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Petraeus Says U.S. Tried to Avoid Tipping Off Terrorists After Libya Attack (Not satire)
New York Times ^ | November 16, 2012 | By ERIC SCHMITT

Posted on 11/16/2012 11:12:38 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

WASHINGTON — David H. Petraeus, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, told lawmakers on Friday that classified intelligence reports revealed that the deadly assault on the American diplomatic mission in Libya was a terrorist attack, but that the administration refrained from saying it suspected that the perpetrators of the attack were Al Qaeda affiliates and sympathizers to avoid tipping off the groups.

Mr. Petraeus, who resigned last week after admitting to an extramarital affair, said the names of groups suspected in the attack — including Al Qaeda’s franchise in North Africa and a local Libyan group, Ansar al-Shariah — were removed from the public explanation of the attack immediately after the assault to avoid alerting the militants that American intelligence and law enforcement agencies were tracking them, lawmakers said. . .

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TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: benghazi; dnctreason; obamatreason; treason; typicaldnctreason
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To: Hotlanta Mike

hmmmmmmm??? Maybe BOTH!


81 posted on 11/17/2012 7:32:34 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....the HUMAN sacrifice to the god of CONVENIENCE.)
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To: F15Eagle
a) gave his wife a $187,000 a year job

She had that job since 2011.

82 posted on 11/17/2012 7:38:41 AM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: F15Eagle

All true...

but the whole point about lying to the American people about an intelligence assessment is not the big story here.

The scandal here is that the President of the United States left 41 people to die at the hands of terrorists. Luck for them there were a few former SEALS among them, or they would all be dead, not just the SEALS, the ambassador and another diplomat.

The President could have ordered a rescue operation from outside the country, that would have had a high probability of success. Knowing full well that these Americans were under terrorist attack - the POTUS refused to authorize their rescue. That is why, Petraeus, Ham, the Admiral in the Med carrier group were all fired. They wanted, perhaps even resigned over not being permitted to launch the rescue. They were ready.

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83 posted on 11/17/2012 8:12:21 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: F15Eagle

All true...

but the whole point about lying to the American people about an intelligence assessment is not the big story here.

The scandal here is that the President of the United States left 41 people to die at the hands of terrorists. Luck for them there were a few former SEALS among them, or they would all be dead, not just the SEALS, the ambassador and another diplomat.

The President could have ordered a rescue operation from outside the country, that would have had a high probability of success. Knowing full well that these Americans were under terrorist attack - the POTUS refused to authorize their rescue. That is why, Petraeus, Ham, the Admiral in the Med carrier group were all fired. They wanted, perhaps even resigned over not being permitted to launch the rescue. They were ready.

3


84 posted on 11/17/2012 8:12:21 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: F15Eagle

All true...

but the whole point about lying to the American people about an intelligence assessment is not the big story here.

The scandal here is that the President of the United States left 41 people to die at the hands of terrorists. Luck for them there were a few former SEALS among them, or they would all be dead, not just the SEALS, the ambassador and another diplomat.

The President could have ordered a rescue operation from outside the country, that would have had a high probability of success. Knowing full well that these Americans were under terrorist attack - the POTUS refused to authorize their rescue. That is why, Petraeus, Ham, the Admiral in the Med carrier group were all fired. They wanted, perhaps even resigned over not being permitted to launch the rescue. They were ready.

3


85 posted on 11/17/2012 8:12:21 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: Triple

“That is why, Petraeus, Ham, the Admiral in the Med carrier group were all fired. “

I hope this comes out. It would be grounds for impeachment.

Petraeus went along with the lie at first.

When he decided to come clean Obama fulfilled his threat and revealed the affair in retaliation.

Blackmail and dereliction of duty are high crimes.


86 posted on 11/17/2012 8:25:13 AM PST by garjog (Heroes Died. Obama Lied.)
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To: garjog

I totally agree...


87 posted on 11/17/2012 8:27:15 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: Ann Archy

I’ve asked that question for weeks to folks on Freeper, Twitter and Gretawire. And it has always felt like those Folks they rescued are off limits when discussing Benghazi. And NOBODY talks about them. A parent of one of the murdered four in Benghazi has said that he received an email from one of the 30 folks who were rescued, saying without their son and the other guys coming to rescue them at the embassy, they would have been dead and that they owe these rescuers a huge debt of gratitude. So, where are these 30 folks now? Are they being sequestered at a “Safe House” here or in some other country. Why aren’t they speaking out??? Why in the heck doesn’t Fox ask this question?


88 posted on 11/17/2012 8:31:32 AM PST by PearlHarbor2
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To: MestaMachine
"I am really, really sick of excuses"

Welcome to the Obama second term.


89 posted on 11/17/2012 8:34:44 AM PST by garjog (Heroes Died. Obama Lied.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Ya think maybe, just maybe, the fricking terrorists already knew they'd conducted a terrorist attack?

How stupid do these maggots think we are?

90 posted on 11/17/2012 8:45:39 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Oh, that clears up everything. They had a brilliant plan for “bringing these folks to justice.”

Watch every libtard for the next 48 hours parrot this line, over and over again.

92 posted on 11/17/2012 8:51:36 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: PearlHarbor2

They are undercover, so they are definitely off-limits.


94 posted on 11/17/2012 8:59:10 AM PST by Wendy44
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Yes, explanation is absurd on its face.
95 posted on 11/17/2012 8:59:35 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: F15Eagle

yep...


96 posted on 11/17/2012 9:27:49 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Patraeus isn’t helping get the truth out. Disappointing. Given the fact that it’s two months later, and the people who perpetrated this haven’t been captured or killed in retaliation, how does the Zero Admin expect Americans to believe this...?

They really expect people to buy into the story that we were so on to them back then, that we, in turn, publicly pretended to be ignorant of the actual situation in the oft case any terrorists watching Meet the Press would get a false sense of hope that they got away with it...? If we were on to them back then, we would have caught them by now.


97 posted on 11/17/2012 9:29:32 AM PST by bryan999
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To: All

“Jennifer Rubin calls this game over for the administration’s defense of Susan Rice, and of the President himself:”

Was Obama briefed that Benghazi was a terror attack before Rice went on TV?

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/11/17/was-obama-briefed-that-benghazi-was-a-terror-attack-before-rice-went-on-tv/


98 posted on 11/17/2012 9:31:02 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("God only knows it's not what we would choose to do." - Lyric from Us and Them - Pink Floyd)
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To: no-to-illegals

“Looking too, was a part and parcel of a piece of, is it called The Plan?”

You have wonder why the powers that be in the Beast on the Potomac wanted that ambassador dead. They may have wanted some or all of the security team dead as well, but that is always easier to arrange. They wanted the ambassador dead as Vince Foster.


99 posted on 11/17/2012 9:33:20 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans. Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: bryan999

I meant to write “odd case”, not “oft case”.


100 posted on 11/17/2012 9:33:39 AM PST by bryan999
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