The White House, aided by its state-directed media, feels it has no responsibility to tell the American people the truth; in fact, everything we hear from the Obama Administration is filtered through a propaganda process, until it is judged to be beneficial to President Obama.
The official White House account of the Benghazi terror attack suggests it happened because, there was no “actionable” intelligence to suggest the consulate office was in danger.
Apparently, the Red Cross seems to have a better intelligence team than the United States.
According to the Washington Post:
Security in eastern Libya deteriorated sharply in recent months. A string of attacks, some linked to fundamentalist groups, made clear that Westerners were no longer safe. The International Committee of the Red Cross suspended operations and evacuated staff in the east after an attack June 12 on its compound in the port city of Misrata. In Benghazi, convoys transporting the U.N. country chief and the British ambassador were attacked in April and June, respectively. The British government shut down its consulate soon afterward.
The U.S. outpost had a close call of its own June 6, when a small roadside bomb detonated outside the walls, causing no injuries or significant damage. But the Americans stayed put.
The Red Cross realized the severity of the situation and pulled out. The British realized the danger and pulled out. Our State Department decided we could stay without increasing security.
The Red Cross and Britain aren’t headed up by BHO, after his Cairo speech of 2009, the people of the Middle East love him; at least, Obama’s confidence seems to be predicated on this assumption, despite a bomb being detonated earlier this year outside the same consulate office. The Obama State Dpartment made no effort to meet the strict safety standards for government buildings overseas, nor they post a Marine guard as is customary in high-threat situations.
A U.S. military team assigned to establish security at the new embassy in Tripoli, in a previously undisclosed detail, was never instructed to fortify the temporary hub in the east. Instead, a small local guard force was hired by a British private security firm as part of a contract worth less than half of what it costs to deploy a single U.S. service member in a war zone for a year.
How did the Obama administration respond to the threat that drove other westerners out: he continued to use cheap British contractors, who employed local unarmed personnel. The year-long contract was for $387,413. It is interesting to know how much value the Obama administration places on its ambassadors and embassy personnel. Valerie Jarrett had a Secret Service detail with her in Martha’s Vineyard. Ambassador Stevens had unarmed locals in Benghazi.
The New York Times offers up this tidbit of carefully timed and released inside information from the White House:
An effective response by newly trained Libyan security guards to a small bombing outside the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi in June may have led United States officials to underestimate the security threat to personnel there, according to counterterrorism and State Department officials, even as threat warnings grew in the weeks before the recent attack that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
The guards’ aggressive action in June came after the mission’s defenses and training were strengthened at the recommendation of a small team of Special Forces soldiers who augmented the mission’s security force for several weeks in April while assessing the compound’s vulnerabilities, American officials said.
“That the local security did so well back in June probably gave us a false sense of security,” said one American official who has served in Libya, and who spoke on condition of anonymity because the F.B.I. is investigating the attack. “We may have fooled ourselves.”
The compliant media and Obama’s narcissistic personality have allowed our State Department to underestimate our alive and well enemy, al-Qaeda and its terror network. The Obama administration did the rope a dope on themselves and Americans died, but the celebrity parties and fund-raisers in Vegas and general merriment for the Obamas continued on unabated.
It is this opening paragraph of the NYT’s article that brings a chill to Americans who are not in ecstasy of their free Obama phones with 250 minute of subsidized airtime:
…even as threat warnings grew in the weeks before the recent attack that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
Oh my, we were told there was no actionable intelligence. Actionable is the caveat, for it leaves an escape mechanism for Obama and his dupes to lie and obfuscate. They will say the intelligence wasn’t strong enough to warrant precautions. Therefore we were forced to lie outright and tell the American public that the attack was a spontaneous demonstration that progressed to the point people pulled out their RPGs, automatic rifles, and mortars to join in the excitement.
But there was no actionable intelligence; especially, since we neglected to act.
The situation is under investigation by the FBI, but they have not arrived on the crime scene. It has only been three weeks, but someone found Ambassador Stevens’ diary and CNN ended up with it, and they have had a unique and candid look at the situation, just as al-Qaeda has been able to peruse the confidential documents and the names of our Egyptian spies.
For some reason of security, the White House claimed repeatedly that an obscure movie caused the attack, thus the president and Hilary were able to bare their souls apologizing to the Muslim world for the American Constitution and freedom of speech, until the whole world was aware of the pathetic film on You Tube. Yet, it was an excellent opportunity for the president to point his finger at Romney and blame him for jumping the gun and exposing the lies too early. Unfortunately for Obama, Romney is not one of the lackeys of the MSM. But Obama and his state-directed media kept the pressure on Romney for eight days as the failure of Obama’s Middle East Policy became more obvious with each day.
