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Skip to comments.The Benghazi Scandal Grows (Long article)
Posted on 05/10/2013 6:01:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
CIA director David Petraeus was surprised when he read the freshly rewritten talking points an aide had emailed him in the early afternoon of Saturday, September 15. One day earlier, analysts with the CIAs Office of Terrorism Analysis had drafted a set of unclassified talking points policymakers could use to discuss the attacks in Benghazi, Libya. But this new versionproduced with input from senior Obama administration policymakerswas a shadow of the original.
The original CIA talking points had been blunt: The assault on U.S. facilities in Benghazi was a terrorist attack conducted by a large group of Islamic extremists, including some with ties to al Qaeda.
These were strong claims. The CIA usually qualifies its assessments, providing policymakers a sense of whether the conclusions of its analysis are offered with high confidence, moderate confidence, or low confidence. That first draft signaled confidence, even certainty: We do know that Islamic extremists with ties to al Qaeda participated in the attack.
There was good reason for this conviction. Within 24 hours of the attack, the U.S. government had intercepted communications between two al Qaeda-linked terrorists discussing the attacks in Benghazi. One of the jihadists, a member of Ansar al Sharia, reported to the other that he had participated in the assault on the U.S. diplomatic post. Solid evidence. And there was more. Later that same day, the CIA station chief in Libya had sent a memo back to Washington, reporting that eyewitnesses to the attack said the participants were known jihadists, with ties to al Qaeda.
Before circulating the talking points to administration policymakers in the early evening of Friday, September 14, CIA officials changed Islamic extremists with ties to al Qaeda to simply Islamic extremists. But elsewhere, they added new contextual references to radical Islamists. They noted that initial press reports pointed to Ansar al Sharia involvement and added a bullet point highlighting the fact that the agency had warned about another potential attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in the region. On 10 September we warned of social media reports calling for a demonstration in front of the [Cairo] Embassy and that jihadists were threatening to break into the Embassy. All told, the draft of the CIA talking points that was sent to top Obama administration officials that Friday evening included more than a half-dozen references to the enemyal Qaeda, Ansar al Sharia, jihadists, Islamic extremists, and so on.
The version Petraeus received in his inbox Saturday, however, had none. The only remaining allusion to the bad guys noted that extremists might have participated in violent demonstrations.
In an email at 2:44 p.m. to Chip Walter, head of the CIAs legislative affairs office, Petraeus expressed frustration at the new, scrubbed talking points, noting that they had been stripped of much of the content his agency had provided. Petraeus noted with evident disappointment that the policymakers had even taken out the line about the CIAs warning on Cairo. The CIA director, long regarded as a team player, declined to pick a fight with the White House and seemed resigned to the propagation of the administrations preferred narrative. The final decisions about what to tell the American people rest with the national security staff, he reminded Walter, and not with the CIA.
This candid, real-time assessment from then-CIA director Petraeus offers a glimpse of what many intelligence officials were saying privately as top Obama officials set aside the truth about Benghazi and spun a fanciful tale about a movie that never mattered and a demonstration that never happened.
The YouTube video was a nonevent in Libya, said Gregory Hicks, a 22-year veteran diplomat and deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Tripoli at the time of the attacks, in testimony before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on May 8. The only report that our mission made through every channel was that there had been an attack on a consulate . . . no protest.
So how did Jay Carney, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and others come to sell the country a spurious narrative about a movie and a protest?
There are still more questions than answers. But one previously opaque aspect of the Obama administrations efforts is becoming somewhat clearer. An email sent to Susan Rice following a key White House meeting where officials coordinated their public story lays out what happened in that meeting and offers more clues about who might have rewritten the talking points.
The CIAs talking points, the ones that went out that Friday evening, were distributed via email to a group of top Obama administration officials. Forty-five minutes after receiving them, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland expressed concerns about their contents, particularly the likelihood that members of Congress would criticize the State Department for not paying attention to Agency warnings. CIA officials responded with a new draft, stripped of all references to Ansar al Sharia.
In an email a short time later, Nuland wrote that the changes did not resolve all my issues or those of my building leadership. She did not specify whom she meant by State Department building leadership. Ben Rhodes, a top Obama foreign policy and national security adviser, responded to the group, explaining that Nuland had raised valid concerns and advising that the issues would be resolved at a meeting of the National Security Councils Deputies Committee the following morning. The Deputies Committee consists of high-ranking officials at the agencies with responsibility for national securityincluding State, Defense, and the CIAas well as senior White House national security staffers.
What the Hearings Mean
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This is what good journalism is all about.
These people should rot in hell. The families of the our lost Americans should sue them all...all of them.
Lastly, and maybe the most disappointing for me was the gutless Petreaus. Was he blackmailed to go along with this BS? What kind of "soldier" was this guy? I'll tell you...Sad Sack.
Do we have anyone...anyone in this God Forsaken government, (and media) of ours who can stand up to these people who are controlling our lives as though we are cattle?
That fact that it doesn't matter to the majority of Americans makes me sick.
Nixon stepped down from the presidency for far less. Mainly because his own party demanded it of him. Will the democrats sit back...and the media.. and continue to defend these hacks?
I'm sick of it...and I can't take it any more.
