THE ENEMIES WITHIN
Posted on 09/14/2012 8:54:19 PM PDT by smoothsailing
September 14, 2012
The State Department just allowed our guys to get killed. If you approve no bullets in guns for the mission security guards and an outhouse for a mission, you’re inviting it.
Earlier, on Howie Carr's radio show Thursday, Colonel Hunt said that the American mission at Benghazi "was like a cardboard building, there wasn't even bullet proof glass." In addition, Hunt said the security guards inside the mission didn't have bullets:
Howie Carr: They weren't allowed to have bullets, is that correct?
Colonel Hunt: That's true. They were private security. The rules of engagement were ridiculous.
Hunt told Breitbart News that the new State Department Rules of Engagement for Libya, approved and signed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton since the 2011 fall of Khadafi's regime, severely compromised the safety and security of murdered Ambassador Stevens and all American diplomatic staff in Libya.
He also stated that the decision not to staff Benghazi with Marines was made by Secretary of State Clinton when she attached her signature to the State Department Rules of Engagement for Libya document. Breitbart News has subsequently learned that under those rules of engagement, Secretary Clinton prohibited Marines from providing security at any American diplomatic installation in Libya.....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Hillary goes under the Bus and Bill drops his support of Obama....
The 3 dead ex military were the unarmed security.
Is this about to blow up in the admin’s face?
No.
The media will not allow that..
A good point. I pledged to donate to Louis Gomert’s next campaign after he called McCain, Numbnuts. haha
Whoa... thanks for that link!
October 14-Late November, 2000: Investigation Into USS Cole Bombing Is Thwarted
Barbara Bodine at a press conference days after the bombing of the USS Cole. [Source: Reuters]
The first FBI agents enter Yemen two days after the bombing of the USS Cole in an attempt to discover who was responsible. However, the main part of the team initially gets stuck in Germany because they do not have permission to enter Yemen and they are then unable to accomplish much due to restrictions placed on them and tensions between lead investigator John O’Neill and US Ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine. All but about 50 investigators are forced to leave by the end of October. O’Neill’s boss Barry Mawn visits to assess the situation. [MILLER, STONE, AND MITCHELL, 2002, PP. 237; NEW YORKER, 1/14/2002; SUNDAY TIMES (LONDON), 2/3/2002; NEW YORKER, 7/10/2006 ]
Mawn will later comment, “It became clear [Bodine] simply hated his guts.” After a ten day investigation, he concludes O’Neill is doing a fine job, tells Bodine that she is O’Neill’s “only detractor,” and refuses her request to recall him. [WRIGHT, 2006, PP. 32]
But O’Neill and much of his team are pressured to leave by late November and Bodine will not give him permission to return any time after that. The investigation stalls without his personal relationships to top Yemeni officials. [MILLER, STONE, AND MITCHELL, 2002, PP. 237; NEW YORKER, 1/14/2002; SUNDAY TIMES (LONDON), 2/3/2002]
Increased security threats force the reduced FBI team still in Yemen to withdraw altogether in June 2001. [PBS FRONTLINE, 10/3/2002]
The prime minister of Yemen at the time later claims (see Early October 2001) that hijacker “Khalid Almihdhar was one of the Cole perpetrators, involved in preparations. He was in Yemen at the time and stayed after the Cole bombing for a while, then he left.” The Sunday Times later notes, “The failure in Yemen may have blocked off lines of investigation that could have led directly to the terrorists preparing for September 11.” [SUNDAY TIMES (LONDON), 2/3/2002]
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=barbara_bodine
Who do you think the 3 ex-military guys were?
Former FBI supervisory agent: U.S. ambassador to Yemen in 2000 hindered FBI investigation into USS Cole bombing
A naive and muddleheaded multiculturalist ambassador impedes anti-terror efforts. “Coddling Terrorists In Yemen,” by Ali H. Soufan, an FBI supervisory special agent from 1997 to May 2005, in the Washington Post :
Seven years after al-Qaeda terrorists Jamal al-Badawi and Fahd al-Quso confessed to me their crucial involvement in the bombing of the USS Cole, and three years after they were convicted in a Yemeni court — where a judge imposed a death sentence on Badawi — they, along with many other al-Qaeda terrorists, are free. On Oct. 12, 2000, when I flew to Yemen to lead the FBI’s Cole investigation, I had no idea how uncooperative the Yemeni government would initially be. Nor could I have imagined how disconnected from reality the U.S. ambassador to Yemen then, Barbara K. Bodine, would prove.
I have hesitated in the past to share my view of the conflict between Bodine and the FBI’s counterterrorism leader, John O’Neill. I feel compelled, however, to respond to Bodine’s recent comments, which slander the efforts of many dedicated counterterrorism agents and divert attention from the significant terrorist problem within Yemen, our “ally” in the “war on terror.”
A recent Post report on Yemen allowing al-Qaeda operatives to go free offered insight into the challenges the FBI faced. Bodine was quoted in the article not urging the Yemeni government to rearrest the terrorists but, instead, denigrating the agents who investigated the attack. She faulted the FBI as being slow to trust Yemeni authorities and said agents were “dealing with a bureaucracy and a culture they didn’t understand. . . . We had one group working on a New York minute, and another on a 4,000-year-old history.”
In fact, our team included several Arab American agents who understood the culture and the region. Even so, such comments were irrelevant. The FBI left Yemen with the terrorists in jail.
It is true that while tracking the terrorists we worked “on a New York minute.” We owed that much to the sailors murdered on the Cole and to all innocent people who remained targets as long as the terrorists were free.
It is also true that we did not trust some Yemeni officials. We had good reason not to:
When the FBI arrived in Yemen, some government officials tried to convince us that the explosion had been caused by a malfunction in the Cole’s operating systems. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh even asked the U.S. government for money to clean up port damage the United States “caused.”...
