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CBS News REPORT: Under Secretary Patrick Kennedy decided NOT to send FEST to Benghazi
The Right Scoop ^ | May 17th, 2013

Posted on 05/17/2013 4:46:47 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike

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Said one source, “I don’t see a downside to sending FEST…if for no other reason than so no one could ask why we didn’t.”
1 posted on 05/17/2013 4:46:47 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike
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To: Hotlanta Mike

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2 posted on 05/17/2013 4:48:15 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: MestaMachine

Ping.


3 posted on 05/17/2013 4:48:38 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: gorush

By the way, Kennedy reportedly does not have the authority to decide such a thing...he was simply the messenger.


4 posted on 05/17/2013 4:50:59 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great natiorn is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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One official does pin the decision not to send in FEST on Under Secretary Patrick Kennedy

..get the official and Kennedy UNDER OATH

5 posted on 05/17/2013 4:51:28 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Kennedys getting more people killed.

Mary Joe, Bay of Pigs, now this!


6 posted on 05/17/2013 4:51:58 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (WHO IS ON THE ENEMIES LIST?)
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To: Uncle Miltie

(Okay, so he’s no relation, but still!....) ;-)


7 posted on 05/17/2013 4:52:54 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (WHO IS ON THE ENEMIES LIST?)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Kennedy does NOT have the authority make that decision independently!

Petraeus at CIA or any 4 star could simply countermand any such instruction, if it did not originate at higher authority.


9 posted on 05/17/2013 4:53:12 PM PDT by G Larry (Darkness Hates the Light)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Kennedy has cross border Authority?


10 posted on 05/17/2013 4:53:36 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Btt


11 posted on 05/17/2013 4:53:53 PM PDT by uncitizen (Drip drip drip)
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12 posted on 05/17/2013 4:54:42 PM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Under Secretary of State for Management is his official title.

Now, I’m not an expert, but that doesn’t sound like the kind of rank required to call off immediate emergency response to a terrorist attack.

From Wikipedia -

“Under Secretary for Management is a position within the American Department of State that serves as principal adviser to the Secretary of State and Deputy Secretary of State on matters relating to the allocation and use of Department of State budget, physical property, and personnel, including planning, the day-to-day administration of the Department, and proposals for institutional reform and modernization”

Now, according to that, his job is to advise the Secretary of State, and may have some independent influence on state department property and personnel. Could such a person have the authority to call of FEST?


13 posted on 05/17/2013 4:55:19 PM PDT by Viennacon (l)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

I’d say malice since a Kennedy is involved. Then I recall the drug use and light fingers in the past and I’m moving to detached incompetence. In either case it all fits this administration.


14 posted on 05/17/2013 4:58:51 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: uncitizen

Bring out the big bus!!
Throw them all under it one by one until we get to the true usurper 0 himself!
We still do not know where or what the Prez was doing when the call came in! Obviously he was AWOL! And our people died!
This cannot be excused! I truly hope that, that one goodnights sleep will become his nightmare forever! Make it so!
Head his ass back to Chi town to never be seen again!
Or maybe Jimmi can give him a job on the peanut farm! They can exchange failures!


15 posted on 05/17/2013 5:01:27 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Let’s see. . . he was born in 1949 and overdue for retirement. Yup, he can take the “fall” and be financially set for the rest of his life just like the IRS Director.

Who do these guys think they are fooling. . . the uninformed?

The incompetence of these career position employees as well as the current administration trying to cover up their own mistakes is “transparent.”


16 posted on 05/17/2013 5:03:12 PM PDT by mia
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Weren’t we supposed to be getting a guy who could take the 03:00 o’clock call?

Where was Obama in all this? This was HIS call! He’s the Commander in Chief, and this was a high level incident involving our Ambassadorial staff and our military response to it.

This took place over nine hours, and Obambi couldn’t even take part? Is that it? He was too busy?

This is the sort of thing that gets managers axed. Here’s an incident which should be at the top of his priority, and he’s MIA. It’s so bad, you’d almost imagine the White House staff flying one of those little black flags in his absence.

This is dereliction of duty in the highest office in the land, and nobody but nobody is demanding to know why this ignorant adolescent wasn’t on the job.

Was he stuck in a bath-house? Where was he?


17 posted on 05/17/2013 5:03:20 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Before it's all over, Obama may demand extradition to Kenya, because he was born there...)
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To: mia

He can’t take the fall. His rank is not high enough for the order to have come directly from him.


18 posted on 05/17/2013 5:07:35 PM PDT by Viennacon (l)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Payback time!

“During the U.S. Presidential election, 2008 Patrick F. Kennedy ordered State Department employees in Europe be barred from attending Sen. Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin on July 24, 2008 to ensure they displayed political neutrality. Kennedy labeled Obama’s visit as a partisan political activity and he forbade employees from attending.[2]”

Thank goodness they’re not blaming some political hack like Obama- who had the authority to decide...


19 posted on 05/17/2013 5:08:12 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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The weekly Friday evening (news) dump


20 posted on 05/17/2013 5:10:08 PM PDT by llevrok (2013: - Obama vs America. The new cold war)
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