From JTO
The Wall Street Journal reported today that the President’s Daily Intelligence Briefing, presented to the President daily when he wakes up, reported every day for over a week that the Benghazi attack followed protests at the Benghazi consulate, presumable over the YouTube anti-Muslim video. The Daily Intelligence Briefing is prepared by the National Intelligence Director, an office created as a recommendation of the 9/11 Commission to coordinate information from the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence agency, as well as State Department and various military branch intelligence agencies. This followed the conclusion of the 9/11 Commission that conflicting information from various agencies was not coordinated, and that if it had been, the 9/11 attacks might have been averted.
According to the article, CIA had information from witnesses supporting the existence of protests, and was unwilling to alter their conclusions, despite conflicting reports, until they could verify it. Thus the delay in modification of public statements by senior administration officials, including the President, the Vice President, the Secretary of State and the Ambassador to the United Nations.
John Tepperman, senior editor of Foreign Affairs Magazine, published by the Council on Foreign Relations, was interviewed on C-Span the other day about the Benghazi attack. He pointed out that the critical issue of security at the consulate has been lost in what he believes is a lot of political spin about who in the administration said what after the attack regarding its source. The Republicans have been quick to cook up a conspiracy theory and taken a mid-level State Department security decision, and an extremist Libyan militia attack, and conflated it with a “terror” attack, and then re-conflated that with an Al Qaeda attack.
In sworn testimony, the head of regional security for the State Department made clear that the additional security requested would have increased State Department guards from 3 to 5, or perhaps to 8 personnel. The head of military security for Libya, a retired U.S. Army general, said there was no comparison between State Department security personnel and military resources. Both witnesses made clear that the few more State Department security personnel requested would have made no difference in the outcome of the attack.
Which gets back to the issue of security at these embassies and consulates, which is woefully short in many parts of the world due to budget cuts – by the Republicans.
The more I hear about Benghazi, the more my initial beliefs are confirmed: That this was a contrived controversy created by the right wing for political gain.
Notice how quiet Romney and the Republicans are on this now. Notice how the right wing blogs, talk radio shows, have stopped talking about this. There is a lock step trickle down of propaganda-from the highest levels to the lowest.
Now that emails from 9/11/12 just came out we know Obama knew it was an attack, we know Hillary asked for extra security before attack, we know Obama had real time drone video and had 6 hours to have sent a Marine quick action force just a half hour away to save Ambassador Stevens . We know Obama knew about the attacks being a terrorist attack , but went on a campaign of blaming the 1st ammendment via a youtube video. We know Obama went to the U.N. 2 weeks later and blamed our first ammendment 6 times. But the commie propaganda is … blame the Republicans.
What should be troubling to the left is the emails cbs has is that they were leaked from somewhere in the WhiteHouse cabal. The media has covered Obama on this. First when mother jones came out with the 47% video right after the attacks and David korn stated that he wanted to release that tape the weekend before the election. Secondly when Candy Crowley lied in the debate. This is the worst scandal in our history. It is past talk of impeaching Obama, but it is now to the point of arresting him. Even though the media is covering for Obama, I can assure you that Congress will not. Getting back to the leaks from the WhiteHouse, the rats are running to protect themselves now.
Mary,
WHAT IS YOUR SOURCE FOR ACTUAL FACTS? Help us to believe you.
When ‘Fact Checking’ your comments, all we find are totally biased, right wing opinion websites like Glenn Beck (who you quote almost verbatim). Literally, if you copy & paste your comments into a Google Search, all that comes up is Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, etc. (and these guys will lie just to get ratings, which they care about more than actual politics).
It’s hard to understand your message(s) because for the most part they are mere repetition of news reports or, more often, right-wing talk radio propaganda. They are not reliable, just as Media Matters or Huffington Post is not reliable.
SO are you actually claiming that Obama purposefully allowed Stevens to be killed by purposefully keeping the Marine quick action force from driving 1/2 hour to save him? Are you claiming that Obama basically had Stevens murdered in this manner? If so, please PROVE IT – otherwise you are wasting your time and burning your credibility to zero
Without knowing the SOURCE of your information, you cannot expect anyone to believe your assertions are True and you can’t expect to be taken seriously. Making blanket assertions is the easiest thing in the world. Why aren’t you willing to make the effort to Prove Them as well as make an independent, original argument? After all, you are already typing away – it shouldn’t take much more effort…
Mary Mapes, (glad you graduated to initial caps in your name!)
I’m starting to lose faith!
When I Copy & Paste certain phrases of your comments that sound a little pre-packaged, I end up finding some of them VERBATIM on sites like “iamthewitness.com” – A site I would never have found on my own, but was led straight to it by Google searching “… leaked from somewhere in the WhiteHouse cabal.”
That word ‘cabal’ just seemed unlike your usual nomenclature and sure enough…
How can we possibly have an irrational screaming match filled with puerile hyperbole if you aren’t even writing your own comments? We must establish some manner of common ground. Can you help a brother out, here?
