Benghazi

The NSA Leaker, Benghazi and Washington's Security Scandals

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:40:00 GMT

Source: www.usnews.com --- Tuesday, June 18, 2013
The fact and fiction behind Obama’s security scandals. ...

Gen. Carter Ham (Ret) to testify about Benghazi terror attacks, military response

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:35:28 GMT

Source: www.politicalforum.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
Quote: US general to testify about Benghazi terror attacks, military response By Justin Fishel, Jennifer Griffin Published June 17, 2013 FoxNews.com Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...#ixzz2WWV9zkjG For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks, the four-star general in charge of U.S. military assets in the Africa region will testify before Congress about what happened that night. The hearing has been scheduled for June 26 at 9:00 a.m. ET and will be held by the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Although the hearing will be closed to the public, retired Gen. Carter Ham will finally be questioned about his oversight of military assets in the region while dozens of Americans battled extremists for nearly eight hours in Benghazi on Sept. 11 and 12 . No U.S. military assets other than an unarmed drone were ever provided to assist in the fight. At the time of the attack Ham was serving as Commander of AFRICOM and happened to be in Washington D.C. for meetings. He spent much of the night in the National Military Command Center, a basement office and war operations center in the Pentagon. Ham's retirement was announced just weeks after the incident, sparking rumors that he was being pushed aside after having expressed his desire for a more aggressive military response. Its a claim that Ham and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Martin Dempsey, have strongly denied. Lt. ...

U.S. Africa Command head Carter Ham to testify on Benghazi for first time

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:29:52 GMT

Source: www.cbsnews.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
Gen. Carter Ham was leading U.S. military operations in Africa during the Benghazi embassy attack; hearing will be behind closed doors ...

Ret. Gen. Carter Ham to testify about Benghazi

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:04:12 GMT

Source: www.fireandreamitchell.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
Gen. Carter Ham was reportedly forced into retirement either by the Obama regime or Hillary Clinton because of his knowledge about what really happened in Benghazi. Now that may come back to bite Obama and Hillary Clinton in the ass as Carter Ham will testify on Benghazi and the lack of military response in front of Congress on June 26. For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks, the four-star general in charge of U.S. military assets in the Africa region will testify before Congress about what happened that night. The hearing has been scheduled for June 26 at 9:00 a.m. ET and will be held by the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Although the hearing will be closed to the public, retired Gen. Carter Ham will finally be questioned about his oversight of military assets in the region while dozens of Americans battled extremists for nearly eight hours in Benghazi on Sept. 11 and 12 . No U.S. military assets other than an unarmed drone were ever provided to assist in the fight. At the time of the attack Ham was serving as Commander of AFRICOM and happened to be in Washington D.C. for meetings. He spent much of the night in the National Military Command Center, a basement office and war operations center in the Pentagon. The post Ret. Gen. Carter Ham to testify about Benghazi appeared first on Fire Andrea Mitchell! . ...

General Carter Ham to testify for the first time about Benghazi

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:58:45 GMT

Source: socialismisnottheanswer.wordpress.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
Free Republic Below is from my FNC colleague Justin Fishel: Subject: Fox First: General Carter Ham to testify on Benghazi for first time next week Fox News has learned that the House Armed Services Committee will hold a classified briefing next Weds June 26 at 9:00 on Benghazi. Briefers will include: Gen. Carter Ham (ret.) He was head of AFRICOM during Benghazi attack. LTC Gibson RADM Brian Losey – Special Operations Command Africa This is being coordinated by the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee of the HASC. It will be closed door but will be the first time Ham has been questioned by Congress about his oversight of military assets that were available and why they weren’t sent to Benghazi last Sept 11/12. Ham was in the Pentagon at the time and oversaw the military response. LTC Gibson is the Army Lieutenant Colonel who Greg Hicks said was told to stand down with his 3 other Special Forces when they wanted to go to Benghazi on the morning of Sept 12. We have not heard from him or Admiral Loissy, who was the head of Special Ops in Africa. He was in Europe coordinating from his base in Germany. He can speak to where the Special operations teams or CIF (Commander’s in extremis force) was based and when it was told to deploy and why it wasn’t sent to Libya. Again this will be closed door. (Excerpt) Read more at gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com … ...

