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    Panetta recalls just 1 conversation with Obama during Benghazi, Sen. Graham vows accountability
    Published February 08, 2013 FoxNews.com

    Sen. Lindsey Graham vowed Friday to hold President Obama "accountable" for his leadership on Benghazi, after the top two Defense Department leaders testified that they had just one conversation with Obama during the course of the Sept. 11 terror attack. During testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said they spoke with Obama at 5 p.m. ET on Sept. 11 last year. They were both on the same call, and said it lasted about 30 minutes.

    Dempsey said they did not speak again until the attack was over.

    Graham, who had demanded that Panetta testify on Libya as a condition for allowing the nomination of Chuck Hagel to proceed, aggressively questioned both witnesses on the president's actions. Graham wrote on his Twitter account Friday: "President Obama has to account for his leadership on #Benghazi and I intend it hold him accountable."

    He said Thursday on Fox News that "thus far the White House has delayed, denied, deceived and stonewalled and this has to come to an end. He has to account for his leadership."

    During the hearing, Graham questioned why there weren't subsequent follow-up conversations with the president. "It lasted almost eight hours ... did the president show any curiosity?" Graham asked.

    Panetta said there was "no question" Obama "was concerned about American lives."

    "With all due respect," Graham responded, "I don't believe that's a credible statement if he never called and asked you, 'are we helping these people?'"

    Panetta, as well as committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., defended the president, noting that he has advisers around him to keep him abreast of breaking developments. "The president is well-informed about what is going on -- make no mistake about it," Panetta said. He said he assumed the chief of staff was talking to Obama about the developments.

    Graham asked both Panetta and Graham whether they went to sleep that night. They said they did not -- they could not say whether the president did. "Do you, either one of you, understand some of the frustrations we have?" Graham asked. "This is the first time in 30 years we lost control of an ambassador, and no small deal."

    Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed, along with three other Americans, in the attack.

    Panetta and Dempsey claimed Thursday that the military could not have done more to save American lives that night, claiming that the difficulty in dispatching assets to the scene was "a problem of distance and time." Further, they suggested armed aircraft like F16s could have done more harm than good in a chaotic situation. "There was not enough time given the speed of the attack for armed military assets to respond," Panetta said before the Senate Armed Services Committee. "We were not dealing with a prolonged or continuous assault which could have been brought to an end by a U.S. military response. ... Time, distance, the lack of an adequate warning, events that moved very quickly on the ground prevented a more immediate response."

    Still, he said the Pentagon "spared no effort ... to save American lives."

    Panetta testified in what was likely his final public appearance on Capitol Hill as he prepares to leave the department. His testimony followed that of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last month

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    ... Panetta said before the Senate Armed Services Committee. "We were not dealing with a prolonged or continuous assault ...
    Dempsey said they spoke with Obama at 5 p.m. ET on Sept. 11 last year. They were both on the same call, and said it lasted about 30 minutes. Dempsey said they did not speak again until the attack was over.
    "It lasted almost eight hours ..."
    Is it just me - or do these statements contridict each other ?

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    Another Benghazi? Report Warns of Threat to US Embassy in Kabul
    By Barnini Chakraborty
    Published January 31, 2013

    WASHINGTON – A private security company hired by the State Department to protect American diplomats at arguably the most at-risk U.S. embassy in the world provided shoddy security, failed to adequately train its employees and fired staff who raised concerns about unchecked practices and procedures, according to a new report.

    The private guards hired at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan say it remains dangerously vulnerable to attack, David Hilzenrath, editor at the Project on Government Oversight, told FoxNews.com. POGO, a non-profit Washington group, recently released a report that it claims highlights the on-going security issues at the Kabul compound. The concerns are being aired amid ongoing complaints about the lack of security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in the run-up to the September 2012 terror attack.

    In warnings eerily similar to those from Benghazi before that attack, guards working at the embassy in Kabul told D.C.-based POGO about their concerns in emails and other missives.

    “If we ever got seriously hit (by terrorists), there is no doubt in my mind the guard force here would not be able to handle it, and mass casualties and mayhem would ensue,” one guard wrote in late November. Workers reportedly claimed that guards were rarely allowed to practice with their own weapons on the firing range, and that vehicles entering the compound were often not properly inspected for explosives.

