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Benghazi attack:
Urgent call for military help
‘was denied by chain of command’
The Christian Science Monitor, by Brad Knickerbocker
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Posted By:Robinsolana, 10/28/2012 9:12:25 AM
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| Citing “sources who were on the ground” in Benghazi, Libya, Fox News is reporting that an urgent request for military help during last month’s terrorist attack on the US consulate there “was denied by the CIA chain of command.”
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Comments:
A mealy CYA filled article from the CSM, but the headline says it all. This is the first break in the mainstream media wall of silence I have seen.
The Betrayal of our troops on the ground in Benghazi just screams for justice. Obama's 6 weeks of lies and serial blame shifting point to a tremendous coverup aided by a complicit media.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
janylou, 10/28/2012 9:20:36 AM (No. 8969035)
Congress needs to get the rescued people who were on the ground during this mess under oath and get their sworn statements of what happened. We know it is going to be hard to get the truth out of the Obomination admin.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Keekng, 10/28/2012 9:23:48 AM (No. 8969039)
Who, specifically, refused to help....We need names!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Griz70, 10/28/2012 9:31:55 AM (No. 8969057)
It is getting very hard to discern who is lying and who is telling the truth. It certainly seems there are waaaay too many lies flying around, and very little truth.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
kanphil, 10/28/2012 9:38:47 AM (No. 8969076)
Yet General Petraeus denies any such actions by the CIA chain of command. Who to believe?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
leopardtwo, 10/28/2012 9:47:57 AM (No. 8969099)
On Fox News Sunday, Juan Williams described questions about the death of four Americans as Republican politicization.
Juan. Any time your buddy Zero gets caught doing something stupid or borderline criminal it is not politicization. It is Americans wanting to know the truth.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
msctex1, 10/28/2012 9:55:37 AM (No. 8969116)
His concession speech may well be made from a jet heading God knows where.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
cromrock, 10/28/2012 10:16:59 AM (No. 8969162)
Not once have I heard of any denial that the calls for help made. So all were well aware of these calls but no one bothered to answer or take ownership for not answering. Fog of War my arse. Cowards the lot.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
fhancock, 10/28/2012 10:24:31 AM (No. 8969186)
I posted this on another thread but the bucks stops at the President's desk..FYI...General Ham is a Combatant Commander (Africa Command)and works DIRECTLY for the Secretary of Defense who works DIRECTLY for the President...the Chairman of the Joint Staffs is NOT a commander and is not in General Ham's direct Chain of Command...therefore what General Ham did or did not do was approved or disapproved by Panetta and Obama...just saying
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 10/28/2012 10:51:10 AM (No. 8969258)
Lyin Pinata and his boss will work this out so that Barky won't be blamed for his cowardice and treason . It won't be the first time this lying weasel took a hit for the team.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 10/28/2012 10:59:56 AM (No. 8969285)
No Patreus on Meet the Press.
What happened ?
Carly Fiorina brought it up and David Gregory says:"We'll get to that in a moment".
Then nothing.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
wtm, 10/28/2012 11:50:11 AM (No. 8969391)
People !!!!
There was NO "little" denial of help here.......
There WAS a deliberate "STAND DOWN" order given 3 times for help !!!!!!
THAT had to come from the top !!!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
leopardtwo, 10/28/2012 12:58:26 PM (No. 8969547)
Possibly, Petraeus was reminded that it is only a 20-dollar cab ride from his HQ to Fort Marcy Park.
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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:
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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,
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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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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:
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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
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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
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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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Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/25/2012 12:47:40 PM
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A Rogue Climate Experiment
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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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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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