Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
What most people forget is that there were a number of people that survived the attack and were successfully evacuated.
The question that should be being asked is why aren't they being heard from. That would tie right in with this whistleblower stuff.
April 30th, 2013, 18:22
American Patriot
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
we already know, I think Ryan, that the "Whistleblowers" have firsthand knowledge of the incident. It's pretty much a foregone conclusion that they are probably scared to death they would be hunted down and killed now - and it would be "blamed on terrorists" instead of who would actually do it.....
April 30th, 2013, 18:23
American Patriot
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
Obama and Hillary are covering their asses, they are lying through their teeth. These people who were just on are pissed off - lawyers for the people and those people are being told "if you talk you might not be around much longer".
What kind of shit is that?
May 2nd, 2013, 22:36
vector7
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
Refresh my memory, how long did the Obama administration cling to the claim the attack was the result of a movie?(CNN) — Several Yemeni men belonging to al Qaeda took part in the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi last September, according to several sources who have spoken with CNN.
One senior U.S. law enforcement official told CNN that “three or four members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,” or AQAP, took part in the attack.
Another source briefed on the Benghazi investigation said Western intelligence services suspect the men may have been sent by the group specifically to carry out the attack. But it’s not been ruled out that they were already in the city and participated as the opportunity arose.
The attack on the compound and subsequently on a “safe-house” to which Americans had been evacuated left four U.S. citizens dead, including the ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens.
If the AQAP members were dispatched to Benghazi, it would be further evidence of a new level of co-operation among jihadist groups throughout the Middle East and North Africa, counterterrorism analysts say.
May 3rd, 2013, 12:34
American Patriot
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
Yeah... ok, but where are the Whisle Blowers again?
May 3rd, 2013, 20:33
vector7
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
The Libyan militia group that the State Department hired to defend its embattled diplomatic mission in Benghazi had clear al-Qaida sympathies, and had prominently displayed the al-Qaida flag on a Facebook page for some months before the deadly attack.
That organization, the February 17th Martyrs Brigade, was paid by the U.S. government to provide security at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. But there is no indication the Martyrs Brigade fulfilled its commitment to defend the mission on Sept. 11, when it came under attack.
The assault claimed the lives of four Americans: Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, information officer Sean Smith, and former Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. Stevens was the first U.S. ambassador killed in the line of duty since 1979.
Several entries on the militia’s Facebook page openly profess sympathy for Ansar al-Sharia, the hardline Islamist extremist group widely blamed for the deadly attack on the mission. The State Department did not respond to a Newsmax request for an explanation as to why the February 17th Martyrs Brigade was hired to protect the mission.
On April 23, House Republicans released an interim progress report on their investigation into the Benghazi killings. It cited “numerous reports” that “the Brigade had extremist connections, and it had been implicated in the kidnapping of American citizens as well as in the threats against U.S. military assets.”
The report also stated that just a few days before Stevens arrived in Benghazi, the Martyrs Brigade informed State Department officials they no longer would provide security as members of the mission, including Stevens, traveled through the city.
From June 2011 to July 2012, Eric Nordstrom, the regional security officer for Libya at the time, documented more than 200 security threats and violent incidents threatening to U.S. personnel in Libya. Some 50 of those incidents occurred in Benghazi.
Yet despite those threats, repeated requests for additional security from the mission went unheeded by the State Department, for reasons that remain unclear.
Perhaps the biggest question is why the State Department would hire a group that openly displayed its admiration for al-Qaida, and ask it to participate in the defense of its diplomatic mission.
The banner, or “cover photo” of one of the group’s Facebook pages, shows an Islamic fighter, or mujahid, with a portable rocket launcher resting on his shoulder.
The distinctive black flag of al-Qaida can be seen fluttering to the man’s left, attached to the vehicle in which he is riding. The mujahid wears a headband based on the design of the al-Qaida flag. The flag in question features the shahada, or Islamic declaration of faith, and a white circle that is sometimes described as the “seal of Mohammed.”
