House Republicans' Report Sheds New Light on Benghazi Attack

[Acebb]

Obama, Hillary, and Ben Rhodes are just absolutely disgusting human beings. They did not give one shit that people were dying, they only cared about the political fallout.


The report highlights the military's failure to carry out Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's order to deploy forces to Benghazi and the lengthy delay that prevented the military assets from arriving at the embassy in Tripoli until 2 p.m. the day after the Benghazi attack.

"What was disturbing from the evidence the Committee found was that at the time of the final lethal attack at the Annex, no asset ordered deployed by the Secretary had even left the ground," the report states.

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The military was delayed because State was worried it would like like an "invasion of Libya" and the Marines changed uniforms 4 times.

Politico highlights the focus of the calls with Clinton:

Finally, Barack Obama skipped his daily intelligence briefing one day after the Benghazi attacks. On September 12, 2012, after losing the 1st US Ambassador in 30 years, the President couldn't be bothered with an intel briefing.

What a pile of shit this guy is.

 

[Acebb]

By the way, I watched 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi movie, and after watching the bravery displayed by those men (and AMB Stevens, who was widely admired), you can’t help but feel utter disgust and anger for Obama & Hillary. They are just complete garbage, people who have done nothing but use government to enrich themselves and as a tool to punish those with whom they disagree politically.

A sane country would have impeached the President after this failure.

 

[GasMan]

Remember this happened just before the 2012 election cycle...they are horrible human beings.

 

[vitterd]

That movie is garbage and geared towards idiot conservatives.

"There never was a stand down order. I thought I would regret it if I didn't speak out about the inaccuracies. So much of this information has been wrong"---CIA officer in charge that night in Benghazi.

 

[Acebb]

That movie is garbage and geared towards idiot conservatives.

"There never was a stand down order. I thought I would regret it if I didn't speak out about the inaccuracies. So much of this information has been wrong"---CIA officer in charge that night in Benghazi.

Bob said he was familiar with the contents of the book but had not seen the movie, which opened Friday. Scenes from the film were described to him by a Washington Post reporter.
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The book and film, by contrast, blame Bob for blocking the departure of security operators until it was too late. The author of the book, Mitchell Zuckoff, said in a telephone interview that he stands by the depiction and that it is based on first-hand accounts.

“I think the evidence is extremely strong that the guys’ account is far more credible” than that of the CIA chief, Zuckoff said. He said he made multiple requests through the CIA to speak with Bob but that those requests were denied.




I take the word of the guy who bungled the situation and who did not see the movie!!



What a fucking idiot this clown is. Just a total fucking moron.

 

[Acebb]

That movie is garbage and geared towards idiot conservatives.

"There never was a stand down order. I thought I would regret it if I didn't speak out about the inaccuracies. So much of this information has been wrong"---CIA officer in charge that night in Benghazi.

You didn't see the movie, dumb fuck.

You got your "facts" from Raw Story. Yes, you actually read that pathetic fucking Web site.

Further, the attack on the Ambassador and any stand down order, are only a small part of the movie. You would know that if you actually watched it, you utter fucking dipshit.

 

[vitterd]

GOP operatives were giving screenings of this movie to their supporters. Typical political bullshit. No shock the same idiots buy it.

 

[SheriffJoe]

Bob said he was familiar with the contents of the book but had not seen the movie, which opened Friday. Scenes from the film were described to him by a Washington Post reporter.
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The book and film, by contrast, blame Bob for blocking the departure of security operators until it was too late. The author of the book, Mitchell Zuckoff, said in a telephone interview that he stands by the depiction and that it is based on first-hand accounts.

“I think the evidence is extremely strong that the guys’ account is far more credible” than that of the CIA chief, Zuckoff said. He said he made multiple requests through the CIA to speak with Bob but that those requests were denied.




I take the word of the guy who bungled the situation and who did not see the movie!!



What a fucking idiot this clown is. Just a total fucking moron.

At least he didn't make up quotes from dead people like he did in Offshore debating Enfuego.

@)

 

[ScottL]

She even lied to her own daughter about it thecunt

 

[superbeets]

HE BENGHAZI REPORT: THE BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS

The final report from the Republican majority in Congress about the 2012 Benghazi terror attack focuses on five major conclusions:



THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FOCUSED ON POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS AS THE ATTACK WAS STILL GOING ON.
A meeting convened with cabinet secretaries' deputies during the attack largely concerned how to frame the terrorists as protesters inspired by an anti-Islam YouTube video.
And in a subsequent memo, a White House national security aide identified one 'goal': 'to underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.'





