Fox News: Benghazi investigation, a hoax to smear Hillary

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  1. Questerr

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    1. Why would the State Department be in charge of or even want high amounts of security at a CIA annex?

    2. You understand "rapid" in military terms still takes hours, yes?

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    1. Why would the State Department be in charge of or even want high amounts of security at a CIA annex?

    2. You understand "rapid" in military terms still takes hours, yes?
     
  2. Doug_yvr

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    Or the 20 US embassy attacks with 87 deaths under Bush.
     
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    You are aware that Shepard Smith is a liberal, correction, a gay liberal.
     
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    Who, specifically by name, thought of blaming the attack on the YouTube movie? And who, specifically by name, approved the idea and said, "Yes. Go with it."?
     
  5. MMC

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    :roll: You do know the report came out in June, and this now was the Official Written Version of what was released at that time Right?

    Now.....lets get to that incompetence that was brought out in June of this year.



    Instead, the report drilled down on new details about how Clinton’s State Department failed to protect the diplomatic outpost in Libya. The report also said that the CIA missed the looming threat despite warnings and wrote faulty intelligence reports after the attack. And GOP staff said their findings indicate that the Defense Department did not meet its response times to deploy military assets to Benghazi and follow-up to ensure Americans were rescued in a timely fashion.

    The report includes new specifics about a U.S. teleconference convened by White House chief of staff Denis McDonough during the attack. According to the report, some participants on the videoconference were unsure about what each agency was doing to rescue Americans.

    State Department officials on the call also brought up concerns about whether Marines who might have been deployed to Benghazi were wearing uniforms, the report found — something officials previously said could hurt diplomacy in the region. One commander told the committee he and his men over the course of three hours kept having to change from uniforms to civilian clothes.

    Still, the report itself does not focus on the former secretary of state — as Gowdy has insisted it wouldn’t. Rather, the document offers a chronology of the events of the attack and new information gathered from interviews with more than 100 government officials and thousands of pages of documents, according to the document as well as interviews with sources familiar with the report.

    In fact, two conservatives on the panel — Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Mike Pompeo (R-Kans.) — don’t feel the report goes far enough to criticize Clinton and the administration. They released their own addition to the report on Tuesday morning that said specifically Clinton “failed to lead” and the administration “misled the public” because of the upcoming presidential election.

    “What may appear at first blush to be a lack of competence on behalf of the State Department now appears fully intentional and coordinated,” according to an exclusive copy of a part of the report that alleges the administration stonewalled Gowdy’s probe. “Delaying the production of documents sought by letter, informal request or subpoena has decided political advantages for those opposing the investigation.”

    For example, the final report digs into allegations that the U.S. was delivering or overseeing the transfer of weapons to Libyan rebels. The panel spoke to at least one individual who raised the possibility that the U.S. was overseeing some sort of weapons shipping. Multiple news reports in the past year have cited unnamed State or intelligence officials saying the president approved a covert operation to ship weapons to Libyans to arm rebels trying to oust Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi — a proposal Clinton herself supported but that the administration has never acknowledged.

    The panel also found that former senior officials in the defunct Qadhafi regime helped evacuate Americans to safety, a surprising finding given that the U.S. was backing the rebels fighting against the regime. The GOP committee staffer noted that the rebel forces State had worked to befriend did not come to the Americans’ aid.

    A committee official also told Politico the line analysts had relied on social media and news reports instead of what people on the ground were saying that day.

    The committee also blasts the State Department’s internal investigation of the attack, known as the Accountability Review Board, for allegedly coordinating with Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills. Such reviews are traditionally independent.

    The committee spoke to at least one State Department official who said the traditional setup of an ARB was not followed, noting Mills’ involvement. And according to the ARB section of the committee’s report given exclusively to Politico, employees testified that Mills selected many of the ARB members, oversaw or was involved in document production to the ARB, had to approve the ARB’s talking to at least one senior State official and ultimately “shaped the ARB’s outcome with edits to the draft final report.”.....snip~

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/benghazi-report-obama-clinton-224854#ixzz4O7QB63CG
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    Looks like the leftness can blame Politico for putting that out there.....back in June.

    "What happened" to all that (*)(*)(*)(*) about there was nothing new.....when clearly it mentions some new info and witnesses had come into the light, huh?

    When did any know about Mills setting up the ARB?

    Yeah.....that's what I thought. :rolleyes:
     
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    Why exactly would the State Department be in charge of security at a CIA installation?
     
  7. MMC

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    Blame Hillary and her Team and the State Dept for Obstructing. What part caused your cornfuzzlement about not releasing all documentation until, Gowdy threatened Depositions and Subpoenas. Even after a Subpoena had been issued. And still the State Dept withheld documentation along with Hillary.