The flag was made famous by the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s Iraqi al-Qaida affiliate, commonly known as “al-Qaida in Iraq.” The flag originally used by al-Qaida was a plain black flag with the shahada written on it in white. Both flags are widely used by contemporary jihadist groups.
The original cover photo on Facebook page of the February 17th Martyrs Brigade, displaying the al-Qaida banner.
An Arabic inscription written over the photo reads: “Allah, his prophet and Libya and that’s it.” The cover photo was posted by the site administrator on June 10, 2012., and was the first activity on the Facebook page.
The photo was presumably taken at a massive rally in support of the sharia, or Islamic law, held in Benghazi three days earlier, on June 7. The rally included a military parade featuring units from a large cross-section of the Eastern Libyan militias that spearheaded the 2011 rebellion against Moammar Gadhafi.
Video of the event posted by local sources shows several al-Qaida flags flying at the event. Al-Qaida-inspired accessories, such as headbands and decals, were widely displayed as well. One of the sponsoring organizations of the rally was Ansar al-Sharia. The term Ansar al-Sharia means “supporters of the sharia.” Sharia is Islamic law and regulations.
On June 15, five days after the photo was posted, the February 17th Martyrs Brigade updated the cover photo on the Facebook page, replacing the image with a photo montage featuring its own logo and a masked commando sporting the colors of the new Libyan national flag on a shoulder patch.
The cover photo has been updated several times since then. It is clear, however, that the group has repudiated neither al-Qaida nor its violent ideology.
On June 28, for example, the brigade posted a second graphic bearing a headline title that translates to: “The bearded [man] is suspect until he proves he is not a Muslim!!!”
The graphic features two rows of pictures. The top row consists of bearded Muslim men. The images include some of the leading figures of modern-day jihadism, including al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden and the founder of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The Arabic text on the graphic states the Muslims are accused of various faults, including “terrorism” and “extremism.”
The second row shows bearded non-Muslims (including Tolstoy, Che Guevara and George Bernard Shaw). The caption suggests the Western world sees the bearded non-Muslims as intelligent, and holds them in high esteem.
To drive home the point, the graphic includes a quotation from the Quran: “Then will we treat Muslims like criminals? What is the matter with you? How do you judge?”
The implication is that the Muslims in the top row, including Osama bin Laden, have been unfairly labeled.
Graphic from Facebook page of the February 17th Martyrs Brigade
Several entries on the Facebook page make clear the brigade’s sympathies for the Ansar al-Sharia militia, which allegedly has al-Qaida ties. In the Western media, Ansar al-Sharia has been widely accused of having perpetrated the Sept. 11 Benghazi attacks.
An entry posted Sept. 19, eight days after the Benghazi attacks, laments the death of an Ansar al-Sharia member. It asks God to “receive him amongst the martyrs” and to receive him “into his wide paradise.” The entry points out that the deceased, Adham al-Falastini, previously was a member of the February 17th Martyrs Brigade.
Another revealing earlier post, on June 25, shows a graphic from a now-defunct Ansar al-Sharia Facebook page. It carries a warning from Ansar al-Sharia about the distribution of pens bearing an image of the Virgin Mary. The graphic cautions against propagating beliefs that Muslims should scorn.
A warning from Ansar al-Sharia about “Virgin Mary pens.” Graphic reproduced on a Facebook page of the February 17th Martyrs Brigade.
At least two recent entries on the February 17th Martyrs Brigade site feature the Ansar al-Sharia logo. One of these, dated Jan. 29, suggests that Ansar al-Sharia is the target of a “treacherous” plot to get the brigade blamed for various attacks and assassination attempts.
The other, dated Jan. 20, announces that Ansar al-Sharia has begun guarding the western gate of Benghazi “in the service of our religion and…of the Libyan people.”
This news, which is corroborated by other sources, is notable in light of Western news reports claiming Ansar al-Sharia was driven out of the city following the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission.
Ansar al-Sharia logo on Facebook page of February 17th Martyrs Brigade
A more recent entry, March 2, features a graphic celebrating Jabhat al-Nusra, the offshoot of al-Qaida in Iraq that has played a leading role in the Syrian insurrection against the rule of Bashar al-Assad.
