The president. Barack Obama knew as the battle was progressing that rebranded al-Qaeda was involved. But he blamed a film and jailed the filmmaker here in the United States.
Piecing a few loose things together, Barack Obama had not been attending his Presidential Daily Briefings in the months leading up to the attack. He had spent his party convention selling America the story that “Osama bin Laden is dead and al Qaeda is on the run.” The first part of that was true, but the second part?
Benghazi proved it wrong. He had that email from the consulate sent during the attack, and would soon learn of the intercept in which al-Qaeda said that it would proceed with the attack, using the unrest in Cairo as cover.
His convention story about al-Qaeda had fallen apart, so he tried selling us another story: That a movie led directly to the murder of four Americans.
He built one lie on top of another, and both have collapsed of their own weight.
Benghazi was a cover-up, and it probably began that night in the White House as the battle transpired and Ambassador Stevens remained missing. Americans deserve to know who was involved in making the decision to engage in the cover-up. Who knew what, and when did they know it, and how did they respond to what they knew? Were senior administration officials involved, or did the campaign drive the decision, or was it a mix of both?
It’s important that we get answers. No matter what happens on Nov. 6, many of the potential instigators will remain in political life. Anyone involved in the decision to instigate this cover-up should have that future taken away from them.
More: Gretawire has the actual emails.
More: It’s not just that the White House Situation Room received these emails. The military or the CIA deployed a drone to monitor the battle from above, and the evidence strongly suggests that Obama himself and probably the vice president and some of his top intel lieutenants were watching that feed. Eli Lake reported that the drone monitored at least the last hour of the battle.
So Obama was in the Situation Room, with those emails on his screen, and that video feed on the monitor. The ambassador was missing. This was the heaviest night of Obama’s presidency since the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, but with the added twist of the missing Americans and the huge known known — we had no military on the ground or on the way to help them.
And Obama went to bed to get some shut-eye. Then the next day, he learned that Stevens and three others had been killed. He may have seen one or more of the defenders die. But that next day he blamed a movie for what he had seen the night before.
And then he skipped his intelligence briefing, again, and went to Vegas.
More: The NY Post reported on Oct 21 that the drone that monitored the final hour of the Benghazi battle was a Predator. So it’s very likely that that drone was armed, as the US used armed Predators during the Libyan revolution and uses them to dispatch terrorists as the opportunity arises. But there is no reporting that the drone fired any of its Hellfire missiles during the battle. It was relaying video back the United States where–
“They stood, and they watched, and our people died,” former CIA commander Gary Berntsen told CBS News.
The Post also reported:
Fighter jets and Specter AC-130 gunships — which could have been used to help disperse the bloodthirsty mob — were also stationed at three nearby bases, sources told the network.
More: “The video (from the drone) is damning.”
More: Was the Benghazi compound a hub in the known US effort running guns to jihadists in Syria? The evidence is scant and circumstantial but interesting. Stevens met with a “Turkish diplomat” on the night of the attack. According to the New York Times, the Obama administration has been engaged in an effort to broker arms to the Syrian rebels, and most of those arms are ending up in the hands of jihadists. Like the rebels in Libya, many of the Syrian rebels have what might charitably be called al Qaeda ties and influences. We’re arming them as they fight Assad, a secular tyrant who also acts as the Iranian mullahs’ stooge. The Times reports that the gun pipeline is mainly linked to Qatar and Saudi Arabia, but where did CIA chief Petraeus travel last month to personally work on the effort? Turkey. So obviously there’s a Turkish connection to this effort. Libyan jihadists fighters have started turning up all over the place after the revolution, including the Palestinian territories. Libya is some distance from Syrian by land, but a direct boat ride across the Med is doable. Benghazi is up on the coast. It’s an interesting possibility.
Well, if you put it like that… ouch!
We probably had no assets anywhere nearby to respond to the attack, at least not ground forces. No way to get there in time. I suspect an A-10 could have provided a bit of discouragement, though. “Our guys have been instructed to hide. Shoot anything that moves.” The A-10 would buy some time, at least. That might allow some other forces to go in. We could also demand that Libya send in forces to defend us, as is their obligation.
I don’t know if any of this could have been done fast enough, decisively enough. If they had tried something, anything, they would not have to have lied about it. Of course, there is still the whole lack-of-security issue. Still, any effort would have made them sympathetic. They did nothing, and they still have done nothing.
Marc Malone,
The NAS in Sicily was less than an hour away. There are QRF (Quick Response Forces) that were less than an hour away. Never in our history have we had a foreign mission attacked and WE DID NOTHING.
It doesn’t matter that if dispatched the QRF would not have gotten there in time. We are Americans. We don’t let out people just hang out to dry and do nothing. I can only hope that in November we see the beginning of the end of an error.
REZKO, OBAMA, AND THE NADHMI AUCHI RAILROAD LINKING CHICAGO, WASHINGTON, AND BAGHDAD (Part 1of 3)
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/10/23/rezko-obama-and-the-nadhmi-auchi-railroad-linking-chicago-washington-and-baghdad-part-1of-3/
Indeed, Auchi & Obama are tightly connected from his Chicago hood, and now he also has Huma Abedin’s DEEP Muslim Brotherhood Mafia connections to assist his efforts.This is NO small matter, as she is the Deputy COS in the State Dept, already an Arabist bastion -http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/22/will-a-confluence-of-known-terrorists-jumping-to-huma-abedins-defense-hillary-clintons-deputy-chief-of-staff-hit-critical-mass-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
In every sense of the word, the Muslim Brotherhood Mafia(of which Auchi is an integral player) is the spearhead of all the mischief making we are witnessing. And having Obama in the White House has only facilitated their main goal – destroying the miserable (U.S.) house from within! This is the main goal of their stealth jihad.