This will open on Rush Monday at about 12:07 P.M. EDT.
Obama nor Hillary can throw each other under the bus. They both know all the dirt on each other. Neither would survive.
It would appear to me that Bill Clinton will have the last laugh on both of them. I do not like Bill Clinton's political philosophy. However, based on the personality of Hillary Clinton, it is easy to understand why Monica Lewinsky happened.
You guys are putting blame on the wrong people. It is not anyone in this countries fault. It would not have mattered if there were a company of marines there. We are dealing with fanatics who do not care about life in any way shape or form. It is not even about their religion, the Koran does not teach to kill babies, and women, it is fanatics who have interpreted that way.
These people want war, death and chaos. Even if there were marines there these women would have still found a way to kill our people, they are women, cowards. They will never fight us straight up.
Listen, we are talking the end of the world stuff here, it is us against the Muslims. Anyone who does not understand this is fooling themselves. The real trick is how long do we have, it does not even matter who is president. These things are already set in motion, it is only time now. How long before Iran has a nuke, this is the question we should be asking. We should be helping Israel strike Iran before it is too late...
Yes, it is not hillaries fault but it will be all of our faults if we don’t nuke these Muslim fanatics and be done with it.
The last few days are proof, there is no Arab spring, we need to NUKE em all. NUKE EM.....
Clinton talked tough. But he did not act tough. Indeed, a review of his years in office shows that each time the president was confronted with a major terrorist attack — the February 26, 1993, bombing of the World Trade Center, the Khobar Towers attack, the August 7, 1998, bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the October 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole — Clinton was preoccupied with his own political fortunes to an extent that precluded his giving serious and sustained attention to fighting terrorism.
At the time of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, his administration was just beginning, and he was embroiled in controversies over gays in the military, an economic stimulus plan, and the beginnings of Hillary Clinton’s health-care task force. Khobar Towers happened not only in the midst of the president’s re-election campaign but also at the end of a month in which there were new and damaging developments in the Whitewater and Filegate scandals. The African embassy attacks occurred as the Monica Lewinsky affair was at fever pitch, in the month that Clinton appeared before independent counsel Kenneth Starr’s grand jury. And when the Cole was rammed, Clinton had little time left in office and was desperately hoping to build his legacy with a breakthrough in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Whenever a serious terrorist attack occurred, it seemed Bill Clinton was always busy with something else.
From the beginning, the administration ran into significant Saudi resistance (the Saudis quickly identified a few low-level suspects and beheaded them, hoping to end the matter there). According to a long account of the case by Elsa Walsh published earlier this year in The New Yorker, FBI director Louis Freeh on several occasions urged the White House to pressure the Saudis for more cooperation. More than once, Walsh reports, Freeh was frustrated to learn that the president barely mentioned the case in meetings with Saudi leaders.
Freeh — whose own relations with the White House had deteriorated badly in the wake of the Filegate and campaign-finance scandals — became convinced that the White House didn’t really want to push the Saudis for more information, which Freeh believed would confirm strong suspicions of extensive Iranian involvement in the attack. Walsh reports that in September 1998, Freeh, angry and losing hope, took the extraordinary step of secretly asking former president George H. W. Bush to intercede with the Saudi royal family. Acting without Clinton’s knowledge, Bush made the request, and the Saudis began to provide new information, which indeed pointed to Iran.
In late 1998, Walsh reports, Freeh went to national security adviser Sandy Berger to tell him that it appeared the FBI had enough evidence to indict several suspects. “Who else knows this?” Berger asked Freeh, demanding to know if it had been leaked to the press. Freeh said it was a closely held secret. Then Berger challenged some of the evidence of Iranian involvement. “That’s just hearsay,” Berger said. “No, Sandy,” Freeh responded. “It’s testimony of a co-conspirator . . .” According to Walsh’s account, Freeh thought that “Berger . . . was not a national security adviser; he was a public-relations hack, interested in how something would play in the press. After more than two years, Freeh had concluded that the administration did not really want to resolve the Khobar bombing.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/218683/facts-about-clinton-and-terrorism/byron-york#
Even Barney Fife got one bullet.
Exactly what’s going on. The dots are so in your face it’s uncanny.
The democrats need unlimited jailtime.
USS Cole bombing--the entire Clinton team including Berger, Albright, Cohen, would not act.Jamie's Wall--initiated to protect Clinton from treason charges in Chinagate insured 911's success.
The Clintons' top guest was Arafat who rewarded them with his "intifada."
Chelsea got an annotated koran and Bill got gulf state gigs. Hillary got a Saudi agent of influence in her body person.
FBI counterterrorism chief John O'Neill warned of an attack and was sidelined and silenced--after his confidential files were stolen at an FBI seminar.
DBA OBAMA's first pick for DCI was John Brennan whose The Analysis Corp sanitized his passport file. Brennan heads the expunging of "islamic" and "terrorist" from the official communications.
A couple of Putinophiles, DBA OBAMA to be "more flexible," Hitlery hyping "reset"--both are dhimmi dummies.
While maintaining the arrogance of the elite saving the world from itself.
Not sure, but I think this is total bs. Hillary was, far as I know, working with communist subversive movements even then. Cuba and latin america and the soviets.
They have already denied the “no bullets” part and O’Reilly backed them up on his Fox News show, brushing it off when someone brought it up. He said something like “ we already know that’s not true” Just like he claimed, some time back, to have seen Obama’s birth certificate and announced it was real!
from your lips to God’s ears
Not if they were armed with a few of these
http://www.noiri.blogspot.com/2012/09/mini-gun-maxi-result.html
more likely than you think
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