Late last year, Jabhat al-Nusra was designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government.
In defiance of the U.S. designation, the Arabic on the graphic declares, “We are all Jabhat al-Nusra.”
The accompanying Facebook entry repeats this sentiment, and recites the exploits of the al-Qaida-linked brigade in the Syrian civil war, including “more than 40 martyrdom operations.” Jihadist groups use “martyrdom operations” to refer to suicide bombings.
“We are all Jabhat al-Nusra.” Graphic from a Facebook page of the February 17th Martyrs Brigade
The State Department had hired the February 17th Martyrs Brigade to provide security at the U.S. mission in Benghazi. A document recovered from the mission two days after the attack indicated the State Department had arranged for the Martyrs Brigade to act as a “Quick Reaction Force” to protect the mission.
The Memorandum of Agreement states that “in the event of an attack on the U.S. mission, QRF will request additional support from the 17th February Martyrs Brigade.”
Throughout the summer leading up to the attack, embassy officials repeatedly asked the State Department for additional security. But the State Department actually reduced security, pulling out a military detachment responsible for defending diplomats in Libya.
One reason the requests for additional security may have been denied: They did not fit into the administration narrative that al-Qaida elements no longer posed a threat to U.S. interests.
One diplomatic cable to the mission indicated that the U.S.-based deputy assistant secretary for diplomatic security was “reluctant to ask for [additional security] apparently out of concern that it would be embarrassing to the [State Department] to continue to have to rely on [Defense Department] assets to protect our mission.”
When the mission’s regional safety officer expressed an interest in July 2012 asking State Department official to permit the military security team to continue to protect the mission, Charlene Lamb, deputy assistant secretary in charge of diplomatic security, sent an e-mail that responded: “NO, I do not [I repeat] not want them to ask for the [military security] team to stay!”
Republicans have complained in recent weeks that the Obama administration has been stonewalling their investigation. According to Fox News, four career officials at the State Department and the CIA have retained counsel as they prepare to provide Congress with inside information on the attacks.
"Victoria Toensing, an attorney representing one of the whistleblowers, said they have been threatened by CIA and State Department officials with repercussions if they talk to Congress about what happened in Benghazi. But President Obama said earlier this week he was “unaware” of anyone being discouraged from coming forward to tell Congress their side of the story.
" House Republican Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, issued a statement on Tuesday: “Over the past two weeks, I have sent four letters requesting that this administration make information available about how lawyers — who already have security clearances and are representing Benghazi whistleblowers — can be cleared to fully hear their clients’ stories. I have yet to receive any responses from the Obama administration.”
The House Republicans’ Interim Progress Report concludes with an ominous warning: “This singular event will be repeated unless the United States recognizes and responds to the threats we face around the world, and properly postures resources and security assets to counter and respond to those threats.
“Until that time, the United States will remain in a reactionary mode and should expect more catastrophes like Benghazi, in which U.S. personnel on the ground perform bravely, but are not provided with the resources for an effective response,” the report stated.
May 6th, 2013, 13:03
American Patriot
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
Imagine that... Hillary tried to cut out her own people from this. Everyone KNEW it was a terrorist attack.
Apparently the "whistle blowers" will be speaking today.
CIA was providing reports to State.
the name "Al Qaeda" was scrubbed from reports.
Sounds like a lot of lying going on.
May 6th, 2013, 13:44
Malsua
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
They're all liars. They can't ever tell the truth as it may make them look bad. Scum.
May 6th, 2013, 13:58
American Patriot
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
I guess it will be Wednesday before they have the hearing. I misunderstood what the news was saying. I just heard it won't be today, but sometime Wednesday. Daryl Issa is leading the ... charge? on this.
May 7th, 2013, 05:33
vector7
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/def...?itok=rfiBpxv6
During his Sept. 12, 2012 remarks in the Rose Garden, President Barack Obama – in the company of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – said the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was because of a controversial Prophet Muhammad video.
