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Posted on 02/10/2013 8:10:00 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Finally, we have the answer, thanks to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. In his reluctant Senate testimony, he provided the missing piece of the puzzle: The commander in chief was MIA. The coverup was created to protect his absence.
According to Panetta, President Obama checked in with his military team early on during the attack, then checked out for the rest of the night. The next day, we already knew, he blamed the video maker and flew to Las Vegas for a campaign event.
Meanwhile, half a world away, Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans had been slaughtered by Islamists. Their murders on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 gave the incident extra gravity and led the White House to conceal the facts. An honest chronology would have revealed the president’s shocking behavior during the most successful attack against Americans by foreigners since 9/11.
Imagine the questions that would have come: What did Obama do through the long, bloody night? Whom did he talk to? When did he learn that Stevens was dead?
There is still much we don’t know, but Panetta, under persistent Senate probing, revealed that Obama simply wasn’t involved. Did he just go to sleep?
That question, like other good ones, was asked by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Panetta and the chairman of the joint chiefs, Martin Dempsey, told Graham they didn’t sleep, but said they didn’t know if Obama did.
You would think a presidential conscience would keep him awake and engaged until he knew what had happened in Benghazi. You would be wrong.
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Amen, amen, amen! Whatever it is, it is so big and damaging, that they are eager to coverup obamas involvement by rendering him negligent, absent and useless during Benghazi. I want the Benghazi survivors, who are being held hostage either by Libya or the US, to be released.
Must be something big if Lindsay Graham of all people is holding the line.
What difference does it make? = Make sure it NEVER happens again = Lies of politicians! = For local consumption & political cover.
Just remember - God tests. Satan tempts.
God gives us tests to strengthen us and draw us closer to Him. Satan tempts us to destroy us, by mesmerizing us into believing we can solve our own problems, ultimately drawing us away from God.
Given the fact we are living in a nation where God once was front & center, and over the last 2-3 decades we’ve allowed the Bible to be taken to the street and tossed in the trash...
Maybe we ought to be asking the better question...which side are we on?
You’re making too much sense. You’ll never get hired by Hillary.
The only way "the other shoe is going to drop" in a way that will force the mainstream media to give this story extensive coverage will be if somebody high up - Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, the Joint Chiefs, somebody the media can't ignore - decides to throw Barack under the bus and tell the American people the real story. Not very likely, however.
The media, for the most part, have been bought and paid for by Marxists and Salafis. They are doing exactly as they are told.
From the 2nd Presidential debate:
Wonder what time he supposedly did the following. And who initiates an investigation while the attack was just heating up??? Many other questions, too...
So as soon as we found out that the Benghazi consulate was being overrun, I was on the phone with my national security team, and I gave them three instructions. Number one, beef up our security and — and — and procedures not just in Libya but every embassy and consulate in the region. Number two, investigate exactly what happened, regardless of where the facts lead us, to make sure that folks are held accountable and it doesn’t happen again. And number three, we are going to find out who did this, and we are going to hunt them down, because one of the things that I’ve said throughout my presidency is when folks mess with Americans, we go after them.
Now, Governor Romney had a very different response. While we were still dealing with our diplomats being threatened, Governor Romney put out a press release trying to make political points. And that’s not how a commander in chief operates. You don’t turn national security into a political issue, certainly not right when it’s happening.
And people — not everybody agrees with some of the decisions I’ve made. But when it comes to our national security, I mean what I say. I said I’d end the war in Libya — in Iraq, and I did. I said that we’d go after al-Qaida and bin Laden. We have. I said we’d transition out of Afghanistan and start making sure that Afghans are responsible for their own security. That’s what I’m doing.
And when it comes to this issue, when I say that we are going to find out exactly what happened, everybody will be held accountable, and I am ultimately responsible for what’s taking place there, because these are my folks, and I’m the one who has to greet those coffins when they come home, you know that I mean what I say.
MS. CROWLEY: Mr. President, I got to move us along. Governor?
MR. ROMNEY: Thank you, Kerry, for your question. It’s an important one. And — and I — I think the president just said correctly that — that the buck does stop at his desk, and — and he takes responsibility for — for that — for that — the failure in providing those security resources, and those terrible things may well happen from time to time.
I — I’m — I feel very deeply sympathetic for the families of those who lost loved ones. Today there’s a memorial service for one of those that was lost in this tragedy. We — we think of their families and care for them deeply.
There were other issues associated with this — with this tragedy.
There were many days that passed before we knew whether this was a spontaneous demonstration or actually whether it was a terrorist attack. And there was no demonstration involved. It was a terrorist attack, and it took a long time for that to be told to the American people. Whether there was some misleading or instead whether we just didn’t know what happened, I think you have to ask yourself why didn’t we know five days later when the ambassador to the United Nations went on TV to say that this was a demonstration. How could of we not known?
But I find more troubling than this that on — on the day following the assassination of the United States ambassador — the first time that’s happened since 1979 — when we have four Americans killed there, when apparently we didn’t know what happened, that the president the day after that happened flies to Las Vegas for a political fundraiser, then the next day to Colorado for another event, another political event, I think these — these actions taken by a president and a leader have symbolic significance, and perhaps even material significance, in that you’d hoped that during that time we could call in the people who were actually eyewitnesses. We’ve read their accounts now about what happened. It was very clear this was not a demonstration. This was an attack by terrorists.