    According to the POGO report, the State Department received a memo in July signed by 40 members of the Kabul Emergency Response Team that detailed their complaints, but allegedly nothing was done to correct the problem.

    The State Department strongly refutes the accusations and told FoxNews.com that safety at the embassy in Kabul “is of utmost importance.”

    But a July 18, 2012 department memo labeled “sensitive but unclassified” says one of the guards who raised issues about the working conditions would be fired. The memo accused the individual of "leading a baseless mutiny" against senior leaders -- his name was redacted from the document.

    “(Redacted) was observed discussing how he plans to call the Aegis/VxL training department in the United States to ensure that a fellow shift leader will not graduate from training, because (redacted) had unilaterally determined that the individual is not fit to be on the contract,” the memo said.

    The note went on to say that on July 11, company officials “had a frank discussion with (redacted) warning him about his behavior.”

    “He responded well to the counseling, and stated at the end he would become a team player and work hard to make the project succeed. (Redacted) was given every opportunity to maintain his leadership position, but his poor judgment again surfaced when he discussed his attempts to remove a fellow shift leader from contract,” the memo said.

    A State Department official told FoxNews.com that the Kabul team "has been taking extraordinary measures and maintaining robust security programs." The official acknowledged that members of the security team "voiced concerns about the leadership style" of senior personnel on the security team last year. But the official said: "After discussions with the staff, the security program at the embassy was reviewed, taking into consideration the points that were raised along with other factors, and it was determined that security policies and procedures remained sound."

    The POGO report said that after the Benghazi attack, the State Department did not send a team to Kabul to assess security, as it did for other diplomatic posts, because "security was already heightened there."

    But the report cited several troubling incidents. Contractors at the embassy were also told to lie about their weekly hours in order to keep from hiring more personnel, the report claimed.

    According to a civil suit filed last week in Virginia by employees at Aegis Defense Services – the company hired to provide security services -- supervisors “regularly edited employees’ timesheets so that they did not reveal any work beyond the regular schedule.” The lawsuit also claims that employees responsible for protecting the embassy have been stretched thin -- routinely forced to work 18 hours a day without getting paid overtime.

    Claims of mismanagement, abuse and incompetence come on the heels of last week’s congressional testimony by outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the massive security failure that led to the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya that left four Americans dead.

    Following the September attack, an Independent Accountability Review Board found “systemic failures” in Benghazi and recommended that the State Department strengthen security at high-risk posts globally.

    Clinton, who testified before a House and Senate panel, took responsibility for the incident and promised to improve security for officials around the world.

    But some have questioned whether her testimony was just lip service paid to a growing global problem and warn that if the government continues to ignore safety warnings at the embassy in Afghanistan, it will only be a matter of time before America is dealing with another Benghazi. “In the two times we’ve had serious assaults on our embassy in Kabul, Kabul is fortified and Kabul has the ISAF troops across the street,” Clinton said. “As (troops) draw down, we have to recognize that the danger is not going to leave with our ISAF military.”

    The Kabul embassy has had a hard time climbing out of controversy. In 2009, Aegis' predecessor, ArmorGroup North America, sparked outrage after pictures surfaced of “Animal House”-like antics by guards who took graphic pictures of themselves with prisoners during booze binges and in other hazing rituals. An investigation uncovered severe security shortcomings similar to those alleged in POGO’s recent report. Under political pressure, the government did not renew ArmorGroup’s contract, deciding instead to go with Aegis.

    A representative with Aegis did not return a request for comment.

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    US Embassy bomber reportedly had terror conviction
    Published February 02, 2013

    A suicide bomber who attacked the U.S. Embassy in the Turkish capital spent four years in prison on terrorism charges prior to his release for a brain disorder contracted while on hunger strike, a Turkish official said Saturday.

    The 40-year-old bomber, Ecevit Sanli, reportedly detonated an explosive device on the outside perimeter of the American Embassy in Ankara Friday, killing himself and an embassy guard in a terrorist attack whose motives are under investigation.

    The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Sanli was arrested in 1997 for membership in the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, or DHKP-C, which has claimed responsibility for assassinations and bombings since the 1970s.

