Lindsey Graham Plans To Block Hagel, Brennan Nominations Over Benghazi

[Jroc]

and here...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1xSY-g0Ghk]Sen Lindsey Graham Hammers Chuck Hagel over Jewish Lobby comments & Not calling Hezbollah terrorists - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Wry Catcher]

The American public was told that there "was no evidence" of a terrorist attack. Repeatedly. I really can't believe that people are actually attempting to rewrite history.

September 14: White House spokesman Jay Carney had this exchange with ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jake Tapper: [emphasis added throughout]

TAPPER: Wouldn’t it seem logical that the anniversary of 9/11 would be a time that you would want to have extra security around diplomats and military posts?

CARNEY: Well, as you know, there — we are very vigilant around anniversaries like 9/11. The president is always briefed and brought up to speed on all the precautions being taken. But let’s be -

TAPPER: Obviously not vigilant enough.

CARNEY: Jake, let’s be clear. This — these protests were in reaction to a video that had spread to the region –

TAPPER: At Benghazi?

CARNEY: We certainly don’t know; we don’t know otherwise. You know, we have no information to suggest that it was a preplanned attack.The unrest we’ve seen around the region has been in reaction to a video that Muslims, many Muslims find offensive. And while the violence is reprehensible and unjustified, it is not a reaction to the 9/11 anniversary that we know of or to U.S. policy.

September 16: Susan Rice to CBS News' Bob Schieffer:

BOB SCHIEFFER: But you do not agree with [Magariaf] that this was something that had been plotted out several months ago?

SUSAN RICE: We do not-- we do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned.

September 16: Susan Rice to Fox News' Chris Wallace:

RICE: The best information and the best assessment we have today is that was, in fact, not a pre-planned and pre-meditated attack. That what happened initially -- it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo, as a consequence of the video, that people gathered outside the embassy and then it grew very violent. Those with extremist ties joined the fray and came with heavy weapons, which unfortunately are quite common in post-revolutionary Libya. And that then spun out of control. We don't see at this point -- signs that this was a coordinated, pre-meditated attack. Obviously we'll wait for the results of the investigation and we don't want to jump to conclusions before then. But I do think it's important for the American people to know our best current assessment.

September 19: Jay Carney to CBS News' Bill Plante:

PLANTE: You are still maintaining that there was no evidence of a pre-planned attack--

CARNEY: Bill, let me just repeat now--

PLANTE: But how is it that the attackers had RPGs, automatic weapons, mortars…

CARNEY: Bill, I know you've done a little bit of reading about Libya since the unrest that began with Gaddafi. The place has an abundance of weapons.

PLANTE: But you expect a street mob to come armed that way?

CARNEY: There are unfortunately many bad actors throughout the region and they're very armed. ….

PLANTE: But they planned to do it, don't you think?

CARNEY: They might, or they might not. All I can tell you is that based on the information that we had then and have now we do not yet have indication that it was pre-planned or pre-meditated. There's an active investigation. If that active investigation produces facts that lead to a different conclusion, we will make clear that that is where the investigation has led. Our interest is in finding out the facts of what happened, not taking what we've read in the newspaper and making bold assertions that we know what happened.



White House Repeatedly Told Media 'No Evidence' Of Terror Attack In Libya

"There's an active investigation" from the above. What "active investigation" lead to GWB invading and occupying Iraq?

 

[tinydancer]

The American public was told that there "was no evidence" of a terrorist attack. Repeatedly. I really can't believe that people are actually attempting to rewrite history.

September 14: White House spokesman Jay Carney had this exchange with ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jake Tapper: [emphasis added throughout]

TAPPER: Wouldn’t it seem logical that the anniversary of 9/11 would be a time that you would want to have extra security around diplomats and military posts?

CARNEY: Well, as you know, there — we are very vigilant around anniversaries like 9/11. The president is always briefed and brought up to speed on all the precautions being taken. But let’s be -

TAPPER: Obviously not vigilant enough.

CARNEY: Jake, let’s be clear. This — these protests were in reaction to a video that had spread to the region –

TAPPER: At Benghazi?

CARNEY: We certainly don’t know; we don’t know otherwise. You know, we have no information to suggest that it was a preplanned attack.The unrest we’ve seen around the region has been in reaction to a video that Muslims, many Muslims find offensive. And while the violence is reprehensible and unjustified, it is not a reaction to the 9/11 anniversary that we know of or to U.S. policy.

September 16: Susan Rice to CBS News' Bob Schieffer:

BOB SCHIEFFER: But you do not agree with [Magariaf] that this was something that had been plotted out several months ago?

SUSAN RICE: We do not-- we do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned.

