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Title: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on November 13, 2012, 02:01:34 PM
The web of deceit about Benghazi begins to fray
 Washington Times ^ | Wes Pruden

Posted on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:33:44 PM by Arthurio

What did the president know, and when did he know it? Of what steel are the Republicans in Congress made? We’re about to find out.

Big scandals from little leaks grow. Watergate was at first only “a third-rate burglary.” Bubba thought he was only trying to cover up the details of a failed real-estate scheme down on the White River. Humiliation, resignation and even an impeachment followed.

History warns presidents that second terms are never Sunday picnics, and the unfolding — exploding is more accurate — of the story of what really happened on a violent night in Benghazi, Libya, and the days that followed is Barack Obama’s introduction to his next four years. We probably ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Nearly everyone suspects that Mr. Obama, trying to avoid questions about the mishandling of Benghazi, was running out the clock, hoping to stumble past the election before being overtaken by facts and hard reality. Some of the congressional Republicans are talking bravely now about getting to the bottom of the sordid story, and the Democrats give every sign of attempting to squelch and evade: let’s move on, nothing to see here.

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Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on November 13, 2012, 02:09:54 PM
Paula Broadwell's License Discovered in D.C. Park

 US News ^ | 11/13/12 | PAUL D. SHINKMAN

Posted on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:17:14 PM


The woman revealed to have been carrying on an affair with former CIA Director David Petraeus lost her driver's license in a Washington, D.C., park recently, sources tell U.S. News.

A Maryland National Capital Park Police spokesman confirmed that a jogger found a North Carolina license in Rock Creek Park belonging to Paula Broadwell. Park Police planned to hold it for 90 days, per policy, and then send it back to the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

The Park Police also alerted the FBI, says Bill Kellogg, a spokesman for the Park Police. The FBI did not initially return calls for comment on the report.


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Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on November 13, 2012, 02:12:48 PM
 :D
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Necrosis on November 13, 2012, 02:30:40 PM
dude, this will go no where just like all the other non-sense the right is spitting. I would bet my account on it, from all the evidence that is out there, there doesnt seem to be any wrong doing, the response time was fine, in fact faster then other embassy attacks. There may have been mistakes, like what the reason for the attack was etc, but if you are expecting some conspiracy where obama denied help and aided the murders or some shit, you will be in for a rude awakening.


It's time you start supporting the US, this whole tea party crazy right winger shit is dying now and it will be a brutal death.
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on November 13, 2012, 02:54:15 PM
ABC: Petraeus conducted own investigation in Benghazi after attack
 Hotair ^ | 11/13/2012 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 3:11:01 PM by

Yesterday, Dianne Feinstein threatened to subpoena the CIA over a trip report from David Petraeus that he allegedly wrote after a personal trip to Benghazi after the terrorist attack that killed four Americans. Today, ABC News reports that Petraeus' visit to Libya was no mere observational tour. The then-Director of Central Intelligence conducted his own interviews with personnel on the ground in Libya in preparation for testimony that has now been cancelled:


In late October, Petraeus traveled to Libya to conduct his own review of the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

While in Tripoli, he personally questioned the CIA station chief and other CIA personnel who were in Benghazi on Sept. 11 when the attack occurred.

The Libya stop was part of a six nation trip to the region. Petraeus intended the review as a way to prepare for his upcoming testimony before Congress on Benghazi.

"He was looking forward to testifying," a Petraeus friend told ABC News. “He wanted to be fully prepared.”

This makes the decision to withdraw Petraeus from the hearing even more curious. According to their source, Petraeus thinks that acting DCI Michael Morrell can testify to Petraeus’ findings and add more of his own, plus Petraeus wants to avoid a “media circus” after the revelation of his affair.

However, while that may be understandable, those reasons aren’t enough to deprive the committees of his personal perspectives. Petraeus has years of hands-on experience dealing with terrorist networks as a military commander. Morell has over 30 years’ experience in the CIA and can obviously give a good accounting of the intelligence, but doesn’t have Petraeus’ insight. Plus, after having personally conducted the reviews in Libya, Congress needs Petraeus to expand past whatever made it into his trip report — the very document that the CIA is now reluctant to share with Feinstein and other Congressional investigators.
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on November 13, 2012, 02:56:52 PM
FBI agents inside home of Charlotte author investigated in Petraeus scandal
 AP ^

Posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 10:15:10 PM by Arthurio

Federal agents are inside the home of the Charlotte author at the center of a scandal involving CIA Director David Petraeus, who resigned on Friday.

