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White House Throws CIA Under the Bus
Breitbart´s Big Government, by William Bigelow

Original Article

Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 11/18/2012 10:00:42 PM

The White House is doubling down on their assertions that they did not have the proper information when they sent Susan Rice out to the Sunday talk shows to claim the Benghazi attack was due to a video. They claim that the only edit they made to the information given them was to change the name of the attacked facility from “consulate” to “diplomatic facility.” Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said Saturday: We were provided with points by the intelligence community that represented their assessment. The only edit made by the White House was the factual edit

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Pretty soon, the bus will need new ´´shocks,´´ as all those speed bumps ruin the undercarriage.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Evocatus, 11/18/2012 10:27:47 PM     (No. 9022864)

"You´re gonna need a bigger . . . bus."


Reply 2 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino, 11/18/2012 11:02:34 PM     (No. 9022907)

Ummm - - ummm - - can I - - can I ask a question?

Ummm - - like - - if the CIA didn´t say it was a pre-planned terror attack - - when they knew it was - - then who said the attack was the result of the video? If the CIA didn´t say that it was the video - - then who told Rice to go out and say it?

Ooops - - that´s two questions. Sorry.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Aria, 11/18/2012 11:20:07 PM     (No. 9022918)

Everything zero touches turns into a disaster for everyone except himself. He end up walking through ruins he´s created just like The Terminator.


Reply 4 - Posted by: southron, 11/18/2012 11:35:10 PM     (No. 9022927)

Such much incriminating stuff is coming out that even the mainstream might begin to mention it.


Reply 5 - Posted by: ColonialAmerican1623, 11/19/2012 12:21:49 AM     (No. 9022964)

Wouldn´t you think that after four years somebody under that bus would spill their guts ? Anybody that lies over Benghazi has murder on their conscience; if they have one.


Reply 6 - Posted by: badrad, 11/19/2012 1:07:49 AM     (No. 9022993)

The know nothing president.


Reply 7 - Posted by: JAN, 11/19/2012 1:21:06 AM     (No. 9023003)

Every last person associated with this administration is corrupt to their core.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: janylou, 11/19/2012 1:35:33 AM     (No. 9023010)

Petraeus was pretty stupid talking about the video on 9/14. It plays right into Obominations´ hands. Someone needs to ask him where that came from. He needs to be asked what he knew about the security before 9/11 as well as whether any plans were under way to help the Embassy during the attacks.


Reply 9 - Posted by: Nimby, 11/19/2012 3:06:17 AM     (No. 9023038)

As #8 said. Why didn´t the committee ask him that very question when he was under oath?


Reply 10 - Posted by: billa, 11/19/2012 4:13:42 AM     (No. 9023057)

This has got to be the most corrupt, illegal and malcontent admins. ever...from the WH, the cabinets, Congress, SCOTUS and the military. Everyone lies, covers up and out right breaks the law, and nothing happens. They just get re-elected, re-appointed and re-hired. And with the criminal-in-charge, AG, Holder, nothing will ever be done against those who protect and fall on their swords for the the big O.

This makes gangsta thugery look like child´s play. If BO and MO ever leave the WH, I bet half or more of the people´s property will be stolen and hidden (if has not already).

And I worry that we will have 8 more years after BO of liberal thugery.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Trigger2, 11/19/2012 4:14:01 AM     (No. 9023058)

I think the finger needs to be pointed at that idiot dufus Clapper. Remember him in that interview where he appeared to have dementia and had to let others answer for him?


Reply 12 - Posted by: Spidey, 11/19/2012 4:24:12 AM     (No. 9023065)

Petraeus resigned so he wouldn´t have to lie for Obama before congress.Why else announce the affair 4 months after it ended?There could have been an element of blackmail also,he ust got tired of.

Paula Broadwell knows where a lot of bodies are buried. Right now the circumstances aren´t right for her to step up but that time will come.They could be hanging a Petraeus court martial over her head for silence.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Judith, 11/19/2012 7:28:28 AM     (No. 9023218)

I would hope that someone would have asked petraeus, under whose orders was the ambassador repeatedly stripped of security? Under whose orders were Americans left to fight and die, unassisted over a 9 hour stretch?
Focusing on who put the nonsense about the video into the talking points, is making a mockery of those men´s deaths.
We have a bunch of cowards in powerful positions who will not ask the important questions. And who, after seeing the video of the slaughter, seem oddly unaffected.


