Special forces ordered to stand down in Benghazi?

[Billy000]

The president was not answering to the people when there were questions that need to be answered, not by his press officer, but by him. He chose to have Jay Carney answer thise questions while he continued to campaign for president.

Questions arose where was the president when the people needed him and mostly while the Middle East was see uprising against the US and our own citizens were in harms way. Again, we didn't hear from the president , but from his spokesman while he toured the US to garner votes for the upcoming election.

Four people died and speculation became facts that protection was denied to them while the president failed to have face to face daily intelligence briefings that may have uncovered the need and the requests from Libya for more protection. This came to light during the investigations that followed the murder of four men in Benghazi.

That is the purpose of Jay Carney. That is his job. If Obama had done it, how would the answers have been different?

You don't seem to understand. Benghazi was under attack and our Ambassador and his men were killed. Triipoli was under attack and several other US sites were experiencing anti US demonstrations. It was a time to hear from OUR LEADER, not an underling. If Winston Churchill's press secretary would have said, "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself," would that have put calm into the Brits in a time of crisis?
People ask, "Just where is our leader when things are falling apart?" Sometimes there is a time to put down the re election banner and tend to governing. Obama failed the test.

That is a subjective point. It is just an opinion. Hardly enough to contribute to the controversy.

 

[Jackson]

That is the purpose of Jay Carney. That is his job. If Obama had done it, how would the answers have been different?

You don't seem to understand. Benghazi was under attack and our Ambassador and his men were killed. Triipoli was under attack and several other US sites were experiencing anti US demonstrations. It was a time to hear from OUR LEADER, not an underling. If Winston Churchill's press secretary would have said, "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself," would that have put calm into the Brits in a time of crisis?
People ask, "Just where is our leader when things are falling apart?" Sometimes there is a time to put down the re election banner and tend to governing. Obama failed the test.

That is a subjective point. It is just an opinion. Hardly enough to contribute to the controversy.

The idea that American sites can be under attack and it is appropriate for the press secretary to address the reporters and no one address the people would be a subjective opinion, not essential to this conversation. Tit for tat, no one wins.

 

[asaratis]

...have become disenchanted.

As more and more comes out, the buzzards will begin to circle around scapegoat after scapegoat until there are none left. As always, the drive to be the first to discover and print the red hot skinny will guarantee that we see lots of versions of "the truth" as paraphrased by the various pundits that shape the media.

 

[JohnL.Burke]

LOL! You're really scraping the bottom of the barrel when you turn to Solidad Obrien.
1. State department official (Charlene Lamb) testified that budget cuts had nothing to do with security decisions in Benghazi.
2. Your posted quote of course is not complete. Chaffetz went on to continue that since there were already two bombings on our consulate (before 9/11) in Libya that we must have a higher priority for certain embassies.
Let me rephrase this for you. We should spend more money on security when in comes to embassies in Libya than embassies in Canada. Do you really disagree with this?
The liberal meme has already unraveled to such an extent that some folks have even played the race card. This is really getting creepy.

 

[chikenwing]

Up to this point I didn't have a problem with Obama as far as his character, per say,have always viewed him as just another slick politician,but not one of questionable character.Just thought he wasn't the man for the job.

Now I know better

 

[Zona]

Once again, we see that the left has no shame. Hillary Clinton politicized the four American heroes' deaths and she is still their 2016 anointed one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqFtEtpy9G8

Seeing how the right could.care less about the soldiers killed in iraq, this is all about 2016 and nothing else.

 

[whitehall]

Wow, it's close to the outrage the mainstream media had for the former, former president who disgraced his wife and family and Country when he couldn't control his sexual urges. Remember what happened to Clinton? Impeachment.

 

[skookerasbil]

Hes a $3.00 bill.......but give him credit. Fooled 50% of the country.

 

[JohnL.Burke]

Once again, we see that the left has no shame. Hillary Clinton politicized the four American heroes' deaths and she is still their 2016 anointed one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqFtEtpy9G8

Seeing how the right could.care less about the soldiers killed in iraq, this is all about 2016 and nothing else.

