Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) lashed out at President Obama for playing politics with national security in the Benghazi attack after statements the president made on a Philly radio show today.
“On Monday WSJ reported that your daily briefings said the attack had arisen from a spontaneous protest. Is it true that your statements and those of [Ambassador Susan] Rice were simply repeating what the PDBs were telling you?” host Michael Smerconish asked.
“What’s true is that the intelligence was coming in and evolving as more information came up. And what is true–this is something that the American people can take to the bank: my administration plays this stuff straight. We don’t play politics when it comes to American national security,” Obama replied. “So what we consistently have done throughout my presidency and what we did in his circumstance is as information came in we gave it to the American people. And as we got new information we gave that to the American people. And that includes by the way members of Congress. One of the things that always frustrates me about this town is when people go out there and try to politicize issues despite knowing that we have given them all this information.”
Paraphrasing Obama’s remarks about Mitt Romney to Rolling Stone, Graham said, “In the words of President Obama, this statement sounds like a lot of B.S.”
“In an effort to look strong, this Administration has strategically leaked classified information about numerous sensitive national security programs, ranging from the raid on bin Laden, the cyber-attacks on Iran, to disrupting the underwear bomber plot. The President has also refused to appoint a special counsel to investigate breaches of national security, while demanding it for others in past administrations,” Graham continued.
“These leaks have created distrust amongst our allies and damaged operations in the field. Fearful that the reality on the ground in Benghazi cuts against the narrative that al-Qaeda has been dismantled, the Administration has been cherry-picking intelligence and intentionally misleading the American people. There was no mob, there was no riot. This was a preplanned attack by al-Qaeda affiliated militia.”
The senator noted he’s been waiting nearly two weeks for any scrap of requested information on the attacks from top intelligence officials.
“The President promised transparency, an unveiling of details regarding the Benghazi attack, but they have done nothing but stonewall the American people and their elected representatives,” Graham said.
If you really wanted to appear strong yourself, Senator Graham, instead of getting your mug on TV and radio, how about getting some of your Senatorial comrades together and impeach this worthless bastard?
This is so true. The republican senators and represenatives should be screaming to high heaven. This is part of what is wrong with my party. When you remain silent you are guilty also. When we the people start to demand more from our representatives we will find out the truth, about them and the other side. Oh! can that be the real problem!
To the two comments above: DITTO!
ALL TALK, NO ACTION?
Because impeachment must begin in he House.
Pressure needs to be put on Darrell Issa, he has all he needs to stop the madness.
REZKO, OBAMA, AND THE NADHMI AUCHI RAILROAD LINKING CHICAGO, WASHINGTON, AND BAGHDAD (Part 3 of 3)
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/10/26/rezko-obama-and-the-nadhmi-auchi-railroad-linking-chicago-washington-and-baghdad-part-3-of-3/
Pressure needs to be put on Darrell Issa, he has all he needs to stop these criminals.
REZKO, OBAMA, AND THE NADHMI AUCHI RAILROAD LINKING CHICAGO, WASHINGTON, AND BAGHDAD (Part 3 of 3)
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/10/26/rezko-obama-and-the-nadhmi-auchi-railroad-linking-chicago-washington-and-baghdad-part-3-of-3/
BECAUSE OF BENGHAZI, I’M ALMOST BEGINNING
TO THINK THAT OBAMA SHOULD BE RE-ELECTED.
So that he can then be impeached.
Actually, my real position is this:
AFTER OBAMA IS EVICTED FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, I’D LIKE TO SEE HIM ELECTED TO SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATION.
Then I’d like to see the UN thrown out of the country.
What an absolutely delicious idea! They do deserve each other don’t they?
Maybe he’ll get another Nobel…
The issue all along has been that Republican leaders went along with the liars in their midst, and now they have to play catch up. Their silence was more than disgraceful.
It is entirely possible that Bengazigate rose to another level of impeachable offenses, at least in their minds eye. Therefore, they are going to bury him – and his cohorts – for good. To be sure, Fast & Furious, plus other scandals should have elicited similar outrage, but whatever works will have to suffice.
But what else can rational people expect, when Obama’s White House has become a revolving door for Muslim radicals – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/26/the-white-houses-revolving-door-for-muslim-radicals-courtesy-of-the-islamist-in-chief-addendum-to-the-muslim-mafia-their-overarching-plan-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
The fact of the matter is that Bengazigate would not have occurred IF the Islamist-in-Chief didn’t have a fealty to his Brothers in the Muslim Mafia. Bengazigate must be seen for what it is – an outgrowth of said collusion!!
