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Benghazi Survivor: ‘Anybody With Half a Brain Can See It Was Due to Political Reasons’ (Paronto)
Townhall ^ | Jan 22, 2019 | Beth Baumann

Posted on 01/27/2019 9:46:08 PM PST by george76

Last week, United States District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered multiple senior State Department officials under the Obama administration to answer Judicial Watch’s questions related to Hillary Clinton’s email scandal and the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi.

During Industry Day at the Range at SHOT Show 2019, I had the opportunity to talk with Kris "Tanto" Paronto, one of the men who survived the attack in Benghazi.

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Kris: They've been answering questions so they knew what was going on. What bothers me is they knew what was going on. And they admitted it. They left us. They left us behind. Anybody with half a brain can see it was due to political reasons.

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Bottom line is this: There has to be a politician that goes in there and says, 'You know what? We left these guys behind. And we tried to cover it up. And then we lied about it. And we utilized our own justice system and our own intel agency to hand off responsibility.' And now they're being held responsible, whether it's jail time or mass humiliation...I don't have a problem with that. It's necessary. There's enough information out there to show that they lacked any integrity...

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Kris: With "13 Hours" being out there, we'll always memorialize the guys. Now the question is, are we going to have political officials, the Comeys, the Brennans, the Hillary Clintons, go in there and try to cover it up?

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Paronto said he continues to talk about that tragic day in Benghazi because it's important to help memorialize his friends, but because it's also healing for him. Talking about losing his friends has been a way for him to deal with what took place on September 11, 2012.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 13hours; 20120911; benghazi; brennan; emailscandal; judicialwatch; krisparonto; libya; paronto; roycelamberth; tanto
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1 posted on 01/27/2019 9:46:08 PM PST by george76
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To: DIRTYSECRET

He has been speaking out all along. I saw him speak here in Dallas several years ago. It’s another case of, “if the media doesn’t cover it, it didn’t happen.”

I attended some other events where the other 3 guys spoke at a much more prestigious event. The only reason I could think of that he was not included is because, he holds back nothing and was not politically correct. He was the most honest, open person from a military theater I have ever heard. I was stunned by his presentation.


3 posted on 01/27/2019 10:20:42 PM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Get off meth you have killed too many brain cells. Kris Paranto is a hero who has been speaking out all along.


4 posted on 01/27/2019 10:32:07 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: george76
Way back when Benghazi just happened I read an article from a foreign news agency claiming that Ambasador Stevens was killed because he was attempting to negotiate a deal with Hillary to return some of the money to Libya looted by Obama and the EU banks held by them for Ghadaffi, and that a lot of the money looted was actually Russiasn oil money that Ghaddafi was "fencing" to avoid the OPEC USD only rule.

It said that Stevens was threatening to go to the UN just before the mysterious "uprising over a video" The article quickly dissapeared

(in other words, Ambassador Stevens was assasinated by merceneries working for Hillary and Obama and that was why the e-mails were scrubbed and explains the coverup attempt

5 posted on 01/27/2019 11:03:21 PM PST by KTM rider ( .......than to post and remove all doubt)
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To: george76

I just watched “13 Hours” for the first time a couple of days ago. I was pleased that it was accurate on all points just as I saw them covered here in 2012. Accurate and detailed and the action was about as realistic as any movie I’ve seen.

As a war movie it has to be one of the best.


6 posted on 01/27/2019 11:16:19 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Kris Paranto....... Must see in “13 Hours, The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi”.
Pablo Schreiber is the actor who plays Kris ‘Tanto’ Paronto in this movie. Brother of Lieve Schrieber...Ray Donovan ...


7 posted on 01/27/2019 11:25:13 PM PST by dennisw
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To: TigersEye

AGREE!!!!! 13 Hours is one of the best and what fine actors. All of them. I saw it 2 years ago/


8 posted on 01/27/2019 11:26:38 PM PST by dennisw
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They were good actors. Was planning on buying the DVD but kept putting it off. Saw it on TV. Think I will go ahead and buy the DVD now that I see how good it is.


9 posted on 01/27/2019 11:34:12 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: george76

can you imagine the uproar and constant ‘investigations’ that would have taken place had that incident taken place under republican president who lied and had his or her staff lie and got caught and then said ‘what difference does it make’? and called the victim’s families liars?

The republicans can’t win a fight ever it seems- they had the administration of obama but let them go- with gowdy’s ‘investigations’ that went NOWHERE!


10 posted on 01/28/2019 12:40:29 AM PST by Bob434
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Gowdy, a name that will be reviled in the annuls of history if there is any justice. And no, I do not have a vivid enough imagination to imagine if this had happened under a republican.


11 posted on 01/28/2019 3:06:31 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: george76

The small arms being collected in Libya were used to kill our folks in Syria.

A blind person could see this.


12 posted on 01/28/2019 4:27:16 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: george76

Thanks for this post. This would be a good topic for Trump to add to any live live briefings and certainly his tweets.


13 posted on 01/28/2019 4:34:52 AM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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Benghazi ping.

Let Republicanprofessor know if you want on or off this ping list.


14 posted on 01/28/2019 4:41:10 AM PST by Republicanprofessor
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The rank opportunism and hypocrisy of these two Democrat monsters is nauseating----
pretending sorrow at the ceremony to receive the Benghazi victims' bodies.

HILLARY: "I'm in deep doo-doo. What to do to keep my presidential ambitions alive? Bill is out there putting the blame on Republicans."

