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Blown Cover
News of the Guantanamo-Benghazi connection is leaving Obama & Co. without excuses — unless it wants to blame Bush.
On Wednesday afternoon, Fox News reported “developing” news that Sufyan bin Qumu (full name Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumu ), a terrorist who was released from Guantanamo Bay to the Libyan government, may have been actively involved in, or perhaps the leader of, the assault on America’s consulate in Benghazi that killed our ambassador and three other American personnel.
The release of bin Qumu, who goes by many aliases, was made in 2007, during the George W. Bush administration.
Fox News also reported on Wednesday that it obtained a Department of Homeland Security intelligence report “showing that two days before the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, a statement incited ‘sons of Egypt’ to pressure America to release the so-called blind sheikh ‘even if it requires burning the embassy down with everyone in it.’”
The administration’s ongoing assertion that the violence was only about a juvenile film trailer, and that it did not represent an attack on America for some other reason, is rapidly falling apart.
It was a sign either of narcissism or incompetence (most likely both) for the administration to have doubled down on such an unlikely claim, but then if it said anything else it would mean even greater culpability than the administration would already have (simply for leaving our people inadequately guarded on 9/11).
If these stories turn out to be true, it could — and should — be a politically fatal blow to this administration’s entire senior foreign policy staff, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice, as well as Obama’s Press Secretary Jay Carney. Our Teflon president, strutting around calling Mitt Romney “new” to foreign affairs and talking about what he’s learned in his few years in office, will likely escape serious criticism by the media.
This despite that in his call with the terrorist-sympathizing president of Egypt, Obama “said that he rejects efforts to denigrate Islam, but underscored that there is never any justification for violence against innocents.” A normal human being, not to mention the president of the United States, would have emphasized the latter point first and made the second point a minor afterthought if mentioning it at all.
While Fox News reports that this is new information, other sources have suggested bin Qumu and the Ansar al-Sharia militant group as leading suspects behind the attack for several days. (See here, here, and here.)
Reading through the 2005 Department of Defense report on bin Qumu (which appears to have been scheduled to remain classified until the year 2030) is like a trip through an Alice in Wonderland version of national security. Some highlights include:
- “Detainee has non-specific personality disorder.” (Hmmm…being a drug-addicted religious fanatic wanting to kill everyone who disagrees with him might be a clue.)
- “(D)etainee is assessed as a former member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), a probable member of Al Qaida, and a member of the North African Extremist Network (NAEN). Detainee used his employment at the Wafa Humanitarian Organization (Al-Wafa) as a front for extremist activities. It is assessed this detainee is a MEDIUM to HIGH risk, as he is likely to pose a threat to the US, its interests and allies.” (emphasis in original)
- And I just love this one: “Detainee has latent Tuberculosis and refuses treatment.” The perfect terrorist: if he doesn’t shoot you or blow you up, he’ll cough on you.
More highlights, “based solely on the detainee’s statements”:
- Bin Qumu was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Libya for “crimes including murder, physical assault, armed assault, and distributing narcotics.”
- He “trained at Usama Bin Laden’s Torkham Camp.”
- He worked as a truck driver for a company owned by bin Laden.
- He joined the Taliban in 1998.
Bin Qumu was transferred to Guantanamo because he was believed to be a valuable source of information on the Al-Wafa Organization, its operations and officials, and its relationship with al Qaeda.
Among the Department of Defense’s “reasons for continued detention” were:
- “The Libyan Government considers detainee a ‘dangerous man with no qualms about committing terrorist acts. He was known as one of the extremist commanders of the Afghan Arabs.’”
- Bin Qumu was probably recommended to Osama Bin Laden by Ibn Sheikh Al Libi, the former second-in-command of al Qaida.
- He “has known or suspected associations” with at least twenty members of “terrorist groups which pose a clear and immediate danger to US persons or interests.”
- An alias of his “was found on al Qaida’s 11 September attacks financier’s…laptop as an al Qaida member receiving family support.”
- “JTF GTMO determined this detainee is of HIGH intelligence value.” (emphasis in original)
About the Author
Ross Kaminsky is a self-employed trader and investor and is a senior fellow of the Heartland Institute. He is the host of The Ross Kaminsky Show on Denver’s NewsRadio 850 KOA at 11 AM on most Sundays. You can reach Ross by e-mail at rossputin(at)rossputin(dot)com.
