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Former Obama Spokesman Mocks Benghazi Hearing as Conspiracy Theorist 'Amateur Hour'
Twitter ^ | Wednesday, May 8, 2013 | Kristinn Taylor

Posted on 05/08/2013 7:16:05 AM PDT by kristinn

Former Obama National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor has let loose on Twitter this morning, mocking the Benghazi hearing today as "amateur hour."

Vietor also mocked the hearings as conspiracy theories on par with Area 51 and the moon landings conspiracy theories:

Heard that Rep. Cummings asked Rep. Issa to include Thomas Pickering, cochair of ARB report in today's hearing, but Issa refused. #Benghazi

Why on earth would Issa refuse to let the cochair of an independent review board on #Benghazi testify at his hearing on the subject?

Could it be that today's #Benghazi hearing has nothing to do with fact-finding but is just the latest shamefully politicized Issa attack

@GrahamBlog @joenbc can you explain why Issa refused to allow Tom Pickering to be a witness today? He cochaired #Benghazi review

Reporters are very excited that Rep Chaffetz will be at today's #Benghazi hearing. Maybe he'll disclose more CIA facilities! Amateur hour.

Heard @jaketapper is chasing down rumor that House Oversight Cmte ran out of chairs. Why else would Issa refuse to include Pickering today?

Hey @Milbank what do you think Rep. Chaffetz will disclose today? Moon landing photos? Map of Area 51? http://goo.gl/W7NuW


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 113th; benghazi; benghazihearings; conspiracytheory; jasonchaffetz; libya; obama; saulalinsky; soshillary; tommyvietor
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To: ScottinVA

Apart from the active war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, Libya was the most volatile country for American diplomats at the time of the attack. At best this entire debacle constitutes gross negligence on the part of the Administration.


41 posted on 05/08/2013 8:09:54 AM PDT by littleharbour ("All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. ~ James Madison)
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To: littleharbour

The ‘Amateur Hour’ is in the White House & Administration.


42 posted on 05/08/2013 8:12:15 AM PDT by DaveA37 (I'm for HONEST government)
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To: littleharbour

The ‘Amateur Hour’ is in the White House & Administration.


43 posted on 05/08/2013 8:12:15 AM PDT by DaveA37 (I'm for HONEST government)
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To: kristinn

A former National Security Council spokesman should have some decorum and be beyond politics. What a disgrace. They politicize everything.


44 posted on 05/08/2013 8:18:18 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: austinaero

Paul Shanklin should do a Circus Carney parody song:
“The Day the Ambassador Died”.

starts with “a long , long time ago...”


45 posted on 05/08/2013 8:23:58 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: TurboZamboni
Someone ping Rush - this could be great!
46 posted on 05/08/2013 8:31:02 AM PDT by PrairieDawg
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To: kristinn
The more they mock, the more they show their fear.

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

47 posted on 05/08/2013 8:31:30 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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To: kristinn

Tommy Victor: “Oh, I got your “Amateur Hour” right HERE, pal.”


48 posted on 05/08/2013 8:31:41 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (All statist/dictatorial/commie leaders worldwide should be hunted down, beaten, & hung by the masses)
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To: kristinn

Having Pickering testify today would distract from the focus of the inquiry. The Democrats were hoping Pickering could intimidate today’s witnesses. Pickering and Admiral Mullen deserve their own hearing where they can explain the huge gaps in the whitewash report they produced. They could also explain why they shouldn’t be indicted for obstruction of justice for their part in this conspiracy.


49 posted on 05/08/2013 8:32:13 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: kristinn

Tommy Vietor

50 posted on 05/08/2013 8:34:01 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: kristinn
These people have no shame.

Those men were left there to die.

51 posted on 05/08/2013 8:34:03 AM PDT by grimalkin (Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God. -G.K. Chesterton)
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To: kristinn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3016939/posts?page=101#101
52 posted on 05/08/2013 8:35:34 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: kristinn

Let’s face it. Conspiracies happen.

Sometimes a good conspiracy theory is the ONLY thing that fits the facts.


53 posted on 05/08/2013 8:36:24 AM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: kristinn

Somebody should tweet to this turd that Pickering and Mullen “declined” to testify, per James Rosen.


54 posted on 05/08/2013 8:36:26 AM PDT by clintonh8r ("Europe was created by history. America was created by a philosophy." Baroness Thatcher)
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To: austinaero

What amazes me is that there isn’t blood running in the streets of D.C. over the examples of corruption and intimidation that you listed. We watch in astonishment as the corruption continues unhindered and do nothing except rant from the keyboard.


55 posted on 05/08/2013 8:36:53 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Friendofgeorge

We are NOT doomed. The masses have always been under-informed. A small minority started this country, and it will take a small DEDICATED minority to save it.

Defeatism is not helpful.

(There’s your pep talk for today.)


56 posted on 05/08/2013 8:39:21 AM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: kristinn
Heard that Rep. Cummings asked Rep. Issa to include Thomas Pickering, cochair of ARB report in today's hearing, but Issa refused. #Benghazi Why on earth would Issa refuse to let the cochair of an independent review board on #Benghazi testify at his hearing on the subject? Could it be that today's #Benghazi hearing has nothing to do with fact-finding but is just the latest shamefully politicized Issa attack

On the live thread the storyline is that Pickering refused to testify. If that is the case, then that was a three-tweet strawman.

57 posted on 05/08/2013 8:44:01 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Lazamataz

The more they mock, the more they show their fear.


They have nothing to fear. We need solid proof,,,emails, fingerprints, recorded phone calls, etc. Without solid proof it’s just the testifiers word against obama and clinton. Nothing but he said, she said.


58 posted on 05/08/2013 8:49:13 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: Lazamataz

And the proof has to be so solid that not even Chris Matthews, ‘Fish Face’ Colmes, or DU’ers can deny it. Something on the order of a taped phone call of obama saying,,,”let them die, i don’t care if they die.”


59 posted on 05/08/2013 8:56:28 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: kristinn

Tommy Vietor: “...His first job for Obama was as the driver of a press van”.
Deep political thinker, no question...


60 posted on 05/08/2013 8:57:47 AM PDT by exinnj
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