Most Americans have no idea how compromised America is, and how deep the infiltration/penetration of the Brotherhood is.
They are very close to their goals.
Whistleblower -
Billionaire Auchi, if I remember correctly, is on a terrorist watch list and not allowed in the US. He is, indeed, a dangerous person.
You remind me that what makes Obama so dangerous even as a lame duck: The ability to pardon.
When Clinton was President he pardoned a number of Puerto Rican terrorists to help Hillary, then running for Senator, with the Hispanic vote.
Give it a rest, whistleblower. It’s SPAM at this point.
If nobody thinks enough of you to give you a column of your own, take the hint.
There was a drone above Benghazi in the last hours of the attack. However, it was not just a drone, it was a predator drone. According to Wiki, “… the Predator has been modified and upgraded to carry and fire two AGM-114 Hellfire missiles or other munitions.”
In other words, the predator could’ve dispersed the attackers if it used its missiles and, possibly, have saved lives. But no order was given for it to attack. Was that because POTUS was asleep?
While you’re right that a Predator was watching what happened, it isn’t certain that it was armed at the time. Just because a Predator can carry a couple Hellfire missiles doesn’t mean that particular one was armed. If you have evidence to the contrary, I’d love to see it.
You’re quite correct that not all Predator drones are armed. Army drones are not allowed to be armed as a result of the Key West Agreement. Also it is my understanding, which may not be correct, that they will leave some of the drones unarmed in order to increase loiter time and speed.
G.D.
Is it safe to assume that NAS Sigonella was where the drone originated and that the Predator was not an army drone.
Larry –
Sorry, no evidence. Just more than one General on Fox News calling the drone a ‘predator’.
My conclusion: No need to call a drone a ‘predator’ if it’s just carrying cameras.
Unless it’s actually a Predator drone. You wouldn’t call that a Global Hawk whether it’s armed or not. A Predator is a Predator. That’s the name of that type of drone.
WHY SEND AN UNARMED PREDATOR TO A CONFLICT ZONE?
The Predator was sent over Benghazi based on intel that the mission was under a terrorist attack. If it was sent unarmed, then the decision was made when it was sent not to engage. If armed, then someone made the decision, while watching the attack, not to engage. Disgusting in either event.
LARRY, IS THIS THE EVIDENCE YOU WANTED?
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/10/26/ac-130u-gunship-was-on-scene-in-benghazi-obama-admin-refused-to-let-it-fire/2/
Update: BlackFive confirmed with a retired Delta operator: The fact that ground personnel were painting the target says there was a Spectre on station.
Having spent a good bit of time nursing a GLD (ground Laser Designator) in several garden spots around the world, something from the report jumped out at me.
One of the former SEALs was actively painting the target. That means that Specter WAS ON STATION! Probably an AC130U. A ground laser designator is not a briefing pointer laser. You do not “paint” a target until the weapons system/designator is synched; which means that the AC130 was on station.
Only two places could have called off the attack at that point; the WH situation command (based on POTUS direction) or AFRICOM commander based on information directly from the target area.
If the AC130 never left Sigonella (as Penetta [sic] says) that means that the Predator that was filming the whole thing was armed.
If that SEAL was actively “painting” a target; something was on station to engage! And the decision to stand down goes directly to POTUS!
We have an entire Airborne Brigade a couple of hours away in Italy. I would bet there were plenty of Marines on ships (with helicopters) in the Mediterranean too.
Roger that, Old Soldier – one of my old units (325th ARCT is in Vicenza) and I have previously posted our 24/7/365 deployment of a Nimitz class carrier group complete with USMC MEU. By the way…the Marines in the Mediterranean are there for a SPECIFIC REASON: America’s Rapid Deployment Force for JUST SUCH AN OCCURRENCE AS AN EMBASSY ATTACK. What Dear Leader did, or did not do, is akin to your house catching on fire and the Fire Dept not even responding to the 911 call. This dereliction of duty is not political – it is criminal. Dear Leader ALLOWED those Americans to die in Benghazi.
I cannot speak for the Marines, but as an old paratrooper myself, I can assure everyone we would have arrived ready to put rounds down range at high velocity and low opinion; I would expect no less from our Marines. But, somebody has to give the order…and they did not.
Why wouldn’t the Oval Office try to cover up the truth of the Benghazi attack? Do you think Obama wants Americans to know what Ambassador Stevens was really doing in Benghazi on a day that hold great importance to jihads? Do you think Obama wants the nation to know that when the Sauds turned him down, he armed the Libyan rebels KNOWING that many of them were AQ? Do you think he wants the nation to know that we were trying to get some of those weapons back, or that Ambassador Stevens was facilitating the supply of weapons, and jihadists, to the Syrian rebels being transported through Turkey?
