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Obama sent this message and image out on Twitter:President Obama ordered the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, eliminating the man responsible for the 9/11 attacks: pic.twitter.com/Ok6WTP9D
This is the 11th hour message from Obama's campaign?
Oh, good grief.
What a gutsy call!
GIVE ME A BREAK!
If Obama and his hacks think that this election is about bin Laden, they're delusional.
Ask anyone out of work or underemployed, if they had to choose between getting a job and "eliminating" bin Laden, which would they want?
If Obama wants credit for killing bin Laden, then he damn well should take responsibility for what happened in Benghazi on 9/11/12, and cough up the freaking truth already.
According to internal emails obtained by FOX News, the Obama administration knew the attack in Benghazi was not an uprising about a video.
Nonetheless, Obama, Hillary Clinton, and others in the administration kept pushing that lie, for two weeks.
Evidence continues to mount showing that the administration likely lied to the American people about Benghazi.
From Greta Van Susteren, FOX News:Fox has obtained a set of internal emails which declare that the group Ansar al Sharia claimed responsibility of the attack in Benghazi virtually as the raid played out on September 11th.
Ansar al Sharia has been declared by the State Department to be a an al Qaeda affiliated group. The emails were sent by the State Department to across a variety of redacted national security platforms including the White House Situation room, the Pentagon, the FBI, the Director of National Intelligence and the State Department. Fox is told that approximately 300-400 national security figures received these emails in real time almost as the raid was playing out and concluding. Fox is told that figures directly receiving these emails work directly underneath the nation’s top national security, military and diplomatic officials.
The first email indicates that Ambassador Chris Stevens and other personnel were “in the compound safe haven.”
The timestamps on the emails are all eastern time and often include the subheading SBU…which is shorthand for “Sensitive But Unclassified.”
The redacted email address @nss.eop.gov is the White House Situation address. The email address extension @dni.gov is the an extension that goes to figures working under the Director of National Intelligence.
The first email was sent at 4:05 pm et with the subject line “U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi Under Attack (SBU).”
It goes on to say “The Regional Security Officer reports the diplomatic mission is under attack. Embassy Tripoli reports approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well. Ambassador Stevens, who is currently in Benghazi, and four COM personnel are in the compound safe haven. The 17th of February militia is providing security support.
The operations Center will provide updates as available.”
The second email came at 4:54 pm.
The subject line is “Update 1: U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi (SBU)
“(SBU) Embassy Tripoli reports the firing at the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi has stopped and the compound has been cleared. A response team is on site attempting to locate COM personnel.”
The third email came at 6:07 pm and was sent to a different email list, but still includes the White House Situation room address.
This email contains the key subject line that reads “Update 2: Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack (SBU).”
Read more. View the emails.
Why did Obama, Hillary Clinton, Jay Carney, Susan Rice, and others in the administration persist in declaring an obscure video to be what precipitated the Benghazi attack and the killings of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans?
They misled us.
They lied about a terrorist attack on our nation that took place on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
As more information comes out, it is hard to deny that the Obama administration was engaged in an orchestrated cover-up concocted to intentionally misled the American people. ______________
While the Obama administration's lies about Benghazi are exposed, the Left-wing media pretend not to notice.
From John Nolte, Breitbart:Well, the corrupt media is relieved tonight. Reuters dropped a bombshell on the White House in the form of newly uncovered emails that prove that as it was happening, the White House knew the attack on our consulate in Benghazi was a terrorist attack. But from what I'm seeing on Twitter and at a number of news sites, the media is much more interested in using a perfectly reasonable pro-life statement made by Indiana U.S. Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock as a weapon against Mitt Romney.
...I should point out, though, that the indispensable Sharyl Attkisson broke the Libya email story at CBS News. She's a superb reporter doing excellent work. Reuters deserves credit, as well. But as of right now, as far as the rest...
Smoking gun emails that add another log on the fire of proof that the White House lied to us for somewhere around two weeks about the murder of four Americans is nowhere near as big of a deal as the media attempting to play a semantics game with a perfectly defensible pro-life statement from a U.S. Senate candidate. By tomorrow, these emails probably won't be as big of a news story as Romney's guilt-by-association with Mourdock.
This is what the next 13 days are going to look like. And this is why those of us in New Media must be as tireless and vigilant as the corrupt media.
Trench warfare all the way -- every inch.
On Tuesday during the debate, Obama told the American people that those responsible for the attack in Benghazi would be held accountable. OBAMA: [W]e are going to find out who did this and we're going to hunt them down, because one of the things that I've said throughout my presidency is when folks mess with Americans, we go after them.
