Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: PhxRising; Travis McGee; Nachum; Ernest_at_the_Beach; katiedidit1; hoosiermama; maggief

NOT good enough, but Newt Gingrich got their attention!

LOL.


4 posted on 10/31/2012 11:01:02 AM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: onyx

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tommy-vietor/gIQA4kmdAP_topic.html

Vietor, who has spent nearly his entire career working for Barack Obama, replaced Mike Hammer as spokesman for the National Security Council during a White House staff shakeup in January 2011.

For two years before that, Vietor had served in the Obama White House as an assistant press secretary under former press secretary Robert Gibbs. He offered the media the Obama administration’s official views, whether it was about U.S. relief efforts in Haiti or the Pentagon’s succession policy.

(more at link)


16 posted on 10/31/2012 11:13:01 AM PDT by maggief
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: onyx

NOT good enough, but Newt Gingrich got their attention!

Another Newtron bomb. They took the bait, too. President Thinskin just can’t let any challenge to his royal weeness go...the storm would have kept this out of the public. What an incompetent boob. I’m glad Newt’s against them.


26 posted on 10/31/2012 11:28:21 AM PDT by jessduntno ("Socialism only works...in Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they have it." - RR)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: onyx

Got this e-mail from a friend. Don’t know the source.

What was Obama told about ?9/11 threats??

Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012

On the White House Web site, the president?s calendar for September 10, 2012 ? the day before the Benghazi, Libya, attack ? is blank and and the daily press guidance says ?The President has no public events scheduled.?

But the president did have an important meeting that day. In an e-mail exchange over President Obama?s record of skipping his daily intelligence meetings, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor wrote me the following: I?d also note that this focus on just the PDB and not the countless other NSC meetings the President has each week really misses the point. For example, the President had a briefing with the Principals Committee to review 9/11 threats and mitigation efforts on September 10th. Seems like a relevant data point for you[r] piece. [Emphasis added].

The fact that ?the President had a briefing with the Principals Committee to review 9/11 threats and mitigation efforts on September 10th? raises a whole host of new questions: 

? What was the president told in that briefing about ?9/11 threats and mitigation efforts? in Libya? 

? The New York Times reports that ?In the months leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, the Obama administration received intelligence reports that Islamic extremist groups were operating training camps in the mountains near the Libyan city and that some of the fighters were ?Al Qaeda-leaning.? ? Was the president briefed on those reports at the NSC principals meeting?

? The Times further reports that ?a week before Mr. Stevens died, the American Embassy warned that Libyan officials had declared a ?state of maximum alert? in Benghazi.? Was the president told of this assessment by Libyan officials of the state of security in Benghazi at the 9/10 meeting?

? U.S. diplomats in Libya made numerous requests for additional security. The president claims he was not ?personally aware? of those requests.Well, was there any discussion of those requests in the NSC principals committee meeting on September 10th? 

If the NSC Principals Committee did not discuss Libya as part of their briefing on ?9/11 threats and mitigation efforts,? then it would seem to be an example of gross negligence. If they did discuss Libya, then Americans deserve to know what they told the president about the security situation in that country one day before our ambassador was killed. And if the president was in fact briefed on the growing al-Qaeda threat in Benghazi a day before the attack, it would further call into question the administration?s efforts to blame the attack on a YouTube video.  

The only way to answer these questions is for the administration to release the records relating to the September 10 NSC meeting ? including any briefing slides or papers prepared for the meeting. Those records will tell us a great deal about what the president knew ? and when he knew it.


28 posted on 10/31/2012 11:29:47 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson