Posted on 05/11/2013 7:46:23 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
Editor's note: U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz represents Utah's 3rd Congressional District.
Washington (CNN) -- In testimony that sharply contradicted the Obama administration's initial narrative of the September 11, 2012, terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, three witnesses shared firsthand accounts this week of what happened before, during and after the attack.
The three testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, recounting the horrific events that took the lives of four heroic Americans that day at the U.S. Consulate.
Much of what we have known about Benghazi to this point has come from Obama administration sources. The accounts of these brave witnesses raise troubling questions about the veracity of what we've been told by official sources since the attack took place.
The first contradiction pits former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's explanation of security conditions at the compound against that of Eric Nordstrom, the former regional security officer at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli. In his testimony Wednesday, he repeated assertions he'd made to Congressional investigators last year that his recommendations to upgrade security were ignored at the highest levels.
Yet roughly four months after the attacks, Clinton told the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that "specific requests and decision making" on security "rest with the security professionals."
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r”By force. I bet it is reluctantly on their part”
Being European I am reading different newspapers, hardly a word on Hussein and his cover up of Bengazigate.
Would President Bush have been involved in such a scandal, the newspapers would have gone wild with fury.
Hope it is the downfall of Hussein The Usurper, soon.
Gives one hope.
First time I’ve seen that.
Requesting permission to scarf a copy.
R2z
Don’t forget the butter.
Will be most interesting to see how the Rats try to squirm out of this!
The meme will be that there was a turf war going on between the CIA and State and the WH had nothing to do with any of it other than one wording change to the TP. There's an article in the WP today to that effect and I assume that's what was discussed yesterday at the deep background private press briefing.
To summarize what Rush Limbaugh has been saying for days:
At about 5pm eastern time in Washington, were told that Obama met separately with Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta telling each they needed to handle the attack in Benghazi.
Neither Hillary Clinton nor Panetta had the authority to order the military into action. And, conversely, neither could legally order the military to stand down during an attack on sovereign territory.
Obamas whereabouts after 5 pm (Washington time) are undocumented. We are to believe Obama was having fish tacos and watching TV...while a terrorist attack was occurring on the 10 year anniversary of 9-11? Really?!?!?
May 10, 2013 - Interview Podcast: Victoria Toensing, attorney for Gregory Hicks with (host) Melody Burnes on Talk 1300.
Queue the podcast below at 37:15 minutes:
http://www.talk1300.com/CMT/podcast/may102013part3mb.mp3
Listen this genius King and his SOS Clinton is two of the most brilliant persons in America, so they say themselves. Then to follow they were at the bead of Benghazi and are responsible for the deaths of 4 Americans. They own it.
From your mouth to God’s ears...
And both Obama and Clinton stood in front of those four caskets of the Americans they allowed to die and lied their asses off about an anti-Muslim video.
When will the producer of that video be freed from prison? Or will he be kept hostage by the government as long as the women in Cleveland were kept hostage by their captor?
One can only imagine the outrage if a Republican had been president during an event such as this. The liberal media jackals would have savaged him and demanded impeachment.
Scarf it, it’s fair use by all!
Books shojuld be coming out on how Obama put his election ambitions before the safety of American Citizens.
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Books should be written about how Obama, despite his outward and obvious contempt for this country and a deep seated disdain for our culture and history, was ever elected in the first place. His Trojan Horse “presidency” is one of the greatest frauds of all time.
Look to see War coming as Obama uses Wag the Dog to save his sorry butt. Its got to be big to distract the American people. Only a war, drone strikes, and video could be intense enough. I would think something in Africa? Maybe Iran? I should think Monday or Tuesday next week.
I hope no Christians report for duty.
Not a one.
Tomorrow's shows will be interesting to watch.
I believe we need to accept the fact that there will be no more “real” revelations regarding this event...
After the Sunday talk shows, we will probably not hear anything else about this...
The republicans gave it their best shot in that hearing this last week...that’ll be gthe last real effort on that scale to get someone to admit the truth...
Funny thing...We already know what the truth is, and getting some politician, to compel another politician to come clean...Is very unlikely at this point...
No need to get anyones bowels in an uproar over such a minor thing like editing “talking points”, ordering a “stand down” of forces to at least make the attempt to conduct relief or rescue ops...
I’d pretty much just let all this go, and wait to see what they ignore next...
No need to get yer blood pressure up anymore with this government...
Totally disagree. This will go on for months.
A part of me really agrees with your analysis...You may very well be right...
But then, who does that really benefit to drag this out???
What is going on right now is what should have been going on right after it happened, to this degree of public disclosure...
WE might very well be under the leadership of an entirely different “moderate” president...I know that is a stretch, and it would have been a decision I would have, yet again, had to hold my nose when I pulled that lever back in November...
Bottom line, most of us who can read between the lines, and look at it from their prospective, understand their motivations, realize the fallout of this attack, can understand why they did this...
You know...What is really funny...If Obama had gone in and really made an honest [choke, gag a maggot] attempt at putting some military force on the ground, no matter what the outcome would have been, he would have had a treemendous foriegn policy boost that would have guaranteed him no chance of losing that election...But as it stands I guess it really didn’t matter, because he is still there...
This was going to be a win/win for him anyway it played out...The republicans yet again. blew an opportunity to strike while the iron was hot, on allowing this to fester and give ALL the time in the world to feed the conspiracy theorists freakshow time to really muddy the process and hang that yoke directly upon the feckless republicans who failed to nail this [expletive deleted] to the wall, and anyone else involved in this debacle...
The republicans have had their chance...Any ongoing investigation will not have the same media hype and attention of anyone outside the beltway, for as long as it takes for those feckless wonders to realize they failed again...Much less garner ANY tangible political hit for any of the aforementioned people involved in the process...
Hillary is going to slide right into another presidential run, with Bill riding the coattails of that one for everything its worth...
Can you imagine the irony of possibly having a crony appointment to Secretary of State for Bill Clinton??? It might very well happen...
I gotta go throw up now...;-)
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