Benghazi: "“They stood, and they watched, and our people died."

[eyer]

The United States had an unmanned Predator drone over its consulate in Benghazi during the attack that slaughtered four Americans — which should have led to a quicker military response, it was revealed yesterday.

“They stood, and they watched, and our people died,” former CIA commander Gary Berntsen told CBS News.

The network reported that the drone and other reconnaissance aircraft observed the final hours of the hours-long siege on Sept. 11 — obtaining information that should have spurred swift action.

But as Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three colleagues were killed by terrorists armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, Defense Department officials were too slow to send in the troops, Berntsen said.

“They made zero adjustments in this. You find a way to make this happen,” he fumed.

“There isn’t a plan for every single engagement. Sometimes you have to be able to make adjustments.”

The Pentagon said it moved a team of special operators from Central Europe to Sigonella, Italy — about an hour flight from Libya — but gave no other details.

Fighter jets and Specter AC-130 gunships — which could have been used to help disperse the bloodthirsty mob — were also stationed at three nearby bases, sources told the network.

When the attack began, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta “looked at available options, and the ones we exercised had our military forces arrive in less than 24 hours, well ahead of timelines laid out in established policies,” a White House official told the network.

Even as the administration continues to vow that the perpetrators will be brought to justice, the man identified by witnesses as a ringleader in the attack continues to walk the streets of Libya without fear of arrest.

Ahmad Abu Khattala has admitted being at the consulate during the horrific attack but has yet to be questioned by any Libyan authorities.

Abu Khattala spoke to a New York Times reporter Thursday from a hotel patio as he sipped a strawberry frappe and mocked the US and Libyan governments.

“These reports say that no one knows where I am and that I am hiding,” he boasted. “But here I am in the open, sitting in a hotel with you. I’m even going to pick up my sister’s kids from school soon.”

Lax security at the consulate was an open secret.

- full piece @

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/us_watched_as_terror_raged_AypAEEA9OK23rPf7Z5BHWO

The Obama administration was responsible for the lack of security at the American mission in Benghazi, and was well aware of it...

...just as they were well aware of the attack itself as it happened in realtime.

The video excuse was nothing more than deflection from that irresponsibility becoming overtly relevant...

...friggin' despicable.

 

[Squibbs]

Yeah, thanks for the update.

The other thirty threads about it said Obama was great!

 

[Whiskey1965]

But Obama said Osama was dead and GM was alive ,the war was over....I know I saw that Mission accomplished banner around here!
In all fairness come on man why worry about national security or party in Vegas after doing the View, not like its Obama's ass on the line

 

[HAL_9000]

Republicans really care about Libyan security.

So much so they like to publicly release names of Libyan US supporters and operatives.

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/p...p_exposes_several_libyans_working_with_the_us


First Valerie Plame, now this...apparently they will do anything to try and score cheap political points.

 

[hogjack]

37,000 Americans dead or severely wounded in Afghanistan.

 

[Beco]

doesnt matter,,,,O'bama will probalby win this thing

 

[eyer]

Dead US Ambassador Documented Creation of Benghazi Terror Emirate

Late US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens documented the transformation of Benghazi, Libya into overt base of operations for Al Qaeda

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/dead-us-ambassador-documented-creation.html

Read and comprehend the article: it's an excellent primer as endless bullcrap is flagrantly tossed against countless walls...

...at least it is for those interested in knowledge rather than partisanship, in truth rather than the statist quo.

 

[Sean]

Read and comprehend the article: it's an excellent primer as endless bullcrap is flagrantly tossed against countless walls...

...at least it is for those interested in knowledge rather than partisanship, in truth rather than the statist quo.

Dr. Webster Tarpley

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Next up, David Icke on economics.

 

[phrodeau]

Read and comprehend the article: it's an excellent primer as endless bullcrap is flagrantly tossed against countless walls...

...at least it is for those interested in knowledge rather than partisanship, in truth rather than the statist quo.

I see the blog post. Where's the article?

 

[miles]

Deflect, deflect, deflect. You people suck.

 

[mercury14]

Republicans really care about Libyan security.