    The group has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States but had been relatively quiet in recent years.

    The attack was initially believed to be the work of either Al Qaeda or a proxy for Iran. Turkish officials, though, said the bombing was linked to leftist domestic militants.

    The White House and U.S. State Department said Friday it was too early to determine who is behind the bombing. The attack, nearly five months after the assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, comes as John Kerry was formally sworn in as secretary of State Friday.

    "We strongly condemn what was a suicide attack against our embassy in Ankara," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said at Friday's briefing in Washington.

    Carney called the strike an "act of terror," but said officials "do not know at this point who is responsible or the motivations behind the attack."

    According to U.S. military sources, the other individual killed in the Ankara attack was a Turkish national. All U.S. staff are safe at this time, though the U.S. consulate in Turkey has advised Americans in the country against visiting U.S. missions for the time being.

    Another woman who was wounded reportedly was a well-known Turkish journalist.

    State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said U.S. officials were "working closely with the Turkish national police to make a full assessment of the damage and the casualties, and to begin an investigation."

    The bomb appeared to have exploded inside the security checkpoint at the side entrance of the embassy, but did not do damage inside the embassy itself. Footage showed that the door had been blown off its hinges and debris littered the ground and across the road. An Associated Press journalist saw a body in the street in front of an embassy side entrance.

    Police swarmed the area and several ambulances were dispatched. An AP journalist saw one woman who appeared to be seriously injured being carried into an ambulance.

    The state-run Anadolu Agency on Friday identified the bomber as Sanli. Still, Nuland said who was responsible for the attack was an open question, amid recent warnings that terror groups are looking to hit western targets. In Turkey, U.S. Patriot missiles were recently deployed to the border with Syria, along with some U.S. troops, to operate the missile-defense system inside Turkey.

    The U.S. Embassy put out a brief statement saying: "The US Embassy would like to thank the Turkish Government, the media, and members of the public for their expressions of solidarity and outrage over the incident."

    On Capitol Hill, the new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said the attack "underscores the need for a comprehensive review of security at our diplomatic posts."

    "This suicide bombing at our Embassy in Turkey is yet another stark reminder of the constant terrorist threat against U.S. facilities, personnel, and interests abroad," Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., said.

    Fox News has learned that three House members also visited that embassy earlier in the week.

    The embassy building is heavily protected. It is near an area where several other embassies are located, including that of Germany and France. Police sealed off the area and journalists were being kept away.

    There was no claim of responsibility, but Kurdish rebels and Islamic militants are active in Turkey. Kurdish rebels, who are fighting for autonomy in the Kurdish-dominated southeast, have dramatically stepped up attacks in Turkey over the last year.

    Yet homegrown Islamic militants tied to Al Qaeda have carried out suicide bombings in Istanbul, killing 58, in 2003. The targets were the British consulate, a British bank and two synagogues.

    In 2008, an attack blamed on Al Qaeda-affiliated militants outside the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul left three assailants and three policemen dead.

    In the November 2003 attack on the British consulate , a suspected Islamic militant rammed an explosive-laden pickup truck into the main gate, killing British Consul-General, Roger Short, and his assistant, Lisa Hallworth.

    Turkey has become a harsh critic of the regime in Syria, where a vicious civil war has left at least 60,000 people dead. The first of six Patriot missile batteries being deployed to Turkey to protect against attack from Syria was declared operational and placed under NATO command on Saturday and others were expected to be operational in the coming days.

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    February 8, 2013
    Panetta: Obama never called to check on status of Americans under attack in Benghazi

    This won't come as much of a shock to anyone who's been paying attention to the Benghazi scandal, or to Barack Obama's general modus operandi as POTUS (campaign in front of adoring crowds, party with stars, get beauty sleep, play golf, demagogue and lecture those who don't agree with him, repeat), but that doesn't detract from the profoundly disturbing nature of Sec. Panetta's on-the-record admission that President Obama never bothered to check back on the status of the attack on Americans in Benghazi. http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/0...ck-on-benghazi

    Panetta talked to the president, once, at 5:00 pm, and not again until it was all over: http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/07/pa...-attack-video/

