White House Directed Incorrect Benghazi Narrative

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Trader666, Apr 30, 2014.

  1. Yeah. What's the source of your mental illness?

    All of that is bullshit but your second point where you blame the victim is especially reprehensible. I've seen those reports but more likely they're part of the cover-up or were taken out of context because Stevens in fact requested additional security from the State Department four times.
     
    #21     May 1, 2014
  2. you're beyond repair. It's obvious that the admin, including obama, lied. there is no evidence that the video caused the attack. It was on the anniversary of 9/11 and there was no riot over a video in benghazi. they had machine gun mounted trucks, rpg's and mortars, they didn't pull this stuff out of their asses 'spontaneously', they planned the assault in advance. Even the President of libya said it was a preplanned attack by terrorists.. just days later.

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    Again asshole, NO ONE who mattered said it was a demonstration gone wrong It made obama look bad (for his retarded foreign policy) so they fabricated a story. it's that simple.
     
    #22     May 1, 2014
  3. DHOHHI

    DHOHHI

    #23     May 1, 2014
  4. "The violence, though, also had spontaneous elements. Anger at the video motivated the initial attack. Dozens of people joined in, some of them provoked by the video and others responding to fast-spreading false rumors that guards inside the American compound had shot Libyan protesters. Looters and arsonists, without any sign of a plan, were the ones who ravaged the compound after the initial attack, according to more than a dozen Libyan witnesses as well as many American officials who have viewed the footage from security cameras.

    The Benghazi-based C.I.A. team had briefed Mr. McFarland and Mr. Stevens as recently as the day before the attack. But the American intelligence efforts in Libya concentrated on the agendas of the biggest militia leaders and the handful of Libyans with suspected ties to Al Qaeda, several officials who received the briefings said. Like virtually all briefings over that period, the one that day made no mention of Mr. Abu Khattala, Ansar al-Shariah or the video ridiculing Islam, even though Egyptian satellite television networks popular in Benghazi were already spewing outrage against it."

    http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/benghazi/#/?chapt=0
     
    #24     May 1, 2014
  5. Tom B

    Tom B

    Benghazi Email: Hillary Clinton Deputy Names Islamic Extremists, Not YouTube, Morning After Attack

    A newly-emerged government email directly "contradicts the message that President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice and White House press secretary Jay Carney repeated publicly" in the immediate aftermath of the attack in Benghazi.

    Per Sharyl Attkisson dot com, the "email is titled “Libya update from Beth Jones.” Beth Jones served as Assistant Secretary of State to Hillary Clinton at the time. The email documents a conversation between Jones and Libya’s Ambassador at 9:45am on Sept. 12, 2012 not long after the attacks.

    This below contradicts the White House and State Department's story that they believed a video led to what was thought to be a spontaneous attack.

    “When [the Libyan Ambassador] said his government suspected that former Qaddafi regime elements carried out the attacks, I told him the group that conducted the attacks—Ansar Al Sharia—is affiliated with Islamic extremists,” Jones reports in the email.
    There is no uncertainty assigned to the assessment, which does not mention a video or a protest. The State Department provided the email to Congress in Aug. of 2013 under special conditions that it not be publicly released at that time. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) sought and received permission to release it Thursday.

    http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/...n-Deputy-Names-Islamic-Extremists-Not-YouTube
     
    #25     May 2, 2014
  6. Could you be any more detached from reality?

    The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said that key conclusions of a recent New York Times investigation into the 2012 Benghazi attack are wrong.
    Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) rejected the Times’s conclusion that al Qaeda wasn’t responsible for the attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. She also took issue with the notion that the Libya strike was sparked by a U.S.-made anti-Islam video online.


    Continued at: http://thehill.com/policy/international/195327-feinstein-rejects-nyt-on-benghazi#ixzz30ZPiSFLJ
     
    #26     May 2, 2014
  7. The NYT story was kind of the high water mark for mainstream media toadying up to Obama. Certainly it removed any lingering doubt that the NYT was a credible news source.

    Diane Feinstein is a committed leftist and Obama protector, but it was too much even for her. Unlike the buffoon Jay Carney, she apparently has at least some concern for her remaining credibility. Of course, WTF does Carney care? he will have his pick of plum media jobs waiting for him. If George Stephanopolous could be presented as an objective journalist, this guy is practically Edward R. Murrow.
     
    #27     May 2, 2014
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  9. Max E.

    Max E.

    :D
     
    #29     May 2, 2014
  10. Fox News Cuts Away From Obama Press Conference Because Nobody's Asking About Benghazi

    Fox News cut away from President Obama's press conference with German chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday because people weren't asking Obama questions about Benghazi.

    Obama's conference came just as House Republicans announced that they were forming a select committee to further investigate the 2012 attacks, but Fox News apparently grew frustrated that he was getting questions on the situation in Ukraine and the botched execution in Oklahoma. When a German reporter stood up, Fox News host Harris Faulkner told viewers that the network was cutting away, and that it would stay away unless someone asked about Benghazi.

    "We are not anticipating that that [question] would be about the situation with Benghazi, which is breaking news since the president has been talking, really," she said. "So if in fact somebody throws him a question on this topic, we'll go back to that joint news conference...we're going to move on here with what is breaking."

    The network stayed true to its word, and didn't return to the press conference.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/..._5254590.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics
     
    #30     May 2, 2014