Obama didn’t want Americans to find out about Fast and Furious, Libyan Style and now Fast and Furious, Syrian Style. That’s why he and his minions lied. That’s why he had the maker of a little known, unseen movie jailed without bond.
Jimmie Carter gave us modern day Iran. Obama’s going to give us an entire Middle East that has been radicalized.
1. On 9/11/12 there was an attack underway at US facility
2. Washington was aware of the attack at the time of the attack.
3. The attack lasted 7 hours.
4. Besides the Embassy security at Tripoli, there is a US Navy Air Station at Sigonella Sicily, roughly 1 hours flight time from Benghazi and various Navy assets at Sea within 200 miles of the Libyan coast.
Frank, you lay out exactly why it is a cover up.
The fact of the matter is that the Islamist-in-Chief had to cover up what he ordered all along – a CIA/State Dept gunrunning operation (Huma Abedin, the MOST important Brotherhood operative in the U.S. aided in its facilitation), an operation which was/is meant to supply the anti-Assad rebels for his overthrow.
Now, the other facts are these – the main goal of Obama’s regime is to empower the Muslim Brotherhood, which de facto has Al Qaeda elements within it. Al Qaeda is an offshoot of the Brotherhood Mafia! So, how would it look to the American people, if they found out that the POTUS – who is claiming credit for Osama’s kill – is aiding his brethren to take over Syria?
Moreover, one of the spillover effects of this operation would weaken Iran, but this is neither here nor there as per American/western interests. In other words, BOTH want America/Israel gone! Pick your poison.
What is really happening here is that the POTUS – due to his ideology/background – is doing what Arabs/Muslims have done for centuries. He picked sides in their tribal warfare, naturally he went with his Sunni brothers -
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/11/the-islamist-in-chief-his-kenyan-wahhabi-relatives-obamas-inner-roots-addendum-to-the-ties-that-bind-the-islamist-in-chief-to-sunni-islam-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
IF the above commentary is put into perspective, the rest becomes clear.Solid as a rock.
This cover-up is a perfect example of:
DON’T LET A GOOD CRISIS GO TO WASTE.
AMERICANS DIED
OBAMA APOLOGIZED
The WH used this crisis to push it multiculturalism agenda: Video bad, blah, blah, blah, BS, We didn’t make the video, Blah, Blah, BS, Blah, Blah.
Or to put it another way:
Yatta, yatta, yatta
YOU HAVE TO BE STUPID TO ATTACK THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.
That’s what the WH did. That’s why the intelligence community is pushing back with these ‘leaks’.
THe Biggest scandal is that nothing was done. NOTHING. THe clods in the Sit Room had no idea how long the attack would last, they could have, should have responded.
The White House did not give a rotten damn whether Americans died or not. The WH decided to do nothing at all to help. It is beyond disgusting. Americans ALWAYS help other Americans. Always. Look at US history, the list of Medal of Honor recipients is replete with the names of men who went into danger to help other Americans in need. Shugart and Gordon ring a bell.
And OBAMA did nothing and went to bed. Everyone involved in the decision to do nothing deserves to be haunted by their decision the rest of their lives. Obama deserves to lose the election. Obama NEVER deserves to be saluted by anyone.
“Americans ALWAYS help other Americans.”
I guess one might come to the conclusion, then, that Obama’s not an American. Or, if he is, he’s a traitor.
November 6 cannot come soon enouogh and, if Obama’s not booted out, God help us all.
As disgusting and all encompassing as this WH scandal is, and it is truly a burst colostomy bag all over obama, the even larger and more dangerous scandal is the non-reporting of all of this information by the FDM (federally directed media). There is no genuine purpose for the existancy of the FDM if they are going to kneel before obama and do what prostitutes have always done. I find it hard to express my contempt for not only obama and the democratic party, but my even greater contempt for these media accolytes makes me sick to my stomach.
I’ve been diligently posting regularly about Benghazi on my Facebook ever since Sept. 11th. I’ve been called every single name in the book by my Obama zombie friends. My own mother called me a racist. Really, really resisting the urge to call up every single one of them right now and scream I TOLD YOU SO!!!
Here is a question: what did Hillary know? Here is another question: is the arrested filmmaker part of the deception? Is he an Obama supporter who agreed to be the fall guy? How did they seize upon this film as the reason for the attack? Is this man still incarcerated and why?… They actually arrested someone when they knew it was a lie? Heads should start to roll tomorrow. And the man in jail should be set free and compensated for his forced incarceration. In my entire life I have never seen such corruption, such deceit, such an abuse of people from the filthiest crowd every to occupy the White House. This looks to be an elaborate deception concocted to keep the SOB in power. What a gdamned liar this president is.
Betina -
I agree w/your outrage. However, I can’t agree w/your comment: “… the man in jail [producer of the Muhammad video] should be set free and compensated for his forced incarceration.”
The filmmaker is no angel and may not even be Coptic. This story has many twists.
http://www.shoebat.com/2012/10/09/washington-times-picks-up-on-walids-find/
Mike – thank you for your response but I disagree with your statement. I don’t care what the man is, Coptic or otherwise, criminal record or none, so far he has done nothing the administration has accused him of doing. If he is in prison for violating parole etc, why was he free until now? Why was the catalyst the film? And why is he still there? It seems to me that the “offense allegedly committed” is not proportional to the response. He has been “tucked away”, hidden from view, PUT ON ICE. His fate has not been reported. The whole thing smacks of collusion and coverup. Even those with a criminal background can be innocent. As far as I know, it’s not a crime to be a Coptic Christian. And up until recently, IT WAS NOT A CRIME TO EXPRESS YOURSELF. But now we live in Obama’s fascist terror state were we are taken from our beds in the darkness of night, locked away under dubious circumstances, and left to rot, unknown and unremembered. God damn Obama and his filthy execrable administration with its blood suckers, parasites, goblins, and demons to effin’ hell.