As the Obama narrative becomes the butt of jokes and while the families of the slain Americans are in the depths of their grief, the FBI is still having problems finding the consulate, perhaps they should ask one of the news teams or use Google Maps.
Obama has managed to deflect public outrage, but Americans are waking up and seeing the president in his own Rope A Dope mess of lies and deceit. Will it matter to a public that is in rapture over a free phone and cellular minutes? No, not in the least, but to literate Americans capable of independent thought, he is being seen as a scoundrel and a dope.
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“Valerie Jarrett had a Secret Service detail with her in Martha’s Vineyard. Ambassador Stevens had unarmed locals in Benghazi.”
That says it all about the obama thugocracy – they care only for themselves and what they can get from everyone else. They didn’t think about more security, simply because they JUST DON’T CARE about America and Americans.
“Caught” implies “Trouble” or consequences.
Sorry, it won’t happen.
Doubly tragic was the FACT that 2 of the American victims were ex Navy Seals “on site” in the viscinity to investigate missing ordinance and were not part of the Ambassador’s security team. It will be news to the public that these 2 heroes were able to hold off the enemy until over 20 embassy personnel were able to escape. They were finally overrun and killed in action. Some (uncorroborated) numbers put the enemy strength at some 200 hostiles and the time they were held off is put at some 2 hours. This will not be able to be covered up for long as it is all over the electronic media.
@jgraham:
No one cares who votes for Obama. It’s already old news. LAKERS!!!! FOURTY-NINERS!!!!
Did you get the memo?
jgraham: Thank you, for the update, do you have links. I think every former serviceman will be saddened and yet proud of these heroes. The fact that Obama referred to their deaths as bumps in the road that tend to complicate his Middle East Plan of appeasement should enrage most of those who once wore the uniform.
The president of Egypt is demanding that Obama impose laws against insulting Islam between billion dollar checks from the US, courtesy of Obama and Hilary.
If we demanded the heads of the al-Qaeda attackers before they got another dime, they might get the opinion of how we view these killers and their religion of peace.
Remarkably, these bumps in the road kept the death toll at 4, instead of 24. Obama should be declaring them national heroes instead of writing them off as insignificant. They saved Obama’s skinny ass and to him they aren’t as important as flying to Vegas for a holiday or playing like eye candy to a bunch of dim-witted women on the View. What a revolting state of affairs, but maybe I am just bitter over not getting an Obama phone.
“Will it matter to a public that is in rapture over a free phone and cellular minutes? No, not in the least, but to literate Americans capable of independent thought, he is being seen as a scoundrel and a dope.”
It’s really scary you bring this up…there are too many people euphoric over free stuff and entitlements, from the U.S. Government [via the Tax Payers of course], American Idol, dances with the stars, celebrities lifestyles and what’s now in vogue…. many do not know the danger America is in on many levels…many don’t even know who osama bin laden is, the threat he was to the world and the fact he is dead, or that our president assassinated him all by himself….
By the way, I hadn’t really noticed our resident Liberals defending any of this, including the Phone Lady entitlement mindset which is sadly, prevalent in the US today and which, in the Liberal Mindset don’t actually ‘exist’, or the Howard Stern Clueless Chronicles or the Obama state media cover up….Hmm
My friends, agents provocateurs will try to derail the narrative with straw men and unsubstantiated bullshit. The story is a scandal and combined with the Fast and Furious debacle and the latest story by Univison on the senseless slaughter of Mexican teenagers by a drug cartel using the weapons that our Attorney General supplied them should be enough to collapse the Obama campaign. We must be diligent and try to expose the incompetence and corruption of the Obama administration. Keep in mind we are pitted against the Obama phone recipients who consider Obama to be infallible. We can never hope to win their votes; they are just barely aware of being alive. We must capture the independent who can read and the Liberals with a conscience.
Next time I go to that dangerous place, Martha’s Vineyard, I will remember to bring my concealed carry weapon. Oh, that’s right, there is no reciprocity in Mass!
Doesn’t Homeland Security still think there is more threats from right wing terrorist in the US than AQ? After all, Obama and Biden have been doing a dance waving Bin Ladin’s scalp for over a year now!
Good psot so ncie grest!
Randy, I think the problem is much deeper than reciprocity.
