Posted on 10/31/2012 10:56:01 AM PDT by PhxRising
The White House on Wednesday shot down rumors that President Obama nixed an operation to rescue U.S. diplomats under attack in Benghazi after former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made the claim on national television.
“Neither the President nor anyone in the White House denied any requests for assistance in Benghazi during the attack,” National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor told The Hill via email.
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Well at least they "shot down" something......it sure as hell wasn't any terrorists.
Clintonian word parsing. “Denying a request” would not be the same thing as refusing help or ordering a commander to stand down. Of course, I don’t rule out an outright lie here, either.
White House shoots down rumors it nixed Benghazi intervention
What a terrible title. It should say “White House tries to shoot down rumors it nixed Benghazi intervention”
And if he was a republican, that is what it would say.
If Obama didn’t deny requests, then there was a complete failure of our military to intervene (doubtful). The knot tightens.
Also, IIRC the team that was sent from Tripoli could have been order by the State Dept.
Bottom line is they are just parsing words to hide the whole complete picture.
Another possible scenario is that after the initial attack subsided, (about an hour) they thought it was over, and decided no additional action was needed since help was on the way from Tripoli, hence no CBA was issued.
Later they found out they were wrong, but too late to get people there before the mortar fire hit the Seals.
They are all doing their best to muddy the truth, and I hope that Fox and the Republicans keep hammering on this.
Once again "leading from behind"
” This could all be set up on Panetta to take the fall.”
Hmm. Could this be shaping up as Jarrett taking out Panetta in revenge for end-running her on the Osama raid?
No, I don’t think Jarrett wants to get Panetta out. If what was reported about Panetta making the decision to take out Osama and only telling 0zer0 after the fact, that makes Panetta very problematic to 0zer0 and Jarrett if they force him out because then he could be free to tell the truth to protect his image. So I don’t see Panetta leaving. This is 0zer0’s Black Hawk Down moment, but Panetta is a lot smarter than Les Aspin ever was, so I am sure he has enough dirt on 0zer0 and Jarrett to protect himself from being forced out.
No, 0zer0 and Jarrett are just trying to cover this up till the election. If 0zer0 wins, it will be buried by the lamestream media beneath all the come back kid love stories. If 0zer0 loses, it will still be buried because the Repubs won’t spend the political capital to go after a Prez rejected by the people. So the only way this gets any more traction is if the new media keeps it alive and some honorable whistleblower comes forward this week. Just my opinion
Yes, that was his money line for the day.
Quote that, with no context. MSM - Yes sir!
History will show the unholy alliance between the media and this administration for all time. It will make the history books as a breach in our national firewall against tyranny.
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