Thanks, That AmericanThinker article sure sounds a whole lot different from what I saw reported on cBS news last night.
Patreuas was run out of town (resigned) less than 2 months after the attack. Draw your own conclusions after reading Steven Hayes' most recent article.
Why are you shrugging this off. Is your real name Jay Carney?
My conclusion is that he had an opportunity to stand up and courageously do what was right. It would have changed the whole complexion of the election...probably would have resulted in Obama and company getting run out of town.
Instead this gutless wonder..said nothing...because he was probably told that if he told the truth he'd be exposed...
Well guess what, dumb @ss, you didn't tell the truth...and you got run out of Washington...and what's worse? You still haven't come clean.
He should be brought up to congress and asked to explain why he was complicit with these people...
Every aspect of thie administration...every aspect...is one of incompetency and politics. Take your pick.
Strange, Kaslin ... you must not read me. Moving on.
You post a YouTube video by Rascal Flatts that has nothing to do with the article
"The final decisions about what to tell the American people rest with the national security staff, he reminded Walter, and not with the CIA."
Not when you are called to testify before Congress, General Petraeus. You should have come clean then, instead of folding to these scumbags.
Seems Obama issued the 'stand down' directive if not direct order & Hillary ran the cover-up.
As Issa gets the facts and testimony on both, the MSM will have to pick sides.
Who will they seek to protect and who will they have to throw under the bus.
The latter group is far more dangerous and I suspect the higher one gets along the food chain the more carnivorous the ideologues. These people were put in place by Obama and by Hillary for their usefulness and for their commitment to the cause. The cause is roughly that America is the last great obstacle to the nirvana of world government and the nationstate as such is really not worth defending, indeed, it is to be done away with, especially in the one nation state which stands athwart the March of Socialism screaming, "stop!"
It is striking how many people colluded in a cover-up to protect the institution, the presidential candidate, and the secretary of state, without considering the good of the country. What kind of culture exists in the upper reaches of this administration?
I believe that most of them will, because they have the same agenda. They hate America because they never understood her or, for some strange reason, despised what she represented.
Winston Smith surely was working overtime that day!!!
In spite of those who hate America ... I know ... We Shall Win. I believe this with all my heart and soul. My Faith is Not Shattered and on Pieces on the Ground. Our Heads Must Be Up and Standing for Justice. This Forum Does Just That!
I recall thinking that Petraeus was the one who would step up and tell the truth when this whole thing was happening.But unfortunately for us,he was having an affair and was totally compromised.And then exposed anyway.
From that article.
Fourth, there was indeed a "stand down" order preventing U.S. special forces from defending the Consulate, Hicks confirmed. Special forces at the U.S. embassy in Tripoli were ordered to "stand down" by General Carter F. Ham, Commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM).
Lt. Col. Gibson was a commander assigned to the embassy in Tripoli from Special Operations Command Africa (SOCAFRICA). Gibson and the special forces team were "furious" at being ordered not to help the diplomats in Benghazi, Hicks testified. Hicks quoted Gibson as saying, "This is the first time in my career that a diplomat has more balls than somebody in the military."
Hicks had arranged from Libya's government a C-130 aircraft owned by Libya to fly to Benghazi to evacuate the Consulate. Col. Gibson and Hicks agreed that the special forces team would fly on the C-130 to Benghazi to protect the diplomats being evacuated. But over the summer, authority over the special forces contingent in Libya had been transferred from the embassy to AFRICOM. Gen. Ham ordered the special forces team to stay in Tripoli.
These were highly-trained individuals with specialized skills who would have played crucial roles in Benghazi. They were also fresh troops to relieve the exhausted team in Benghazi after fighting all night.
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We Are Americans ... If It Is Broke We Fix It!
Stop posting music video's to threads - it just eats up bandwidth and storage.
As you wish. Made my point anyways! Bye.
We all know the how the MSM would respond if this happened under Bush.
The constrast is stark and clear.
The MSM will turn their back to any transgression by Dems regardless how depraved. While seizing on the slightest faux-pas from the right.
As I watch the media define an investigation into the muders of our Lybian Diplomats by terrorists as a purely politicol exercise, I am sick to my stomach and disgusted with these Jounalista traitors and cowards who cloak themselves in the false hood of objectivity.
We are surrounded and the greatest enemy of all is our fellow Americans who call themselves DEMOCRATS!
Call me cynical but this won't go anywhere if the media is in defense mode and all Dems circle the wagons. In Watergate, there was media interest and a handful of Repubs who also wanted to get to the truth. Both of those factors missing here.
Bad faith and Benghazi
Jonah Goldberg Tribune Media Services
4:30 a.m. CDT, May 10, 2013
"But we do know they deceived the public. Which brings us back to the lies over the video. In the wake of Benghazi, the country endured an intense debate over how much free speech we could afford because of the savage intolerance of rioters half a world away. Obama and Clinton fueled this debate by incessantly blaming the video — as if the First Amendment was the problem.
Clinton and Obama both swore oaths to support and defend the Constitution. But after failing to support and defend Americans left to die, they blamed the Constitution for their failure. That's what difference it makes."
Read at:
Any 'soldier' who gets as high as Petraeus did is a politician more than he is a soldier.
looking good.