Zeidan promises more military aid for Benghazi

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:23:22 GMT

Source: www.libyaherald.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
By Ahmed Elumami Tripoli, 17 June 2013: The Prime Minister, Ali Zeidan, held a security summit in Benghazi on Sunday aimed at boosting security in the city and support for army and police. In attendance were the Deputy Prime Minister Awad Al-Barasi, the Interior Minister Mohamed Al-Sheikh, a dozen Benghazi Congress members and the local [...] ...

No evidence of Ansar Al-Sharia involvement in Benghazi violence – Zeidan

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:49:13 GMT

Source: www.libyaherald.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
By Sami Zaptia. Tripoli, 17 June 2013: Asked about the involvement of the Islamist Ansar Al-Sharia militias in the recent Benghazi violence, Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said that he had no such evidence. Speaking at last night’s live press conference held in Benghazi, Zeidan refused to blame anyone for the violence in Benghazi that has [...] ...

Benghazi Scandal Takes Another Turn Against Obama and Clinton

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:27:11 GMT

Source: politicaloutcast.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
GA_googleFillSlot("PO_300x250"); It seems that in the wake of the IRS and NSA scandals that the Benghazi scandal has almost been forgotten. However the recent admission of Martin Dempsey, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, is certain to bring it all back into the limelight. In the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the US Consulate grounds in Benghazi, The White House and State Department both said that there were no troops or Special Forces that could have reached the consulate in time to help them, even though there were reports that said otherwise. Now we learn that both the White House (Obama) and the State Department (Clinton) were again lying to the American people. According to a statement from Dempsey , a highly trained team of Special Forces, C-110, were within a few hours of Benghazi. The consulate reported that they were under attack early on and the attack lasted over 8 hours. If Dempsey is telling the truth, the Special Forces unit could have been there and possibly save the lives of the four Americans. Dempsey tried to protect the White House and State Department by first saying that the Special Forces unit was more than 6 hours away and that was only if they were setting on the tarmac at the time. He did acknowledge that the unit was training in Croatia. A large commercial jet liner can make the trip in about two and half hours, and sources close to the unit said they could have loaded up and flown to Ben ...

BENGHAZI COVER-UP: HOW TO EXPLAIN SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILES IF THEY ARE USED?

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:58:37 GMT

Source: www.onecitizenspeaking.com --- Sunday, June 16, 2013
Connecting the dots: Syria is engaged in a Muslim (Alawhite/Shia) – Muslim (Sunni) civil war for turf and power. The Saudis (Sunnis) are associated with religious extremism (Whabbism) and may not want to be seen fighting Muslims – so they employ U.S. troops to aid Syria? Or possibly to disadvantage Iran whom they also fear – especially if they get nuclear weapons? The so-called rebels are jihadists – terrorists who hate the United States and Israel, maybe a tad less than they hate apostates like the Alawites and Shia? The rebels are thought to include members of al Qaeda. Possibly funded by Saudi interests in return for spreading world-wide Whabbism and not overthrowing the Kingdom? If terrorists get their hands on ground-to-air missiles, might it obscure weapons that might have been provided through the Obama Administration and the State Department – through the Benghazi, Libya-Turkey connections? If 93,000 people died, where the hell is the United Nations and their protection against genocide or a government attacking its own people? Saudi Arabia wants missiles for Syrian rebels: report Saudi Arabia plans to supply the Syrian opposition with anti-aircraft missiles to counter President Bashar al-Assad's air force, German news weekly Der Spiegel reported Sunday. The article, citing a classified report received by the German foreign intelligence service and the German government last week, said Riyadh was looking at sending Europe ...

Pickering agrees to be questioned over State Department’s Benghazi probe

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:21:13 GMT

Source: www.modbee.com --- Sunday, June 16, 2013
The retired U.S. diplomat who co-chaired an internal State Department review of the 2012 terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, on Wednesday ended his refusal to submit to a closed-door interview with a Republican-led House committee that is investigating the assault. ...