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Appleby| 9.20.12 @ 6:56AM
The reality is that all these things were known about Obama before the idiots elected him -- yet the press quashed them and silenced those who would have reported them. Even now, people do not believe that the merry prankster they see on late night teevee, whooping it up with celebrities (self-identified) has any past or any plans for the future.
Jack in Wi| 9.20.12 @ 8:47AM
What a pile of complete baloney. The people who put out this film knew exactly what they were doing. It was idiotic on their part. They thought it would trap us forever in the Middle East. Instead we have a huge movement toward getting out of the Middle East, the sooner the better. The whole Middle East is not worth one drop of American blood or one American dollar. We have wasted trillions over the decades and are far more hated then when we began. The Arabs have to sell the oil to live. Let them sell it to whoever they wish and we can end this decades long fiasco and concentrate this country's problems.
Occam's Tool| 9.20.12 @ 10:36AM
No, don't let them sell the oil except to us, at a discount.
SUBVET| 9.20.12 @ 10:57AM
Tool............maybe you should see this.....
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147
SUBVET| 9.20.12 @ 11:16AM
Try this...............
http://video.google.com/videop.....7167011147
Jo Dowless| 9.20.12 @ 4:33PM
I never, ever, ever thought I'd say this: but Hillary Clinton's composure and competence and humility over the past four years as secretary of state make me want to see her president one day . . . 2016, say.
KennesawJack| 9.20.12 @ 8:32PM
It's really Jo Clueless, isn't it?
Cpm| 9.21.12 @ 4:44AM
That's botox.
Occam's Tool| 9.20.12 @ 7:12PM
Hell, yeah...IT is ridiculous that we have let these child raping savages annoy us for so long over a product that we have more of than they do!
Run Silent, Run Deep, my friend, and hit with a nuclear tipped torpedo!
Cpm| 9.21.12 @ 4:48AM
This has absolutely nothing to do with some stupid video except as a shield for this administration's ineptitude and complicity.
SUBVET| 9.20.12 @ 10:45AM
Oh...........he has a past.......we shall see if it surfaces when he's voted out.
Pecos Pete| 9.20.12 @ 7:05AM
Obama, Rice and Clinton are foreign policy experts and we should not criticize their efforts to reset the horrible condition of the world that resulted from Bush's reign of terror.
The fact that these same wizards get their facts wrong shouldn't alter the understanding by Obama's voters, and the MSM, that Obama has been, and if reelected will be, the perfect solution to the world's need for understanding of all religions, particularly the peaceful Islam. The residents of Gitmo/Shitm who have not yet been released may, and probably will, be granted a pardon by King O on his last day in office. These "folks" will then be set loose to once again provide examples of peaceful coexistence.
Hiding behind the wonderful world of Obama's foreign relations, we can't talk about economics and a world wide recession/depression resulting from Obama's and the Democrat Party's policies. No way Jose.
As for Jay Carney, he is always good for a laugh. Another POS who will disappear into a life of luxury come January 2013.
JamesDrouin| 9.20.12 @ 6:50PM
Wow, you should bottle that koolaid because it's the most powerful hallucenogen in the Universe.
To wit, B. Hussein Obama, Billary, and Susan Ric BETRAYED the pro-democracy demonstrators in Iran, giving the mullahs the go-ahead to slaughter them by the thousands by telling them "we want to talk to you without precondition".
Then, not being satisfied with that, they moved on to BETRAYING all of Eastern Europe by canceling a ten-missile ABM system that presented ZERO threat to Russia EXCEPT by establishing that "democracy" would reign in that region.
Moving right along, they the BETRAYED Georgia by raising not so much as a whispered objection to Russia's invasion and annexation of a large swathe of that country.
Then, they BETRAYED Lebanon by again, withdrawing support from the Lebanese government and allowing HEZBOLLAH to assume an armed take-over.
Moving right along, because those three stooges were so infected with BDS (as are you), they decided that Bashar Assad was, in B. Hussein Obama's own words was "a guy we can work with" despite documented evidence of his direct involvement in the murder of hundreds of Americans feted the butcher of Damascus, established diplomatic relations with him, and, to this day, STILL has diplomatic relations with a man who has not only murdered ~20,000 of his own citizens, but has a mother who is on record as stating he should have murdered even more!
And all of that is NOTHING compared to the debacles in Egypt, Libya, and Pakistan.
KennesawJack| 9.20.12 @ 8:33PM
James, you need to read Pete's post a bit more carefully. The man does not drink the Kool-Aid.