It does seem as tho' an awful lot of people are collecting paychecks for not doing their jobs. With the disclosure yesterday of the lack of coordination between the FBI and the Boston Police Department, a good house cleaning is in order in this administration.
You make it apparent that you have no clue how HTML LINKS work.
Posting a link to a video takes up no more 'bandwidth' or 'storage' than the comment you just made.
"Your turn.
The money is in your account."
the abc online blog about the scrubbed talking points is so behind,,it is getting hit hard! People are responding,,thankfully!
Hey Don Corleone!!
Above is from the article. I do not recall this statement from Hicks.
As I remember it, Hicks said the stand-down order came from either AFRICOM or SOCAfrica. I also think he suggested asking Lt. Col. Gibson---that he would know.
Does anyone else recall Hick's testimony?
From the article:
"The CIA director, long regarded as a team player, declined to pick a fight with the White House and seemed resigned to the propagation of the administrations preferred narrative.
The final decisions about what to tell the American people rest with the national security staff, he reminded Walter, and not with the CIA."
Chris Stevens was unavailable for comment.
/public service announcement
Stop being so pessimistic it makes you a loser. I am not willing to give up
How were things in Cuba and Miami?/snicker
Transcript: Whistle-blower's account of Sept. 11 Libya terror attack
Published May 08, 2013 | FoxNews.com
The following is the transcript of Gregory Hicks' testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the events of Sept. 11, 2012, in Libya.
GREGORY HICKS, FORMER DEPUTY CHIEF OF MISSION IN LIBYA: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As -- as I remember September 11, 2012, it was a routine day at our embassy, and until we saw the news about Cairo - and I remember sending a text message to Ambassador Stevens saying, ``Chris, are you aware of what's going on in Cairo?'' And he said no. So I told him that the embassy -- in another text - that the embassy had been stormed, and they were trying to tear down our flag. And he said, ``Thanks very much.'' And, you know, then I went on with -- with -- with business.
Closed -- closed the day, and I went back to my villa and was relaxing, watching a television show that I particularly like, and at 9:45 p.m. -- and all times will be Libyan times, a six-hour time difference -- the RSO John Martinec ran into my villa yelling, ``Greg! Greg! The consulate's under attack.'' And I stood up and reached for my phone because I had an inkling or thought that perhaps the ambassador had tried to call me to relay the same message. And I found two missed calls on the phone, one from the ambassador's phone and one from a phone number I didn't recognize.
And I punched the phone number I didn't recognize, and I got the ambassador on the other end. And he said, ``Greg, we're under attack.'' And I was walking out of the villa, on my way to the Tactical Operations Center, because I knew we would all have to gather there to mobilize or try to mobilize a response. And it was also a -- a bad cell phone night in Tripoli. Connections were weak. And I said, ``OK,'' and the line cut.
As I walked to the Tactical Operations Center, I tried to reach back on both of the numbers, the unknown number and the ambassador's personal number and got no response. When I got to the Tactical Operations Center, I told people that the ambassador -- that I had just talked to the ambassador and what he said. At the time, John Martinec was on the phone with Alec Henderson in Benghazi, the RSO there, and I asked one of our D.S. agents who -- what number did I reach Ambassador Stevens on.
And he said, ``Oh, that's Scott Wickland's telephone. Scott Wickland was Ambassador Steven's agent in charge, his personal escort for that night, and was with him in the villa during the attack. So I asked -- when John Martinec got off the telephone, I asked him what was going on. And he said that the consulate had been breached, and there were at least 20 hostile individuals armed in the -- in the compound at the time. So I next called the annex chief to ask him if he was in touch with the Benghazi annex to activate our emergency response plan.
REP. DARRELL ISSA: "Please explain the annex chief so that people that don't know as much would understand that. No, go ahead, please."
HICKS: "OK, thank you. And he said that he had been in touch with the annex in Benghazi, and they said they were mobilizing a response team there to go to the -- to our facility and provide reinforcements and to repel the attack.
With that knowledge, I called the operations center at the State Department, approximately 10 p.m. to report the attack and what we were doing to respond to it. The next thing I did was to begin calling the senior officials in the government of Libya that I knew at the time. And so, I dialed first the President Magariaf's chief of staff and reported the attack and asked for immediate assistance from the government of Libya to assist our folks in Benghazi.
I followed that up with a call to the prime minister's chief of staff to make the same request and then to the MFA, America's director. MFA is Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The defense attache was, at the same time, calling the leadership of Libya's military with the same purpose, to ask them for assistance.
Once that was done, I called again to Washington to report that these -- actions had been commenced. Over the night we -- over that night, that is basically how our team operated. I was talking to the government of -- of Libya, reporting to the State -- State Department through the operations center, and also staying in touch with the annex chief about what was going on.
Let me step back one minute, if I could, and say that I also discussed with the annex chief about mobilizing a Tripoli response team, and we agreed that we would move forward with a -- chartering a plane from Tripoli to fly a response team to Benghazi to provide additional reinforcements. The defense attache was also reporting through his chain of command, back to AFRICOM and to the joint staff here in Washington about what was going on in the country. David McFarland, our political section chief, had just returned from Benghazi, where he had been our principle officer for the previous 10 days. And so, he jumped into this picture by reaching out to his contacts in - in Benghazi and trying to get them, at the local level there, to respond to the attack. And he also was in touch with our local employee there, as well -- excuse me if I check my notes here.