Issa subpoenas Pickering over Benghazi probe, demands closed-door testimony

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:21:13 GMT

Source: www.modbee.com --- Sunday, June 16, 2013
The congressman leading the Republican investigation into last year’s terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, on Friday ordered retired Ambassador Thomas Pickering to submit to questioning behind closed doors next week over an internal State Department review Pickering helped lead into the attacks. ...

Former GOP Rep: Boehner Either Crazy Or Stupid In Approach To Benghazi

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:18:35 GMT

Source: radio.foxnews.com --- Sunday, June 16, 2013
from alan.com Former Republican congressman and Ambassador Fred J. Eckert at Politico points out that the Republican leadership has been blocking the formation of a select committee for more than six months in favor of allowing six different investigations. Boehner and his team are foolishly insisting on letting all six House committees that can claim any bit of jurisdiction for investigating what went wrong with Benghazi do so — Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, Judiciary, Armed Services, Homeland Security and Oversight and Government Reform — despite the fact that each is restricted to its own narrow scope. This wastes time, duplicates effort and stymies clear focus. Why insist on investigating the Benghazi scandal in such a maladroit manner? Because it: 1) frees Boehner from having to decide who should chair the investigation, thereby saving him from possibly offending the ones not selected; 2) enables six different committee chairs to bask in the spotlight as star of their very own investigation; and 3) gives every member who serves on one of these six committees — all 239 of them, or more than half of the House — a chance to appear on prime-time national television… Boehner’s way is a gift to Barack Obama. It enables the president and his apologists to deflect attention from the core issue by railing against how the Republicans have unleashed not one but six separate committees with 133 Republican members all trying to damage h ...

Benghazi, Immigration, Syria: Rightbloggers Smear NSA (and Obama) on Everything

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:49:16 GMT

Source: blogs.villagevoice.com --- Sunday, June 16, 2013
The NSA controversy, which continues to develop, has been useful in a lot of ways. It's gotten people talking after a long period of quiet about the surveillance powers of the state -- and wherea... ...

Cheney: "Bad Call" By Obama Not To Use Military To Assist In Benghazi

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:51:58 GMT

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com --- Sunday, June 16, 2013
CHRIS WALLACE: Let's talk about Benghazi, which you raised in the last segment. There is a general principle in the military, no one left behind. But back after Benghazi, then secretary of defense, Leon Panetta, said that that wasn't possible during -- given the specific circumstances during the terror attacks in Benghazi. Let's take a look. WALLACE: Given the circumstances that night and what we have been told about the deployment of forces, was the decision by the president and the Pentagon not to send U.S. forces during those seven hours to try to rescue our people on the ground, was that an appropriate decision or not? FMR VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY: I don't think it was. My experience was, especially on 9/11, Chris, especially in that part of the world, where we anticipated that al Qaeda might well try to mark the anniversary, if you will, of 9/11 with an attack, especially on a location where they had an enormous amount of intelligence that said the -- the consulate is in danger. You get the broadcast. The first thing that comes out of the embassy is the ambassador saying we are under attack. We should have been on the step before that ever happened. We were always prepared, had groups and organizations, teams ready to go operate at the drop of a hat and practice exactly that kind of operation. I found it difficult to reconcile. Leon, and I like him, he's a good man, but to reconcile his statement that we couldn't have done ...