Con, you are the worst type of human. Your are taking party over country. Never heard of your sites. Not one of my words are verbatim of anybody, never the less a cut and paste. post a link to defend yourself. You can’t . You are a liar. Today bigger news which shows Obama in a lesser light just broke that our Seals reguested emergency help and were denied. A week after the incident Hillary told the father of Navy seal T Wood,” we will get and arrest the guy who made this youtube video”. I can find your same words on media matters, daily kos, my left nutmeg, huffington post, etc.. You just plagiarized my same accusations against you and your cabal of commie traitors. Shame on you. You should be embarassed by not only stealing my words buy using propaganda against your country to support a criminal enterprise.,the Democrat party.
Con – I beg to differ with your #4. It is certainly possible to have an irrational screaming match filled with puerile hyperbole, whether or not Mapes is plagiarizing his comments. I mean, he has proven it time nag again.
Boy, some people.
Now we are finding out that these guys were screaming for help only to be denied repeatedly.
What a shameful chapter in our Mid East forgein policy.
But fear not Hollywood is coming to the rescue two days before the election
Producer and Obama lackey Weinstein, is releasing Seal Team Six. Weinstein’s instructions were to make the President a key character in the movie that spotlights the detailed process that went into the killing of bin Laden.
Maybe they could have named it ?
“Bump in the Road.”
Db
DB – maybe you are not familiar with the scale of communications traffic running continually, 24/7, in the billions of data bits, through the nation”s security system. To repeat, as reported by the WSJ, hardly a vehicle of Democratic talking points, as you so frequently allege, the President’s Daily Intelligence Briefing, presented upon his awakening each morning, stated each day for over a week, that the incident followed a street protest in Benghazi.
Again, the Director of National Intelligence position was established to coordinate these rapidly growing streams of information so the President was not drowned in information from multiple sources. This was formerly the role of the National Security Advisor, until the calamitous failure of Condoleeza Rice, a full month before 9/11, who breezily dismissed the memo directed to her attention by the White House Anti-Terrorism Chief, entitled “AL QAEDA ATTACK IMMINENT”, then stating famously in sworn testimony afterward, “if something had needed to be done, then somebody would have told me to do it”, something a clerk would say. Rice, a Sovietologist, dismissed the terror threat as being small potatoes relative to her academic specialty in a Soviet Union that had long since collapsed and ceased to be a national security threat.
The Republican blog-crap conspiracy theory that you are repeating – like a mindless fool – suggesting that the President of the United States deliberately allowed his own ambassador to be murdered while screaming for help – or that he is now “instructing” a Hollywood director on how to make a movie – is such a low grade conspiracy theory as to be unworthy of the deaf, dumb and blind.
Why would the President who sent the military secretly into an allied country to capture or execute Osama Bin Laden refuse to send the Marines to protect a U.S. Consulate?
For someone who contusion spews accusations of others repeating Democratic
talking points, perhaps you should take just a little of your own advice.
What is wrong with your brain?
JTO:
There is a difference between bits of data and direct calls for help. There are many reports that your hero skipped most of his briefings.
I never said Obama was instructing on film production? The Obama lackey
Weinstein, is the producer and had a more prominant roll for Barry
put in it.
As to the President’s knowledge of this attack the truth is comming out.
Now we know their we’re drones over head feeding live video, also reports
of spectire gunships in the air, these attack went on for over 7 hours.
The cover up and politicized lies comming out of this desperate administration
is a sad end to his tenure in office.
So it’s not political to talk about killing BinLaden but it is to talk of Benghazi?
You need to look at more than MSNBC.
Db
Db you continue with your true strength which is missing the point.
You cannot retrieve – cherry pick – one piece of data out of a sea of information and insist it represents the whole picture. This is the approach of a political hack with an axe to grind.
Think of the 1983 Beirut bombing which killed 240 unarmed Marines in their beds who were sent on a non-mission by Ronald Reagan and Cap Weinberger as a “show of force” to follow their anti-terror tough talk. The Democrats did not leap to the front page with one conspiratorial accusation after another in an attempt to defeat a proper review of this decision; they did not impugn the President’s patriotism; they did not initiate an investigation; they did not use it against him in the election.; they did not say he was “weak”.
When George Bush Imsisted before the world that he was certain Iraq had WMD’s, and when he strutted across the deck of an aircraft carrier after defeating the ragtag Iraqi army declaring “Mission Accomplished; the Democrats did not leap to the front page with accusations about his patriotism; they did not instigate; they did not concoct conspiracy theories; they did not call him a fool.
There are two prominent politicians pushing this manufactured scandal – Congressman Dan Burton who spent two years attempting to prove that Hillary Clinton killed Vince Foster, and Daryl Issa who is an indicted criminal and suspected arsonist – literally a criminal.
Would you mind citing your source of information as I do – I do not see any of this in the credible press.
Just this once will deny truth no matter what if the truth conflicts with her commie propaganda. Yes, only Fox’s Jennifer Griffin has reported on Benghazi and she will win the Pulitzer. Your commie media is defending Obama and actually sitting on the cover up until After the election. If Obama wins , he will be justly impeached. Our mainstream media has shown again, not unlike the Dan Rather document fraud, just before another election, that CBS, NBC, abc, msnbc, CNN, n y times, Washington post etc are just propaganda machines for the extreme Marxist democrat party. I hold you and these entities in extreme contempt. Only way to compare this with watergate is nobody died in water gate and today Woodward and Bernstein would be helping with the break in.
The Wall Street Journal Friday published a dramatic new set of facts and timeline relative to the Benghazi attack….(see JTO’s new article. Admin).