This is a long -- the attack unfolded in four phases or the night unfolded in four phases. The first phase was the attack on our consulate. This story is well known, I think.
The Benghazi response -- the consulate was invaded, the -- Villa C where the ambassador and Sean Smith and Scott Wickland were hiding in the safe area was set on fire. The attackers also went into another building. They were unable to enter the tactical operations center in Benghazi, because of improvements to that facility that had been made.
They -- Scott attempted to lead the ambassador and Sean Smith out of the burning building. He managed to make it out. He tried repeatedly to go back in to try to rescue Sean and the ambassador but had to stop due to exposure to smoke.
The response team from from the annex in Benghazi, six individuals, drove the attackers out of our compound, and secured it temporarily. There have been estimates as high as 60 attackers were in the compound at one particular time. There were repeated attempts by all of the RSOs and by the response team from the annex to go into the burning building and recover -- try to save Sean and the ambassador. They found Sean's body and pulled it out but he was no longer responsive.
They did not find the ambassador.
I spoke with a medical officer, one of our medical officers after the attack and the heroism of these individuals in repeatedly going into a petroleum based fire cannot be understated. Petroleum -- according to this -- to our regional medical officer, petroleum based fires emit enormous amounts of Cyanide gas. They told me one full breath of that would incapacitate and kill a person if exposed to it.
A second -- it was noticed that a second wave of attackers was coming to attack the facility. And our teams evacuated, five RSOs and Sean Smith in one vehicle that suffered heavy fire, but they managed to break through and get to the annex, and in -- the annex team also withdrew from the facility and the second wave of attackers took it over.
After the second phase of the evening occurs, the timing is about 11:30 or so. The second phase commences after the teams have returned to the annex, and they suffer for about an hour and a half probing attacks from terrorists. They are able to repulse them and then they desist at about 1:30 in the morning.
The Tripoli response team departs at about midnight and arrives at about 1:15 in Benghazi. If I may step back again to Tripoli and what's going on there at this point. At about 10:45 or 11:00 we confer, and I asked the defense attache who had been talking about AFRICOM and with the joint staff, ''Is anything coming? Will they be sending us any help? Is there something out there?`` And he answered that, the nearest help was in Aviano, the nearest -- where there were fighter planes. He said that it would take two to three hours for them to get onsite, but that there also were no tankers available for them to refuel. And I said, ''Thank you very much,`` and we went on with our work.
Phase III begins with news that the ambassador - the ambassador's body has been recovered, and David McFarland, if I recall correctly, is the individual who began to receive that news from his contacts in Benghazi. We began to hear also that the ambassador has been taken to a hospital. We don't know initially which hospital it is, but we -- through David's reports we learned that it is in a hospital which is controlled by Ansar Sharia, the group that Twitter feeds had identified as leading the attack on the consulate.
We're getting this information as the Tripoli response team arrives in Benghazi at the airport. Both our annex chief and the annex chief in Benghazi and our defense attache are on the phone during this period trying to get the Libyan government to send vehicles and military -- and-or security assets to the airport to assist our response team.
At this point, this response team looks like it may be a hostage rescue team, that they're going to -- we're going to need to send them to try to save the ambassador who is in a hospital that is, as far as we know, under enemy control.
Our contacts with the government in Tripoli are telling us that the ambassador is in a safe place, but they imply that he is with us in the annex in Benghazi, and we keep telling them no, the -- he is not with us. We do not have his -- we do not have him.
About 12:30 at the same time that we see the Twitter feeds that are asserting that Ansar Sharia is responsible for the attack, we also see a call for an attack on the embassy in Tripoli. And so we begin to - we -- we had always thought that we were in -- under threat, that we now have to take care of ourselves and we began planning to evacuate our facility.
When I say our facility, I mean the State Department residential compound in Tripoli, and to consolidate all of our personnel in -- at the annex in Tripoli.
We have about 55 diplomatic personnel in the two annexes.
On that night if I may go back, I would just like to point out that with Ambassador Stevens and Sean Smith in Benghazi there are five diplomatic security agents -- assistant regional security officers. With us in -- in our residential compound in Tripoli, we have the RSO John Martinek, three assistant regional security officers protecting 28 diplomatic personnel. In addition, we also have four special forces personnel who are part of the training mission.
During the night, I am in touch with Washington keeping them posted of what's happening in Tripoli and to the best of my knowledge what I am being told in Benghazi. I think at about 2 p.m. the -- 2 a.m., sorry, the Secretary of State Clinton called me along with her senior staff were all on the phone, and she asked me what was going on. And, I briefed her on developments.
Most of the conversation was about the search for Ambassador Stevens. It was also about what we were going to do with our personnel in Benghazi, and I told her that we would need to evacuate, and that was -- she said that was the right thing to do.
At about 3 a.m. I received a call from the prime minister of Libya. I think it is the saddest phone call I have ever had in my life. He told me that Ambassador Stevens had passed away. I immediately telephoned Washington that news afterwards, and began accelerating our effort to withdraw from the Villas compound and move to the annex.
The -- excuse me.
