Emails Blow Hole in White House Libya Story

[deacon blues]

From the New York Daily News:

What did the President know and when did he know it? That famous question from Watergate should resurface today as news breaks that President Obama and his administration knew 2 hours after the attack that led to the murder of Libyan Ambassador Christopher Stevens and 3 other Americans were terrorism and claimed by a known terrorist group.
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Reuters reported last night, “Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack, official emails show.”
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Nowhere in these emails is a YouTube video mentioned…not even once.
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This blows a hole in everything the President, the vice-president and every mouthpiece they employ has been saying all along. In other words, they lied, knowingly and willingly, to the American people, to the families of the victims, for weeks.
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Why would they do it? Politics.
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It’s pretty simple – the President and his campaign have been travelling the country since the Democratic National Convention, slinging the line “Osama Bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.” They wanted people to think, as the President said, “Al Qaeda is on its heels.” Terrorists plotting and executing an attack on US soil, murdering an Ambassador, causes that narrative to crumble like a house of cards.
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Lara Logan, the 60 Minutes correspondent, told the world Al Qaeda was not on the run a few weeks ago, but the most of the media shrugged it off, ignoring her in the hope the administration’s lie would be unquestioned as truth…at least until November 7th.
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But it hasn’t. The emperor has no clothes. The President lied about the motivation for the attack, lied about his knowledge of the motivation for the attack and lied to cover up all of it.
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You may think the word “lie” is too strong, but there’s no other for when someone knowingly and willingly says something as true when they know it not to be. That’s what we have here, beyond any doubt.
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The White House and the State Department watched, in real time from an overhead drone, live video of the attack and did nothing. They did nothing to help those Americans under attack, those Americans who ended up dead.
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No action was taken, no troops deployed to aid those under siege in the 7 hour attack. That’s right, the attack lasted 7 hours. That’s more than enough time to scramble fighter jets that could have easily flown over the consulate and, at a minimum, scared the hell out of the attacking terrorists forces, if not kill them.
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President Obama and his administration did nothing.
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Considering that, it’s little wonder why the video lie was created. Why the President, Vice President and UN Ambassador Susan Rice stuck to it even at it unraveled. They wanted desperately to get to November 7th, the day after the election, before the truth came out. Too late.
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What lie will they tell now? How will they try to spin their being caught in this lie?..
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With this news breaking last night, Mitt Romney’s lack of attack in the debate Monday on the failures of Benghazi seem all the more a strategic win. There was no reason for Romney to attack the President on his failures in Libya because the story already had a life of its own. The President was undoubtedly prepared with well rehearsed responses of indignation that Romney would dare “politicize” this attack.
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Of course, “We should not politicize this issue” is the last, desperate gasp of someone who really doesn’t want to discuss something. By not giving the President a chance to use his canned response, Romney kept the story alive. Obama couldn’t rebut what he wasn’t accused of, couldn’t spin what wasn’t thrown his way. The story continued to develop untouched, un-rebutted, unspun with the latest poll-tested nuance to paint plausible deniability. It’s doubtful the White House was blindsided by this yesterday, so Romney’s silence on it didn’t allow the Obama team to head it off at the pass.
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The story lives, the lie is exposed and the American people await an explanation as to why the President spent weeks telling them things he knew not to be true. Mr. President, what say you?

[Dedicated Mind]

Two White House officials, speaking on condition of not being identified on Wednesday, said the government e-mails about the attack were not an intelligence assessment. They also noted that there was conflicting information about Ansar al-Sharia denying responsibility.

the president was voicing intelligence assessment not info from emails that was contradictory. the full truth was not known. stop quoting tabloid journalism. amateur.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/24/us...ils/index.html

[Sam]

some older info
http://m.nypost.com/p/news/internati...OK23rPf7Z5BHWO

[KeptByTheWord]

And the President goes around saying "Not true, not true, not true" to anything that may make him look bad. How many times did he say "Not true" in the last several debates? LOL.

[DaveC519]

No, no... this is all a dead end, cuz when a President does it, it's not illegal, immoral or wrong.

[Monterrey]

Obama is a lying dork!





But so is Romney!


Lil

[bbyrd009]

Um, is anyone curious as to why
we are told "an American drone
happened to be in the 'hood at
the time?" I don't remem getting
drone updates of this nature? Mmmkay?
Smelly to me.

[bbyrd009]

Originally Posted by DaveC519

No, no... this is all a dead end, cuz when a President does it, it's not illegal, immoral or wrong.

If you completely abandon this, and every subsequent President, the only thing that will happen is that your life will change completely. It's free to try, and you can return to, um, carping about him anytime you want! Ps, which is the opposite of praying for him, which is I guess what we should be doing. Arg, I know.

[canam]

even cnn and letterman are calling obama a liar . he is toast !