Reply 14 - Posted by: Maybeth, 11/19/2012 7:33:25 AM     (No. 9023223)

We already learned that Obama never ... that´s NEVER ... attended briefings from the intelligence community. Those would be the same briefings which W attended every single day, with few exceptions, for 8 years.
.... So, the claim that this president is not in receipt of the CIA information might actually be a true statement. ´It depends upon what the meaning of is is.´


Reply 15 - Posted by: Rinktum, 11/19/2012 7:54:22 AM     (No. 9023251)

The problem we have is that there are no players in this soap opera who are willing to step up because they fear retribution by Obama regime. We need a hero who will tell the truth come hell or high water. I thought Petraeus was that man but it appears I was wrong. The truth from a legitimate source could be the undoing of the Obama nightmare we are all living through. Is there just one honest man who is willing to step forward because it is the right thing to do.


Reply 16 - Posted by: LZK, 11/19/2012 8:08:19 AM     (No. 9023275)

You´re right poster #3 -- everything obama touches is dirty and turns into a disaster.....

Here in Illinois the demorats have run US into the ground -- financially -- and NOW they are talking about selling bonds to cover their pension shortfall to the citizens. What a joke!!

That´s what obama wants for America. It´s all about revenge and bringing America down to her knees so she can bow to the rest of the world.

After all -- he suffered as a kid in Asia. Which BTW -- is his homeland as far as he´s concerned. Why else his first visit to Asia???? It´s all starting to make sense....

LZK


Reply 17 - Posted by: scarface67, 11/19/2012 8:08:50 AM     (No. 9023276)


Poster #15: That ´one honest man´ may well be a dead man walking if he dares to come forward.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: planetgeo, 11/19/2012 8:13:47 AM     (No. 9023293)

Since when did the Ambassador to the UN become the official spokesperson for the CIA? What, they don´t have anybody designated to speak on their activities? Is the UN ambassador now like the volunteer Rotary Club speaker for administration departments? Absurd.


Reply 19 - Posted by: stryker714, 11/19/2012 8:18:48 AM     (No. 9023302)

Someone with a sharp mind in DC, needs to cut to the core of this matter and find out
why Obama and his team murdered Ambassador Stevens and four patriotic Marines.
Just go ahead and charge Obama with murder, let him take the stand and explain why it
is not murder. It would be way better than getting bogged down on these details of
the back of forth of who knew what when and who didn´t. It´s madness. The Petraeus scandal is a lobbed smoke bomb. Don´t allow
the socialists to force their game on us. It´s way easier to make Obama prove a
"not", than it is for us to prove an intentional negative-why NO help or rescue team was sent. The key players just toss the "live hand grenade" of responsibility around, hope everyone tires of it and moves on. No key player is going to take a hit-face it.

Make Obama defend himself on the stand, similar to how Bill Clinton was
put up there. Make him prove the negative, of why this is NOT negligent homicide.
Then murder will stick, because there is no good defense by Obama. That was his JOB! Put that slimey weasel on the spot!

Have a spine DC. Things are only going to get worse if you let this go. Now´s your chance to save the country.


Reply 20 - Posted by: kayjaymac, 11/19/2012 8:19:02 AM     (No. 9023303)

Where is Mitch Rapp when we need him?


Reply 21 - Posted by: vigilant, 11/19/2012 8:19:42 AM     (No. 9023305)

you are right #13- the video nonsense be damned. let´s go to the important question of who gave the order to not give aid to our countrymen-this dance about a video is a smokescreen.


Reply 22 - Posted by: pineledger, 11/19/2012 9:09:36 AM     (No. 9023385)

If you don´t have the correct info, you don´t send some stooge to *5* shows.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: northshoredad, 11/19/2012 9:14:27 AM     (No. 9023392)

#20, Don´t worry, he´s out there.


