SOS Rice ?
[Guest post by JD]
It is sexist and racist to criticize a potential SOS nominee for knowingly misleading the American public, if she is a Dem. If she is a Republican, it is not sexist or racist to call her a house-Negro, because you disagree with her.
Sens Ayotte, McCain, and Graham were underwhelmed yesterday, and it looks like noted sexist Sen Collins has some fairly pointed questions she would like answered today, even though Carnie assures us there are no remaining unanswered questions.
Update – like Fast & Furious, etc …. The complicit MFM either characterizes criticism as political so it can be disregarded, or simply ignores the controversy altogether.
— JD
Racist
JD (318f81) — 11/28/2012 @ 9:07 amIsn’t it interesting that they’re going with this attack at the very same time that they’re also claiming that since these R senators gave Condoleezza Rice a “pass” on her alleged misinformation (which was of course nothing of the sort) they should be giving Rice a similar pass, and their failure to do so is a sign of…er…what? One would have thought that these two lines of attack are mutually exclusive, and they would have to pick one or the other, but apparently they’re running with both and depending on the public not to notice.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/28/2012 @ 9:12 amNo, doublethink is endlessly flexible, Milhouse.
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 9:13 amRacist. And sexist.
JD (318f81) — 11/28/2012 @ 9:33 amAnd I’m sure these same dems came to C. Rice’s defense when she was cartooned in a demeaning way, right?
If there was any actual racism involved with the Ambassador you know that conservatives will be on it like white on rice.
ukuleledave (c59551) — 11/28/2012 @ 9:36 amSOS, stuck on stupid? Indubitably.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 11/28/2012 @ 9:42 amSo you racists want to be congratulated for not making this non-issue about race?
Laughable.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 9:53 amHey P-Dilly, go flog yourself.
Pious Agnostic (7c3d5b) — 11/28/2012 @ 9:58 amRice lying to us about the Benghazi cover up is a non issue?
Says the psycho who uses the name of a fallen soldier to be a more effective troll.
Apparently respect for our fallen heroes is a ‘non issue’ to democrats like him.
Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 9:59 amThe murder of 4 Americans is a non-issue to Illman.
JD (318f81) — 11/28/2012 @ 10:04 amIf the video (Innocence of Muslims) that U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice (President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton, Spokeshole Jay Carney, etc.) pushed on the five (5) Sunday talk shows to the American people, as being the cause of the 9/11/12 attack on our Benghazi Consulate:
Why have we heard nothing from the Jihad Muslims, Egypt, the Obama Administration (Susan Rice, Barack Obama & Hilary Clinton in particular), or the lame stream media – about this video made by Ms. Ann Barnhardt?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LCLDjPNpf4&feature=plcp
In that video, Ms. Barnhardt bookmarks certain passages of the Koran with bacon that she finds offensive, then serially she reads each passage, rips it out, places it in a breaker and then sets it on fire.
Now if there was any truth to the claim that a video (particularly Innocence of Muslims was the cause of demonstrations, riots, attacks, suicide bombings, IEDs, etc., Ms. Barnhardt’s video – might just be something that might cause a Jihadist to get a little upset.
But again, not a peep from the lame stream media (or any media), Rice, Obama, Clinton, the Jihadists, Egypt, etc., about Ms. Barnhardt or her video.
Kudos to Ms. Barnhardt for standing up and exposing phonies.
See also the below AP article. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PROPHET_FILM? SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-11-28-09-25-25
Associated Press – by Sarah El Deeb
gzerman (a10726) — 11/28/2012 @ 10:12 amNov 28, 2012
EGYPT COURT SENTENCES 8 TO DEATH OVER PROPHET FILM
CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has convicted in absentia seven Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Florida-based American pastor and sentenced them to death on charges linked to an anti-Islam film that had sparked riots in parts of the Muslim world.
Egypt’s official news agency said the court found the defendants guilty Wednesday of harming national unity, insulting and publicly attacking Islam, and spreading false information. The charges carry the death sentence in Egypt.
The case was largely symbolic since the seven men and one woman are outside of Egypt and unlikely to travel to the country to face the charges. The trial was seen as an attempt to absorb public anger over the film, which portrays the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, womanizer and buffoon.
They never learn, do they;
http://twitchy.com/2012/11/28/sen-collins-troubled-by-rice-for-secretary-of-state-but-makes-room-for-kerry/
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 10:13 amIf someone did that to the Bible or a statue of the Buddha or an American flag, we’d yawn.
Why is the US Government promoting outrage if one blasphemes the views of the extremist sect of Islam? It’s practically like they are establishing a religion, and it sends the message that terrorism and violence get the US Government to support your goals.
Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 10:18 amGreetings:
All Caucasian women hate all Negro women because the latter got the nice hair.
11B40 (83ccb5) — 11/28/2012 @ 10:28 amReally? I seem to recall quite a lot of outrage about such things. We wouldn’t kill anyone, of course, but plenty of people would be plenty upset.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/28/2012 @ 10:33 amI don’t see a lot of outrage when South Park shows Jesus being outwitted by Satan, or a citizen of Imaginationland. Of course there is some out there, but by and large our society’s blood pressure is not going up all that much over it.
US Flags are burning every other time I turn on the TV, and most folks barely even notice.
But to get more to the point, the US Government would not blame the flag burner if someone threatened to kill him. They would blame the person issuing the threat.
It is not the videographer’s fault that the Benghazi murders occurred (even if you pretend the riots occurred, which they didn’t, making the blame doubly absurd).
Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 10:37 amWell, it sort of is, indirectly, because there’s a fair bit of reason to suspect that he’s in cahoots with the murderers, or at least engaged in a common enterprise. His claims to be a Coptic Christian are no more credible than his earlier claims to be an Israeli Jew.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/28/2012 @ 10:47 amIt makes me wonder if there had been no video dug up online, what or who would have been scapegoated for Benghazi?
Dana (292dcf) — 11/28/2012 @ 10:52 amMilhouse, the murders are the fault of those who committed them. Under your conspiracy theory, the videographer is in cahoots, which changes the issue considerably.
Murder in reaction to speech is the fault of the murderer, not the speaker, is the principle I’m conveying.
But I don’t understand. There were no riots. The murderers targeted our embassy and attacked it. Where does the video fit into that?
Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 10:56 amYes, I know, and you’re right. I’m just saying this Nakoula guy, or whatever his real name is, may well be indirectly guilty of those murders, but for a completely different reason.
It fits in if both acts were taken in furtherance of a common jihad. I’m not claiming any closer connection than that.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:03 amIt doesn’t, the AQ video released the day before, the feed being streamed into the DS Operations center, the drone feed are more relevant,
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:03 am“Rice lying to us about the Benghazi cover up is a non issue?”
Why would she lie? None of you morons have ever explained why this is important. If you think it means something about the administration “not caring” about the people killed well then you’re just playing a stupid game that no one is buying. Your typical game of blame, implication, innuendo but no facts.
Didn’t America already send you all the clear signal a few weeks ago that it doesn’t buy this BS anymore?
Do you really think your tactic of screaming for attention like little brats is a productive one?
You get attention but misuse it to demonstrate your own hateful ignorance and mendacity.
Please keep it up. Please. Please. You dig yourselves deeper into oblivion with every tantrum.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:03 am“Apparently respect for our fallen heroes is a ‘non issue’ to democrats like him.”
You disrespect them and all other men and women in the service by lying to them and using them to advance your own narrow political goals enwrapped (ironically) in the American Flag.
Republicans hate the military. They have nothing but contempt for the people who serve. They are pawns to you. They shed blood to protect you from imaginary enemies and bogeymen. If they were as politically savvy as they were brave they’d hate all of you.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:07 amAnd once again I have to question the judgement of the site’s proprietor and namesake for allowing such a radically hateful moron to originate posts.
Birds of a feather I suppose.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:09 amIt will be interesting to learn about that.
The Obama administration failed to protect out own, when it had the means and opportunity to do so. Also, the Obama administration’s general claim to have defeated Al Qaida is untrue.
It does not require an explanation as to why that’s important. They knew they needed to lie to the American people with an election coming up. Now that we’re past that, Rice admits her claims were dead wrong, and the timeline shows that the administration knew they were wrong when they lied.
Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:09 amThey apologized before hand, for the video, even before the protests in Cairo were underway, and of course the fact, the consulate had been under attack at least twice, challenged ‘the narrative;
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:10 amLike JD, I served honorably and would never use the name of a fallen soldier to be a more vicious troll, the way you do.
You’re the one arguing that the death of our heroes is a non issue.
Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:11 amI’ve seen in other pieces, that Peter Bergen, dismisses Benghazi, yes the one who made his reputation like John Miller did, and Tim Rutten pretends to, on having interviewed Bin Laden when he first declared war on us
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:14 amThe broader lesson, is if one doesn’t identify a threat when it is beginning, it will metastazize in the future, Clinton didn’t fully utilize the Trodpint teams in the 90s, hence the embassy bombings, the Cole and 9/11. That is the significance of Bin Laden,
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:18 amAnd once again I have to question the judgement of the site’s proprietor and namesake for allowing such a radically hateful moron to originate posts.
Birds of a feather I suppose.
Comment by P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:09 am
P. Tillman,
Why don’t you want our politicians held accountable? Why are you so easily and willingly swayed?
I think it’s radically hateful to impugn people’s honesty in attempting to ferret out the truth. Its as if one really doesn’t want to know the truth.
Dana (292dcf) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:18 amAnd P. Tillman, ask yourself why you keep coming back to such a radically hateful place.
Dana (292dcf) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:20 am‘Madame Ambassador’ how does denial of the true facts on the ground, that are at odds, with the account of the allied government, further smart
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:25 ampower, or is the undermining of the Magarief govt, which was what happened, a US policy objective in the region,’
Why is it that democrat administrations correlate well with mistakes leading to military ballots not arriving in time to vote? Liberals wound up satirizing the issue and dismissing it,but the Inspector General for the DoD says the issue is all too real.
And recall Florida in 2000:
When we were talking about votes that were for Pat Buchannan in democrat leaning districts, but could be interpreted as votes for Gore, democrats said ‘If the intent of the voter can be determined with reasonable certainty from an inspection of the ballot effect must be given to that intent and the vote counted’
But this rule didn’t apply to the military.