    SEN. GRAHAM: Your testimony, as I understand it, Secretary Panetta, that you talked to the president of the United States one time.
    SEC. PANETTA: I talked to him on Sept. 11 with regards to the fact that we were aware this attack was taking place.
    SEN. GRAHAM: One time.
    SEC. PANETTA: Right.
    SEN. GRAHAM: What time did you tell him that?
    SEC. PANETTA: I think that was approximately about 5 o’clock?
    GEN. DEMPSEY: Yeah, about 5 o’clock.
    SEC. PANETTA: About 5 o’clock.
    SEN. GRAHAM: General Dempsey, did you ever talk to the president of the United States at all?
    GEN. DEMPSEY: I was with the secretary when — at that same time.
    SEN. GRAHAM: Did you talk to the president?
    GEN. DEMPSEY: Yes.
    SEN. GRAHAM: You talked to him how many times.
    GEN. DEMPSEY: The same — one time.
    SEN. GRAHAM: How long did the conversation last?
    GEN. DEMPSEY: We were there in the office for probably 30 minutes.
    SEN. GRAHAM: So you talked to him for 30 minutes, one time, and you never talked to him again, either one of you.
    GEN. DEMPSEY: Until afterwards.
    SEN. GRAHAM: Until after the attack was over.
    GEN. DEMPSEY: That’s right.
    But don't worry. Panetta assures us that the president really cares. He just one of those guys who doesn't know how to show it, I guess:

    SEN. GRAHAM: Are you surprised that the president of the United States never called you, Secretary Panetta, and say, ‘how’s it going?’
    SEC. PANETTA: I — you know, normally in these situations –
    SEN. GRAHAM: Did he know the level of threat that –
    SEC. PANETTA: Let — well, let me finish the answer. We were deploying the forces. He knew we were deploying the forces. He was being kept updated –
    SEN. GRAHAM: Well, I hate to interrupt you, but I got limited time. We didn’t deploy any forces. Did you call him back — wait a minute –
    SEC. PANETTA: No, but the event — the event was over by the time we got –
    SEN. GRAHAM: Mr. Secretary, you didn’t know how long the attack would last. Did you ever call him and say, Mr. President, it looks like we don’t have anything to get there anytime soon?
    SEC. PANETTA: The event was over before we could move any assets.
    SEN. GRAHAM: It lasted almost eight hours. And my question to you is during that eight-hour period, did the president show any curiosity about how’s this going, what kind of assets do you have helping these people? Did he ever make that phone call?
    SEC. PANETTA: Look, there is no question in my mind that the president of the United States was concerned about American lives and, frankly, all of us were concerned about American lives.
    SEN. GRAHAM: With all due respect, I don’t believe that’s a credible statement if he never called and asked you, are we helping these people; what’s happening to them? We have a second round, and we’ll take it up then.
    Please watch the video and read the rest at Hot Air and The Daily Caller. Truly appalling. If Obama's now our national daddy he's a pretty lousy one.

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    does obama have adhd? americans were getting murdered in an 8 hour period and his attention to this was just the 30 minute phone conversation?

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    Panetta and Dempsey claimed Thursday that the military could not have done more to save American lives that night, claiming that the difficulty in dispatching assets to the scene was "a problem of distance and time." Further, they suggested armed aircraft like F16s could have done more harm than good in a chaotic situation. "There was not enough time given the speed of the attack for armed military assets to respond," Panetta said before the Senate Armed Services Committee. "We were not dealing with a prolonged or continuous assault which could have been brought to an end by a U.S. military response. ... Time, distance, the lack of an adequate warning, events that moved very quickly on the ground prevented a more immediate response."
    Former Special Forces Commander: DOD Could Have Flown Rescue Team From Tripoli to Benghazi
    Former Special Forces Commander: DOD Could Have Flown Rescue Team From Tripoli to Benghazi; DOD: State Dept. Decided Whether and What to Fly

    (CNSNews.com) - Retired Army Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin--formerly commander of U.S. Special Forces Command and deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence—told CNSNews.com that, if it had been asked, the Defense Department could have sent a plane to Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, to transport a rescue team of U.S. security personnel that instead ended up taking a chartered private plane from Tripoli to Benghazi that night.

