News Article: Benghazi attack: CIA reported 'within 24 hours' Islamist militants to blame

[ValuJet]

Re: Review of Benghazi attack faults ‘grossly’ inadequate security, leadership failur

Cankles had a concussion! Lay off her already!!

 

[Displaced Bama Fan]

Bret Baier's piece was pretty well done, informative and clear. Not sure why NBC has not done a similar investigative report...

LOL! I think we know why.

 

[banjeaux]

State Dept security chief resigns after Benghazi

http://www.wsbradio.com/news/ap/top-news/benghazi-review-slams-state-department-on-security/nTZnw/

WASHINGTON —
Three State Department officials resigned under pressure Wednesday, less than a day after a damning report blamed management failures for a lack of security at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, where militants killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans on Sept. 11.

An administration official said Eric Boswell, the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, Charlene Lamb, the deputy assistant secretary responsible for embassy security, and an unnamed official with the Bureau of Near East Affairs, had stepped down. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss personnel matters publicly.

The report said poor leadership in both bureaus left the post underprotected.

"Systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels within two bureaus" resulted in a security level that was "inadequate for Benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place," according to the report released late Tuesday by the independent Accountability Review Board.

The board was led by Thomas Pickering, a retired ambassador, and Mike Mullen, a retired admiral and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They testified in closed sessions before frustrated lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

"My impression is the State Department clearly failed the Boy Scout motto of be prepared," said Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo.

"They failed to anticipate what was coming because of how bad the security risk already was there. ... They failed to connect the dots. They didn't have adequate security leading up to the attack and once the attack occurred, the security was woefully inadequate."

 

[Shortround]

Obama's cover-up about Benghazi is much worse than Nixon's Watergate cover-up. No one died in Watergate. I expect Romney to hammer Obama on this in the next debate.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/9621274/Benghazi-attack-CIA-reported-within-24-hours-Islamist-militants-to-blame.html

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[MattinBama]

When is Romney's next debate with Obama?

 

[banjeaux]

House GOP concludes Hillary Clinton blew Benghazi response

Read all & readers' comments: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...tration-blew-benghazi-response/#ixzz2RK84bwQC

House Republicans have concluded that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was responsible for cutting security at the consulate in Benghazi ahead of last year’s attack there, and that the administration lied about why it downplayed terrorism as the cause of the assault.

A new report — the result of months of investigation by five different House committees — says there was plenty of intelligence that presaged the attack, but the State Department and President Obama failed to heed the warnings or give the Defense Department the authority to respond to such an attack.

The report exonerates the Pentagon itself, saying the military did what it could to respond once the attack began, but “was hindered on account of U.S. military forces not being properly postured” beforehand.

In the most damning finding, House Republicans said Mr. Obama and his team lied about the attacks afterward, first by blaming mob violence spawned by an anti-Muslim video, and then wrongly saying it had misled the public because it was trying to protect an FBI investigation.

“This progress report reveals a fundamental lack of understanding at the highest levels of the State Department as to the dangers presented in Benghazi, Libya, as well as a concerted attempt to insulate the Department of State from blame following the terrorist attacks,” the GOP investigation concluded in its 46-page report.

The Obama administration has acknowledged providing an inaccurate explanation for the attacks early on — even though officials at the Defense Department said they knew it was a terrorist assault from the beginning.
But Mr. Obama has vehemently denied he intended to deceive the public.

 

[Bazza]

Re: House GOP concludes Hillary Clinton blew Benghazi response

We need to send the Bostonians over there to find the murderers.....I have confidence they would do the job!

 

[banjeaux]

WaPo: Libya report: More proof of dissembling and incompetence

Yesterday, The Washington Times placed this news online front page. Today, I had to search The Washington Post for their story, since it was buried. If this wasn't in the Times, would it have been in the Post? Note to those lacking knowledge of Water Gate and The Washington Post's part in its history, can get up to speed at this link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/watergate

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...t-more-proof-of-dissembling-and-incompetence/

Posted by Jennifer Rubin on April 24, 2013 at 8:45 amThe House Armed Services, Judiciary, Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight & Government Reform committees issued a report on their oversight findings regarding Benghazi.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies on the Benghazi attack before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (Linda Davidson / The Washington Post)

Their conclusions, in brief, are as follows:

Reductions of security levels prior to the attacks in Benghazi were approved at the highest levels of the State Department, up to and including Secretary Clinton. This fact contradicts her testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on January 23, 2013. ​

 

[JPT4Bama]

Re: WaPo: Libya report: More proof of dissembling and incompetence

Scandal: A congressional report shows security cuts before the Benghazi attack were approved by the secretary of state and that White House talking points describing the events were edited to protect the State Department.
The "progress" report by House Republicans will no doubt be dismissed as a partisan political document. But it effectively records administration efforts to ignore the threat of terrorism before the attack on our diplomatic mission in Benghazi, to cover up administration culpability afterward and to sweep aside responsibility for the deaths of four Americans to make the administration look caring and competent.
Despite then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's denials that pleadings from Ambassador Chris Stevens, killed in the terrorist attack, never reached her desk, the interim Benghazi report concludes that:
"Reductions of security levels prior to the attacks in Benghazi were approved at the highest levels of the State Department, up to and including Secretary Clinton. This fact contradicts her testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on January 23, 2013."