So a soldier does everything right but Clinton’s DoD doesn’t mark the mail with the correct stamp, and democrats insist those votes don’t count. A democrat vote is too difficult to decipher to be a valid vote, but every effort should be made to count it (for Gore).
At that point, democrats lost any credibility on the topic of supporting our military.
Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:28 amThis means two things:
1) These meetings with Senators are apparently in preparation for a nomination as Secretary of State. (She’s not seeing any House members. This kind of thing is sometimes done around the time of a nomination.)
1a) This means President Obama is pretty serious about nominating her.
2) Obama doesn’t understand what the problem is.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:30 amBack to the question at hand…..
Who gave Amb Rice the bogus talking points pointing at a meaningless video, and excising any reference to AQ?
My money’s on TOM DONILON!
askeptic (b8ab92) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:32 amIf he didn’t do it, that only leaves Teh Won.
Susan Rice appeared in front of the three Senators yesterday together with the Deputy (and Acting) CIA Director, Michael J. Morell.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:34 amSusan Rice appeared in front of the three Senators yesterday together with the Deputy (and Acting) CIA Director, Michael J. Morell
askeptic (b8ab92) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:38 am…and they continued lying through their teeth!
It doesn’t rightly matter, who she appeared before,
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:40 amthey don’t need the GOP vote to get her confirmed,
she has not earned it, how many times will this lesson need to be learned, after Geithner, Holder,
Susstein, et al,
Today she is scheduled to have meetings (separately) with at least two Senators, apparently one on one.
They are Senator Bob Corker(R-Tenn) (who suggested that maybe President Obama should maybe name her instead to head the Democratic National Commiitee – I don’t know if that is serious) and Susan Collins (R-Maine). Susan Collins is particularly important because she is the senator from Susan Rice’s home state, who usuaally intrioduces nominees to other Senators, at the beginning of the committee hearings that will hear the nonination. She had only met her once or twioce when she introduced her in 2009 when she was nominated to become Ambassador to the United Nations. (Susan Rice’s grandparents came to Portland Maine from Jamaica – that must be some back story.)
Sen Collins gave Maureen Dowd of the New York Times the questions she has, who printed them in her column today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/opinion/dowd-make-up-turned-break-up.html
the New York Times the questions she has
Senatgors
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:42 amVotes?
First, there is the Senatorial Privilege of a “Hold”;
then, there is the filibuster, which requires 60-votes to stop.
If the GOP can hold 41 of their members together, they can keep her from being confirmed.
The next day, or that evening, the President will just make a recess appointment of Ms. Rice as SecState.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:44 amThe fact that the Senate won’t be “in recess” is immaterial, because “I Won!”.
From Maureen Dowd’s column:
These are not particularly good questions.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:45 amTom Donilon is an example of the Peter Principle:
People are promoted to their level of incompetence.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:46 amGood for Collins, not good for Rice/Donilon/Obama.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:47 amPeople are promoted to their level of incompetence.
Which is the hallmark of this administration.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:48 amPT’s inherent dishonesty is matched only by his ignorance as he pretends that the American people have no business questioning the lies that Obama feeds them.
SPQR (768505) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:53 amThis is what I’m talking about
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:58 am37. Susan Rice appeared in front of the three Senators yesterday together with the Deputy (and Acting) CIA Director, Michael J. Morell
Comment by askeptic (b8ab92) — 11/28/2012 @ 11:38 am
…and they continued lying through their teeth!
I don’t know if Susan Rice is outright lying, but things don’t make sense. The whole point is I don’t think Obama realizes things don’t make sense. (if he did he wouldn’t send her up there like that)
There is a problem with the intelligence.
I think the problem is, of course, the presence of moles in the CIA and other places, and these moles, among other things, got rid of general david Petraeus.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/28/2012 @ 12:12 pm“You’re the one arguing that the death of our heroes is a non issue.”
Wrong moron…but not the issue YOU fools say it is.
Which is to use it as a political cudgel against Obama, the man you hate.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 12:15 pm“American people have no business questioning the lies that Obama feeds them.”
What lies? And why?
Your inability to provide a reasonable answer to even these basic questions only serves to underscore that it’s nothing more than business-as-usual for the Wingnuts…demanding that the rest of the world play along with your pathetic little games.
And then questioning everyone’s patriotism, etc. when they don’t.
Don’t you ever get tired of repeating yourselves over and over and over and over??? For nothing.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 12:17 pm“the American people ”
You are not THE American people, wingnut.
I’m not sure you should even call yourself American at all, given your open disdain and ignorance for most of what are considered to be the foundational principles of our government and nation.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 12:19 pm“Also, the Obama administration’s general claim to have defeated Al Qaida is untrue.”
When did they make such a claim?
“It does not require an explanation as to why that’s important. ”
Of course not…that’s the definition of “Faith”…belief in the absence of evidence…that underlies the Wingnut perspective.
No need to justify what we believe with facts, it’s JUST TRUE!
“They knew they needed to lie to the American people with an election coming up.”
Not one shred of evidence supports this charge and you know it. But keep droning on about “lying” anyway…let’s see where that gets you (hint: it didn’t get Romneybot elected).
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 12:23 pmYou’re not responding to the answers and have not explained how they are unreasonable.
Susan Rice already admitted that her claims were untrue. It is proven that they knew Al Qaida was involved when they were saying it was not terrorism.
This is a serious issue.
I say it’s wrong for the government to have so badly failed to protect our own, and take issue with lies covering up an embarrassment to the president just before an election.
You don’t get to pretend those aren’t issues just because of your habit of disrespecting fallen soldiers (such as your trollish need to use one of their names for your comments).
And I don’t hate Obama. You’re the one acting like you are absolutely consumed with hatred of people who disagree with you, and I suspect you have a mental illness.
Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 12:26 pmLate yesterday, Senators McCain, Graham and Ayotte (the Wall street Journal article leaves out Graham but breitbart puts him in) released a statement saying that Mike Morell, the acting CIA Director, had told them during the 1 1/2 hour meeting that started at 10 am that the FBI remoived references to al Qaeda. But that later on at 4 pm the CIA called them and said it had removed those references, not the FBI.
Breitbart.com has the whole statement:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/11/27/Rice-McCain-Ayotte-Graham?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
From the statement:
Moles. Moles. The CIA IS PENETRATED BY TERRORIST SUPPORTING MOLES.
Of course, it’s some country, maybe saudi Arabia, maybe Qatar maybe Bahrain, I don’t think Jordan.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/28/2012 @ 12:37 pmWho run around deleting the word al qaida from press releases and talking points?
Seems unlikely.
Seems more like democrats were doing this to conceal their failure in defeating al qaida.
Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 12:57 pm“and I suspect you have a mental illness.”
I suppose that’s the way things might look to someone like you who is incapable of understanding how anyone could possibly see the world differently from them.
Ironic isn’t it?
“You’re not responding to the answers and have not explained how they are unreasonable.”
This is and was my response:
“Susan Rice already admitted that her claims were untrue.”
Prove it.
“Also, the Obama administration’s general claim to have defeated Al Qaida is untrue.”
When did they make such a claim?
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:06 pmThis is the official WH pic up on Drudge.
It really says all that needs to be said. Susan Rice listening intently to Barack Obama, while standing in front of a picture frame with BHO’s name on it.
The guy has a monument to himself in the WH.
Steve57 (7a880e) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:12 pm“conceal their failure in defeating al qaida.”
BWAHAHAHAAH!!
How about this: Republicans are desperate to puncture the growing recognition that a Democratic President was the one to bring bin Laden to Justice and fight the Taliban in Afghanistan.
And that a Republican Administration
Allowed 9/11 to happen
Allowed bin Laden to escape and then forgot about him
Diverted valuable resources away from Afghanistan and to Iraq
Allowed deadly domestic Ricin terrorist attacks to go unpunished (and, incidentally, unclassified as terrorism).
Does the Benghazi attack equate to all of this?
BWAHAHAHAH.
Let me be clear once again:
Everyone, EVERYONE, can smell the stench of your BS.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:12 pm“This is the official WH pic up on Drudge.
It really says all that needs to be said. Susan Rice listening intently to Barack Obama, while standing in front of a picture frame with BHO’s name on it.
The guy has a monument to himself in the WH.”
Now we’re getting down to it.
Sore losers can’t stop hating even though the hate cost them the election.
Please, please PLEASE keep it up!
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:14 pmObama calls for a ‘new economic patriotism’
Oh, yeah. The most transparent administration in history.
It’s minions like Tillary! are pretty effin’ transparent, too.
Steve57 (7a880e) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:21 pmP. Tillman why do you hate America?
Gerald A (f26857) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:26 pmOMG. Illman is going to have an aneurysm. And is a LIHOP twoofer. Precious.
JD (518ff4) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:27 pmIn the course of the meeting, we explained that the talking points provided by the intelligence community, and the initial assessment upon which they were based, were incorrect in a key respect: there was no protest or demonstration in Benghazi,” Rice said in the statement. “While we certainly wish that we had had perfect information just days after the terrorist attack, as is often the case, the intelligence assessment has evolved.”
P.Tillman why do you hate America and support al Qaeda terrorists?
Gerald A (f26857) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:28 pm“Over the last three years, the tide has turned,” Obama said. “The goal that I set — to defeat al-Qaeda, and deny it a chance to rebuild — is within reach.”
P. Tillman why are you a terrorist supporter?
Gerald A (f26857) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:31 pmHas the president nominated Ambassador Rice for SoS?
Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (721840) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:32 pmBarack Obama, October 2012: “Al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama Bin Laden is dead.”
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:33 pmWhere does psychotic P. Tillman get his info from?
Gerald A (f26857) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:34 pmSusan Rice statement, November 27, 2012:
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:35 pm“P. Tillman why are you a terrorist supporter?”
Well, since I’m not a Republican, the answer would be no.
62. Thanks. That statement doesn’t prove your claim.
63. Thanks again. That statement also doesn’t prove your claim. Far from it. It actually proves that he DIDN’T think Al Qaeda had been defeated (but was “within reach”).