The right didn't care about soldiers killed in Iraq? Who do you think were defending these soldiers when the left was calling them traitors and child killers and that they deserved to die. I love it when the left practices convenient morality for political obfuscation while denying the facts of Benghazi.

 

[tinydancer]

"The administration’s behavior before and during the attack in Benghazi, in which four Americans died, was unworthy of the greatest power on earth.

After his Libyan intervention, President Obama knew he was sending diplomats and their protectors into a country that was no longer a country, a land rife with fighters affiliated with Al Qaeda.

Yet in this hottest of hot spots, the State Department’s minimum security requirements were not met, requests for more security were rejected, and contingency plans were not drawn up, despite the portentous date of 9/11 and cascading warnings from the C.I.A., which had more personnel in Benghazi than State did and vetted the feckless Libyan Praetorian Guard. When the Pentagon called an elite Special Forces team three hours into the attack, it was training in Croatia — decidedly not a hot spot."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/opinion/sunday/dowd-when-myths-collide-in-the-capital.html?_r=1&

That's Maureen Dowd, the same Maureen Dowd who has CrazyGlued her lips to Democrat scrotum her entire career

1. Why wasn't the Consulate Guarded?

2. After the attack started, why wasn't help sent?

3. Why did Obama lie about the attack?

Well holy toledo! Maureen Dowd of all people.

I had to double check outside to confirm this moment in time.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

Once again, we see that the left has no shame. Hillary Clinton politicized the four American heroes' deaths and she is still their 2016 anointed one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqFtEtpy9G8

Seeing how the right could.care less about the soldiers killed in iraq, this is all about 2016 and nothing else.

The right didn't care about soldiers killed in Iraq? Who do you think were defending these soldiers when the left was calling them traitors and child killers and that they deserved to die. I love it when the left practices convenient morality for political obfuscation while denying the facts of Benghazi.

I seem to remember the left falsely accusing soldiers of killing 100K civilians and undermining their efforts by calling it a quagmire.

 

[Lakhota]

WASHINGTON -- The seasoned diplomat who penned a highly critical report on security at a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, defended his scathing assessment but absolved then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. "We knew where the responsibility rested," Thomas Pickering, whose career spans four decades, said Sunday.

"They've tried to point a finger at people more senior than where we found the decisions were made," Pickering said of Clinton's critics.

Thomas Pickering: Benghazi Call Did Not Come From Hillary Clinton

 

[Oldguy]

Looks like former SecDef Robert Gates was talking about Dowd too. She doesn't appear to know any more than most Nutter's about military capabilities.

 

[Lakhota]

I want more Benghazi.

 

[oldfart]

Obama is so arrogant that he will not leave voluntary like Nixon did.

I love the way you folks rewrite history. Nixon didn't resign until the long black line of limos went up to the White House to tell him personally that the Senate was voting to convict on the Articles of Impeachment.

Did you truly not know that or do you just lie a lot?

 

[Crackerjaxon]

Obama is so arrogant that he will not leave voluntary like Nixon did.

I love the way you folks rewrite history. Nixon didn't resign until the long black line of limos went up to the White House to tell him personally that the Senate was voting to convict on the Articles of Impeachment.

Did you truly not know that or do you just lie a lot?

Do you honestly think the democrats will remain united on this thing as it develops?

No one is going to go down with Obama out of party loyalty.

By the way, where is Obama? Usually, you can't turn on the TV without him grinning and reading from that teleprompter. The White House is in full damage control mode and failing miserably at it.

If it is true that the US was clandestinely running guns into Syria from Libya, and it's beginning to look that way, Obama is inviting trouble. This IRS thing doesn't make him look real good, either.

He has already been caught running a misinformation campaign on the American people. That's enough to begin impeachment proceedings. Evidently, some democrats on this board think lying to the public one of the president's duties.

Do you think that nonsense about Petraeus resigning because of an affair is the whole of the story? Why Did Obama fire General Ham and Admiral Gaouette?

As answers to these questions are made public, and they will be, it's going to get ugly for Obama.

Count on it.

 

[Mr. H.]

Stranger things have happened.

After all, Boehner left office.

