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Topic: Latest Senate committee report on Benghazi terrorist attack faults State Department |
Latest Senate committee report on Benghazi terrorist attack faults State Department
Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By:Oblio, 12/31/2012 6:33:40 AM
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| A scathing Senate committee report on the Benghazi terrorist attack faults the State Department for failing to adequately respond to mounting security threats in the lead-up to the assault. The report says the facility was woefully under-protected at a time when the region, according to a top department official, was "flashing red" -- yet security was not improved, and nobody recommended the compound be shut down.The report, produced by the Senate homeland security committee and obtained by Fox News, follows the release of a State Department-commissioned review earlier in the month. Both are highly critical of the department.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Keekng, 12/31/2012 6:37:20 AM (No. 9090939)
Bam Bam sez it was "just some sloppiness."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
LAW428, 12/31/2012 6:45:11 AM (No. 9090944)
"When we mop up and sanitize this investigation it will all be over and you little people, in fly over country, can go about your business. We have this under control." (This is what´s really going on.)
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
TheMotherCO, 12/31/2012 6:50:45 AM (No. 9090953)
Now will the stupid dims, including the foul prez realize that the clintoons are not capable of anything relating to protecting our citizens and the USA. I don´t buy the hag being ill, she is probably hiding out and thinks we will forget her criminal behavior regarding the Benghazi mess. I do not feel the slightest bit of sympathy with her problems, she earned them all.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
uno_thatguy, 12/31/2012 7:18:38 AM (No. 9090979)
She´s a stumbling drunk and probably hit herself in the head with a glass of vodka while trying to find her mouth. Thus she knocked herself out and "fainted" hitting the floor. An inquiry has yet to determine whether the blow with the glass or hitting the floor resulted in the concussion.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
beca, 12/31/2012 7:19:21 AM (No. 9090982)
it is all dirty...it is all corrupt....look at the players and the coverups and the lies.....and hillarys drama....it is all bs.................
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
M2, 12/31/2012 7:24:36 AM (No. 9090987)
Blaming the "State Department" without mentioning a single name is like saying "the fork made me fat" or "the White House is to blame". Exactly what part of "the State Department" was to blame? A desk? A table? The water cooler?
Names. Who are the persons responsible for "the State Department"? Do they actually believe that blaming an inanimate object or agency without mentioning a responsible person will fly? Are we all supposed to guess?
Clearly, this Administration doesn´t want blame of any kind attached to any person within it so they blame an amorphous thing -- "the State Department" -- and hope we´ll all just fuggedaboutit.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Judith, 12/31/2012 7:38:22 AM (No. 9091011)
When will the epa file THEIR report? If the intention is to just bury us in made up facts for a report(s) that attacks a bureaucracy with no named individuals, does this mean they (dems)are employing the "a lie told repeatedly will be believed" strategy? If so, we should anticipate a plethora of reports from different agencies "explaining" what happened.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Nimby, 12/31/2012 7:41:39 AM (No. 9091014)
Time to shut the department down. It swill help spending cuts
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Spidey, 12/31/2012 8:07:34 AM (No. 9091056)
This is like getting a bunch of climate changers giving and objective report on the status of global warming.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ebgodard, 12/31/2012 8:15:59 AM (No. 9091074)
What a useless report. we still don´t know how involved Obama was. When he was actually notified, what his orders were, where he was. Glaringly absent were the number of Americans at the Mission and Annex; when they were moved, how many were wounded, where they are now, and if they were ever interviewed. We don´t know if Clinton was told months earlier about the lack of security. She had to have known and made the decision not to increase protection. It was above everyone else´s pay grade. It was a political decision not to protect our people. We don´t know who sent Rice out with talking points to mislead the public-but we can guess. We don´t know who´s bloody hand print it was on the Mission wall. someone was seriously wounded and still alive. Does not appear it belonged to those who died. I don´t trust my government anymore to get the truth.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Bad Dog, 12/31/2012 8:26:52 AM (No. 9091081)
Time for refresher course (I´m aure you´ll recognize the source):
´´Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
´´The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people.
´´The third rule is: Whereever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
´´The fourth rule is: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
´´The fourth rule carries within it the fifth rule: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
´´The sixth rule is: A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
´´The seventh rule is: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
´´The eighth rule: Keep the pressure on.