Of course words mean different things in a Wingnut’s hate-addled brain.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:37 pm“The whole point is I don’t think Obama realizes things don’t make sense. (if he did he wouldn’t send her up there like that)”
Sammy – It’s over Obama’s head. He thinks everybody should act like the media and just swallow whatever lies he or his shills decide to feed them and puts his pouty, petulant, offended face on if they don’t.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:39 pm“It’s over Obama’s head. ”
More ODS. More evidence showing what this (or any thread on this site) is really about.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:40 pmMy theory is that Rice agreed to perform the phony youtube narrative in return for the SoS appointment.
Amphipolis (d3e04f) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:41 pm“He thinks everybody should act like the media and just swallow whatever lies he or his shills decide to feed them and puts his pouty, petulant, offended face on if they don’t.”
BWAHAHAHA!
You folks are textbook cases of projection and self-delusion.
Keep. It. Up. Please.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:41 pmP.Tillman why do you like it when al Qaeda kills our troops?
Gerald A (f26857) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:42 pm“Allowed 9/11 to happen
Allowed bin Laden to escape and then forgot about him”
Petey – Now you’re going all the way back to Clinton?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:42 pmThere is a problem with the intelligence.
No! There is a problem with the intelligence of our elected leader, and his inner-circle.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:42 pmP.Tillman why do you want the country to be attacked by terrorists?
Gerald A (f26857) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:43 pmP.Tillman why do you hate our armed forces?
Gerald A (f26857) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:44 pmTillman is suffering from Post Traumatic Hate Syndrome.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:46 pmP.Tillman do you hate the armed forces because it’s got a lot of minorities? I think that’s the reason you hate it so much. HATE HATE HATE!!!
Gerald A (f26857) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:46 pm“Petey – Now you’re going all the way back to Clinton?”
Mitt Romney on bin Laden: “It’s not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”
George W. 9/11 Bush on bin Laden: “Terror is bigger than one person. He’s just a person who’s been marginalized. … I don’t know where he is. I really just don’t spend that much time on him, to be honest with you.”
You vote for people who support Al Qaeda.
You demonstrably hate America.
A little kerfuffle over a tragic embassy killing won’t change these facts.
If a Republican was in office it would be worse.
We wouldn’t be talking about 4 dead Americans but potentially thousands.
And guess what? America smells your garbage.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:47 pmYou can almost see Illman’s hatred oozing from its pixels.
JD (518ff4) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:48 pmP.Tillman why do you want a major metropolitan area to be attacked again? Is it because there’s lots of minorities in them? Why are you so happy whenever we suffer casualties in Iraq or Afghanistan? HATE HATE HATE!!!
Gerald A (f26857) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:50 pmP.Tillman why were you so angry when we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed? IT’S BECAUSE YOU WANTED HIM TO ATTACK US AGAIN!!!! HATE HATE HATE!!!!!
Gerald A (f26857) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:52 pm“P.Tillman why do you want the country to be attacked by terrorists?”
“P.Tillman why do you hate our armed forces?”
“P.Tillman do you hate the armed forces because it’s got a lot of minorities?”
“P.Tillman why do you like it when al Qaeda kills our troops?”
Let’s all congratulate little Gerald A., who has recently learned a shiny new Wingnut “debate” tactic that it apparently has fallen in love with.
Here’s a hint, Gerald A. Don’t puke out all the mindless non-sequiturs at once, they lose their effectiveness.
Although it does provide some insight into your “thinking” abilities.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:53 pmP.Tillman why were you so angry when we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed? IT’S BECAUSE YOU WANTED HIM TO ATTACK US AGAIN!!!! HATE HATE HATE!!!!!
Gerald A (f26857) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:54 pm“You can almost see Illman’s hatred oozing from its pixels.”
I see this is the point in our program where we all run away screaming from being called out as mendacious confused morons and go screaming on the attack.
JD leading the charge of the morons as usual.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:55 pm“we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed”
Who’s “we” fool? Where you there?
You chick hawk morons are afraid of your own shadows and fevered imaginary bogeymen.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:56 pmchickenhawk
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:56 pmThe mask has come off and P.Tillman is now admitting he’s the al Qaeda loving leftie that he is. But everyone sees through it! HATE HATE HATE!!!!!
Gerald A (f26857) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:56 pmSuggested new thread title:
POS JD.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:57 pmP.Tillman roots for US casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan and doesn’t like it when his al Qaeda buddies get waterboarded.
Gerald A (f26857) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:58 pmGet a grip, Gerald, your embarrassing yourself.
Or maybe not around here.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:58 pmThis is fun.
Gerald A (f26857) — 11/28/2012 @ 1:59 pmIf Pillman wasn’t real, we’d have to create him as a caricature.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:00 pmP. Tillman celebrated when his buddy opened fire at Ft. Hood. HATE HATE HATE!!!!!
Gerald A (f26857) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:00 pm“This is fun.”
Isn’t it now!
Get it all out now Gerald. Go ahead, puke out all the bile and hate that is stored up after Obama beat your pathetic excuse for a man and candidate. Lean over that bowl and just let it flow! Believe me, it’s about the most honest outpouring I’ve seen here in a while.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:01 pm“If Pillman wasn’t real, we’d have to create him as a caricature.”
You people just love the meaningless cliches, don’t you?
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:02 pmP. Tillman is happy our Ambassador and the Seals were killed in Benghazi. He hopes more of our people will die.
Gerald A (f26857) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:03 pmThank you, Gerald and DRJ, for answering this guy’s requests. Well done.
Troll who uses the name of Corporal Tillman: I pray for you. God loves you and always will, and asks that you love your fellow man.
I also pray and ask for prayer for me to regain the ability I used to have to forgive jerks on the internet, something I struggle with, in all honesty. I don’t really care about winning arguments online… I just enjoy the discussion. But some of the trolls have managed to take something I used to value about myself far more than debate theater.
Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:05 pmPetey – Why do you support executing gays and beating women?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:09 pmI’m so glad that Obama killed bin Laden, because it marked the end of all terrorist activities everywhere hurray!
Pious Agnostic (20c167) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:15 pmPetey’s mode of comments are remarkably similar to the banned J Harp. Although they’re probably not the same person.
Gerald A (f26857) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:17 pm“I’m so glad that Obama killed bin Laden, because it marked the end of all terrorist activities everywhere hurray!”
PA – All Obama has to do now is worry about suppressing that pesky free speech here at home and occasionally apologizing for it overseas and he’s already made significant progress in that direction.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:19 pmThat is the narrative they were trying to send. That a gutsy president made bold choices Bush wouldn’t make and somehow saved us from this huge problem.
Only the truth is that the OBL raid was the easiest call imaginable and Obama still messed it up somewhat, this did not accomplish a great deal towards defeating al qaida (Bush was right) and when Obama’s guts were actually tested, he voted present and four Americans perished.
Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:19 pmGerald A – I agree.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:20 pmDustin, someone with a healthy mind does not need to appeal to imaginary super-beings to help them understand the world or their own minds. Your “faith” is a handicap that allows you to easily externalize blame for your own intellectual/moral/ethical shortcomings.
You and others here would significantly benefit from trying to live in the real world rather than one of your own creation.
You are the party of faith.
Just witness the communal outpouring of stupidity that has infected this thread thanks to Gerald A, who has started a chant that allows you all to retreat to the comfort of your own warped world views.
I pity you and am amazed that society has tolerated people like you for so long.
P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:20 pmI pity you and am amazed that society has tolerated people like you for so long.
Do you foresee this tolerance changing somewhat? Should I be worried that your kind are gonna come for me in the night, maybe send Seal Team Six down my chimney to shoot me dead like that Mr. bin Laden what Obama had killed so we’d all be safe again?
Pious Agnostic (20c167) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:24 pmPetey’s hate is like him drinking poison but hoping someone else dies. He’s a completely ridiculous person.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:25 pmPetey – Have you ever walked around wearing a sandwich board shouting into a bullhorn about the end of the world?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:27 pmOddly enough, Petey’s childish ideas about faith and God leaves him with a childish idea about faith and God.
Pious Agnostic (20c167) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:28 pmRice, other than Susan Power, was mostly tied to the Libyan operation, her ‘credibility’ was on the line, of course, she ended up empowering Bel Hadj
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:30 pmand Bin Qumu,
narciso – Wasn’t Hillary Clinton also a big promoter of the Libyan limited duration kinetic military action with no follow up?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:32 pmThat’s a really good way of putting it.
Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:33 pmPetey’s mode of comments are remarkably similar to the banned J Harp. Although they’re probably not the same person.
jharp was more intelligent.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:35 pmTrue, but Hillary had little policy making role,
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:36 pmIllman is beyond parody.
JD (518ff4) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:38 pmTrue, and she abetted the subterfuge, with that ad campaign in Pakistan, apologizing for the video,
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:40 pmP.Tillman is a classic case of self-absorbed arrogance and self-imposed misry. The of act of inflicting his views on others especially those with whom he disagrees is appealing to him because he is impotent and not in control in real life. This excercise that he is engaged in here is not to debate any issue at all. It is a way for him to make up for the sheer lack of control of his own life in reality. One should only pity P.Tillman.
JohnKS (259a22) — 11/28/2012 @ 3:09 pmI expected the defensive reaction. To get this out of the way, I’m proud to confess my religious views. Of course you’ll scoff at how lame they are. I think I’ll manage.
I not trying to say I’m superior to you. I don’t really think I need to, given all the effort you put into acting horribly, but that’s not the point.
I’m just a starving man telling another starving man where to find a good meal.
Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 3:15 pmI support you, Dustin.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 3:18 pmAnd praying for everyone.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 3:19 pmI’m just a starving man telling another starving man where to find a good meal.
Comment by Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 3:15 pm
Dustin, indeed. It is information they are free to accept or reject.
JohnKS (259a22) — 11/28/2012 @ 3:24 pmHe’s a jackass, who spits on the name of a brave man, as his chosen moniker, I choose not to address
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 3:28 pmhim/her/it/ but raise important issues through my linkd,
46- Millhouse- Could all this just be a smokescreen to clutter the messages being shoved down our throats?
mg (31009b) — 11/28/2012 @ 3:28 pm“…am amazed that society has tolerated people like you for so long.
Comment by P. Tillman (fcbc8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:20 pm ”
Comments like these confirm my belief that P.T. has the heart of a mass murderer, like so many leftists.
