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Phydeaux -> RE: All Quiet on Benghazi (1/15/2014 2:33:00 PM)
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OH Controlling classified information is it?
So that's why relevant CIA & state dept employees and are given a monthly polygraph exam whether they've leaked out information about Benghazi. Because nuclear codes are involved is that it?
You'd have thought that if it was really about controlling access to sensitive information - they'd have secured the CIA safe house. Instead, classified information was strewed all over - as CNN reported - and turned in some classified documents to the administration TWO WEEKS AFTER THE EVENT.
SURE, securing information was the goal.
And as for no one dying: That's just factually wrong as well. That information that the militants captured led to the rollup of the American information network in Libya, and the death of at least one agent.
Finally, the predictable stupidity of your argument is breathtaking.
We called it a reaction to a video as a cover story because the fact that it was a terror action was top-secret.
Ignore the fact that American's have known about hundreds of terror attacks. You might have heard of two in New York. One in Washington. On in Pennsyvania.
You might have heard of Beirut. Or the USS Kohl. Yeah. Funny thing how the administration classified all those as Top Secret.
Yeah - a terrorist attack against America deserves top secret classification.
But lets say I buy your absolutely stupid argument.
You have to at the very least admit the administration was incompetent. I mean - not only do they tell a LIE that is blatantly obvious to anyone in Benghazi. They don't both to coordinate the lie with the Libyan government. They don't bother to coordinate the lie with the state department, which admitted 3 days after the event it was a terrorist activity.
But hey progress - we've finally gotten a die-hard democrat to admit it was a blatant, LIE.
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ORIGINAL: EdBowie
Do you grasp the concept of classified information? This nonsense that if Obama doesn't put out the nuclear launch codes on Twitter, he's 'lied to the American people' is getting ridiculous to the extreme.
Nothing about controlling the release of sensitive information through a cover story after the fact caused a single death. The Republicans refusing to fund security upgrades for that particular embassy may have.
This is simply another 'Kill Whitey video' manufactured faux scandal.
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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux
So declassified information released today:
Carter Ham, commander of africom was notified of the attack on the embassy within minutes of the attack, via a call from the consulate.
He advised Defense Secretary Panetta and Gen Martin Dempsey that it was a terrorist attack.
Panetta has testified according to transcripts to the Senate Armed Services that there was no doubt in his mind that it was a terrorist attack.
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Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee in February of last year that it was him who informed the president that "there was an apparent attack going on in Benghazi." "Secretary Panetta, do you believe that unequivocally at that time we knew that this was a terrorist attack?" asked Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. "There was no question in my mind that this was a terrorist attack," Panetta replied.
Two senior state department officials also testified that it was a terrorist attack
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Senior State Department officials who were in direct, real-time contact with the Americans under assault in Benghazi have also made clear they, too, knew immediately -- from surveillance video and eyewitness accounts -- that the incident was a terrorist attack. After providing the first substantive "tick-tock" of the events in Benghazi, during a background briefing conducted on the evening of Oct. 9, 2012, a reporter asked two top aides to then-Secretary Clinton: "What in all of these events that you've described led officials to believe for the first several days that this was prompted by protests against the video?"
"That is a question that you would have to ask others," replied one of the senior officials. "That was not our conclusion."
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Ham's declassified testimony further underscores that Obama's earliest briefing on Benghazi was solely to the effect that the incident was a terrorist attack, and raises once again the question of how the narrative about the offensive video, and a demonstration that never occurred, took root within the White House as the explanation for Benghazi.
(Gibson, commander stationed in tripoli)
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WESTRUP: "So no one from the military was ever advising, that you are aware of, that this was a demonstration gone out of control, it was always considered an attack -"
BRISTOL: "Yes, sir."
WENSTRUP: "-- on the United States?"
BRISTOL: "Yes, sir. ... We referred to it as the attack."
So, once again as I stated at the beginning. This entire report of a demonstration at the consulate was a lie to the american people done deliberately for Obama's political gain.
There never was a demonstration.
And the administration knew for more than 2 weeks that it was a terrorist attack.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/14/benghazi-transcripts-top-defense-officials-briefed-obama-on-attack-not-video-or/
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