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Top intelligence official backtracks
on Libya story, says initial
assessment premature

Fox News, by Catherine Herridge & Pamela Browne

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Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 9/28/2012 5:44:35 PM

The office of the United States' top intelligence official appeared to take the blame Friday for the Obama administration's changing narrative on the U.S. Consulate attack in Libya, saying administration officials who initially claimed the attack was spontaneous did so based on intelligence officials' guidance. The statement by Shawn Turner, spokesman for Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, was put out late Friday -- (Snip) Turner's statement marked a complete reversal from the initial claims. "As we learned more about the attack, we revised our initial assessment to reflect new

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So, Romney was correct from the get go when the talking points LSM went after him, instead of the 0bama administration for the murder of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens & and act of war against our sovereignty.

Local weekend talk shows will continue 0bama talking points on racism, homosexuals, integration, etc. Typical Friday ''dump'' if you're throwing yet another person under your bus, Bambi.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: 68BattleofBealeVet, 9/28/2012 5:50:56 PM     (No. 8896919)

What? obama was shootin' from the hip.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Robinsolana, 9/28/2012 5:54:39 PM     (No. 8896927)

So little people are coming forward to take the fall for Obama's lies.
Who knew?


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: wlit22z, 9/28/2012 5:54:57 PM     (No. 8896929)

Oh, sure! And I believe in the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus too!


Reply 4 - Posted by: JAN, 9/28/2012 5:55:34 PM     (No. 8896932)

Beam me up. No intelligent life down here.


Reply 5 - Posted by: FenwayFrank, 9/28/2012 6:14:45 PM     (No. 8896975)

The backtracking is a lie. No way our intelligence agents are as stupid as 'obamaphone' users that they didn't connect these dots: Date, 9/11 and, Attack on Americans in Benghazi.


Reply 6 - Posted by: Robert Ives, 9/28/2012 6:31:00 PM     (No. 8897007)

So, our top intelligence officials take their place under the bus. Sure, it was their fault.


Reply 7 - Posted by: Nevadadad46, 9/28/2012 6:36:25 PM     (No. 8897016)

Ah, Ha! At last, the real scapegoat comes forth- voluntarily, I suppose! Anything to save the demigod Øbama and his minions! I wonder if his reward will be something from the White House puppy litter box?


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: cartcart, 9/28/2012 6:52:26 PM     (No. 8897047)

Another "we guessed wrong" moment brought to you by a clownish organization called the current administration.


Reply 9 - Posted by: KTWO, 9/28/2012 7:18:41 PM     (No. 8897073)

Does it matter what any of them say, said, or will say?

Benghazi leads to this conclusion:

Washington needs hundreds or thousands more intelligence officials, oops I meant top intelligence officials, more security advisers, and more bureaus with more analysts consulting with more Senior Fellows at more think tanks.

Retired and former officials are very good too.

More staff at State and in the WH and at the Pentagon and CIA. Janet needs dozens at DHS, lesbians preferred.

And every single one will be the smartest person in any room.

Then we will be safe.


Reply 10 - Posted by: lotsamojo, 9/28/2012 7:19:46 PM     (No. 8897077)

Anything for the chief - now the MSM can/will go on to another Romney hit piece!


Reply 11 - Posted by: VAPMAN, 9/28/2012 7:24:15 PM     (No. 8897087)

Throw a little person under the bus Obama. How much money in the envelope.


Reply 12 - Posted by: scribe35, 9/28/2012 7:34:05 PM     (No. 8897098)

Looks to me more like CYA.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Teleologicus, 9/28/2012 7:37:53 PM     (No. 8897103)

Either he is lying to cover another Obama lie - or the United States has an incredibly, scandalously, dangerously incompetent intelligence agency. I hope he is lying and that they were not really dumb enough to leap to the conclusion, peddled in no uncertain terms by the administration, that the attacks were purely spontaneous. It is not likely that intelligence professionals would make a strong commitment to such a scenario early on. It is highly likely that he is lying to provide cover for Obama and our clueless State Department

Either way, a complete housecleaning is in order. These people are going to get us all killed if we don't get them out of office and keep them out.


Reply 14 - Posted by: jar, 9/28/2012 7:42:26 PM     (No. 8897112)

Don't these people log onto the internet? Didn't they see the immediate video footage available which would have shown anyone who looked what the real story was?