THE U.S. MILITARY NEVER SENT ANY ARMED FORCES TO FIGHT OR MOUNT A RESCUE AS THE BENGHAZI COMPOUND BURNED.
No Pentagon assets were headed to Benghazi at any point in the attack, other than two unarmed observation drones and a detachment of armed men who 'self-deployed' to help, without orders to do so.
One of those volunteers was killed within minutes of arriving.
The report states: 'The first asset to arrive in Libya – a Marine ‘FAST’ platoon – did not arrive until nearly 24 hours after the attack began. What is troubling is that the administration never set in motion a plan to go to Benghazi in the first place. It is one thing to try and fail; it is yet another not to try at all.'




THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS ARRESTED JUST ONE TERRORIST WHO WAS ALLEGEDLY CONNECTED TO THE BENGHAZI ATTACK.
Despite the arrest of the filmmaker behind the red-herring YouTube video, only a single person has been captured among the dozens who fired guns and mortars at American personnel.






THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TOSSED UP ROADBLOCKS TO IMPEDE THE INVESTIGATION BY REFUSING TO LET KEY WITNESSES TESTIFY.
The White House 'stonewalled at virtually every turn,' the report declares.
Still, the revelation of Hillary Clinton's secret email account was one product of the investigation.
Perhaps as a result, the administration refused Congress any access to people who were in the Situation Room on the night of the attack, and refused to let investigators see any emails between White House aides.




THE BENGHAZI COMPOUND WAS VULNERABLE BECAUSE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DIDN'T WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE WEAKNESSES IN WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ITS CROWNING DIPLOMATIC ACHIEVEMENT BY BEEFING UP SECURITY.
While every other Western country abandoned Libya, America's diplomatic mission remained, and stayed largely unprotected because the State Department designated it 'temporary,' removing the requirement that it have military security at all times.
'Secretary Clinton pushed for the U.S. to intervene in Libya, which at the time represented one of her signature achievements,' the report concludes.
'To leave Benghazi would have been viewed as her failure and prompted unwelcome scrutiny of her choices.'

 

[superbeets]

[h=1]Hillary and Obama administration lied about Benghazi 'video' story at every turn because they were 'just 8 weeks before an election,' says GOP congressman as Republicans release scathing report on 2012 terror attack[/h]

• Long-awaited report goes into detail over 800 pages on the causes and aftermath of 2012 Benghazi, Libya terror attack on a State Dept. compound
• Slams the Obama administration for pretending publicly that the attack was a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Islam video made in the U.S.
• Hillary Clinton, then the secretary of state, told her family members and foreign leaders that the administration knew it was a planned terror attack
• Now Republican committee members say Obama's political considerations just eight weeks before an election trumped safety concerns in Libya

By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 13:44, 28 June 2016 | UPDATED: 18:06, 28 June 2016

 

[superbeets]

Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee claimed Tuesday that the Obama White House and Hillary Clinton lied repeatedly to the American people about the nature of and reasons for the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya, even as they privately acknowledged what caused them.
A scathing report provides new ammunition against Clinton, then the secretary of state, and turn the assault on an under-protected U.S. diplomatic compound and a nearby CIA facility into the election-year issue it was always destined to be.
Republicans' central argument is that the Obama White House chose to deceive Americans rather than risk the public relations nightmare of admitting terrorists had struck Americans overseas, less than two months before Obama's re-election day.
'They misled the American people and said, "We can't tell the truth. We can't talk about how bad the security situation was. We can't talk about the fact that, that this was a terrorist attack. we have to mislead the American people because we are just eight weeks before an election",' Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, one of the committee's Republican members, claimed Monday morning on CNN.




The panel's chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, and other Republicans also accuse the Obama administration of stonewalling important documents and witnesses.
Democrats say the panel's main goal is to undermine Clinton's presidential hopes.
The attacks killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.
White House chose to focus on the YouTube video
Almost immediately, the White House went into spin mode, publicly blaming the carnage on local protests over an anti-Islam YouTube video that was made in America.
That turned out not to be the case, and Monday's report includes emails and testimony showing the administration knew it at the time.
Clinton said publicly as her Benghazi facilities were still smoldering that 'some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet.'
But in a phone call with Libyan president Mohammed al Magariaf, Clinton correctly fingered Ansar al Sharia, al Qaeda’s affiliate on the Arabian Peninsula, as the cause.
'[O]ur diplomatic mission was attacked[.] . . . [T]here is a gun battle ongoing, which I understand Ansar as-Sharia [sic] is claiming responsibility for,' a note-taker recorded Clinton telling al Magariaf

 

[superbeets]

Clinton also emailed her daughter during the fog of the event: 'Two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an Al Queda-like [sic] group.'