Credits: Alex Wong/Getty Images
Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time of the Benghazi terrorist attacks, became the highest-ranking American diplomat in Libya after Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed.
According to the State Department website, Mark I. Thompson -- a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for Operations in the agency’s Counter Terrorism Bureau --“advises senior leadership on operational counter terrorism matters, and ensures that the United States can rapidly respond to global terrorism crises.”
Eric Nordstrom, a diplomatic security officer who was the regional security officer in Libya and the top security officer in the country in the months leading up to the attacks, previously testified before the oversight committee, which is chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., in October 2012.
Joe DiGenova, a former U.S. attorney, and his wife Victoria Toensing, a former chief counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee are representing Hicks and Thompson, “pro bono.”
According to DiGenova and Toensing, Hicks and Thompson believe their accounts of Benghazi were rejected by the Accountability Review board -- convened by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to investigate the attack -- and claim they are being threatened by unnamed administration officials that their careers will be in jeopardy if they testify.
Ed Henry asked about the “new allegations” that the Benghazi survivors are being “blocked from coming forward.”
"Ed, I'm not familiar with this notion that anybody's been blocked from testifying,” Obama said.
Unsatisfied with Obama’s answer, Henry pressed the matter.
They hired an attorney because they're saying that they've been blocked from coming forward.
“I'm not familiar with it,” Obama dismissed, and quickly pointed to the next reporter for a new question.
During a press briefing the same day, Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney reiterated the president’s claim.
We are unaware of any agency blocking an employee who would like to appear before Congress to provide information related to Benghazi.
However, “even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi attacks,” Steve Hays reported for The Weekly Standard that “fresh evidence emerged that” Obama and “senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled the country about what had happened in the days following the assaults.”
We also need to understand that this is a fairly volatile situation and it is in response not to United States policy, not to obviously the administration, not to the American people. It is in response to a video, a film that we have judged to be reprehensible and disgusting. That in no way justifies any violent reaction to it, but this is not a case of protests directed at the United States writ large or at U.S. policy. This is in response to a video that is offensive to Muslims.
As reported Sept. 21, 2012 by The Daily Mail, the State Department spent $70,000 to run an announcement in Pakistan, “which featured clips of Obama and Clinton underscoring U.S. respect for religion and declaring the U.S. government had nothing to do with the movie.”
During Obama’s Sept. 25, 2012 speech before the United Nations delegation, he blamed the video six times.
What sparked the violence was a very hateful video on the Internet. It was a reaction to a video that had nothing to do with the United States.
However, as Hays noted, “there is no mention of any ‘video’ in any of the many drafts of the talking points.”
“After months of criticism over her Benghazi comments,” NBC News reported Dec. 13, 2012 Rice announced she would “not continue to be considered by the president for nomination of secretary of state.”
Asked about the report by Hays during Sunday’s interview on Fox News, National Review reported that Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch – who is also a member of the House Oversight Committee -- said Rice used "scrubbed" talking points on Benghazi to deliver "false information" to the American people.
"Absolutely, they were false, they were wrong" said Lynch.
There were no protests outside the Benghazi compound there. This was a deliberate and strategic attack on the consulate there.
The Weekly Standard further reported that it has obtained a timeline -- briefed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence – “detailing the heavy substantive revisions made to the CIA’s talking points, just six weeks before the 2012 presidential election,” as well as “why the changes were made and by whom.”
By the request of State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland , the CIA removed all references to “Islamic extremists” -- and the word “attacks” was changed to “demonstrations” -- because she didn’t want members of Congress to use the information to criticize the State Department for “not paying attention to Agency warnings.”
Still, from the beginning, Clinton, Carney, and Rice, insisted there was “no actionable intelligence” that an attack was pending and that no help was available to save the lives of Stevens and three other Americans once the attack began.
However, The Washington Post reported Oct. 20, 2012 that Ambassador Stevens warned the State Department of his fear of a pending attack -- and begged for additional security -- and Fox News reported April 29 that a Benghazi “insider” – who “watched the events unfold and has debriefed those who were part of the response” -- said a C110 special forces group “was doing a training exercise not in the region of Northern Africa but in Europe. And they had the ability to react and respond.”