Jacob McCandles| 9.20.12 @ 7:42AM
Maybe this guy should have been targeted by a drone. After all, intelligence is not worth the horrors of torture according to Obama and Pelosi, right?
Mike G| 9.20.12 @ 7:50AM
The administration sticks to its hilarious story about these attacks being in retaliation for some stupid movie. And the LSM ignores the intelligence reports that indicate the administration is lying. As I said before, these journalists have no idea what journalism entails.
CJW| 9.20.12 @ 7:57AM
Obama never saw this because he does not have time for the daily presidential briefing. Too busy with campaigning, fundraising, Letterman, Beyonce, and other affairs of State.
Von Mises Jr| 9.20.12 @ 8:04AM
He didn't see it since he is a "Utopian" moron that believes his own bullshit, CJW. The Islamists were supposed to thank him for toppling the Daffy Kaddafi regime and letting them run the country.
Obama still probably thinks people without jobs who lost 40% of their wealth in the last four years should thank him for the tax cuts. Of course those were the tax cuts that were tax credits to his base who don’t want to work for a living.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.20.12 @ 9:48AM
Obama and his team are the tip of the spear of the mindset that continues to believe that the proper approach to Islamic terror is a law enforcement approach (and not the old fashioned law and order approach, but the one that believes that criminals are victims who merely need rehabilitation to live productive normal lives).
The document that Mr. Kaminsky cites in this article is the functional equivalent of the pre-parole reports that are prepared on thousands of criminal inmates each year. Despite its warnings that this “medium to high risk”detainee was the reason we built Gitmo’s prison, under the pressure to close the highly necessitated institution, the Bush Administration released him to an unreliable “ally” with predictable results. The Obama administration has tripled down on this approach with its attempts to close down Gitmo, provide civilian trials for enemy combatants (lawful or unlawful) with incarceration in federal prisons (which are well known for “graduating” offenders who never go forth and do harm again).
John Brennan’s inane remarks last year favorably comparing the known terrorist recidivism rate to that of criminal offenders revealed as much as anyone needs to know about how deep this mindset has infected those who have been placed in charge of this effort to protect us from those who have declared war on us and their terror attacks, and why it is no longer working.
CJW| 9.20.12 @ 10:04AM
I believe the FBI is in Benghazi but they have not been allowed to do anything. At best they will collect evidence that points to bombs and weapons sold to the Khadafi regime but now stolen by the various terrorrist groups, such as Al Quaeda.
Meanwhile O will say this is a crime scene and they cannot comment. They do not want to prejudice the rights of the terrorrists if one is arrested.
Libya provided the largest number, per capita, of terrorrists to fight in Iraq. Now that most are back in Libya, what do you think they are doing? You know, but Moe Obama, Larry Rhodam Clinton, and Curley Biden profess not to know.
TLP| 9.20.12 @ 4:19PM
CONTEST, Mr. Winner.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.20.12 @ 4:57PM
TLP;
I'm shooting the compressed air under the keys on the keyboard so that if the timing of my entry becomes critical, I can remain competitive.
Nonetheless, if Alan Brooks shows up with a small cup and says he has to observe me submit a urine sample to remain eligible, I might need to contact you for clarification of the rules.
TLP| 9.20.12 @ 6:25PM
I am here to Confirm that those are, in fact, the rules.
Oh, and Purp needs to Hold It ( as it were) while you pee.
TLP| 9.20.12 @ 6:25PM
See you Tomorrow, Winner.
Von Mises Jr| 9.20.12 @ 7:57AM
I am still awaiting an apology from the "Independents" that voted for these communist and Islamist lovers in an attempt to mitigate their irrational racial guilt.
You know stupidity and ignorance is not owned by the Obama regime. Those that gave them the keys to the bus are complicit.
Indy| 9.20.12 @ 12:30PM
Von, my friend, many independents are conservatives who are disgusted with both parties. The media is the group that has failed our country, a few random acts of jouralism to shine the light would make all the difference. I'll give you a pass since I know your comment was not directed at me.
Hardcard| 9.20.12 @ 8:42AM
the UN Amb. rice running interference for the regime ? on matters of state ? strange !!! odumbo and billary were not able to tap dance any longer,and uncle joe's meds are failing, so rice is awakened to lie on their behalf. maybe ag holdup can investigate. and half the ass*oles in this country still believe this b*llsh*t WTF I think all is lost.
