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Topic: The web of deceit about Benghazi begins to fray |
The web of deceit about Benghazi begins to fray
Washington Times, by Wesley Pruden
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 11/14/2012 5:01:36 AM
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| What did the president know, and when did he know it? Of what steel are the Republicans in Congress made? We’re about to find out. Big scandals from little leaks grow. Watergate was at first only “a third-rate burglary.” Bubba thought he was only trying to cover up the details of a failed real-estate scheme down on the White River. Humiliation, resignation and even an impeachment followed. History warns presidents that second terms are never Sunday picnics, and the unfolding — exploding is more accurate — of the story of what really happened on a violent night in Benghazi, Libya,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
get er done, 11/14/2012 5:56:23 AM (No. 9012959)
"What the president knew" is not the issue. The "pResident" is supposed to know, is paid to know -- it is his job to know. Americans now question whether he was legally elected to know after the many reports of fraud in the recent election.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
dittohead, 11/14/2012 6:37:39 AM (No. 9013003)
I, for one, do not have much faith in the "steel" that makes up the Republican party. I think it´s more like aluminum in their spines, rather than steel.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
BarryNo, 11/14/2012 6:50:44 AM (No. 9013031)
If Obama openly ripped the heart out of Romney on national TV, shouting, "Allahu Akbar", the media would find ways to praise, or excuse it, and his followers would cheer! The Senate would shuffle uncomfortably for a moment, perhaps, then solidly condemn any House action taken against this ´popular´ President as Racism.
That´s if Boehner suddenly developed the stones to protest the sacrifice.
Boehner is a Democrat operative, playing the part of a conservative, to steer our side off cliffs for Obama´s amusement.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Keekng, 11/14/2012 7:01:46 AM (No. 9013049)
How long was Watergate in the news before Nixon collapsed?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Maybeth, 11/14/2012 7:02:22 AM (No. 9013050)
Time for what others may label a ´tin foil hat moment´ ... I wonder if Obama has pondered the possibility that he, himself, is the person being played by his handlers and that he may be forced into a Nixonian resignation. .... Remember, it wasn´t the Democrats who removed Nixon from office. It was his own party.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
rational, 11/14/2012 7:18:21 AM (No. 9013073)
like any of this "Nixonian" talk is really going to happen. There is not an honest one in the bunch . Get used to 4 more years, if not more of this insanity.....it won´t be stopped by the weak and neutered GOP.Even Paul Ryan has to yammer on and on about how Obama won fair and square. This bunch didn´t even belong in the "big leagues." Hunker down, save $$ and take care of your own families.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
pineledger, 11/14/2012 7:24:59 AM (No. 9013089)
Let´s hope the story does go back to Benghazi, but MSNBC et al. are doing a good job of talking about everything but.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
tocsin, 11/14/2012 7:25:36 AM (No. 9013090)
FTA:´´Looking to Congress for brave men and women who can unravel this web of deceit, a web perhaps woven of high crimes and misdemeanors, is usually a fool’s errand. But Congress is all we’ve got.´´ I can hear the Pubbie members of Congress singing ´´Baracka Claus is coming to the House´´.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chance_232, 11/14/2012 7:35:45 AM (No. 9013116)
Doesn´t matter..... The press wont cover it and not a single democrat will vote for impeachment. At best, a small handful of 3rd stringers will take the fall.
If Obama were a republican, this would be a 24/7 story with demands of investigations. Remember Fitzmas? Remember Plame?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
fransand, 11/14/2012 7:51:34 AM (No. 9013165)
#4 The Watergate burglarly happened before the 1972 election and Nixon resigned in August of "74
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
saucy, 11/14/2012 8:15:05 AM (No. 9013223)
Even if OBozo is not indicted by the Senate at least he could travel the world as ANOTHER IMPEACHED Demo pResident.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
stryker714, 11/14/2012 8:32:01 AM (No. 9013261)
Of course Obama and co knew of this early on. That sat on it, like waiting to play a prized card in a poker game. This whole Springer type debacle is Obama and co trying to pin the blame of Benghazi on Petraeus, a distraction from what is important about Benghazi or a distraction about any talk of Obama stealing the election or some combo.
Recommend we don´t get too caught up in the details of the day by day, endless saga. I was channel surfing on the cable news on 11-13 and it was all they were talking about: Benghazi; Petraeus; the women; the new general involved yadda yadda yadda. It seemed futile to find a channel not discussing it all. Crazy.
´ look forward to the day when Hildebeast´s and Obama´s affairs are on the front burner, for all to see. No way they are loyal to those, ahem, "partners" and vice versa. Obama and co leak: Seal Team 6; Stuxnet involvement; gave a drone to Iran; etc as SOP and this is all the lsm can talk about. Sick, sick, sick media.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino, 11/14/2012 8:32:28 AM (No. 9013265)
I have complete faith in the courage and tenacity of the Pubbies.
After all - - what is a Pubbie if not courageous and tenacious?
Go get ´em, pussycats! Ummm - - I mean tigers!!!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
EnsignO´Toole, 11/14/2012 8:32:42 AM (No. 9013268)
I´m encouraged by the Wash.Times printing this article. The DC/NYC MSM crowd can´t hide what happened in Benghazi forever - there is now a strong, powerful alternative to the biased news business.