 

[RandallFlagg]

To this day, it is not known what role President Richard Nixon played in the break-in at the Watergate Hotel, but the tape recordings from the White House confirm he and Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman discussed using the CIA to slow down the FBI investigation.

It was the cover-up, as history records, that eventually brought about Nixon’s resignation in disgrace.

Now, Congress is investigating an alleged cover-up of the terrorist attack Sept. 11, 2012, on the U.S. foreign service facility in Benghazi, Libya, amid predictions from prominent voices that the scandal will bring down the Obama administration.

Former Arkansas governor and onetime presidential candidate Mike Huckabee made the bold prediction this week, ahead of a House hearing Wednesday that will feature witnesses of the attack.

“I believe that before it’s all over, this president will not fill out his full term,” he said. “I know that puts me on a limb. But this is not minor. It wasn’t minor when Richard Nixon lied to the American people and worked with those in his administration to cover up what really happened in Watergate.

“But, I remind you – as bad as Watergate was, because it broke the trust between the president and the people, no one died. This is more serious because four Americans did in fact die.”


Benghazi buzz: Obama predicted to leave office

My prediction has been from the start, no one is going anywhere. Obama will not resign as did Nixon. Nixon did because he knew his own party was going to vote to impeach him AND remove him from office. Clinton had no such concern and neither does Obama. Power is all they are interested in and that will mean selling out any semblance of truth and looking at the evidence.

That said those who died deserve a hearing a true hearing. This sweeping it under the rug
BS from the left is nothing but BS. It is the WORK of the people for congress to investigate such things. if it cost money it cost money we still do this type thing in a free country.

Agreed. This is the way the left works - and always has. Deny, deny, deny, deny, deny and, eventually, it goes away. Nothing will ever come of this. As I've stated numerous times, Obama is golden. He is the crowning achievement of the communist left. He is responsible for NOTHING. With these morons - the buck stops at the lowest level employee in the State Department. It's the janitors fault. Barry and Hillary are responsible for nothing.

What bothers me most, is the clowns (like those here) who would kill their own mothers and fathers to defend these worthless no good SOBs. Typical "Useful idiots".

In the face of all the evidence, they STILL choose to defend that worthless skank Hillary "the wide-assed" Clinton and that "little boy" in a man's job - Barry Obama.

God, I despise liberals.

 

[Mertex]

Republicans must be freaking out over Hillary's popularity! They've now switched their aim at Hillary. Before Nov 6, they were aiming at Obama, trying to put the Benghazi blame on him, but since that didn't work, he got re-elected, now they're freaking out over Hillary and have turned their aim at her.

What they have failed to provide is a motive for her to deceive Americans about what happened. What was she trying to "cover up"? So far all they can say is she was trying to cover up something, but they can't figure out what it was! Rep Schiff hit the nail on the head.


“This is the same political exercise as before, with just a different target in mind,” said Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), a senior member of the Select Committee on Intelligence. “They’re no longer going after the White House, perhaps because the president’s not running for reelection, and they’re going after the former secretary of state, perhaps because she will be.”
Republican probe of Benghazi attacks turns to Hillary Clinton - Washington Post



Maybe we should have investigated Condi when embassies were attacked under her watch!

13 Benghazis Happened Under President Bush and Fox News Said Nothing

Gee, Representative Schiff...maybe they are trying to find out why so many people felt the need to lie to the American people about what really took place in Libya that day? The list of Obama Administration folks that DID lie range from Barack Obama himself...to his Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton...to his UN Ambassador, Susan Rice...to his Press Secretary Jay Carney. At this point it would be nice to know who IS trustworthy in this Administration. Between Timmy Geithner blaming his failure to pay the proper tax on not understanding TurboTax to Eric Holder declaring that he knew nothing about Fast & Furious? Is there ANYONE in this gang that can't shoot straight that isn't a bald faced liar?

You all keep saying they are lying, but you all can't come up with any evidence that they are. The truth is, we know that Bush/Cheney lied about WMDs, more than 4 people died, and how come Republicans aren't investigating that?

 

[Mr. H.]

What two word don't you understand.

Stand, or down?