SPQR (768505) — 11/28/2012 @ 4:04 pmPaying attention to the thread topics our screechy vein popping trolls come here for is far more interesting and informative than reading the actual posts they write.
elissa (07bac3) — 11/28/2012 @ 4:05 pmThat’s true, elissa. In general, it suggests to me that they’re motivated by personalities and identity politics more than traditional political issues.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/28/2012 @ 4:10 pmYesterday, Susan Rice also saw Senator Joe Lieberman, even though he is leavinbg the senate and won’t have a vote if she is nominated after January 3. Does President obama intend to nomninate her in December?
According to what this ABC News excerpt from Good Morning America this morning
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/susan-rice-state-dept-nomination-republicans-john-mccain-17825401
Maybe yes.
Because it said taht Hillary Clinton seems determined to leave right after presidential inaguration day (January 21, postponed from Jan 20 becaused January 20 is a Sunday) and that a decision may come very soon.
I think Obama wants hearings this year.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/28/2012 @ 4:26 pm123. Ditto that.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 11/28/2012 @ 4:31 pm101. Comment by Pious Agnostic (20c167) — 11/28/2012 @ 2:15 pm
I’m so glad that Obama killed bin Laden, because it marked the end of all terrorist activities everywhere hurray!
Joe Lieberman said that in hehr meeting Susan Rice said that she wished she hadn’t said “Al Qaeda” had been decimated, but instead said the “core of Al Qaeda” had been decimated.
Decimated doesn’t mean destroyed!
This has been a particular problem with Senator McCain, says the New York Times, because he’s been saying the Administration has been improperly claiming Al Qaeda was wiped out when its affilaiates are on the march in Iraq, Libya and Yemen.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/28/2012 @ 4:31 pmThe folks at my mom’s old age home are literally decimated annually, yet I keep her there. I must be a monster.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 11/28/2012 @ 4:37 pmElissa – certain topics drive them crazy.
JD (518ff4) — 11/28/2012 @ 4:38 pmAq grows in the debris of failed states, the last two certainly are, and the ‘redeployment’ of coalition forces, have increasing brought about the same, for the first,
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 4:39 pmFrom Man Who Insulted Muhammad, No Regret Monday Nov 26 NYT front page
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/28/2012 @ 4:44 pmBest Tillman Thread Ever. Thank you.
Birdbath (716828) — 11/28/2012 @ 4:44 pmNow get your shinebox.
Tillman is suffering from Post Traumatic Hate Syndrome.
I wonder what such characters are like in real life? I envision various ultra-liberals as being prone to really scroungy, dishonest behavior. Unpleasantly flaky, crassly disingenuous and super deluded about what makes themselves tick and what makes other folks good or bad.
I can easily see screwball liberals as being the type who’d rob their grandmother blind, cause never-ending grief for their parents, and pretend to care about people who truly need a helping hand, yet would still hold themselves up to the light as an example of a humane, compassionate, open-minded person.
Bleech.
Mark (56b304) — 11/28/2012 @ 5:04 pmBut not beyond ridicule.
Steve57 (7a880e) — 11/28/2012 @ 5:07 pmwho told the IllMan that it was Mincing Wednesday?!?!
Colonel Haiku (10ebaf) — 11/28/2012 @ 5:13 pmFrom Maureen Dowd’s column:
Collins drew up a list of questions to ask Rice at their one-on-one hourlong meeting slated for Wednesday……
These are not particularly good questions.
Huh? I’m not sure if, in your mind, those questions don’t apply because you’re still wedded to the belief that ass-backwards liberalism (ie, a desire to blame America First, and a feeling that mean ol’ imperialist forces are out to hurt sad, touching, noble, Third-Worldish Muslims) is NOT a major factor in the White House’s response to the terrorism in Libya.
BTW, there’s plenty of ass-backwards, politically-correct left-leaning instincts in no less than the US military too. Once again, the case of Nidal Hasan and Fort Hood.
Mark (56b304) — 11/28/2012 @ 5:14 pmKevin M #131 – it may be more comforting to think of what happens at your mom’s old age home as not being decimated so much as the Good Lord receiving His Tithe of the Worthy …
Alasdair (e7cb73) — 11/28/2012 @ 5:25 pmFor a couple,of weeks now, the lefty blogs have been putting out the #RWbubble meme as a specific counter to persistent interest in all the as yet unexplained and foreseeably murderous lack of security there and the heavy dissembling in the aftermath
Mr. T’s calling it of interest only as a cudgel for the R to wield, that this is the only concern of people like me, who know better because i know what I feel, means he’s not understood anything but how bad it looks. He forgets how bad it is to let people die to keep up appearances, and he’s afraid of the truth, and would rather not seek it.
SarahW (b0e533) — 11/28/2012 @ 5:26 pmIllman was just venting its spleen. It needs to release all that anger and hatred, or it will go postal.
Who was surprised that Illman is a LIHOP twoofer?
JD (518ff4) — 11/28/2012 @ 5:28 pmIt’s ironic, because the Obama administration did ‘let it happen’ for a whole host of reasons,
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 5:41 pmDude, whether you’re for religion or agin’ it, you can’t deny that America is a religious country; this society is dominated by those of us who believe in your “imaginary super-being[s]”; but, for now at least, it tolerates and even accepts atheists. If it were one day to turn intolerant, it’s you who would feel that intolerance long before Dustin would.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/28/2012 @ 5:43 pmnot need to appeal to imaginary super-beings
I am always amazed how childish atheists ideas of God are. Of course, it help to have a straw-God in order to reject the idea.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 11/28/2012 @ 5:57 pmi had a dream susan rice’s life would be so different than this hell she’s living
happyfeet (2358cc) — 11/28/2012 @ 5:57 pmnot really i just made that up
happyfeet (2358cc) — 11/28/2012 @ 5:58 pmObama is going to nominate Condi Rice to be Secretary of State ?!
No way !
I thought he was doing everything the opposite of Booosh !
Elephant Stone (65d289) — 11/28/2012 @ 6:09 pm==Obama is going to nominate Condi Rice to be Secretary of State ?! No way==
How bizarre is it that these two ladies, close in age and with similar government paths are both named Rice. Does any one here know if they are distant relatives or if they have a common paternal ancestor or bloodline? Actually, this sounds like a job for Sammy.
elissa (07bac3) — 11/28/2012 @ 6:14 pmNo, I don’t think so, SR’s parents are from Jamaica,
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 6:27 pmCondi’s are not, but they are sort of mirror images, of each other.
I believe that the surname “Rice” is a somewhat more common name in parts of the south.
Elephant Stone (65d289) — 11/28/2012 @ 6:46 pmOff the top of my head, I can even think of several pro athletes (black) with that last name, most of whom I believe were from the south.
They are related through an Uncle Ben.
(Sorry)
SarahW (b0e533) — 11/28/2012 @ 7:02 pmthat’s wild
happyfeet (2358cc) — 11/28/2012 @ 7:05 pmP.T., you lost all credibility when you picked your handle. Can you spell M-O-R-O-N?
nk (875f57) — 11/28/2012 @ 7:11 pmI don’t know how Rice can be worse than Hillary, but maybe with a little bit of effort? These guys who are now busting Rice’s balls, are the same guys who approved her for the UN, and approved Hillary, right? Theater.
nk (875f57) — 11/28/2012 @ 7:19 pmnk,
That’s like saying that a person getting a divorce has no right to complain about said spouse, since, you know, they went to the altar with them in the first place.
Ha, ha, ha.
Elephant Stone (65d289) — 11/28/2012 @ 7:22 pmThe President is entitled to his cabinet. They serve at will, for one thing. We said this when the Democrats were obstructing Bush’s appointments. It applies now.
nk (875f57) — 11/28/2012 @ 7:24 pmTis not love that varies when it variation finds, Elephant Stone. 😉
nk (875f57) — 11/28/2012 @ 7:27 pmnk,
There’s a little stipulation called, “confirmation by the Senate.”
While it is true that the Senate is generally deferential to a President’s Cabinet nominations, it is a “check and balance” instituted to guard against nominating someone perceived as completely incompetent or corrupt—particularly for the position of Secretary of State, where the person represents the country in meeting with international heads of state.
Bush experienced opposition to Alberto Gonzales and Harriet Meiers as potential Supreme Court nominees, and the very esteemed John Bolton was appointed UN Ambassador during recess due to nasty partisan opposition among the Democrat Senators.
Reach back into H.G. Wells Time Machine, and there was a little episode during the 1980s called a “Borking.”
Point is, a President’s nominees are not inherently immune from future criticism simply because they were deferentially confirmed by the Senate in the past.
Elephant Stone (65d289) — 11/28/2012 @ 7:50 pmWe are not far apart, Elephant Stone. Obvious incompetence and/or corruption. Otherwise give the President his cabinet appointments. He needs a team he can work with.
I was thinking of John Bolton. I thought the way he was treated was despicable, and we should not do that to Rice.
Supreme Court nominees are a different matter. They have lifetime appointments, they do not serve at will. The Senate should examine them with a fine tooth comb.
nk (875f57) — 11/28/2012 @ 8:09 pmI wonder how the radicals, terrorists and extremists in general throughout the world are seeing things right now? They must be getting some cheap chuckles at the state of affairs. Namely, that the “world’s superpower” is being overseen by a flim-flam mess known as Barack Obama.
When a publication with the infamous history of Pravda, no less, is making America in 2012 sound not much better than some two-bit, tired, haggard nation (or what the former Soviet Union is in its own right), that really is the height of irony. Sad, ridiculous irony.
Mark (56b304) — 11/28/2012 @ 8:10 pmWell this Pravda is much more in the style of the previous century’s czarist press, much more avowedly nationalist, even zenophobic, but they know
that socialism is a mug’s game;
http://news.yahoo.com/shifting-account-cias-libya-talking-points-fuels-rice-020905401–finance.html
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 8:14 pmStalinists have always been very puritanical on social issues, Mark.