ElGordo| 9.20.12 @ 8:57AM
Obama's Foreign Policy is a FAILURE
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Jimmy Carter lost Iran
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Pres. Obama lost Egypt and Libya
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OBAMA'S MIDEAST POLICY STINKS
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Either Obama is naive about the Muslim Brotherhood or he wants them to take over the Mideast.
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See O'Reilly's Super Bowl Interview of Pres. Obama on Youtube where O'Reilly warns Obama about the Muslim Brotherhood....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6HyXCHndmk
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DID YOU KNOW THAT OBAMA GAVE THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD FRONT ROW SEATS AT HIS 2009 CAIRO SPEECH
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OBAMA HAS TIME TO SEE MORSI, THE HEAD OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, AT THE W.H. BUT NOT NETANYAHU
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THE FACTS PROVE THAT OBAMA WANTS THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TO TAKE OVER THE MIDEAST
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A VOTE FOR OBAMA IS A VOTE FOR THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
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Further, HILLARY'S MAIN ASSISTANT HAS TIES TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
LarryK| 9.20.12 @ 9:04AM
People chill out and take the blue pill!
squalis| 9.20.12 @ 9:24AM
This will become the scandal it should be only when it is the lead story on NBC, ABC, CBS, and front page news at the Wash Po, Huff Po (and all other Po's), the NY & LA Times (and all other Times), etc, just as would be the case with F&F, and we see where that went.
I firmly believe we will see a loving peace between Israel and Iran before the MSM starts to report honestly the failings of this Administration.
Occam's Tool| 9.20.12 @ 10:37AM
If a terrorist refused TB treatment, the solution would be to put him in an isolation cell and leave him there, without contact.
Drunken Sailor| 9.20.12 @ 2:10PM
Sorry OT I disagree.
A known terrorist with TB who refuses treatment should be medicated by force. Hollow point lead projectiles will stop the transmission of TB.
Occam's Tool| 9.20.12 @ 7:21PM
There are no injectable TB treatments, though. Hollow points are an excellent idea, unless one needs to squeeze data from subject. However, delightful changes of air pressure, which can be done in an appropriately set up infectious disease control environment, can squeeze without significant contact. Nothing like an air pressure of, say, 3 pounds per square inch for a short while. Or high CO2, low O2 for a while as well. (increase the drive to breathe while making it harder to get sufficient oxygen, then make the ears hurt like hell for, say, 30 seconds. Also vary temperatures and splash with water from ducts while all this is going on. Then do varying times between interventions and varying times of interventions---use a computer randomized algorithm.
Watch on video, monitor heart and respiratory rate, and munch popcorn. I hate touching people.
Ask them when they want their medications then.
Occam's Tool| 9.20.12 @ 7:22PM
Sorry: closed parenthesis after "30 seconds." Sorry.
Vic| 9.20.12 @ 10:54AM
I think you are getting it all wrong Ross! This decision to release that muslim terrorist was executed in 2009 when Obozo took office. Moreover, the liberal press are trying to distract attention by blaming Romney for everything. Not that i personally like Romney but I feel his speech at his fundraiser was heartening to conservatives and I more and more feel he is one of us!
Ross Kaminsky| 9.20.12 @ 2:12PM
Vic, I have it right. The document is from 2005 and bin Qumu was transferred to Libya in 2007/
KennesawJack| 9.20.12 @ 3:13PM
Just think of all the fun we'll have when the blind sheikh is returned to Egypt. Surely, he'll preach love and peace while singing kumbaya to all who have anxiously awaited his return. Make no mistake, Obamarx will free him whether he wins or loses the election.
TLP| 9.20.12 @ 6:27PM
CONTEST, TOMORROW.
Be there, or be Ross Kaminski.
TLP| 9.20.12 @ 6:28PM
Or, worse.
Ross Kaminsky.
And, I know you don't want that.
KennesawJack| 9.20.12 @ 8:37PM
Going alligator hunting, remember? Catch you next time.
Ross Kaminsky| 9.20.12 @ 10:32PM
A fate worse than death!
KennesawJack| 9.20.12 @ 11:06PM
Hah! To become Ross Kaminsky and suffer the slings and arrows of a relentless (though well meaning and probably lovable)TLP! No. No. A thousand times no. Better to go alligator hunting.
sam1953| 9.20.12 @ 10:59AM
Was Huma Abedin properly vetted? If not, how was she able to avoid being disqualified for a security clearance? If these known and documented family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood would not disqualify someone for a security clearance, what specifically is the standard to be disqualified on foreign influence grounds?