“The operator -- who had his identity concealed in the video-recorded interview when he spoke to Fox News’ Adam Housley because he is “fearful of reprisal” -- believes the force could have traveled from Croatia to Benghazi "within four hours – in time for the second attack."
While the Benghazi survivors fear that testifying will result in career-ending reprisals from the Obama administration, the secretive source who spoke to Fox News said that many others – who are “connected to” and are still in Benghazi -- are afraid they will be killed if they speak out.
The problem is you’ve got guys -- in the special operations community -- who are still active and still involved. And they would be decapitated if they came forward with information that could affect high-level commanders.
“With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans,” Clinton responded angrily, as her response to the Benghazi attack was questioned by members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Jan. 23.
Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?
During his May 1 press briefing, Carney also indicated that the passage of time made questions about what happened in Benghazi irrelevant.
"Let's be clear," he said. "Benghazi happened a long time ago.”
May 7th, 2013, 05:37
vector7
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
In an appearance on Face the Nation this morning, Rep. Darrell Issa revealed several new pieces of information about the Obama administration's controversial description of the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, casting doubt that the White House mischaracterized its cause by mere accident.
"The talking points were right and then the talking points were wrong," Issa explained in response to a question about reporting at the Weekly Standard. The CIA and Greg Hicks, who took over as Charge d'Affairs in Libya after the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens, both knew immediately that it was an attack, not a protest.
Hicks, who did not appear on the show but whose reactions were featured based on transcripts of interviews with Issa's committee, said he was stunned by what UN Ambassador Susan Rice claimed on five different news shows on Sep. 16. When she appeared on Face the Nation, she followed an interview with the President of Libya who claimed he had "no doubt" it was a terror attack. Moments later, Amb. Rice contradicted him and claimed a spontaneous protest was more likely.
Acting Ambassador Hicks watched the Sunday shows and said he found this contradiction shocking. "The net impact of what has transpired is the spokesperson of the most powerful country in the world has basically said that the President of Libya is either a liar or doesn't know what he's talking about," he accused. Hicks added, "My jaw hit the floor as I watched this...I've never been as embarrassed in my life, in my career as on that day."
Hicks believes the stunning failure of diplomacy on the Sunday news shows explains why it took the FBI three weeks to gain access to the Benghazi site. The U.S. had effectively humiliated the Libyan President on national TV. That decision, he believed, probably compromised our ability to investigate and track down those responsible.
According to Hicks, no one from the State Department contacted him about what Amb. Rice would be saying in advance. The next morning he called Beth Jones, Acting Assistant Secretary for Near East Affaris, and asked her why Amb. Rice had made the statements she had. Jones responded, "I don't know."
A report published Friday by the Weekly Standard suggests that State Dept. spokesperson Victoria Nuland took issue with the initial talking points and, with backing from the White House, removed any evidence of al Qaeda involvement and of prior attacks on western targets in the region. According to emails reviewed by the Weekly Standard, Nuland said her superiors (unnamed) were concerned about criticism from Congress.
May 7th, 2013, 12:51
American Patriot
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
A guy called into Hannity yesterday. He claimed to be one of the camera operators for the actual drone that did overflight for Benghazi and the attack there.
He was clear that this was NOT a "protest" and it was an all out attack.
He said they record everything, but it might have been overwritten already (they fly 24/7 and it goes to hard drives from what I gather)... but he was pretty sure there should have been video of the incident.
He also said that Rice flat out lied. He was also sure Hillary lied.
May 7th, 2013, 18:46
American Patriot
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
President Obama's Benghazi lies unravel
Published May 06, 2013 | Hannity | Sean Hannity
With: Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.; Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah
This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," May 6, 2013. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
SEAN HANNITY, HOST: This week may be the defining week in the Obama presidency as the lies about Benghazi now begin to unfold.
Tonight, evidence is mounting to prove what we have been saying on this program for months, and that is that the Obama White House engaged in a widespread cover-up in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi terror attack; and they did it all simply to win an election.
