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White House scrambles to contain Benghazi-gate fallout
FoxNews.com ^ | 5-10-2013 | FoxNews.com

Posted on 05/10/2013 7:57:41 PM PDT by topher

The White House scrambled Friday to explain newly released email excerpts that show a top State Department official pushing to water down the intelligence community's initial story-line on the Benghazi attack, as Republicans sharply challenged the administration's honesty.

With new details emerging in the Benghazi-gate controversy, the White House held a background discussion with more than a dozen news organizations. Afterward, Press Secretary Jay Carney weathered a barrage of questions from the media during an at-times awkward White House briefing -- where he tried to defend the truthfulness of his and other officials' prior claims that the initial talking points on the attack reflected the best intelligence assessment of the time.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazigate; hillary; jaycarney; keyword; libya; nolongerarepublic; obama; outofcontrol; petraeus; susanrice; waronterror
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To: topher

The White Hut recognizes the danger posed by exposing their actions/omissions re: Benghazi. Weather they are able to defuse the situation or not the Obama White House made a grievous (criminal/treasonous) err in Benghazi before, during, and after the 8/11 attack with no valid Bush scapegoat blame in sight.....


81 posted on 05/11/2013 9:16:21 AM PDT by Forty-Niner (A Strong Man Armed who guards his home, lives in peace.)
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To: penelopesire

What say I? Don’t ever trust McCain to be on the right side of anything.....even if he is, it was by mistake.


82 posted on 05/11/2013 9:21:55 AM PDT by Forty-Niner (A Strong Man Armed who guards his home, lives in peace.)
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To: little jeremiah

There are jokes about keeping your friends close and enemies closer. When Obama made Hillary his secretary of state, it was “keeping her close”, while giving a lot of special envoys actual authority over anything that mattered.
Obama would likely give her all the blame. The editing of talking points, the refusal to act when ambassadors called for help - say it went to the white house and ends with HER. Obama looks innocent, gives them someone very high up to blame.


83 posted on 05/11/2013 10:33:06 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2; Travis McGee

ONly the President can authorize the military crossing a national border. This is known and will be known more. No one else can order a stand down or go ahead order or whatever it’s specifically called. Hitlery couldn’t do it, only the CIC has that authority. Travis McGee wrote about this a while ago. So any attempt to pin this on anyone else will fail. Of course many share guilt but the buck goes straight to 0moslem.


84 posted on 05/11/2013 11:26:04 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Mountain Mary

That’s what got me yesterday. Hearing about how the SEALS pointed the laser on what they thought was going to be the target when help arrived. Help never arrived. That is so horribly heartbreaking.

The white house and their incestuous friends/family in the MSM need to pay for what they’ve done.

The truth does need to get out.


85 posted on 05/11/2013 3:35:52 PM PDT by madison10
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To: txhurl

Same question goes for the IRS targeting conservative groups. What’s up with the sudden, apparent honesty? IMO, there is something REALLY, REALLY big about to break.


86 posted on 05/11/2013 3:38:27 PM PDT by madison10
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To: madison10

there is no press corp to report the story. They all work for the WH.


87 posted on 05/11/2013 3:41:22 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory

Whatever the story is, I think it will break without the assistance of the State Run Media.


88 posted on 05/11/2013 3:42:57 PM PDT by madison10
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To: madison10

Or maybe the WH is listening to a new media advisor: make the SRM start confessin’ and beg for forgiveness.

Nah. I say brace for impact. For something. What could it be?


89 posted on 05/11/2013 3:43:46 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: txhurl

Some ideas:

1. That the sequestration has forced the DoD to leave all our troops where they are forever and never bring them home.

2. The dumb clucks in Washington, D.C. sold North Dakota to China to pay for the national debt.

3. 0 signed an executive order recently that will make our toes curl.

Who knows...


90 posted on 05/11/2013 3:56:17 PM PDT by madison10
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To: madison10

The new strain of bird flu? Zero finally proved ineligible? A jihadi assault on air traffic? Asteroid?

Like you said, it’s big, whatever it is, all these enemy orgs suddenly getting religion.


91 posted on 05/11/2013 4:12:28 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: madison10
1. That the sequestration has forced the DoD to leave all our troops where they are forever and never bring them home.

As long as that happens before my brother leaves for Afghanistan.....again....

92 posted on 05/11/2013 4:27:49 PM PDT by reformed_dem
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To: combat_boots
So. He’s going to start burning out structures in this country, too. Prepare to be Benghazied.

Fifty percent of America is waiting silently and prepared for what they expect he will do. Let's hope sanity rules in the White House.

93 posted on 05/11/2013 9:19:34 PM PDT by Rapscallion (People died. Obama lied....to win the election and bankrupt the US..)
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To: onyx

That post hit me hard onyx. Good night, good lady. Thank you for all you do.


94 posted on 05/11/2013 9:27:55 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: topher
Just off the top of my head - some of the MAJOR ObaMao corruptions, leaving out insanely controversial nominations. Behind each item is a plethora – a book’s worth of infractions:

I’m sure I’m missing other MAJOR seditious events by ObaMao. Feel free to fill in the major issues (but adding the medium and low levels problems would fill a library)

96 posted on 05/12/2013 2:27:53 PM PDT by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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To: topher

Not enough attention is getting on the MANPADS smuggling —THAT was what the (looted) warehouse was for, at The Farm. For how many years will airport shoe removal now be irrelevant?

With THOUSANDS of MANPADS now floating around the AQ blackmarket, what sane jihadi will blow himself up aboard an airliner? They won’t have to —they’ll just point and click.

BOOM.

Will we continue taking our shoes off until we get dazzlers and flare dispensers on civil aircraft?

And why won’t the media talk about how Obama refused to go 2 Dover 2c the bodies —he was STILL in campaign mode even AFTER the killings, so they were flown to Andrews in order to save time time for campaigning.

Why aren’t they discussing those 2 things?


97 posted on 05/12/2013 5:41:13 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: txhurl

I will wager that even this “gotcha moment” has been planned.
Watch for the turning of the screw.


98 posted on 05/12/2013 7:06:52 PM PDT by SisterK (you catch 'em, He'll clean 'em)
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To: Marine_Uncle

waiting for the next shoe to drop

nothing is by chance


99 posted on 05/12/2013 7:18:06 PM PDT by SisterK (you catch 'em, He'll clean 'em)
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To: SisterK
RE: "waiting for the next shoe to drop .... nothing is by chance."

That is what FDR the super operator said many years ago.
We shall see further hearings performed by Issa's committee, and maybe soon a super committee between Senate and House formed with full subpena powers.

Now with the socialist/one world order Alphabets news conduits coming on board and challenging what the various goons within the Administration have tried to pull off being tainted, we might expect for some sticks of dynamite to go off in the weeks and months to come.

We shall view what comes to past, and then based on what form of justice might be considered to come out of it, decide if it all is just some further long drawn out circus performance meant to wow the audience.
But with no one held accountable for the deaths of those four American citizens. Time will tell.
100 posted on 05/12/2013 8:11:17 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Galt level is not far away......)
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