So much so they like to publicly release names of Libyan US supporters and operatives.

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/p...p_exposes_several_libyans_working_with_the_us


First Valerie Plame, now this...apparently they will do anything to try and score cheap political points.

Yeah I saw that. This is absolutely horrible. Which conservative here can justify this?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Democrats cant explain how it happened that Obama & Friends watched the Benghazi staff die on tv yet the cavalry was never sent to help.

 

[jeninflorida]

this just highlights how much of a failure obama is

 

[eyer]

Father of Slain SEAL: Who Made the Decision Not to Save My Son?

On meeting Obama: “Could not look me in the eye … like shaking hands with a dead fish.”

Charles Woods, the father Tyrone Woods, who was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, reveals details of meeting Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at the publically broadcast memorial service for the slain Americans at Andrews Air Force Base only days after the attack. And, in a recent radio appearance, Woods publicly questions who made the call not to send in back-up forces to possibly save his son’s life, as well as the three other Americans killed in Benghazi (which includes the American ambassador to Libya).

“When [Obama] came over to our little area” at Andrew Air Force Base, says Woods, “he kind of just mumbled, you know, ‘I’m sorry.’ His face was looking at me, but his eyes were looking over my shoulder like he could not look me in the eye. And it was not a sincere, ‘I’m really sorry, you know, that you’re son died,’ but it was totally insincere, more of whining type, ‘I’m sorry.’”

Woods says that shaking President Obama’s hands at his son’s memorial service was “like shaking hands with a dead fish.”

“It just didn’t feel right,” he says of his encounter with the commander in chief. “And now that it’s coming out that apparently the White House situation room was watching our people die in real time, as this was happening,” Woods says, he wants answers on what happened—and why there was no apparent effort to save his son’s life.

“Well, this is what Hillary did,” Woods continues. “She came over and, you know, did the same thing—separately came over and talked with me. I gave her a hug, shook her hand. And she did not appear to be one bit sincere—at all. And you know, she mentioned that the thing about, we’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video. That was the first time I had even heard about anything like that.”

Woods continued: “Apparently even the State Department had a live stream and was aware of their calls for help. My son wasn’t even there. He was at a safe house about a mile away. He got the distress call; he heard them crying for help; that’s why he and Glen risked their lives to go that extra mile just to take care of the situation. And I’m sure that wasn’t the only one received that distress call—you know, come save our lives … I’m sure that other people in the military, in the State Department, in the White House, received that same call that he would receive. And I’m sure that most military people would jump at the chance … to protect that life [and] not leave anyone behind.”

Woods made clear that he isn't "mad," but that he wants to the "truth" to be told because he feels " abandoned."

Woods says he was told by military officials that the military could have "come above [the area] and completely the carpeted area," and therefore saved the officials in Benghazi, Libya. But that someone gave the command for the American military not to save the

"When I heard, you know, that there's a very good chance that the White House as well as other members of the military knew what was going on and obviously someone had to say, don't go rescue them. Because every person in the military--their first response [would be], we're going to go rescue them. We need to find out who it was that gave that command--do not rescue them."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/father-slain-seal-who-made-decision-not-save-my-son_657782.html

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

interesting....

 

[tactful]

Hey, it's not like Stevens, was Trayvon.

 

[eyer]

Benghazi-gate

Obama in cahoots with known terrorists

Diana West on Libya: 'Uncle Sam, more or less, crossed to the other side'

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column addressing the national scandal that investigation into the security failures and lies surrounding Benghazi-gate must also expose. This even larger scandal concerns the fact that throughout the revolutionary cycle known as Arab Spring, the Obama administration threw in Uncle Sam’s lot with the bad guys – the “rebels,” the “martyrs,” the Muslim Brothers, the whole jihad-happy and Shariah-ruling crew in Libya and the wider Middle East. In so doing, Uncle Sam, more or less, crossed to the “other side.”

We are continuing this same treacherous policy in Syria, something I hope Mitt Romney (as president, I also hope) comes to understand quickly. In Libya, Obama’s Arab Spring policy – supported by U.N.-niks, Republicans and media alike – meant making common cause with al-Qaida forces and other jihadists, including Libyan veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq who fought and killed Americans. It was if the whole world had gone mad.