Prime Dissertation, I can appreciate sarcasm and humor, but it is far better if you can incorporate a point of discussion. Try to employ those literary skills your cyber name implies and reward us with your rapier wit instead of the babbling nonsense of a child.
4 years of B.O. makes a nation stink.
8 years of B.O makes a nation rot.
Prime Dissertation
hi,
you meant
GOOD POST SO NICE GREAT
AM I RIGHT?
BEST TO YOU
WELCOME TO FLOPPING ACES
Haven’t been here in a while, but this is a great post. Thanks
Rov
Rovin
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bye
@Skookum: #5,
. . . . Amen!
People make mistakes. For example, it’s now become apparent that there is some evidence that Bush could have prevented 911 (search web for ‘bush knew about 911 before hand’ for info)—the difference was over 3000 killed, compared to four)—if we’re going to compare possible blunders.
Liberal1 [objectivity]
If BUSH would have known it he was quick thinking enough , and would have try to stop it,
but you cannot say that which you don’t know,
you said; apparent that there is some evidence,
apparent is just an apparition, not a fact
jgraham
you brought news we didn’t hear before,
that is even more outrageous, a 2hour battle to save 20 EMBASSY PERSONALS,THAT IS HEROIC,
AND JAMES RAIDER SAID THEY MUST DECLARE THEM HERO AND PUBLICLY TOO,
THANK YOU FOR TELLING US,
BYE
@Liberal1 (Objectivity):
Hahahahahahaha…..oh man, you are too much.
@Liberal1 (Objectivity): This has been discussed in great det6ail. Bush knew something was in the wind. Clinton prevvented the CIA and other intel agencies from sharing info with the FBI. That meant that the information gathered outside of the country could not be coordinated with the intel gathered in the country. Then the Clinton staffer who created this firewall sat on the 9/11 commission.
The difference here is that there was a direct threat to our embassy. The threat Bush faced was a general threat. Your king Obama did nothing to provide security for the embassy when he had good intel there as a significant threat.
The economy is about to collapse, the Middle East is about to become a giant caliphate of Islamic extremism, Iran is a few months away from becoming a nuclear power, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are being lost, our traditional allies no longer trust us, unemployment stays at eight plus percent only because so many have stopped looking and dropped out of the labor force, the millions of promised green jobs is nothing more than the dreams of a pot smoker, giving vast amounts of money to political bundlers to create green energy that goes bankrupt after a sufficient amount of time is an accepted part of modern politics to the public, our ambassador and three Americans have been killed by terrorists, we have a racist Attorney General who gives military grade weapons to international drug cartels, but think how much worse it would be without Obama. The poor guy, he was handed such a bad deal, he had no chance to fix everything; he’s lucky to have enough time to sit and play eye candy for the Liberal hens on the View and attend fund raisers in Vegas after Americans are slaughtered, and arranging security for Valerie Jarrett to vacation in the ghetto of Martha’s Vineyard, and hang out with rap stars while the bodies of Americans are cooling down after being killed in an unsecured American consulate. He works so hard he doesn’t even have time to sleep, let alone help Michele with diets that are designed to feed eighty pound girls the same as two hundred pound football players. This is complicated stuff for a woman that eats like a horse and loves junk food.
Bees where are the links that jgraham was asked to provide?
SKOOKUM
hi,
I don’t know, maybe he is like me, I still don’t know how to send a link,
but I trust his words, jgraham said it is all over the electronic media
you know that OBAMA , ON HIS LAST SPEECH, look like he was exhausted
to the drunken mind stage,
did you notice his eyes and his silly jokes on ROMNEY,
It look not right, or drugged by some kind of medecine
who knows?
From Benghazi attack followed deep cuts in State Department security budget; the Washington Times, September 27, 2012:
@Skookum: I take it you don’t kneel down, face D.C., and pray to Obama everyday or have a shrine erected to him in your house? Damn heathen!
Most US experts knew Libya was too dangerous for an embassy at all.
Between 1972 and 2007 we had NO embassy at all there.
Then what happened in 2006-7?
Oh!
I know!
Gaddafi dumped his weapons’ programs and made nice with the WEST!
So, what went wrong?
Wait, it’s coming to me.
Oh, yeah.
Gaddafi was knifed in the rear end and murdered by Islamists.
The Islamists are trying to wrest control of Libya from the moderates.
Seems Libya is in turmoil.
Maybe we should withdraw and wait until they sort out which kind of governance they will have, Sharia or Representative.