Our team responded with amazing discipline and courage in Tripoli in organizing withdrawal. I have vivid memories of that. I think the most telling, though, was of our communications staff dismantling our communications equipment to take with us to the annex and destroying the classified communications capability.
Our office manager, Amber Pickens, was everywhere that night just throwing herself into some task that had to be done. First she was taking a log of what we were doing. Then she was loading magazines, carrying ammunition to the -- carrying our ammunition supply to the -- our vehicles, and then she was smashing hard drives with an axe.
Allen Greenfield, our management officer, was a whirlwind of activity organizing the vehicles to -- lining them up, finding the drivers, making sure everybody was getting the things that they would need for the coming days.
John Martinek was a mountain of moral support, particularly to the guys who were in Benghazi, just on the phone talking them through the whole ordeal.
David McFarland on the phone constantly all the time talking to his contacts in Benghazi urging -- urging them to help.
Lieutenant Colonel Phillips and Lieutenant Colonel Arnt and Lieutenant Colonel Gibson mountains of strength. I'm still in awe of them. They asked me, in one of the phone calls, when were you going to move to the annex, and I said, ''We'll move at dawn,`` because none of our people had great experience driving the armored suburbans that we were going to have to use.
Our local staff drove for us as part of our security procedures. They of course were not there that night, and we would have to go through check points, militia check points on the way to the annex to get there, and I didn't want our people to be going through those check points, because I didn't know what to expect from the militias.
And so we moved at dawn. We arrived at the annex, at least my group I think at about 4:45 perhaps, maybe 5 a.m., and a few minutes later came the word of the mortar attack.
If I could return to Benghazi a little bit and talk through Tripoli. I am sorry if I bounce back and forth.
The Tripoli team was -- basically had to stay at the Benghazi airport because they had no transport and no escort from the -- the Libyans. After the announcement of Chris' passing, military escorted vehicles arrived at the airport. So the decision was made for them to go to the annex. One of the -- before I got the call from the prime minister, we'd received several phone calls on the phone that had been with the ambassador saying that we know where the ambassador is, please, you can come get him.
And our local staff engaged on those phone calls admirably, asking very, very good, outstanding, even open ended questions about where was he, trying to discern whether he was alive, whether they even had the ambassador, whether that person was with the ambassador, send a picture, could we talk to the ambassador?
Because we knew separately from David that the ambassador was in a hospital that we believe was under Ansar Sharia's call, we -- we suspected that we were being bated into a trap, and so we did not want to go send our people into an ambush.
And we didn't.
We sent them to the annex. Shortly after we arrived at the annex the mortars came in. The first was long. It landed actually among the Libyans that escorted our people. They took casualties for us that night. The next was short, the next three landed on the roof killing Glen and Tyrone, and severely wounded David.
They didn't know whether any more mortars were going to come in. The accuracy was terribly precise. The call was the next one is coming through the roof, maybe if it hit -- two of the guys from team Tripoli climbed up on the roof and carried Glen's body and Tyrone's body down. One guy, Mark Si, full combat gear, climbed up there strapped David a large man, to his back, carried him down a ladder and saved him.
In Tripoli, we had -- the defense attache had persuaded the Libyans to fly their C-130 to Benghazi and wanted to airlift -- we had -- since we had consolidated at the annex, and the Libyan government had now provided us with external security around our facilities, we wanted to send further reinforcements to Benghazi.
We determined that Lieutenant Gibson and his team of special forces troops should go. The people in Benghazi had been fighting all night. They were tired. They were exhausted.
We wanted to make sure the airport was secure for their withdrawal. As Colonel Gibson and his three personnel were -- were getting in the cars, he stopped. And he called them off and said -- told me that he had not been authorized to go. The vehicles had to go because the flight needed to go to Tripoli -- I mean, to Benghazi. Lieutenant Colonel Gibson was furious. I had told him to go bring our people home. That's what he wanted to do -- paid me a very nice compliment. I won't repeat it here.
So the plane went. I think it landed in Benghazi around 7:30. The other thing that we did was -- and I -- and I want to mention Jackie Lavesk's name in this hearing. She was our nurse. We initially thought that we would -- that she should go to Benghazi. One of the special forces with Lieutenant Colonel Gibson's team was -- was our last military-trained medic available. He had a broken foot in a cast. I still remember him walking -- walking to go and get in the car with his machine gun, carrying a machine gun on his shoulder.
Jackie, I -- I -- I refused to allow her to go to Benghazi, because I knew we had wounded coming back. I knew David was severely wounded. And I knew others were wounded as well. And Jackie had just made terrific contacts with a hospital in town. And so, we sent -- we went her -- I sent her to that hospital to start mobilizing their E.R. teams and their doctors to receive our wounded.
So when the charter flight arrived in Tripoli, we had ambulances at the hospital -- at the -- at the airport waiting. Their doctors were ready and waiting for our wounded to come in, to be brought in to the operating room. And they certainly saved David Oven's leg. And they may have very well have saved his life. And they treated our other wounded as well, as if they were their own.
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Skip to comments.Adding up the evidence to a stolen election
Posted on 11/19/2012 4:56:51 PM PST by Mozilla
Ah, the marvels of modern technology! Computers, Internet, mobile devices! Things that make life easier in this day and age. But this cyber technology also can be used for evil gain too, right? Especially when it comes to elections.