Reply 24 - Posted by: Felixcat, 11/19/2012 9:16:21 AM     (No. 9023395)

Lost in all the noise and smoke of who briefed Rice what and when is the Department of State and Hillary. The CIA can explain itself on its facility but the consulate or mission or diplomatic facility is State´s responsibility.

Has anyone confirmed beyond a doubt that no prisoners or detainees were being held at the CIA building? Perhaps Amb Stevens knew what was going on in that house and that the CIA under Petraeus and (Obama ultimately) was breaking the law....


Reply 25 - Posted by: MMC, 11/19/2012 9:31:04 AM     (No. 9023421)

Not too sure I would want to makethe Intelligence agency upset with me....

I blame Carney on the rewritten notes./s


Reply 26 - Posted by: Poliskeptic, 11/19/2012 9:36:51 AM     (No. 9023431)

Another thing lost in this is just how strongly O, Hill & Rice condemned the video and the American who produced it. He had the whole country on a manhunt. We were being 100% lied to, and yet they want to hang their hats on the fact that Obama happened to say the word terrorism somewhere in his speech.


Reply 27 - Posted by: Eheu Fugaces, 11/19/2012 9:37:37 AM     (No. 9023432)

Don´t worry -- the CIA will get its revenge. Richard Nixon is said to have believed to his dying day that the CIA was the principal engineer of the Watergate uproar, contributions by "Deep Throat" and Daniel Ellsberg "somebody read my shrink´s files!" notwithstanding.

The CIA is an powerful, entrenched part of our Permanent Government, and has a mind and viewpoint of its own, as political appointees at the "top" who presume to "reform" the CIA or make it look bad have found out. It tends to chew up and spit out directors who carry too much water for an administration, Democrat or Republican.

And if you think the FBI "eavesdropped" on the emails of a CIA Director without someone (or several someones) in the CIA being fully aware of it, then you no doubt spend your days awaiting visits from the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and the Big Grays from the constellation Zeta Reticuli.


Reply 28 - Posted by: Rumblehog, 11/19/2012 10:08:07 AM     (No. 9023487)

If anyone could produce King Putt´s official Long Form Birth Certificate, it would be someone from the group he just sacrificed to the altar of his own ego. Not a smart move.


Reply 29 - Posted by: udanja99, 11/19/2012 10:11:03 AM     (No. 9023492)

Not only the video maker, #26, but we should also be talking about what blaming the video did to our embassies in other Muslim and some non-Muslim countries. Rioting muzzies burned our embassy buildings, endangered thousands of American diplomats, enabled access to classified information in those buildings and killed local citizens in countries all over the Middle East, Asia and Europe. And not just American embassies - the barbarians even went after the Swiss for God´s sake.

All of that destruction can be laid right at the feet of 0bama, PIAPS, Rice et al. Why are they and their crew of liars not being held accountable for that?


Reply 30 - Posted by: siriusckp, 11/19/2012 10:13:40 AM     (No. 9023494)

It is obvious that the president was never anywhere near the Situation Room when this terrorist attack went down. If not WHY NOT???


Reply 31 - Posted by: joeyinempirestate, 11/19/2012 10:20:07 AM     (No. 9023508)

There was a time when the CIA had gonads, did wet affairs, like Operation Mongoose.


Reply 32 - Posted by: TinCan, 11/19/2012 10:34:12 AM     (No. 9023525)

#7, especially those that voted for them..twice!!


Reply 33 - Posted by: loveUSA, 11/19/2012 1:45:53 PM     (No. 9023899)

As Greg Gutfeld has asked, "who pushed the video?"


Reply 34 - Posted by: loveUSA, 11/19/2012 1:46:42 PM     (No. 9023901)

As Greg Gutfeld has asked, who pushed the video?


Reply 35 - Posted by: TruthandJustice, 11/19/2012 2:15:33 PM     (No. 9023959)

#7 agree every single person in this administration is corrupt to their core is in the administration because they can be counted on to be CORRUPT...

IF head of the EPA, Lisa Jackson, communist..... is working under a fake, yet illegal email address ...then it is rampant....that´s the investigation Congree should be tracking....and imagine if it all started with the president who INSISTED upon keeping and communicating through his Blacbberry....The corruption can be proved through those fake email addresses....General Pertraeus? We´re you advised to have your fake email address????????