Pravda is a joke. For it to talk about American white collar crime from the confines of Putin’s kleptocracy is beyond hilarity.
nk (875f57) — 11/28/2012 @ 8:18 pmIs it still under Greek ownership?
nk (875f57) — 11/28/2012 @ 8:22 pmNo, according to Wikipedia, the Greeks sold it back to the Russians in 1997.
nk (875f57) — 11/28/2012 @ 8:25 pmI knew one of Pravda’s top Greek executives (his daughter more closely). He was hard-line Communist. He had spent five years on a prison island for his politics. With one thing and another, we lost touch. He’s dead now, for a time.
nk (875f57) — 11/28/2012 @ 8:31 pmWhat, he’ll go zombie, I think you meant, you lost touch for a time,
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 8:38 pmFor it to talk about American white collar crime from the confines of Putin’s kleptocracy is beyond hilarity.
But it’s like when a sad sack is eliciting sympathy from another sad sack. Russia obviously is a major joke in its own right. But when someone based in that flop of a society expresses sorrow over what’s happening here in this society — in this nation — that’s getting very close to the situation of “even the losers think we’re pathetic!”
We’ll know we’ve really hit rock bottom when the Greeks (or, less so, the French, Mexicans, Argentinians, etc) also start feeling sorry for us.
Mark (56b304) — 11/28/2012 @ 8:39 pmHello , the pictures are not working on my computer since this afternoon it is your website or my ipad?, how to potty train, >:((,
IsaiasParise (a81be6) — 11/28/2012 @ 8:49 pmPatrick, you are really overrun by that Tillman troll. I’ll come back when his computer is confiscated by his mother.
Mike K (326cba) — 11/28/2012 @ 8:51 pmHasn’t anyone else noticed that Petey doesn’t post after 5 p.m. Eastern Time?
He’s on a payroll. He’s not a troll, he’s doing his job and he apparently isn’t interested in overtime.
Ag80 (b2c81f) — 11/28/2012 @ 9:21 pmag80, my guess was that he is supported by someone who actually has a job, and he doesn’t want to expose them to his behavior when they come home.
But I lack creativity when it comes to predicting online schemes.
Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 9:29 pmNo, narciso, he contracted one of the faster-acting Alzheimers, and now he’s dead. He was of the older generation, when Stalin was still alive, and he had been through a lot. He was a fine man, raised a fine daughter, she’s a pneumonologist.
nk (875f57) — 11/28/2012 @ 9:29 pmBenghazi is just the beginnings of the misgivings with Rice;
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324469304578145881558310020.html?mod=rss_opinion_main
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 9:38 pmI speak no language well. I guess it should have been “for some time”?
nk (875f57) — 11/28/2012 @ 9:39 pmAre you sure he’s not reincarnated as our Preezy?
Steve57 (7a880e) — 11/29/2012 @ 3:28 amRice or lurch?
mg (31009b) — 11/29/2012 @ 4:04 amWe are shit on a shingle, with these snakes.
174. Any obstructionism, civil disobedience, open revolt is entirely meet and right so to do.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 11/29/2012 @ 4:40 am174. Any obstructionism, civil disobedience, open revolt is entirely meet and right so to do.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 11/29/2012 @ 4:40 am174. Comment by narciso (ee31f1) — 11/28/2012 @ 9:38 pm
Benghazi is just the beginnings of the misgivings with Rice;
Oh, that Wall Street Journal article doesn’t get into anything yet. It’s talking about her tenure at the United Nations.
But there’s also the Rwandan genocide in 1994 and the embassy bombings in 1998.
I found in my archives in an excerpt of some article written in early September 2001 abnout the Rwandan genocide: (the Clinton Administration was refusing to label it genocide)
I’ll try to trace that artucle and explain a little bit more.
I’m also trying to get some information together on the 1998 embassy bombinmgs. Did she ignore requests for increased security?
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/29/2012 @ 3:33 pm“If we use the word ‘genocide’ and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November [congressional] election?”
So she has a history of this kind of concern.
SarahW (b0e533) — 11/29/2012 @ 3:42 pmGood lord. She went along with it on purpose. It might even have been her big idea.
SarahW (b0e533) — 11/29/2012 @ 3:43 pmOh, that’s an article by…
none other than favorite Obama adviser Samantha Power..
in The September 2001 Atlantic.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/09/bystanders-to-genocide/304571/?single_page=true
Some other people noticed it too.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/29/2012 @ 3:43 pmThis is starting to resemble the Lake nomination for CIA, all other things being equal
http://ppsimmons.blogspot.com/2012/11/exposed-susan-rice-has-investments-in.html
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/29/2012 @ 4:21 pmAny word yet on whether Glenn Beck is going to be marketing his Obama in Pee Pee art this holiday season? It’s probably easy enough to make your own if he isn’t.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/29/2012 @ 5:15 pmJohn Kerry will be the next Secretary of State (amazingly).
Rice is just being presented to us so we can blame her for the administration’s Benghazi lying and then moveon.org.
I’m surprised they didn’t do this with Fast and Furious.
Dustin (73fead) — 11/29/2012 @ 5:56 pmHow would she being guilty in anyway exculpate Obama from screwing up or sending out a shill to keep him looking sweet and successful? She’s not responsible for security, or military action to defend, and Obama insists she isn’t “Fibber zero.”
I didn’t realize she had financial dealings with Iran, or was poised to make millions through her interests with oil companies ready to take advantage of the pipeline.
SarahW (b0e533) — 11/29/2012 @ 6:02 pmAll Rice being a slimy shill means to me, is that Obama was THIS CLOSE to letting a slimy shill be secretary of state, and that he gets advice from slimy shills, and follows it, and doesn’t have much clue about dropping ambassadors into undefended snake pits or he did it on purpose.
SarahW (b0e533) — 11/29/2012 @ 6:05 pmPerhaps they should make Susan Rice a Czarina of something. What about his envoy to Libya? Or they could go a completely different direction and send her to Hollywood to supervise videos.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/29/2012 @ 6:09 pmWith reasonable people, obviously it makes Obama look lousy. With a reasonable media, this would be pointed out.
Dustin (73fead) — 11/29/2012 @ 6:12 pmShe was State’s African division chief, at the time of a similar circumstance in ’98.
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/29/2012 @ 6:17 pmI think any appointment by Obama is there to do his bidding. It makes no difference except high level judges.
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 11/29/2012 @ 6:52 pmJD, LIHOP and anti-semitism go together.
SPQR (768505) — 11/29/2012 @ 6:59 pmWell since projections seems the order of the day;
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=gutbi_al-mahdi
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/29/2012 @ 7:13 pmRice is toast.
Toasted rice — tee-hee!
Icy (TrvthBtOld) (486530) — 11/29/2012 @ 9:24 pmThe republicans are toast, they will never receive praise for anything they do. So with the middle finger in the air, tell obama f-no.
mg (31009b) — 11/30/2012 @ 12:06 amI agree that presidents ought in general to have their way with appointments. Indeed I even took that attitude to Supreme Court appointments, which is why, while I did not support Harriet Miers’s nomination, I wrote at the time (here and on Beldar) that if I were a senator I would have voted to confirm her, because she was the president’s choice and she was neither incompetent nor corrupt.
But if a nominee is guilty of the sort of conduct that ought to get her impeached if she did it in office, then for the same reason she ought not to be confirmed to that office in the first place. I would never confirm John Kerry or Elizabeth Warren for any executive appointment, because they’re disreputable people. For that matter I wouldn’t confirm 0bama for an appointment. So Rice should also not be confirmed. Samantha Power, on the other hand, while I think her political ideas are not just terrible but dangerous, as far as I know she hasn’t done anything personally disreputable (though I’d want to find out). So if she were nominated, I’d hesitate (were I a senator) to vote against her; I’d probably do it anyway if it were to SecState, just because she’s so very dangerous and I’d be frightened of what she’d do in office, but in principle that oughtn’t to be a consideration if the president nominates her.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/30/2012 @ 1:51 am186. Comment by Dustin (73fead) — 11/29/2012 @ 5:56 pm
John Kerry will be the next Secretary of State (amazingly).
It seems like there’s little opposition to him in the Senate. Obama probably doesn’t care for him, though, but a nomination like this is somewhat attractive to Republicans because, besides personal friendship, it could give them a seat and put Scott Brown back into the Senate.
I heard on TV that Obama is checking out Chuck Hagel. Hageel could have some trouble. Hagel was against sanctions on Iran and for negitiating with Hamas and he backed Bob Kerrey in the election as well as Joe Sestak in 2010, and is Chairman of his Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
More likely, Hagel is a candidate for Defense Secretary and his name was also floated as Director of National Intelligence.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/30/2012 @ 9:24 amComment by SarahW (b0e533) — 11/29/2012 @ 6:02 pm
I didn’t realize she had financial dealings with Iran, or was poised to make millions through her interests with oil companies ready to take advantage of the pipeline.
Apparently, she’s been investing in stocks whose prices may go up if the sanctions go away but the regime doesn’t change. This may be overconfidence more than inside information.
You’ve got $50,000-$100,000 in Royal Dutch Shell which has been a big importer of Iranian oil. It owes Iran $1 billion it can’t pay because of the sanctions. (for about 8 million barrels or 4 tankers)
She’s got $15,000 or so in Norsk Hydro which has a contract to explore oil in Iran. The U.S. government didn’t want them working in Iran.
And she;s got about $50,000 BHP Billiton, “which was probed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2010 for its dealings with Cuba and Iran, according to reports.
The company, which had leased office space in Tehran, admitted to making more than $360 million from the Iranians, according to The Australian.”
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/30/2012 @ 9:32 amRice is already disqualified since we’ve already been served notice that any attempts at Congressional oversight will be racist.
The specific executive branch departments are creations of law. In other words, creations of Congress. I don’t see why Congress should tolerate a cabinet officer that they can’t hold accountable.
True, the Constitution does mention principal officers of the executive departments. But then it also mentions something about them being appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate.
As far as Hagel goes, any officer of the US ought to be as a bare minimum willing to abide by US law. If he’s in favor of talking directly with Hamas then he’d be a no go with me. Per the Immigration and Nationality Act Hamas is a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
Of course, we’ve just reelected a Preeezy who’s demonstrated he doesn’t much care for abiding by US law. Or any laws for that matter. So I can see why he’d nominate a SecState who he’d consider to be free from Congressional oversight or would be willing to ignore US law if a FTO can fire enough rockets into Israel to convince him they’re a serious negotiating partner (there’s a criteria for you).
I just don’t see why anyone in Congress would put up with it.