As writer Daniel Greenfield posted, Half the Democratic ground game is voter turnout. The other half is voter fraud. Voter ID would make an impact on this game, but that would be just like the return of segregation or something.
Take a look at these headlines:
In Florida: Obama Got Over 99% in Broward County Precincts
What Luck! Obama Won Dozens of Cleveland Districts with 100% of the Vote
Good News: Obama Won County in Ohio with 108% Voter Registration
BREAKING: St. Lucie County, Florida Had 141.1% Turnout; Obama Won County
Fraud in PA: Obama Got Over 99% of Vote at Polls Where GOP Inspectors Were Removed; Turnout Somehow 30% Above Govt Numbers
Out of 175,554 registered voters, 247,713 vote cards were cast in St. Lucie County, Florida, on Tuesday
What to make of it?
The assault on liberty we witnessed Tuesday, as was the case in 2008, was led primarily by those on urban ObamaNation Plantations, those who depend on what Obama calls redistributive justice from the rest of us in order to survive, [Mark] Alexander said. They account for almost 60 percent of Obamas constituents, and socialist Democrats are masters of co-opting (read: buying) their allegiance and getting them to the polls. The good news is that about 10 million fewer Obama voters showed up in 2012, despite his billion-dollar campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
1) The GOP could acquiesce and Obama could just get 4 more years.
2) We could shift over to a hot civil war.
I maintained, before the election, that because Obama hates this country, either of those outcomes could be pleasing to him. What did he have to lose?? So, he stole the election -- and we see quite clearly that the GOP has decided to go with Option #1.
Why make waves?
Well, the U.S Congress doesn't have to certify the election results.
Joseph Farah has great opinions, however WND itself has absolutely no credibility.
Lets get some meaningful numbers behind those percentages. 108% means nothing if it represents say 53 people.
Maybe we should start posting Romney's largest percentages in districts across the U.S — perhaqps we'll see he got 100% of precincts in certain area's.
In St. Lucie County, where I voted, there were two ballot cards. Just divide by 2, about 71% turn out.
there's conflicting information going around, such as the 141% turnout being caused by 2 voter "cards" for one voter counting as 2 votes, when it when it was really one, so the turn out was really a more reasonable 70.5% turnout. And the 240K votes out of 170K register voters...was that an effect of the voter cards, too?......Romney had a post on Facebook, over the weekend, concerning about what happens if 1/3 of the states don't certify their electoral votes......said the race is turned over to the House of Representatives.....said this is actually built into the electoral college.......for voter fraud. Can you imagine?
Re Allen West vs. Patrick Murphy, how about 900 votes in a precinct with 7 registered voters?
"Re Allen West vs. Patrick Murphy, how about 900 votes in a precinct with 7 registered voters?" Read where precinct 93 was part of precinct 33, and together they had 900 registered voters, or some cryptic answer close to that....
Violence as the answer to losing an honest election is nothing but the road to despotism. If you cannot win the election, and you seize power in a coup, you will soon have two choices. Either lose the next election and be right back where you were, or install a government where you do not stand in an honest election, and which must begin to repress opposition because you were always a minority.
BUT, when elections are truly decided by fraud, then violence is a moral and legitimate as a way to return to free elections.
This widespread fraud is absolute recklessness. I hope our nation wakes up and institutes election reform before the rifle is the only way to vote. Don't want my kids to live that national nightmare. The only thing worse is farce elections like dictators Hugo, Stalin, and Saddam had.
A so-called 'news' media that absolutely WILL NOT REPORT ANYTHING INJURIOUS TO 0BAMA. If I found 50,000 ballots, all for Romney in the dump on election eve and called CBS, NBC, or ABC THEY'D NOT REPORT IT. If it's not reported, it didn't happen. If they don't report it, there is no outrage and 0bama's unions, black pampers, ACORN and 0bama operatives called 'U.N. poll monitors' STEAL the election. Simple as that.
Ask Allen West what HE thinks about the validity of today's election process.
I think that's what we just had :(
"Maybe we should start posting Romneys largest percentages in districts across the U.S perhaqps well see he got 100% of precincts in certain areas."
King county Texas was Obama's worst showing anywhere. He got 3.4% of the votes. (somewhere around 250 voters in the county)
Romney got no 100% counties. Gettig 100% is an Obama fraud thing, repubs don't achieve it.
There are massive reports of criminal activity
(not mischief, not shenanigans- CRIMINAL ACTIVITY) going on all over the U.S during the presidential election.
Reports of machines changing votes from Romney to Obama, eyewitness reports of Republican poll watchers who observed busloads of non-English speaking Somalians in Ohio being instructed to vote Obama- the list is endless.
Romney lost because of this, not any other reason.
Nobody could have won against the fraud planned and perpetrated by the Obama Machine.
The evidence is overwhelming!
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Good Idea. I would bet Romney got 100% in various counties across the country. Our electoral system is flawed though. Rewards the most electorates to places to only a few places so each election you know the results hinge on those areas.
As writer Daniel Greenfield posted, Half the Democratic ground game is voter turnout. The other half is voter fraud. Voter ID would make an impact on this game, but that would be just like the return of segregation or something.
