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What was Obama really doing during Benghazi?
Investor's.com ^ | 5-5-14 | Andrew Malcolm

Posted on 05/05/2014 7:37:37 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

Numerous compelling new questions emerged in recent days about the crumbling White House version of the Benghazi tragedy.

They include the faux meme about a "hateful video," who concocted it, why did Obama stick to that fiction so long, why weren't rapid response troops in position on 9/11 of all days, why were U.S. diplomats even in Benghazi after other consuls abandoned the dangerous city, why was Benghazi security reduced in the days leading up to the well-planned terrorist attack and why were Amb. Chris Stevens' security pleas ignored and no rescue attempted?

The upcoming Select House Committee on Benghazi will no doubt pursue these and other lines of obvious inquiry. And the answers will certainly play a large role in 2015-16 politics if, as expected, ex-Secy. of State Hillary Clinton decides to seek her party's nomination.

But for us the most pressing, curious and disturbing question today remains: Where was the Commander-in-Chief and what was he doing during an eight-hour attack that left four government employees unprotected, abandoned and dead?

We know now, thanks to Bret Baier's recent interview with ex-Obama aide Tommy Vietor, that the president was not in the Situation Room, the secure, in-house command post where presidents usually go to... ~snip~

Clinton and then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta have both said they talked with Obama by phone that awful evening. And Obama's said he ordered all necessary security for American facilities and representatives abroad.

~snip~

So, let's turn the question around:

What could President Barack Hussein Obama have possibly been doing that deadly night, what could his physical and mental condition have been that's so terrible and shocking that the know-everything chief executive would rather Americans think he was asleep at the national security switch?

That's something to awaken any American at 3 a.m. -- or earlier.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: benghazi; hillary; obama; situationroom
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I thing we know the following to be true:

1. He was not in the Situstion Room.
2. He was on the phone with Netanyahu for two hours.
3. He was on the phone with Hillary Clinton for an unspecified period.
4. He was on the phone with Leon Panetta for an unspecified period.

I think that’s about it.


21 posted on 05/05/2014 8:02:32 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The big guy didn’t want to do anything to annoy his true bosom buddies, so he allowed them to rape and murder American citizens, then lied about it, and forced his team to lie about it.
The media didn’t need to be forced. They did it willingly.


22 posted on 05/05/2014 8:08:00 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: mothball

......OR.......bad news goes better with coke......or Reggie AND coke!

I get that the MSM was playing ‘hear, see, and speak no evil’ at the
time. But, even today they pretend they don’t know where the BO
was when the bullets and mortars were cutting down our people.
I’d bet the MSM does know, at least some of them.


23 posted on 05/05/2014 8:14:23 AM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Cherchez la Reggie?


24 posted on 05/05/2014 8:15:35 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a Child Rapist and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The ex-Seals on the roof lased a target.

That means air assets capable of taking out the target were overhead, waiting for clearance to bomb.

0bama refused to drop bombs.

People died.

All in an effort to cover up that fact that 0bama was shipping Ghaddafi’s arms to Al Qaeda in Syria, the same exact guys who had been killing our boys in Iraq.


25 posted on 05/05/2014 8:17:36 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a Child Rapist and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: SampleMan

Thank you George, Dick, John and Sarah for not letting the country know what type of person they were voting for.


26 posted on 05/05/2014 8:23:03 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Uncle Miltie

“0bama refused to drop bombs.”

He told us that if things get weird, he’s siding with the Muslims.

Ain’t no way he’ll protect Americans against Muslims.


27 posted on 05/05/2014 8:23:53 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: joethedrummer

Think of who in Africom, CIA, NSA, DIA, Whitehouse, etc. were ALL LISTENING to the cries for help from the rooftop, and the silence from the Whitehouse.

There will eventually (too late) be a leak that blows this open.


28 posted on 05/05/2014 8:26:15 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a Child Rapist and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Gossip has it that Obama was entangled in a gay orgy in the White House bathhouse, and it took awhile for the ecstasy and Viagra to wear off. There was a lot of chooming going on.

