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Doomed Libya ambassador: 'We're under attack'
CNN ^ | May 8, 2013 | Alan Silverleib, CNN Congressional Producer

Posted on 05/08/2013 5:35:26 PM PDT by mdittmar

Washington (CNN) -- Late on the night of last September 11, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens spoke to his deputy for the final time from the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

"Greg, we're under attack," Stevens told Gregory Hicks.

Within hours, Stevens and three other Americans were dead, victims of an armed terrorist assault that has since become a political and foreign policy flashpoint in Washington's partisan wars.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; chrisstevens; christopherstevens; libya
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1 posted on 05/08/2013 5:35:26 PM PDT by mdittmar
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Yo what difference does it make? My man Obama had to hit Vegas to paaar-tay wif Jay-Z and Beyonce!


2 posted on 05/08/2013 5:38:05 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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>> Washington’s partisan war

Was Watergate a partisan war?


3 posted on 05/08/2013 5:38:57 PM PDT by Gene Eric (The Palin Doctrine.)
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"No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.

It's only a "partisan flashpoint" to those who don't care that four Americans died and don't want to hear why.

4 posted on 05/08/2013 5:40:37 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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5 posted on 05/08/2013 5:43:44 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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6 posted on 05/08/2013 5:44:00 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: mdittmar
Today the hildabeast became the new Jane Fonda

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7 posted on 05/08/2013 5:44:07 PM PDT by Elle Bee
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"F. Chuck Todd promised me that Obama and Hillary
will protect me ... just like they protect America."


8 posted on 05/08/2013 5:46:41 PM PDT by Diogenesis (De Oppresso Liber)
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There was no protest. It began as an armed assault.


9 posted on 05/08/2013 5:49:23 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: mdittmar

It was an armed attack, and the hospital was under the control of the attackers.


10 posted on 05/08/2013 5:52:00 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: Gene Eric

Watergate was a partisan war in that it served then what it serves now - the liberal/socialist agenda.


11 posted on 05/08/2013 5:53:06 PM PDT by Frapster (There you go again...)
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“We’re under attack”....”sorry,Chris,the Commander-In-Chief is boarding Air Force One momentarily to attend a pivotal fundraiser in Vegas.Keep your head down,OK?”


12 posted on 05/08/2013 5:55:48 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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What difference would it have made if they had sodomized Hillary instead of the Ambassador???
13 posted on 05/08/2013 6:00:21 PM PDT by Average Al
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But isn’t that the real question that these hearings have brought to light, taxpayers pay billions of dollars so the Pentagon has fast reaction military options available like the FEST, et.al., but at the very outset every military option was taken off the table even though admittedly no one knew how long the attack would last... The key question is why weren’t these options at least launched? If the media actually did its job then that would be the question that would be demanded a response... Obama said everything that could have been done was done.. That is a lie testimony reveals a whole host of options that were considered and then scrubbed but why? If you question this you are now partisan? How about if you question this you are an American, failing to question it shows just how far your head is up Obamao’s behind. It is way past time for a special prosecutor and he starts putting people under oath in the admin, then the sorry political truth will come out but of course the rats will contine to claim at this point ..... What Does It Matter? Credibility is the answer to that question...


14 posted on 05/08/2013 6:10:19 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Expose Obama's radical agenda at every opportunity, or be enslaved by it.)
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To: Frapster

It’s not partisan to the Media when the Right is under scrutiny.


15 posted on 05/08/2013 6:12:11 PM PDT by Gene Eric (The Palin Doctrine.)
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To: Average Al

She had more in her budget for protection.


16 posted on 05/08/2013 6:13:12 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: mdittmar
One more, this specifically mentions knowledge of them going into the safehaven;

http://washingtonexaminer.com/whistleblower-white-house-refused-to-send-counterterrorism-team-to-benghazi/article/2529163

“When I heard that the situation had evolved to them going to a safe haven and then that we could not find the ambassador, I alerted my leadership that we needed to go forward and consider the deployment of the Foreign Emergency Support Team,” Thompson said during his opening statement.

“I notified the White House. They indicated that meetings had already taken place that evening [deciding against deployment],” Stevens added, explaining that he was told “it was not the right time and it was not the team that needed to go right then.”

17 posted on 05/08/2013 6:17:33 PM PDT by Son House (The Heath Care Recovery Never Gets Here, Like The Economic Recovery, Easily Predictable.)
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To: TigersEye

Obama and Hillary both got their “3 am phone call” and they failed utterly, abysmally to rise to the occasion.

Remember that fuss in the 2008 Democratic primaries, when Hillary ran the attack ad against Obama suggesting that he was too inexperienced to handle a national security “3 am phone call” as well as Hillary would.

Here they both got a “5 pm” phone call (or thereabouts), with hours and opportunities to save the lives of Americans under attack by jihad terrorists.

Both Obama and Hillary failed the “phone call” national security test, completely.


18 posted on 05/08/2013 6:18:01 PM PDT by Enchante
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Have another, video at link;
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/05/08/Thomspon-Obama-Admin-Denied-Deployment-Of-Team-Designed-For-Benghazi-Rescue-Type-Mission
Mr. Mark Thompson, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism, told the House Oversight Committee that he was told not to lead a "FEST" team for a rescue mission in Benghazi the night of the attack.

19 posted on 05/08/2013 6:19:48 PM PDT by Son House (The Heath Care Recovery Never Gets Here, Like The Economic Recovery, Easily Predictable.)
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To: Enchante

It is really much worse than failing to rise to the occasion. They actively worked against providing help both before and during the attack and then invented a lie out of whole cloth to cover it up.


20 posted on 05/08/2013 6:20:47 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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