The Federal Bureau of Investigations confirms that it has agents inside Paula Broadwell's Dilworth home.

While agents on scene would not confirm what they were looking for, nearly a dozen agents were seen carrying boxes and taking photographs inside the home.

Paula Broadwell, the biographer who wrote a book about retired four-star general David Petraeus, 60, has not been seen at her Dilworth home since the news connecting her to an extramarital affair with Petraeus.


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Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on November 13, 2012, 03:46:04 PM
http://www.businessinsider.com/jill-kelley-charity-2012-11


Oh wow.    Cant even make this up any more.  Geez! 
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: 240 is Back on November 13, 2012, 06:04:34 PM
http://www.businessinsider.com/jill-kelley-charity-2012-11


Oh wow.    Cant even make this up any more.  Geez! 

they shady!!
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on November 15, 2012, 07:52:47 AM
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Agnostic007 on November 15, 2012, 07:55:21 AM
call me crazy, but when an article is titled "the web of deceit".. it pretty much screams lopsided reporting.
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on November 15, 2012, 09:19:53 AM
CIA talking points for Susan Rice called Benghazi attack "spontaneously inspired" by protests
 CBS News ^ | November 15, 2012


Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2012 11:34:34 AM by



CBS News has obtained the CIA talking points given to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice on Sept. 15 regarding the fatal attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, four days earlier. CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan says the talking points, which were also given to members of the House intelligence committee, make no reference to terrorism being a likely factor in the assault, which left U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead.

"Available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault... There are indications that extremists participated," read the CIA's talking points.


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more lies 

DIDNT OBAMA SAY THAT IT WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK DURING THE DEBATE? 

Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: magikusar on November 15, 2012, 11:06:01 AM
Obama like most dems has trouble telling the truth and relies on democrat media to ignore failures.
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Dos Equis on November 15, 2012, 11:26:38 AM
CIA talking points for Susan Rice called Benghazi attack "spontaneously inspired" by protests
 CBS News ^ | November 15, 2012


Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2012 11:34:34 AM by



CBS News has obtained the CIA talking points given to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice on Sept. 15 regarding the fatal attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, four days earlier. CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan says the talking points, which were also given to members of the House intelligence committee, make no reference to terrorism being a likely factor in the assault, which left U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead.

"Available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault... There are indications that extremists participated," read the CIA's talking points.


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more lies 

DIDNT OBAMA SAY THAT IT WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK DURING THE DEBATE? 



Yep.  He called it an act of terror on day one, yet sent Rice to the talk show circuit to blame it on the video.  This administration will be mired in scandal. 
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on November 15, 2012, 11:27:46 AM
Yep.  He called it an act of terror on day one, yet sent Rice to the talk show circuit to blame it on the video.  This administration will be mired in scandal. 


Obama lies to suit his immediate needs wherever they are. 

He lied, Petreus lied, hillary and rice lied over and over and over. 
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on November 15, 2012, 11:31:17 AM

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/11/15/report-petraeus-clashed-with-agency-heads-in-final-days

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This morning’s Wall Street Journal sheds light on why the FBI’s discovery of David Petraeus’s affair may have been enough to lead to his downfall:
 

In David Petraeus’s final days at the helm of the Central Intelligence Agency, his relations with chiefs of other U.S. agencies, including his boss, National Intelligence Director James Clapper, took a contentious turn. …
 
Mr. Petraeus wanted his aides to push back hard and release their own timeline of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi and a nearby CIA safe house, seeking to set the record straight and paint the CIA’s role in a more favorable light. Mr. Clapper and agencies including the Pentagon objected, but Mr. Petraeus told his aides to proceed, said the senior officials.
 
By all accounts, the driving force behind Mr. Petraeus’s departure last Friday was the revelation about his extramarital affair with his biographer. But new details about Mr. Petraeus’s last days at the CIA show the extent to which the Benghazi attacks created a climate of interagency finger-pointing. That undercut the retired four-star general’s backing within the Obama administration as he struggled with the decision to resign.
 
This makes a lot more sense. The internal discovery of Petraeus’s affair by the FBI could have been handled two ways: quietly or not quietly. The administration may have decided to go the second route–asking Petraeus to submit his resignation–because of the extent to which he was clashing with officials like Clapper and Panetta in his final month.
 