Reply 15 - Posted by: nimby, 9/28/2012 7:45:31 PM     (No. 8897116)

If this is the capability of intelligence agency, Clapper should resign


Reply 16 - Posted by: Cardsfan, 9/28/2012 7:51:49 PM     (No. 8897124)

If this is intended to give Obama cover (and it certainly is), why is he too stupid to use it? He's still beating the "it was the movie" drum. If this comes up at the debate (which it may not seeing who the "moderators' are), I'm sure he'll say it as faulty intelligence that fed the "early" reports. But the early reports lasted a couple of weeks. What a dufus.


Reply 17 - Posted by: bighambone, 9/28/2012 8:28:58 PM     (No. 8897182)

Within 24 hours of the Benghazi attack anyone with any experience at all knew that this attack coming on the anniversary of 9/11 by radical Muslims using heavy weapons like RPG's and mortars was a terrorist attack.

So here we are today with the guy who heads US intelligence in Washington DC having no choice but to fall on his sword for Obama. Everyone in the Obama Administration is expected to always have Obama's back, and deflect blame away from Obama or resign. Defecting blame is nothing new for Obama, he does it all the time, if you don't believe it just ask G.W. Bush.

If this intelligence guy and his crew could really not figure out what actually happened at the US Consulate in Benghazi until about now, they need to resign and get out of the way, because they are so incompetent that are bound to get a lot of Americans killed in the future.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: BaseballFan, 9/28/2012 9:16:55 PM     (No. 8897264)

Doesn't matter what the intel says NOW - Obama was wrong (lied) from day 1, and continued on that same lie for more than two weeks.


Reply 19 - Posted by: danu, 9/28/2012 9:55:58 PM     (No. 8897331)

Intelligence agency is an ovymoron.


Reply 20 - Posted by: uno, 9/29/2012 7:02:15 AM     (No. 8897811)

Hmmm, kinda like a burka is being pulled over the heads of the American public so they can't see the islamic enabling that's going on right in front of us...


Reply 21 - Posted by: hamrman, 9/29/2012 7:17:58 AM     (No. 8897832)

Bulloney...the coverup continues. Where is Harry Truman when you need him...you remember the Buck Stops Here!


Reply 22 - Posted by: gonavy, 9/29/2012 7:25:40 AM     (No. 8897848)

So let me get this straight, the official story is now that our vaulted intelligence community is so stupid that the rest of the american public was aware of a terrorist attack before they were? We are in serious trouble if even our intelligence agency is willing to voluntarily, on hands and knees, slither under the bus for TOTUS.

Where's their pride? Don't they realize that in providing BS coverage for The One, they look stupid, lazy and corrupt? This is revolting.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: rplat, 9/29/2012 7:29:06 AM     (No. 8897853)

This is just another administration goon trying to cover Obama's butt. Believe nothing from the mouths of these dolts . . . they're chronic and obsessive liars.


Reply 24 - Posted by: Rusino, 9/29/2012 7:32:44 AM     (No. 8897859)

Has this question been answered: WHY was the Ambassador in Benghazi?

Was he ordered there? Why would he go on his own knowing security was weak?


Reply 25 - Posted by: leopardtwo, 9/29/2012 7:33:18 AM     (No. 8897862)

Amateurs at work.


Reply 26 - Posted by: cobieone, 9/29/2012 7:55:46 AM     (No. 8897883)

This is just ridiculous. Within 48 hours, little ole me knew the full story and that the movie trailer had nothing to do with the attacks. Shame on this administration and those who fell for this BS. Even worse, shame on our media. This administration is only able to get away with this treasonous behavior because of the criminal media.


Reply 27 - Posted by: Maybeth, 9/29/2012 8:07:23 AM     (No. 8897894)

Not only has Obama's ignorance been broadly highlighted in recent days .... but now, we learn that his appointed intelligence people are ALSO lacking in brain power and common sense.
.... People have laughed at the idea that some unknown YouTube film clip caused the murders of an American ambassador and three others. So, they found another patsy to take the fall for Rice, Obama and the idiots in Old Media.


Reply 28 - Posted by: Bad Dog, 9/29/2012 8:33:27 AM     (No. 8897923)

#24 - I read or heard (I digest a lot of information each day, sorry I can't recall) that he had been ''instructed'' to go there to retrieve sensitive documents from that consulate building, supposedly BEFORE the turmoil in Egypt and its effects spread there.

