Posted on 10/14/2012 11:06:17 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
The State Department has said that it never believed the September 11th attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was the result of a protest over an anti-Islam movie - directly contracting the rest of the Obama administration.
By trying to distance her department from the inept and deceptive handling of the Benghazi attack, which left U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American officials dead, Hillary Clinton could help herself politically for a 2016 presidential run.
A dramatic new account by the State Department reveals that Stevens was locked inside a 'safe room' choking to death from diesel-heavy smoke as the building around him burned to the ground.
Alongside him was a security guard, tasked with the impossible choice between staying in the deadly room - or facing the rocket-propelled grenades and machine-guns outside.
Eventually the guard slipped through the window (cut)
No-one saw the ambassador alive again - another agent tried desperately to enter the safe-room, but could not find him anywhere.
The State Department's insistence it never bought the story - expressed by the White House and Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations - that a crude anti-Islam film made in California triggered the attack gives ammunition against Obama both to the Romney campaign and congressional Republicans.
State Department sources have said that Clinton has never forgotten that Rice, who served in her husband Bill's administration, was an early supporter of Obama. Rice has ambitions to take over from Clinton if Obama is re-elected but the Benghazi debacle could scupper her chances.
In a briefing on Tuesday, State Department officials said 'others' in the executive branch concluded initially that the attack was part of a protest against the film, which ridiculed the Prophet Muhammad. That was never the State Department's conclusion, reporters were told.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
ping..she is still a fail
As someone just above you posted, read the entire thing, not because I believe it but it will answer your question.
The bottom line is that she was right out in front with the faux-video story and was actually pushing it harder that anyone and then dropped out of sight after the memorial detour at Andrews instead of Dover. I don’t see anyone asking why that detour was made or anyone giving an answer, other than it did not work with the campaign schedule.
Now consider they have had over four weeks to come up with this story. Col David Hunt’s interview with Howie Carr on Friday was perhaps the best rendition I have heard yet. He knows what process was started when the Ops Center at the consulate hit the button that alerted the State Dept. when it started and was testified to at the hearings last week. He said there are digital and written logs of all communications events and this one would have started a chain reaction in that everyone in the administration chain of command knew of it just minutes into the raid.
All of them did nothing, especially the White House Situation Room, Pentagon and Foggy Bottom? The word was out to do nothing except for the eventual deployment of the QRF from Tripoli but that again was more window dressing than anything else.
That would be that crazy Kuccinich. Nobody is going to listen to him, he is crazy.....right???
I believe he is spot on because the only two people that would answer the questions were the whistle blowers. The State Departement people were silent as lambs.
I will give Issa and his Hindsight Committee one thing, he got someone to answer the question.
If it got out where Joe Sheopl knew that there were 10 to 20 thousand state of the art MANPADs in the hands of terrorist aiming to take down civilian aircrafts.
Would Joe Sheople still hop on a plane??? Joe Sheople needs to worry about his lost luggage so the MSM needs to report about that and not SAMs.....
“Sounds like if he was raped as some have said it was done after the man had died from the smoke.”
Our government seemed to know IMMEDIATELY that he died from smoke inhalation.
Why should we take their word for ANYTHING??
Now we have to hope that someone, anyone, in the MSM will see that and start pressing the point that Obama lied. That should take care of any "October" surprises he may have and kill his re-election hopes once and for all.
nah, just an evil skank thats in cya mode...if the beast is anything, its politically calculating enough to believe that she can spin the memory hole and leave bambam holding the bag...
sad thing is, in a couple yrs, her version of history will prolly prevail...
>Everyone was informed of the attack in Benghazi in real time. The Pres.,Sec. State,the Pentagon,the CIA ... It’s automatic,required by law and all logged.<
I recall it being reported that Obama went to bed while the attack was underway.
“Watergate sent 43 people to prison, wonder how many this is going to take down?”
Sadly, none because no one has an ‘R’ after their name. Just sayin’.
“Sounds like if he was raped as some have said it was done after the man had died from the smoke.”
What could O’Bummer expect, sending an openly gay man into an environment where they execute gays?
The family of the murdered ambassador went public yesterday roundly accusing Mitt Romney of "politicizing" their son's death.
The lefty parents of the lefty ambassador are in lockstep, of course, with the lefty president that appointed their son, Chris Stevens.
Stevens, typical of most of Obama's appointments the past four years, was far-left (Bezerkeley U., Peace Corps, etc).......'nuff said at the moment.
Is it any surprise that the parents, through the lefty MSM, are cynically and hypocritically rushing to candidate Obama's rescue in this scandal/cover-up..... thus politicizing their son's death THEMSELVES?
Leni
Most drones fly at altitudes of 20-25K ft. Undetectable by the human eye. But they have cameras that can detect a pimple on your nose.
Obstruction of justice, perjury, accessory to murder and most of all - treason!!!
There is no way to “politicize” this unless the word politicize means to “open it up for review”, and “keep it in the news”.
How do you sweep this under the rug when it is imploding?
THIS MSM ?
Thanks for the laugh!
(Lara Logan tried)
They swim away to live another day.
That arrival at Andrews is where the asshat looked as uninvolved and bored as I have ever seen him. This guy is an empty suit whose strings are being pulled by a far craftier and dangerous pack of enemies of the state.
Yeah, Andrews rather than Dover, either because it interfered with the next campaign for fund raising stop or because he saw a similar scene in a Grisham inspired movie.
This should be an issue in a presidential campaign. It involves national security and competence. The fact is obama did not attend regular security briefings or meet with his cabinet on a regular basis. He was derilict in his duty. Libya was his baby. He ran that show without congressional approval. He should have been on top of it.
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