And she told Egypt’s prime minister a day later: 'We know that the attacks in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack – not a protest.'
'None of the information coming directly from the agents on the ground in Benghazi during the attacks mentioned anything about a video or a protest. The firsthand accounts made their way to the office of the Secretary through multiple channels quickly,' the Benghazi committee's majority report concludes.
In one example, a senior watch officer serving at the diplomatic security command of the State Department called the 2012 devastation 'a full on attack against our compound.'
A colleague asked him if saw or heard any protests before the shooting and bombing began, he replied: 'zip, nothing, nada.'
Families of the fallen accuse Hillary of lying to them
Clinton has come under fire from family members of the U.S. personnel killed in Benghazi, who say she personally told them the government would seek justice against the video's creator.
Democrats released a report Monday stating that Clinton never personally denied any requests from diplomats for additional security at the U.S. outpost in Benghazi.




They said after a two-year investigation that the military could not have done anything differently that night to save the lives of four Americans killed in Libya.

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POLITICS: Donald Trump's campaign has already leaped on reports from family members of Benghazi victims who say she told them personally that their loved ones perished because of a protest over a YouTube video

But the report itself argues that delays in the Obama administration's response to the deadly attacks were caused by slow decision-making and political considerations.
White House was consumed with politics, not rescue
During a senior level meeting convened at the White House just three hours into the attack – attended by senior deputies to cabinet secretaries, including Clinton's – conversations focused on how to frame the attack as a protest gone bad, not on how to ensure the safe extraction of Stevens.
'Nothing was sent to Benghazi, and nothing was en route to Libya at the time the last two Americans were killed almost 8 hours after the attacks began,' the report concludes.
'With Ambassador Stevens missing, the White House convened a roughly two-hour meeting at 7:30 PM, which resulted in action items focused on a YouTube video,' committee members wrote.
Other 'action items' contained 'the phrases "f any deployment is made," and "Libya must agree to any deployment," and "[w]ill not deploy until order comes to go to either Tripoli or Benghazi".'
The administration's spokespersons later insisted that deploying military rapid-reaction forces based in Italy and elsewhere into the Libyan port city would have been a waste of time given the short duration of the attacks.
But some witnesses told the congressional committee that there was no way to know at the outset how many hours it might have gone on.

 

[bilbal]

That movie is garbage and geared towards idiot conservatives.

"There never was a stand down order. I thought I would regret it if I didn't speak out about the inaccuracies. So much of this information has been wrong"---CIA officer in charge that night in Benghazi.

Bob? seriously? Bob? face)(*^%

How about this quote??
"There was a stand down order. I thought I would regret it if I didn't speak out about the accurateness. So much of this information was absolutely correct" ---Steve, CIA officer in charge of something.

Or this one?
"This movie was nonsense, not a single truth to it." --- Mike, CIA officer in charge of not watching the movie.

What about this quote??
"This movie was a dead on accurate recreation of what happened." ---Dave, CIA officer in charge of anyone who wasn't in charge of something else

I wonder what Pete had to say about it. What about Paul, and Andrew, can we get John to chime in?

 

[vitterd]

Bob? seriously? Bob? face)(*^%

How about this quote??
"There was a stand down order. I thought I would regret it if I didn't speak out about the accurateness. So much of this information was absolutely correct" ---Steve, CIA officer in charge of something.

Or this one?
"This movie was nonsense, not a single truth to it." --- Mike, CIA officer in charge of not watching the movie.

What about this quote??
"This movie was a dead on accurate recreation of what happened." ---Dave, CIA officer in charge of anyone who wasn't in charge of something else

I wonder what Pete had to say about it. What about Paul, and Andrew, can we get John to chime in?

I don't think anybody is disputing who he is..... that he doesn't want his real name out there.....well, except you and you're a widely known fucking idiot.

 

[SheriffJoe]

House panel investigating deadly Benghazi terrorist attack faults Obama administration response —
finds Clinton knowingly misled public

• QADDAFI REVELATION: Americans in Benghazi were rescued by deposed dictator's militia
• READ THE REPORT: FULL HOUSE BENGHAZI PANEL FINDINGS
• FLASHBACK: Military timeline of Benghazi attack begs questions
• VIDEO: Partisan standoff over Benghazi report
  
• TIMELINE: Clinton reaction to Benghazi attack
• PROTECTION QUESTIONED: Clinton never personally denied Benghazi security
• NEW BATCH RELEASED: Deleted Clinton emails emerge in latest dump

 

[SheriffJoe]

Remember this happened just before the 2012 election cycle...they are horrible human beings.

Republicans will never win elections until they recognize they are dealing with evil and play the game accordingly.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Republicans will never win elections until they recognize they are dealing with evil and play the game accordingly.

Enter Donald Trump.

 

[vitterd]

Trump is not a conservative. That's why he has a chance in November.

 

[bilbal]

I don't think anybody is disputing who he is..... that he doesn't want his real name out there.....well, except you and you're a widely known fucking idiot.

Yes there is no disputing that, as a CIA officer, "Bob" is a world class expert in lying, deceit, deception and creating false narratives. Simpletons are brainwashed to immediately accept what a CIA officer says as fact and to never, ever question it.
He's a CIA officer....OF COURSE he's telling us the truth! Don't stop believing!