Posted on 10/28/2012 9:25:24 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
McCain: Libya worst cover-up I've seen in my life
By SCOTT WONG | 10/28/12 11:19 AM EDT
Sen. John McCain said Sunday he was sure President Barack Obama would show leadership in fine fashion in response to Hurricane Sandy, but said his handling of the deadly Libya consulate attack was the worst cover-up or incompetence he had ever seen.
This tragedy turned into a debacle and massive cover-up or massive incompetence is having an impact on the voters because of their view of commander in chief, the Arizona Republican said on CBSs Face the Nation.
It is still the worst cover-up or incompetence I have ever observed in my life. ... McCain added. "Somebody the other day said to me, 'Well, this is as bad as Watergate.' Nobody died in Watergate."
McCain and other Republicans, including GOP National Chairman Reince Priebus and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, pounced on the Obama administration during the Sunday talk shows after news reports came out over the weekend showing discrepancies between the White House and Defense Department over why reinforcements weren't sent to Libya after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Beghazi.
The attack killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last week it was too dangerous to send troops into Libya after the U.S. compound came under attack. But White House officials said they had not denied requests from Americans in Benghazi for backup.
"Why after a cry for help to Leon Panetta and after the president gave a directive to protect those people Panetta now claims he told the person to stand down," Priebus said on CNN's "State of the Union."
"Either the president didnt give the directive or the president isnt being truthful or perhaps Leon Panetta acted as commander in chief."
Has Juan ever missed a Sunday morning talk show?
Not even willing to try. The poster is obviously too stupid to understand.
Panetta’s idiot and cowardly remark about not knowing the risks should be countered by asking, if they all believed this was a demonstration, what was the risk from protestors?
Stupid, lying A-holes.
Panettas idiot and cowardly remark about not knowing the risks should be countered by asking, if they all believed this was a demonstration, what was the risk from protestors?
Stupid, lying A-holes.
Benghazi has the MSM in full, sheer, panic. They are still doing everything they can to ignore it, but it’s leaking out in so many different ways, they can’t stop them all.
Almost every day, there is another revelation, another email, another leak... More questions, more people wondering just what in the hell is going on.
I am personally convinced that one of the reasons they are hyping Sandy so much is simple distraction. Oh yeah, it’s a big nasty storm all right, but it’s not the world-ending game changer they are making it out to be.
Fortunate timing, though.
STAND OBAMA DOWN on November 6th
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIWiBXpR0mc
I’ve never been so sorry for participating in a thread in my life.
I am so sorry for all the harm that I have done.
STOP SENDING ME FREEPMAIL!
okay....
MT, why can’t it be like I suggested?
Say, Boehner....or McConnell lead the charge on Benghazi? You know, the ELECTED airheads? Or does McCain have more influence with the Indies than those who didn’t get beat by a moron in the last election?
I’m done.
Again, please, you know who you are....leave me alone. I’ve already apologized though in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, I just put my tongue in cheek and tried to be clever.
I am so sorry.
What does it take to awaken an honorable man?
You were clever. No need to be upset. The times are such that it can be difficult to determine sarcasm from reality.
Long past time to break up “Big Media”!
The big three are run by leftist and the control all of the narrative.
That should be job one after the dust settles.
McCain, personally, knows what happens to our warriors when our government abandons them.
The procedures our SpecOps, Navy, Air Force and Army set up to rescue endangered Embassy personnel have been around for decades.
They get refined and updated as our Spec Ops and their backups obtain better equipment, faster/better humint and elint.
Our military was ready and waiting for their authorization from our Faux POTUS, the traitor in the Outhouse, which never came.
Obozo refused to pull the pin and authorize the rescue. He went to bed to prepare for a hard fund raising trip to Vegas.
Then, he and his evil minions lied and good Americans died.
Below is the link to Traviss explanation of how this would work unless the POTUS Traitor doesnt authorize the final actions.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2951160/posts?page=5#5
Now I was only a LT for 5 years active duty in NavSpecWar, but it was imprinted deeply upon my brain that ONLY the POTUS can give cross-border permission. Probably a million living ex-military officers know this like they know 2+2=4. This Benghazi fiasco is Obamas baby 100% and there is no way for him to wiggle out.
