“The good news here is that CNN is finally covering Benghazi, because they think that’s where the airplane went.”
BZ
Greg Gutfeld:
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Military intelligence official: ‘We should have tried’ to help Americans during Benghazi attack
From FoxNews.com:
A top military intelligence official at the time of the Benghazi attacks testified Thursday that U.S. personnel “should have tried” to help Americans under fire on Sept. 11, 2012, in an unprecedented public statement from a leading military officer.
Retired Brig. Gen. Robert Lovell, who at the time of the attacks was the deputy intelligence director at U.S. Africa Command, questioned the merits of the ongoing debate over whether U.S. military forces could have responded in time. Leading Pentagon and other military officials previously have argued that additional U.S. assets were not deployed to assist Americans under attack that night because they weren’t close enough.
“The point is we should have tried,” Lovell told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in his opening statement. “As another saying goes — always move to the sound of the guns.”
But — again — more pointedly:
He later said the military “could have made a response of some sort.” Lovell, who was stationed in Germany during the attack, made clear repeatedly that the military was waiting for clearance from the State Department to intervene in Benghazi.
Note: “waiting for clearance from the State Department to intervene in Benghazi.”
And who controlled the State Department then? Correct: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Lovell also sharply countered claims that the intelligence community and military initially thought this was a protest over an anti-Islam video gone awry. He said U.S. officials knew this was a “hostile action” from the outset, even though they didn’t know how long the attack would last.
“This was no demonstration gone terribly awry,” Lovell said. “The facts led to the conclusion of a terrorist attack.”
“No demonstration gone awry.” Precisely the opposite of the talking points demanded of Susan Rice for the Sunday news shows directly following 9-11-12.
Just as I wrote here.
Two years. We’re just now hearing these things. Things that many people already sensed inherently. And still an ignorant dupe sits in federal prison.
BZ
Benghazi clarified: the Spite House KNEW
From TruthRevolt.org:
Smoking Gun? WH Email Instructs Officials to Blame Benghazi on Video
by Jeff Dunetz
Rhodes gave direction that the purpose of Rice’s appearance was to “underscore that these protests are rooted in and Internet video, and not a broader failure or policy.”
A new State Department document obtained by Judicial Watch via a FOIA request reveals that then White House Deputy Strategic Communications Adviser Ben Rhodes and other Obama administration public relations officials coordinated a campaign to “reinforce” President Obama’s image and to portray the Benghazi consulate terrorist attack as being “rooted in an Internet video, and not a failure of policy.”
According to the Judicial Watch press release:
The main point of the White House team’s strategy was to paint the terrorist attack as being “rooted in an Internet video and not a failure of policy,” Judicial Watch said in an emailed release. Meanwhile, the State Department — at the same time that message was being shaped — initially considered the incident simply an “attack,” and perhaps even a kidnap try, the watchdog said.
So. All the things we in the Conservative World stated, lo, those many, many months ago, are turning out to be true. Es wahr. So startling. So shocking. But the bulk of those who read this blog are not shocked nor are we startled. We knew it from the start.
The Obama Administration lies and it lies up front and in bold type and italics and in a large font. In fact, the greater the lie, the greater the belief.
Here’s the e-mail:
Also, from FoxNews.com:
Newly released emails on the Benghazi terror attack suggest a senior White House aide played a central role in preparing former U.N. ambassador Susan Rice for her controversial Sunday show appearances — where she wrongly blamed protests over an Internet video.
More than 100 pages of documents were released to the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Among them was a Sept. 14, 2012, email from Ben Rhodes, an assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for strategic communications.
The Rhodes email, with the subject line: “RE: PREP Call with Susan: Saturday at 4:00 pm ET,” was sent to a dozen members of the administration’s inner circle, including key members of the White House communications team such as Press Secretary Jay Carney.
So. Correct. No one at the Spite House knew anything. They were incredibly innocent docents whose job was to bob and weave on the issue.
One grim reminder for us all:
BZ
THE BATTLING BOYS OF BENGAZI
A reminder from BZ: there are still four Americans dead in Benghazi.
From an anonymous Marine:
THE BATTLING BOYS OF BENGAZI
We’re the battling boys of Bengazi
No fame, no glory, no paparazzi.
Just a fiery death in a blazing hell
Defending our country we loved so well.
It wasn’t our job, but we answered the call,
Fought to the Consulate and scaled the wall.
We pulled twenty countrymen from the jaws of fate
Led them to safety, and stood at the gate.
Just the two of us, and foes by the score,
But we stood fast to bar the door.
Three calls for reinforcement, but all were denied,
So we fought, and we fought, and we fought til we died.
We gave our all for our Uncle Sam,
But Barack Obama didn’t give a damn.
Just two dead SEALs who carried the load
No thanks to us — we were just “Bumps In The Road.”
Do not let this administration brush Benghazi callously aside.
BZ
Ted Cruz to Megyn Kelly: Eric Holder Should Resign For ‘Unprecedented’ ‘Willingness To Disregard The Law’
From the FoxNewsInsider.com:
In an interview with Megyn Kelly on America Live, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) reflected on his extensive history as an attorney and used it to weigh in on the increasing scandals surrounding current U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
“The conduct of the Justice Department does not inspire confidence. We have seen pattern after pattern with respect to investigation of the media. We have seen the Department of Justice willing to seize the phone records, to seize the emails of this network, of the Associated Press and by all appearances the attorney general went before Congress, stated he had nothing to do with it, it’s become public that he did in fact have quite a bit to do with it. The attorney general needs to come forward and explain what the truth is and why he told Congress something different,” said Cruz.
Pressure, ladies and gentlemen. There is pressure.
I say: let the pressure increase and increase to bursting.
I want things to break in DC.
BZ
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[Thanks to Conservative LA (@ConservativeLA) for the above graphic!]