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Administration defends attack response
amid new claim about aid to
embattled mission in Libya
Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By:Robinsolana, 10/27/2012 2:20:36 PM
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| Washington — Obama administration officials defended their response to the September attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, amid new claims that the White House failed to send help quickly enough as militants overran the mission. The U.S. ambassador and three other Americans died in the hourslong battle. Fox News reported that security officers working for the CIA in Benghazi heard the attack on the consulate but were twice told to wait before rushing to the compound. Fox also reported that U.S. officials refused when the security team asked for U.S. warplanes
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Latest reports are that assets were overhead and ordered not to help the embattled soldiers on the ground.
This betrayal of our people in Benghazi is very ugly especially in light of the weeks of lies that followed.
Headline resplit, source & byline corrected. LCom Staff.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Stlouislaxbros dad, 10/27/2012 2:54:10 PM (No. 8967510)
Uh.. how can the Obama administration defend an "attack response" when it did NOT respond?
They let our Navy Seals die.
And they have no shame about it.. no shame at all.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
secondtimelucky, 10/27/2012 2:56:32 PM (No. 8967516)
not even worthy of the WaPo doing their own legwork - this is an AP wire story. What exactly do newspaper employees DO these days???
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Brittany, 10/27/2012 3:15:40 PM (No. 8967559)
Petraeus says that the CIA did not say NOT to go t rescue. General Ham of Southcon scrambled a rescue mission but told to stand down...General Ham has been relieved of Command!
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Benghazi:
Where does the buck stop?
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PowerLine, by Scott Johnson
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Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/28/2012 10:13:49 AM
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Who is responsible for the failure to answer the urgent pleas for help that were issued during the attack in Benghazi? Paul considered the question yesterday here, reasonably attributing the responsibility to President Obama.
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Obama did not deny requests
for help in Benghazi: Aide
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AgenciaAngloPress, by Staff
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Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/28/2012 9:45:49 AM
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WASHINGTON - The White House on Saturday flatly denied that President Barack Obama withheld requests for help from the besieged American compound in Benghazi, Libya, as it came under on attack by suspected terrorists on September 11th. "Neither the president nor anyone in the White House denied any requests for assistance in Benghazi," National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor told Yahoo News by email.
Please post source in site style. Staff has corrected.
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Obama needs to come clean
on Benghazi
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Wapoo, by Jennifer Rubin
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Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/28/2012 9:29:32 AM
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The Benghazi debacle has three parts: how we neglected security while al-Qaeda was building a presence in Libya; whether the administration tried to mislead the public as to the nature of the attack; and now whether the administration denied pleas for help from operatives on the ground at the consulate. Now, presumably at the behest of Gen. David Petraeus — who has been remarkably tight-lipped and not defended his agency against White House accusations that senior officials’ misstatements were the fault of the CIA — the CIA threw the hot potato right back in the politicians’ laps.
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Libya:
Crushing Obama’s Hopes
of a Comeback?
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PowerLine, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/27/2012 10:09:22 PM
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Mitt Romney has opened up a clear lead over Barack Obama in their presidential race. That owes a great deal to the candidates’ debate performances, of course. But something else is going on, too. In recent days, Obama’s approval rating has taken a perceptible hit. Via the Weekly Standard, we see that in the Rasmussen survey, only 47% approve of Obama’s job performance, while 52% disapprove. There are two plausible explanations for Obama’s current slide: voters may be disgusted by the mean, petty campaigning he is running, or they may disapprove of his handling of the Benghazi crisis. Or both.
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'Stand Down': U.S. Had Two Drones,
AC-130 Gunship, and Targets
Painted in Benghazi
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Breitbart's Big Peace, by AWR Hawkins
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Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/27/2012 6:11:20 PM
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Reports indicate two drones and an AC-130 gunship were in the area when Benghazi was attacked, yet their resources were not used. This runs completely against the current explanation coming out of the White House, which is that Obama did everything he could once he learned of the attack. You'll remember that in the second presidential debate, Obama said that as "soon as I was aware the Benghazi consulate was being overrun, I was on the phone with my national security team." The not-so-subtle intimation is that Obama was stepping up to the protect the U.S. personnel who were in Libya.