OBAMA: "I put stupid Susan Rice to work.....she's on five TV talk shows, lying about a non-existent video that got these people killed."

15 posted on 01/28/2019 4:45:43 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: dennisw

13 hours was a great movie!


16 posted on 01/28/2019 6:19:08 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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“(in other words, Ambassador Stevens was assasinated by merceneries working for Hillary and Obama and that was why the e-mails were scrubbed and explains the coverup attempt”

Sadly, this is not difficult to believe at all. HRC is in it for the power and the money. Obama, ditto but if you can destroy Western Civilization that is the best for him. Benghazi was immediately the thing that should have destroyed the whole shebang. But media traitors/sycophants and pathetic loser Romney let them get away for now.


17 posted on 01/28/2019 7:03:40 AM PST by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: george76

WHY did the attackers openly announce, “Dr. Morsi sent us..!” ?

Why when Chris Stevens hit the beach in Benghazi did he do that with people from A.I.D. —paper shufflers, mostly— instead of US Marines...?

WHY did the local hire defenders physically OPEN the gates for the attackers..? Indeed some reports had some of the defenders PARTICIPATING in the attack, once begun.

WHY would Chris Stevens’ “rescuers” take him to a hospital locally famous for being controlled by Al Qaeda..?

Consider that the FIRST thing newly elected Obama did in his first term was to go to Cairo University and Egypt and then give a long “New Beginning” speech in which he spoke of efforts to repair US/Muslim relations, even floating the idea of returning The Blind Sheik” (World Trade Center bombing, Episode 1) from US custody..?

Is it adding up for you..?

The answer is because Stevens unwitting mission was TO BE ABDUCTED. And then traded in grand fashion for The Blind Sheik riiiight before Obama’s Term 2 re-election vote. That election was then widely forecasted by experts to be a “squeeker election”. The plan was that this would, inshallah, result in the glorious re-election of the magic negro, the man who grew up in a madrassah, finally resulting in an American Who Can Understand The Muslim World.

THAT is why. THAT is why you have all this Benghazi weirdness, lying and deception. Because of this amazing plan that had so many sensitive, moving parts working together that only a woman of amazing ambition recklessness could conceive it.

Let’s review her plan:

1. US Arms are sent to Qatar, officially and legally for THAT country’s end use. But it’s a lie, Qatar acts as legal cut-out and forwards the arms to Libya to knock off Qaddaffi and a Turkey bound ship, ultimately to Syria to knock-off Assad. (Qatar does a little 3rd party US arms diversions of it’s own, which is how a US CH-47 in Afghanistan gets shot down with a late model US Stinger MANPADS)

2. Qadaffi gets knocked off. His arsenal is raided and filtered by a US team in Benghazi for the good stuff, the better to help Syrian rebels in the near future. Hillary will try to get reconstruction contract$ of a now-smashed Libya for her US friend$.

3. Stevens is oh-so-sadly abducted in an oh-so-totally unforeseen raid. By amazing magic all the dozens of pleas for more security are ignored. Imagine that, huh..? Indeed at many junctures it seems like higher-ups are TRYING to get Stevens abducted, —exactly what the unwitting Stevens forebodingly writes in his diary.

4. Libyan arms transferred to Syria, Assad is knocked off, or so Hillary calcuates as she count$ up her estimate of the $yrian re-construction contract$ for her friend$. (Remember how Stevens hit the beach in Benghazi with A.I.D..? That’s cuz Clinton, Inc. has long rolled with A.I.D.. So you see all this arms trading wizardry is NOT the USA, this is all totally off the books with the CLINTONS.)

5. Obama launches into a Stevens-for BlindShiek swap.

6. Transfer happens right before election

7. Three days or so before the actual vote, an orgy of liberal, pliant US media cameras show a tired but smiling Stevens coming down the jet stairs to his happy family.

8. Obama the hero genius re-elected, with his smiling Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (thinking of her own future election to office) looking on.

9. Four years later, Hillary Clinton is elected to office.


18 posted on 01/28/2019 7:10:42 AM PST by gaijin
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19 posted on 01/28/2019 8:13:35 AM PST by bitt (forget the electric chair..we're gonna need electric bleachers!)
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To: george76

Here is what I believe:

The Benghazi attack was planned, arranged and coördinated from the White House as a scheme to provide cover for the release of the blind sheik and other key terrorists.

The obama/Iranian born Valerie Jarrett/Hillary!™ plan was to have Ambassador Stevens and others captured and held hostage, so that obama would have an excuse to release the blind sheik and many/all Gitmo prisoners.

It would have been packaged as a diplomatic victory, a triumph of superior negotiation and statecraft, an Iranian Hostage Crisis with a happy ending, where obama emerged victorious after tough negotiations and deft behind the scenes maneuvering. Unlike Carter, he got our Ambassador and staff back successfully and without loss of life.

Whataguy!

When the SEALS showed up, it queered the deal. The muzzies assumed they’d been betrayed (after all such duplicity is what they would have done!) and proceeded to emasculate, sodomize, murder and sodomize Amb Stevens in pure spite, blood lust and revenge.

Now the treasonous bastiches in the White House really need a coverup!

So they traded several very valuable senior enemy leaders for a single PFC deserter and traitor. There is no universe in which this trade makes sense, unless they really, really, really wanted the islamists to win big.

Cite one demonstrable fact that says it isn’t true, if you can...


20 posted on 01/28/2019 8:30:34 AM PST by null and void (Build the wall, or don't get paid at all.)
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