WHERE ARE SOME OF THE BENGHAZI ATTACKERS NOW?
Sinai.
“… Libyan reinforcements were discovered on their arrival in Sinai Oct. 15 with a large quantity of weapons including missiles, ready for the forthcoming Eid offensive. Among them were some of the perpetrators of the murderous attack in Benghazi on Sept. 11 which killed four Americans at the US consulate.”
http://www.debka.com/article/22465/Benghazi-killers-among-terrorists-poised-to-strike-US-targets-Israel-and-Egypt
WHERE ARE SOME OF THE BENGHAZI ATTACKERS NOW?
Iran?
Obama – Treason
Biden – Treason
Clinton – Treason
Panetta – Treason
Who have I left out?
PETRAEUS!
Yes, and a supporting cast of thousands!
We should put these people in Gitmo.
I was waiting for an October surprise from the left. It appears the surprise may have come in the form of a big, rotten-egg stinking scandal so smelly the MSM cannot afford to look the other way. Even Huffington Post is reporting this – with very little spin, from what I can tell (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/23/libya-attack-white-house-benghazi_n_2007497.html).
This makes me suspect Romney new this was coming down the pipe, and may be the main reason he didn’t lay into Obama last night re Libya. If so – very well played. What a devious strategy: he didn’t have to win the debate last night. He just had to run a holding pattern until this came out, and then let the press do the dirty work of attacking the President (while he sits back and looks Presidential. AND – what timing! The final two weeks before the election! The White House may be able to deflect, but there is no way this will not be a major distraction.
If Romney & company masterminded this – I must tip my hat. Beautifully done.
“This makes me suspect Romney KNEW…”
Me know English good.
I thought of this, too. No need to go on the attack if you knew they were going to be caught in the web on their own.
According to the Pew Research Center, the vast majority of Americans are getting their news from liberal, pro-Obama sources that are giving Benghazi little-to-no coverage. By giving Obama a pass on Benghazi during the last debate, Romney ceded an opportunity to go over the liberal media and communicate directly with the American people — a huge strategic blunder.
Does anyone seriously believe that Ronald Reagan, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, or even Bill Clinton would have let their opponents off the hook in this way? As Pat Caddell said on Fox News, Romney didn’t need to assume the fetal position in order to avoid the war monger tag.
If Romney can’t raise this issue in a presidential manner during a debate, then he can’t be expected to make a case for any policy that deviates from the UN orthodoxy on the world stage.
Of course, Romney may still win in spite of his blunder. At least he’ll be slightly better than Obama (I hope), but that’s not saying much.
During this last debate, Romney gave us a preview of his leadership style. I for one have lowered my expectations accordingly.
I had a different take on the timing. I’m thinking like a person inside State or DOD, who knows what happened and can’t stomach what the elected and appointed leaders are saying. I am a patriot, but I’m wanting to put my trust in the media, that they will ferret out the truth. I’m also wanting/hoping that at least one my leaders will come out with the truth. I want to give them the chance to do the right thing.
It is not forthcoming, so I begin planning on:
1. How to leak the info; and
2. What is the “Go/No-Go” point, the decisive criterion to convince me that the elected/appointed leaders won’t be forthcoming, and that the media won’t get to the truth.
I may have come to this planning point early on, or perhaps only after watching Vice President Biden brazenly lie and throw the intelligence community under the bus during the Vice Presidential debate. I decide to myself that the zenith of foreign policy discussion and Benghazi will happen before and during the Presidential foreign policy debate. If the truth does not come out by then, I will act.
That is what I think happened. This guy/gal was ready with the redacted email print outs and was ready to get them to reporters if the truth did not come out before or during the last debate.
Old political adage. If your opponent insists on hanging himself the best thing you can do is stay out of the way and let him.
Petraeus was still pushing the Big Lie that it was the video at least three days later, probably longer. Now he seems to be hiding.
Fox News: “Yet a congressional source told Fox News that CIA Director David Petraeus, during a briefing with members of the House Intelligence Committee three days after the attack, also espoused the view that Benghazi was an out-of-control demonstration prompted by the YouTube video. According to the source, this was “shocking” to some members who were present and saw the same intelligence pointing toward a terrorist attack.”
And Petraeus was just feted in NYC. Way to rub it in the face of Americans that an American General not doing his job and participating in a coverup is some kind of hero. Obama’s world is upside down. ‘Reminds me of those Black Masses …
OK, I saw photos of this event on New York Social Diary (NYSD) and now can’t seem to locate it. When I Google, Petraeus, NYSD, I don’t seem to be directed to the Party Pictures I saw a day or so ago. Can anyone else find the link? It could be my inept navigation skills — or have the photos been taken down?
‘Sloppy navigation skills! Found it!
