Let me be clear, CIA, Dept of State and all other intel agencies fall under the executive branch which means Obama is responsible.

All of this has happened under 0bama's watch. Yes, he is fully responsible and he can't spin his way out of it.

Wrong! As long as the CIA stays silent, they are in the bag for Obama.

The CIA and the Intel community will not go quietly under the bus. These people play chess several moves ahead. Barky's people can't even remember the lies they told yesterday.

Mitt will win this election because of the millions of voters who feel the need of a hot, soapy shower after having slept with these despicable low-life hoes.

So how did CNN find Amb Stevens diary?

Where has General Petraus been the past six weeks? I know spies don't like to appear before the media, but he has really gone to ground.

The Benghazi Bullshirter is on the ropes with this one. The knee-pad media can only cover up so much then even they are outta here and the CIA is not about to fall on a sword because of this short attention span, disinterested, golfing, vacationing, partying poseur that missed too many security briefings!

0bama and Hillary are such frauds. A day after the Terrorist Attack, the CIA found militant links. Yet, when Hillary sent in a team to investigate, she sent the FBI who did not get to Benghazi until three weeks later, as the FBI did not feel it safe enough to enter the city and investigate. It made me puke when 0bama at the last debate puffed out his chest and loudly proclaimed, "We will find the people who did this, and we will punish them." Who does he think he is kidding, it is weeks and weeks later, and if he did nothing in the first week, why would any person believe him?

Reagan was responsible for Iran Contra. W was responsible for Yellow Cake, WMDs and what not. But Zippy is a leftist. There are different rules that we saw on vivid and ugly display on Tuesday night. The question the MSM is asking is "What did Romney know and when did he know it"? Voting on Nov 6 is the only answer if you want your country back.

AP article is written to imply that we determined it was a terrorist attack AFTER the fact rather than as the culmination of terrorists attacks against US and British missions. Benghazi has been a recruiting center for jihadists fighters in Iraq for 6 to 8 years. The armed overthrow of Qaddafi began in Benghazi. There were enough terror attacks preceding 9/11/12 to frighten Ambassador Stevens about traveling to the city. Finally, the US security detachment withdrawn in August wanted to remain on site for fear of future attacks. The 4 deaths were the result of Obama's policies in Libya and BO's failure to protect US citizens sent there.

AP's Kim Dozier is drinking the Candi Crowley prepared Obama-Aid.

Obama lied continuously for 5 weeks.
Now CNN says, 'don't look'.

Oh my. This leak is not "optimal."

But the day after the Benghazi attack, the obysmal won was just too busy fundraising the pay attention.

They keep trying to make it OK that Obama wasn't given the information. Isn't he the Commander in Chief? Why would this info not be given to the President? Makes no sense. Plausible deniability doesn't work in matters of national defense.

"It is unclear who, if anyone, saw the cable outside the CIA at that point and how high up in the agency the information went."

You've got four dead Americans including an ambassador and you don't don't how up the information got?!

Sounds like Intel did their job by notifying "Washington." Now, just put names to Washington and we have our answer.
Intel will not go quietly into the night. Subpoena them to the hilt and let them sing.

A great campaign ad would be this file sitting on an empty chair.

I think the Obama administration likes all this bickering over the timeline because it distracts from the real issue which is the rise of alQueda on his watch.

I think who-said-what-when is a losing argument for a debate. Romney should just firmly state that the administration was giving conflicting statements about what we all agree now was a pre-planned 9/11 terroist attack by an alQueda organization. Go on to point out that Obama added to the confusion by never clearly addressing the questions with a press conference. Instead he continued campaigning and had interviews with Letterman and Univision. A president should speak directly to the American people in a clear manner.

Then Romney should talk about how alQueda is not on its heals as the president tells us but is regrouping and growing. Then if he connects that to Obama's failed policies, it will be a knock out punch.

The phony unemployment numbers are too little and too late. Most folks are seeing through the fraud.

The racism and blaming Bush ploys are past their sell-by dates and are starting to stink.

Oblamer has now dissed the intelligence community, and they are responding by letting info like this out. It is so bad that the obamedia whores can no longer ignore it.

The polls are shifting because the polling commpanies know they had better start sampling and reporting more accurately or their future business opportunities will diminish.

obumbler has done poorly in the debates, and people are seeing a Romney outside of the distortion of the media and obumbler campaign propaganda and discovering that he really isn't a horned devil after all.

Even "news"papers in big cities that almost always endorse the "D" candidate are turning on him.

All of the little holes in the dike are getting bigger, and pretty soon the whole thing will give way. Buh-bye, and good riddence!

"So how did CNN find Amb Stevens diary?"

My guess would be that they bought it from one of the locals.

If this came from the CIA then Petraeus wanted it to come out that the CIA knew it was Al Queda affiliates...in a way I feel bad for the General he will get the Paterno treatment for this where he is the blame for everything and not Sandusky

What utter nonsense

There would be no "Benghazi Attack" to spin if ...

There were armed Marines guarding US territory and US citizens in a war zone that the Obama Administration recently created by funding Jihadists, Al-Queda and G-d knows who else.