The system is designed to ENSURE that when a crisis is happening, (and a missing ambassador with a consulate under attack is Crisis Level Infinity), and military assets are already charging in to the rescue, the president must be in the loop to grant the the cross-border authorization.
Nobody else can do this. This one formality must be followed, just put your intitials here, Mr. President, for history, so to speak. Boiler plate, but it must be done.
(Can you imagine Reagan or either Bush saying No. Cross border permission not granted. Stop the rescue. Stand down.)
The POTUS has to tell the Sec. State and JCS, Yes, do it, execute the rescue, cross the borders. Then it WILL happen, without delay, since the military is already on the way, flying in from all directions toward Benghazi.
But if POTUS says at 5pm DC time, No military action, no crossing the border, and then he becomes unavailable, then his last standing order stands until he changes it.
So if he went to bed, for example, nobody could change his standing orders.
I imagine that a lot of extreme military, CIA and State Dept. craziness was going down while Obama was sleeping. Aircraft must be told proceed, or return to base, or they fall from the sky. I imagine many HEATED arguments around the globe on phone, text and email, subject, Well wake the damn president up! Followed by, I cant! You MUST stand down the mission!
Just imagine dozens of inbound planes, jets and helos. Ships moving at full speed into position to be lilypads for long-range over-water helo refueling. Airborne refueling tankers all head to the area. Its a complicated ballet. The Pentagon is wide awake, the military is on full alert.
The rescue is in process, from the first minutes after the alarm.
Everybody in all the planes and involved HQs knows how many minutes/miles to the Libyan border, Benghazi, and their bingo fuel moment, when they must turn around or run dry and crash. Ships can loiter, but planes fall from the sky.
So you can imagine why General Ham of Africom was relieved for refusing to stand down. He probably KNEW Obama was unavailable, and was screaming over the phone, Well, wake him up, dammit!!
Planes and jets and helicopters and ships and commando teams are zooming all around the central Med, keying in on Benghazi
In that environment, OBAMA WAS ASLEEP AND UNREACHABLE!!!!! Resting up for Las Vegas! With a MISSING AMBASSADOR, in Al-Queadatown!
Anybody not furious is a vegetable.
Grampa Daves closing comments: Anyone not furious about this, is an A$$hole and doesnt belong on this site.
In my opinion any orders would have to start from the WHITEHOUSE to stand down. No General or Admiral would be able to do that alone. It all falls on the President, and he was asleep at the wheel, like he has been his whole term of office.
Well, it entirely depends. Here in Atlanta, even if MANY people DO know, they could care less, which I’m convinced more than half have absolutely no idea, because they don’t watch Fox or listen to Rush or watch “DEFace the Nation”...they MAYBE watch the NBC nightly news with Brian Williams, or CBS or ABC and they don’t say a peep about the cover-up. They rarely mention the investigation AT ALL and when they do it’s laced with words like “partisan politics”...blah blah blah.
My mother and I watched some of Fox and decided to peek at the liberal rags to see how THEY are handling it and just as I suspected, they simply CAN NOT help themselves...it’s QUITE stunning!!!!!!! MORE surreal than the storm, more surreal than the cover-up is watching in real time the treasonous liberal media and realizing we’re witnessing and indeed living through in real-time, loss of the remnants of Western Civilization. Stunned at comments from Andrew Cuomo about climate change and this being the new normal for NYC and hurricanes.
As I’m typing this, there’s actually some clown named Ari Melber on the Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell (is this Rosie’s brother, anyone know????) talking about Romney lying about Jeep, after comparing Romney via the DeMoines paper with Nixon and how he could be arrested for this level of lying...
My mother was watching Rachel the Madcow prior to this and said this is depressing, and I didn’t know there were people this f’ed up in the world!!! OF COURSE this is someone who lived through the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, the attempt on Reagan, Watergate, etc.
I noticed Romney was harrassed while he had his sleeves up moving food onto trucks, while Obama was essentially doubling down to read a teleprompter as he’s never read a teleprompter before!
Meanwhile the liberals have been screaming about putting politics on the back burner during times of crisis, but reflect back on how they treated Bush during Katrina, and now of course they are projecting their behavior onto Romney!
NOW on the Ed Show, Ed states he is going to politicize the storm...more class warfare. Yawn, nothing to see here.
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