CNN Sources: 3 al Qaeda operatives took part in Benghazi attack

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  1. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    You know what?

    I read that riegle report from start to finish several times.

    I remember when it first came out, too.

    I can't help you be intellectually curious.
     
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    Denny Crane, May 7, 2013
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    Damn, and Obama even got one of his buddies to rescue three kidnapped girls to try and bury this story...
     
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    The whistleblowers aspect has given the story traction, it seems.

    CBS News, NBC News, Washington Post, USA Today, Daily Beast, Slate Magazine, Bloomberg, and others all ran the whistleblower story I linked above.
     
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    So, now that it is clear that Islamic extremists killed four US citizens, what have we done about it?

    Could I have a show of hands for how many here think that the President wants to 'get to the bottom' of all this, like he said in the run-up to the election?

    "What difference does it make?" If they had come clean about what happened at Benghazi, it may have changed the outcome of the election.

    Go Blazers
     
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  6. PapaG

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    The entire attack made Obama's stump line of "Al Qaeda is on the run" an embarrassment. So, blame it on a Youtube video, raid a US citizens house, and then throw him in jail until after the election.

    Fascism rules...

    The hearings start tomorrow. Should be enlightening to see who changed the talking points, what Obama was doing during the attack, what the communication was between State and the WH...
     
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    I don't think the Al Qaeda link is what scared the Obama campaign. In fact, it would have been something they could have handled.

    The issue, as I saw it, was Obama's entire mid east foreign policy could be called into question. The arab spring uprisings turning formerly western friendly nations into religious islamic states. And particularly the issue of Obama sending war planes and support to overthrow the government in Libya with the kind of spectacular results for all to see.
     
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    Everything you typed can be said about Bush's wars, but the damage to the U.S. is a billion times greater. When will Congress hold hearings on that, like these purely political Republican ones now?

    This thread is so yesterday. End it so PapaG can resume his hobby of starting Benghazi threads.
     
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    It remains to be seen what happens after the middle east is religious islamist nations.

    Congress by huge majority voted Bush the authority to go to war. Democrats beat the drum as much as anyone in the administration did.

    I think the lesson of Watergate is that the people take fucking with elections rather seriously.
     
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    Hillary Clinton's signature is on the order to refuse the requested security in Benghazi, sent by the very State Department officials who lived and worked there. It's why they are testifying now against their former boss. Not the GOP House, since they weren't even made aware of it. Since that obvious lie from you, what's the point in even engaging you in any meaningful discourse?

    You're a joke. Sometimes I forget to treat you as a joke.
     
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    You're being pretty hard on yourself aren't you?
     
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    Congress voted Obama the authority to fight Libya. Republicans beat the drum. Now they're politicizing how he did it.

    When will Republicans investigate why Bush screwed up his whole decade?
     
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    Congress did not vote Obama the authority to fight in Libya.

    http://www.npr.org/2011/06/24/137392574/house-moves-toward-votes-on-libya-operation

    In a pair of strikingly different votes, the House on Friday exposed its loud bark and its soft bite on U.S. military efforts in Libya.

    The chamber voted down a measure that would give President Obama the authority to continue the U.S. military action against the Libyan regime — but it also rejected an attempt to cut off money for those efforts.

    The 295-123 defeat on the authority resolution was expected, but it still represented a rebuke to the commander in chief. Obama, who did not seek congressional permission before the Libyan mission began, had said he had welcomed a resolution authorizing the participation.

    http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/11/iraq.us/

    WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In a major victory for the White House, the Senate early Friday voted 77-23 to authorize President Bush to attack Iraq if Saddam Hussein refuses to give up weapons of mass destruction as required by U.N. resolutions.

    Hours earlier, the House approved an identical resolution, 296-133.
     
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    They voted to not continue what had been authorized earlier? Which measure had done that, as if I don't know? Anyway, Iraq got approved after a year of lies about yellowcake, nuclear tubes, and hordes of WMDs. The media had right-wingers in a panic with flags everywhere, but polls showed a majority of Americans opposed to attacking Iraq.

    No comparison. Did you want Obama to issue a pack of lies like Bush did?
     
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    Oh I forgot. You Bush guys suddenly want a Truth in War consumer bill, so you are politicizing Benghazi. You'll be practicing this revelation when there's a Republican president, right?
     
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    Did you deliberately ignore this? It was in my post. It does not agree with your version of the "truth."

    "Obama, who did not seek congressional permission before the Libyan mission began, had said he had welcomed a resolution authorizing the participation."
     
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    Always nice to be reassured that incompetence knows no party boundary in today's administrative/bureaucratic machinery.

    We may not have the government that we need, but we certainly have the one that we deserve.
     
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    Bingo.
     
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