DEVASTATING!… CBS Publishes Benghazi Investigation – Pummels Administration

thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 5-5-2013 | Jim Hoft

[servo1969]

CBS released information on the Benghazi 9-11 massacre today that could potentially bring down the Obama Administration.

Buried in their report (down in paragraph eight) CBS reported, “Throughout the night, sources say Americans on the ground in Libya at times felt helpless and abandoned… But they were told immediate help wasn’t available.” But, counterterrorism sources and internal emails reviewed by CBS News express frustration that key responders were ready to deploy, but were not called upon to help. CBS reported:

Throughout the night, sources say Americans on the ground in Libya at times felt helpless and abandoned.

“We relied on Washington for dispassionate assessment,” one eyewitness told CBS News. “Instead, they [Washington officials] were asking us what help we needed. We answered: ‘Send reinforcements!’ ”

But they were told immediate help wasn’t available.

Embassy personnel say they repeatedly asked the Defense Attache on site in Tripoli for military assistance.

“Isn’t there anything available?” one Embassy official says he asked. “But the answer was ‘no.’”

“What about Aviano?” the official pressed, referencing the NATO air base with US assets in northeastern Italy. “No,” was the answer.

Two of the four Americans killed that night died hours after the first attack began…

…Counterterrorism sources and internal emails reviewed by CBS News express frustration that key responders were ready to deploy, but were not called upon to help in the attack. National Security Council Spokesman Tommy Vietor told CBS News the CSG was not needed.

[Texas Fossil]

I can't imagine why he was incommunicado that night

Well. What if he expected the Ambassador to be kidnapped and held for ransom? What if he planned to trade the blind Sheik for the Amabassador? What if something went terribly wrong? FUBO!

[Gator113]

Tempus omnia revelat.

[popdonnelly]

That woman is just pathetic. Absolutely the most overrated woman of our time.

[spiderfern]

Not to mention Catherine Herridge and Jenifer Griffin’s diligent, persistent work.

[TigersEye]

post #96

[grumpygresh]

“Nah. Token report on a Sunday to bury it all on Monday. In the future, Obama and his fellow Communists will claim, “It was reported on but there simply wasn’t anything to it.”

In order to bury the Benghazi story, they will need something to replace it. Zero could ramp up the war in Syria, start something in Iran, or arrange a domestic event of interest. The MSM will dutifully comply.

[Chode]

100%

[muawiyah]

I simply reported the tack the Dems are planning on taking. Doesn’t mean it has anything to do with the truth, but if all they can come up with now is to blame it on the Republicans that means they are losing the argument internally!

[Jyotishi]

> But she will absolutely not take the blame...

Hillary Clinton: I Take ‘Full Responsibility’ for Security Before Benghazi Attack

By Jason Howerton
TheBlaze.com
Oct. 15, 2012

Video

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told CNN on Monday she takes “full responsibility” for the security failures at the U.S. consulate in Libya where a terrorist attack by radical Islamists last month killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/10/15/hillary-clinton-i-take-full-responsibility-for-security-before-benghazi-attack/

[MagnoliaB]

I am praying for the wheels to finally fall off the bus and let the chips fall where they may. Bring it.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I think she is going to regret that performance.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Watch for a coincidental disaster to knock this out of the headlines.

[rodguy911]

There isn't a snow balls chance in Hades this will ever happen.

Hate to agree with you but about the most we can expect is for a few underlings to be sacrificed and well paid off by the Chicago mob thugocracy.

[elpadre]

think positive - maybe the truth will come out.

think positive - maybe the media will become non-partisan and accurately report.

think positive - maybe a grand jury will be convened to charge Obama and Biden with treason.

think positive - maybe impeachment charges will be forthcoming against Obama and Biden.

think positive - it’s what conservatives do!

[Old Yeller]

Wag the Dog II is coming.

[JDoutrider]

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[randita]

Hillary will not take the blame for any of the cover up, i.e. the videotape story and the scrubbing of the talking points.

[Lake Living]

I hate to say it but if the American public refuses to look at the truths of the Gosnell baby massacre they will have little interest in this as well. Nothing significant will happen. Obama’s poll numbers may drop for a month or two but then it will all be forgotten. What’s 4 deaths compared to thousands? If there is no outrage over Gosnell there will be little for anything else - unless food stamps run out.

[PieterCasparzen]

He was just too much of a coward to do it. Plus that would have destroyed months of banging the “Al Qaeda is dead” drum.

That's the first "fallback" story; they'll say "ok, you got us, we were too 'afraid' to 'pull the trigger', we were worried about exposing the dangers of al kada that still exits. It's our political blunder, mea culpa, you got us."

Think about that - in order to preserve the illusion that al kada was "beaten"... when an al kada attack happens... the administration leadership decides to actually deny the attack happened ? And, knowing they needed to try to save dozens of staff members - including the Ambassador - they thought they could somehow not send in a response team and therefore be able to deny the attack even happened ? Just dismiss it as a "demonstration" ?

This makes no sense, politicians are not that "street dumb".

Which brings us to the second point - the administration, all the way up to Obama, has no problem executing people, either with drones or sending in kill teams.

They also love to do this and do a nice endzone dance.

So Benghazi is not an opportunity missed, it's an opportunity the Obama administration purposefully, intentionally missed. It's an Ambassador and staff purposely left to fend for themselves during an attack that spanned half a day.

[TigersEye]

Whatever.