... What to make of it?
Then we really need to repent of our sins (divorce, porn, adultery, loving money, ...) and pray earnestly and faithfully in Jesus' name for a Christian revival, since only God can rescue us at this point.
Yes we did.
There is ballot box stuffing like in Philly and Cayahoga co.
There are people who vote in New York AND Florida.
People from safe states who are shunted on paper to critical swing counties, (this is the stunt Obama used in Iowa in '08 to defeat Hillary, large numbers from illinois flooded in to the caucuses with their same day registration)
Illegals registed under motor voter and are encouraged to vote.
The infusion of foreign money is a crime, but has not been investigated since the Chinese funded Clinton.
The dead are not purged from the rolls.
There is no method to see how many states one person is enrolled in.
There is deliberate suppression of the military vote. It is nearly impossible for large numbers of the military to vote, though it would be an easy electronic fix. Our nation insists a paper ballot be sent by mail even though by the time ballots are finalized, it is almost impossible to get a request in, get one delivered and then returned by mail.
Voter fraud has become so organized and high tech, that the results are not trustworthy. This one was probably stolen. The final hurdle is that people begin to widely realize that it is so deeply entrenched that it cannot be overcome.
I think the warning there is that voter participation on our side drastically drops as people understand that it's meaningless, or simply refuse to participate in the farce.
When a drastic drop occurs, i predict trouble is close behind.
Nope, no 100% Romney counties. The best Romney did was King county Texas. 96.6% Romney.
We need voter ID in all 50 states and Guam and Puerto Rico. Under this fraud in the white house unlikely. Especially with statist leftist Governors running various states. But Rick Scott, John Kaisch and Bob McDonnell could have done something to stop fraud and get ID laws passed. Yet another reason I am fed up with the Republican party. It was their states and they could care less. I haven't heard a peep from them on anything lately.
More reason to prove Obama committed fraud.
As someone who has voted in nearly every election, large and small, since I was old enough to vote—I now feel like there is no point. This is what we are handing to our children? What a theft of their future. My anger at the GOP is immeasurable. Their cowardice is inexcusable.
The States which implemented Voter ID should not have acquiesced to the courts OR Eric Holder. Isn't this a State's right? That the legislative process determines election procedures NOT the courts or the DOJ? It was a HUGE mistake for the States to cave on Voter ID. Voter fraud cost Romney the election.
I also need more than a few random links and top of the head explanations. All these grand conspiracies fall apart when you start looking as to what would actually be required to carry them out. For voter fraud to have been rigged towards Obama to the extent it reflected swing state and national polls it would have to be an incredibly well planned, top down effort. And I can't see how they all could have coordinated that without someone blowing the whistle.
When history is written of this era, the media will be a major complicit shame to our country, second only to Obama himself.
How can a national poll identify a cadre of the faithful intending to bus van loads of individuals to multiple polling locations. How much top down planning does it take for Democrats to kick GOP poll watchers off the premises so they can commit fraud. Did you hear the Obama minions tell us they would win the election no matter what it takes? Alinsky tactics don't need direct top down control. The radical left has been telling us for at least fifty years what they are up to.
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The extent of the tentacles of Chicago politics being helped along by the likes of Soros and other communist oriented elected officials still has not sunk in with over 50% of the population.
Where have you been? TROLLING ?
This kind of information has been ALL OVER THE PLACE. You just need to go looking.
And that's the true horror and sheer madness of our sad situation!
The great 'community organizer' has roots deep in ACORN and other 'civic organizations' including any 'church' preaching Black Liberation theology.
Is it possible? yes.
Who would break ranks when they might have an 'accident'?
After all these are the true believers who would use "any means necessary" to retain power.
It wouldn't be the first dead body to be attributable to someone wanting to keep something quiet, either.
Note, too, even if someone came forward, that the probability of any of the ABCNNBCBS and other liberal networks breaking the story which would likely result in civil unrest (at a minimum) is virtually nil.
I think threats of rioting are keeping most of the 'pubbies mum, too, especially because it would take half a heartbeat for the liberal media to build on the 'Republicans are just old, rich, white people who are out to disenfranchise minorities' meme they've been crafting in the mainstream media for over a year. Media are all about impressions, appearances, and selling soap, and riots would just give them a pile of if it bleeds it leads material.
Who would think that either the treason in Benghazi or the neglect of Sandy victims would not be news, either, but that would make deer leeder look bad, so don't look for it on the prime time network news.
So you are waking up. Smell the coffe?
In spite of all the reports of fraud, some of which are undoubtedly true, I still don't know how anyone can say the election was definitely stolen. How can it be determined that the votes lost by fraud were not made up for by the true vote margin?
We know a lot more now than we did several years ago, and I believe our efforts would be best spent continuing the effort against all forms and shapes of voter fraud, rather than investigating all instances of suspected fraud. We could never be sure we got enough of them until we reach a total larger than the margin of victory. Maybe we could prove some for the PR effect. That would be helpful in putting the other side on notice and alerting our own side to the danger.
But also, let's put our lessons to work. Nip the fraudsters in the bud next time if we can. My opinion.
The problem with only trying to prevent voter fraud in the future is that the message from the left is: you can't prove voter fraud in the past, so why should we try to prevent fraud if it doesn't exist?