Impeachment is conducted by the House, not the Senate:
http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/98-806.pdf
Because, Under the Constitution Impeachment must begin in the House, They are the Prosecutors, The Senate acts as the Jury, add to that it take a 2/3 vote to impeach and convict, and the Republicans do not have that 2/3s majority to effectively carry through with such a action, It would end up just like Clinton, The Democrats voting lock step to exonerate Obama.
300 Senator and Congressmen need to make statements 100 times as strong as this pablum.
Every single Senator and Congressman should be fighting to get on every conceivable news program and every newspaper DEMANDING that the Fraud come clean about these event.
They should refuse to be interrupted by pravda and recite as many times as possible what is now known about what happened so the American people will know what a despicable coward this gang of thugs is.
Yeah, they should… but the won’t.
None of them want to be fingered as the one(s) who brought down our first so-called black preezy and be held accountable for the riots that would surely ensue.
Obama slow jams the news. Again.
Lindsey, come now. Barack Obama breaks in a new horse every day and a new woman every night. The man is strong. You can’t challenge that.
What an odd statement…B.O. is an exceptionally weak president. It is the unholy alliance of America-haters that comprise his support system that is strong.
I am pretty sure that was sarcasm/parody. He also was going to prevent the seas from rising and make those evil rich people pay their fair share… diggit.
HE (OBAMA) DID NOT STOP THE WATERS IN N.J., N.Y, FROM RAISING????REST MY CASE.
SORRY RISING
Nothing about Benghazi or its cover up appears on the Associated Press (AP) mobile app. I just checked, not a trace of it at all. It is disheartening to know that the freest news media in the world is helping with this cover up and helping to re-elect this tyrannical lying lunatic. Where is the outrage?
Dig around a bit and you’ll find it – on Yahoo. Its an AP story.
I ran into the end segment of a news program on PBS. A man, I suppose an expert, was being interviewed. He mentioned how the liberals were all suffering from Moslem fatigue and how liberals just don’t want to hear anything more about Moslems. They hate to have the subject even brought up. Before I could hear any more and learn some more the program finished its broadcast. Being that this is grabbed my interest, I wanted to learn more about it. Could it be that the liberal establishment has suddenly awakened and want to distance themselves from the Moslem agenda? This is totally fascinating. Please if anyone out there has any insight into this, explain it to us.
Progressives have had a romance with the Mysterious East going back to the Beatles, the Maharishi, incense, and hash pipes. The East is “mystical” and “enlightened”, while the West is “materialistic” and “capitalistic”, and therefore “evil”. (The West also keeps not believing progressives when they trumpet their “superior consciousness”- rather it asks, “Yes, but can you balance your checkbook?”)
Progressives have an avowed hatred of Israel, as well, for three basic reasons;
1. Lingering anti-Semitism inherited from the “enlightened elites’” of Europe;
2. Viewing Israel as an outpost of the “materialistic West” in the “enlightened East”;
3. A long-standing grudge over Israel not aligning itself with the USSR in the period after independence. Stalin ordered Molotov to support the creation of Israel by the UN mandate of 1948. Stalin believed that since many of the Jews who had already emigrated to the British Palestine Mandate were from Russia, they would “naturally” be his allies, and give him a warm-water port on the Med that didn’t require his navy to go through the choke point known as the Bosporus.
Unfortunately for this brilliant idea, Stalin and Molotov both overlooked why so many Russian Jews had gone to Palestine. It had very little to do with the German invasion; it had a lot more to do with Stalin’s purges, “de-kulakizations”, the famines, and every other numbskulled, brutal, murderous thing he did. All of which hit the Russian middle class harder than anyone else. That middle class accounted for a large proportion of Russian Jewry prior to Stalin’s rampage. And oh yes, more than half of the Russian Jews in the BPM emigrated from Russia before June of 1941, when Operation Barbarossa began.
(BTW, many progressives don’t even know about this last reason. It’s enough for them to know that their mentors of the immediate postwar generation of socialists hate Israel, without bothering to ask why.)
Where this reads into your question is that progressives have been romancing the Palestinian “movement” since the Seventies, both because it is anti-Israel and anti-Western and because they simply did not ever bother to distinguish between Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, or any other “-ism” east of Suez. If it was Eastern, and didn’t like the West, it was all good. And all “mystical”, too.