It also explains why this very favorable profile of Petraeus, which his office clearly cooperated with, turned up in the New York Times just a week before his resignation. The article quoted friends of Petraeus defending him from criticism over his Benghazi response, praising his management style, and playing up his supposedly warm relationship with President Obama. Petraeus, being the smart media operator that he is, may have been trying to rehabilitate his name through the press. But it wasn’t enough to save his job one week later.
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on November 15, 2012, 12:25:35 PM
Cain Smashes Obama Back: You're Incompetent or Corrupt

 


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Sen. John McCain launched a fierce counterattack on Barack Obama yesterday after Obama arrogantly called McCain’s criticism of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice “outrageous” and said critics of Rice should “go after me.”
 






McCain, speaking on the Senate floor, went straight for the jugular:







“This president — this administration — has either been guilty of colossal incompetence or been engaged in a coverup, neither of which is acceptable to the American people. I speak as a friend of Christopher Stevens, I speak as a person who knows something about warfare, I speak as something of an authority — that this attack could have been prevented if the information on the ground had been taken into consideration.”
 






McCain wants a congressional Select Committee to investigate what happened in Benghazi and how the Obama Administration reacted. Paraphrasing Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee during the Watergate investigation, he said bluntly:







There clearly is a need because there is a huge credibility gap among the American people because of the [contradictory statements about the attacks] beginning with the President of the United States. What did the president know? When did he know about it? And what did he do about it?
 






McCain then reminded Obama that although he is the president, he is not the king:







He really does not have any idea of how serious this issue is. I’m a United States Senator. We have our responsibilities, we have our duties, and we are not picking on anyone here.
 






And McCain connected the dots by noting that whatever Rice said, her marching orders came from upstairs:







Those talking points did not come from the CIA, they came from the White House. Who at the White House gave her those talking points?
 






Obama might do well not to cross a man who’s survived more serious issues than a verbal attack.
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Necrosis on November 15, 2012, 01:37:57 PM
http://www.businessinsider.com/mccain-obama-benghazi-libya-committee-watergate-2012-11#ixzz2CIjw5i8m

Mccain would rather just spew bullshit then attend actual briefings and listen to those at the briefings and on the commitee overseeing this issue.

This is simply going to sputter, another republican ploy that will fail. Mccain just happens to have a nice talk show circuit lined up also.

lol.
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on November 15, 2012, 01:40:54 PM
http://www.businessinsider.com/mccain-obama-benghazi-libya-committee-watergate-2012-11#ixzz2CIjw5i8m

Mccain would rather just spew bullshit then attend actual briefings and listen to those at the briefings and on the commitee overseeing this issue.

This is simply going to sputter, another republican ploy that will fail. Mccain just happens to have a nice talk show circuit lined up also.

lol.

Obama is going to have a miserable second term just like W, Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, Truman, etc
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Straw Man on November 15, 2012, 01:48:55 PM
Obama is going to have a miserable second term just like W, Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, Truman, etc

only 308 more posts until you're gone for good......right?
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: mogulgangi on November 15, 2012, 01:49:29 PM
imagine if obama gets impeached for some odd reason because of this which can be a possibility..can you imagine what black people would do? Black people are freaking lunatics when it comes to obama and pay not attention to any facts about anything...I can just imagine black people running down the street and targeting the first whitey on sight lol ..the block would get hott
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on November 16, 2012, 10:14:09 AM
Petraeus testifies CIA's Libya talking points were changed, lawmaker says
 Fox News ^ | November 16, 2012 | Rep. Peter King

Posted on Friday, November 16, 2012 10:13:57 AM by

Rep. Peter King appeared on Fox News this morning and stated that David Petraeus testified that the original CIA talking points about Benghazzi indicated it was a terrorist act and cited al Qaeda involvement. Somewhere after leaving CIA, the talking points were changed. He did not know who changed them.
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: 240 is Back on November 16, 2012, 10:21:40 AM
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Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on November 16, 2012, 10:21:45 AM
Petraeus testifies that CIA always suspected terrorists in Libya attack
 Christian Science Monitor ^ | November 16, 2012 | By Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press
 
Posted on Friday, November 16, 2012 1:13:07 PM by


Ex-CIA Director David Petraeus told lawmakers during private hearings Friday that he believed all along that the deadly attack on the US consulate in Libya was a terrorist strike, even though that wasn't how the Obama administration initially described it publicly.

Petraeus told lawmakers that the CIA's draft talking points named specific terrorist groups. But Petraeus said some federal agency changed it to "extremists."


