Posted on 05/11/2013 8:04:05 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Congressional testimony this week showed the appalling lengths to which the Obama administration went to cover-up its mishandling of last fall’s terrorist attack at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, but President Obama’s precise role in the cynical operation remains hidden.
Americans still don’t know what President Obama knew and when he knew it. We don’t know what exactly he did when he learned on Sept. 11, 2012 that U.S. officials in Benghazi were under attack. Obama may have gone to bed while the attack was in progress, leaving others in the administration to develop a politically expedient cover story calculated to get the Obama administration past the finish line last Election Day.
Obama’s advisers, with the president’s consent or not, opted to tell lies to get their man reelected, and to deal with the consequences of those untruths later. They knew they could count on the mainstream media to snooze on the job and dismiss the investigation to come as a partisan witch-hunt.
The manufactured storyline emphasized Obama’s increasingly hollow claim that “al-Qaeda is on the path to defeat and Osama bin Laden is dead.” It allowed the president to escape much need scrutiny about his lame approach to national security and the threat that Islamism poses to the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
fyi
Politicians lying is not a crime - they do it all the time.
If non-criminal lies to get the boss re-elected, plus poor judgement about Islam, is all there is here, it’s going nowhere.
Um, “What difference does it make now?”. That was a long time ago. Remember? Guess something that happened a long time ago and you had nothing to do with didn’t help Scooter Libby very much did it?
know nothing.
Obama was conspicuously absent during all of the timeline. Where was Obama for those 12 hours?
Hillary declared from the floor of the Senate (February 2002), “Bush Knew!!!” in advance about the 9-11 attacks.
Turnabout is a b!tch.
ping Ernest ... and each of us paying attention knows.
Britain evacuates some diplomatic staff from Libya (Tripoli this time)
The Militas from Benghazi are now in Tripoli.
most important is why didn’t he care?
Anyone wanting on or off this ping list, please advise.
I’d like to know where the hell he was too.
Benghazi is above his pay grade.
Who gave the “Stand Down” order? Only POTUS had that authority. Either he gave the order or someone on his staff gave it in his name. This is a burning question that has not been answered.
Where’s the birth certificate? Well if we still had a GOP instead of a RINO party today, that question would have been answered long ago, well before the Kenyan ran for POTUS.
That's what Pelosi and Reid would have done during the Bush administration.
Now is the time to strike, Obama is in deep crap and our *great* Republican leaders can hardly be seen.
Boehner and McConnell should be defining the issue everyday.
Obama Met With Panetta And Biden At White House As Benghazi Terror Attack Was Unfolding.
10/30/2012
Excerpt:
(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama met with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Vice President Joe Biden at the White House on Sept. 11, 2012 at 5:00 PM—just 55 minutes after the State Department notified the White House and the Pentagon that the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi was under attack.
The meeting between Obama, Panetta and Biden had been scheduled before the attack took place, and the Department of Defense is not commenting now on whether the three men were aware when they met that day of the ongoing attack or whether Obama used that meeting to discuss with his defense secretary what should be done to defend the U.S. personnel who at that very moment were fighting for their lives in Benghazi.
“Secretary Panetta met with President Obama, as the White House-provided scheduled indicates,” Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale, a Defense Department spokesman, told CNSNews.com on Tuesday. “However, neither the content nor the subject of discussions between the President and his advisors are appropriate for disclosure.”/
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-met-panetta-and-biden-wh-benghazi-terror-attack-unfolded
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