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‘Stand down’: CIA Benghazi team clash led to controversial order
washingtontimes.com ^
| 12/14/13
| Kimberly Dozier/AP
Posted on 12/14/2013 2:27:36 PM PST by ColdOne
WASHINGTON CIA officers revealed a clash over how quickly they should go help the besieged U.S. ambassador during the 2012 attack on an outpost in Libya, and a standing order for them to avoid violent encounters, according to a congressman and others who heard their private congressional testimony or were briefed on it.
The Obama administration has been dogged by complaints that the White House, Pentagon and State Department may not have done enough before and during the attack to save U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, and by accusations that it later engaged in a cover-up.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: benghazi; libya; navyseals; terrorism; threatmatrix
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To: GOPJ
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12/15/2013 10:28:07 AM PST
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Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
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12/15/2013 2:38:05 PM PST
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TigersEye
(Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
To: Yosemitest
Wow! This needs to be published!
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12/15/2013 3:07:32 PM PST
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hoosiermama
(Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then)
To: Roccus
as useless as a bucket of cold goat phlegm. I've heard that warm goat phlegm is actually quite useful, but once it cools down....forget it.
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12/15/2013 4:03:07 PM PST
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ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
To: TigersEye
The graphic that someone keeps breaking the link to , here's the link to that article.
Chris Stevens Last Words October 26, 2012 by Matthew Vadum.
" ... On the day of the attack, a few hours before he was raped and murdered by adherents of the so-called religion of peace, Stevens wrote in an email that a local Libyan commander in Benghaziexpressed growing frustration with police and security forces (who were too weak to keep the country secure)
It was a sad, prescient understatement. ... "
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12/15/2013 7:47:37 PM PST
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Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
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12/15/2013 9:26:01 PM PST
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little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
To: Republicanprofessor
Documentation File for the 2014 Impeachment of John Boehner for Dereliction of Congressional Duty by Speaker Boehner for failure to appoint Special Benghazi Massacre Investigator for the 2012 Benghazi Murders of four Federal Employees of the CIA and State Departments.
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12/17/2013 5:29:31 AM PST
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Graewoulf
(Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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