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Topic: Congress to investigate
Benghazi ´talking points´ |
Congress to investigate
Benghazi ´talking points´
Associated Press, by Anne Flaherty
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Original Article
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Posted By:NorthernDog, 11/19/2012 2:12:50 PM
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| WASHINGTON — Lawmakers want to know who had a hand in creating the Obama administration´s now-discredited "talking points" about the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, and why a final draft omitted the CIA´s early conclusion that terrorists were involved. The answers could explain why President Barack Obama and top aides, including U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, described the attack for days afterward as a protest against an anti-Islam video that spontaneously turned violent and why they played down any potential link to al-Qaida
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Comments:
[With Kimberly Dozier]
AP rolls out of bed and finally notices a 10-week-old old scandal has been brewing.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Mike PHX, 11/19/2012 2:44:15 PM (No. 9024006)
Anyone paying attention knows it´s ol´ Paddy-Lips Tom Donilon. What a butt-kissing putz.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
geoman, 11/19/2012 3:04:17 PM (No. 9024043)
This is idiocy. It was the administration´s policies that invited the attack and the administration´s policies that sought to cover it up, aided by a compliant, sympathetic media. Focusing on who changed the PowerPoint bullets is silly and serves only the purposes of the administration in ensuring there will be no general public outrage against the president´s willful lies in the face of terrorism.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
janylou, 11/19/2012 3:21:10 PM (No. 9024077)
Why is it that when republicans do things, it is always with a political motive but Di Fi says there is nothing political about this cover-up. I agree with #2, this is a side show distraction which I am sure the admin is loving because we are not focused on the real fact that we have four dead Americans because this admin chose not to help rescue them.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
gobushcheneygo, 11/19/2012 3:44:00 PM (No. 9024099)
Isn´t ´talking points´ too narrow an investigation? What about the fact that fellow Americans including an Ambassador were begging for military support for HOURS during the attack and someone gave the order not to help them and let them die. Crickets.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jerseygal, 11/19/2012 3:57:11 PM (No. 9024121)
It´s not about the "talking points" stupid, it´s about the "stand down" order! Talk about the fog of war...this is the fog of cover up! Am I ever going to read the news and not get po´d?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp, 11/19/2012 4:05:30 PM (No. 9024136)
Next up, after all the calculated misinformation and delays:
"This is old news, and we have more important things to discuss now!"
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Grambo, 11/19/2012 4:17:20 PM (No. 9024157)
Let´s investigate two orders; the president´s order to do everything possible, and the stand down order.
Who did the president give his order to and what happened to that order.
Who issued the stand down order.
After those questions are answered maybe we can discuss talking points.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
RussVet, 11/19/2012 4:54:03 PM (No. 9024205)
Benghazi=Obozo criminal neglience= TREASON
Who cares about Rice talking points.. the only person that can give a military "stand down" order repeatability for 7 hours until the consulate deaths is Obozo the pResident. There is no reason that can be given for not protectiong the lives of those in the embassy that does not demand impeachment
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 11/19/2012 5:30:11 PM (No. 9024247)
Congress will `investigate` Benghazi. It will have the same results as Fast & Furious.
People can`t name their own congressperson. Why would they care about `foreign entanglements`?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ArtieC, 11/19/2012 7:26:24 PM (No. 9024425)
We´re never going to know the truth anyway.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
artlover, 11/19/2012 8:52:24 PM (No. 9024524)
You are just waisting money (but guess it is just as well as giving it to the bums and union people who don´t want to work).
This will go just like the election -- the dumbed down democrats will win and there will never be anything come of this. In fact Obama could have known this from the start and told them to do it all, and it still would be hushed up. Forget it ,,, we are doomed.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Lonestar Jack, 11/19/2012 10:06:29 PM (No. 9024577)
#9 don´t forget "Leaks in the White House".
That has gong under the rug also
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
walcb, 11/19/2012 11:00:21 PM (No. 9024606)
The upstanding, honest, reliable and just plain all around wonderful person that she is by the name of Diane Feinstein (D-CA) has reservations about the "talking points" so the bulldog press that they are can now tear into this story.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LAW428, 11/19/2012 11:56:44 PM (No. 9024647)
Watergate was chump change compared to the four Americans serving their country in Libya, under attack, calling for help, and a Muslim pResident refusing aid and letting them die.
Shout it from the rooftops, this pResident is a criminal!!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Judith, 11/20/2012 8:24:03 AM (No. 9025047)
What, are they all congenital idiots? After EVERY attack, security was stripped from the ambassador. Who sent him from tripoli to benghazi? Who ordered NO HELP as they watched for 9 hours, the slaughter of our people? Why did obama want stevens dead?
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