These are legitimate questions and every American has the right to ask and to know the answers.
Shoebat highlights the "lack of screening by our state department" of Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer Ground Zero Mosque Imam Sheikh Feisal Abdul Rauf. This is the same Rauf that states that "the only law that the Muslim needs exists already in the Koran and the Hadith."
Nidal Malik Hassan and Louay Safi are also offered as examples of jihadist sympathizers who received no vetting and who slipped by. Hassan murdered 13 Americans at Fort Hood and Louay Safi is director of ISNA's Leadership Development Center. He has spoken out against various law enforcement raids on Islamic centers.
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TLP| 9.20.12 @ 6:32PM
Think about it, Sam.
Valerie Jarret was Born and Raised in Iran.
Huma Weinerboy's Family has been up to their Ears in the Muslim Brotherhood, since their Inception.
And, President Piece of Shit IS A MUSLIM, named after Mohammed's Horse.
It would be Funny, if it wasn't so Sad, for Us.
Cpm| 9.21.12 @ 4:53AM
Hillary liked her girlish figure.
Who Knows?| 9.20.12 @ 11:51AM
You da man, Ross.
Let’s go all the way.
The hell with political correctness.
Obama, both Clintons, Pelosi, Reid, Carney, the leftist MSM, the mesmerized voters who were prone to faint in the One’s presence, et al---
They are insane.
I define insane, in its most vital sense---yes, VITAL, as in essential for LIFE.
Only a crazy person would act as extremely, and even righteously, to current events, as these people.
They resemble the fool standing on a roof edge, believing they can fly, about to give it a go. Except, incredibly, they seem to be the Atlas-of-death, with America on their shoulders.
It’s almost too late to shift America off their shoulders onto people who step away from the edge, and indeed safely descend to the ground floor of real REALITY.
Maybe the 47% open mic truth telling by Romney will marry the flexibility one by Obama, and the scales will finally be burned off most people’s eyes.
Stop the insanity! Do this, or die.
nathan| 9.20.12 @ 1:05PM
We can start with the usual, I'm a troll, perp, ignorant, fellow traveler, how's that for those who may actually know what that means? (Not many I bet.) Now having saved you all the trouble of calling me names (how about actually trying to counter this post with "facts"? I know, I'm asking a lot but it's worth a try.) let me get to the substance here.
The Geneva accords, Torture Convention included which your hero St. Ronald supported and which we helped draft and signed requires all signatories to make "speedy" determinations regarding whether detainees are actually bad guys and should continue to be held. "Innocent" detainees should be released. We know that the Northern Alliance, responding to the bounty just handed over all sorts of people who weren't bad guys. Same thing in Iraq. A lot of detainees were wrong place wrong time and had no connection to the bad guys. The published estimates ran as high as 80 percent for all detainees. Now Bybee didn't know what he was talking about and the JAG's disagreed with him when he said Geneva didn't apply here. Geneva makes allows no exception for "unlawful" combatants. (No it doesn't.) Geneva basically says, you've got a detainee from any source who did whatever, you have to treat him properly. The JAG's agree with this interpretation, not Bybee. (Look it up.)
nathan| 9.20.12 @ 1:17PM
If Bybee was right why did people involved destroy records? What did they have to fear? Because they knew they were breaking the law and could in fact be subject to prosecution. Bybee and Yoo were wrong and their opinions were garbage. But understand too that Geneva says actors cannot rely on the rules/laws of their own government. They must make independent determination of the legality of their actions. In other words, "I was obeying orders" something we heard at trial after trial 60 years ago and ignored and hung people for, doesn't cut it.
So yes, we did a mass release of detainees per our treaty obligations. Undoubtably when you deal with that many people you'll make a mistake and we probably made more than one.
The question for you all is this: To avoid setting one/two/three (pick a number) bad guys free do you hold indefinitely several hundred/thousand innocent (yes they were innocent) people for years on end? By holding hundreds of innocent people for all those years, keeping them from families, you create more enemies. So what's rational/what makes sense? Again, the treaties we signed/helped write requires us to do this. We can't argue human rights based on those treaties in international forums and then turn around and ignore them ourselves. We have to walk it the way we talk it. Every human rights abuser in the last century, Hitler included justified their actions saying "national security". That reason won't do it here either.