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Obama to nominate Army
Gen. Rodriguez to lead AFRICOM
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Stars and Stripes, by Jennifer Hlad
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Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/27/2012 5:50:00 PM
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Washington — President Barack Obama will nominate Army Gen. David Rodriguez to succeed Gen. Carter Ham as commander of U.S. Africa Command and Marine Lt. Gen. John Paxton to succeed Gen. Joseph Dunford as assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Thursday. Both appointments must be confirmed by the Senate. Rodriguez is the commander of U.S. Army Forces Command and has served in a “variety of key leadership roles on the battlefield,” Panetta said. He’s “a proven leader” who oversaw coalition and Afghan forces during
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Media Blackout:
Why Obama Dodged the Libya Question
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Breitbart's Big Journalism, by John Nolte
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Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/27/2012 3:57:29 PM
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President Obama ran into a buzzsaw yesterday while doing a round-robin of satellite interviews with local news outlets in crucial swing states -- and by "buzzsaw," I mean that rare form of species known as a "real reporter." Kyle Clark of Colorado's KUSA actually asked Obama about the latest revelations out of Libya. According to Fox News, the three requests for help made during the seven-hour attack on our consulate in Benghazi were met with orders from U.S. officials to "stand down." Wisely, Obama dodged this question entirely. I say "wisely" because,
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AC-130u Gunship Was On Scene In
Benghazi, Obama Admin Refused
To Let It Fire (Updated)
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PJ Media, by Bob Owens
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Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/27/2012 3:19:00 PM
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The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Specter gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours — enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators.
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Administration defends attack response
amid new claim about aid to
embattled mission in Libya
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/27/2012 2:20:36 PM
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Washington — Obama administration officials defended their response to the September attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, amid new claims that the White House failed to send help quickly enough as militants overran the mission. The U.S. ambassador and three other Americans died in the hourslong battle. Fox News reported that security officers working for the CIA in Benghazi heard the attack on the consulate but were twice told to wait before rushing to the compound. Fox also reported that U.S. officials refused when the security team asked for U.S. warplanes
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Who Is Fethullah Gülen?
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City Journal, by Claire Berlinski
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Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/25/2012 12:47:40 PM
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Controversial Muslim preacher, feared Turkish intriguer—and “inspirer” of the largest charter school network in America. With the American economy in shambles, Europe imploding, and the Middle East in chaos, convincing Americans that they should pay attention to a Turkish preacher named Fethullah Gülen is an exceedingly hard sell. Many Americans have never heard of him, and if they have, he sounds like the least of their worries.
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A Rogue Climate Experiment
Outrages Scientists
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New York Times, by Henry Fountain
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Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/22/2012 9:57:17 AM
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A California businessman chartered a fishing boat in July, loaded it with 100 tons of iron dust and cruised through Pacific waters off western Canada, spewing his cargo into the sea in an ecological experiment that has outraged scientists and government officials. The entrepreneur, whose foray came to light only this week, even duped the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States into lending him ocean-monitoring buoys for the project.
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Source: Suspect 2 shot, is
down in Watertown neighborhood
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WFXT-TV [Boston, MA], by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/19/2013 7:09:43 PM
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Watertown, Mass.– A number of gun shots were fired near Franklin Street in Watertown Friday night and it was believed that suspect number 2 in the Boston Marathon bombings had been shot. FOX 25's Bob Ward reported that as many 30 shots were fired in the neighborhood. Ward reported that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man known as suspect 2, was shot by police. It was not immediately known if Tsarnaev was killed. A bomb squad could be seen responding to the scene. A massive police presence was also in the area. FOX 25's Jarrod Holbrook reported that Tsarnaev was seen in a boat with a canvas
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Feds ´investigating possibility that the
government´s terror-trackers knew about
the Boston bombers before the blasts´
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Daily Mail (U.K.), by David Martosko
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/20/2013 12:06:21 AM
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Federal law enforcement officials are actively investigating the possibility that the Boston bombers were known to the government’s terror-trackers, MailOnline understands. Any inquiry into the marathon bombing will look into whether agents could have taken action – but didn’t – to prevent the Tsarnaev brothers from obtaining the explosives that killed 3 and wounded 173 others. CBS News reported Friday evening that two years ago, the FBI interviewed the elder brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who was killed in Thursday night´s dramatic shootout. The feds reportedly spoke to him at the request of an unspecified foreign government, but couldn´t
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USA needs refuge from refugees
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Boston Herald, by Howie Carr
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/20/2013 5:55:25 AM
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So once again, no good deed goes unpunished. Uncle Sam lets another bunch of leeching future terrorists into the country who have absolutely no business being here, gives them “asylum,” making them immediately eligible for welfare, and this is the thanks we get? They turn into mass murderers. We bring in thousands of Muslims from a primitive society that has been battling Christians for centuries, and put them into a peaceful Christian society — what could possible go wrong? This is what I was thinking about yesterday, with much of the city under what amounted to martial law.
