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Documents show Stevens worried about Libya security threats, Al Qaeda before consulate attack
Fox News ^ | 10-19-2012 | James Rosen

Posted on Friday, October 19, 2012 2:56:57 PM by sheikdetailfeather

Across 166 pages of internal State Department documents — released Friday by a pair of Republican congressmen pressing the Obama administration for more answers on the Benghazi terrorist attack — slain U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and the security officers assigned to protect him repeatedly sounded alarms to their superiors in Washington about the intensifying lawlessness and violence in Eastern Libya, where Stevens ultimately died.

On Sept. 11 — the day Stevens and three other Americans were killed — the ambassador signed a three-page cable, labeled “sensitive,” in which he noted “growing problems with security” in Benghazi and “growing frustration” on the part of local residents with Libyan police and security forces. These forces the ambassador characterized as “too weak to keep the country secure.”

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The Obama Libya Cover-Up Explained (Long Article)
Townhall.com ^ | October 19, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on Friday, October 19, 2012 3:39:49 PM by Kaslin

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RUSH: If you were here yesterday, you recall that the last hour of the program I kept promising, kept intending to spend some time on the latest developments of Benghazi and Libya. And I’m glad I didn’t because all hell has broken loose overnight about this. We now know, McClatchy news has come out with the story that practically explains everything. Let me summarize it for you. McClatchy news says that the regime’s concoction of the video story to explain the attack in Benghazi was a purposeful cover created by the regime to cover up the disaster that our operation involving the removing of Moammar Khadafy proved to be.

Getting rid of Khadafy basically turned the Benghazi area into an Al-Qaeda stronghold. That was the truth of the matter, and that’s what the regime doesn’t want anybody to know, or didn’t. So they concocted the story that the video was responsible for the death of the ambassador and the three other Americans in the attack in Benghazi, because the regime had tried to tell this great story, “Look what we did. We cleaned up Libya. We got rid of an evil guy, and we’ve made Libya part of the Arab Spring, a great outbreak of democracy. Look, aren’t we wonderful.” When instead what happened was we kicked him out of there and then left ourselves, and we left ourselves nobody to control what was happening in the aftermath, and Al-Qaeda has established a beachhead in Benghazi.

Obama’s running around saying that there is no more Al-Qaeda, until yesterday when he pulled it out of his speeches. He was saying there was no more Al-Qaeda. I’ll tell you, what we have learned overnight and this morning, Romney is so set up for the foreign policy debate on Monday night, and there’s much more detail to this. You know, brevity is the soul of wit. Everything that I am going to say down the road here on the program today basically will be to explain how McClatchy learned this. It involves the CIA. The CIA knew within 24 hours that it was a militant attack, that there was no video, there was no spontaneous demonstration. The State Department knew immediately. The White House knew. It was Jay Carney who started the lie.

It was Jay Carney under orders, I’m sure, from Obama and whoever else, which started the ball rolling on the video, and then Susan Rice gets involved. And again, all of that was to cover up an absolute disaster. Taking Khadafy out, it’s arguable whether that was a good thing to do, but we did it, and in the process Obama’s raising the flag, (Obama impression) “Look at me, look at me. I mean, I can pull the trigger as good as anybody, get bin Laden, take care of Libya.” And what happened was, in fact, the ringleader of the Benghazi attack is now doing media appearances in the Middle East. He’ going on The Oprah shows of that region bragging about what he did. He’s not hiding behind a mask or anything. The ringleader of the attack is doing media appearances, is doing television shows.

Let’s go quickly to John Bolton. A couple of audio sound bites here. Numbers ten and 11. He was on American Newsroom with Martha MacCallum this morning on Fox. And I love Bolton. You know, Bolton, former UN ambassador for us during Bush, tough-as-nails guy. He’s very, very much into ideology and he is of the belief that the reason everything’s falling apart in the Middle East is because of Obama’s ideology, because of his liberalism, or Marxism or socialism, whatever you want to call it. His view that America is to blame, his view that it’s always America’s fault, and that’s what enabled him to so easily swerve into blaming an American-made video, when he knew that’s what it was not, by the way.

Everybody knew it was not the video. They were lying on purpose to prevent the dots from being connected that Obama’s action created an Al-Qaeda beachhead in Benghazi.

And, by the way, Benghazi, the government, the head of Libya is in Tripoli, and we learn here Tripoli has no control, the government has no control over what’s going on in Benghazi. Benghazi’s a rogue, renegade place, and it’s now Al-Qaeda’s. I mean, it is utterly devastating.

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RUSH: Here is John Bolton. So he was again with Martha MacCallum today on Fox and talking about the way the regime handled the aftermath of the attack. (interruption) No, I don’t... (interruption) I’m not in the... (interruption) I’m being asked a question here. If people would leave me alone, you know, I could probably get this show done in an hour. But since everybody wants to know what I think, they ask me even when I’m in the middle of a monologue.

I don’t think Obama’s “optimal” comment is that big a deal, but there is a point to be made about it. He has no trouble whatsoever excoriating an American citizen over a video. He’ll describe that person in the most despicable terms. But when it comes to the death of the ambassador, “Well, yeah, the death of four Americans, it’s not optimal.” He does have a different set of values.

I don’t think that thing as a stand alone is that big a deal. You might disagree. We’ll talk about it. Anyway, back to John Bolton. MacCallum said to him, “It seems to me to some extent if you were in the [regime], you felt uncomfortable about the way it was handled initially, one thing that you could do you is sort of make it very clear to the American people that the investigation is ongoing.

“Potentially hear from John Brennan, for example, other people who are very high up in this operation who are supposed to be watching over counterterrorism activities around the world. That would give people some reassurance about what’s happening to avenge the deaths of these four American citizens.” She’s basically asking, “Why didn’t they just say, ‘We don’t know what happened yet; we’re looking into it,’ instead of blaming the video?”

Well, you know the answer now, but I want you to hear what Bolton said.