Well, we're doing an awful job of hunting them down.
From the New York Times:Witnesses and the authorities have called Ahmed Abu Khattala one of the ringleaders of the Sept. 11 attack on the American diplomatic mission here. But just days after President Obama reasserted his vow to bring those responsible to justice, Mr. Abu Khattala spent two leisurely hours on Thursday evening at a crowded luxury hotel, sipping mango juice on a patio and scoffing at the threats coming from the American and Libyan governments.
Libya’s fledgling national army is a “national chicken,” Mr. Abu Khattala said, using an Arabic rhyme. Asked who should take responsibility for apprehending the mission’s attackers, he smirked at the idea that the weak Libyan government could possibly do it. And he accused the leaders of the United States of “playing with the emotions of the American people” and “using the consulate attack just to gather votes for their elections.”
Mr. Abu Khattala’s defiance — no authority has even questioned him about the attack, he said, and he has no plans to go into hiding — offered insight into the shadowy landscape of the self-formed militias that have come to constitute the only source of social order in Libya since the fall of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
Why isn't this guy under arrest?
He's doing interviews!
The Obama administration sees to it that the maker of the infamous video that supposedly sparked the attack, their scapegoat, sits in jail.
Meanwhile, Abu Khattala sips mango juice on a patio of a luxury hotel.*
Sick.*
Correction: Meanwhile, Abu Khattala sips a strawberry frappe on a patior of a luxury hotel.__________________
UPDATE:This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: October 19, 2012
An earlier version of this article misidentified the beverage that Ahmed Abu Khattala was drinking at the hotel. It was a strawberry frappe, not mango juice, which is what he had ordered.
Not mango juice? It was a strawberry frappe???
Thank you, New York Times, for that important correction.
Ann Romney appeared on The View this morning.
Needless to say, The View's liberal cabal didn't go easy on Mrs. Romney.
From FOX News:Whoopi Goldberg barely let Ann Romney settle into her seat on ABC's "The View" before pouncing on the first lady hopeful, asking why Mitt Romney didn't serve in Vietnam and if the couple is prepared to console families of fallen soldiers if voted into the White House.
Unlike a recent joint appearance on the show by President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama during which questioning ranged from how romantic is the president to the couple's anniversary, the show's five hosts skipped the softball questions and got right into red meat — including military service, abortion and the Romneys' Mormon faith.
When the Obamas' appearance aired on Sept. 25, the panel stuck to questions about the First Couple's 20th wedding anniversary and whether or not President Obama is "romantic," though they did query Obama lightly about the murder of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, which the president declined to characterize at the time as an act of terrorism.
Romney, 63, clad in a red dress and gold jewelry, was initially scheduled to appear with her husband, who backed out citing a scheduling conflict, according to host Barbara Walters. But his wife deftly deflected her husband's description of the female klatch as "sharp-tongued," saying the candidate called the women "sharp and young." Moments later, Goldberg asked Romney if her husband's Mormon faith precluded him or their five sons from serving in the military and whether the Romneys would be prepared to console relatives of fallen U.S. soldiers. Many Mormons serve in the military and the faith does not bar them from doing so.
“He was serving his mission and my five sons also served [on] missions,” Ann Romney replied. “We find different ways of serving.”
Asked how she would explain to relatives of the fallen soldiers that her sons did not serve in the U.S. military, she continued, "I would say it’s the hardest thing that a president and a first lady can do. We have the most extraordinary fighting men and women and we have to be grateful for them.”
Walters grilled Romney on abortion, and stem cell research, but noted she is not the one running for office.
“I am pro-life and I’m happy to say that,” said Ann Romney when asked by Walters if her thoughts on the issue changed like her husband of 43 years. “When a decision came across his desk to use embryos for experimentation, he could not have, on his conscience, created human life for experimentation.
“The most important thing we can do is have respect for each other in this dialogue. This is a tender, tender issue”
Following Walters’ initial question on abortion, co-host Joy Behar asked Ann Romney about women’s access to contraception, prompting Romney to say: “I would love if you could get my husband on the couch, Joy.”
Romney continued: “What I know is I am here to reflect the character of the person I know. Every decision he will make … [will be based on] is this is the best thing for America to go forward? I think I know where his heart is.”
This really pisses me off.
The Leftists have been bitching about the lack of military service by Mitt Romney and his sons since the 2008 campaign.