´´The ninth rule: The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
´´The tenth rule: The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
´´The eleventh rule is: If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
´´The twelth rule: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
´´The thirteenth rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.´´
~Saul Alinsky, 1971
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Bad Dog, 12/31/2012 8:28:27 AM (No. 9091084)
P.S. Who pushed the VIDEO excuse?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rinktum, 12/31/2012 8:32:08 AM (No. 9091089)
Isn´t it interesting that George W, Bush was responsible for every little thing that happened during his administration but Obama is responsible for nothing.
Obama encouraged the atmosphere that put our people in danger and Hillary did nothing to protect them from the chaos that Obama condoned. They both need to go, but people like Obama and Hillary never pay the price for their incompetence. No blame will ever be laid at their feet because there is no courage or honor in Washinton DC.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LZK, 12/31/2012 8:39:38 AM (No. 9091103)
For someone who thought he would escape the tar and feathers for this "bump in the road" -- he´s not doing to well...
Happy New Year Fiscally speaking....
LZK
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
dragonlearner, 12/31/2012 8:56:40 AM (No. 9091145)
Why the military stand down?
It´s a simple question that is always avoided.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
walcb, 12/31/2012 9:03:37 AM (No. 9091166)
The Libyan emabassy for the US was in Tripoli. Benghazi is 300 miles east of Tripoli. Edwards was on a gun running mission for Obama. The fact that the press continues to publish basic lies about the facts and Congress allows this to continue unchallanged means they are all complicit.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Grambo, 12/31/2012 9:03:38 AM (No. 9091167)
The ambassador was sent in to viper’s nest on an under-the-radar mission with a communications technician and a couple CIA commandos. Why?
When they came under attack, the WH and State wouldn’t answer their call, went into full denial. Why?
The Secretary of State won’t testify. Why?
The president shrugs.
The press whistles softly, looking at the ceiling.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Chiritwo, 12/31/2012 9:08:34 AM (No. 9091179)
Who gave to order to "stand down". That person is responsible for the deaths of the 4 men. Also, where are the 30 survivors? Why hasn´t at least one come out to thank the Seal´s family for his bravery? This is going to swept under the carpet. Think if this was a Republican President. The press would be all over this - how long did the ridiculous press go on about the spelling of potato and no one died. Is it a wonder why normal people chuckle about the press.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Reality, 12/31/2012 9:53:19 AM (No. 9091265)
President 0bama says that he issued an order to do every thing possible to protect our people,. Has anyone seen a copy of the order, or is it lost in a Las Vegas Casino? Who decided to ignore the order. We cannot allow the democrat senators to whitewash this issue.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
stymie82, 12/31/2012 9:56:58 AM (No. 9091273)
#19, Bath House Barry only, always, watches ESPN in the family room.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Udanja99, 12/31/2012 10:04:44 AM (No. 9091289)
The only person with the authority to issue a "stand down" order in a situation like Benghazi, is 0bama. It was an order given to our military. Who is the CIC? Would any general have given that order without approval from 0bama? He never gave an order to do everything possible to help those people who were under attack. If he gave any order to help anyone, it was the stand down order to help his Muslim bro´s.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 12/31/2012 10:15:07 AM (No. 9091312)
I have no interest in Senate whitewash.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
RancherJack, 12/31/2012 11:26:59 AM (No. 9091462)
Heads to roll? People with prison sentences? Bureaucrats kicked out the door?
(crickets)
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
secondtimelucky, 12/31/2012 11:55:30 AM (No. 9091542)
24 - so far all the bureaucrat kicking has been out the front door and into the side door. They´ve been given ´´another desk´´ dontchaknow...
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Aegedius, 12/31/2012 11:57:04 AM (No. 9091543)
Did Huma Abedin know that the ambassador was going to spend the night in a consulate with virtually no defenses?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
BetseyRoss, 12/31/2012 3:54:40 PM (No. 9091907)
I don´t know where the answer is to all of this convoluted mess. I do know that the right questions aren´t being asked. We do know that Obama was the one that ordered the stand down because he is the only person that can do that. Pretending he isn´t seems to be the way he deals with the deaths of 4 American citizens. Same with Hillary. She knows! She doesn´t want to testify.
Apparently Benghazi was not a consulate. It didn´t deserve protection and that may be the reason none was provided. However it appears that Chris Stevens thought he deserved a lot more protection than he was getting. Was it a CIA gig? It seems to have been. Were they rounding up USA arms and selling them to Syria? That is the real question. How did those arms get to Libya in the first place. We were only involved as a NATO supporter. So many questions. 0 answers. I think we need them because we are paying for our President´s lawlessness and frankly I am getting tired of it. I can´t afford it anymore.
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