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Topic: A Twist in the Benghazi Saga |
A Twist in the Benghazi Saga
Daily Beast, by Eli Lake
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Posted By:StormCnter, 1/3/2013 4:55:46 AM
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| If you thought the Benghazi saga ended last month when a State Department review concluded that a handful of State Department middle managers failed to provide adequate security for the U.S. mission, think again: it may no longer be dominating headlines, but with multiple active congressional investigations and an ongoing attempt to hunt down the perpetrators, the story of Benghazi is far from over. The biggest recent development—which was overshadowed by the fiscal cliff negotiations—came on New Year’s Eve, when the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released a report
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/3/2013 5:03:21 AM (No. 9095907)
Left unsaid is that the trail leads back to the State Dept and the WH.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
suedotsue, 1/3/2013 8:14:18 AM (No. 9096080)
I don´t understand why any American is allowed to be in any of these countries ruled by Islamists. Do you have to actually see a Christian´s throat slit before you get the idea?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Judith, 1/3/2013 8:18:00 AM (No. 9096086)
I watched the first testimony before the House. One thing I that stood out was that starting in the spring of 2012, each time the ambassador came under attack, he was stripped of some of his security detail. Happened, I believe, three times up until August. Then he was slaughtered in September. I wonder why obama wanted this man dead?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Staunch Repub, 1/3/2013 8:28:10 AM (No. 9096101)
I suspect he and Zero had a sexual ´trist´ and theWon didn´t want anyone to find out / admit it...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LouD, 1/3/2013 9:14:38 AM (No. 9096199)
When did the Benghazi story "dominate headlines"? When were there even mention of Benghazi in any of the lamestream media? Guess I missed it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
donnaclaire, 1/3/2013 9:15:07 AM (No. 9096200)
Hope this Benghazi incident is investigated continuously until we know "all the truth." This story is so frustrating, sad and outrageous. I can only imagine how these four brave and loyal Americans´ families are dealing with it. One of the saddest and most disgraceful chapters in our history.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
stryker714, 1/3/2013 9:30:03 AM (No. 9096238)
Notice how there has historically been no military response to Al Qaeda/terrorist attacks overseas against American interests when a democrat rat sits in the White House? It´s just more, "Oh well, move on, sweep it under the rug, try to forget about it, must have been our fault-we were on their turf". The apathy, appeasement, capitulation is amazing.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Aunt Agnes, 1/3/2013 9:47:24 AM (No. 9096273)
No. 4 may be on to something. Read up on the Chicago´s Trinity United Church murders. Three young, gay men - all known associates of BO, were murdered within a month´s time just before BO began his presidential run. BO has never commented on the murders. Wonder what they could have said?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Grambo, 1/3/2013 9:49:48 AM (No. 9096280)
It is perfectly clear that State and the WH watched these people die and withheld aid. Why they didn’t want them to survive is unknown, but the fact that they refused them protection before 9/11, and refused them help on the night of the attack is beyond debate. Finally, when the news of the attack and the fatalities broke, they launched a program of deceit to hide their actions from the public, and the Secretary of State has twice dodged testimony under oath, and the president shrugs it all off as sloppy work.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
tenncon231, 1/3/2013 9:54:42 AM (No. 9096293)
Only 4 Americans killed?? Where are the 30+ individuals that were airlifted out of Benghazi, some of whom were wounded in the fire fight. According to lsm they don´t nor ever existed,where and who are they--they could add a lot to the truth!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chicodon, 1/3/2013 10:00:37 AM (No. 9096308)
"...it may no longer be dominating headlines..." let me add "at Fox News". That´s the only place you would have heard it in the MSM.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
RancherJack, 1/3/2013 10:30:47 AM (No. 9096392)
Exactly as Obama and the Democrats wanted
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
omahabob, 1/3/2013 10:55:27 AM (No. 9096447)
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
omahabob, 1/3/2013 10:57:12 AM (No. 9096453)
Dear God I hope numbers 4, 7 and 9 are wrong.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 1/3/2013 10:59:12 AM (No. 9096460)
#4 could be right. This whole thing could be nothing more than Zippy having his sexual partners killed to keep them from embarrassing him.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
enuf8, 1/3/2013 11:37:21 AM (No. 9096540)
Two members of Trinity church were murdered--the third person died of aids related illness. There has been little or no investigation concerning the murders. Donald Young let Larry Sinclair know he and obama had intimate relations. The church apparently facilitated the matching of the down low club. The rev. Wright was deeply involved per many reports on this subject.
