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Wily Fox aka Angela wrote: OK, so now I understand this crisis. it is the Republican's preemptive strike against Hillary for president in 2016. Now, it all makes sense to me.
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archer wrote:
BINGOWily Fox aka Angela wrote: OK, so now I understand this crisis. it is the Republican's preemptive strike against Hillary for president in 2016. Now, it all makes sense to me.
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Raees wrote: Broadwell told an audience at DU that there was a secret CIA prison at Benghazi?
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"Now I don't know if a lot of you heard this, but the CIA annex had actually -- had taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner and they think that the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back. So that's still being vetted," she said.
The CIA denied her statement, but what would you expect them to do? She also may have leaked classified info in that statement.
She also said "The challenging thing for General Petraeus is that in his new position he is not allowed to communicate with the press. So he's known all of this, they had correspondence with the CIA station chief in Libya. Within 24 hours they kind of knew what was happening."
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(the interesting stuff is about 35 mins in)
Having reviewed this ENTIRE thread....THIS piece of information appears to be PERTINENT, now that the C-span hearing from
yesterday has been completed....I would like to see ADDITIONAL media leg work on this factor.....I believe it is an important MISSING
link that would explain away alot of what the WSJ reported in Nov. 2012.....JMO
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http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/14/3397425/amb-stevens-twice-said-no-to-military.htmlIn the month before attackers stormed U.S. facilities in Benghazi and killed four Americans, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens twice turned down offers of security assistance made by the senior U.S. military official in the region in response to concerns that Stevens had raised in a still secret memorandum, two government officials told McClatchy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/13/robert-gates-on-benghazi-there-just-wasnt-time/With respect to sending in special forces or a small group of people to try and provide help, based on everything I have read, people really didn’t know what was going on in Benghazi contemporaneously. And to send some small number of special forces or other troops in without knowing what the environment is, without knowing what the threat is, without having any intelligence in terms of what is actually going on on the ground, I think, would have been very dangerous. And personally, I would not have approved that because we just don’t it’s sort of a cartoonish impression of military capabilities and military forces. The one thing that our forces are noted for is planning and preparation before we send people in harm’s way. And there just wasn’t time to do that. Given the number of surface to air missiles that have disappeared from Gaddafi’s arsenals, I would not have approved sending an aircraft, a single aircraft – over Benghazi under those circumstances.
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So when they blew a hole in the wall a month or so earlier, more security was not high on Chris Steven's to-do list? That guy must have been a badass.Photo-fish wrote: What what what?
Officials: U.S. ambassador in Libya refused security aid offershttp://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/14/3397425/amb-stevens-twice-said-no-to-military.htmlIn the month before attackers stormed U.S. facilities in Benghazi and killed four Americans, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens twice turned down offers of security assistance made by the senior U.S. military official in the region in response to concerns that Stevens had raised in a still secret memorandum, two government officials told McClatchy.
Robert Gates on Benghazi: ‘There just wasn’t time’http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/13/robert-gates-on-benghazi-there-just-wasnt-time/With respect to sending in special forces or a small group of people to try and provide help, based on everything I have read, people really didn’t know what was going on in Benghazi contemporaneously. And to send some small number of special forces or other troops in without knowing what the environment is, without knowing what the threat is, without having any intelligence in terms of what is actually going on on the ground, I think, would have been very dangerous. And personally, I would not have approved that because we just don’t it’s sort of a cartoonish impression of military capabilities and military forces. The one thing that our forces are noted for is planning and preparation before we send people in harm’s way. And there just wasn’t time to do that. Given the number of surface to air missiles that have disappeared from Gaddafi’s arsenals, I would not have approved sending an aircraft, a single aircraft – over Benghazi under those circumstances.
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To be anywhere in the middle east on 9/11? I'd say so.Rick wrote: That guy must have been a badass.
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They didn't know, and we still don't know how engaged Obama was in the whole process. We do know that he wasn't concerned enough to blow off one Vegas fundraiser (much more important to him)RenegadeCJ wrote: How did they know there wasn't enough time? Time is something you can only look at from the future. How did they know this wouldn't last longer? It wasn't like they knew exactly when everyone would be killed, or when the attack would cease.
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