September 16: Susan Rice to Fox News' Chris Wallace:

RICE: The best information and the best assessment we have today is that was, in fact, not a pre-planned and pre-meditated attack. That what happened initially -- it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo, as a consequence of the video, that people gathered outside the embassy and then it grew very violent. Those with extremist ties joined the fray and came with heavy weapons, which unfortunately are quite common in post-revolutionary Libya. And that then spun out of control. We don't see at this point -- signs that this was a coordinated, pre-meditated attack. Obviously we'll wait for the results of the investigation and we don't want to jump to conclusions before then. But I do think it's important for the American people to know our best current assessment.

September 19: Jay Carney to CBS News' Bill Plante:

PLANTE: You are still maintaining that there was no evidence of a pre-planned attack--

CARNEY: Bill, let me just repeat now--

PLANTE: But how is it that the attackers had RPGs, automatic weapons, mortars…

CARNEY: Bill, I know you've done a little bit of reading about Libya since the unrest that began with Gaddafi. The place has an abundance of weapons.

PLANTE: But you expect a street mob to come armed that way?

CARNEY: There are unfortunately many bad actors throughout the region and they're very armed. ….

PLANTE: But they planned to do it, don't you think?

CARNEY: They might, or they might not. All I can tell you is that based on the information that we had then and have now we do not yet have indication that it was pre-planned or pre-meditated. There's an active investigation. If that active investigation produces facts that lead to a different conclusion, we will make clear that that is where the investigation has led. Our interest is in finding out the facts of what happened, not taking what we've read in the newspaper and making bold assertions that we know what happened.



White House Repeatedly Told Media 'No Evidence' Of Terror Attack In Libya

"There's an active investigation" from the above. What "active investigation" lead to GWB invading and occupying Iraq?

Deflection not working.

Senator Graham knows everybody was lied to repeatedly.

Check out this interchange between Jake Tapper from ABC and Ambassador Susan Rice.

On ABC’s This Week, Jake Tapper asked Rice:

Look at this map, if you would. There have been protests around the world over the last several days. And President Obama pledged to repair America's relationships with the Muslim world. Why does the U.S. seem so impotent?

And why is the U.S. even less popular today in some of these Muslim and Arab countries than it was four years ago?

Ambassador Rice:

Jake, we’re not impotent. We’re not even less popular, to challenge that assessment. I don’t know on what basis you make that judgment.

It’s actually the opposite. First of all, let’s be clear what transpired here. What happened this week in Cairo, in Benghazi, in many other parts of the region, was a direct result of a heinous and offensive video that was widely disseminated, that the US government had nothing to do with, which we have made clear is reprehensible and disgusting.

*cough*

Case closed.

Obama Admin: Blame 'Heinous' Video, Not Our 'Impotence'

 

[Claudette]

Rose Garden

10:43 A.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Every day, all across the world, American diplomats and civilians work tirelessly to advance the interests and values of our nation. Often, they are away from their families. Sometimes, they brave great danger.

Yesterday, four of these extraordinary Americans were killed in an attack on our diplomatic post in Benghazi. Among those killed was our Ambassador, Chris Stevens, as well as Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith. We are still notifying the families of the others who were killed. And today, the American people stand united in holding the families of the four Americans in our thoughts and in our prayers.

The United States condemns in the strongest terms this outrageous and shocking attack. We're working with the government of Libya to secure our diplomats. I've also directed my administration to increase our security at diplomatic posts around the world. And make no mistake, we will work with the Libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people.

Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None. The world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts.

Already, many Libyans have joined us in doing so, and this attack will not break the bonds between the United States and Libya. Libyan security personnel fought back against the attackers alongside Americans. Libyans helped some of our diplomats find safety, and they carried Ambassador Stevens’s body to the hospital, where we tragically learned that he had died.

It's especially tragic that Chris Stevens died in Benghazi because it is a city that he helped to save. At the height of the Libyan revolution, Chris led our diplomatic post in Benghazi. With characteristic skill, courage, and resolve, he built partnerships with Libyan revolutionaries, and helped them as they planned to build a new Libya. When the Qaddafi regime came to an end, Chris was there to serve as our ambassador to the new Libya, and he worked tirelessly to support this young democracy, and I think both Secretary Clinton and I relied deeply on his knowledge of the situation on the ground there. He was a role model to all who worked with him and to the young diplomats who aspire to walk in his footsteps.

Along with his colleagues, Chris died in a country that is still striving to emerge from the recent experience of war. Today, the loss of these four Americans is fresh, but our memories of them linger on. I have no doubt that their legacy will live on through the work that they did far from our shores and in the hearts of those who love them back home.

Of course, yesterday was already a painful day for our nation as we marked the solemn memory of the 9/11 attacks. We mourned with the families who were lost on that day. I visited the graves of troops who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hallowed grounds of Arlington Cemetery, and had the opportunity to say thank you and visit some of our wounded warriors at Walter Reed. And then last night, we learned the news of this attack in Benghazi.