That's why it's so important to prove any cases of voter fraud that we can.
And the mainstream media went down to King County to report on its alleged "racism".
We never hear about black racism against whites. I was hoping that one good thing would come from Obama's 2008 election - that we could put away some of the racial tension in the US. That was a pipe-dream. Obama is a race and class baiter. In my experience working in a large, very diverse organization, many blacks have become overtly hostile towards whites in any type of authority, particularly since Obama's re-election 2 weeks ago. Blacks are refusing to attend meetings, follow rules, or take training that everyone has to take. I see white supervisors afraid to address it, for fear of EEO charges being filed against them, which is only making it worse.
That's because it doesn't exist.
By definition, that is.
Now, "black rage", that's something different. And that's OK, again by definition.
OK. We can try.
If we are going by that old vote-suppression ruling from the 1980s, I think that is nonsense in the general sense. Why should one mistake mean we can't correct the mistakes of others? Ever? Isn't that an outright invitation to fraud?
OK. We can try.
If we are going by that old vote-suppression ruling from the 1980s, I think that is nonsense in the general sense. Why should one mistake mean we can't correct the mistakes of others? Ever? Isn't that an outright invitation to fraud?
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Energy West Mining provided the answer. They frequently contract with a drilling company named REI to do coal exploration. REI's drilling technology allows them to drill in any direction and to hit very precise targets. The district retained Jones and DeMille Engineering to engineer and manage the project and the decision was made to proceed.
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"I was drunk."
(But sober enough not to swing at the BIG GUY! Some part of their brain knew better! So How drunk were they, really?)
I just absolutely HATE the "Drunk" excuse..unless you were kidnapped, tied up and they poured the stuff down your throat, against your will....
So far, most of these I touch on during my class, however there's some things I haven't considered. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who's dealt with some of the negative aspects of haunting. Keegan, I haven't considered the size issue, although I do talk about having the appropriately sized actor for the part.
Please keep the great ideas coming...
I just think that size isn't an issue; I'm known for being an intense actor and I'm barely 5'3" and 90lbs. I think a lot of bigger actors end up having the handicap where they think "I'm large, therefore I'm scary," meanwhile they have nothing to back that up.
You misinterpreted the statement. We're talking about SAFETY. If a 6'2 225 pound man is shitfaced, somehow made it through the line, and is now looking to start a fight? Your 90 pound ass is about to get thrown around and beat. Whereas my 260 pound 6'3" frame might not even be considered to mess with by the drunk.
How you interpret it is on you, not me. I'm simply stating, a small girl is NOT intimidating. Period. Sorry you took offense to a seemingly harmless statement.
To get back on topic, another issue I've noticed in MANY haunts that i have visited is that they try only ONCE to scare or startle a group. We all know how on a busy night there may be 20-30 people in a huge line, so startling, resetting, and then doing it again is important to maximize the patron's experience. It sucks being in the back and never being scared, because you walk by the actors resetting for the next group, instead of for the rest of YOUR group.
I know several of our actors complained of being mocked. I've noticed that new actors tend to have "thin skin" when people wanna be jerks about their scare. They eventually began to understand that not everyone will be scared, but you can still be entertaining (as keegan stated) and sometime that means mocking back. Although, this can sometimes present a problem if an actor is inexperienced and doesn't know how to read the group. We try to teach them to never mock those drunks for the very reasons stated above. But if they're just some teens trying to show off, there's not harm in being a little "testy".
It seems to always come back to that, doesn't it. It's so very important, yet so hard to teach properly. You could spend days going over scenarios and still not cover everything that COULD happen. Many of our actors began handling situations better, the longer they stayed in their room/became more confident with their position.
We also had a few instances where someone brought through a light or noise maker. We began teaching them how to tell them to "turn it off" without breaking character. We find it helps if you give them a line to use if it happens. something that fits the scene, so they don't have to make it up on the fly. Improv Acting isn't a skill everyone possesses unfortunately.
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Look oh so cute in the trendy Carlita moccasin by Minnetonka! This flat is our favorite weekend basic due to its comfy construction and fun styling.
- Suede upper
- Feather and tassle detail over moc toe
- Heel to toe padded insole
- Rubber sole
- Imported
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By: ab2013
Location: wisconsin
September 09, 2013
too narrow
"others said they chose a half size smaller, so I did the same (the only size left). they ended up being too narrow and I barely got my foot in the shoe. sad to say I must return them. I really like the feathers and decoration."
By: dl24
Location: Cranston, Rhode Island
August 16, 2013
Comfortable shoe!
"I liked these moccasins but decided to return them because of the light suede color. They are comfortable and seemed to be made well. I also did not like the feathers on the top of the shoes."
By: Irea
Location: Boston, MA
August 11, 2013
Cute and comfy shoes!
"I usually wear a size 7, and the 7 fit great on my feet. I wouldn't consider my feet narrow nor very wide, and the shoes are just snug enough in the toebox. They look great with a pair of skinny jeans!"
By: BluePearl
Location: Boston
July 22, 2013
"Great and cute moccasin! Took a couple of days to break them in but then not a problem. They're comfy and go with many different outfits. Ordered these 1/2 size down and it fits perfectly."
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