And this calls into question the president’s whole policy in the Middle East. Look what’s happening in Syria, in Egypt, now in Libya. Consider the distance between ourselves and Israel, where the president said that — that he was going to put daylight between us and Israel. We have Iran four years closer to a nuclear bomb. Syria — Syria’s not just the tragedy of 30,000 civilians being killed by a military, but also a strategic — strategically significant player for America. The president’s policies throughout the Middle East began with an apology tour and pursue a strategy of leading from behind, and this strategy is unraveling before our very eyes.
MS. CROWLEY: Because we’re closing in, I want to still get a lot of people in. I want to ask you something, Mr. President, and then have the governor just quickly. Your secretary of state, as I’m sure you know, has said that she takes full responsibility for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi.
Does the buck stop with your secretary of state as far as what went on here?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Secretary Clinton has done an extraordinary job. But she works for me. I’m the president. And I’m always responsible. And that’s why nobody is more interested in finding out exactly what happened than I did (sic).
The day after the attack, Governor, I stood in the Rose Garden, and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened, that this was an act of terror. And I also said that we’re going to hunt down those who committed this crime. And then a few days later, I was there greeting the caskets coming into Andrews Air Force Base and grieving with the families.
And the suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the secretary of state, our U.N. ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we’ve lost four of our own, Governor, is offensive. That’s not what we do. That’s not what I do as president. That’s not what I do as commander in chief.
MS. CROWLEY: Governor, if you want to reply just quickly to this, please.
MR. ROMNEY: Yeah, I — I certainly do. I certainly do. I — I think it’s interesting the president just said something which is that on the day after the attack, he went in the Rose Garden and said that this was an act of terror. You said in the Rose Garden the day after the attack it was an act of terror. It was not a spontaneous demonstration.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Please proceed.
MR. ROMNEY: Is that what you’re saying?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Please proceed, Governor.
MR. ROMNEY: I — I — I want to make sure we get that for the record, because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Get the transcript.
MS. CROWLEY: It — he did in fact, sir.
So let me — let me call it an act of terrorism — (inaudible) —
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Can you say that a little louder, Candy? (Laughter, applause.)
MS. CROWLEY: He did call it an act of terror. It did as well take — it did as well take two weeks or so for the whole idea of there being a riot out there about this tape to come out. You are correct about that.
MR. ROMNEY: This — the administration — the administration — (applause) — indicated that this was a — a reaction to a — to a video and was a spontaneous reaction.
MS. CROWLEY: They did.
MR. ROMNEY: It took them a long time to say this was a terrorist act by a terrorist group and — and to suggest — am I incorrect in that regard? On Sunday the — your — your secretary or —
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Candy —
MR. ROMNEY: Excuse me. The ambassador to the United Nations went on the Sunday television shows and — and spoke about how this was a spontaneous reaction.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Candy, I’m — I’m happy to —
MS. CROWLEY: Mr. President, let me — I —
PRESIDENT OBAMA: I’m happy to have a longer conversation about foreign policy.
MS. CROWLEY: I know you — absolutely. But I want — I want to move you on.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: OK, I’m happy to do that too.
MS. CROWLEY: And also, people can go to the transcripts and —
PRESIDENT OBAMA: I just want to make sure that —
MS. CROWLEY: — figure out what was said and when.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: — you know, all these wonderful folks are going to have a chance to get some — their questions answered.
I'm a conspiracy theorist on this one too. How could the two most key people (Zero and Cankles) be out of reach for this deal? Not with today's technology - they were hiding out and refusing to to their duty so they wouldn't be blamed for the malfeasance that caused the deal.
Enough shoes have already dropped. Why speak about what currently isn't real??
The Assymetric Warfare Group handled by the CIA and all those missing MANPADS. Iran shipping MANPADS to Syrian rebels? Where else are they trying to go? And Obama is making a trip to Israel this Spring.
It’s been 5 months. We don’t know what happened. We don’t know why it happened. We don’t know where the Ben Ghazi surivors are being hidden and why we can’t talk to them. We know no more today than we knew 5 months ago. In spite of some so-called conservative media claiming that there’s another Really Big Shoe about to drop, I don’t believe them. The families of those who were killed don’t even know why their children died. They will likely never know.
We’re just a few months away from 99% of Americans believing that Ben Ghazi is a theme park ride at Disneyland.
Crowley should be publicly asked how she feels about protecting the administration from being vetted in front of the voting public about a tragedy in which a gay man was raped and slaughtered, and the military personnel that felt duty bound to protect him were also killed. She should be asked whether protecting the media’s favorite ideologue really justifies her decision to protect the administration from answering embarrassing questions. They should also ask her whether being liked by the news media ‘in crowd’ was worth selling her integrity for.
The big shoe that dropped silently to the floor of this past weeks Panetta/Benghazi hearings ... the US operation set up in Benghazi was to reacquire weaponry from the Libyan rebels that was smuggled to them by the US to overthrow Gaddafi ... sort out the best weaponry and ship it to Turkey, thence on to the Syrian rebels. Not a peep in the MSM ... imagine the outrage if Bush had tried to pull off this stunt?
Nixon had a functioning conscience, the BBMFIC in the white hut does not.
Regards,
GtG
Nixon had a functioning conscience, the BBMFIC in the white hut does not.
Regards,
GtG
Impossible. American have no more ‘Amazed & Shocked’ left in them.
How can Americans feel safe with an Islamist convert at the helm of the CIA? Any similarites with Homeland coincidental?
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