    “There is no question that we could have moved an airplane in there and we could have also put boots on the ground at the embassy,” Gen. Boykin told CNSNews.com.

    “State should have coordinated with DOD and said: We’ve got to have an airplane,” said Gen. Boykin. “The Department of Defense could have provided an airplane in there. All they had to do was ask.”

    Defense Department official told CNSNews.com, however, that the type of aircraft that was used that night and the decision to use it were both determinations made by the State Department. But the Defense Department official also said that DOD would not have been able to get a plane to Tripoli to fly the security team to Benghazi as quickly as the State Department’s chartered plane did.

    According to a timeline released by the Office of Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, the chartered private plane took off from Tripoli and headed to Benghazi with the rescue team about 2 hours and 48 minutes after the terrorist attack in Benghazi started at 9:42 p.m. Libya time.

    According to the State Department Accountability Review Board (ARB) report, the department’s temporary duty regional security officer (TDY RSO) in charge of the security detail at the department’s Benghazi mission on Sept. 11, 2012 was monitoring a security camera and saw the terrorists swarm through the front gate of the compound at the start of the attack.

    Using his cell phone, this security officer notified the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli within three minutes. He also notified the nearby Annex operated by the CIA. Within eight minutes of the start of the attack, Amb. Chris Stevens, who was in the Benghazi compound, used a cell phone given to him by a State Department Diplomatic Security agent to talk to his deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli and tell that deputy personally that the Benghazi compound was under attack.

    “Upon notification of the attack from the TDY RSO around 2145 local, Embassy Tripoli set up a command center and notified Washington,” said the ARB report.

    “About 2150 local, the DCM was able to reach Ambassador Stevens, who briefly reported that the SMC [Special Mission Compound] was under attack before the call cut off.”

    After Amb. Stevens' incomplete we-are-under-attack phone call to his deputy in Tripoli, it took almost three hours for the U.S. government to get a solitary private charter plane on the way to Benghazi--and almost four hours to get that plane landed at the Benghazi airport.

    “Within hours,” said the ARB report, “Embassy Tripoli chartered a private airplane and deployed a seven-person security team, which included two U.S. military personnel, to Benghazi.”

    While not stating that this plane was a private charter, the DOD's timeline specifies that it took off from Tripoli at 12:30 a.m. Libya time—or 2 hours and 48 minutes after the attack started.

    The DOD timeline and the State Department ARB report differ on the number of people included in the security team that traveled on this chartered plane. DOD’s timeline says it was six; State’s ARB report, as quoted above, says it was seven. “12:30 am A six man security team from U.S. Embassy Tripoli, including two DoD personnel, departs for Benghazi,” says the DOD timeline.

    Neither the DOD timeline nor the ARB report described any of the members of the security team that took that private chartered flight from Tripoli to Benghazi as State Department personnel.

    In a Nov. 2 piece in the Washington Post, David Ignatius reported--in a timeline described to him by a “senior intelligence official”--that the security team that flew to Benghazi on that chartered plane was in fact comprised of CIA people and military personnel working with the CIA.

    In fact, the timeline Ignatius published in the Post seems to indicate the CIA chartered the plane.

    “1:15 a.m.: CIA reinforcements arrive on a 45-minute flight from Tripoli in a plane they've hastily chartered,” reported Ignatius. “The Tripoli team includes four GRS [CIA Global Response Staff] security officers, a CIA case officer and two U.S. military personnel on loan to the agency. They don't leave the Benghazi airport until 4:30 a.m. The delay is caused by negotiations with Libyan authorities over permission to leave the airport; obtaining vehicles; and the need to frame a clear mission plan. The first idea is to go to a Benghazi hospital to recover Stevens, who they rightly suspect is already dead. (Also killed was a State Department communication specialist.) But the hospital is surrounded by the al-Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Sharia militia that mounted the consulate attack.”

    (Like the State Department's ARB report, Ignatius's timeline indicates there were seven people on the chartered plane that flew from Tripoli to Benghazi--not the six claimed in the DOD timeline.)