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/
(Party Pictures, Monday, October 22, 2012, scroll down to the bottom …)
General David H. Petraeus (US Army, Retired), Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was honored at the Soldiers’, Sailors’, Marines’, Coast Guard and Airmen’s Club Military Ball with the Service to the Nation Award.
The annual event, on October 5th, was held at the Hotel Pierre in Manhattan. Every year SSMAC honors a branch of the United States Military and this year, the United States Marine Corps is being saluted with patriotic fanfare and festivities.
Those honored at this annual event received hand-cast brass eagles to commemorate the evening.
IF OBAMA SAYS HE’S GOT YOUR BACK, WHICH WAY SHOULD YOU LOOK?
The WH was in a position to call-in a strike on the attackers in Benghazi. It knew exactly what was happening: Security cameras gave real time info. So did e-mails from those under attack. Then there was the predator drone above in the final hours.
So the question has to be asked: If Obama didn’t ‘have the back’ of his own Ambassador to Libya, how can allies trust him to have their backs?
Shame. Shame. Shame. This transcends politics. Those were AMERICAN CITIZENS under attack in BENGHAZI…I do not wish to state the obvious, only that we have so many assets in that region, to NOT intervene is simply criminal…not political…but criminal. As I have previously advised – we have a Nimitz class nuclear aircraft carrier Navy task force complete with USMC contingent in the Mediterranean Sea 24/7/365 SPECIFICALLY FOR JUST SUCH AN OCCURRENCE! The Marines have assault ships and/or aircraft as needed for insertion, close air support and resupply as well as the full combat striking power of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier. This administration knew within two hours AND watched it all unfold in real time and DID NOTHING. Jesus Christ Almighty. While I am not all that shocked by Dear Leader’s inaction and/or decision making process, I will never forgive the media for not making the public aware of the stinking, rotten truth about who we have in charge of our country today. Never. They are 100% culpable and complicit in this whole disgusting affair in which AMERICANS were killed.
“This transcends politics. Now let me engage in partisan political hackery in order to attack the president, because clearly I can’t ever let an opportunity to blame Obama for something go to waste.”
DERP.
“Blame Obama for something” ????
That is what you call the information about an abject omission in Obama’s duty as CiC ?
Dereliction of duty is nothing for you ?
I cannot believe that we have such brainwashed people, who run to play an extreme defense of a criminal administration.
You are defending criminals. Mere criminals.
Attacking me is not a credible response, Steve; I am not the one who sat by and watched Americans being murdered in real time and did nothing to try and save them. This is akin to your house catching on fire and the fire dept not even responding to your 911 call…even though that is what they exist for, such as the USMC MEU in the Med 24/7/365. Obviously you disagree as NOTHING transcends politics in your world. The president’s actions (rather, inaction) is perfectly acceptable to you. Nice of you to expose yourself for the type of guy you really are.
I just pray that is the thing that wakes these creepy “journalist” up–If not
I do not see anything else doing it.
God Bless
Rita
As the drone flew over the Benghazi embassy quickly assessing the ambush underway with no protesters in sight the 3am call went out to the President that his Ambassador was in peril.
What did the President do?
He went back to sleep. He left his ally and proxy in harms way. The Intelligence Community, the Military and all the assets that could be brought to bear upon saving Mr. Stevens life were withheld.
The terrorists broke through the weak embassy security forces heroic in their efforts to fend off RPGs and explosives trying to bring down the walls of the compound.
What did the President expect? One of his commanders and offices issuing illegal orders to save the Ambassador? That way if a rescue failed he could blame them. A scenario like that is terrible, but there is one that is worse. We know that the President is not above covering up his crimes. The Ambassador might have been involved in arming the then rebels of Libya. Now that the war was over the deal was off. Covering for the President the situation was becoming worse in Libya not better. So to hide his involvement in the arms deals President Obama left his Ambassador out to twist in the wind until killed.
The Ambassador was not shot, he died by suffication. That means there was someone holding Mr. Stevens by the throat in a choke hold demanding something, threatening him by oxygen deprivation, just as he was depriving them of arms and weapons. It was a message and an attempt to get what they wanted.
They squeezed too hard and Mr. Stevens died.
It explains why the attack was over six hours long. If it was about blowing up the Embassy they had plenty of weapons to do that. No, it was a capture mission. Precise, timed, planned, and to avoid killing the target, long. The security was pleaded back layer by layer until the Ambassador was vulnerable and then they caught him in their trap. 4 hours to change the attack, to do something, but the call never came, no action was taken and Americans died because of President Barack Obama.
Had I been in command of that drone circling above the Embassy I would not leave it flying unused. At the very minimum buzzing enemy positions would help security and prove a distraction. In a decisive moment either the commander of the attack might have been identified or an assist to those attempting a rescue the drone could have been used as a weapon. Kamakazi style.
But that did not happen and the blame rests solely upon President Obama.
Nah! Drones might scare you but by now the really hard core Islamic warriors see them as a fact of life. Something to be wary of but nothing to fear. After all, an Islamic warrior sees life and death as a matter of Allah’s will.
On the other hand, CAS from either Italy or a carrier might have been available, if somebody had made the call instantly. I suspect the CIA person in charge of that office locked up. The CIA is not used to having special ops run against them.
They are more used to “When the Bullet Bite the Bone” (Golden Earring) scenarios then barbarians coming over the wall.