Steve57 (7a880e) — 11/30/2012 @ 10:21 amComment by Steve57 (7a880e) — 11/30/2012 @ 10:21 am
As far as Hagel goes, any officer of the US ought to be as a bare minimum willing to abide by US law. If he’s in favor of talking directly with Hamas then he’d be a no go with me. Per the Immigration and Nationality Act Hamas is a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
In 2009, at the time of the first Gaza war, he said the U.S. should engage in direct talks with Hamas.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2010/08/25/for-secretary-of-defense/
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/03/14/top_officials_urge_dialogue_with_hamas/?page=2
This was before Gates retired, but they apparenntly have started an FBI check again.
And his whole position with regards to the Middle East and Israel has been like that.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/30/2012 @ 11:12 am19. Comment by Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 10:56 am
Milhouse, the murders are the fault of those who committed them. Under your conspiracy theory, the videographer is in cahoots, which changes the issue considerably.
You’re missing the point. Of course in no way did that video cause demonstrations or attacks to happen.
It wasn’t really an essential part of the plot, but it looks to me it was part of the plot.
It would be something designed to make it look less planned, and also preventable by different methods than actually would prevent it.
Murder in reaction to speech is the fault of the murderer, not the speaker, is the principle I’m conveying.
It wasn’t in reaction to speech and I don’t think it helped very much if at all, in recruiting people.
It was a red herring, and they needed or wanted a red herring.
Now – There was no way they could have found that movie by accident. Even if let’s say they could find something, it was probably much better for them foir it to be something they had a hand in. If it was somsething truly independent, then, it wouldn’t take much to have the author apologize, to have it taken down etc. That wouldn’t serve the purpose.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/30/2012 @ 11:21 amBut I don’t understand. There were no riots. The murderers targeted our embassy and attacked it. Where does the video fit into that?
It was a powerful enough meme they put the video there.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/30/2012 @ 11:36 amThe New York Times even now – even now – this week – still thinks the video had something to do with it:
Monday’s (November 26) New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/us/from-the-man-who-insulted-islam-no-retreat.html?hpw&pagewanted=all
It didn’t lead to protests any where else. It was just used – to “explain” the protests to people very far away. Iran definitely used it as a theme.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/us/politics/after-benghazi-meeting-3-republicans-say-concerns-grow-over-rice.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all
There you have it. Yes, without a protest, but also – the video!!
That’s what the perpetrators said in the following days.
The video was a lie, but the man whoi mad ethe viodeo was instrumental in making that lie plausible. That’s how he helped the terrorists.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/30/2012 @ 11:43 amThe video – which of course nobody had heard of a day or two before – supposedly triggered everything.
This is the key point in the disinformation.
The video supposedly caused it – therefore everything that happened was unplanned, because if the video caused it nobody could have planned the assault in Benghazi since they didn’t know about the video the day before.
Why, they didn’t even know about it till a few hours before. Right?
[Of course the type of attack means they did know, which in turn means the video didn’t cause it, but since the perpetrators said it did, it must mean the video was part of the plot.]
The video caused it!!!
That’s what the Sooper Sekrit Intelligence said.
From Informants, the Libyan press or some offcials, and an interpretation of a telephone call between Bengazi and Timbuktu or somewhere else in Mali.
I’m telling you there was indeed Sooper Sekrit Intelligence and the CIA was responsible for the story about the demonstrations. Not the Obama White House.
Thursday, November 29, 2012 New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/29/world/africa/with-focus-on-talking-points-benghazi-attacks-big-issues-fade.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=2&adxnnlx=1354303390-ryEORyVdNYyTyXhE0iVSAA&pagewanted=all
Note again – the New York Times says – Yes, no demonstrations, but a spontaneous attack.
The CIA is not conceding, you can see, that the word “spontaneous” was wrong.
Nobody else put that word in. Nobody but the CIA. And it was there from the beginning.
Foreign intelligence moles in the CIA wrote that – and they also got rid of Director David Petraeus before he could find out about them and get rid of them (not that he was so close, but still, he might, and it was chore keeping him from discoverinmg or suspecting there were moles.)
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/30/2012 @ 11:54 amhttp://shoebat.com/2012/11/29/republican-senator-raises-great-question-about-susan-rices-role-at-state-during-kenya-tanzania-bombings/
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/30/2012 @ 12:01 pm“the one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again” is inscribed on a plaque at the Auschwitz concentration.
Sometimes you can reemmber it very well, and repeat or not repeat it when you should.
Everybody was praising Raoul Wallenberg.
And when there came an opportunity to repeat what raoul Wallenberg did what did Bill Clinton do?
He pulled everybody out! And he didn’t let them take anybody with them. And it would have worked because westerners were not targets.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395169/
Hotel Rwanda.
Not only did Bill Clinton refuse to help, not only did he not try imitating Raoul Wallenberg – if there were some volunteers – he stopped all other countries from interferinmg also.
Stopping other countries from interfering was part of Susan Rice’s job in 1994.
Because how would it have looked for other countries to interfere and the United States tioo stay out?
Actually that’s probably not the reason. The genocide was probably planned in China. All the hatchets used had previously been imported from China. And we all know about the campaign contributions Bill Clintoin got for the 1996 election.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/30/2012 @ 12:07 pmThese are the (orally released – prepared originally for Representative C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, according to the New York Times) “talking points”
As released (read out loud) by Senator Dianne Feinstein at or after a closed door hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee and published in at the end of an article by Eric Schmitt on page A10 of the Saturday, November 17, 2012 New York Times and again as a sidebar on page A12 of the Thursday, November 29, 2012 New York Times.
I have added some of the possible editing.
It would be interesting to find out if somebody’s protest resulted in the addition of the words: “This assessment may change..”
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/30/2012 @ 12:26 pmNakoula changed his name twice.
First, in 2002, from Nakoula Basseley Nakoula to Mark Basseley Youssef, and then in 2009 to what sounds to me ilke an Islamic name, Ebrahem Fawzy Youssef.
He didn’t use the last one – his lawyer claims he was not aware until recently that the name change had been finalized.
He (claims he?) wrote a script in 2008. He started making it but when he went to prison he told people he had cancer. The New York Times did not get from him an estimate of the cost of the movie, but cites “a person who discussed the financing with him” that it cost no more than $80,000, “apparently raised through his second ex-wife’s Egyptian family.”
He told people when he making it that the budget was $5 million raised mainly from Jewish donors. (the New York Times put in that word “mainly” He didn’t) That’s a “tell”
He spelled the name Bassile a number of different ways from time to time.
I think it has been estimated by someone involved he must have spent $250,000. There was 15 days of shooting and then looping eight months later (this spring) during which actors were asked to say the word Muhammed. Looping is usually done
when some audio did not come out.
He admitted to some people he was misleading the actors. And to some people he said it was a film about persecution of Copts in Egypt. One person, with the name Elaia Basily, says a full length film does exist on DVD and he saw it on DVD and he found it historically accurate.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/30/2012 @ 12:34 pmSF: “the CIA IS PENETRATED BY TERRORIST SUPPORTING MOLES.
Comment by Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 12:57 pm
Who run around deleting the word al qaida from press releases and talking points?
That’s why I called them terrorist supporting moles, rather than Saudi or Qatari or whatever moles.
Seems unlikely.
It would seem so, but things that might strike you as unlikely have happened.
Now actually I think they are first of all, really foreign intelligence moles – it’s the foreign intelligence agencies that support limited, controlled, terrorism.
Deleting al Qaeda was very important, even though the precise al Qaeda connection was already wrong – (the connection of the people in Benghazi is to Egypt, and Yemen, not Mali) because this fits with the narrative of the whole thing not being pre-planned, and eliminates the need to protection. And if you think it was pre-planned, you might try to track down the perpetrators.
Sammy Finkelman (6f4cf5) — 12/2/2012 @ 9:12 ami> Seems more like democrats were doing this to conceal their failure in defeating al qaida.
You could, but you’d have to assume the Democrats were in the CIA because this idea about a spontaneous or unplanned demonstration run amok originated in the CIA – and they didn’t make it up, they had Sooper Sekrit Intelligence to back themselves up.
(You’d have to assume what you’ve got is people in the CIA whose loyalty is to the Democratic Party, not the country, but there’s no way the DNC could pay them secretly. No they are not partisan Democrats, they are foreign intelligence moles. Especially since they seem to have intelligence to back them up. All they had to do is believe or pretend to believe their sources.)
I know that some Republicans, particularly Lindsey Graham, if I interpret his remarks last week correctly, are suspicious that some people in the CIA are political – Mike Morell went with Susan Rice to help her with Senators McCain, Ayotte and Graham, but he only succeeded in getting his own possible nomination to be CIA Director in trouble.
But this I think originated at lower levels.
Now you could argue people in the CIA had the same motive the Obama Administration had to argue they had defeatd al Qaeda. But they had a weaker motive.
Sammy Finkelman (6f4cf5) — 12/2/2012 @ 9:19 amWell we have career people, like Paul Pillar, who have been habitually wrong about Iran, Syria, et al, yet even in retirement they are taken seriously,
narciso (ee31f1) — 12/2/2012 @ 9:21 amMike Rogers looks really less informed than Sen Dianne Feinstein. He still persists in calling it a consulate. Dianne Feinstein was either half ignorant or being very careful because the other location was really CIA headquarters, even though operating under the aegis of the State Department.
Dianne Feinstein says the mission was a place for the Ambassador to sty when he visited Benghazi. She did not describe the Turkish official he met as something other than the ambassador, as has been said in the past. She really didn’t like the idea of these talking points written by a committee.
(and here again, the CIA struck out references and tried to blame the FBI. Then CIA Director David Petraeus didn’t have any idea who struck that out. Doesn’t that sound like people trying to cover their tracks?)
Rep Mike Rogers and others made reference to the 4 Tunisians killed on Sept. 13 protecting the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia as something we need to be concerned about.
Sammy Finkelman (6f4cf5) — 12/2/2012 @ 9:27 amthe annex was technically the base, the consulate included it.
narciso (ee31f1) — 12/2/2012 @ 9:31 amOne of the guests on Face the Nation, I think Sen Feinstein, mentioned there was a talk of consolidating operations, which was rejected on the grounds it was too dangerous (as proof they had an idea how dangerous Benghazi had become)
I thought the argument was that the Ambassador was too well known, and if he stayed at the “annex” (a word never used by the guests today) he would give away its location.
