Benghazi coverup or just incompetance?

[Yosho]

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/10/11/video_griefstricken_mother_of_benghazi_massacre_victim_rips_wh_for_outright_lies

[briefcase]

Clearly, this is all the fault of George W. Bush. 

But seriously, this administration will go to any length to cover up its incompetence. Blame George W. Bush, claim "no one could have done better", blame three and three-quarters years of an impotent economic "recovery" on Republicans who have only controlled the US House of Representatives for a year and three-quarters of that time, run up an additional five trillion dollars in debt, blame Mitt Romney for someone's wife dying, blame a sh!tty YouTube video on an ambassador and this woman's son's deaths, fixate on Big Bird... they're all variations on a theme of this administration.

I, for one, am tired of Barack Obama's excuses; the buck may have stopped with Truman, but it stops anywhere but Obama's desk now. 

[Yosho]

I'm curious what the Obama supporters think about this.  The number one job of any leader is to be honest with those they lead. This is one of my chief complaints with Obama as I feel he is a pathological liar and has brought the corrupt Chicago machine with him to Washington.  I expect his supports will disagree with that assessment, which is why I wonder how they square the reaction and deception by the administration on this issue with their belief my assessment is wrong. 

[0geist0]

Four people died that did not have to die. Our leaders watched this in real time, and ignored requests from weeks, days, earlier for more security. These deaths lay firmly at the feet of Obama, no ifs ands or buts!

[Todd]

Four people died that did not have to die. Our leaders watched this in real time, and ignored requests from weeks, days, earlier for more security. These deaths lay firmly at the feet of Obama, no ifs ands or buts!

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[Todd]

I guess if they would have gone in within a 7 hour window after the start of this attack they could have saved a couple lives. What the hell happened?

[ItsGameOverDude]

It is smelling like a ripe Cover-up to me.  First the media comes out with that YouTube video bullshit and the Administration pushed it and clearly they knew( we just found out that hours into it and before) that was not the reason.  Multiple sources were going up the Chain of Command to request/beg for more and better equipped security and equipment.

The Republician Party can have a field day with this...there should be much more shaking the tree as I say to bring this matter into the light.

The only thing that was a fatal error was the Ambassador's presence in Benghazi at this compound/consulate building on a date of 9-11.  Being that this is the most radical section of Libya, he should of been at the embassy in the Capitol of Libya, Tripoli.

Reason?  Embassy's are much more planned with primary and secondary security zones, buffers, and fallback points for security of "essential" personnel.  This Consulate, as I have read about and understand, was so poorly secure a typical cat burglar could of entered the interior of this facility.

[kbvette]

                             Every time the far right mentions Benghazi, it proves they are the sort of opportunists
                          that mine for gold in a graveyard

[Yosho]

Yes your right, this is all political and none of should care that this happened because of negligence or that the administration and President knowingly lied (on purpose!) to the American people about it.  It's just politics. 

[funky49]

At the time, we didn't know enough to act. Remember, not just the consulate was attacked... so was our CIA "safehouse". We don't even know the complete story right now for reasons of national security or to keep the POTUS from having a bloody nose or some other reason. What if our CIA annex was also overrun in this mess? That would be a extra-shirty.

We can only hope the best decisions were made on the long term with the information available at the time. Since there isn't enough information available we should just look at everyone's avatars.

What we can say is that we need more assets in our intelligence services.

[Todd]

We had drones in the air. We have great footage from drones when Osama was taken out...

http://youtu.be/4D_ZVhrV5ZA



So where's the footage? This President is no where to be found to comfort the nation in what should be a time of mourning for the dead. Obama has made this a political issue. If he covered this up, the American people deserve to know before electing him otherwise there is a small chance he may be taken out in handcuffs afterwards. Oh boy, Biden as pres!

[Todd]

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[JimB]

breaking news:

EXCLUSIVE: CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/26/cia-operators-were-denied-request-for-help-during-benghazi-attack-sources-say/#ixzz2AQOVxGGq

[Todd]

breaking news:

EXCLUSIVE: CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/26/cia-operators-were-denied-request-for-help-during-benghazi-attack-sources-say/#ixzz2AQOVxGGq

It really doesn't matter Jim. You could post pictures of Obama killing the ambassador himself and the Obama supporters will still vote for him. It is sickening that the people that support Obama choose to ignore this tragedy and they flip it on to us as trying to politicize it. Would you give your teenager the keys to the car if they just walked in the door wasted? We are about to give this disgrace of a president the keys to the country and he is directly responsible for the deaths of the seals for sure and probably responsible for the rest of the tragic mess. Just disgusting. 

[number six]

Yeah I totally don't get this. How can you be so partisan to turn a blind eye to this? No matter how much you love Obama, the Democrats, etc. You have to be able to admit this is bad.

We got the administration denying extra security on several occasions before the attack. Most likely for political reasons (ie, lets not show force in front of our new Muslim buddies)

We got the administration watching the attack as it went down and not only doing nothing but telling local agents to stand down instead of offering assistance. Once again, probably for the reasons above.

After the dust clears and we got dead americans we have the administration just bald-face lying about the attacks.. trying to swerve it onto a youtube video of all things.. once again, probably for political reasons.

And this isn't conjecture here, all of the above is pretty much how it went down. At the end of the day this is a pretty huge deal but like Todd is saying I guess to a lot of people it simply doesn't matter. To me that's just crazy.

At the very least listen to what the parents of some of these dead consulate workers have to say. It's sickening..