Read More At Investor's Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/ibd-edito...llary-clinton-benghazi-lies.htm#ixzz2RS4jejIr

The report quotes one email saying there was concern that members of Congress would attack the State Department for "not paying attention to Agency warnings" regarding the mounting threat in Benghazi.
The report also says changes eliminating the truth about Benghazi were made at the behest of the White House and the State Department, and that the changes were made to make the administration look good.
The administration then sent Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to appear on five Sunday morning talk shows with the newly edited talking points and the bald-faced lie that the attack on the Benghazi compound was spurred by a "spontaneous" demonstration against an anti-Muslim Internet video.
"What difference, at this point, does it make?" was Clinton's heated response when pressed why the White House long insisted the deaths of four Americans was the result of reaction to a YouTube video and not to an organized terrorist attack for which the administration was not prepared and tried to sweep under the Oval Office rug.
To the families of Christopher Stevens, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith and Ty Woods, the truth still matters and makes a world of difference.

 

[Relayer]

Re: WaPo: Libya report: More proof of dissembling and incompetence

Didn't somebody say yesterday that we should forget about this because Bush/Iraq was worse. Close the thread.

 

[Bamaro]

Re: WaPo: Libya report: More proof of dissembling and incompetence

Didn't somebody say yesterday that we should forget about this because Bush/Iraq was worse. Close the thread.

Nope

 

[ValuJet]

Re: WaPo: Libya report: More proof of dissembling and incompetence

Didn't somebody say yesterday that we should forget about this because Bush/Iraq was worse. Close the thread.

Hillary got mad with her "What difference does it make?" schtick.

That seemingly shut down the proceedings.

 

[banjeaux]

Re: WaPo: Libya report: More proof of dissembling and incompetence

Didn't somebody say yesterday that we should forget about this because Bush/Iraq was worse. Close the thread.

Nope

:conf2: :rolleye2:​

Did heads roll after Benghazi?

Nope, indeed? From the thread:

Boston Herald's report on this story: Tamerlan got Mass. welfare

Did heads roll after Benghazi?

Benghazi was small potatoes compared to Iraq and the only person who experienced any 'inconvenience' from that had his sentence commuted.

 

[Bamaro]

Re: WaPo: Libya report: More proof of dissembling and incompetence

:conf2: :rolleye2:​

Nope, indeed?

Please show me where I said we should "forget about this". I simply set up an equivalency which I still stand by. If you think the tragedy in Lybia compares with the horrific tragedy in Iraq you are sadly mistaken and disrespecting all of those who suffered in Iraq.
I wont stoop to your level to show Americans being killed in Iraq.:frown: Please remove it.

 

[Tide1986]

Please show me where I said we should "forget about this". I simply set up an equivalency which I still stand by. If you think the tragedy in Lybia compares with the horrific tragedy in Iraq you are sadly mistaken and disrespecting all of those who suffered in Iraq.
I wont stoop to your level to show Americans being killed in Iraq.:frown:

Are you comparing trained soldiers fighting in a military conflict with civilian diplomats killed due to the purposeful lack of security?

 

[Bamaro]

Are you comparing trained soldiers fighting in a military conflict with civilian diplomats killed due to the purposeful lack of security?

Are you? I'm not discounting the tragedy of the deaths in Libya but it hardly compares with 4000+ in Iraq.

 

[Tide1986]

I'm not discounting the tragedy of the deaths in Libya but it hardly compares with 4000+ in Iraq.

I agree...the number of deaths in Iraq is different than the number of deaths in the Benghazi incident.

 

[banjeaux]

Re: WaPo: Libya report: More proof of dissembling and incompetence

Please show me where I said we should "forget about this". I simply set up an equivalency which I still stand by. If you think the tragedy in Lybia compares with the horrific tragedy in Iraq you are sadly mistaken and disrespecting all of those who suffered in Iraq.
I wont stoop to your level to show Americans being killed in Iraq.:frown: Please remove it.

Indeed, you didn't use the phrase, "forget about it." However, you did say:

Benghazi was small potatoes compared to Iraq and the only person who experienced any 'inconvenience' from that had his sentence commuted.

Your attempt to compare Iraq and Benghazi, Libya, failed. It was off topic. To change the subject and then attack is a typical tactic of liberals, that I have frequently observed. My initial post on this thread was comparing the cover-ups of Benghazi with WaterGate.

Obama's cover-up about Benghazi is much worse than Nixon's Watergate cover-up. No one died in Watergate. I expect Romney to hammer Obama on this in the next debate.

Obviously, my expectations of Romney didn't materialize. Mitt lacked the spheres to hammer Obama on the Benghazi cover-up. Likely, it helped to cost Romney the election.

Perhaps, you'd like to start a new thread comparing the number of deaths in Iraq and Libya. I'll stipulate there have been many more deaths and casualties in Iraq.

Now, back to the Benghazi. If mainstream media would attack that cover-up with the same energy as WaterGate, Obama could be facing impeachment.

 

[seebell]

Re: WaPo: Libya report: More proof of dissembling and incompetence

"Men!! as soon as Bamaro changes the subject ATTACK.":biggrin2:

 

[Bamabuzzard]

Are you? I'm not discounting the tragedy of the deaths in Libya but it hardly compares with 4000+ in Iraq.

They aren't comparable. They are both horrific. Whether it is 1 or 4000, people died. It is disrespectful to those who suffered and died in Lybia to say it doesn't compare to Iraq. Ask the family of those who died in Lybia. See what they have to say. They shouldn't be "compared". There's a lot of blood on the hands of our government, both current and past. So let's stop basically saying "My guy's eff-ups isn't as bad as your guy's." Bush is gone. He's had his turn at the whippin' post, and in many cases rightfully so. But this piece of crap we've got in office now ain't no better. And he goes about his screw ups with about as much arrogance as I've seen any president.
Yet every rock is turned over to try to explain away a lot of the things he's done. Didn't see that effort when Bush was in office. They both have cost this country in many ways. They both have.