Show me a single patriot in the Obama administration....a single person who is not devoted to Black Liberation Marxism or Communism....


Reply 36 - Posted by: wtm, 11/19/2012 2:54:37 PM     (No. 9024026)

#30,
BECAUSE Valerie Jarrett is running the Presidency and NOT Obama. SHE is making the important decisions there. Obama is just the window dressings.

Who feeds Obama what to say on his teleprompter ??? Valerie Jarrett !!!

She was probably the one in the Situation Room, and made the decision, and told everyone, that they should not bother Obama, because he had to get rest to campaign in Las Vegas the next day !!!

She did the same thing when Osama was killed !!! (only then, somebody had the guts to go around Her and go directly to Obama, this time they didn´t)


Reply 37 - Posted by: Alice, 11/19/2012 3:01:29 PM     (No. 9024036)

´´General knowledge of the CIA speaks to the fact that they won´t like this.´´

Agree -- my similar thought was ´´throwing the CIA under the bus might cause a bus crash.´´


Reply 38 - Posted by: Evocatus, 11/19/2012 4:22:51 PM     (No. 9024165)

An old phrase in the military and with old-school journalists:

"Don´t screw with the Spooks."


Reply 39 - Posted by: leopardtwo, 11/19/2012 5:45:15 PM     (No. 9024268)

Old Chinese saying about intelligence agencies: ´You throw them under bus, they throw you under Abrams.´


Reply 40 - Posted by: Donna M, 11/19/2012 7:44:26 PM     (No. 9024447)

I only wish this will break big, but my Magic 8 Ball says this is being swept under the rug with the lame duck session. And the CIA ain´t what it used to be. Barry and ValJar do not fear it at all. Sorry, folks.


Reply 41 - Posted by: get er done, 11/19/2012 9:33:13 PM     (No. 9024549)

The White House´s lame excuse is like saying, "The dog ate my homework." The "White House", as in Barack Hussein Obama, is paid to know what is in intelligence briefings, and to act appropriately in such a situation as the Benghazi attack.

The intelligence community should refuse to jump under BHO/BS´s big black bus, or fall on the sword for that matter. That sword has a double edged blade, and the white house is playing a dangerous game with the CIA and our military.


Reply 42 - Posted by: Ida Lil, 11/19/2012 11:57:31 PM     (No. 9024648)

behind closed doors means all the arm chair sleuths have no idea what the general told the House. He has been in spook alley long enough to create some real problems for the won´s junta. Things they may not see coming.



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The Deafening Silence that
Signals Our Demise

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Townhall, by Diana West    Original Article
Posted By: Drive- 4/5/2013 11:56:32 AM     Post Reply
Get ready for the last straw. First, though, I´d like to suggest that anyone reading this column in a local newspaper or news site pat the editor on the back for publishing what in our neo-medieval world of fear amounts to a forbidden column. Yup, I am about to say something about the Great Barack Obama Identity/Eligibility Scandal again. I know that this is one rich and urgent topic that doesn´t see the light of day in certain so-called news outlets -- and I say that from the experience of watching my own syndicated columns

We are living in a dying country (Thread 2)
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh    Original Article
Posted By: LComStaff- 4/7/2013 6:49:54 AM     Post Reply
This is the second thread of an article posted yesterday which can be found here:http://lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=730032

Trayvon Martin´s parents
settle wrongful death claim

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Orlando Sentinel, by Rene Stutzman    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 3:15:25 PM     Post Reply
SANFORD - Trayvon Martin´s parents have settled a wrongful death claim for an amount believed to be more than $1 million against the homeowners association of the Sanford subdivision where their teenage son was killed. Their attorney, Benjamin Crump, filed that paperwork at the Seminole County Courthouse, a portion of which was made public today. In the five pages of the settlement that were available for public review, the settlement amount had been marked out. Lower in the agreement, the parties specified that they would keep that amount confidential. When asked during an earlier interview whether the amount was

Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
anniversary in Havana, Cuba

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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad    Original Article
Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM     Post Reply
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

Obama Budget to Cap Retirement
Accounts at $3 Million

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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM     Post Reply
The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per


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