As Americans, let us never, ever forget that our freedom is only sustained because there are people who are willing to fight for it, to stand up for it, and in some cases, lay down their lives for it. Our country is only as strong as the character of our people and the service of those both civilian and military who represent us around the globe.

NO ACTS OF TERROR will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.
But we also know that the lives these Americans led stand in stark contrast to those of their attackers. These four Americans stood up for freedom and human dignity. They should give every American great pride in the country that they served, and the hope that our flag represents to people around the globe who also yearn to live in freedom and with dignity.

We grieve with their families, but let us carry on their memory, and let us continue their work of seeking a stronger America and a better world for all of our children.

Thank you. May God bless the memory of those we lost and may God bless the United States of America.

END
10:48 A.M. EDT

It's not the same as stating that this was an organized preplanned attack by an affiliate of AQ.

Not at all. And everyone bloody well knows it.

US envoy Susan Rice admits Benghazi attack error

A US diplomat hotly tipped to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has admitted releasing incorrect information after September's attack on the American consulate in Libya.

BBC News - US envoy Susan Rice admits Benghazi attack error

With all 'due' respect, your biases are showing. Benghazi was a horrific tragedy, but it has become another effort by the fringe to discredit the Obama Administration and the President and the truth be damned.

I wish I had kept count of how many hysterical accusations have been put forth by the opposition to defame President Obama since he received the nomination in the fall of 2008? Two dozen? More?

Let's comport how much forewarning GWB (yeah, I know, "booooooooooooosh") had before 911 and how much Obama had before Benghazi.

Bullshit Wry. Nobody had to try to discredited Barry. He did a damned fine job of discredited himself when he sent Rice out to lie her ass off for two weeks. They knew it was AQ from the get go not some fucking video that nobody saw or knew about.

As for forwarning on 9-11?

That attack was years in the planning. All those years were under the Clinton administation. Bush was in office for eight months before the attack. Clinton is on his knees every night thanking GOD that AQ waited those eight months. Waited Till he was out of office before attacking. I'm sure his FBI were shitting their pants. Hell. Seems O'Neil was right and baby did they drop the fucking ball.

Barrys State Department denied requests for additional security at Benghazi. Those requests were months before the attack. Hell. Other embassies and the RC pulled out because of those threats. Our embassy should have been closed if they weren't going to beef up security. If they had closed the embassy those men would still be alive.

 

[BlindBoo]

One Senator, one vote, should not be able to block a fucking thing in the Senate.

 

[Jroc]

More Security Escorted Kerry to Arlington, Va., Than State Dept. Posted in Benghazi

CNSNews.com) - A larger detail of security agents escorted Secretary of State John Kerry on a trip to Arlington, Va., last week, when he went to visit—of all places—the headquarters of the department’s security bureau, than the State Department posted to its compound in Benghazi, Libya, in the days leading up to the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks.

Kerry, as recorded by an official State Department publicity photograph, was "surrounded" in Arlington on Monday, Feb. 4, by at least four of the department’s Diplomatic Security (DS) agents. In the days leading up to the Benghazi attacks, the State Department deployed only three Dipomatic Security agents to the department's mission in Benghazi.

More Security Escorted Kerry to Arlington, Va., Than State Dept. Posted in Benghazi | CNS News

 

[Dubya]

Lindsey Graham is going to be very embarrassed once again.

Please ...I'm no big fan of Lindsey Graham, but He did a hell of a job here

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCbopNTF2qE]Graham Questions Military Leaders on Response to Benghazi Attack - YouTube[/ame]

That's what the guy who spent the night said!

 

[Lakhota]

The South Carolina senator's crusade against fellow Republican Chuck Hagel may seem inexplicable, but it's about defending himself from a 2014 primary challenge, reports Patricia Murphy.

With an Eye on South Carolina, Lindsey Graham Takes Aim at Chuck Hagel - The Daily Beast

So, it's Lindsey first and country second. No surprise here...

 

[tinydancer]

The South Carolina senator's crusade against fellow Republican Chuck Hagel may seem inexplicable, but it's about defending himself from a 2014 primary challenge, reports Patricia Murphy.

With an Eye on South Carolina, Lindsey Graham Takes Aim at Chuck Hagel - The Daily Beast

So, it's Lindsey first and country second. No surprise here...

You have a problem with the Senator being gay?

I am so done.

You have to be kidding.

 

[Sallow]

Oh yeah. The investigation.

They are all up there covering their asses and the not giving out all the details.

Loads of stuff hasn't been released.

Tell me that if Bush were still POTUS you wouldn't be screaming for those answers.

You don't seem to want those answers because Barry is your boy.

Hypocrites. The lot of you.

Apparently you folks didn't.