    According to descriptions of the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist event published in the State Department ARB report, as well as in a report published by the Senate Homeland Security Committee report, and in a CIA timeline provided by a senior intelligence official, the U.S. personnel in Benghazi were targeted by a series of attacks that occurred at the State Department’s compound, at the CIA Annex, and on the road between the compound and the Annex. This first phase of attacks continued from 9:42 p.m. to about 1:00 a.m.—a span of almost three hours and twenty minutes.

    The timeline published by David Ignatius in the Post says: “The attacks stop at 1:01 a.m., and some assume the fight is over.”

    But it was not. About 4 hours and 15 minutes later, the terrorists struck again.

    “The seven-person response team from Embassy Tripoli arrived in Benghazi to lend support,” said the ARB report. “It arrived at the Annex about 0500 local. Less than fifteen minutes later, the Annex came under mortar and RPG attack, with five mortar rounds impacting close together in under 90 seconds. Three rounds hit the roof of an Annex building, killing security officers Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. The attack also severely injured one ARSO [State Department regional security officer] and one Annex security team member.”

    Amb. Stevens and State Department Information Management Officer Sean Smith had died during the first phase of the attacks, at the State Department compound, in a building torched by the terrorists. The State Department security officers and CIA personnel had recovered Smith’s body from that building, but had not found Amb. Stevens before they were forced--by the threat of being overwhelmed by the attacking terrorists--to retreat under fire to the CIA Annex.

    At 11:10 p.m. Libya time, which was about 20 minutes before the U.S. personnel were forced to retreat to from the State Department mission to the CIA Annex, an unarmed DOD drone arrived in the skies over Benghazi to monitor the events as they unfolded. U.S. Africa Command had redirected the drone to Benghazi at 9:59 p.m. About seven hours later, at 5:00 a.m., another drone sent by DOD replaced this first one.

    “9:59 pm An unarmed, unmanned, surveillance aircraft is directed to reposition overhead the Benghazi facility,” said the DOD timeline.

    “11:10 pm The diverted surveillance aircraft arrives on station over the Benghazi facility,” said the DOD timeline.

    “5:00 am A second, unmanned, unarmed surveillance aircraft is directed to relieve the initial asset still over Benghazi,” said the DOD timeline.

    These unarmed drones could watch and show administration officials back in Washington what was happening in Benghazi, but they could do no more than that.

    “There is no question that we could have moved an airplane in there and we could have also put boots on the ground at the embassy,” Gen. Boykin told CNSNews.com. “But just dealing with the aircraft issue, we could have moved a military plane in there, picked those people up, moved them to Benghazi. And, in fact, we could’ve gotten people moved by helicopter, launched them out of the Sixth Fleet or the naval base in Rota, Spain.”

    http://cnsnews.com/news/article/form...i-benghazi-dod
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    No Word from Hillary During Benghazi Attack
    Panetta, Dempsey did not speak to Clinton.


    12:55 PM, Feb 7, 2013 • By MICHAEL WARREN


    Neither the secretary of defense nor the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff spoke to the secretary of state during the 8-hour attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. At a Thursday hearing in the Senate, Republican Ted Cruz asked both Leon Panetta and Martin Dempsey, "In between 9:42 p.m., Benghazi time, when the first attacks started, and 5:15 am, when Mr. Doherty and Mr. Woods lost their lives, what converations did either of you have with Secretary Clinton?"

    "We did not have any conversations with Secretary Clinton," Panetta responded. "And General Dempsey, the same is true for you?" Cruz asked. Dempsey confirmed this. Watch the video below:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cysKz...layer_embedded

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...ck_700410.html
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    The gang circled the wagons and avoided most of the key questions, giving evasive answers. Seems the President left and left no one in authority...and did not even check back in with any of the team. The concocted the video excuse to protect the election and while all were involved, nobody was responsible. And the one lead we had to find the bad guys...gee, Tunisia just had to let him go. And of course, the lack of adequate protection was a result of Hillary's absentee "management" of her department. What a group of lying incompetents!
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    According to sworn testimony, on the night of the Benghazi attack, as our citizens were murdered, neither Obama nor Hillary Clinton did anything to help. They didn’t even check in for updates. Is this outrageous to you? Take our survey and let us know what you think: http://www.theteaparty.net/survey-ob...k-in-benghazi/

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    For six months Americans have demanded to know what exactly transpired in Libya on September 11, 2012. We demand to know why our countrymen died defenseless, sacrificing their lives for their country.