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Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Agnostic007 on November 16, 2012, 10:30:06 AM
YOu'll hit 100K by Saturday
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: James on November 16, 2012, 10:30:22 AM
4 Americans Dead.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57511043/assault-on-u.s-consulate-in-benghazi-leaves-4-dead-including-u.s-ambassador-j-christopher-stevens/


The Ambassador begged and pleaded for extra Security and was denied.

http://us.topnewstoday.org/new+york/article/3604635/


This Administration knew from day one it was not related to a youtube video, but was in fact an al qaeda terrorist attack.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/16/petraeus-to-testify-knew-libya-was-terrorism-from-start-source-says/


The CIA determined immediately after the Sept. 11 Libya attack that "Al Qaeda involvement" was suspected -- but the line was taken out in the final version, and was instead blamed on a YouTube video,  even Obama blamed it on the video at his U.N speech a few weeks later.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/petraeus-knew-almost-immediately-al-qaeda-linked-group-responsible-benghazi_663458.html
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on November 16, 2012, 10:32:40 AM
Intel officials unable to say who changed CIA talking points on Libya, lawmaker says

Published November 16, 2012
 
FoxNews.com
 

Source: Petraeus to testify Benghazi was terror...




Did Petraeus affair put U.S. national security at...

 

Ex-aide: Petraeus violated own rules


 

Former CIA Director David Petraeus stoked the controversy over the Obama administration's handling of the Libya terror attack, testifying that references to "Al Qaeda involvement" were stripped from his agency's original talking points -- while other intelligence officials were unable to say who changed the memo, according to a top lawmaker who was briefed.
 
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told Fox News that intelligence officials who testified in a closed-door hearing a day earlier said they did not know who changed the talking points. He said they went out to multiple departments, including the State Department, National Security Council, Justice Department and White House.
 
"I'd say it was somebody in the administration had to have taken it out," King told Fox News. "That to me, has to be pursued."
 
Watch the full interview with King on Fox News at 2:30 p.m. ET.
 
Petraeus left Capitol Hill around noon, after testifying in private hearings before the House and Senate intelligence committees.
 
In his wake, Republicans and Democrats battled over whether his testimony should raise more suspicions about the administration's handling of the attack.
 
King and other Republicans indicated they still have plenty of questions about the aftermath of the strike.
 
"No one knows yet exactly who came up with the final version of the talking points," he said.
 
Petraeus' testimony both challenges the Obama administration's repeated claims that the attack was a "spontaneous" protest over an anti-Islam video, and according to King conflicts with his own briefing to lawmakers on Sept. 14. Sources have said Petraeus, in that briefing, also described the attack as a protest that spun out of control.
 
"His testimony today was that from the start, he had told us that this was a terrorist attack," King said, adding that he told Petraeus he had a "different recollection."
 
Still, the claim that the CIA's original talking points were changed is sure to stoke controversy on the Hill.
 
"The original talking points were much more specific about Al Qaeda involvement. And yet the final ones just said indications of extremists," King said, adding that the final version was the product of a vague "inter-agency process."
 
Further, King said a CIA analyst specifically told lawmakers that the Al Qaeda affiliates line "was taken out."
 
Lawmakers are focusing on the talking points issue because of concern over the account U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice gave on five Sunday shows on Sept. 16, when she repeatedly claimed the attack was spontaneous -- Rice's defenders have since insisted she was merely basing her statements on the intelligence at the time.
 
The suggestion that the intelligence was altered raised questions about who altered it, with King asking if "the White House changed the talking points."
 
One source told Fox News that Petraeus "has no idea what was provided" to Rice or who was the author of the talking points she used.
 
"He had no idea she was going on talk shows" until the White House announced it one or two days before, the source said.
 
While Petraeus resigned last Friday over an extra-marital affair, his testimony Friday was expected to focus on Libya as opposed to personal matters. King said it barely came up, and only when Petraeus was asked if the affair and investigation had any impact on his testimony on Libya. "He said no," King said.
 
The pressure was on Petraeus to set the record straight, after other top intelligence officials struggled a day earlier to explain why their initial talking points after the Libya attack minimized the role of militant groups.
 
Lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committees heard testimony Thursday in private meetings with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Acting CIA Director Mike Morell. But Fox News was told there were heated exchanges on the House side, particularly over the talking points that administration officials relied on in the days after the Sept. 11 strike.
 
Fox News was told that neither Clapper nor Morell knew for sure who finalized that information. And they could not explain why they minimized the role of a regional Al Qaeda branch as well as the militant Ansar al-Sharia despite evidence of their involvement.
 
