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Obama officials' spin on Benghazi attack mirrors Bin Laden raid untruths
guardian ^ | 9/21/2012 | Glen Greenwald

Posted on 09/20/2012 8:29:26 AM PDT by barryobi

Almost immediately after President Obama announced the killing of Osama bin Laden, top government officials, including then-CIA Director Leon Panetta and top terrorism adviser John Brennan, made numerous false statements about what took place. That included the claim that Bin Laden was killed after he engaged in a "firefight", that he used his wife as a human shield to protect himself, and that he was living in luxury in a $1m mansion.

We now see exactly the same pattern emerging with the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya and the killing of the US ambassador. For a full week now, administration officials have categorically insisted that the prime, if not only, cause of the attack was spontaneous anger over the anti-Muhammad film, The Innocence of Muslims.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaedalibya; obama
Once again the UK media doing the job our MSM refuses to do.
1 posted on 09/20/2012 8:29:36 AM PDT by barryobi
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To: barryobi

Agree we no longer have a news media we have a cult.


2 posted on 09/20/2012 8:31:16 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: barryobi

How many people in the White House are drinking the beer to com up with these ideas?


3 posted on 09/20/2012 8:31:49 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Vaduz
Obama Continues to Snub Israeli Leaders, Refuses All NY Meetings

Before you know it, Barry will have been personally leading the counter-attack ( from the comfort and safety of the white hut situation room of course ) much like he led the raid that got Bin Laden!

/extreme sarc

4 posted on 09/20/2012 8:34:25 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("Get that evil, foreign, muslim, usurping bastard out of MY White House!" FUBO GTFO!)
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To: barryobi
Greenwald is a US leftist and former attorney. He's been a very vocal critic of the war on terror under Bush and Zero's drone strikes.
5 posted on 09/20/2012 8:35:21 AM PDT by mojito
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To: barryobi
By the end of the week the American MSM will be celebrating the muslim riots and embassy burnings as an Obama accomplishment.


6 posted on 09/20/2012 8:36:02 AM PDT by Iron Munro (US Embassies Come and Go But An Obama Apology Lasts Forever)
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To: barryobi

I don’t mean to jack this thread but I don’t post vanity posts and this topic fits. After reading Drudge this morning I can’t stop thinking that this administration is literally at war with the Navy Seals. Just too many Seals or former Seals getting killed recently. Everyone knows about the public war of words going on, but it there a REAL shooting war going on that we don’t know about?

Did Obama give the order to take out the Somali pirates? Did he feel forced to green light the Bin Ladin raid out of fear that he would be exposed if he declined? How did so many Seals get taken out immediately following that raid? Has the administration been degrading the Seals through over use? Why so many leaks? Why would the Navy suddenly be so interested in making the Seals more “diverse”? http://nation.time.com/2012/02/24/navy-seeks-a-darker-shade-of-seals/


7 posted on 09/20/2012 8:37:28 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: The Sons of Liberty

He only knows how to lead from behind.


8 posted on 09/20/2012 8:55:46 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: barryobi

“Numerous other claims made by the administration about the raid remain unanswered because of its steadfast insistence on secrecy and non-disclosure (except when it concerns Hollywood filmmakers).”


9 posted on 09/20/2012 9:10:06 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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