    Senator Inhoffe Confirms Benghazi Cover-Up; Impeachment Charges Next?
    Posted on February 13 2013 by Conservative Daily


    First off, we want to thank our readers for applying pressure to Congress and demanding hearings regarding the tragic events of September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya. You sent thousands of faxes and emails to Congress and those in power were forced to listen. You demanded that Hillary Clinton and Leon Pannetta testify and after months of your voices demanding answers, they were forced to speak under oath, in front of the American people.

    The families of those that lost their lives are surely thanking you for your actions. But as you will see, the job is not done. We must keep pushing Congress until we justice has been served on those in our government who refused to act and allowed our citizens to be murdered at the hands terrorist savages.

    At Conservative-Daily, we have been keeping you abreast of the Benghazi massacre and the questions surrounding the White House’s response. We were one of the first theorize that the Obama Administration was engaging in a cover up and we reported this cover up contemporaneously; while President Obama and his Cabinet were lying to the American public, we were one of the few media outlets raising the alarm. Not because we wanted the scoop, but because we care about our fellow Americans abroad who sacrifice their safety on a daily basis to keep our families safe. We owe them a debt of gratitude. We owe them justice.

    Last week, Secretary of Defense and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Leon Pannetta testified on Capitol Hill. His testimony was as shocking as it was heart breaking. The night Americans were under attack, the night Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed and their dead bodies desecrated in the streets of Benghazi, on the night that our Embassy was under siege for more than seven hours by terrorists, President Obama was AWOL as Commander-in-Chief.

    Let us be incredibly precise: according to Sec. Pannetta, on the night that four Americans were killed and our embassy was attacked, neither President Obama nor ANY White House staff contacted the Secretary of Defense nor any other person or organization that was monitoring the situation in Libya.

    However, President Obama was in the White House and working that evening. He made an hour long politically motivated phone call. Even as Americans were under attack and being killed, Obama was more concerned about his own ambitions. He couldn’t be bothered to give the orders to send in Marines, who were only one hour away.

    Let us say that again: it was a seven-hour siege and Marines were only one hour away. President Obama refused to contact the Secretary of Defense; he knowingly and willingly let our people die proving that he is as much of a moral coward as he is a dictatorial presence in the White House.

    In the days and weeks following Benghazi, there was clearly a cover up. Senator Inhoffe (R-OK), Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, stated “as bad as everything that I’ve stated is, what I think is worse is the cover-up…It was obvious from the information we had on Sept. 11 that the second wave … of attacks on the annex was unequivocally a terrorist attack, and we knew it right at the time”.

    For six months Americans have demanded to know what exactly transpired in Libya on September 11, 2012. We demand to know why our countrymen died defenseless, sacrificing their lives for their country. Of course the White House won’t comment. What? Did you expect Obama to tell the truth and relinquish power? The cover up was a knee jerk response from an Administration for which such un-American activities have become commonplace.

    Obama’s purposeful obfuscation is easy to understand: he had an election to steal. He didn’t want the American people to know that the Embassy lacked armed security even though it resided in a nation known for harboring terrorists and has been historically antagonistic to the United States. He didn’t want us to know that the Embassy had petitioned for added security and had been denied. He didn’t want us to know that on the day of the attack, Ambassador Stevens had begged for more security, only to be denied and then killed by the very men he feared; betrayed by the country Ambassador Stevens swore to protect. Obama wanted so badly to win this election that he allowed Americans to be killed and created a cover up surrounding the attacks.

    Effectively, he committed electoral fraud and stole the election; climbing on the backs of four dead American heroes. Now, Obama the Coward sends in his Secretary’s to speak for him since he is too scared to do it himself.

    Last month, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released a damning report on the Benghazi fiasco. The report says it all; in discussing the security of the embassy and the danger in the country, the report states that Benghazi was “increasingly dangerous and unstable, and that a significant attack against American personnel there was becoming much more likely”. This information did not lead to increased security at the Benghazi consulate or closing the operation altogether. The report called both of these options “more than justified by the intelligence presented”. In fact, the report stops just short of placing all the blame for the failed security on directly on President Obama and Secretary Clinton.