There was basically only one investigation of the Bush administration, and it was the intelligence failures of 9/11. That occurred a year later..and it took months for a report to be issued. That report was heavily redacted and amazingly laid some of the blame on the Clinton administration.

There were multiple attacks on embassies during both of Bush's terms, not to mention the illegal invasion of Iraq where President Bush lied in the state of the union about aluminum tubing as well as his administration engaging in multiple real live lies about nuclear weapons, Al Qaeda involvement and a whole lot of other things.

Benghazi was almost immediately investigated. And a report issued.

That's much more then what happened with 9/11.

 

[Jroc]

The South Carolina senator's crusade against fellow Republican Chuck Hagel may seem inexplicable, but it's about defending himself from a 2014 primary challenge, reports Patricia Murphy.

With an Eye on South Carolina, Lindsey Graham Takes Aim at Chuck Hagel - The Daily Beast

So, it's Lindsey first and country second. No surprise here...

You have a problem with the Senator being gay?

Liberals are some of those most anti gay people there are. Right wing Christians love them leftist mock them until they need their votes and thier money

 

[tinydancer]

Oh yeah. The investigation.

They are all up there covering their asses and the not giving out all the details.

Loads of stuff hasn't been released.

Tell me that if Bush were still POTUS you wouldn't be screaming for those answers.

You don't seem to want those answers because Barry is your boy.

Hypocrites. The lot of you.

Apparently you folks didn't.

There was basically only one investigation of the Bush administration, and it was the intelligence failures of 9/11. That occurred a year later..and it took months for a report to be issued. That report was heavily redacted and amazingly laid some of the blame on the Clinton administration.

There were multiple attacks on embassies during both of Bush's terms, not to mention the illegal invasion of Iraq where President Bush lied in the state of the union about aluminum tubing as well as his administration engaging in multiple real live lies about nuclear weapons, Al Qaeda involvement and a whole lot of other things.

Benghazi was almost immediately investigated. And a report issued.

That's much more then what happened with 9/11.

Stop and we know your drill. You speak this day in and day out You do this over and over. Its ok. You are the person sent out from the talking points.

What you don't understand is that I know you love your lies and you embrace them.

 

[tinydancer]

I think its lovely

 

[gwennie]

What was President Obama supposed to do - grab a gun and hop on Air Force One to Benghazi?

He was supposed to be directing his team....like anyone with basic leadership capabilities would have done....as to what action to take, when to take it, how to take it, and initiate a military response against a terrorist attack. obama has no leadership ability at all. He would rather not be bothered by those petty problems and, instead, go to a fundraiser or play basketball or hang out with the hollywood types or....well, you get the idea. Point is, obama has absolutely no interest in doing the job of prez....he only wants the fame and bennies of it.

 

[Mr. H.]

"Stand down".

I still can't seem to get the hang of that one.

 

[Seawytch]

Oh yeah. The investigation.

They are all up there covering their asses and the not giving out all the details.

Loads of stuff hasn't been released.

Tell me that if Bush were still POTUS you wouldn't be screaming for those answers.

You don't seem to want those answers because Barry is your boy.

Hypocrites. The lot of you.

Apparently you folks didn't.

There was basically only one investigation of the Bush administration, and it was the intelligence failures of 9/11. That occurred a year later..and it took months for a report to be issued. That report was heavily redacted and amazingly laid some of the blame on the Clinton administration.

There were multiple attacks on embassies during both of Bush's terms, not to mention the illegal invasion of Iraq where President Bush lied in the state of the union about aluminum tubing as well as his administration engaging in multiple real live lies about nuclear weapons, Al Qaeda involvement and a whole lot of other things.

Benghazi was almost immediately investigated. And a report issued.

That's much more then what happened with 9/11.

Let's also not forget that Republicans fought tooth and nail against the 9/11 commission. Cheney was practically apoplectic that it not occur.

There were 8 Embassy attacks under Reagan, one while he was campaigning. He was asked if he should suspend campaigning and said "no".

 

[Seawytch]

"Stand down".

I still can't seem to get the hang of that one.

You can't believe that something that never happened was reported to have happened by Fox "News"?

SOP for them.

 

[S.J.]

Lindsey Graham is going to be very embarrassed once again.

Please ...I'm no big fan of Lindsey Graham, but He did a hell of a job here

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCbopNTF2qE]Graham Questions Military Leaders on Response to Benghazi Attack - YouTube[/ame]

That's what the guy who spent the night said!

More gay bashing from the "party of tolerance".

 

[candycorn]

Lindsey Graham is going to be very embarrassed once again.

He's trying to avoid getting "primaried" next year. That is all this is about.

 

[Lakhota]

So, tomorrow is the day...

Chuck Hagel Nomination Vote Set For Tuesday By Sen. Carl Levin