Andrea Mitchell Parrots Right-Wing Talking Points on Benghazi, IRS

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:00:00 GMT

Source: crooksandliars.com --- Sunday, June 16, 2013
Click here to view this media Who needs Fox when we've got Villager extraordinaire and MSNBC host Mrs. Greenspan, a.k.a. Andrea Mitchell doing their dirty work for them on this Sunday's Meet the Press? I guess she got the recent memo with the latest GOP talking points on the scandal mongering we've been seeing for months on end, because that's exactly what she was reading from here as part of the panel discussing these NSA leaks. ANDREA MITCHELL: General, one of the things that I think has been written about from both the left and the right, Peggy Noonan wrote about it this weekend, is that there is a lack of confidence in the government, which has evolved a variety of administrations. So when you say, "Trust me, this data, the metadata are stored and we're not going to go into it unless there's a court order, unless it's because of a terrorist plot, and then if a judge orders that, it's then turned over to the F.B.I. and then they can pursue and look at the context, so we've got the numbers, but we're not looking, we're not reading." But people no longer, after Benghazi, after I.R.S. certainly, and after a lot of other things, don't have confidence in their government. And that is leading to a disaffection and a disconnection, that going forward is very troubling. You know what's actually "very troubling" Mrs. Greenspan? When people who call themselves reporters continue to prop up fake "scandals" and conflate them with real one ...

NBC’s Andrea Mitchell: After Benghazi And IRS Scandals, People Have Lost Confidence In Government – 6/16/13

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:18:28 GMT

Source: uneditedpolitics.com --- Sunday, June 16, 2013
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nomosshere: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell: After Benghazi And IRS...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:06:12 GMT

Source: stuff-that-irks-me.tumblr.com --- Sunday, June 16, 2013
nomosshere : NBC’s Andrea Mitchell: After Benghazi And IRS Scandals, People Have Lost Confidence In Big Government! ...

Andrew Lawrence: Fox News Sunday Revives Benghazi Conspiracy Campaign With The Help Of Dick Cheney

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:09:20 GMT

Source: mediamatters.org --- Sunday, June 16, 2013
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, with the help of guest Dick Cheney, peddled a number of long-debunked myths about the September 11, 2012, attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, including the false claims that President Obama and the Pentagon decided to abandon Americans during the attacks, that troops could have reached Libya in time, and that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice purposely deceived the American public about the attack. During a June 16 Fox News Sunday interview with former Vice President Cheney, Wallace claimed that the president and the Pentagon decided not to send any assistance to the U.S. forces and citizens under attack in Benghazi: Wallace's suggestion that the president and the Pentagon coordinated such a decision ignores known facts about the circumstances and deployment of forces that night. During a February 7 Senate hearing , then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testified that President Obama had "directed both myself and General Dempsey to do everything we needed to do to try to protect lives there." During the same hearing, Panetta later said , "[Obama] basically said, 'do whatever you need to do to be able to protect our people" in Benghazi the night of the attacks. Following that conversation with the president, Panetta ordered two anti-terrorism security teams stationed in Spain to Libya and deployed another special operations team to the region. These forces arrived after the attacks ...

Man Behind Syrian Chemical Weapons Claim Is Fiction Writer Who Ran Benghazi Cover-Up

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:19:20 GMT

Source: anti-propaganda.tumblr.com --- Sunday, June 16, 2013
Man Behind Syrian Chemical Weapons Claim Is Fiction Writer Who Ran Benghazi Cover-Up : Yesterday, Rhodes announced that the White House had “high confidence” that the Syrian Army had used chemical weapons, providing no evidence, and that the Obama administration would now take steps to arm FSA rebels, who as has been widely documented are being led by Al-Qaeda terrorists who killed U.S. troops in Iraq. The Wall Street Journal also reports that a no fly zone is being prepared that would embroil the United States in yet another war. 35-year-old Rhodes has been a speechwriter for Obama since 2007 and now enjoys the role of deputy national security adviser for strategic communication. He created the infamous term “kinetic military action” to describe the bombardment of Libya which allowed Obama to skirt around the constitutional question of having to declare war. Rhodes’ expertise revolves around manufacturing narratives. “He earned a master’s degree in fiction-writing from New York University just a few years ago,” writes Ed Lansky . “He did not have a degree in government, diplomacy, national security; nor has he served in the CIA, or the military. He was toiling away not that long ago on a novel called ‘The Oasis of Love” about a mega church in Houston, a dog track, and a failed romance.” As Stephen Hayes documents in a lengthy Weekly Standard piece , Rhodes was instrumental in altering CIA talking points to delete references to ...