    Don’t believe that President Obama and Secretary Clinton were at fault for the security failures in Benghazi? The Senate Report goes on to state that “In the months leading up to the attack on the Temporary Mission Facility in Benghazi, there was a large amount of evidence gathered by the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and from open sources that Benghazi was increasingly dangerous and unstable, and that a significant attack against American personnel there was becoming much more likely. While this intelligence was effectively shared within the Intelligence Community (IC) and with key officials at the Department of State, it did not lead to a commensurate increase in security at Benghazi nor to a decision to close the American mission there, either of which would have been more than justified by the intelligence presented.”

    Let’s not forget, Libya is the same country where President Obama spiked the football after former Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi was deposed and later killed. In typical Obama fashion, he took credit for the success of others. Unfortunately, after the celebration, he didn’t bother to properly secure the American Embassy. The US Ambassador killed in the attack, J. Christopher Stevens, wrote in his diary that he was on an Al-Qaeda kill list and feared an imminent terrorist attack. Did the President or Secretary Clinton pay attention to the Ambassador’s concerns? Nope. In fact, the week before the terrorist attack, Obama didn’t bother to attend a single intelligence briefing, despite actionable intelligence warning of a possible active terror cell in Libya ready to strike American interests.

    Think that’s bad? Since President Obama was first inaugurated he has skipped over 66% of his intelligence briefings. Unbelievable! In a post 9/11 world, it is unfathomable that a sitting President would care so little for the lives of the American people that he would put their safety on the backburner so that he might keep his job.

    There are even reports saying that there was actionable intelligence more than a week before the tragic events transpired. Yet Obama did NOTHING. He allowed Americans to die so that he could save his job. His Presidency will forever be marred with the blood of American martyrs.


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    A general stated and I don't remember his name, that this was to be Obama's October Spring. The objective was to work with the Muslim Brotherhood to kidnap our Ambassador, then Obama would work out a deal for his release but the Muslim Brotherhood showed Obama and Hillary who was the boss and killed 4 Americans; hence the standdown of no support. Obama and Hillary Clinton need to be impeached and sent to jail for the murder of 4 Americans.

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    And Obama borrows a cigar from Clinton and says "I did not have sex with that woman". Lest we forget, this is also the administration that is transferring F-16 fighter aircraft and 200 M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

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    As Rep. Marshall Blackburn said after the SOTUS, "actions speak louder than words." We have 3 (Blackburn, Stockman and now Inhoffe) hinting and threatening impeachment, I sure hope and pray what the say aren't just empty words. I want the whole administration IMPEACHED AND REMOVED and repeal O-care and every Executive Order written from the first term of BO until the day he is removed from office. Then, and only then will we be able to turn America back around to prosperity.
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    By the way, Obama didn’t make any phone calls as Benghazi was attacked
    12:12 PM 02/15/2013

    Before the election, we weren’t supposed to ask about the Benghazi attack because we were just trying to beat Obama. After the election, we aren’t supposed to ask about the Benghazi attack because Obama won and shut up.

    So I guess this doesn’t matter. Washington Tiimes :

    President Obama didn’t make any phone calls the night of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the White House said in a letter to Congress released Thursday.

    “During the entire attack, the president of the United States never picked up the phone to put the weight of his office in the mix,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, who had held up Mr. Obama’s defense secretary nominee to force the information to be released.

    Mr. Graham said that if Mr. Obama had picked up the phone, at least two of the Americans killed in the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi might still be alive because he might have been able to push U.S. aid to get to the scene faster.
    Hey, he had to get his beauty rest for his trip the next day:



    They’ve done nothing but lie about Benghazi. Lies upon lies, and then lies about those lies. This is by far the worst– Hey, wait. Look over there! Is that… Marco Rubio taking a sip of water???



    Ann Althouse thinks Obama is ashamed. http://www.althouse.blogspot.com/201...-us-after.html I don’t think he’s capable of it. But as the greatest woman in human history said: What difference does it make?


    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/15/by...#ixzz2KzdC6eS4
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