Further, Fox News was told Morell was pushed to explain why, during a Sept. 14 briefing, Petraeus seemed wedded to the explanation that the attack was in response to an anti-Islam video. Morell apparently said he wasn't at that briefing and had nothing further to add.
 
Lawmakers continue to express concerns on several fronts -- on whether warnings in the months preceding Sept. 11 were ignored, and on why the administration first insisted the attack was a "spontaneous" act.
 
Rice has been the focal point of that criticism. Obama, though, in his first post-election press conference Wednesday, called the criticism "outrageous" and told those lawmakers to "go after me" instead.
 
California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff also came to Rice's defense Thursday, saying after the House intelligence committee hearing that Rice was given the intelligence community's "best assessment" at the time.
 
"Those who have suggested that Ambassador Rice was politicizing the intelligence or misrepresenting what the intelligence community was putting forward as its best assessment are either unfamiliar with the facts, or willfully disregarding them," he said.
 
Fox News' Catherine Herridge contributed to this report.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/16/petraeus-to-testify-knew-libya-was-terrorism-from-start-source-says/#ixzz2CPb4bhvB

Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on November 16, 2012, 10:34:37 AM
Former CIA Director David Petraeus stoked the controversy over the Obama administration's handling of the Libya terror attack, testifying that references to "Al Qaeda involvement" were stripped from his agency's original talking points -- while other intelligence officials were unable to say who changed the memo, according to a top lawmaker who was briefed.
 
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told Fox News that intelligence officials who testified in a closed-door hearing a day earlier said they did not know who changed the talking points. He said they went out to multiple departments, including the State Department, National Security Council, Justice Department and White House.
 
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Necrosis on November 16, 2012, 10:50:10 AM
http://www.politicususa.com/republican-desperation-grows-benghazi-backfires-scandal-talk-fizzles.html

You fucking morons eating this shit up, lololol. It is yet another failed attempt by the lying GOP. too bad this will fizzle like I predicted and you morons will have to go back to making up more shit.
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on November 16, 2012, 06:37:29 PM
Intel officials unable to say who changed CIA talking points on Libya, lawmaker says
 

Published November 16, 2012
 
FoxNews.com

 


Source: Petraeus to testify Benghazi was terror...


 

Former CIA Director David Petraeus stoked the controversy over the Obama administration's handling of the Libya terror attack, testifying Friday that references to "Al Qaeda involvement" were stripped from his agency's original talking points -- while other intelligence officials were unable to say who changed the memo, according to a top lawmaker who was briefed.
 
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told Fox News that intelligence officials who testified in a closed-door hearing a day earlier, including Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Acting CIA Director Mike Morell, said they did not know who changed the talking points. He said they went out to multiple departments, including the State Department, National Security Council, Justice Department and White House.
 
"To me the question right now is who changed those talking points and why. ... I'd say it was somebody in the administration had to have taken it out," King told Fox News. "That, to me, has to be pursued."
 
Petraeus left Capitol Hill around noon, after testifying in private hearings before the House and Senate intelligence committees. In his wake, Republicans and Democrats battled over whether his testimony should raise more suspicions about the administration's handling of the attack.
 
King and other Republicans indicated they still have plenty of questions about the aftermath of the strike.
 
"No one knows yet exactly who came up with the final version of the talking points," he said.
 
Petraeus' testimony both challenges the Obama administration's repeated claims that the attack was a "spontaneous" protest over an anti-Islam video, and according to King conflicts with his own briefing to lawmakers on Sept. 14. Sources have said Petraeus, in that briefing, also described the attack as a protest that spun out of control.
 
"His testimony today was that from the start, he had told us that this was a terrorist attack," King said, adding that he told Petraeus he had a "different recollection."
 
Still, the claim that the CIA's original talking points were changed is sure to stoke controversy on the Hill.
 
"The original talking points were much more specific about Al Qaeda involvement. And yet the final ones just said indications of extremists," King said, adding that the final version was the product of a vague "inter-agency process."
 
King said a CIA analyst specifically told lawmakers that the Al Qaeda affiliates line "was taken out."
 
A congressional source familiar with this week's testimony also told Fox News that the language in the CIA talking points about Benghazi was changed from "Al Qaeda-affiliated individuals to extremist organizations" -- which had the effect of minimizing the role of terrorists in the attack.
 
"It really changed the whole tone of it," King told Fox News.
 
