The Benghazi Smoking Gun?

Yeah, I'm sure you would, since the "Jeep is moving jobs overseas" thing blew up in your faces...And the "photo-ops" with Ryan in the soup-kitchen, and the "disaster relief event" in OHIO with the $5000 worth of RMoney-purchased food blew up in your faces....

Hey, why don't you go back to "Obama got rid of the welfare work requirement" (which has been proven to be a lie)...Oh, wait...You already HAVE gone back to it...

Well, there's always "He's a Kenyan/Muslim/friend-of-Ayers/friend-of-Wright/ad naseum..."

Whassamatter, Poopsie...Running out of things to be outraged about?

Democracy4Sale wrote: Whassamatter, Poopsie...Running out of things to be outraged about?

Heck no, the liberals are a neverending source of outrageous ideas even when you're trying to be serious.

Becky wrote: it is also curious as to why Woods had painted the mortar position. Did he really believe someone was coming? Was he told someone was coming?
Talking to people who have served active duty.....There is usually only one reason to do that.

If I were on a mortar team and I saw my position was being painted by a targeting laser, I would move my position very fast. (with special optics, you can see both the target as well as the pointer)

If Woods did not know for sure that he had air support, It might be a good idea to paint the position anyways just to scare the crap out of the mortar team. It takes a while to reset and would have kept the mortar guys on the move.

This is just speculation though, like most of what I have read so far.

Where do you supose FOX is getting these "classified" cables from?

That is a good question PF.
Now we are hearing that an elite counter terrorism team that would normally be called in to assist the administration in dealing with this sort of situation was not called.
NBC news has now picked this story up as well.

Interesting that the crime scene is still not secured and media can walk right in and find documents.

BENGHAZI, Libya — More than six weeks after the shocking assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi -- and nearly a month after an FBI team arrived to collect evidence about the attack - the battle-scarred, fire-damaged compound where Ambassador Chris Stevens and another Foreign Service officer lost their lives on Sept. 11 still holds sensitive documents and other relics of that traumatic final day, including drafts of two letters worrying that the compound was under "troubling" surveillance and complaining that the Libyan government failed to fulfill requests for additional security

When we visited on Oct. 26 to prepare a story for Dubai based Al Aan TV, we found not only Stevens's personal copy of the Aug. 6 New Yorker, lying on remnants of the bed in the safe room where Stevens spent his final hours, but several ash-strewn documents beneath rubble in the looted Tactical Operations Center, one of the four main buildings of the partially destroyed compound. Some of the documents -- such as an email from Stevens to his political officer in Benghazi and a flight itinerary sent to Sean Smith, a U.S. diplomat slain in the attack -- are clearly marked as State Department correspondence. Others are unsigned printouts of messages to local and national Libyan authorities. The two unsigned draft letters are both dated Sept. 11 and express strong fears about the security situation at the compound on what would turn out to be a tragic day. They also indicate that Stevens and his team had officially requested additional security at the Benghazi compound for his visit -- and that they apparently did not feel it was being provided.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2 ... ?page=full

Becky we already know they did not request additional security cause the democrats said so. I also do not believe a Navy Seal would be "painting a target" unless he had the knowledge that something above could help his situation. Navy Seals will not waste time on something that cannot help him.

Raees wrote:

To use raees own words "Oh Raees, the old "they do it to." You guys lampoon us every time we do that."

Personally you really need to get some new material. I hope this blows up and the real truth comes out, this is not old news and its about damn time that they investigate this with a neutral party. Its funny how you think they did ask for additional security etc. Yet the same person that requested it was on TV stating just the opposite.

No, Navy. Your side DIDN'T do it, too. 43 Americas killed at U.S. embassies and consulates and you DIDN'T ask for independent investigations.

Anyone looking for a smoking gun?

CBS News has learned that during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Obama Administration did not convene its top interagency counter terrorism resource: the Counter terrorism Security Group, (CSG).

"The CSG is the one group that's supposed to know what resources every agency has. They know of multiple options and have the ability to coordinate counterterrorism assets across all the agencies," a high-ranking government official told CBS News. "They were not allowed to do their job. They were not called upon."

Information shared with CBS News from top counter terrorism sources in the government and military reveal keen frustration over the U.S. response on Sept. 11, the night Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in a coordinated attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya.

Counter terrorism sources and internal emails reviewed by CBS News express frustration that key responders were ready to deploy, but were not called upon to help in the attack.

CBS News has agreed not to quote directly from the emails, and to protect the identities of the sources who hold sensitive counter terrorism posts within the State Department, the U.S. military and the Justice Department.

Another senior counter terrorism official says a hostage rescue team was alternately asked to get ready and then stand down throughout the night, as officials seemed unable to make up their minds.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-575 ... 1&tag=page

This isn't Fox News folks. It's CBS... and the hostage rescue team was told to stand down.

Read the whole article.

And then come back here and try to blame what happened in Benghazi on Bush, or some crappy-ass 14 minute video, or the GOP or Fox News!!!

The dam’s starting to break

And the State Department fails to act.

State Department never requested military backup the night of the attack.

On the night of the 9/11 anniversary assault at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, the Americans defending the compound and a nearby CIA annex were severely outmanned. Nonetheless, the State Department never requested military backup that evening, two senior U.S. officials familiar with the details of military planning tell The Daily Beast.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... ghazi.html

It is becoming a smoking cannon.