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Originally posted by MystikMushroom
reply to post by roguetechie
Did anyone YOU know die? Did anyone YOU know personally lie directly to you?
Originally posted by Indigo5
Thanks for the actual questions..
1. Don't be a troll...I am not the gov..To your question...11 hearings in Congress has discussed this. at the end of the day...most embassies request more security and there is limited funding..a low level admin in state turned down the request...no money after the GOP hacked the budget. In retrospect...with 20-20 hindsight...massive eff-up and a good question. The woman responsible for denying the funds/extra security has testified she made the call and didn't bump up the request to higher ups and despite that Hillary Clinton says it was her responsibility.
2. putting "LIE" in all caps makes it no more true...anyone that ACTUALLY reads the careful statements made by Rice sees a heavily hedged statement. At the time there were protests at EVERY embassy in the middle east regarding the film...are we re-writing history? The Amb. in Tripoli, not Behngazi CLAIMS he told Sec. Clinton he thought it was terrorists. She and the CIA can not rely on opinions...it was uncertain at the time Rice talked to the press a few days later. It appears while the GOP scream about lack of transparency...they were penalized for rushing to share the uncertain information they did have in an effort at BEING transparent..
Her ACTUAL UNEDITED WORDS on the talk show circuit...
A statement that began with...
RICE:
Well, Jake, first of all, it's important to know that there's an FBI investigation that has begun and will take some time to be completed. That will tell us with certainty what transpired.
And ended with...
We'll wait to see exactly what the investigation finally confirms, but that's the best information we have at present.
And said this in between
But our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous -- not a premeditated -- response to what had transpired in Cairo. In Cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier, there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was disseminated.
We believe that folks in Benghazi, a small number of people came to the embassy to -- or to the consulate, rather, to replicate the sort of challenge that was posed in Cairo. And then as that unfolded, it seems to have been hijacked, let us say, by some individual clusters of extremists who came with heavier weapons, weapons that as you know in -- in the wake of the revolution in Libya are -- are quite common and accessible. And it then evolved from there.
Originally posted by Happy1
reply to post by Swills
I believe the guy who made the youtube video is still being held in jail.
How many fast and furious weapons are, or were, used in this attack?
This administration has used so many blatant and stupid lies to try to cover this thing up, it makes me wonder how much more they don't want unearthed, especially involving fast and furious.
Maybe the CIA causing chaos and funding the doomed "arab spring" which is continuing in SYria?
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
Relatively small attack? A U.S. Ambassador was murdered and a United States Consulate was over-run and totally destroyed, while our leaders watched it happen, as we now know, on video by drones overhead.
Originally posted by 48e18
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
Relatively small attack? A U.S. Ambassador was murdered and a United States Consulate was over-run and totally destroyed, while our leaders watched it happen, as we now know, on video by drones overhead.
As attacks on national diplomatic missions go, just what would you term important, if this was minor?
Sometimes...I think our priorities are so screwed up, it's about hopeless to find our national path back to a place of sense and logic. Perhaps the next time, they won't have a couple former SEALs break ranks to save over 20 civilian staffers and we can have a right and proper body count. Would that make it more worthy of attention to at least answer what happened? I'd hope it doesn't have to go that far to warrant proper investigation, beyond political butt covering.
Did you look at any of the other attacks I referenced?
Many of them did have a higher body count....but where was the outrage?
Originally posted by Ricky Revere
What Balderdash.......The Obama Administration is trash.They are worse than Bush.....Really Hillary? What normal American citizen would not be concerned about Hillary The Monster being President? She is a bonifide Liar. She is a Thief. She is a Murderer...she is married to a NWO Puppet. Benghazi was a cover up to the max by the greediest dirt bags protected by the bought media ever! Romney is a scum bag as well as he could of blown Obama to the moon and destroyed him with the info back on 9/12/13..He didnt have the set to do it. How many people will Obama kill? How many has Clinton ?How about a non responsive to Rwanda by Clinton and Reno, gee 850,000 butchered...It is my sincere hope that this creep of a human being is removed from office in full disgrace for the murder of Ambassador Stevens and 3 wonderful American people.
How stupid are we as American not to demand the Obamas out of 1600?They and their puppet master are destroying us while the creeps on this website and around the world speculate their garbage. Kiss mine.
In comments that went largely unnoticed, Missouri Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R) directly blamed President Obama for ordering the stand down which facilitated the assault on the US consulate in Benghazi