Posted on 10/26/2012 5:00:14 PM PDT by mdittmar
President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally in Richmond, Virginia. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully denied deliberately misleading Americans about the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, telling radio host Michael Smerconish, "I've always been straight with the American people."
Speaking to Smerconish during a 15-minute Oval Office interview, Obama also declared he was "absolutely" prepared to kill those behind the assault but would prefer to capture them and "bring them to justice."
Asked whether the administration's shifting explanation for the September 11 strike reflected the intelligence he was receiving, Obama replied: "What's true is that the intelligence was coming in and evolving as more information came up.
"And what is true," he continued, "...This is something that the American people can take to the bankis that my administration plays this stuff straight. We don't play politics when it comes to American national security," the president said. "As information came in we gave it to the American people. And as we got new information, we gave that to the American people."
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This Benghazi news has been non-surprising to me since the start. I am amazed with such a morally corrupt group of people in charge many more instances haven’t already happened in the past 4 years. Sadly,I assume that they probably have and we will never know about them.
My question, is will there actually be closure? Will obama simply lose the election, and people will consider that “punishment” enough? Will anyone ever be tried? I fear that while the answer should be “yes”, that it will never happen.
This Benghazi news has been non-surprising to me since the start. I am amazed with such a morally corrupt group of people in charge many more instances haven’t already happened in the past 4 years. Sadly,I assume that they probably have and we will never know about them.
My question, is will there actually be closure? Will obama simply lose the election, and people will consider that “punishment” enough? Will anyone ever be tried? I fear that while the answer should be “yes”, that it will never happen.
Barry, every breath out of your mouth is a lie.
I think all of that is a true statement.
He never said he was telling the truth, just that we could "take it to the bank"
He never said we could cash it
I don't think he DID play politics with American national security.
I think he was covering his now TWICE EXPOSED gun running ass and using whatever was available, no matter how lame it may seem.
And as a muslim, his statement is,
"The future does not belong to those that mock the prophet Mohammad"
The obama administration SHOULD be behind bars within 24 hrs.
Anyone else that knowingly ignored and actually refused to aid a fellow man in mortal danger ...
Hell, an average citizen can go to jail for refusing to be a Good Samaritan !!!
Almost 25000 comments on the article - and none of the ones I saw were friendly. Is it possible that people are waking up to/from our long national nightmare?
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