    Yeah that's what I thought.....still trying to carry Hillary's, pail of Bull(*)(*)(*)(*). You should get help to carry the pail. As its clear you don't have what it takes to carry such a heavy load. :laughing:
     
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    If the banks hate any candidate, that is a positive for him. Keep up the hate Margo, you are in complete lockstep with the Obama administration; you hate Trump, you hate Israel, and you hate Russia. :smile:
     
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    There was NO US consulate in Benghazi. There was covert operation flying under the radar gathering intelligence on the Transitional Nation Council.

    The Republicans voted to cut security spending at US diplomatic mission.
     
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    The attempt to hide and cover up the events in order to save political face in order to salvage a campaign certainly caused valuable taxpayers dollars be spent chasing down the ultimate truth which does not speak highly of her or the Obama administration and reeked of incompetence and lack of leadership at best but in reality putting their own political arse's above the lives on the people invovlved.
     
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    “What may appear at first blush to be a lack of competence on behalf of the State Department now appears fully intentional and coordinated,” according to an exclusive copy of a part of the report that alleges the administration stonewalled Gowdy’s probe. “Delaying the production of documents sought by letter, informal request or subpoena has decided political advantages for those opposing the investigation.”....snip~

    Note how your question.....isn't focused on the reality. How you looking now, besides coming light to the game. :grin:
     
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    If you doubt this read General Carter Ham on the subject.

    Even the acting Secretary of Defense at the time, Republican Bob Gates, who served under both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, said the critics of the response to the Benghazi attacks have a cartoonish view of the military’s deployment capabilities:


    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.
     
  13. MMC

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    Which has nothing to do with the incompetence that was found in this escapade. Do stay focused. As we don't need to bring in the (*)(*)(*)(*) ups by Bilbo and how many that caused to be killed and injured.
     
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    So the government made it difficult for the witch hunters to hunt witches. Am I supposed to feel bad about the government doing that?

    Again, why would the State Department be in charge of security at a CIA facility?
     
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    So we all imagined Hillary blaming this on a youtube video and the four Americans didnt really die?
    Lol....I smell desperation on the left....yeah Id be worried too. If trump wins Hillary is going to stand trial. Kinda sad that she isnt already as that proves the banana republic
     
  16. MMC

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    Which the Demo that was fired from the State Dept.....admitted had nothing to do with the Security in Benghazi. What was her name again? Lets see if you can get it Right while showing some Honesty and oh not going tangential for a change.
     
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    I dunno about the conspiracy theories, but what happened at Benghazi was a disgrace, and 0bama and Killary both worked to cover their behinds afterwards by blaming that retarded YouTube video.
     
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    There was no US consulate in Benghazi.. There was a covert intelligence gathering operation..

    Even the acting Secretary of Defense at the time, Republican Bob Gates, who served under both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, said the critics of the response to the Benghazi attacks have a cartoonish view of the military’s deployment capabilities:


    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.

    You might want to read what General Carter Ham also had to say..

    and note that the Republicans voted to cut embassy security funding.

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    You still don't know what happened in Benghazi. Why is that?
     
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    Funny, my spouse swore months ago it was all and only a political stunt to discredit Clinton....guess they were right!
     
  20. MMC

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    No, you are suppose to put the blame where it falls.....that would be on those that Obstructed 8 Benghazi Committees......Costing all that money and Time. Now you can filter that thru.....all the way this time, Right?

    Why would the State Dept be in charge of the Military and tell people to get in and out of uniform. When you can figure that answer out.....then you will have your answer over your question and the CIA.

    Don't look like your doing to well here Questerr. You will have to do better.....much better. :laughing:
     
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    Yep.. Trump supporters don't want to know what happened in Benghazi.. and Trump keeps saying it was 3:30 AM and Hillary was asleep in bed. Damned fool doesn't know it was 3:30 in the afternoon in Washington DC.
     
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    Ahhh nope and none of the utter conjecture in the OP changes that.
     
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    Funny my spouse, said it was Hillary lying again and getting caught, while making the US look bad and then getting BO peep to Admit Benghazi was his Biggest failure. Guess she was Right along with the MAJORITY of Americans and BO peep admitting to his mistake.

    How you looking now....besides like a Fox TRAPPED in the Hen House. [​IMG]
     
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    And just where did the info ever come out before that Cheryl Mills was behind the set up of the ARB? Note how they can't get that corn to filter thru despite it being all cream like. [​IMG]
     
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    What is high amounts of security? As for it taking hours, sounds like a remf comment.
     

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