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Panetta Says Poor
Intelligence Barred
Forces to Benghazi
Bloomberg News, by Gopal Ratnam
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Posted By:BuckeyeRon, 10/25/2012 4:18:08 PM
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| Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the U.S. military lacked intelligence needed to respond during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, during which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed. “The basic principle is don’t deploy into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on,” Panetta said today at a Pentagon news conference. He said he and top generals “felt very strongly” that deploying forces sooner wasn’t the right option. The Pentagon did send a Fleet Anti-Terrorism Support Team, or FAST, to the region and had ships off the coast of Libya “prepared to respond
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Comments:
Not buying it! No WartHogs or F-16s to the rescue? Zero, Panetta, Ch JCS Gen Dempsey, and Gen. Ham of AFRICOM are the same ones who took a lead from behind stance re Libya in the first place...
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
RedLegLeader68, 10/25/2012 4:20:14 PM (No. 8961765)
Anyone surprised? Not me. Again, I recommend reading up on Leon-baby's history/background. You just might be surprised.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Blackeagle, 10/25/2012 4:20:59 PM (No. 8961768)
True, the POTUS is not very intelligent.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
fhancock, 10/25/2012 4:21:45 PM (No. 8961769)
Ambassador Stevens could not be reached for comment
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Coy860, 10/25/2012 4:24:33 PM (No. 8961786)
Far be it for me to argue that Panetta has no intelligence.
Obama is brain dead, and so is his administration. That does not make me feel safer, for sure.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bubbasuncle, 10/25/2012 4:25:20 PM (No. 8961789)
I'm confused, did they think the live video feed they were watching was a re-run of the A Team? Not to mention the emails. These people are beyond contempt.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
old north state, 10/25/2012 4:26:17 PM (No. 8961797)
Panetta said “there’s a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking going on here...
That's what happens, Leon, when you get your Sunday afternoon quarterback killed.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Kurto, 10/25/2012 4:26:27 PM (No. 8961799)
The CIA was, obviously, not in Benghazi to collect 'intelligence.' It's starting to look like the were running Fast & Furious 2.0 to arm the bad guys.
This is not a case of poor intelligence. It is a case of lack of intelligence.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mc squared, 10/25/2012 4:29:10 PM (No. 8961811)
Poor intelligence? An unfortunate headline when speaking about this administration
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
leopardtwo, 10/25/2012 4:30:13 PM (No. 8961814)
How is it then that, when Syrian intelligence bombed the Christian neighborhood in Lebanon a few days ago, Zero's mignons termed it 'terrorism' in mere hours? Was their intelligence that good then? Hmmm..
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JAN, 10/25/2012 4:38:25 PM (No. 8961850)
No intelligence in the entire administration.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
QRP, 10/25/2012 4:38:30 PM (No. 8961851)
I think the term "Poor Intelligence" applies to the people managing the crisis. You can't fix stupid and evil goes to the bone.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
BuckeyeRon, 10/25/2012 4:39:26 PM (No. 8961858)
Panetta and Dempsey got constant info streaming into the DoD situation room during the hour it took to get the drone and "other surveillance assets" over the scene to get live video feeds, then joins Zero and BiteMe in the WH situation room to do what??? Watch in real time the slaughter of American lives on American territory for 7 or 8 additional hours?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 10/25/2012 4:44:58 PM (No. 8961873)
Give Leon a break - he's been trying real hard to find his butt - he really has - but gosh, people, he only has two hands!
/s off/
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mitzi, 10/25/2012 4:46:43 PM (No. 8961881)
I believe this is excluse 7,349,231
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
carolina blue, 10/25/2012 5:13:02 PM (No. 8961973)
Another worthless piece of washington garbage
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
woofwoofwoof, 10/25/2012 5:15:55 PM (No. 8961985)
The POINT as I'm sure Mr. Panetta actually knows perfectly well, is that they had MONTHS to prepare for this, and OBVIOUSLY didn't.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
VAPMAN, 10/25/2012 5:23:59 PM (No. 8962005)
The intelligence was fine. They did not have the balls to call for a rescue because it would make them look bad for not anticipating what was possible to happen and what if the rescue went bad like Jimmy Carter? Plus they would have had to admit it was terrorist from the start. Letting them die and blaming a video was a clear cut political calculation. It sucks when Obama throws your life away for political gain.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
happywarrior, 10/25/2012 5:36:19 PM (No. 8962043)
They all sat on their arses for hours and hours and watched four of our men murdered! What happens when the next terrorist attack is HERE on our soil? Will they sit and watch and do nothing??
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX, 10/25/2012 5:40:36 PM (No. 8962064)
Poor intelligence is in the genes with Democrats.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
pucky1, 10/25/2012 6:01:27 PM (No. 8962144)
I luv you guys. Panetta should click in to see what the real world is about.
Hey, Leon...What about the two previous attacks. Got an answer?
Waiting for precise info on the battle? George Patton would kick your butt to Mecca for that excuse. Send in your jets to do a little burner fun over the crowd. Don't wait four hours to get a relief force in place.
Leon, "Full Bore" is the term? You already had Americans in harms way. What are you waiting for? A spreadsheet?
My guess, You're toast and the next to go under the Obama bus. Don't try to lay this off on your Commander in Libya. You guys were getting real-time info. You HAVE NO EXCUSE.
Sorry for shouting. I can't think of anything I've heard from these creeps that P'sses me off so much.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
rochow, 10/25/2012 6:10:26 PM (No. 8962177)
Panetta, you, zero, rice and Hitlary are full of it!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Heraclitus, 10/25/2012 7:04:20 PM (No. 8962321)
So, the most brilliant, most staggeringly brilliant people ever ever ever to abide in the highest levels of government couldn't connect the dang bloody dots. stinkers.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 10/25/2012 9:35:33 PM (No. 8962676)
Someone said NO to a rescue... The military knew exactly what to do. They were told NO.
Obama. Because he planned a kidnapping for an Oct. Surprise.... thought Morsi would hand Stevens to him & he'd sweep to victory
No regard for the other Americans that would surely die in the kidnapping attempt..
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
jkcinsalem, 10/26/2012 2:41:26 AM (No. 8962991)
What is the point of having a flying gunship if your not going to use it? Permission? Excuse me!!
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