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Benghazi: an interesting look back to 2012 with liberal Patrick Caddell

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Patrick Caddell is no slobbering Conservative.  Yet he had this to say about the national American Media Maggots and their “coverage” of Benghazi back in 2012:

This man became strident with his insistence that the AMM have “become a fundamental threat to American democracy and the enemies of the American people.  These people have no honor.”

“This president didn’t care enough to stay in the White House and, quote, ‘find out what was going on the next day.’  I am so personally nauseated by this.”

I couldn’t agree more, Mr Caddell.  I couldn’t agree more.

BZ

 

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Military intelligence official: ‘We should have tried’ to help Americans during Benghazi attack

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Hillary Clinton at senate hearingFrom 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

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Benghazi clarified: the Spite House KNEW

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Benghazi DeadFrom 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:

Screen Shot 2014-04-29 at 2_01_41 PMAlso, 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

 

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Hillary Clinton heckled: “Benghazi, you let them die”

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Hillary Clinton UnhappyThe media indicates that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was “heckled” (First question to mind: where was Jeckle?) at a University of Buffalo (NY) event this week.

From RealClearPolitics.com:

Former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to a large crowd at the University at Buffalo Wednesday night, as part of the university’s Distinguished Speaker Series, and was heckled.

“Benghazi, you let them die,” the heckler shouted.

“We have to be willing to come together as citizens to focus on the kind of future we want, which doesn’t include yelling. It includes sitting down and talking with one another,” Clinton said in response to the heckler to huge applause from the audience.

Correct.  Yelling is bad form and verboten.  I completely agree.

Another reason I so love YouTube and the internet.

BZ

P.S.
Another little Irate Hillary gem:

One of the most entirely vapid quotes from the top video: “women know how to get along, how to talk to each other, how to compromise, and how to move our country forward.”

Really?  Ask any honest woman what she thinks about working in an all-female environment.

 

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