Take the Libya Shield Brigade, an eastern Libyan militia aligned with the Libyan government. Libya Shield members met the eight U.S. Marines who arrived in Benghazi from Tripoli in the wee hours of Sept. 12, 2012. Libya Shield escorted our Marines to the secret annex – relying on GPS coordinates the Marines brought with them – where the survivors of the consulate attack had successfully taken cover. This annex did not come under mortar attack until soon after Libya Shield and the Marines arrived. Coincidence? It was in this barrage, by the way, that ex-SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed.

John Rosenthal has reported at WND.com that the Libya Shield Brigade fought in the anti-Gadhafi revolution – which Uncle Sam, of course, supported – under the black flag of al-Qaida. Rosenthal further notes that in October 2011, Libya Shield’s leader, Wissam Bin Hamid, issued a statement to Arabic jihadist websites stating: “The Islamic Shariah is a red line, we will not cede one rule of it, and Islam is the only law-giver and not (merely) the foundation (of the law).”

Bin Hamid, not at all incidentally, is also described on an online jihadist forum as a veteran of jihad in both Iraq and Afghanistan. This is what I mean by Libyan “allies” who have fought and killed Americans from the other side. Now, they’re escorting Marines to secret American annexes, and doing so as a matter of Obama administration policy.

This is a crucial piece of the Benghazi story. The U.S. wasn’t relying on Libya Shield and, as I’ve written before, the February 17 Martyrs Brigade in some ad hoc security arrangement. This is all part of continuing Arab Spring policy.

A U.S. embassy cable made public by congressional investigators makes this patently clear. While requesting more security on March 28, 2012, Eric Nordstrom, then U.S. regional security officer in Libya, notes that “rebuilding and expanding” the “local” guard force is one of his “core objectives.” This objective directly relates to what he describes as the State Department’s recommendation for “developing plans to transition our security staffing … to (a model) that incorporates more locally based and nonemergency assets.”

Naturally, these “plans” weren’t working. Hence, Nordstrom’s request for more American security. And hence the denial from State for reasons, Nordstrom told Congress this month, that came down to the fact “there was going to be too much political cost.” It is these “politics” – this Obama policy of outreach to jihadists – that must be exposed and stopped.

The final diplomatic cable to go out under the late Ambassador Christopher Stevens’ name is dated Sept. 11, 2012. It recounts events of the previous week in Benghazi, including a Sept. 9 meeting between an unnamed U.S. diplomat and, whaddya know, Wissam Bin Hamid, commander of Libya Shield. A second Libya Shield commander, Muhammad al-Gharabi, was also present. During a fractious-sounding meeting, the Libyans declared their support for the Muslim Brotherhood candidate then running to become Libyan prime minister and threatened to withdraw security from the U.S. in Benghazi if another candidate won in upcoming elections.

It makes for surreal reading. Here we see a Muslim Brotherhood supporter, jihadist veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, and fighter for Shariah under the al-Qaida flag threatening American officials, and it’s just another bulleted point in a routine cable home to the State Department. Little wonder, of course, that two days later, Bin Hamid’s militia and others like it in eastern Libya were unable to forestall disaster. What a dastardly joke: They were all too likely involved in it.

It gets worse. As Rosenthal notes in his WND article, “The jihadist inclinations of Bin Hamid and his Libya Shield forces are not unknown to the U.S. government. Indeed, a recent study prepared by the research division of the Library of Congress links the Libya Shield Brigade to al-Qaida and even cites speculation that Bin Hamid may be the leader of the al-Qaida network in Libya.”

We must find out how we got to this perilous place and why. But first we have another question to answer: Do we really want four more years of the same?

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obama-in-cahoots-with-known-terrorists/

 

[unregistered]

 

[synapse62]

I don't consider myself to be a conspiracy theorist, but the incoherent messages (lies) coming from the WH regarding the Benghazi tragedy leave me little choice.