In other words, HE WAS LURED THERE.

That begs the deeper, more penetrating question:

Who INSTRUCTED him to go there for those documents?

You get three guesses....... it could only have been someone who (1) knew there were documents there to retrieve, and (2) knew the turmoil in Egypt (''CAUSED'' by a stupid video???) was a cover for this planned attack.

Now, were (1) and (2) connected? Or worse, the same person?

Never let a good crisis go to waste, eh....?


Reply 29 - Posted by: chicodon, 9/29/2012 9:20:15 AM     (No. 8897990)

Add to this the CIA covert ops revelation and the plot thickens.


Reply 30 - Posted by: JimboUSN, 9/29/2012 10:01:19 AM     (No. 8898080)


Reply 31 - Posted by: JimboUSN, 9/29/2012 10:10:04 AM     (No. 8898095)

Looks like the DNI, Gen. James Clapper (previously of DIA), has decided...or more likely was told to "fall on the sword" to protect Obama's re-election chances.

Believe me, these intelligence analysts knew...no doubt in my military mind. Analysis goes up the chain, through numbers of echelons...being watered down at each level. Moreover, we've heard the inside scoop that OBAMA doe NOT want intelligence briefings while on the campaign trail (he gets his intelligence from Letterman and the women if "The View")...and the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. actually went to lunch with Hillary Clinton while Netanyahu addressed the U.N. Sad. These people MUST go!


Reply 32 - Posted by: MickTurn, 9/29/2012 10:28:55 AM     (No. 8898140)

Really? I highly suspect they purposely ignored the reality because it did not fit into the Obama narrative, ME perfect, you stupid! So he LIED as USUAL!


Reply 33 - Posted by: TheMotherCO, 9/29/2012 10:32:47 AM     (No. 8898153)

I have been the recipient of many survey calls and most of them are skewed to assess the bammy regime. I am now taking each and every one. Time to get out to the lib media that bammy is a disaster for this country. One question was 'have you ever voted for a democrat' = I replied, NEVER. They are lousy - carter, lbj, jfk, bammy, fdr, hst, and slick willy for examples.


Reply 34 - Posted by: Blue-Z-Anna, 9/29/2012 10:33:05 AM     (No. 8898154)

It's axiomatic to "Progressives" that hard power (actual, usable power)is a nasty remnant of our testosterone driven past and must be both avoided and bled in endless symbolic propitiation.

Only fashionable disadvantaged cultures are permitted to use weapons in their struggle against the oppressive west.

Our military must be both degraded and shamed for all it's historical predations.

The selfless leftists will, however, insist upon acting as the holder and distributor of all assets during the great struggle.

We must have fairness above all.

Security ?

The rest of the world would be much safer if America hadn't hogged all the Security.

We must share our security with the less secure.

There is really no end to the foolishness once you go down the liberal road.


Reply 35 - Posted by: jasmine, 9/29/2012 10:41:39 AM     (No. 8898186)

Where are the parents, wives, and the rest of the families of those four murdered Americans?

When a loved one dies due to the gross incompetence of an employer, survivors don't usually give that employer a pass. Especially when they know the employer is lying.


Reply 36 - Posted by: jglas, 9/29/2012 10:42:48 AM     (No. 8898192)

It was an attack by armed men with RPGs on the embassy and simultaneously on the safe house on 9/11 and yet nobody in intelligence, or the state department or in the Whitehouse smelled a terrorist rat and so they all promulgated an absurd cover story for a solid week even though everyone in the western world saw through it in the first 24 hours? This whole incompetent crew needs to be fired (or unelected) they put the country at risk.


Reply 37 - Posted by: geronimo, 9/29/2012 11:54:52 AM     (No. 8898381)

Clapper is out on his keister in a couple of months, so he's expendable anyway.

This is the intelligence genius that had no knowledge whatever of the London terror attacks in 2010, remember that? and in 2/2011 in a hearing on Capitol Hill declared that the Muslim Brotherhood is 'largely secular'.

Even the DNI choked on that one and in hours 'clarified' Clapper's statement to say that Clapper is 'well aware that the MB is not a secular organization'. The CIA website refers to it as a 'religious-based party' and Huckabee called the MB as secular as Billy Graham and the pope.

