Senate report: Attack on U.S. compound in Benghazi could have been prevented
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And still, you sneer at me when I call these scum insane.
-Frem
I don't sneer at you, I just think that everyone is a little insane.
Also, I out-crazy everyone, so it's hard for me to justify treating someone else poorly because they're insane, even if there's things that they say that I really don't like or agree with. Words spoken on the internet are unlikely to specifically impact anything in the real world.
If someone actually does something in the real world I disagree with, then I can take a little more rigorous action.
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"I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE BLOODY REPORT!"
That's the reaction from the right, perfectly encapsulated by Bill O'Reilly trying to shout down James Carville when it was made clear that the report finds no evidence whatsoever of any "cover up".
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/16/fox-news-doesnt-care-about-the
-bloody-senate-re/197637
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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:
"I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE BLOODY REPORT!"
That's the reaction from the right, perfectly encapsulated by Bill O'Reilly trying to shout down James Carville when it was made clear that the report finds no evidence whatsoever of any "cover up".
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/16/fox-news-doesnt-care-about-the
-bloody-senate-re/197637
Wait, you mean to say that our resident wingnuts didn't read the actual content of the report, but rushed out with a major stiffy to claim it supports what they had already decided?
Must be a day that ends in "day."
"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"
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And Bill O'Reilly speaks for the entire right, right?
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Again with the reading skills.
Here nobody, you seem to need this:
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/AdultEd/index.html?exp=4
"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"
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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Same thing could be said about 9/11/01.
R.I.P.
SGG
Laughable and sad that you'd compare a complicated and coordinated covert attack on multiple sites here in the US to a open military attack on a sole US compound in Libya, following that country's civil war.
It was never about a video, and this administration KNEW it.
#BlameHillary
ETA - And no, cuts in funding had zero to do w/ why this attack took place.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
I follow your lead.
I only compare in regards to information received prior to the attack that wasn't followed up by the proper authorities. There too was failure in communication and resulted in Americans losing their lives.
Was that due to a failure by the administration at the time? Or was it due to an individual?
My point being that it's something that happened due to a breakdown in communication within the state department, the CIA and the Embassy. Of course, it's a lot more than that.
SGG
Ooops.
SGG exposed as another gullible Libtard who refuses to see that it was a breakdown in Hilliary.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/sidney-blumenthal-hillary-clinto
n-emails-benghazi-attack-118173.html
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US Embassy attack in Beirut
USS Cole bombing
SGG
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Same thing could be said about 9/11/01.
R.I.P.
SGG
Laughable and sad that you'd compare a complicated and coordinated covert attack on multiple sites here in the US to a open military attack on a sole US compound in Libya, following that country's civil war.
It was never about a video, and this administration KNEW it.
#BlameHillary
ETA - And no, cuts in funding had zero to do w/ why this attack took place.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
I follow your lead.
I only compare in regards to information received prior to the attack that wasn't followed up by the proper authorities. There too was failure in communication and resulted in Americans losing their lives.
Was that due to a failure by the administration at the time? Or was it due to an individual?
My point being that it's something that happened due to a breakdown in communication within the state department, the CIA and the Embassy. Of course, it's a lot more than that.
SGG
Ooops.
SGG exposed as another gullible Libtard who refuses to see that it was a breakdown in Hilliary.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/sidney-blumenthal-hillary-clinto
n-emails-benghazi-attack-118173.html
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Quote:Yup. It's only the president's fault when he's black.
Originally posted by Niki2:
They will never tire of the Blame Game, never blame anyone but "The Left" and Obama, and never blame Republicans or Bush for anything. Nothing new there, nothing will ever change.
Meanwhile, we would wait forever to hear them say ANYTHING about ALL the attacks on our embassies, etc., during the Bush years...they will never say a word.
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Originally posted by reaverfan:Quote:Yup. It's only the president's fault when he's black.
Originally posted by Niki2:
They will never tire of the Blame Game, never blame anyone but "The Left" and Obama, and never blame Republicans or Bush for anything. Nothing new there, nothing will ever change.
