Mr. Speaker! We Need To Get Back To Benghazi

[RobDownSouth]

It was Hillary's "political" idea to open a consulate in Benghazi against State Department security regulations, that got the Ambassador and the other Americans killed.

Once again, "context" raises its ugly head to bit the Vettebigot on his cowardly Marine ass:

First, some important context: Although the ambassador was killed, the Benghazi “consulate” was not a consulate at all but basically a secret CIA operation which included an effort to round up shoulder-launched missiles. In fact, only seven of the 30 Americans evacuated from Benghazi had any connection to the State Department; the rest were affiliated with the CIA.

Because I am not a Marine, I back up my claims with links to support my position: LINK

Koalabear will be along shortly to make a comment about my weight, followed by Phelia asking me to consider apologizing for inserting context into a discussion....

 

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[miles]

It looks like the regime weasled their way out of this one, too.

Hillary will still get the nomination in 2016 and will become the next president.

 

[RobDownSouth]

It looks like the regime weasled their way out of this one, too.

Hillary will still get the nomination in 2016 and will become the next president.

So we'll be getting 150+ posts from you comparing her to Hitler too, Jew?

 

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[miles]

I hope not, she's one of the most divisive personalities in American politics. Republicans would have to field a candidate brave enough to point out her history. I'm not going to rule out the possibility that a plague of low information voters with no historical perspective might breathe new life into Hillary's dying Marxist body, like they did Jerry Brown. She will continue Obama economic policy. She's a fucking disaster looking for a catastrophe.

If the GOP ran a true conservative instead of the constant parade of RINO clowns they might have a chance.

 

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[KingOrfeo]

If the GOP ran a true conservative instead of the constant parade of RINO clowns they might have a chance.

Why would they have a chance? Most Americans won't vote for a "true conservative". Here, this is the most current political snapshot of the American people, and only 9% of them are "Staunch Conservatives". A Staunch Conservative candidate might take the Main Street Republican vote and maybe some of the Libertarian, but nothing at all from the rest of the country. That ain't enough to win.

 

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[RobDownSouth]

If the GOP ran a true conservative instead of the constant parade of RINO clowns they might have a chance.

They have to run a real conservative, a limited government type. Time to take the party away from the Rinos. We're seeing a transformation now with the party agenda being wrenched away by Tea Party folks.

Meanwhile, back in the reality-based world, the GOP's own internal research is showing that "moar conservative" positions are increasingly alienating Americans.

 

[KingOrfeo]

The intrusive totalitarianism of the Obama administration resets the American political paradigm.

No, it hasn't; that Pew Political Typology dates from 2011.

 

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[KingOrfeo]

~Yawn~

Yes, whatever you say. Americans love to have their civil rights trampled on, their economy tossed in the shitter, by Democrats in big government, so they'll vote for Democrats. It just naturally follows, right?

The vast majority of Americans do not see things the way you do and that is a fact.

 

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[IrezumiKiss]

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How's the scandal going?

 

[RobDownSouth]

The vast majority of Americans do not see things the way you do and that is a fact.

It's always amusing when he mounts his soapbox and proclaims to speak on behalf of America.

 

[KingOrfeo]

. . . besides throughout American history only about 30% of us ever knew what was going on at any one time . . .

Perhaps, but no one you take seriously ever was part of that 30%. Carroll Quigley certainly was not.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Mr. Speaker! We Need To Get Back To . . .

. . . Where We Once Belonged!

 

[Busybody]

They cant find him? REALLY? STFU AND STOP LYING TO US

Republicans want to talk to Col. George Bristol about Benghazi


Colonel George Bristol, outgoing commander, addresses the audience during the Change of Command Ceremony for the Joint Special Operations Task Force-Trans Sahara (JSOTF-TS), AFRICOM, on April 16, 2012, at Kelley Barracks, Vaihingen, Germany.

Colonel George Bristol, outgoing commander, addresses the audience during the Change of Command Ceremony for the Joint Special Operations Task Force-Trans Sahara (JSOTF-TS), AFRICOM, on April 16, 2012, at Kelley Barracks, Vaihingen, Germany. / U.S. Africa Command via Flickr



Marine Corps Col. George Bristol was in a key position in the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) chain of command the night of the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. As such, he's high on the list of people that some Republican members of Congress want to interview. But they don't know where he is and the Pentagon isn't telling.

Pentagon spokesman Major Robert Firman told CBS News that the Department of Defense "cannot compel retired members to testify before Congress."






Why the Benghazi controversy is "absolutely not" over
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"They say he's retired and they can't reach out to him," Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told CBS News. "That's hogwash."

Bristol, a martial arts master, was commander of Joint Special Operations Task Force-Trans Sahara based in Stuttgart, Germany until he retired last March. In an article in Stars and Stripes, Bristol is quoted at his retirement ceremony as telling his troops that "an evil" has descended on Africa, referring to Islamic militant groups. "It is on us to stomp it out."

Members of Congress in both the House and Senate, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., have asked the Pentagon for assistance in locating Bristol so that they can question him about events the night of the terrorist attacks in Benghazi. But those efforts have come up empty.

"The Department of Defense has been entirely forthcoming on all matters related to our response to the attacks in Benghazi from the outset," said Pentagon spokesman Firman. He added that "any congressional committee can call the witnesses it needs" through subpoena, if necessary.

On June 26, the House Armed Services Committee questioned other military members in the AFRICOM chain of command in a closed hearing. The witnesses included Bristol's former superiors: commander of Special Operations Command Africa Rear Adm. Brian Losey and former AFRICOM commander Gen. Carter Ham.

As to why the Defense Department made Ham available but not Bristol, when Ham is also retired from his post, the Pentagon said Ham was not yet officially retired.

Chaffetz says the Defense Department has actually been more responsive on Benghazi than other federal agencies, with a few exceptions including helping locate Bristol.

"We will end up talking to [Bristol] at some point," said Chaffetz. "He had a very important role and we want to talk to him about it...All this raises concern when there's so much resistance to letting us speak with him."
Former AFRICOM head to testify on Benghazi
Four State Department officials subpoenaed in Benghazi probe

Another officer in the chain of command who was interviewed by the House Armed Services Committee in last month's closed session was Lt. Col. Michael Gibson.

Gibson led a team that was on the ground in Tripoli during the attacks. A U.S. diplomat testified the team was stopped from flying to Benghazi to help the Americans who were under attack. That account differed from the Obama administration's original version of events.

Administration officials contend that Gibson's team was stopped from going to Benghazi simply because it was needed more in Tripoli, and that even if it had flown to Benghazi, it wouldn't have made any difference. Four Americans including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens died in the attacks.

Later this month, the House Oversight Committee is expected to hold a public hearing examining the State Department Accountability Review Board (ARB) probe of Benghazi. Democrats and the Obama administration praised the ARB's investigation. But Republicans criticized some of the board's efforts, including its failure to interview then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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[Busybody]

Where In The World Was John Kerry?… Update: State Dept Forced To Admit They Weren’t Telling Truth




As Morsi was being removed from power, the U.S. had to be concerned about what would happen with Egypt, particularly given the Obama administration’s investment in time and treasure (our money) backing President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Surely all his senior members, especially the Secretary of State, John Kerry, would have been avidly consulting and weighing options, considering strategy together.

Except maybe not so much.

Via Twitchy:


From Politico:
A CBS News producer tweeted a photo of Kerry’s yacht, Isabel, on Wednesday afternoon and said a colleague saw Kerry boarding it at the Nantucket Boat Basin. She shouted “Morsi,” but got no response from the secretary of state.

But the State Department said Kerry was not aboard a boat on Wednesday and has spent the day working the phones on Egypt. “Since his plane touched down in Washington at 4 a.m., Secretary Kerry was working all day and on the phone dealing with the crisis in Egypt,” spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. “He participated in the White House meeting with the president by secure phone and was and is in non-stop contact with foreign leaders, and his senior team in Washington and Cairo. Any report or tweet that he was on a boat is completely inaccurate.”

So his plane touched down in Washington DC at 4 a.m. On the other hand, he was in Nantucket this morning [Wednesday], according to several eyewitnesses. On the other other hand, he was working all day. And he called into an important meeting at the White House rather than attend in person.

If you’re confused, you’re not the only one.



A completely pointless and refutable lie, but then that’s the Obama administration…

Update:



Where Kerry was isn’t so important. But the fact that the State Department lies so facilely, and has absolutely no compunction about doing so, does matter.

Of course, “briefly” is another way, again of trying to minimize, when it would appear it was not “brief” at all.

It is why they believe they can get away with lying over matters of great significance, like Benghazi

 

[Morwen]

You're an idiot. You are simply an idiot. You have to stop believing in the trash shoved down your throat. The criminals do not care what happens to their "dogs."

You can go back to Vietnam for that. Your beloved politicians left thousands alive behind to save political face:

http://www.theamericanconservative....canconservative.com/articles/was-rambo-right/

 

[Busybody]

But they cant find the Col....right?

BET THEY FIND HIM

DEAD!



Big Government Is Tracking Our Mail


Government is coercion; therefore, all parts of it are infected with the disease of authoritarianism — including the post office:


Leslie James Pickering noticed something odd in his mail last September: a handwritten card, apparently delivered by mistake, with instructions for postal workers to pay special attention to the letters and packages sent to his home.

“Show all mail to supv” — supervisor — “for copying prior to going out on the street,” read the card. It included Mr. Pickering’s name, address and the type of mail that needed to be monitored. The word “confidential” was highlighted in green.

“It was a bit of a shock to see it,” said Mr. Pickering, who with his wife owns a small bookstore in Buffalo. More than a decade ago, he was a spokesman for the Earth Liberation Front, a radical environmental group labeled eco-terrorists by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Postal officials subsequently confirmed they were indeed tracking Mr. Pickering’s mail but told him nothing else.

Since if they weren’t fools, they wouldn’t be moonbats, moonbats may be surprised to learn that the omnipresent, omnipotent government they call upon to impose their ideology spies on them too, not just patriots.


As the world focuses on the high-tech spying of the National Security Agency, the misplaced card offers a rare glimpse inside the seemingly low-tech but prevalent snooping of the United States Postal Service.

Mr. Pickering was targeted by a longtime surveillance system called mail covers, a forerunner of a vastly more expansive effort, the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces last year. It is not known how long the government saves the images.

Together, the two programs show that postal mail is subject to the same kind of scrutiny that the National Security Agency has given to telephone calls and e-mail.

We know we can’t trust Big Government to defend the border or educate children; why do we trust it to deliver our mail? The answer: because the government restricts mail delivery by private companies.

 

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[KingOrfeo]

You're an illiterate fool.

Dude, I've read more books than you know words.