Another take is that Benghazi was an inside intelligence operation, coordinated by the Muslim Brotherhood. With the insane politics of Arab Spring, and the antics of our faggot president, it is unlikely we will ever know the truth.


29 posted on 05/05/2014 8:31:04 AM PDT by pallis
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To: MUDDOG

Fill it, light it, shut up and close the door...


30 posted on 05/05/2014 8:33:59 AM PDT by TomKOne
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To: mothball
Snorting is his Muzzie friends. Laughing while our soldiers die. Isn't that what he does every weekend?
31 posted on 05/05/2014 8:35:04 AM PDT by angcat
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To: Nifster

this


32 posted on 05/05/2014 8:37:50 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: AD from SpringBay

Imagine a republican president missing during such an attack. His absence would be the headline for the next two years.

I’m having problems imaging that. All our previous Republican Presidents have been solid, responsible American Citizens who put the country and our armed forces first. I’m still having problems wrapping my head around most of the stuff coming out of our White House lately, we don’t need to project this mess onto Republicans.


33 posted on 05/05/2014 8:43:07 AM PDT by The Public Eye
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To: afraidfortherepublic

No, not the full 8 hours. We know that the attack on the compound started at about 3:40PM EST. Obama’s official schedule...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-11

details his whereabouts until 5:00PM EST when he was briefed by Leon Panetta.

We also know he talked on the phone from 6:30 to 7:30 EST with Bibi Netenyahu.

After that call he was immediately briefed in the Oval Office by Denis McDonough, Deputy National Security Advisor, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and Chief of Staff Jack Lew.

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2013/01/05/benghazi-not-conspiracy-just-an-old-fashioned-cover-up-of-ineptitude-with-the-kids-making-decisions/

It is after that briefing, sometime after 7:30 EST that Obama’s whereabouts become unknown until his 10PM phone call to Hillary Clinton.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/348677/10-pm-phone-call-andrew-c-mccarthy

The new “debate prep” info at least suggests where he might have been between 7:30 and 10.


34 posted on 05/05/2014 8:44:56 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Uncle Miltie
I remember reading this back in 2012--and it infuriated me!

IF this comes out during the Select Committee investigation, I think it will infuriate a whole lot of other people.

It PERSONALIZES this issue: brave men pleading for rescue from OUR enemy, and their own CIC being AWOL, and voting ABSENT!

35 posted on 05/05/2014 8:48:27 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Ask the bratty, snot-nosed kid that Bret Baier interviewed. But that dude can’t remember cuz it was two years ago, and he didn’t have a tracking device put on the POtuS.


36 posted on 05/05/2014 8:55:29 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: joethedrummer

As I’ve followed the Benghazi trail I’ve come up with two (most likely) scenarios:

1) Team Obama never took National Security issues seriously, and when the attack happened they were caught completely off-guard and unaware. Being less than a month before the election Obama and his crew knew the attack had the potential to really make him look incompetent, swinging the election toward Romney. Hence, “the video started it” lie began.

2) Team Obama was doing something nefarious at the embassy, probably gun running, which had the potential to come to light after the attack (which they were unprepared for). Hence, “the video started it” lie began.

If it can be proven that the President of the United States willfully and knowingly stood up and lied to the American people-—then tried to cover it up-—impeachment bells will be ringing. For those who say he already lied to the American people about Obamacare, there is a major difference: Benghazi involves a major cover up.


37 posted on 05/05/2014 9:15:28 AM PDT by Kharis13 (That noise you hear is our Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: InterceptPoint

Actually he was prepping for a presidential debate!


38 posted on 05/05/2014 9:17:26 AM PDT by Sam Troy
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Most likely he was in front of mirror practicing lines about how he is tough on terrorism and how the world loves US now because he is president.
He could not be bothered with such trivial matters when there was an upcoming fundraiser. Afterwards when all hell broke loose on the ground, he and his ‘handlers’ thought it in his best interest to lie and keep the truth from coming out because of the election.


39 posted on 05/05/2014 9:22:14 AM PDT by penguinhunter
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To: afraidfortherepublic

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Funneling weapons and mercenaries to Syria, so they could “spontaneously” revolt.
.


40 posted on 05/05/2014 9:26:32 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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