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The 10 P.M. Phone Call
National Review ^ | May 18, 2013 | Andrew McCarthy

Posted on 05/18/2013 5:30:51 AM PDT by gusopol3

Even in the conservative press, it has become received wisdom that President Obama was AWOL on the night of September 11, after first being informed by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, in the late afternoon, that the State Department facility in Benghazi was under attack. You hear it again and again: While Americans were under attack, the commander-in-chief checked out, leaving subordinates to deal with the crisis while he got his beauty sleep in preparation for a fundraising campaign trip to Vegas.

That is not true . . . and the truth, as we’ve come to expect with Obama, is almost surely worse. There is good reason to believe that while Americans were still fighting for their lives in Benghazi, while no military efforts were being made to rescue them, and while those desperately trying to rescue them were being told to stand down, the president was busy shaping the “blame the video” narrative to which his administration clung in the aftermath.

We have heard almost nothing about what Obama was doing that night. Back in February, though, CNS News did manage to pry one grudging disclosure out of White House mendacity mogul Jay Carney: “At about 10 p.m., the president called Secretary Clinton to get an update on the situation.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andymccarthy; benghazi; benghazitimeline; christopherstevens; clinton; hillarybenghazi; hillaryclinton; libya; obama; obamabenghazi
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To: DrDude
My thinking is that the call was made and the issue really is: What was Obama doing from 5:00 PM to 10:00PM? The choices are:

A. Managing the rescue effort and possible military response.
B. Managing his campaign.

I choose B. Instinctively, Obama would focus his attention on dealing with the political fallout from the Benghazi attack and the death of the Ambassador. There is zero evidence that he was hands-on in the management of any possible military response. It's not his thing.

I will bet dollars to donuts that he was on the phone with Axelrod and huddling with Valerie Jarrett for most of those 5 hours. Out of that came the fiction of the video as the cause of a demonstration that got out of control.

21 posted on 05/18/2013 6:49:20 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (If I had a tag line this is where you would find it)
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To: gusopol3

22 posted on 05/18/2013 6:50:05 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Hilarious (and horrifyingly true). I love the picture of himself and a mirror on the desk.


23 posted on 05/18/2013 6:51:01 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: InterceptPoint
Read this article start to finish or resign from FR. The meat is at the end. The timeline of the 10 PM phone call and the Hillary Press Release speaks volumes about the origin of the phony video story.

QFT and to add that true-blue FReepers need to read down into the comments, too. Several commenters add great questions for consideration. I especially liked the first comment that notes a key question: What is so bad about Benghazi, as yet unrevealed, that the IRS scandal was pushed to the fore?

24 posted on 05/18/2013 6:51:22 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: bert

Wasn’t there some long drawn-out phone call with Bibi Netanyahu that evening?


25 posted on 05/18/2013 6:51:47 AM PDT by Mangia E Statti Zitto
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To: DrDude

In the days following the attack, IIRC at one of the presidential debates, Obama claimed he was on the phone with the Israeli PM for an hour.

That was the ONLY acknowledged phone call Obama was engaged in the afternoon/evening/night of Sept 11, 2012.

In other venues, he and/or staff (Carney, etc.) indicated that Obama did have the security briefing at 5:00 Washington time. During it, he/they were informed of the attacks. Thereafter, no one apparently knew where Obama was or who he might have spoken to.

[The WH has been and continues making up the narrative as they go. What they said 4 or 6 months ago has no bearing on what they said last month or last week or yesterday.]
26 posted on 05/18/2013 6:51:52 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: gusopol3

Barack Choomed while Benghazi burned.

"Who's on the phone?"

"Ben?"

"I don't know anyone named Ben"

Tell him to call back next week."


27 posted on 05/18/2013 6:58:29 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama-Ville - Land of The Freebies, Home of the Enslaved)
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To: gusopol3

Mr. President......the other day you were worried about a few raindrops, so a Marine protected your precious head.......I then heard you say to the PRESS....YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN. Those chilling words made me think about that night in Benghazi.....what it was like for them, desperately trying to survive, fire, missiles, shrapnel, aiming down on them, they were begging for help and to protect your precious political ass......they heard you say....YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN. Seems to be a theme for you.


28 posted on 05/18/2013 7:08:42 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: Travis McGee

A comment at the WSJ:

An Extra Special Prosecutor is needed here, I nominate Vlad Tepes
.
His means and methods are well known and successful.

“And he hated evil in his country so much that, if anyone committed some harm, theft or robbery or a lye or an injustice...”


29 posted on 05/18/2013 7:09:56 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

That would be about right.


30 posted on 05/18/2013 7:10:45 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; Nachum; onyx; ...
DING! DING! DING! DING!!!!

Anyone wanting on or off this ping list, please advise.


31 posted on 05/18/2013 7:11:21 AM PDT by MestaMachine
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To my list:
If you read BENGHAZI DOT ONE, WHY THE VIDEO AND WHY AP
, we are on our way to BINGO, folks.
32 posted on 05/18/2013 7:17:05 AM PDT by MestaMachine
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To: Ray76

> They couldn’t pry Barry off Reggie.

My thoughts too, exactly...lol


33 posted on 05/18/2013 7:21:59 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: joethedrummer

Not if your boss lets you get away with it. We are the boss. Who represents us? The other branches. Where is the Congress on this?
I have had so much of enough of people blaming Romney. He was supposed to fix this on CBs News? The electorate doesn’t care They sure don’t care when the Congress doesn’t care.


34 posted on 05/18/2013 7:24:27 AM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

Bump


35 posted on 05/18/2013 7:25:37 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Obama will have to practice his onscreen crying gig. He's gonna need it!)
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The call with clinton was after the phone call to Netanyahu.


36 posted on 05/18/2013 7:36:45 AM PDT by MestaMachine
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To: gusopol3

I think this commercial was aired not to apologize to the muslims but to introduce the YouTube video to the muslim world in hopes of further violence to further justify the crappy video as the culprit. After all, no one had even heard of the video until then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XtNu6E7c4vA


37 posted on 05/18/2013 7:40:04 AM PDT by Walmartian (I'm their leader. Which way did they go?)
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To: TomGuy

Your recollection seems to be spot on. My only point in this is that Obama never claimed he spoke to Hitlery at all. Thus another lie. I do believe the story evolves as the truth is found out.


38 posted on 05/18/2013 7:47:53 AM PDT by DrDude (Governor of the 57th State)
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To: bert

Thx do you recall which thread?


39 posted on 05/18/2013 7:50:43 AM PDT by DrDude (Governor of the 57th State)
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To: Mangia E Statti Zitto; DrDude

I think you are correct

As I recall, after the meeting there was a long phone call to Bibi. Why talk to him rather than tend to immediate business?

There were several postings of the photo of the meeting

I can’t find the thread


40 posted on 05/18/2013 7:59:55 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....History is a process, not an event)
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