Looks like Obama was correct about Benghazi

[tinydancer]

The NY Times story is complete and utter bullshit. I just saw Mike Rogers on CNN. He is the head of the House Intelligence Committee. He said none of the "facts" in the NY Times piece are accurate. Democrats on the Committee said the same thing.

This story by the Times is a fluff piece that is designed to help Hillary for her 2016 run. Total bullshit. Disregard.

While men, women and children were dying in the Ukraine, my people were dying. Starved to death by Stalin.

What hell is this that they think they can do this again?

 

[Pop23]

go ahead attack the source without referring to any of the info contained...

what a loser you show yourself to be

Because Dante say so!

Now that's funny

Hey Dante, answer this question will ya?

No military aide was sent to the ambassador. The reason appears to be that the closest aide available was seven hours away.

How could the administration know that the attacks would last less than seven hours?

what in the world are you talking about? you sound a a 911 truther or worse...a Kenyan Birther

And you look like another making excuses for the child in charge.

 

[Mertex]

Spain? Your pig brain is really misfiring.

I guess that was too hard for your little pea brain to break down?

Are you male or female.....

What difference does it make? Are you trying to hit on me? I'm not interested....

 

[tinydancer]

I don't understand how anyone can believe them?

 

[Antares]

Dante needs to read further


The violence, though, also had spontaneous elements. Anger at the video motivated the initial attack. Dozens of people joined in, some of them provoked by the video and others responding to fast-spreading false rumors that guards inside the American compound had shot Libyan protesters. Looters and arsonists, without any sign of a plan, were the ones who ravaged the compound after the initial attack, according to more than a dozen Libyan witnesses as well as many American officials who have viewed the footage from security cameras.

 

[nitroz]

Oh, an investigation by the NYT...well that certainly settles it. Everybody zip it now.

fox news should have done it.

 

[WelfareQueen]

^^^^NY times lied and morons keep going. This has been a good day.

 

[Antares]

“Innocence of Muslims” purported to be an online trailer for a film about the mistreatment of Christians in contemporary Egypt. But it included bawdy historical flashbacks that derided the Prophet Muhammad. Someone dubbed it into Arabic around the beginning of September 2012, and a Cairo newspaper embellished the news by reporting that a Florida pastor infamous for burning the Quran was planning to debut the film on the 11th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Then, on Sept. 8, a popular Islamist preacher lit the fuse by screening a clip of the video on the ultraconservative Egyptian satellite channel El Nas. American diplomats in Cairo raised the alarm in Washington about a growing backlash, including calls for a protest outside their embassy.

 

[Dirk the Daring]

Good to get this cleared up. Now the Right can move on to new "scandals".

In other words, 'Glad to see the media wing of the democrat party absolve the democrat party of any wrong-doing so I can firmly place my head in the sand again.'

 

[WelfareQueen]

It's fun to see all these NY Times Benghazi threads die. The truth will set you free.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

House lawmakers on Sunday disputed a new report that concludes Al Qaeda played no role in the fatal 2012 terror attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

The report, published Saturday in The New York Times, found no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had a role in the assault that killed four Americans on Sept. 11, 2012, and that it appeared that the attack was fueled in large part by anger at an American-made anti-Islamic video, as the Obama administration first claimed.

“I dispute that, and the intelligence community, to a large volume, disputes that,” Michigan GOP Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told “Fox News Sunday.”

He also repeatedly said the story was “not accurate.”

Rogers was joined on the show by California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, who said, “intelligence indicates Al Qaeda was involved.”

The findings in the New York Times story also conflict with testimony from Greg Hicks, the deputy of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who was killed in the attack. Hicks described the video as "a non-event in Libya" at that time, and consequently not a significant trigger for the attack

Sean Smith, a foreign service officer, and former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were also killed in the 2012 attack.

The responses by Rogers and Schiff Sunday follow New York Rep. Peter King, member and former chairman of the House’s Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, telling Fox News on Saturday the argument in the Times story that the militia group Ansar al-Shariah -- not Al Qaeda -- led the Benghazi attack is an academic argument over semantics.

“It’s misleading,” said King, considering Ansar al-Shariah is widely believed to be an affiliate terror group of Al Qaeda. “It’s a distinction without a difference.”

Schiff, a House Intelligence Committee member, said the story doesn’t conclude the attack was a flash mob attack or a “pre-planned, core Al Qaeda operation.”

Rogers declined to say whether he thought the recent Benghazi-related stories on TV and in print were politically motivated -- particularly to try to exonerate then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is eyeing a 2016 presidential bid.

But he took issue with Ambassador Susan Rice talking about the incident when Congress “still has an ongoing investigation.”