Now, there are three breaking developments regarding the investigation into the September 11th assault that took the lives of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Now, this news is emerging in large part thanks to these three men collectively known as the Benghazi whistle-blowers. Each of whom will appear before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.
But as we wait to hear directly from these high ranking State Department officials, details about what they plan to tell lawmakers, well, they are already coming to light.
Let's begin with Mark Thompson, a former marine who currently runs the State Department's counter terrorism bureau. Now, FOox News has confirmed that Mr. Thompson plans to testify that on the night of the Benghazi attack, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to remove our agency's counter terror bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision making. Now, that's the first piece of evidence proving the administration intended from day one to suppress the notion that this was a coordinated terrorist attack.
Now, the second piece of evidence comes to us courtesy of the second highest ranking U.S. official on the night of the attack, now that's Greg Hicks. He's served as a foreign service diplomat for more than 20 years. He says he knew it was an act of terror, quote, "From the get-go." Now, in addition, he says, his jaw hit the floor when he turned on the television and saw Ambassador Susan Rice saying this on one of those five Sunday shows.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS)
SUSAN RICE, UN AMBASSADOR, "MEET THE PRESS"/NBC, SEPT. 16, 2012: Our current assessment is that what happened in Benghazi was in fact initially a spontaneous reaction to what has just transpired hours before in Cairo. Almost a copycat of the demonstrations against our facility in Cairo, which were prompted, of course, by the video.
RICE, "FOX NEWS SUNDAY"/FNC, SEPT. 16, 2012: This was not a preplanned, premeditated attack. That what happened initially, is it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo as a consequence of the video.
(END VIDEO CLIPS)
HANNITY: Not true. Now, let's remember, Susan Rice did not independently decide to appear on those shows nor did she independently come up with the notion that a YouTube video was to blame for Benghazi. Far from it. Because thanks to an investigation conducted by the Weekly Standard, we now have prove that her talking points were developed and edited by top administration officials for days.
Now, let's review the facts. Now we know that on the day of the attack, the State Department Operations Center sent out two alerts. Now, one came just after 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time stating that the consulate was under attack. Now, the other was sent two hours later saying an Al-Qaeda-linked group had already claimed credit for this attack. Now, that was Tuesday, September the 11th. But Rice's talking points weren't sent out until just before 7:00 p.m. on Friday night.
Now, the original draft accurately included references to jihadists, Islamic extremists, experienced fighters and Al Qaeda and details of five recent terror attacks in Benghazi.
But take a look at your screen. On the left, that's draft number two of the talking points. And as you can see, several of the bullet points referencing Al Qaeda were redacted, in other words taken out. And that's how the final version on the right of your screen came to be. It reads in part, quote, "The currently available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protest at the U.S. embassy in Cairo."
And that as we know, was a complete and utter lie.
Now, there are three main things here. Number one, why were repeated requests before the attacks denied? They knew that they were in trouble.
Number two, during the attack why were rescue troops told to stand down? We need answers to that. And why did the president, why did he go to sleep that night without asking about the ambassador, asking about the embassy, and why did he decide to go campaigning the next day?
Also number three, who is responsible for the outright lies after the attack and the cover-up? Now remember, Watergate was about lying and covering up. By the way, in that case, nobody died in Watergate.
Here to talk about these developments, two men who will be on hand for the whistle-blowers' testimony on Wednesday, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Congressman Darrell Issa, along with the member of that committee from Utah, Congressman Jason Chaffetz.
Gentlemen, welcome back to "Hannity."
REP. JASON CHAFFETZ, R-UTAH, OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MEMBER: Thanks, Sean.
REP. DARRELL ISSA, R-CALIF., HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: Thanks, Sean.
HANNITY: All right. Congressman Issa, we've been through this. Both of you have been very generous of your time as we've been trying to get answers to all of this. Although, Jay Carney says, "Oh, that's eight months ago." Hillary, "What difference does it make?"
Let's start at the beginning. Requests for a security were denied, Congressman Issa. Why?
