[rootoronpunty]

Breaking news on Benghazi: the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement: "No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ”


So who in the government did tell “anybody” not to help those in need? Someone decided not to send in military assets to help those Agency operators. Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No.

It would have been a presidential decision. There was presumably a rationale for such a decision. What was it? When and why—and based on whose counsel obtained in what meetings or conversations—did President Obama decide against sending in military assets to help the Americans in need?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...us_657896.html

[CxofxJFm]

Absolutely right. This was a presidential decision. Obama let them be murdered. And the mainstream media keeps it covered up. How different from Watergate and nobody was killed during Watergate. The corruption in our "free press" and the Oval Office is unmeasurable.

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How utterly ridiculous. By trying to make political points off of a terrorist attack is a disgusting and unprecedented ploy by the GOP. It was an act by evil men, and to blame the President is unAmerican and vile.

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I thought this was a nice assessment of what is happening at this point. We had a very sad disaster that happened to our ambassador in Libya, along with those protecting him. The administration is blaming the intelligence community for bad intel. As a result, those in the intelligence community are fighting back.

Hopfully in the end we will find out what went wrong.

"The Benghazi Story Refuses To Die, And It’s Hurting The President"

http://blogs.the-american-interest.c...the-president/

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B, what you posted is exactly right. There are no political points here, just the failure of a President, and the President is the ONLY ONE who can make the call. The call for support, rescue, help, etc., is made by the DOD ONLY after the President gives the order, which obama did not. What is vile is to watch our Americans being murdered and our American property being torched in real time and to sit back and do nothing, NOTHING, and then go off to a fund raiser in Las Vegas only a few hours later, and then days later send the ambassador to the UN out on 5 talk shows with LIES, when obama knew the truth and saw it all go down. Sickening. Treason.

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There are reports that Obama was in the room and watching it happen. A
demand for justice and accountability is not an attempt to score points.

What is sickening is Obama supporters not being angry and actually defending him. I expect more from my president.

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I am not talking about "added security." You are mixing the event with preparations. I showed you that the murders happened because the CIC did not make the call to assist our people on 09/11. If you know anything at all about how our government works, the CIC is the one who makes the call. The generals don't. The DOD doesn't. The Secretary of State doesn't. The VP doesn't. The UN doesn't. The Congress doesn't. The Commander in Chief makes the call. The DOD follows his orders. Same with the CIA. Obama saw it unfold in the Situation Room in real time via 2 drones. He got the emails. The Situation Room heard the voices, heard the sounds, real time. The attack lasted for approximately 7 hours on American soil on Americans. It was Obama's place to give the order. He didn't. The buck stops with him. End of story.

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Lt. Col. Tony Schafer told Fox News that sources were telling him that the President was watching the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in real-time. Schafer told Fox that "only the President" could have ordered backup for the Americans who were under siege by terrorists so the President was most certainly informed of the situation as it was unfolding. "I hate to say this," Schafer said, "according to my sources, yes, [the President] was one of those in the White House situation room in real-time watching this. And the question becomes, 'What did the President do or not do in the moments he saw this unveiling?' He -- only he -- could issue a directive to Secretary of Defense Panetta to do something."

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-T...Situation-Room

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The way some people talk about it they clearly think that this all happened as a total surprise and there was no time to plan and respond. That is hogwash. There are always plans designed and ready. You get your reports on the situation and you pick one "off the shelf" and get to work. You also have plans b and c ready because situations are in flux. Military leaders plan in advance how to respond in the event of as many situations as possible. There are assets pre-arranged.

There is no excuse for the failure to respond.

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