Schiff said the newspaper report “was not designed to exonerate State Department lapses.”



”Congress, in bipartisan tone, disputes report Al Qaeda not involved in deadly Benghazi attack | Fox News

jesus .... how funny.


al qaeda nyt quote:

The investigation by The Times shows that the reality in Benghazi was different, and murkier, than either of those story lines suggests. Benghazi was not infiltrated by Al Qaeda, but nonetheless contained grave local threats to American interests. The attack does not appear to have been meticulously planned, but neither was it spontaneous or without warning signs.

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the wingnuts turn it into something else. where does the Times say groups were not influenced by al qaeda?

sounding more and more like 911 truthers and Kenyan Birthers. poor rightwingers,,,,,gone over the edge of reality

 

[boedicca]

The NYT tells then what they (and Hillary) so desperately want to hear.

 

[Antares]

Dante is a moron.

Reports of the video were just beginning to spread on Sept. 9 when Mr. McFarland, then the officer normally in charge of politics and economics at the United States Embassy in Tripoli, had his meeting with the Benghazi militia leaders. Among them were some of the same men who had greeted Mr. Stevens when he arrived in Benghazi at the start of the revolt, including Mr. Gharabi, 39, a heavyset former Abu Salim inmate who ran a local sandwich truck before becoming the leader of the Rafallah al-Sehati. Another was Wissam bin Hamid, also 39, a slim and slightly hunched mechanic known for his skill with American cars who by then had become the leader of Libya Shield, considered one of the strongest militias in Libya.

 

[1776]

If you're female then you're a 300 lbs hag hiding behind your avatar...if you're a male then you're a limp dick that can't a date but get off on your avatar "woman."

That is all...

Spain? Your pig brain is really misfiring.

I guess that was too hard for your little pea brain to break down?

Are you male or female.....

What difference does it make? Are you trying to hit on me? I'm not interested....

 

[plant]

Looks like the big O punks the Faux drool crew once again !! Issa is obamas BITCH lmao

How juvenile.

About a juvenile as the GOP making up fairy tails . Issa is Obama's bitch ! No way around that .

 

[Darkwind]

To really illustrate how pathetic this story is and their running with this story is that the terrorist group which is not so-called AQ means Obama lied that he is personally shutting down terrorism worldwide when there are terrorist groups growing like weeds in Africa.

IT is amusing that the left are reduced to trying to say that the terrorists who attacked Benghazi were not al-queada...just ordinary terrorists. This after they claim it was about a movie made by and American. How sad and pathetic.....

Is that your new scandal?.......

Scandal? That happened when the President (yet again) lied to the American people about the incident at Benghazi. The fact that the NYT's and the left are trying to parse the difference between al-queada and an affiliated terror cell as meaning that there was no lie and no terrorist affiliation, is simply amusing.

It shows the depths that the progressives will go to in order to defend their POS President.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

How does this prove Obama right? Oh, that's right, he blamed BOTH a youtube video AND terrorists! I guess it's not hard to be 'right' when you revise your answers to fit the ever-changing narrative.

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
September 12, 2012
Remarks by the President on the Deaths of U.S. Embassy Staff in Libya

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

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Dante needs to read further


The violence, though, also had spontaneous elements. Anger at the video motivated the initial attack. Dozens of people joined in, some of them provoked by the video and others responding to fast-spreading false rumors that guards inside the American compound had shot Libyan protesters. Looters and arsonists, without any sign of a plan, were the ones who ravaged the compound after the initial attack, according to more than a dozen Libyan witnesses as well as many American officials who have viewed the footage from security cameras.

"Anger at the video motivated the initial attack."

just like arguing with 911 truthers....

"initial attack"


more than one attack happened.

 

[ShaklesOfBigGov]

Yeah..maybe they should.

There is a lot more evidence to consider, including those within the Obama Administration itself.

President Obama did not call his Libyan counterpart the night of the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler told lawmakers.

Instead, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called President Mohammed Magariaf on Obama's behalf that night “to coordinate additional support to protect Americans in Libya and access to Libyan territory,” Ruemmler wrote in a letter dated Thursday. The president then called Magariaf the next evening.

Official: Obama didn't call Libya's president on night of attack | TheHill

I smell a witch hunt for partisan bs purposes.

If you are attempting to include Hillary Clinton's view quoted as partisan.

"Terrorists are seeking to extend their reach and their networks in multiple directions, and they are working with other violent extremists to undermine the democratic transitions under way in North Africa, as we tragically saw in Benghazi.” Hillary Clinton

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...ti-islam-film-article-1.1168658#ixzz2ou2hHbcx

 

[tinydancer]

I'd just like an honest answer on anything