JamesDrouin| 9.20.12 @ 6:56PM
Well, beyond agreeing to your admission that you're a "troll, perp, ignorant, ...", what else can anyone say but:
Yep, you're all of those, and more.
nathan| 9.21.12 @ 7:52AM
Sir: You did the easy stuff, the name calling. Anyone can do that. A five year old can do that.
Would you now care to engage in the more difficult part and tell me where I'm factually incorrect? I mean the Northern Alliance DIDN'T hand over hundreds of people to collect the bounty without vetting them? Many of the people in Abu Ghraib weren't there because they just happened to be in the vacinity of a bomb when it went off and got picked up in the ensuing round up even though they had no connection with it? The military JAG's DIDN'T disagree with Bybee's conclusions? The conventions don't require that we make a speedy determination as to whether detainees are bad guys and require us to release those who aren't? The conventions DON'T make distinctions between lawful and unlawful combatants for purposes of how detainees get treated?
So tell me oh wise sage, where I am FACTUALLY wrong. If you can. Otherwise an apology for the disparaging remarks might be nice?
don| 9.20.12 @ 1:59PM
I hope these attacks at our embassies end the prospect of Hillary Clinton ever running for President. So, much for being able to handle a world crisis at 3 AM; she couldn't make a proper decision when she was fully awake.
Indy| 9.20.12 @ 2:12PM
The decision was made long before 3am, she would have been the one to sign off on the rules of engagement and security procedures in 2011. She's done, she knows it, look at the pictures of her when this story broke. We still haven't learned what happened to the Ambassador Stevens for the hours he was missing, foreign press reported that he was raped, our press was focused on the video blame game while conducting a cover up of their grave errors. More will come out in time. Already, today we learned, the two former seals were not part of Stevens security detail, oh really, what were they doing in the area? on September 11th? and why was Stevens not in Tripoli at the embassy on September 11th where he would have had security?
Indy| 9.20.12 @ 2:39PM
Tapper followed up: “Who made the decision that there should not be any Marines at our diplomatic posts in Libya? More than half of our diplomatic posts have Marines. I understand they’re not there to protect people. They’re there to protect classified data but it doesn’t hurt to have them there. Who made the decision?”
Carney responded: “I think security at diplomatic facilities is overseen by and run by the State Department, so I’d refer you to them about how decisions are made and what the allocation of resources was in Benghazi and elsewhere. I think they’re the best people to answer that question.”
http://cnsnews.com/news/articl.....state-dept
TLP| 9.20.12 @ 6:34PM
And, just like that, Hillary goes under the Bus.
Surprised?
Oldefarte| 9.21.12 @ 10:15AM
Hillary???? But wait, we'll still have Dr Susan Rice front and center in front of the bus, right??????
Oldefarte| 9.21.12 @ 10:16AM
PS: And Valerie driving the bus [loaded with secret service agents with BULLETS], right?????
Indy| 9.20.12 @ 2:17PM
"Ex-Navy Seals weren't part of ambassador's security detail but rose to occasion, officials now confirm
The two former SEALS, Tyrone Woods, 41, and Glen Doherty, 42, were not employed by the State Department diplomatic security office and instead were what is known as personal service contractors who had other duties related to security, the officials said.
They stepped into action, however, when Stevens became separated from the small security detail normally assigned to protect him when he traveled from the more fortified embassy in Tripoli to Benghazi, the officials said."
http://www.washingtonguardian......ibya-story
Bloopville| 9.21.12 @ 4:34AM
I know it's election and we want Obama to lose, but I am very confused as to why the release of a terrorist during the Bush Administration is continued to be brought up as a fatal error of the Obama administration. Also, the initial assertion that the protests were spontaneous are not grand failures, but momentary misassesments.
I remember when we rightly criticized the Left for being overly critical of the Bush administration in a time of war, and talked about how in emboldened the enemy and wasn't constructive. It seems that Conservatives have gone overboard in assigning a clear Bush failure to Obama, and being critical of early assessments, which any logical person will know can be incorrect.
There is a great Jon Stewart clip (yes, he can be funny and perceptive), that has Palin and Hannitty talk about the dangers of bringing democracy to the Middle East in the past few days, and then cutting back to their praise of the visionary Bush for having the foresight to want to pursue the dream of a democratic/free market middle east.
The leadership by a 2007 released terrorist is a failure of the proponents of the Project for the New American Century crowd, and not a "fatal" mistake of the Obama administration.
Conservatives shoot themselves in the foot with articles like this.