Senate Intel Committee: BENGHAZI WAS PREVENTABLE - ADMIN FAILED TO RESPOND

Again

 

All along, the conservatives on this forum wanted the Benghazi investigation to proceed while the liberals here wanted it swept under the rug. Well, now it turns out that the liberals here (and everywhere) were wrong about Benghazi being some sort of spontaneous demonstration caused by an anti-Islam video. They wanted the investigation to stop (nothing to see here, folks, move along) because it might reveal that our leaders were asleep at the wheel.

The liberals were afraid that it would reveal that Obama would be made to look incompetent against terrorism in the then-upcoming election. They had a right to be afraid. With the liberal media backing them, our leaders were able to repeat their lies just long enough to win. Some victory, eh liberals? With Benghazi lies and (especially) Obamacare lies, how does it feel to win an election based on lies?

The State Department is still blocking access to witnesses and documents. Does this sound like the "transparency" that Obama promised the American people? HELL NO, IT DOESNT!

Well, the Senate Intel Committee (chaired by a Dem and populated by Dems and Reps) has concluded that our leaders WERE asleep at the wheel and didn't provide the necessary and required security for our ambassador and his team. Hillary Clinton and the State Department she was responsible for did not do their jobs and, subsequently, people died.

Hey, Hillary! "What difference does it make?" Probably all the difference in the world come 2016. How do you sleep at night?

Senator: Al Qaeda members emerge as 'leaders of the pack' in Benghazi

Several Al Qaeda members emerged as “leaders of the pack” in last year’s Benghazi attack, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told Fox News following release of a bipartisan report blowing apart claims the assault was the work of local extremists with no formal terrorist connections.

The former Guantanamo detainee Sufian bin Qumu, first identified by Fox's Bret Baier as a suspect 16 months ago, at the very least helped lay the groundwork for the operation.

"Certainly Qumu was involved in planning in this...he is a member of a group that is affiliated with Al Qaeda so in my mind that makes him Al Qaeda," said Chambliss, R-Ga.

The report, which took 16 months to complete, has teeth because the findings were agreed to by both Republican and Democrats on the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee.

It concludes that the Benghazi attackers came from two official Al Qaeda affiliates, bin Qumu's Ansar al-Sharia, and a fourth group, the Jamal network, whose leader is connected to the Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan.

"Individuals affiliated with terrorist groups including AQIM, Ansar al-Sharia, AQAP and the Mohammad Jamal Network participated in the September 11, 2012 attacks,” the report said.
The committee sought a State Department classified cable, first reported by Fox News, that summarized an emergency meeting in Benghazi one month before the attack warning that Al Qaeda training camps were operating, and the consulate could not sustain a coordinated assault.

"They resisted for a long time in providing it to us, but at the end of the day, we did secure the cable," Chambliss said.

Chambliss said that was part of a pattern – in which the State Department continues to block access to witnesses and documents. He said the committee also wanted to know whether a White House meeting on the day of the assault – believed to include then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta,Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the vice president and, briefly, President Obama - set the marching orders for explaining the attack.

"We'd been stonewalled on that question. We've asked time and again who was in the meeting and what was the substance of that meeting and we have not gotten answers on that," Chambliss said.

The administration continues to hang its hat on a very narrow definition of Al Qaeda that encompasses the leadership in Pakistan -- known as the "core."

"We still have no indications that core Al Qaeda was involved in directing or planning this attack," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters. "And I think you're generalizing a little bit about the warnings."

There were seven reports from the CIA and defense intelligence agency between June 12 and September 7, 2012 about the growing cooperation between Al Qaeda's regional affiliates and terrorists on the ground in Libya.

While the CIA ramped up security, the State Department did not. Republicans and Democrats on the committee agreed the attack could have been prevented and four Americans -- Ambassador Chris Stevens, foreign service officer Sean Smith, and former Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty -- would still be alive today.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who leads the committee, said she hopes the report will put to rest the conspiracy theories and political accusations.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the findings reinforce what other investigations have found, but Carney failed to address one of the most significant findings: that Benghazi was an Al Qaeda-led event.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...s-leaders-pack-in-benghazi/?intcmp=latestnews

 

From the committee's report:

"While the CIA ramped up security, the State Department did not. Republicans and Democrats on the committee agreed the attack could have been prevented and four Americans -- Ambassador Chris Stevens, foreign service officer Sean Smith, and former Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty -- would still be alive today."


I can envision many lawsuits being filed based on what was said in the above sentence. Our leaders should and must be held accountable for their actions (or, in this case, INACTIONS). I hope the families sue the hell out of everyone in the chain-of-command who dropped the ball on this one.

 

None of their insane conspiracy theories turned out to be true so they keep pushing them anyway. Obama did not sit and watch in real time as our diplomats were slaughtered. Obama gave the public the best information he had at the time and no proof that he intentionally lied ever came true. He never gave a stand down order. There never was a cover up. All their crazy talking points are just pure BS and they refuse to let go of them. What does that say about their state of mind? Coo-Coo! Coo-Coo!

What this really comes down to in light of this report is that the GOP/Tea Baggers are willing to use the deaths of these Americans for political purposes with no intention of investigating this incident so that it can be prevented in the future. Does the State Dept, the military, and the intelligence community come off looking good? Hell no! Should this incident be used to learn lessons? Hell yes! But the use of this incident to score political points is just deplorable and typical of the Right. They need to remember that American lives are not fodder for their political ambitions.

 

Oh, but there is. Gen. Carter Ham's transcript has been released. His sworn testimony is that he informed the White house within 15 minutes of the beginning of the attack that it was terrorists. And further, Panetta's previous testimony said the same thing.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ficials-briefed-obama-on-attack-not-video-or/

 

See!

 

That's all you have to say after the Intel Committee said the attack could have been prevented? An attack that took the lives of our Ambassador and his aides? All you have to say is that it doesn't make the State Department "look good"?

You're damned right it doesn't make them "look good", in fact, it makes them look like incompetent, bumbling, inept, uncaring, heartless bastards.

 

Little Joe doesn't want to hear that.

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Nothing new there. I will bet he still thinks it was all because of that film.