This is all spin to distract from the bone-deep truth - THERE WERE NO MARINES IN AN ISLAMIC COUNTRY FULL OF JIHADISTS

Washington has become infested with zombie careers over Benghazi. CIA, State, the military, everywhere you look, dead careers walking. They just don't know it yet and haven't fallen down. They keep staggering forward, glassy-eyed, repeating the same mindless lies. Mitt and his zombie blasters are going to be busy for months cleaning them all out.

First thought... Obama does not govern. He gives speeches. He plays golf. He parties. He can't be bothered. To find out what happened here you need to drill down through his administration or czars until you find a decision maker. I think we'd be surprised to learn how far down the totem pole it goes.

Here we go again - - - - -

Zippy will get away with this - - and anything else he wants to get away with - - because he is pro-abortion.

Being pro-abortion is a lifetime Get Out Of Jail card - - do we need any more evidence than the Klintons? - - so just calm down and get used to it.

What's the big deal here?
We all know that these four deaths was simply 'not optimal'.

/contempt off/

~~The officials who told the AP about the CIA cable spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to release such information publicly.~~

There are those 'anonymous' folks again.

Agree with #18. The WH loves this bickering over the fog of war. It's the way they are.

Oh, and here's one. Ask yourself: if you were THE head of the Marines, would you allow a SINGLE ONE of your men to be deployed anywhere in the middle east as a guard without ammunition in his weapon? Even if State demanded it? Both the Secratary of State and the President should wet themselves with dread at the mere thought of the response they would receive for even suggesting that you give that order.

Poster #18 is correct. Romney needs to point out to the American people a clear path of who, what, and when of what was said. Then point out that contrary to what Obozo has been telling everybody, that alQueda is NOT on the run, but rather, on the rise. And becomming more dangerous and deadly all the time.

And I wouldn't put it past him, but I get the feeling that General Petraeus himself just might be behind this "leak" about their findings so soon after the attack.

But Hillary says this is the fog of war.

Hmmmmm. The plot thickens.....stay tuned. Or as Lucianne says "Stay clicked"

"Day after Libya attack, CIA found militant links"

Why, Oh Why, did they then lie to Hillary, Rice, Biden and 0bama!?!?!?!

/ snark

Two Navy SEALS Ruin the October Surprise!
Interesting discussion thread ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2944654/posts

Interesting photos ...
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/09/21/boldly-into-the-breach/

Seek and ye shall find.

Great idea--the view of a big plush chair pans in slowly and lying on the chair is a folder (or binder) labelled with "Libya Consulate Attacked". No words necessary, 15 seconds or less.

who supplied the guns...

The Intel community won't take the fall for Obie, they will sell him down the river of no return so fast he won't have time to put on his skivies!

At the Al Smith Dinner, looked as though Obama was tolerating sipping his cold coffee, but likely not enjoying being 'over-cooked,' or clearly, 'over-done.'

#33 In light of “Fast & Furious”, Obama’s desire to try terrorists in open Court, his campaign’s refusal to screen for or prevent illegal foreign credit card contributions, etc., that FR story, “Two SEALS Ruin October Surprise” that you provided the link to is not only plausible, it rings true.

In light of the sworn testimony that Charlene Lamb, a top State Department official, gave before Congress that she was in real-time communication with the Benghazi Consulate during the entire 5-6 hour long attack, several leaks from within the Intelligence community, and WH records showing that Obama actually attended his daily security briefings during the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, it is impossible to believe the WH’s claim that the statements by Obama and other members of his Administration for 2 weeks - that tied the attack to a protest over some months-old YouTube video - were based on the briefings they were receiving. No ring of truth whatsoever.

#33, VERY interesting! Thanks for posting.

Last night, 0 gave the impression of someone who is torn between going out with some dignity, or lashing out like a cornered animal the way Axelrod would recommend. He did seem resigned to his fate, I thought, very melancholy.

Hell hath no fury like a federal bureaucracy blamed because the political appointees' policies failed.

FTA: "It is unclear who, if anyone, saw the cable outside the CIA at that point and how high up in the agency the information went."

The Chief of Station is to the Director of Central Intelligence what the Ambassador is to the President, i.e., the CIA's representative in a foreign country. So if the COS sent a cable to CIA Headquarters on something of this magnitude, it would most likely been sent as an immediate cable but quite possibly at an even even higher precedence, especially if it came in after hours. If the latter case, someone would have been called in to Langley, even in the middle of the night.

And since, according to the article, the information "reached intelligence agencies in Washington the next day", I find it incredulous that 0bama and Clinton weren't informed sooner rather than later, analysts notwithstanding. We're talking about the assassination of an Ambassador and three other diplomats on September 11. This should have kept the President (and the Secretary of State) up all night.

Bottom line, 0bama and his whole Administration are flat out lying to the American people, from Jay Carney to Susan Rice.

(Note also that FTA the briefing points refer to "extremists"; this, no doubt, due to the Administration's policy to not call them what they are, that is, terrorists.)

I hope everyone checks out #33 links, especially the last one. The heroism of the two SEALS was amazing: rescuing 20 embassy personnel and holding off 200 Al-Qaeda for hours. They WERE NOT part of the Ambassador's protection detail, but rode to the rescue like American heroes do. They could have ignored the attack, but they didn't. Why isn't that well known? The description of a SEAL funeral will break your heart.

Thanks to #33 for posting.

Interesting, 42! And also interesting, but un-coincidentally, they call the TEA Party....extemists.