This belief has given progressives a warm, fuzzy feeling for over four decades, and has motivated the majority of their policies toward Israel, the Moslem world, and yes, the U.S. and the West in general. If we all could be sadhus, they believe, everything would be wonderful. (The One has a bad case of this, himself.)
Where it is starting to fall down is that some on that side of the spectrum are starting to realize that Islam is not Buddhism, Hinduism, or even (gasp!) Communism. And that hard-core Islamists, far from considering them to be like-minded “enlightened ones”, consider Western progressives one of the things they hate most about the West. After all, they drink, have random sex, are pro-gay, and have a variety of other opinions that are very much opposed to Sharia law.
BTW, the Islamists hate Christians and Jews, as well. The difference is that they hate them for what they are,/i>, not for the lifestyle they advocate. Few progressives understand this, which is why they keep equating Christians with Islamist radicals. (I get it from my acquaintances on the left all the time. And yes, I have more than a few.)
In short, some progressives are starting to wake up, and realize that they should have taken heed of an old limerick a long time ago;
The Islamic tiger is smiling. And some progressives are starting to realize why.
clear ether
eon
HAD LENNON LIVED, HE MIGHT’VE MOVED TO THE RIGHT
REVOLUTION
The Beatles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMEgGGnZ43Y
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it’s evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don’t you know that you can count me out
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right all right, all right
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know We’re doing what we can
But when you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right
all right, all right
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah…
You say you’ll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right
all right, all right
all right, all right, all right
all right, all right, all right
Obama is no better than that POS kim jong un. I’m fit to be tied if Obama doesn’t get impeached and/or tried for treason.
random observations:
note to terrorists. if you plan on overrunning an embassy, make a token effort to plan an ambush. The us military/cia does not wish to support the ground teams, at the risk of losing any ‘further’ life.
obama killing bin laden special-can it. it will be like watching the hindenburg disaster. oh the humanity. anyone who is curious about the ‘details’ of killing bin laden will have a general understanding that they aren’t getting to full story on benghazi.
hillary is moving away from falling on her sword. if anyone has the ability to rise from the dead, it is a ‘clinton’. she has now deftly innoculated herself from average dem resentment, for taking responsiblity in the first place. but, in the last place she may have a decent argument that she was just being loyal, but called it quits at the point of absurdity. she does not make this move without the accute awareness that obama is ‘definitely; goin to lose the election.
gallup, 51-45. 10 days left. it is over. she has access to better info…
which brings us to the gop. trust me-they are at least a week ahead of the news cycle, and in complete control over it. what they know, now, will become public in another week.
mitt romney will win by the largest margin for a gop candidate, ever.
Hilary is moving away from falling on her sword – True, however Hilary has only ever had her own interest in mind, “loyalty” is not a word that I could ever associate with this woman. So what’s going on that she has become such a loyal serf? (or is that smurf?)
Here’s a thought, Hilary wants to run in 2016, she knows as well as the entire world that if Hussein wins there is not a snow balls chance in hell that Hilary wins in 16, therefore, I must assume that the evidence that hangs Hussein will come out sometime next week, the question is whether it is directly attributed to her or just another leak that has incontrovertible evidence- Can you imagine being Hussein and knowing that Hilary has got your back? Ha ha ha
“you’re daily briefings?”
Blind Squirrel Finds Nut as It Takes One To Know One.
When Smerconish starts zinging 0 that means 0 has two weeks before becoming a lame duck.
It has occurred to me that the Obama administration assessed the danger of intervention, thought of President Carter’s disastrous helicopter raid into Iran during the hostage crisis, and chickened out, not wanting to suffer another stinging comparison with the Carter administration. The lying is to cover up the politically self-interested cowardice. Just a thought.
Quite plausible. If true it would mean that they sacrificed the lives of four Americans on the altar of their own re-election, confident that they could sell a lie to the American people that would direct the blame from them. If the twist of fate is that their treachery was what made possible, or inevitable, their defeat, it would prove that maybe there is some justice after all.
I think it is even worse, much worse, than that. Granted they cared less for the lives of the four than for their own election and power. But what they feared was collateral damage. Being raked over the international press coals over a few dead terrorists worried them more than being responsible for four American deaths.