In a way Generals Petraeus and Allen did us a big favor by being so stupid as to diddle around - thinking they were "too big" to get caught. They aren´t Donald Trump who doesn´t dance to anyone´s tune but his own, since he pays the bills. If you are on the government string, you can´t dance your own way.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mathman, 11/14/2012 8:35:36 AM (No. 9013276)
Remember Iran-Contra? The cover-up was to conceal the provision of weapons to the opposition to the Sandanistas.
The current cover-up is to conceal the provision of weapons to Al-Quaeda in Syria. Remember: Al Quaeda has been destroyed. Yet the Ambassador was gun runner in chief. Obama does not want that to come out. And just as Oliver North did not know how to shred his hard drive, so also Gens Allen and Petraeus did not know their emails would live on in perpetuity.
"Their privates were giving them orders."
So down will come the house of cards.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino, 11/14/2012 8:37:04 AM (No. 9013279)
Post #3 is absolutely correct.
The only thing which could cause criticism of Zippy would be if he suddenly declared himself to be pro-life. Then HE´D be the one with the heart getting ripped out.
As long as he´s pro-abortion - - he can never be touched.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LZK, 11/14/2012 8:41:16 AM (No. 9013289)
You´re drinking the kool/aid poster #5 -- if you think the demorats will desert their meal/ticket....
Forget Washington DC -- folks.... WE need to go local. That means move to republican states. Grow the conservative base. Fight obama on each corner -- taxes, health/careless, Russia´s take/over of defense, U.N. take over of our sovereignty -- all the goodies that obama thinks he´s won....
Even if the republicans in DC negotiate with obama and sell US out -- locally WE will not stop pushing back....
LZK
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
StormCnter, 11/14/2012 8:46:08 AM (No. 9013301)
According to this morning´s Wall Street Journal, Jill Kelley tried to persuade the FBI to drop the investigation after friends showed her how much widespread damage could result. The same article said Paula Broadwell sent anonymous messages to General Allen and other high-up officers warning against Jill Kelley. This after, supposedly, her affair with Petraeus had ended.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Grambo, 11/14/2012 8:48:12 AM (No. 9013308)
Think about this…we would usually think of indiscretions by a high official such as the DCI as making him susceptible to blackmail by a hostile foreign power; In this case, apparently that hostile foreign power was Barack Hussein Obama.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Italiano, 11/14/2012 8:51:31 AM (No. 9013317)
When something substantive happens on the Republican side, wake me.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Holeymoses, 11/14/2012 9:30:19 AM (No. 9013450)
Patraeus becomes less and less appealing as the pictures and information unfold. Both he and Allen were hooked in by alpha sex sirens, enjoying power through sex. The powerful generals seem a touch pathetic and drained of their own importance, the woman, as not too bright, and not that pretty, bimbos.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
rpool, 11/14/2012 10:27:21 AM (No. 9013625)
I really wouldn´t be holding my breath for effective action by congressional Republicans. As Andrew Wilkow said, Boehner is all about the next highway bill - that´s what he does.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
zbogwan2, 11/14/2012 11:27:18 AM (No. 9013799)
The following statement may seem uncouth at the least, but it comes from a lowly cafeteria worker at one of Chrysler´s manufacturing plants in the 1970´s:"That Pussy is a powerful thing?"Please excuse me for posting this here, but when I was working for Chrysler in the 1970´s this particular woman happened to be working in the cafe at Chrysler´s and she made this statement. I can´t actually recall the circumstances as to it, but it is substantiated rather forcefully in the General Patreaus & Allen´s cases, no doubt.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Kurto, 11/14/2012 2:28:19 PM (No. 9014282)
As useless as John McCain has been, I hope he is finally in high gear. His interest in Benghazi seems to have escalated with the revelation of the illegal CIA prison. That´s something he can definitely get worked up over. It´s on, now!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
cgood, 11/14/2012 7:23:30 PM (No. 9014866)
Just as Obama has gotten away with flouting the constitution at every turn and misrepresenting everything he has done and plans to do, he´s going to escape all responsibility for Benghazi.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Phil_hk, 11/14/2012 7:24:41 PM (No. 9014868)
Is it too much to hope for a democratic senator like Barbara Boxer who has at times been somewhat pro Military to grab hold of this along with McCain?
What of the possibility of the PIAPS not wanting to get thrown under the bus again and leaking some documents?
It will take something like that to even get this scandal off the ground. Otherwise Obama will skate on this. The media is too in the tank for him and even if they were not his supporters do not care
You need an example; Alger Hiss. Even 50 or 60 years ago the democrats were refusing to admit the truth. Hiss was a spy, he did give secrets to the USSR and no demonrat will ever admit it.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Happy Trails, 11/14/2012 7:52:08 PM (No. 9014915)
It´s time to suggest that the famous "video" was actually produced for Obama´s deception. After all, they were promoting, "featuring" the damned thing. Telling all these savages to get busy rioting and going crazy. Have y´all seen the video yet? What are you going to do about this insult to the prophet?
Wr know how diseased Obama´s mind is, his morals are worse. Do something Senators to save us from this saboteur of our Constitution. After all, what is the central feature of this whole affair? It was a hit on the Ambassador, who was shipping weapons to our enemies. How about talking about the stripping of secret documents from the Consulate? How about talking about the warehouses which were emptied of these weapons? What else is there to know? Know this: Obama is a traitor!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 11/14/2012 8:38:32 PM (No. 9015004)
I bought a security box last week. When Obama locks down the banks you won´t be able to get at anything. If you can possibly cash in your Wall Street accounts without taking too big a hit go for it.
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