When the proverbial 3 AM call came, Obama voted “present” and went to sleep.
The next day, he went to Las Vegas for a fundraiser. The man has his own set of priorities.
Larry, you use that word, “man” rather loosely, don’t you?
Romney could have wrapped up the election if he would have gone for the jugular on Benghazi during the debate.
It wasn’t a “terrorist” attack. The target was a CIA office. The CIA is a legitimate target during war. The West needs to face the fact that Islam is at war with us. Al Qaeda is the Muslim version of special ops.
That doesn’t change the fact that anyone watching a crime in process that doesn’t report it is an accessory. Covering up that crime becomes a criminal conspiracy.
That is if you refuse to acknowledge that Islam is at war with the west.
Once the fact that Islam is waging war on America is realized, Benghazi becomes a successful military operation by Islamic Special Operations. You morn your loses and go on.
“I say we pull out and nuke ‘em from orbit. It’s the only way to make sure.”
- FO Ripley.
“The target was a CIA office.”
Stoicheion — There were two compounds attacked on 9/11: 1) A CIA Office; 2) A diplomatic mission.
It is not clear to me if a ‘diplomatic mission means ‘consulate’, which is what the press has been calling it. Aaron Klein (WABC radio, author) claims that it was not a ‘consulate’. Clearly Stevens was working w/the CIA to recruit jihadis to fight in Syria.
More to learn
We all knew from day one that Obama knew more than he pretended so,let us take another tact on this:
Is the man who filmed the “video’ still being held? yes.
Like Fast and Fur., BP oil spill (talk to the Argentinians), did the Obama admin. set this up to be an excuse to put in action NDAA and HOLD Americans practicing their right of Free Speech?
And like F&F, BP, things got out of control and people were killed.
Once he is out of the WH, Obama could become a huge problem for the American people.
There is good reason to believe the guy violated his parole. Normally, something like this would call for a very low-key phone call from his parole officer, possibly a hearing, but if he really did violate his parole terms, jail IS where he belongs.
That he got there as a fall guy for Obama is wrong, but still, if he did the crime, he should do the time.
How many parole violators are held so long without a hearing? How many parole violators warrant multiple law enforcement officers going to his home in the middle of the night when there is no evidence he posed a flight risk? According to reports on InstaPundit, his hearing is conviently scheduled for 3 days after the election.
Yup. November 9.
No argument there, Larry. It’s clear he’s a scapegoat.
I’m just pointing out that there IS legal reason to be holding him.
Of course, if the POTUS hadn’t illegally intervened in a local law enforcement matter, this would probably have gone down as a phone call from his PO, with a hearing scheduled, and he would have remained free until the hearing.
The man of many names has his first court date ….. the day after the election.
I can’t wait to see how CNN and MSNBC is going to blame Mitt Romney for this.
Empty chair and liar.
Not only did our people die, but their constant repeat and apology for the video kept deadly protests going for weeks all over the Middle East with many more dying. They kept stoking the fire, knowing it was all a lie. Many died worldwide as a result.
It was not a cover up.
It was a flat out lie to advance a politically correct agenda that enables Islamists.
It makes the blood boil.
Interesting – as of this morning the story made the front page of Fox News (of course), CNN, CBS, and ABC – but cannot be found on the front pages of either MSNBC or Huffington Post.
Well, we knew Obama is a marxist and we knew that he wanted to subvert the American power.
Now we know he watched a terrorist attack without deploying our military (that was readily available in that theater of operations) and we know that he lied for two weeks and he ordered his administration to lie.
I always thought that the conspiracy theories about Obama being a muslim were mere blathering, but after this info and after the damning information published a few days ago by The Investigative Project about the radical islamists being received at the White House for years…I begin to think that Obama is not only a subversive but also an active fighter in the war against the West.
These elections are now a fight to defend America against domestic and foreign enemies, not only to defend America against subversion.
Let us pray. Let us work hard to win and to defeat the kingdom of darkness.
I am intrigued by the untold part of this story.
We know that there was a robust CIA presense in Benghazi and it appears the ambassador was meeting with a Turkish diplomat shortly before he was attacked. There is speculation about gun running to Syrian rebels and Turkish involvment. None of that is fatal to Obama, so why the false back story, other than the fact that Al Queda was obviously not dead?
Another point, why cover up? Why not react militarily and secure the consulate post attack and then hunt the Al Queda agents and kill them? It would tend to prove Obama’s point that he has ‘em on the run, that they have a vote and so do we.It would minimize the dead ambassador story and make Obama look tough.
One final thing, we now know cables and emails describing the attack and blaming Al Queda were sent two hours after the attack started to the Situation Room, but that doesn’t prove Obama saw them. What was his schedule that day? We know he left for Nevada the next morning, but where was he on the 11th? We know he slept in the White House that night, but where was he earlier in the day?
Looking forward to answers. Obumbles sure looks incompetent so far as a Commander in Chief in this situation. I want more detail. It probably won’t make him look too Tom Swifty.
Prepare for EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE II coming soon to a newscast in your area
Sen. Rand Paul Speaks Out Against Pres.Obama’s Actions in Libya – 10/20/12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REj9Fap_n4k&feature=player_embedded
“A true cover-up.”
The House Intelligence Committee should demand that Petraeus come out of hiding and testify under oath, as that might decrease his lies, before them right now.