Also, considering the accumulating evidence that Stevens was there to broker arms transfers to the Syrian anti-government forces, and that those arms were ending up in the hands of al-Qaeda et al instead, the higher-ups may have decided that Stevens dead in Benghazi was preferable to Stevens alive testifying in front of a Senate investigating committee.
After all, they’ve been moving one DOJ official around AFPAK and Iraq for a year now, to keep him from being “available” to Issa’s committee investigating Operation Fast & Furious. And no, I do not consider it a stretch to suspect they’re hoping he’ll become a casualty over there before he can be subpoenaed to testify over here.
If you need to shut somebody up, permanently, to preserve your political hide, it’s better that the trigger is pulled by somebody who can’t be tracked back to you. (Chicago and Arkansas Politics 101.)
clear ether
eon
In Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John LeCarre, George Smiley said something that I’ve carried with me for years:
Try on Theories Like Clothes
Meaning: The theory that most closely fits the known facts is probably the truth. So what the hell happened in Benghazi? I’ve been trying on theories and here’s the one that to me fits the best:
Ol’ Barry wanted the consulate to be attacked. Don’t forget that the guy who organized the attack has been referred to by Barry as ‘sort of an ally’. Don’t forget that he’s also a close friend of one of Barry’s bundlers. Barry’s plan was that the consulate would be overrun. He never expected them to murder Ambassador Stevens.
Barry expected Stevens to be captured and held hostage. There would be a few days of tense negotiations and hand-wringing (so that his media lapdogs would have time to focus everyone’s attention) and then Barry would send in the Seals to rescue Stevens. Nothing would say “I am not Jimmy Carter” better than a successful hostage rescue.
And the American people would rally around him and he’s be re-elected and everyone would live happily ever after.
Except that it went terribly wrong.
I hope everyone in this country has finally come to the reality that this creature that is occupying the White House will lie though his teeth and throw each and everyone of us under the bus to save his hide. He doesn’t give a shit about any of us. Don’t believe anything that spews out of his piehole.
Heard Barock interviewed today. He said “they(the Seals) serve under me”….made me want to puke. They have honor Barock, which you couldn’t identify if it banged you all night. Hard to not conclude Barock and the losers surrounding him figured they could BS their way, as they do with all other scenarios. Oops, this one didn’t work out and some very fine Americans lost their lives. As if you’d care, POS. It is all about you and your election. Surprised that no one has offered to resign and/or Barock hasn’t asked for someone’s resignation. No no no…such an action would require honor and integrity. POS.
““What’s true is that the intelligence was coming in and evolving as more information came up. ”
How about the secure coded messages coming in from Benghazi, Tripoli and AFRICOM? The one’s that go directly to the flash traffic desk in the WH situation room? Somebody lose the decoder ring?
How about the video in real-time over the fight?
Are we really to believe that The NSA, SECDEF, and AFRICOM couldn’t figure what they were hearing and seeing in real time on the most sophisticated, advanced comm networks ever created? Remember this photo? <a ref=http://tinyurl.com/43dpmxn But nobody thought of using it.
Sorry, I have to call bullsh*t.
There needs to be a whole lotta firin’ goin’ on. Starting with the CIC.
Sorry, forgot I couldn’t use HTML. Here’s the link:
http://tinyurl.com/43dpmxn
Excatly right. And let’s not forget that the FLASH traffic is logged and the notifications are logged so that when there is a break it can be quickly found.
What would happen to BHOs story if those logs were leaked down the road?
It is getting more and more obvious that Obama took Truman’s “The Buck Stops Here” sign and chopped it to pieces and burned it. The “Buck” seems to go sailing off into space at this White House.
Concerning Obama’s use of the word it must be said that he is one vulgar, nasty piece of trash. I hope that doesn’t make me a racist,I didn’t spend 20 years in a racist church but you know who did.
The Young Turks Covers WeAreChange Video with Robert Gibbs POSTED BY SIERRA ADAMSON ON OCT 25, 2012
Drone Strikes – Obama Advisor Justifies Killing Innocent 16-Year-Old
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KtG4n6Ci8w&feature=player_embedded
Obama once said in an interview that he believes his own bullsh*t. Now more than ever!
NSA is looking for a few good hackers By Tabassum Zakaria, Published: August 2, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/… Cyber security anybody?
I apologize for the above link. Here is the whole link. Be well everybody!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nsa-is-looking-for-a-few-good-hackers/2011/08/02/gIQAXZAbqI_story.html