Read about Mike Wallace accusing Mitt and sons of being chicken hawks in a 2007 interview on 60 Minutes.
Did Whoopi Goldberg grill Obama the Hawk about his lack of service?
He's the one bragging about killing Osama bin Laden and hunting down terrorists. He's the one shamelessly trying to score political points by constantly referring to greeting the coffins of terrorism victims and our war dead.
Why didn't Obama serve? Why didn't Michelle serve?
Michelle has been yapping incessantly about how much she cares for our military.
Why didn't Michelle enlist? What stopped her?
Did Whoopi ask?
No way.
It's disgraceful.
Ann Romney is so classly and so smart. She can handle the Leftist old bitties on The View. She did handle their swipes beautifully, with dignity and humor and grace.
Just by being herself, Mrs. Romney made Goldberg, Walters, and the others in the cabal look cheap and small and desperate.
Here's video of Goldberg questioning Mrs. Romney.
Hey, Whoopi! How does Obama talk to mothers of the dead without explaining to them that he hasn't served?More video here.
Before tonight's big debate, it was important for Obama to have someone to blame for the 9/11/12 terrorist attack in Benghazi that left Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead.
Hillary Clinton is taking responsibility, sort of. She is, but she isn't.
From CNN:Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday tried to douse a political firestorm over the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya, saying she's responsible for the security of American diplomatic outposts.
"I take responsibility," Clinton said during a visit to Peru. "I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts. The president and the vice president wouldn't be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals. They're the ones who weigh all of the threats and the risks and the needs and make a considered decision."
But she said an investigation now under way will ultimately determine what happened at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, where Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed on September 11.
"I take this very personally," Clinton said. "So we're going to get to the bottom of it, and then we're going to do everything we can to work to prevent it from happening again, and then we're going to work to bring whoever did this to us to justice."
..."In the wake of an attack like this, in the fog of war, there's always going to be confusion," Clinton said. "And I think it is absolutely fair to say that everyone had the same intelligence. Everyone who spoke tried to give the information that they had. As time has gone on, that information has changed. We've gotten more detail, but that's not surprising. That always happens."
She added, "What I want to avoid is some kind of political gotcha or blame game."
"I know that we're very close to an election," Clinton said. "I want to just take a step back here and say from my own experience, we are at our best as Americans when we pull together. I've done that with Democratic presidents and Republican presidents."
Her remarks drew a quick response from three Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee, including ranking member John McCain.
Clinton's statement of responsibility was "a laudable gesture, especially when the White House is trying to avoid any responsibility whatsoever," the Arizona senator said in a joint broadside with Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire. However, they added, "The security of Americans serving our nation everywhere in the world is ultimately the job of the commander-in-chief. The buck stops there."
Hillary is temporarily taking responsibility, qualifying that there's confusion "in the fog of war," blah, blah, blah.
Once again, Hillary is standing by her man. This time, she's providing excuses for Obama.
I suspect she agreed to give Obama some cover now with the promise that eventually she would be cleared, but it still reflects poorly on Hillary.
We have a doormat as secretary of state and a sleazy, ineffective president.
Actually, Hillary is sticking to the same old lines/lies from the White House. Information has changed as they've learned more about the deadly attack. They are still insisting there was no cover-up, hoping we'll be willing to disregard the facts and the timeline.
She's also regurgitating the old "Americans need to pull together" crap, in an attempt to put the topic off limits.
That's incredibly self-serving. Democrats didn't "pull together" for the sake of the country after 9/11. They undermined President Bush at every turn, while engaging in CYA.
Hillary says she wants to avoid a "political gotcha or blame game."
Sure. More specifically, Obama wants to be able to avoid taking responsibility for his failures.
Of course, Hillary declares that there should be no blame game, allowing her to frame holding Obama and his administration accountable as an unpatriotic act.
The fact is the death of Osama bin Laden was not the end of al Qaeda and the terrorist threat. Islamists still hate us and want us dead. Obama's alleged "gutsy call" didn't put an end to the Islamists' war against the U.S. They are still killing Americans.
This "Osama's dead and GM is alive" mantra doesn't cut it. Bin Laden was killed on Obama's watch. That's true enough, but four Americans were also killed on his watch, in a plot timed for the 9/11 anniversary.
The "it was the video" lies, two weeks of lie after lie, can't be erased by Hillary making this statement on the eve of the debate.
Obama is such a coward. Americans are dead and he's trying to dodge responsibility. That is truly disgusting. It speaks to Obama's character, his shamelessness, and his poor leadership.