Fox News: “et a congressional source told Fox News that CIA Director David Petraeus, during a briefing with members of the House Intelligence Committee three days after the attack, also espoused the view that Benghazi was an out-of-control demonstration prompted by the YouTube video. According to the source, this was “shocking” to some members who were present and saw the same intelligence pointing toward a terrorist attack.”
Well, maybe there’s a silver lining here. Maybe now some “conservatives” will stop touting Petraeus as possible Republican candidate material.
He’s a candidate for prison, as far as I’m concerned. He’s not stupid – he’s lying. It’s very clear whose side he’s on, and it’s not America’s side.
ELECT PETRAEUS!
As inmate of the week at Gitmo.
Photos of U.S. and Afghan Troops Patrolling Poppy Fields June 29, 2012
http://publicintelligence.net/us-afghan-patrolling-poppy-fields-2012/
“They stood, and they watched, and our people died,” former CIA commander Gary Berntsen told CBS News.
I think this is what all Americans are finding so impossible to believe, that our own government would just sit there and watch as Americans are killed by an armed mob. I didn’t think that even Obama and Clinton were capable of something as terrible as this. I was wrong and the evidence now is proving it. If they had an ounce of honor in them, they would both resign right now. At the very least, the American public should refuse to even let Obama near the Oval Office ever again. Hopefully, on November 6, Obama will be forced to look for a new job, one that does not require protecting American lives.
It takes some moral caliber to resign and lend some honor to the executive positions given by the American people. That will never happen with these bunch of amoral crooks running our country.
As I have said before, if Obama is re-elected, he should be brought up on charges of treason. Obama is incompetent; unfortunately, some people still believe that he really knows what be is doing with regard to foreign policy. This is inspite of a number of experts who have said otherwise.
Hillary Clinton Admits the U.S. Government Created al-Qaeda Published on Apr 10, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifZK6SVlQ1Y&feature=related
The Mujahideen were the “database” of Al-Qaeda assets. Al-Qaeda are a controlled opposition force of the Central Intelligence Agency to promote their middle east destabilization process. To give empirical U.S. Military Industrial Complex a reason to invade wherever they want in the ever widening “war on terror” fraud.
Something that keeps bugging me is that everyone, who is actually talking with any sense, keeps referring to this as an act of terrorism, which it was not. This was an act of war by non-state actors. Terrorism is an action against civilians. An ambassador is an agent of his government and therefore *not* a civilian. Also, since ambassadors are a special protected class any attack of this nature is defined as a casus belli.
As to the fact that Obama was aware of the attack and declined to take any action to defend Americans in peril, this is what I would expect from him. He is as completely anti-American as anyone I’ve ever observed. The old Hollywood communists were stauncher supporters of this country and their countrymen than Obama.
Er, guys, that group’s statement was translated and discussed online at the Long War Journal on the 12th of September. It stops WAY short of claiming responsibility, and specifically refers to “a spontaneous popular uprising in response to what happened by the west”.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2012/09/ansar_al_shariah_issues_statem.php#ixzz2AFlZqghF
I hardly think this is your October surprise. But keep trying. Maybe somebody’s got an email saying that they think the president is a Kenyan?
Obtuseness is apparently a prerequisite to be an Obama supporter.
The only thing that matters is the subject line of the e-mail…”AAS Claims Responsibility”. That’s what the WH Situation Room was told by the DoS command center on 11 Sept 2012.
Cherry-picking seems to be a pre-requisite for a PJM reader.
Somebody gave that email to the press because, in isolation, it can be used to embarrass the whitehouse. You have a single piece of information out of the stream of data that the CIA and state (and anyone else who was watching) will have been receiving. You have an email that skews a statement from a militia group, and you assume that it was the only information available to the administration about that statement – despite the statement itself being available at the time to anyone who spoke arabic. This is what clinton means when she says “cherry-picking”.
As for the whitehouse’ response – I agree that it was cautious. Maybe it was influenced by US domestic politics, maybe it wasn’t. But look what happened afterwards – the US _didn’t_ go in with guns blazing, didn’t just kill anyone who looked like they might be a bit muslimy, and a couple of weeks later we all saw the Libyan government responding to a REAL popular uprising – against the actions of that militia group. All by themselves. That group has now been disbanded (at least mostly). The libyan people were just as horrified by what happened as we were – just imagine how easily a Cheney-like “send a message” response could have busted that.
The world’s interests (including the US’) are served much better by a genuinely reformed, democratic middle east. Libya’s and Egypt’s political reformations are, right now, are critical to continued progress in the region. Obama referred to speed-bumps, and he’s right. But you either think the “arab spring’s” progress is a positive development or you don’t – and the more the US interferes (or retaliates), the less likely that the progress will be in the US’ interests.
So keep banging on about the presidential election all you like, but the president is looking at the long game, and what happens to the US’ interests AFTER he leaves office (which will be in another four years, incidentally).
They don’t think he’s a Kenyan; they know he is. He’s said so many times in the past, at least until he decided to run for POTUS and then changed his country of birth. Just a little inconvenience…
As for the insurgents or whatever you want to call them, there is a translation on an Arab-American’s site of a video where one group yells to the other group (yes, there were 2 at the time), “Don’t shoot. We were sent here by Morsi.” Apparently, the president of Egypt sent his own rebels to storm the Bastille. Now the question is “Why?”
