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2013-05-06 Africa North

Hildebeast sought to cut counter-terrorism unit out on night of Benghazi attack

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Posted by Steve White 2013-05-06 07:22|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Apparently he (Thompson) couldn't find a microphone, a sympathetic reporter to leak to, or a TV camera last fall?
Last fall he would probably have still been an active Marine and not free to leak.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-05-06 08:31|| 2013-05-06 08:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Can't everybody just let this go? It happened, like, 32 episodes of "Dancing With The Stars" ago.... /sarc off

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-05-06 08:53|| 2013-05-06 08:53|| Front Page Top

#3 remember how they "disappeared" the survivors and injured? All unavailable for coomment and interview?

Posted by Frank G 2013-05-06 09:33|| 2013-05-06 09:33|| Front Page Top

#4 sleeping well, you sociopathic liar, Hillary?

Posted by Frank G 2013-05-06 09:39|| 2013-05-06 09:39|| Front Page Top

#5 "Don't believe a word you hear. It was not suicide. It couldn't have been." - Assistant Attorney General Webster Hubbell, 7/20/93, cited in Esquire, 11/93.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-06 09:40|| 2013-05-06 09:40|| Front Page Top

#6 "Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out." I, Claudius - Robert Graves.

Preferable, drip by drip, like Chinese water torture.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-05-06 09:59|| 2013-05-06 09:59|| Front Page Top

#7 If true that means Hilde was engaged in cover-up from almost the first minute.

That's not cover-up, that's accessory during.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-05-06 10:09|| 2013-05-06 10:09|| Front Page Top

#8 "What difference does it make".... that was 129 engine changes ago, and we had to duck sniper fire as we walked to the terminal. I need a long rest, my head hurts, I can't remember anything. All I ever wanted was a nice house on 230 acres in the Ozarks. Where are my dark glasses? Vince....Vince.... are you there ?

Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-06 10:10|| 2013-05-06 10:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Like in "Clear and present danger" where they cut the SAT link.

Posted by newc 2013-05-06 10:24|| 2013-05-06 10:24|| Front Page Top

#10 This also meant that the beast was actively engaged in the deliberate placing the life of an uninvolved, innocent (at least in this) American Citizen in direct danger for a political purpose.

In other words she hid behind a 'human shield'. To me that is despicable.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-05-06 12:00|| 2013-05-06 12:00|| Front Page Top

#11 "You should have seen what (Clinton) tried to do to us that night,"

I can only imagine. Too bad the fly on the wall didn't have a recording device.
I see the wagons circling to protect Hillary at all costs. Damage control at it's best.
Anxious to see these liars be thrown out of office, and Hillary be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. Make an example out of her to not allow this crap and coverup to ever happen again.
I too question why these whistleblowers didn't come out soon after the attack when it would have impacted the election. Does make one wonder.

Posted by Jan 2013-05-06 12:46|| 2013-05-06 12:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Not an excuse, but coming out in the immediate few days after the attack in Benghazi, when who knew what and who is to be trusted was still very fluid, you have to face the fact that it was the President, and the power of the White House that any whistleblower was challenging. AT the time the odds looked even to slightly Romney and any insider would know that retribution would be swift and massive if there was any threat to the idea that foreign policy was going well, the Arab Spring was so successful, and the leadership of the administration in Libya's transformation was a joke. So I can understand the calculus of now, when lesser risks accrue, Champ and blow it off, and Hillary isn't the SecState now, might be seen as less risky. Not heroic, but survivor thinking to salvage the career and punch out as a protected whistleblower, especailly since the knives are coming out under JF'nK anyway.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2013-05-06 15:05|| 2013-05-06 15:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Even with the whistle blower information about what happened in the 6 hours following the attack we still can't dismiss the decisions made by the Administration - looking back we can, but in real time there are risk-reward calculations that have to be made and their decision was callous but not provably incorrect.
HOWEVER, there is no excuse for being so ill-prepared before the attack that such a calculation even had to be made, and the provable lies and cover-up that followed go beyond inexcusable into clearly criminal terrain.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-05-06 21:24|| 2013-05-06 21:24|| Front Page Top

#14 State Dept - including Hillary~~(2016!)~~ were well aware of the frequent urgent requests for additional security, yet continued to strip it down. Stevens didn't even have an assigned DOS bodyguard. Wrap your mind around that?

Posted by Frank G 2013-05-06 21:41|| 2013-05-06 21:41|| Front Page Top

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