Sammy Finkelman (6f4cf5) — 12/2/2012 @ 9:35 amSenator Feinstein either had no clue, or wasn’t saying, whatthe porpose of Ambassador Stevens’s trup to Benghazi was (besides the public meetings) but I’m inclined to think, especially given his meeting with the Turkish official, who it turns out maybe really wasn’t the Ambassador to Libya, it had to do with the smuggling of weapons from eastern Libya mainly to Syria (although they were also going to Hamas)
The U.S. was against giving anything but particularly against missiles that could shoot down a plane, (which wouldn’t have to be a Syrian plane) and Saudi Arabia and Qatar were paying for sending it from the Benghazi area (where Qaddafi had stored a lot of weapons) to northern Syria thrugh Turkey.
Sammy Finkelman (6f4cf5) — 12/2/2012 @ 9:42 amThe missiles for Hamas were being taken across Egypt and smuggled through tunnels into Gaza.
Cyrenaica (eastern Libya) was a source for Hamas of weapons, but also newly manufactured Iranian weapons delivered to the Sudan – also transported through Egypt and smuggled through Sinai and tunnels into Gaza. Israel bombed one or two shipments later.
Earlier it has been stolen or abandoned cars that had been smuggled from the Benghazi area to Gaza, while the war in Libya was still going on.
Sammy Finkelman (6f4cf5) — 12/2/2012 @ 9:48 amThat article that mentioned a few investments Susan Rice had said she is the richest of the members of President Obama’s cabinet.
She already has millions – something between about $20 million and $40 million.
It doesn’t say how she got it, but she had a relatively important job in the Clinton Administration.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/3/2012 @ 9:25 amLindsey Graham on face the nation yesterday:
Obama hiimself left to go to Las Vegas for afundraiser. He says he left behind orders to do whatever it takes to get everybody out safely (at that time they did not know where the ambassador was, just that they were out of touch with him and couldn’t locate him)
There was actually much going back and forth and relying on the Liobyan government.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/3/2012 @ 9:36 amSyria has now prepared aerial bombs with sarin nerve gas.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/5/2012 @ 3:32 pmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/world/africa/weapons-sent-to-libyan-rebels-with-us-approval-fell-into-islamist-hands.html?hp&_r=1&
narciso (ee31f1) — 12/5/2012 @ 3:33 pmTwo bits of news in the last day or so on the U.S. and Syrian rebels:
1. The United States is working with Jordan to arm different rebels than the ones being armed by Qatar and Turkey. So maybe not everybody in the U.S. government is comopletely stupid. Or maybe not? Jordan is after all reported to be shipping arms that are paid for by Saudia Arabia and Qatar. How comew the only guilty parties here are Qatar and Turkey, but not Saudi Arabia. Anyway the report had Jordan the U.S. and certain gulf allies directing aid to a different group of rebels.
2. The United States has now designated one of the Syrian factions as a terrorist group. these are people with the most obvious terrorist connections: to al Qaeda. The US is also moving toward or has already recignized some other group a sthe legitimate government of Syria,
By the way Israel inquired twice of Jordan about destroying some syrian chemical weapons. Jordan said: too soon.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/5/2012 @ 4:18 pmComment by narciso (ee31f1) — 12/5/2012 @ 3:33 pm
How could that happen?
askeptic (b8ab92) — 12/5/2012 @ 4:21 pmAfter the Left’s screaming for 20+ years about how Ronald Reagan armed the Taliban with the weapons used to chase the Soviets out of Afghanistan, you would have thought that Obama & Co. would be Super-Extra-Careful about who they were sending arms to – or not?
Say, are these Syrian chemical-weapons (aka WMD) the result of some Immaculate Conception?
Has the Administration yet explained where Assad acquired these weapons?
I blame Bush!
askeptic (b8ab92) — 12/5/2012 @ 4:23 pmOther issues with Susan Rice got gradually mentioned staring last week
Of course there’s the Rwandan genocide in 1994, where she voiced the thought that calling it genocide (and not doing anythingabout it, as Clinton had decided) would hurt the Democrats in the November elections.
And the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, where some requests for security were ignored. (more recently, this has nothing to do with Suaan Rice, security was withdrawn from the embassy in Azerbaijan but put back. A plot was discovered in the meantime)
The genocide quote I had was in an article in the September 2001 Atlantic and made it into the famous book Samantha Power wrote.”A Prroblem from he based on
that article.
There was also a big problem with her diplomacy
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/5/2012 @ 4:27 pmin the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea where she
tried to get Eritrea to accept without consulting
it. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is reported
to have been furious. 100,000 people died in that
war. Only three months ago she eulogized then
Ethiopian dictator Meles Zenawi. And the worst
place is the eastern Congo. Maybe 5 million people
died in the war waged by Rwanda and Uganda to topple
the Congolese government after 1998. Susan Rice
denied supporting the intervention (which was
allegedly to prevent a resumption of the genocide)
but human rights groups did not believe the Clinton
Administration.
This is from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324355904578156980748123040.html
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/5/2012 @ 4:29 pmAzerbaijan was a separate article.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/5/2012 @ 4:29 pmOn Monday, December 3 Bill Keller published an Op-ed in the New York Times about the number of foreign corresponndents going down.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/opinion/keller-being-there.html?hpw&pagewanted=all
Toward the end he quotes websites about Benghazi -all of these articles, datelined somewhere other than Benghazi, he notes, talked of a demonstration.
So he thinks that idea came from the press.
I would think the same idea of demonstration about the video in Benghazi was being circuklated in many different ways.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/5/2012 @ 4:35 pmYesterday (Tuesday, Decemner 4) there was a front page Wall Street Journal article about the talking points.
Most ionteresting: Maybe twenty people were involved. And it explicitly says the CIA still holds on to the idea of a spontaneous attack based on the video, althouygh no longer any
a demonstration. It also shows, like I said, that after sept 12th, the claims of a protest got stronger with time.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323717004578155250839482098.html zsome excerpts interesting to me:
Like, I said, Sooper Sekrit Intelligence began to come in (more probably than the news reports Bill Keller cites) and the CIA only then began to talk of a demonstration.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/5/2012 @ 4:44 pmGood allah, man, there was no protest, if anything they were inspired by Zawahiri’s tape on September 10th, which was like an ‘reunion type’ of Gamaa Islamiya member, Afuni, Jashef, Ashoush et al
narciso (ee31f1) — 12/5/2012 @ 4:50 pmIs it a requirement that one get a lobotomy to work at the NYT.
The NYT is not a source of intelligence. Well, not a source that the US uses for foreign intel. Their willingness to leak US classified information no matter how much it harms our national security makes them a great intel service for America’s enemies.
But we had CIA operatives and State Dept. personnel their, on site. And they are great sources of intel.
If Rice got it wrong because the NYT didn’t have a foreign correspondent in Benghazi and therefore she couldn’t read it in the Old Red Whore, because that’s where she turns for her intel, then she’s a blithering idiot and adds another layer of disqualifying factors all their own.
Even if Keller is too stupid and too self-important to see it.
But I will grant that in this idiocy is one grain of truth. And it’s a truth about idiocy. The Obama administration probably did think it could get away with that laughably fake cover story because they were reading it in the press.
Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/5/2012 @ 4:52 pmhttp://news.yahoo.com/al-qaeda-leader-zawahiri-confirms-death-abu-yahya-040815471.html
narciso (ee31f1) — 12/5/2012 @ 4:53 pmFirst, they told us they were going to do it, then they said they did it;
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/al-qaida-says-us-consulate-attack-revenge/story-e6freuz9-1226474918266
narciso (ee31f1) — 12/5/2012 @ 4:56 pmSammy @229,
I’ll give you this, dude.
You’re consistent. You keep falling for it.
Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/5/2012 @ 4:56 pmThe CIA and State Department could not rely on live video feeds of the attack or statements from eyewitnesses because nebulous reports from foreign press sources who were not present at the scene were deemed more accurate.
Sammy is right on top of that NY Times spin.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/5/2012 @ 5:14 pmThat’s just two links from the wiki on the attack.
narciso (ee31f1) — 12/5/2012 @ 5:14 pm“The NYT is not a source of intelligence.”
Steve57 – It is to Democrats. Get with the program!
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/5/2012 @ 5:17 pmReuters has been pretty good on this story, on balance, as have the British papers, like the Telegraph, and Lake at the Beast, Herridge and Griffin at Fox,
narciso (ee31f1) — 12/5/2012 @ 5:23 pmC’mon, daley. Read again what I wrote. I said the NYT is a source of intel for Democrats:
Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/5/2012 @ 5:23 pmNow if you want to miss the boat entirely, you go here;
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/nov/22/politics-fear/?pagination=false
narciso (ee31f1) — 12/5/2012 @ 5:27 pm“C’mon, daley. Read again what I wrote. I said the NYT is a source of intel for Democrats:
…a great intel service for America’s enemies.”
Steve57 – Okay, okay, I was just avoiding the broad brush. We’re on the same page.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/5/2012 @ 5:46 pm229. SF: (very slightly corrected by the omission of a comma)
“Like I said, Sooper Sekrit Intelligence began to come in (more probably than the news reports Bill Keller cites) and the CIA only then began to talk of a demonstration.”
234. Comment by Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/5/2012 @ 4:56 pm
Sammy @229,
I’ll give you this, dude.
That Wall Street Journal article clearly demonstrates that, like I said after this issue came up in the second debate, initially, they had it right – there was no peaceful protest at first in Benghazi – it was just a planned attack, and only later, gradually getting stronger over that week, did they begin to get it wrong, and the error did not originate in the White House .
The White House never would have sent Susan Rice out like that had they believed what she was going to say was false, because they would have known that that could not withstand scrutiny. They had to think it was true.
There are moles in the CIA, and Prince Bandar miscalculated with his disinformation. This disinformation was so politically appealing to the White House that they went public with it, which he never expected. And if this is pursued enough, we will at least get close to discovering the moles.
231. The NYT is not a source of intelligence. Well, not a source that the US uses for foreign intel.
That’s what Bill Keller thinks and that’s his explanation for the talking points inventing a demonstation that didn’t happen.
