Panetta: Obama Absent Night of Benghazi

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[Sub-Driver]

Panetta: Obama Absent Night of Benghazi Daniel Halper February 7, 2013 12:05 PM

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testified this morning on Capitol Hill that President Barack Obama was absent the night four Americans were murdered in Benghazi on September 11, 2012:

Panetta said that Obama left operational details, including knowledge of what resources were available to help the Americans under siege, "up to us."

In fact, Panetta says that the night of 9/11, he did not communicate with a single person at the White House. The attack resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Panetta said that, save their 5 o'clock prescheduled meeting with the president the day of September 11, Obama did not call or communicate in anyway with the defense secretary that day. There were no calls about what was going on in Benghazi. He never called to check-in.

[kcvl]

You obviously aren’t able to comprehend that I have listened to Rush for YEARS or else you are just stupid. And I have no idea why what I listen to or don’t listen to bothers you so much. And, NO, it is none of your business whether you choose to try to make it your business or not.

I will continue to listen to or not listen to exactly what I want to. I certainly don’t care what you do in your life. In fact, I thought that is what conservatives were all about...freedom to choose their own way of life. Maybe you are on the wrong website if you think what I CHOOSE to do is any of your business.

I choose not to listen to Rush any longer because I have decided he is nothing more than another blowhard who wants his listeners to buy all his crap and really doesn’t give a damn otherwise.

That is, in your opinion, I guess, “Rush bias”. So be it, my choice.

Let’s see...we have bought, a Sleep Number bed, Boise radio, Rush ties, Rush mugs, his nasty tasting tea, bought Sherries Berries, Pro Flowers, Etc, etc, etc. I guess I must be a ‘Rush hater’ now that I choose to turn him off. Well, listen very carefully...CLICK.

BTW, you aren’t helping your cause (whatever that may be) by scolding people for not doing what you think they should do. Again, it’s none of your business, period.

[manc]

I swear on my life there is no way he won this state, even his crowds were low in the swing areas days before the election and for every obama sign or sticker there was 7 to 10 Romney stickers.

The surprise when we all heard obam got this state was stunning, even the polls which leaned left were in our favor and does your sister know in VA that the military went 50/50 split which is unheard of and VA was supposed to be the only state where obama got that high in the military.

There is no way the military went even , no way at all and I looked at my county which gained 9,000 votes for Romney and yet we are supposed to think that those 3 Dem controlled counties were so big it overruled the entire 67 counties.

obama even lost more counties than he won 4 years ago and yet thousandsmore came out to vote for him in those 3 counties, yes one county where Col Allen West found out on his recount that bags of stuffed ballots were being found and that republican votes were not counted

Sorry but I do think with all my heart that obama lost the election and it was fraud and ignorance from the media and the GOP which let him get away with it

[SatinDoll]

“Just what kind of a man would go to bed and sleep as others were dying and under attack?”

If BHO2 knew ahead of time that the Ambassador was going to be kidnapped, and no one would be dying or under attack.

What actually happened was off-script, which is why the Administration was caught flat-footed and had to come up with lies to cover-up.

Senator Cruz asked Secretary Panetta if knowing what he now knows, would he have sent help?

Secretary Panetta answered he did not have permission to send help, “No one told us to”, revealing he, too, was told to stand down. No help was ever put in motion.

Only one person could have issued that command to Secretary Panetta — the President.

IMO this points to BHO2 having prior knowledge.

Joint Chief of Staff, General Dempsey, had a parting comment on why no one dispatched help. He thought this was a kidnapping of the Ambassador.

“...for a period of time we thought we were going to be entering a hostage rescue.”

So perhaps the rumors of a planned kidnap of Stevens for a campaign issue for Obama, to act as a negotiator and rescue Ambassador Stevens, were true.

[dandiegirl]

I think he gave the order not to do anything and then walked away to play basketball or watch ESPN with orders not to be bothered. Then he and Hillary had the nerve to be there when the coffins were unloaded. At that time, they both put on their actress hats in order to earn an academy award. Fake tears and fake emotion for the poor families.

[piasa]

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