Meanwhile, we would wait forever to hear them say ANYTHING about ALL the attacks on our embassies, etc., during the Bush years...they will never say a word.
History is already showing what morons these people are. Even Republicans are crying foul about who is responsible for the negative turns in the middle east. Already Bush's attempt to rewrite history is being thrown back in his face. Bush's own CIA briefer is touring with his new book explaining how Bush and Cheney lied about what the CIA was saying in those briefings.
These same neocons responsible for the biggest blunder in recent history have nothing to say about that, but scream the sky is falling over four regretable deaths. What a joke.
Benghazi four dead; or Iraq hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead, trillions of dollars lost, over four thousand Americans dead and 40,000 wounded, and creating a power vacuum that is responsible for the creation of ISIS, while turning Iraq over to the Iranians.
What da ya think?
SIGNYM AND 1KIKI ARE RUSIAN TROLLS
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That Benghazi and Syria are intertwined, and that...
The whole Mideast destabilization project is a joint project between the USA and Saudi Arabia and its hangers-on: the rest of the Gulf Cooperation Council: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. All of the GCC nations are theocratic monarchies, which gives you an idea of their commitment to "democracy" and "our way of life". At some point, the GCC would like to fold in Jordan (another al-Qaida-loving, Sunni-licking King) Morocco (ditto) and Yemen (although it seems they would rather take that by military force)
You can't judge Benghazi in absence of other facts, otherwise it doesn't make sense.
Our State Department embassies and consulates are, in addition to their regular State Department functions, working CIA outposts. You can bet that at least half of the staff in sensitive locations (drivers, secretaries, tech people etc) have a dual job, one of which involves intelligence gathering. Our Ambassadors per se are usually "clean", but this particular guy was "highly experienced", and what I read THAT to mean is that although he was a State Department Guy through and through, he wasn't above providing active assistance to/ intell about some of the less transparent operations going on.
Including, one reads, shipping arms from Libya ("mission accomplished") to Syria (mission not yet accomplished). By all accounts Stevens was a "highly experienced ambassador, one who was at least aware of the goings-on aside from official State Department functions/ responsibilites. BUT wiki can explain this better than I
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Within months of the start of the Libyan revolution in February 2011, the CIA began building a covert presence in Benghazi. During the war, elite counter-terrorist operators from America's Delta Force were deployed to Libya as analysts, instructing the rebels on specifics about weapons and tactics. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was named the first liaison with the Libyan opposition in March 2011.
After the end of the war, both the CIA and the US State Department were tasked with continuing to identify and collect arms that had flooded the country during the war, particularly shoulder-fired missiles taken from the arsenal of the Gaddafi regime, as well as securing Libyan chemical weapon stockpiles, and helping to train Libya's new intelligence service.
Eastern Libya and Benghazi were key intelligence-gathering hubs for intelligence operatives. Before the attack, the CIA was monitoring Ansar al-Sharia and suspected members of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, as well as attempting to define the leadership and loyalty of the various militias present and their interaction with the Salafi elements of Libyan society. By the time of the attack, dozens of CIA operatives were on the ground in Benghazi.
In addition, it has been reported that in the summer of 2012, American Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) missions had begun to target Libyan militias linked to the Al-Qaeda network of Yasin al-Suri. By the time of the attack, a composite US Special Operations team with two JSOC members was already in Libya working on their mission profile independently of the CIA and State department operations.
Multiple anonymous sources reported that the diplomatic mission in Benghazi was used by CIA as a cover to smuggle weapons from Libya to anti-Assad rebels in Syria. Hersh cites an anonymous source among intelligence officials, saying "The consulate’s only mission was to provide cover for the moving of arms. It had no real political role."
The attack allegedly brought an end to the alleged US involvement, but did not stop the alleged smuggling. In January 2014, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence cast doubt on this alleged U.S. involvement and reported that "All CIA activities in Benghazi were legal and authorized. On-the-record testimony establishes that CIA was not sending weapons ...NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME