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 ...
You betcha!
Perhaps the movie was part of an extortion plot. Whoever has the missiles might have made Obama and Hillary show that commercial to prove that they (Obama and Hillary) are willing to negotiate. There’s extortion going on. I don’t know if it’s against the US or just the Democrat party.
Thanks.
“Foggy Bottom was in on this from the get go.”
I agree, Foggy Bottom along with a lot of other folks. Watergate sent 43 people to prison, wonder how many this is going to take down?
True, but Gaddafi was the devil we knew and could deal with.
Hillary had every opportunity to tell truth from the beginning.
But there is no doubt 0bummer went along with it. He was part of the video apology disseminated in Pakistan.
Obama and Hillary Apologize for Free Speech on Pakistani TV (taxpayer-funded ads) Sept. 20, 2012
Which immediately resulted in this...
Pakistan: 17 killed in anti-Islam film protests Sept. 21, 2012
0bama then went to the UN and re-inflamed the Muslim world once again over the manufactured offense "Innocence of Muslims."
U.S. President Speaks to U.N. About YouTube Video
14 days after Sept. 11th!
Those apologies validated the extremist's anger.
We know democrats and their butt kissers are lying when we see their mouths moving.
I wonder if Stevens managed to make any phone calls before he was incapaciated?
In the link posted at #16 the officer explains that they were trapped in the safe room with smoke filling the room. They then exited the room and made their way to a bathroom that had a window with a removable grill.
Sorry Hillary. You own the video. Especially when you came out in your arrogant simpleton voice and lectured us all. Telling the truth from the beginning would have been sooo much easier. Now you must compound lies.
How can she say she doesn’t know what happened when she has real time surveillance videos?
I don’t know about a phone call, but he did send a cable.
“Stevens sent a cable the morning of the attack warning State that their support of a Libyan candidate for Prime Minister threatened to alienate the militias that protected the Benghazi consulate:”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2941802/posts
THANK YOU!!! I couldn’t put my finger on that fact about how strange to have a WINDOW in it!!!
Maybe I am slow, but why make an apology video to be shown in Pakistan? What made Pakistan more important at that particular point in time?
No argument there. But that is a non-sequitur to my point. The 10K-20K manpads were not "given" to anyone by 0bama and Hillbilly. They may have given them some arms though.
America's secret plan to arm Libya's rebels March 11, 2011Obama asks Saudis to airlift weapons into Benghazi
Desperate to avoid US military involvement in Libya in the event of a prolonged struggle between the Gaddafi regime and its opponents, the Americans have asked Saudi Arabia if it can supply weapons to the rebels in Benghazi.
(snip)
The Saudis have been told that opponents of Gaddafi need anti-tank rockets and mortars as a first priority to hold off attacks by Gaddafi's armour, and ground-to-air missiles to shoot down his fighter-bombers.
(snip)
If the Saudi government accedes to America's request to send guns and missiles to Libyan rebels, however, it would be almost impossible for President Barack Obama to condemn the kingdom for any violence against the Shias of the north-east provinces.
The whole lot of them should do the honorable thing and drop Cyanide.
including most of the media!
Check out post #67. Perhaps the reason is in the second link.
Their actions in promoting the Arab spring in Libya “gave” the terrorists these weapons. Gaddafi was no boy scout, but he was afraid of us and that meant we could deal with him. Obama and Hillary helped open Pandora’s Box in Libya, and now there’s going to be hell to be paid. It’s like a mob boss contracting a hit on someone. No, they didn’t pull the trigger, but they ordered it and paid for it. And the results of their contract could be some serious terrorists attacks. It’s the end of the Democrat party.
Read Ann Coulter's new book "Mugged" and you may find yourself poisoning a reporter's aperitif if you get a chance....
I saw that right after I posted. I hate it when that happens. :)
Still, I wonder how secure those Paki nukes are.
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