Taking this fall for the greater good of Preezy Pantload is the most useful thing he's done.


Reply 38 - Posted by: starboard, 9/29/2012 11:57:17 AM     (No. 8898386)

What do you expect from an absentee President.
They are digging the hole of this failed administration deeper and deeper.


Reply 39 - Posted by: grampstosix, 9/29/2012 12:10:30 PM     (No. 8898421)

Americans died and Obama lied.


Reply 40 - Posted by: novakid, 9/29/2012 1:44:50 PM     (No. 8898653)

Gee, who in the world could have anticipated any problems on 9/11?


Reply 41 - Posted by: stablemoney, 9/29/2012 2:10:02 PM     (No. 8898683)

Fire them.


Reply 42 - Posted by: sherlock1, 9/29/2012 3:27:48 PM     (No. 8898803)

Notice hhe MSM never holds Obama accountable for anything his adminstration does wrong? Once a plausible scapegoat is found, it's the end of the story, no questions asked.

We are going to have to destroy the media to save it - and our country.


Reply 43 - Posted by: hay32, 9/29/2012 4:22:17 PM     (No. 8898912)

Watergate was a 2nd rate burglary and an attempted coverup but caused a president to be thrown out of office after a constant attack by the MSM.. This thing is a thousand times more serious and the MSM is clearly not interested.
After all of the unbelievable lies by Obama and his minions, Obama thought it was time to bring in the Head of Intel James Crapper to bail him out. Crapper then said he has mislead Obama and it was his fault for all the bad information. Yeah, that's believable! This was a "hail Mary" pass that fell a little short. The fact is that Obama bogus story went on for days right up to Obama's UN speech when he told the Muslims how sorry he was for that nasty film. Also Hillary can kiss 2016 goodby for not protecting her people in Libya and then lying her rear end off.
It's going to be really interesting on how this all plays out in days to come.



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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines    Original Article
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.

Gay Connecticut couple accused
of raping adopted children
will face trial

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New York Daily News, by Erik Ortiz    Original Article
Posted By: Drive- 4/8/2013 8:52:23 AM     Post Reply
The case of a same-sex Connecticut couple accused of repeatedly raping and abusing two of their nine adopted boys is headed for trial. Married couple George Harasz and Douglas Wirth of Glastonbury were supposed to be sentenced Friday in Hartford Superior Court under a plea deal, but instead withdrew from their agreement with prosecutors. The men had already pleaded no contest in January to one felony count each of risk of injury to a minor — a reduction from even more serious charges related to sexual assault....

Why Is White House
Stonewalling on Benghazi

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Investor´s Business Daily, by Rep, Dana Rohrbacher    Original Article
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More than six months since Ambassador Christopher Stevens was assassinated by terrorists in Benghazi, the Obama administration is still trying to keep a lid on information about the attack. Congress and the American people need to know what happened the night of Sept. 11, 2012. Who did the killing and what was their motive? Why wasn´t help sent? And why did the administration lie about who was responsible? Members of Congress have asked hundreds of questions at hearings conducted by several investigative committees, but many of the most significant have been left unanswered. Information detailing what happened before, during and
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Joe Scarborough: Republicans
that filibuster gun control ´put
rapists´ rights over parents´ rights´

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Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor    Original Article
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On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough voiced his agreement with Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, who on Sunday’s “Face the Nation” on CBS questioned those Republicans who are threatening a filibuster on pending gun control legislation. Scarborough said such a filibuster would be an example of the GOP putting “rapists’ rights ahead over parents’ rights.” “[I] tell you what, Richard Haass, I saw John McCain there,” Scarborough said. “And I’m hopeful. Because, you know, there are a lot of guys out there in the Senate and they are going out because it’s a free shot.

The World-Changing Margaret Thatcher
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Wall Street Journal, by Paul Johnson    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 8:21:53 PM     Post Reply
Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around—decisively—the British economy in the 1980s, she also saw her methods copied in more than 50 countries. "Thatcherism" was the most popular and successful way of running a country in the last quarter of the 20th century and into the 21st. Her origins were humble. Born Oct. 13, 1925, she was the daughter of a grocer in the Lincolnshire town of Grantham. Alfred Roberts was no ordinary shopkeeper.


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