Democrats, though, suggested Republicans were taking the whole issue out of context.
 
Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., said claims the talking points were changed are "completely wrong." Besides, he said, the affiliation of Ansar al-Sharia, the militant group suspected in the attack, to Al Qaeda is still being examined.
 
Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said the discrepancy can be attributed to the classified talking points that some saw versus the unclassified version that others, like U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, used.
 
Lawmakers are focusing on the talking points in the first place because of concern over the account Rice gave on five Sunday shows on Sept. 16, when she repeatedly claimed the attack was spontaneous -- Rice's defenders have since insisted she was merely basing her statements on the intelligence at the time.
 
But a source said Rice had access to both classified and unclassified information on Benghazi. King said the administration has "hidden behind" the claim that Rice was only using the intelligence community's best assessment. But he said Petraeus' testimony suggests their best assessment conflicted with what Rice said on Sept. 16.
 
One source told Fox News that Petraeus "has no idea what was provided" to Rice or who was the author of the talking points she used.
 
"He had no idea she was going on talk shows" until the White House announced it one or two days before, the source said.
 
Obama in his first post-election press conference Wednesday, called the criticism against Rice "outrageous" and told those lawmakers to "go after me" instead.
 
California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff also came to Rice's defense Thursday, saying after a House intelligence committee hearing that Rice was given the intelligence community's "best assessment" at the time.
 
"Those who have suggested that Ambassador Rice was politicizing the intelligence or misrepresenting what the intelligence community was putting forward as its best assessment are either unfamiliar with the facts, or willfully disregarding them," he said.
 
Fox News' Catherine Herridge contributed to this report.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/16/petraeus-to-testify-knew-libya-was-terrorism-from-start-source-says/#ixzz2CRZ8u6B9

Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Soul Crusher on December 10, 2012, 09:28:03 PM
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No Shots Fired: State Dept Benghazi Security Force Unarmed
Big Peace ^ | Monday, December 10, 2012 | Kerry Picket
Posted on December 10, 2012 10:11:49 PM EST by kristinn

A source with personal knowledge of the security situation in Benghazi told Breitbart News that Senators who listened to closed door testimony about the Benghazi attack were shocked to learn State Department security personnel agents were not immediately armed.

Additionally, agents separated from Ambassador Chris Stevens left to retrieve their M4 weapons in a separate building. Only one returned to protect the Ambassador, while the other two hunkered down in the barracks, the source relayed.

“From the accounts I read, those guys were not ready. When the attack came that night, they had to go back to the other room and grab their weapons. Then the worse part about it was they never even returned to be with the Ambassador. One returned to be with the Ambassador with his rifle. The other two went back to where there were [sic] barracks. And two stayed in that same building where there were radios and other weapons and the safe and other stuff was there.

There were no shots fired in return. On the embassy property, just the embassy property, none of those security agents blasted a single bullet from a single pistol or rifle at all in defense of the Ambassador—nothing.”

Questions as to why the consulate security force was unarmed within the confines of the consulate will likely be asked of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She will be appearing in front of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs according to Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL).

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Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Necrosis on December 11, 2012, 06:35:17 AM
Jesus just stop, you were wrong again as I predicted. You and your merry group of liars were absolutely wrong on the election, you yourself calling for a landslide, when in fact it was a landslide the other way. Then you call Obama a murderer saying he watched them get killed, that they covered it up and when the facts come out you are dead wrong again. What does it feel like to be ruled by ignorance and fear?
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: blacken700 on December 11, 2012, 06:40:46 AM
Jesus just stop, you were wrong again as I predicted. You and your merry group of liars were absolutely wrong on the election, you yourself calling for a landslide, when in fact it was a landslide the other way. Then you call Obama a murderer saying he watched them get killed, that they covered it up and when the facts come out you are dead wrong again. What does it feel like to be ruled by ignorance and fear?


fox news informed  :D :D :D :D oh and don't forget rush and hannity :D
Title: Re: Benghazi Scandal Thread
Post by: Coach is Back! on December 11, 2012, 08:28:27 AM
http://www.politicususa.com/republican-desperation-grows-benghazi-backfires-scandal-talk-fizzles.html

You fucking morons eating this shit up, lololol. It is yet another failed attempt by the lying GOP. too bad this will fizzle like I predicted and you morons will have to go back to making up more shit.

God, you're an idiot..


http://www.politicususa.com/about-us

So far left it isn't even funny. You serve zero credibility.