Knowing the Presidents sympathies for the Muslim people and the restrictive rules of engagement imposed on all Americans including the Presidents embargo on the use of the word Terrorism, everybody was simply afraid to move!
In short, the President does not “have the back of his Ambassadors, Military people or Bibi! He is the one with the long knife!
Had Captain Hamilton from the CVN65 carrier or the Navy Base in sicily felt safe from Obama’s lash, they could have dispatched a half dozen FA18s to buzz the sight at 100 feet SUPERSONIC, laying down repeated sonic booms that would have blown out all the windowas and given the attackers nose bleed! And this without firing a shot!
It is this simple: NO ONE FROM THE WHITEHOUSE, PENTAGON OR THE THEATRE MOVED TO HELP BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID OF OBAMA!
But lets not ignore the Elephant in the room:
THERE ARE HALF THE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY WHO WOULD/WILL VOTE FOR OBAMA, EVEN AFTER KNOWING, BEYOND A DOUBT THAT NOT ONLY DID OBAMA FAIL IN THIS INSTANCE AND DELIBERATELY LIE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, BUT THEY JUST DON’T CARE BECAUSE HE IS A BLACK DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT!
Is there ANY limit to what he could do and still keep their vote?
LIE LIE LIE!!! Obama was in the WH smoozing with Panetta while in the situation room down stairs a drone was sending pictures in real time of the attack. Obama ups and goes to Vegas.
An even more interesting aspect of this was a bit of information brought out by journalist Aaron Klein. There is not and has never been an American Consulate in Benghazi. That is why the U.S. State Department is now referring to it as an American Mission. The definition of Mission in State Department-ese is basically any building which contains an embassy, a consulate or in which any diplomatic business is being conducted. The third definition is what applies here.
According to Klein; “Like scores of news articles worldwide, the Reuters piece repeatedly referred to the attacked U.S. compound in Benghazi as a “consulate.”
However, as KleinOnline reported earlier this week, the building was not a consulate and at no point functioned as one. Instead, the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi served as a meeting place to coordinate aid for the rebel-led insurgencies in the Middle East, according to Middle Eastern security officials.
Among the tasks performed inside the building was collaborating with Arab countries on the recruitment of fighters – including jihadists – to target Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria.”
Why is this important? Well first, there would obviously be no protests outside of an anonymous building over some silly film promo. Second, the president and State Department were all lying through their teeth about what actually happened. And third, this thing has basically been exposed as the Fast and Furious of Libya. Stevens was meeting with confirmed members of an Al-Queda group and selling them arms. Something went badly wrong. So why is our president running guns to Al-Queda exactly? And as an aside, why did Valerie Jarret lead a trip to Iran on October 1st to have a private meeting with the heads of state? Whose side is Barry on, exactly?
* Aaron Klien quote from an article entitled “Did Reuters File Misleading Benghazi Report? Claim of Protest Against Muhammad Conflicts With New Info.”
he heads of state of Iran, that is.
It’s looking as though Obama went to sleep as real time information and video was streaming in about Americans under an hours long attack, while we had assets an hour away, then got up the next day and went to Vegas. While it is true that we would have properly required the assent of the Libyan government (right) to conduct a military response, the subsequent cover-up, denial and blatant effort to simply evaporate the story in the face of the Obama campaign is a treasonous act that makes Watergate look like child’s play. The gulf in media response to this with uber-Leftist Obama in office, as opposed to a conservative, is awe inspiring. Were this a Republican president, it would be the biggest story with the highest media coverage for a single event since 9/11, and I have no doubt several demands for impeachment proceedings would have already come to pass.
Society is so conditioned to what really is a form of propaganda machine in our country that the lack of mainstream “coverage”, which is hardly a valid term any more, might actually be enough to brush aside this entire despicable dereliction to duty, this political sacrificing of American lives that was made so as not to endanger the Campaign with an actual judgement call that could not be based upon weeks of polling and propaganda build up to assure it would reflect favorably upon our dear leader. The very fact that we are having to piece this together largely by ourselves indicates that objective journalism is not only dead, it exists as the undead zombie that will do all in it’s power to push this man across the finish line for a second time, and in turn to once and for all extinguish what for them is the abominable myth of American exceptionalism and greatness in exchange for their own omniscience and totalitarian misery.
Fox is covering it, along with talk radio, but the question remains; will this be enough or will it require full congressional investigation and the time that entails to expose – and will the propagandists take it seriously even then? The admission of fault, culpability, even truth that they do not view as a benefit to their ends, is anathema to a Leftist, and they are so heavily, deeply invested in Barack Hussein Obama that they may well be along for the full ride which rightly shall deliver them into oblivion. We’ll see, and we will pay with the greatest hope for civilization, peace and prosperity if truth, justice and liberty do not prevail.
Excellent post.
“The very fact that we are having to piece this together largely by ourselves indicates that objective journalism is not only dead, it exists as the undead zombie that will do all in it’s power to push this man across the finish line for a second time, and in turn to once and for all extinguish what for them is the abominable myth of American exceptionalism and greatness in exchange for their own omniscience and totalitarian misery.”
Powerful words. Your closing gives me pause to consider whether I have done everything I can to ensure that we have a new President next January.