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Schumer: Do not ‘jump to conclusions’
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Daily Caller, by Alexis Levinson
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/19/2013 12:49:40 PM
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WASHINGTON — New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer admonished colleagues not to “try to conflate” the immigration reform bill that the Senate is considering with the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the perpetrators of which have been identified as immigrants. “I’d like to ask that all of us not jump to conclusions regarding the events in Boston or try to conflate those events with this legislation,” Schumer said Friday at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the immigration bill. As the hearing was happening, the Boston metropolitan area was on lockdown, as police attempted to
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Zogby: Obama still one
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Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/20/2013 7:10:32 PM
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Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that when it came to messaging Boston, President Obama had the right touch. "We have had presidents who have been able to rally local communities and the nation when people are hurting. This president is truly one of the great ones. He carried the right message to the people of the Boston area and beyond when he told them Thursday ´we will finish this race.´ He also has a strong shot at gaining an immigration reform victory with the package drawn up by
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The Insanity of
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The Week, by Mark Ambinder
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/19/2013 5:30:45 PM
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We are still speculating about virtually everything right now, but I feel as though I need to explain why I find the quick and easy conversation about Muslims being radicalized in America to be so illogical and laced with bigotry. Of course, there is a global violent jihadist movement, loosely organized, that wants to recruit young men to influence policies at home and abroad and perhaps usher in the global caliphate. That ideology motivates some Muslims to kill innocent people.But you´re allowed to be a radical Muslim in America.
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Rubio Reason for Legalizing Illegals:
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/20/2013 10:00:59 PM
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R.-Fla.), one of eight senators who have crafted legislation that would put illegal aliens on a path to U.S. citizenship, explained in a Senate floor speech yesterday that one of the reasons he wants to do this is that he believes illegal aliens are currently driving on U.S. roads without drivers licenses and auto insurance and his bill would encourage them to get licenses and buy insurance. Rubio explained that under his bill ilegal aliens who "have committed serious crimes" will be deported. However, the proposal will apparently not deem as a serious crime the habit
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Muslims guard against backlash
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Chicago Tribune, by Manya A. Brachear
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/20/2013 11:22:13 PM
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The Council on American Islamic Relations again offered sympathy to victims of the Boston Marathon bombing on Friday, but added a plea for Americans not to generalize and conclude that Muslim teachings influenced the suspect in any way. "Our focus is primarily on the victims," said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago chapter at a press conference Friday afternoon. "We don´t want to be drawn into defending ourselves." Citing acts of violence in Boston and New York, Rehab blamed Islamophobic forces for inciting hate crimes.
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´My children were set up,´ father claims
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Associated Press *, by Staff
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/19/2013 12:34:59 PM
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Two brothers of Chechen origin suspected of staging the Boston marathon bombings, one of whom has been shot dead by police, are innocent of any crime, the Interfax news agency quotes a man identified as their father as saying. ‘‘In my opinion, my children were set up by the secret services because they are practising Muslims,’’ Anzor Tsarnaev told the Interfax news agency on Friday (Snip) On the site, he describes himself as speaking Chechen as well as English and Russian. His world view is described as ‘‘Islam’’ and he says his personal goal is ‘‘career and money.’’
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Griner Reveals That She’s Gay
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CBS Sports, by Staff
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/19/2013 1:39:43 PM
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Waco - Baylor star Brittney Griner has revealed she’s a lesbian. The Bears center, who was picked No. 1 overall in the recent WNBA Draft (to the Phoenix Mercury) and is considered by many to be an all-time great in women’s college basketball, casually explained her sexual orientation to Sports Illustrated. Griner was asked by SI’s Maggie Gray on the difference between men’s and women’s sports when it comes to acceptance of sexual orientation; why the WNBA has been able to often embrace many lesbians within their sport, while male sports in America still waits on its first publicly gay player.
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Allen West: Can we investigate
radical Islamic terror now?
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Washington Times, by Cheryl K. Chumley
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/19/2013 1:06:46 PM
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Former Florida Rep. Allen West issued a scathing statement on his Facebook page Friday, in response to the ongoing manhunt for one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. “Let me be very clear. The terrorist attack in Boston and evolving events indicate we have a domestic radical Islamic terror problem in America,” he wrote. “No more excuses. No more apologies. We are in a war of ideological wills and we shall prevail.”
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