Very strange Stevens´ father came out within days of the murders in Benghazi to just let it rest and not report more in the news. Does make one wonder what zero had on Stevens.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rafter, 1/3/2013 12:40:38 PM (No. 9096623)
So the president is a closet... teabagger... ?
Probably a cream and sugar kind o´ guy...
There is little doubt Bamster is going to be a hated man at some point. With luck, that will happen with Obamacare in 2014, prior to the midterm elections.
Bammie´s honeymoon will end sometime. If we are patient, we will triumph and be rewarded.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
trapper, 1/3/2013 1:34:03 PM (No. 9096687)
The only account I have read of this that ties it together and makes sense of it came to the conclusion that Stevens was CIA, the entire Behghazi operation was a CIA operation collecting weapons and sending them to Syria through Turkey. In that scenario, the 30 Americans pulled out would have been scattered to the wind, unavailable for questions, if you even knew their real names.
The attack in Benghazi could have been just the follow up of the roll-up of the CIA operations in Lebanon by Hezbollah, or it could have been part of internal fighting between Hezbollah, the muslim brotherhood, alquaeda, and other radical groups. Just because they are all muslim does not mean they are all working together, and to understand the Benghazi attack it is probably necessary to first understand the interests and natural alliances of all the various groups in play in Syria. For this the American press is absolutely useless. For starters, remember that Alqaeda gets its financing from Saudis, Hezbollah is an arm or Iran, and the Saudis and Iran are enemies. Get the picture?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Chiritwo, 1/3/2013 1:35:41 PM (No. 9096690)
It´s razzle dazzle time, again. See what sticks this time.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mozey, 1/3/2013 2:15:15 PM (No. 9096760)
Agree with 4,7,9,16.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DoktorFranken, 1/3/2013 2:48:21 PM (No. 9096819)
To hell with this "middle manager" crapulance. I want to know who, for 6-7 hours during the Benghazi Massacre, gave the order to STAND DOWN? For a sweeping order that covered the military AND the CIA wouldn´t it HAVE to have been a Commander-In-Chief level person??
You know, GolferOne?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
jerseytomato, 1/3/2013 4:04:15 PM (No. 9096945)
#22 said it.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 1/3/2013 6:03:18 PM (No. 9097130)
I tend to agree, #22.
Why isn´t Obama questioned by the "press" whenever he appears, the way people like Sam Donaldson and Dan Rather hounded Reagan? Why is Obama untouchable?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
rocket scientist, 1/3/2013 7:38:41 PM (No. 9097269)
Dittos #19 - I was thinking the same thing about the mysterious 30 other persons who were saved that night in Benghazi. If the "Consulate" was mainly a CIA operation and those 30 "persons" were all CIA operatives, then that would be a good reason why these people are "unavailable" for questioning. They don´t want to identify who those people are. That also lends more credence to the CIA operation explanation.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy, 1/3/2013 8:52:28 PM (No. 9097352)
In re #4, 7, 9, 16, and 21: what an awful thought, but could be true....wow.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
busterman, 1/3/2013 9:01:34 PM (No. 9097362)
He is the Manchurian candidate. The puppet to ValJar´s puppet-master. They give him what he wants to satiate his numerous habits and inflated ego (i.e.: drugs, sex, travel, expensive gifts...whatever) and he gets up in front of the world and says, in his oh so sophisticated baritone, what they want him to say.
Anyone or anything gets in the way, they ´deal´ with it. But they can´t even do that quietly.
It´s that simple. We have wannabe Chicago thugs running the most powerful country in the history of the world.....and Republicans...at least most of them....can only suck their thumbs and weep.
Pathetic.
So what happens next? Well, it´s simple really. What happens when you discipline a spoiled child? They throw a tantrum.
That´s what is coming our way, eventually. Only these spoiled children are evil and have no problem hurting us to get their way. They are, in effect, Adam Lanza.
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