There's an interesting thing about the Benghazi attack. Go here:
http://www.usembassy.gov/

Benghazi is not listed, only Tripoli. It is not and never was a Consulate. It does not and never did have the sovereign status of an embassy. It's always referred to by the State Department as a Mission and this difference is important.

It's just a piece of property that the State Department owns or leases. If it was used for trafficking Libyan arms stockpiles to Syrian rebels, then they couldn't do that on US sovereign territory. Then it's accountable. This was a black op after all. Hence the two big warehouses on the property that the US government and the media have yet to mention. And State can hardly admit that they're running an illegal arms smuggling operation, now can they?

And because it's a black op, that's why the ambassador had such an inadequate security team. Got to keep limited the number of observers and witnesses. And it's also why the US couldn't intervene as it was going down despite having real-time video and audio. There's no violation of US sovereign territory involved. It could be Iran-Contra all over again, except this time the US field agent and his team were killed.

Thus the outrageous lies and cover-up.

 

[eyer]

I don't consider myself to be a conspiracy theorist, but the incoherent messages (lies) coming from the WH regarding the Benghazi tragedy leave me little choice.

There's an interesting thing about the Benghazi attack. Go here:
http://www.usembassy.gov/

Benghazi is not listed, only Tripoli. It is not and never was a Consulate. It does not and never did have the sovereign status of an embassy. It's always referred to by the State Department as a Mission and this difference is important.

It's just a piece of property that the State Department owns or leases. If it was used for trafficking Libyan arms stockpiles to Syrian rebels, then they couldn't do that on US sovereign territory. Then it's accountable. This was a black op after all. Hence the two big warehouses on the property that the US government and the media have yet to mention. And State can hardly admit that they're running an illegal arms smuggling operation, now can they?

And because it's a black op, that's why the ambassador had such an inadequate security team. Got to keep limited the number of observers and witnesses. And it's also why the US couldn't intervene as it was going down despite having real-time video and audio. There's no violation of US sovereign territory involved. It could be Iran-Contra all over again, except this time the US field agent and his team were killed.

Thus the outrageous lies and cover-up.

About Benghazi and Ambassador Christopher Stevens

What really went on at Benghazi ‘consulate’

http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=42275498&postcount=1

 

[Busybody]

Yeah I saw that. This is absolutely horrible. Which conservative here can justify this?

Plame had a PICTURE of herself with her husband on teh FRONT PAGE of a MAGAZINE


RE;Issa....the people in question named, were guests at teh WH months before with PICS and NAMES


STFU and KILL YOURSELF YOU FUCKING PIG

 

[Busybody]

ByeDumb has to be brain damaged

Father Of Navy SEAL Killed In Benghazi Says Biden Asked Him At Ceremony For Returning Bodies, “Did Your Son Always Have Balls The Size Of Cue Balls?”…




Just a tad disrespectful.

Via The Blaze:


The father of one of the former Navy SEALs killed in the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya says President Barack Obama wouldn’t even look him in the eye during the ceremony and Vice President Joe Biden was disrespectful when his son’s body returned to America. He also says the White House’s story on the attack doesn’t pass the smell test.

Charles Woods, father of Tyrone Woods, called into “The Glenn Beck Program” on TheBlazeTV Thursday and recounted his interactions with the president, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Biden at the ceremony for the victims at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. He told host Glenn Beck that what they told him, coupled with new reports that indicate the Obama administration knew very good and well, almost immediately, that a terrorist attack was occurring in Benghazi, make him certain that the American people are not getting the whole truth.

Vice President Biden, as he as become known to do, reportedly made a wildly inappropriate comment to the father who had just buried his hero son.

Woods said Biden came over to his family and asked in a “loud and boisterous” voice, “Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?”

“Are these the words of someone who is sorry?” said Woods.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

doesnt matter,,,,O'bama will probalby win this thing

he will..

 

[Busybody]

EXCLUSIVE: CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ng-benghazi-attack-sources-say/#ixzz2AQGyn7ob

 

[Busybody]

FOXNEWS: Report: Hillary Asked For More Security in Benghazi, Obama Said No.