And then, later, when and IF it calms down go back in.
US Withdraws All Personnel From Benghazi
No US Government Employees Remain in City
The United States is withdrawing more staff from its embassy in Tripoli
Sort of like leaving Sudan, Tunisia, One headline:
Running scared: US withdraws diplomats from Tunisia and Sudan
GREG
BENGAZY WAS SAID TO HAVE NEVER SHOULD BEEN USE AS A AMBASSADOR QUATERS
BECAUSE OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD WHO CLAIMED THAT CITY FOR THEIR OWN AND UNDER THEIR OWN CONTROL. AFTER THEY CAME SECOND TO THE NUMBER ONE SIDE,
IT WAS TOLD THE BROTHERHOOD WAS DANGEROUS BANDIT LIKE GROUP, AND HEAVYLY ARMS,
BUT OBAMA TRUSTED THEM
SAID BY A HIGH PROFILE AMERICAN SECURITY SENIOR,
Another Vet, I am a baptized Mennonite, but I fell off the turnip wagon many years ago. I’m not much of a pacifist; as a matter of fact, I used to love mixing it up under the right conditions, but those Mennonite ideals of living a plain and humble life and not making ostentatious displays, especially of religion, and not worshiping lying hypocrite phonies have stuck with me. False prophets, phony gods, and other sacks of manure hold no fascination for me. There will be no religious shrines in my home and no bowing to Mecca or DC. I will not preach to anyone, but someone trying to corner me with a line of looney hypocrisy is eligible to get a huge bony overhand right between the running lights. I have a great respect for God, but carnal temptations and the occasional alcoholic beverage got the best of me. A heathen I may well be, i’d be the last one to deny my religious contradictions, so to answer your question, No!
SKOOKUM
that make you a really likable person,
anyone can trust the word,
bye
Skookum – Well-Said! I’m sending your comment to my pals!
Countdown: 35 days to fumigating OUR House (White House)!
@Greg:
greg, we know even you don’t believe that was why there was essentially no security.
Teri, I hope so. If Romney will get his head and arse wired together and realize he is in a street fight. Maybe he has never been in a street fight, but some of those street fights mean life or death and it’s not his life I am worried about.
I have another post coming later tonight, it will explain what I mean.
@Skookum:
Hmmm. Sounds like someone we all know. I’m not very religious myself, but often wonder about some who post here who claim to be and yet they worship BHO. Isn’t that kind of like bearing false witness which if my Catholic upbringing serves me right, goes against one of the Ten Commandments?
@Skook: Should be an interesting post.
I want to know why Hillary Clinton is not sitting in front of a congressional panel being grilled as to why she was so incompetent in keeping not only her staff but the embassy itself safe. Money is not the issue, when has not having the funds been an obstacle to Democrats and spending money. If they wanted it they would get it price be damned.
@jgraham: I have been saying what you said for weeks. Here is something I just posted today:
I have known the facts from the beginning and I got it all from crime scene experience (10 years as a prosecutor and 31 years as a judge) and news sources (photos, and videos by the press). I have the dated emails to back that up if you are interested. Not only were the SEALs killed by our own weapons but these weapons, along with hundreds of shoulder- fired missiles, are the very thing they were trying to find. Tragically the weapons found them first.
If General Petraus was told to blame the video by someone, I hope he has that order in writing. The Constitution alludes to “aid and abetting the enemy” as an aspect to treason. The attackers are the enemy (If not what is the justification for killing Osama and for the drone executions –that can only be done to “enemies”) and not calling them into account when you know they are responsible, certainly fits the “aid and abetting” language. I have the highest regard for Gen. Petraus and absent a direct command from the President, the only reason I think he can give is that he was protecting an intelligence operation. I don’t know if that will wash with Congress or the American people. There are news reports that he gave an intelligence briefing to congress. You do the math.
@dgonzales@cox.net: #37,
I suspect that even if this is the case, the abject failure in Libya will prove to revolve around Obama/Jarrett’s belief in Progressive/liberal mindset applied to foreign affairs when dealing with all Arab countries in the Middle East, and other foreign countries such as Russia, China, Iran, etc. Cluelessness is not a strategy.
There is no chance that the lack of protection around U.S. representatives in Libya, Egypt and elsewhere in the storm that is the ME, is from the order of anyone other than Obama. He would have had to have ordered Hillary implementing the lunacy.
@Aleric:
Because the Republicans which control the House have no balls? I think that is the answer you need to hear.