ISSA: Well, on October 10th we made the case that it was denied and at that time, people closely associated with these clear professionals really believed that it was based on this concept of normalization. In other words, pretend like Libya was safe and the war on terror was behind us. We still believe that's probably the genesis of so much of the cover-up, if you will, that occurred immediately following it. But you said very well in your intro, there was a campaign going on, there was a president trying to win re-election, and the changes were made at a very high level.
HANNITY: All right. And Congressman Chaffetz, there was -- we now have discovered through testimony, Greg Hicks among others that there was a C-130 ready to bring reinforcements during the attack to help those that were under fire and they were ordered to stand down?
CHAFFETZ: The administration including Secretary Panetta were very crystal clear, there were no military assets, but I got to tell you, we had proximity, we had capability, we had four individuals in Libya armed, ready to go, dressed, about to get into the car to go in the airport to go help their fellow countrymen who were dying and being killed and under attack in Benghazi and they were told to stand down.
And Sean, of all the things I've seen, that's as sickening and depressing and disgusting as anything I have seen. That is not the American way. We had people that were getting killed, we had people who are willing to risk their lives to go save them and somebody told them to stand down.
HANNITY: But we confirmed, that C-130 was on the tarmac, we had people ready to get on the plane willing to say that?
CHAFFETZ: It left without them.
HANNITY: Who gave the order?
CHAFFETZ: Well, that's what we got to still get some more information about. I think, this is what we anticipate on Wednesday at the hearing. We're going to have people who were on the ground there in Libya that will talk directly to this.
HANNITY: All right. Let me show both of you a series of statements that were made about the Benghazi attacks and the YouTube video and I want juxtapose this to what we know, that the original talking points were correct. They've mentioned Al Qaeda. They mentioned that this was terror. And by the time that Susan Rice went on those Sunday shows by Friday, they had all been changed, altered, redacted.
But let's listen to the administration tell what we now know was a lie and that the Libyan president said was a lie, but yet they still went out with this message to the American people. Let's remind people what they were saying.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS)
HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE, SEPT. 12, 2012: Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior, along with the protest that took place at our embassy in Cairo yesterday, as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, SEPT. 18, 2012: We can all condemn this reprehensible video.
JAY CARNEY, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY, SEPT. 19, 2012: We find the video that has been so offensive to Muslims to be disgusting and reprehensible.
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
Benghazi Drone Operator Asks Sean Hannity: “Why Hasn’t Congress Contacted Me?” (Audio)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 8:40 AM
A drone operator called into Sean Hannity‘s radio show on Monday… This is a MUST LISTEN… He was reportedly one of the men who flew drones over the attack location in Benghazi.
He wants to know why Congress hasn’t attempted to contact him.
Unreal.
Hat Tip Mara
Back on November 14, Barack Obama promised to “provide all the information that is available about what happened on that day.”
It was just words.
May 7th, 2013, 18:51
American Patriot
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
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11 hours ago – Hannity took a call on his radio show yesterday from 'Dave in Iowa' who claims to have been a drone camera operator who operated over ...
Sean Hannity had the drone operator who flew over Benghazi the night of the attack call into his show yesterday. The drone operator says there should still be tape of what the drone recorded from the attack on the consulate and he’s surprised no one has filed a Freedom of Information Request (FOIA) to get it. He said it would absolutely clear up that this was indeed was an attack and not an out-of-control protest. In fact, he said as soon as Susan Rice came out and blamed the protest, he knew they were lying about what they saw. He said it was way to complex to be anything other than a terrorist attack on the consulate.
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
Audio: Benghazi Drone Operator to Hannity: ‘We Were Not Allowed To Be Armed, That Night’
May, 6, 2013 — nicedeb Sean Hannity took a call from a member of the military who claimed to be the camera operator for the Predator drone mission over Benghazi on the night of September 12, 2012. The caller, who identified himself as John from Iowa, said he knew immediately that the Regime was lying about what happened, but due to non-disclosure agreements was prevented from saying anything. He said when they started observing the consulate, it was already under attack and on fire. He remembered seeing a crowd of dozens if not hundreds of fighters outside the consulate and noted dryly, ” if this was a protest, it would have been a protest for all ages.” They soon were asked to monitor the CIA annex where they were to make sure no one was trying to break into it, not that there was much he could do about it, because of the Status of Forces agreement we have with the host country where he was located. “We were not allowed to be armed, that night”, he said.
