

“This is something our Congress better address before it costs us far more than it already has.”

Republicans in Congress will not address this unless we give them NO other option. Otherwise, they will continue the dog and pony routine, hiding behind the skirttails of their democratic “colleagues.”

Is their ANYONE here who doesn’t agree with that?

If you agree, then what are you willing to do about it?

If your answer is anything less than what I suggested in my previous post, then shut the heck up and stop complaining. It is what it is. It will never change unless we march on Washington to make them see that we will accept NOTHING other that justice for 41 people who were left to die.

/rant (not directed to you, DoughtyOne).

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I no longer call it the MSM. I call it the CPM - Communist Propaganda machine because that’s exactly what it is. Everything about it has only one agenda: To make the USA a communist country which with the reelection of this Kenyan may have very well succeeded.

[NYer]

How soon before we hear the cries of .... Impeach the President! .... oh, wait, the media were part of the coverup. And I was looking forward to a 2nd term under President Biden (/sarc)

[TigersEye]

Yep. And who was it that made war on Gaddafi which allowed those anti-aircraft missiles to be stolen? Why, that would be Obama and Hillary.

And now you know why 0bama talked NATO into sacking Libya and killing Gaddafi.

[BerryDingle]

The so-called President suceeded in murdering four more Americans, adding to his huge jihadist tally.

As I said in another thread here, he originally intended to abandon 30.

[Eleutheria5]

O: Yeah, but that was, like, in an intelligence briefing. I never read those things. They’re boring. I get all my information from surfing You Tube. I found Innocence of Islam on there, and sure enough, I got a lump in my throat when I caught the video of the attack in Benghazi a few minutes later, so I knew they were both related. Those boring CIA-types like Petraeus kept urging me to get into the briefing room, saying they needed me to ok a plan of action to save Stevens, but those videos were much too important for another boring briefing, man. So I let ‘em wait, told Petraeus to go get himself a girl friend, so he’d stop being so intense.

[DAC21]

“I have maintained since day one of this, and will continue to maintain until I’m proved wrong, that the whole Benghazi debacle was a coverup for something much, much larger and way more sinister. A blown coverup perhaps, but a coverup nonetheless”

yep like why all this covert trickling out of weapons to Syria. Lets fake an attach and let the Jihads clean out the warehouse in one fell swoop

[DAC21]

“I have maintained since day one of this, and will continue to maintain until I’m proved wrong, that the whole Benghazi debacle was a coverup for something much, much larger and way more sinister. A blown coverup perhaps, but a coverup nonetheless”

yep like why all this covert trickling out of weapons to Syria. Lets fake an attach and let the Jihads clean out the warehouse in one fell swoop

[nuconvert]

Obama & his minions are trying to say now that they knew it was a terrorist attack by that Sunday after, but they still are trying to excuse what Rice said by saying that she was ignorant of the facts because she was just using ‘talking points’ that were handed to her.
They knew the day of and day after her appearances that what she said was wrong, AND THEY DIDN”Y COME OUT RIGHT AWAY AND CORRECT IT.
THEY CONTINUED THE DECEPTION

[plain talk]

Exactly. There are multiple errors.

1 no defense
2 no response
3 lie and cover up

[tomkat]

the "president"

             < spit >

Not mine, Not ever !

[Conserev1]

I just wanna know when that sukka was awakened!
I think he slept through the night and was told over the morning Grapefruit!
The # am call never came to the White house and Bumbling fools who did not know what to do were in charge!
Valarie Jarrett was prob in charge Obummer was not to be disturbed!
And I hope McCain and Graham make this bozo eat his Rice statement!
This man is a total Fool! Give him a new golf putter and send him out to play! Competence does not have to be elected it can be appointed! We need new appointees to pull the puppet’s strings! Maybe Big Bird can suggest a great puppeteer!

[hondact200]

where is the Does a bear poop in the woods picture?
the present resident knew 1 second after he saw the incident going down in Benghazi.

the washington Compost is doing yet another smokescreen for Odumbo.

What do they think the American people fell off the logging truck just yesterday? other places substitute turnip truck for logging truck, some may substitute garbage truck.

Odumbo wants to give the American people through the accomplice media another dung sandwich.

[jimmyo57]

You are absolutely correct! Obama could have been videotaped firing and RPG into the Benghazi compound and no one would care!

It’s such a sad state of affairs!

[Gene Eric]

A half-truth designed to give every actor a way out of the Benghazi scandal.

[unique1]

True, but within the Constitution - we are screwed. Besides, only around 1/2 of voters even care with the other half practically encouraging the Administrative to stick it to those that care.

[DrDude]

The article also states they knew who some of the insurgents were. Obama and Biden, during debates and otherwise, claimed they wanted to bring the attackers to justice. It has been well over 2 months. No one is being sought out. Seems Obama and Biden looked into the camera and lied directly to the american people. That is not to mention our dead soldiers parents.

[conservativepoet]

To at least let people know why thousands of Americans and a few American cities will be lost sometime soon in the future.
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And may I ask what good do you think that will do especially when it’s too late? We’ve lost thousands already and more than enough cities/states for that lesson to be learned.

[PIF]

“-No politician in DC is going to push articles of impeachment ...
Did I miss anything?”

Even if there was a successful move to Impeach, and the move succeeded, the Senate would never Convict and Remove ...