He said, since the live video in Benghazi was being disseminated to multiple agencies throughout the world, and the State Dept surely would have been alerted.
I’m transcribing this next part exactly as stated:
“We had a supportive unit that we were working for in that region that told us to go there. It was known prior to us even taking off from the location we took off from which I can’t name, that ‘hey, you’re going to be going to the consulate because there are reports that something might go down or is going down.’ So…it was already known in my mind - hours before.”
Hello Darrell Issa? Why has no one from your committee contacted this man, or requested these videos?
May 7th, 2013, 18:52
American Patriot
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
2h 58m ago
An armed man waves his rifle after buildings and cars were set on fire inside the US Consulate compound in Benghazi late on Sept. 11. (AFP/Getty Images) A man identifying himself as one of the drone operators on point during the September 11 Benghazi att
May 7th, 2013, 18:53
American Patriot
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
Wow! Must-Hear Audio: Man claiming to be Drone Operator over Benghazi on 9/11/12 Speaks out
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By Shoebat Foundation on May 7, 2013
This is amazing audio from a man who called in to Sean Hannity’s radio show claiming to have been one of the men who was operating the drone over Benghazi on the night of 9/11/12. In addition to essentially piling on the ‘Susan Rice lied’ bandwagon, ‘John’ from Iowa said that he was able to see dozens of people around the consulate who were armed and ultimately saw the building on fire. The big takeaway here very well could be John’s claim that there should be recordings of what the Drone saw. He said that the only time recordings are destroyed is when nothing of consequence is recorded. In this case, Americans were murdered. Hello Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. We have an entirely new can of worms to be opened if video of the attacks in Benghazi has been destroyed. Then again, we have an entirely new can of worms if it hasn’t been and is released. Moreover, if this guy is willing to come forward, it could signal more who are willing to do the same. Via Right Pundit (h/t GWP): http://vineoflife.net/2013/05/07/wow...12-speaks-out/
May 8th, 2013, 16:21
vector7
Re: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Libya crisis: Benghazi
Obama administration officials are finally letting the attorney for a Benghazi whistle-blower get a security clearance — but the clearance is at such a low level that it will probably slow the congressional probe of how the administration handled last year’s terrorist attack on the embassy in Benghazi, Libya.
Victoria Toensing represents an unnamed government official who can help explain the reaction of top government officials to the jihadi attack on the U.S diplomatic site in Benghazi and killed four Americans last Sept. 11. [...]
At least three officials will testify today at a House hearing about the scandal, and are expected to say top officials at the Department of State took actions to minimize political damage to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In the days after the attack, officials claimed the attack had resulted from a spontaneous demonstration against an anti-Muslim film. That story was quickly refuted, although the filmmaker was arrested on a probation violation and remains in prison.
Toensing’s client will not be able to testify at public or closed-door hearings because he or she has not been able to prepare classified testimony with the aid of a lawyer, Toensing told The Daily Caller.
Toensing, who previously held top-level security clearances while working as a Deputy Attorney General at the Justice Department’s anti-terrorism unit, has asked government officials to update her past clearances to let her work with her client. But the officials initially refused to provide her with the needed forms, she said. Keep reading…
[M]eanwhile, Wasserman Schultz called the hearing a “witchhunt” with Hillary Clinton as its target, while Ruppersberger told Mitchell, “Most of the information that I’ve heard so far is not new.”
Among the news revealed today, whistleblower Gregory Hicks has said he spoke with then-Secretary of State Clinton at 2 a.m. on the night of the attack, that her chief-of-staff was “very upset” that he cooperated with a Republican congressman investigating the issue, and that special forces were “furious” when they were told to stand down during the attack.