I agree with you. They must have had their own sources of information, in fact some CIA people earlier leaked an explanation, (the word informants, Libyan press reports and that intercepted conversation with some al Qaeda person in Mali) but the fact that nobody has out said very much about it indicates the sources were and are SOOPER SEKRIT.
The White House did not tell them to come up with this conclusion. It would have been utter folly, and if it was really unsourced, we would have heard leaks. There were sources – mostly Sooper Sekrit ones.
Sammy Finkelman (dcc9ca) — 12/5/2012 @ 10:24 pmThe New York Times and all those other news outlets also got the same disinformation. Then they interviewed people in Benghazi and found out some things weren’t so.
The President and the toplevels of the U.S. Federal government, however, because the first information came from witnesses and people involved, had it close to right at the start, and only when the disinformation proliferated, did they start to get it wrong. This is a key point Romney missed. Some others are missing it too, now.
By the way, connecting this to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is also wrong or misleading. This is a very peripheral and limited conneection.
The connections of Ansar al Sharia go mainly to Egypt. Now there’s no al Qaeda in Egypt. In Egypt you have al Qaeda’s parent group(s) and like you said, they are being hunted – it is not easy to get a table of organization.
Sammy Finkelman (dcc9ca) — 12/5/2012 @ 10:32 pm“The White House never would have sent Susan Rice out like that had they believed what she was going to say was false, because they would have known that that could not withstand scrutiny.”
Sammy – Not true. This administration’s first move is to lie and then stonewall when it gets caught.
They did it with Fast and Furious, the fudged science to support the drilling moratorium after Deepwater Horizon, the New Black Panther Party prosecution, the Underwear Bomber being a lone wolf terrorist as well as the Times Square Bomber being a lone wolf. Obama’s doing it again now with the fiscal cliff talks saying the math doesn’t work in Boehner’s plan when just last year he himself was promoting a similar plan raising even larger amounts of revenue.
Lying is SOP for these idiots.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/5/2012 @ 10:49 pmComment by Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/5/2012 @ 4:52 pm
The Obama administration probably did think it could get away with that laughably fake cover story because they were reading it in the press.
It was in the press at the beginning because somebody was out there spreading the story about a demonstration about a video in Benghazi. That somebody was not the Obama Administration.
But while that was in the press at the beginnng, they weren’t reading the same things in the press any more by the end of the week. Bill Keller in his op-ed piece in the New York Times this Monday was only talking about the earliest press reports. But later, and soon, they started to get it right. They first noticed contradictory accounts of the attack.
By the way, this doesn’t get into all the questions of the decisions that were made as this was going on.
By September 15, the press was already correcting it. The CIA, however, had “corrected” things in the wrong direction.
Sammy Finkelman (dcc9ca) — 12/5/2012 @ 10:54 pmFinkelman, your comments are filled with speculations built atop suppositions, stacked over implications … but you have no factual foundation for your tortured chain of “logic”.
The administration thought that their story would hold up because they were used to a compliant media and they thought that the DNI had given them a figleaf to hide behind.
But the DNI is as incompetent as the rest of the Obama gang and their figleaf evaporated quicker than they thought.
SPQR (768505) — 12/5/2012 @ 10:56 pmBy September 15, the press was already correcting it. The CIA, however, had “corrected” things in the wrong direction.
You are blaming the CIA? They are denying that they got it wrong and are blaming the DNI.
SPQR (768505) — 12/5/2012 @ 10:57 pm“The White House never would have sent Susan Rice out like that had they believed what she was going to say was false, because they would have known that that could not withstand scrutiny.”
Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/5/2012 @ 10:49 pm
Sammy – Not true. This administration’s first move is to lie and then stonewall when it gets caught.
They tell a lot of stupid lies about public issues. But the thing is, they are either not easy to prove false, or not challenged very well.
Nor are lies about issues remembered very well. It is easy to accept them as mistakes. It is faulty reasoning not out and out false fact. They are matters of opinion. I think what we do see more there are statements that imply some things that are just not true. This is all not hard and fast.
They did it with Fast and Furious,
With Fast and Furious they could believe that the lie – the lie that letting guns walk was not a tactic – might work. And it did for a while till more questions got asked and more information became known. It was not obviously a lie that was doomed to explode.
With regard to the question of when Attorney General Holder became aware of it, they were stuck. They knew it wasn’t such a good lie when they said it.
the fudged science to support the drilling moratorium after Deepwater Horizon,
OK. A transparent lie, but one which they might not think was too important, and a technical matter as well.
the New Black Panther Party prosecution,
They were stuck. The big lie there would be that no political considerations went into dropping the prosecutions and that there was some legitimate prosecutorial reason for doing so. Not very believable, but there’s no smoking gun.
the Underwear Bomber being a lone wolf terrorist
They wanted to believe that. And unlike Benghazi, there were no flat assertions of fact that were wrong.
But wait. Did they anyway make the claim he was a lone wolf? He obviously was not. He didn’t build the bomb himself.
I think it’s the major in the army base (Ft. Hood Texas) whom they said was a lone wolf. I don’t know if anybody said it with regard to the underwear bomber. There was a different problem with him. Or two problems.
One about whether he should have been given Miranda warnings as soon as he was. They said the only reason not to do so would be if he had knowledge of other imminent terrorist plots, butd the law is not as limited as they tried to make it out to be.
The second problem was whether people involved in airplane security should have known about him.
What was discovered later was that the U.S. had been warned about him by his father, but because his activities were thought to be in Yemen, he never got put on the (bloated) do not fly list.
as well as the Times Square Bomber being a lone wolf.
Oh, that one, Mayor Bloomberg really said that But that’s something different. That is an opinion which is not really reasonable for a person to have, rather than a lie.
Obama’s doing it again now with the fiscal cliff talks saying the math doesn’t work in Boehner’s plan when just last year he himself was promoting a similar plan raising even larger amounts of revenue.
He’s saying, quite truthfully, that it doesn’t solve the entire deficit reduction (commitments?)
The lies come in pretending that there’s any kind of logical economic reason to raise the top two tax rackets, but I am not sure he saying that. And it’s all subtle, anyway.
Getting things so wrong about Benghazi, and then sticking to the story (it seems) was much, much worse than making a faulty argument even if that argument, when fully expanded, is patently absurd.
Sammy Finkelman (dcc9ca) — 12/5/2012 @ 11:31 pmSammy, just a general note.
Do a search and replace and insead of “Sooper Sekrit” put “fabricated” and it makes more sense, actually.
And I salute your stubborness for not acknowledging just how much incentive this administration has for fabricating that “intel.”
Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/5/2012 @ 11:46 pm“Nor are lies about issues remembered very well.”
Sammy – Because he just believes the media will back him up and Americans are stupid. I could easily double the list I provided off the top off my head because the lies are so transparent to anybody paying attention. You should just stop being an apologist for a dishonest administration.
He’s saying, quite truthfully, that it doesn’t solve the entire deficit reduction
No, he said Boehner’s $800 billion of revenue math did not work, while he proposed to find $1.2 trillion the prior year via the same methodology. Obama himself isn’t proposing to solve the entire deficit reduction (commitment?) reduction with his phantom cuts so your logic is specious to begin with.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/6/2012 @ 12:46 am“I don’t know if anybody said it with regard to the underwear bomber.”
Sammy – Yes they did. No connections to Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups. Same thing for the Times Square bomber. Both lone wolves.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/6/2012 @ 12:49 am” By September 15, the press was already correcting it. The CIA, however, had “corrected” things in the wrong direction.
Comment by SPQR (768505) — 12/5/2012 @ 10:57 pm
You are blaming the CIA? They are denying that they got it wrong and are blaming the DNI.
They tried to blame some other people for the wording of the talking points, but they had to admit it. It wasn’t the DNI, and it wasn’t the FBI (although one reason the CIA people cooked up was an FBI type reason) that changed the wording of the talking points to take out all references to terrorism and al Qaeda.
The CIA now is still, still, still – pay attention because you can miss this thing – claiming they were not wrong about this being inspired by what happened in Cairo (and therefore not preplanned) and that what motivated the attackers was the video.
They are saying the only mistake they made was about there being a demonstration before the attack, and that that is a relatively small matter. That’s what they were saying more than a month ago. (that this is a small error)
Sammy Finkelman (dcc9ca) — 12/6/2012 @ 1:30 amHere is what it says about their correction in the December 4, 2012 Wall Street Journal article:
I put that word “directly” in italics, because it seems to me it means, that at least at that time, the CIA was still saying there was a protest about the video in Benghazi, but just that it hadn’t directly preceded the attack.
It further says it took till Sept. 22 for the “new view” to get into the President’s Daily Brief. The Sept 28 statement by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, it says, sidestepped the issue.
The demonstration claim was corrected by the State Department on October 11.
Sammy Finkelman (dcc9ca) — 12/6/2012 @ 1:33 amSammy – Keep f*cking that chicken.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/6/2012 @ 1:34 amNor are lies about issues remembered very well.”
Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/6/2012 @ 12:46 am
Sammy – Because he just believes the media will back him up and Americans are stupid. I could easily double the list I provided off the top off my head because the lies are so transparent to anybody paying attention. You should just stop being an apologist for a dishonest administration.
I’m not apologizing for them. I’m saying the idea that the attack on the people in Benghazi was not pre-planned, and thee was a demonstration against a You Tube video which some extremists took advantage of Benghazi is a different kind of a thing and they only said it because they thought it was true.
Not one person has leaked that anyone in the White House – or anywhere – told the CIA people to say that.
Even now the CIA is not conceding that the idea of the attack happening because Cairo did, or for any other reason than the video, is wrong.
The CIA has tried to avoid responsibility for this, or denied they did anything incorrectly or inexpertly any way along the line. They’ve tried to spin everything as the right way to go or their re-evaluation and the time it took as reasonable.
Sammy Finkelman (dcc9ca) — 12/6/2012 @ 1:48 amWhat happened to “wolf boy”, Johnny Walker Lind’s side kick?
mg (31009b) — 12/6/2012 @ 2:18 amTHey let him go, just like Al Shehri and bin Qumu
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/790delhy.asp?pg=1
narciso (ee31f1) — 12/6/2012 @ 3:31 amSammy, give it up. The lie about the video originated with the administration.
I’m not linking to all the evidence again. There are reams of evidence and I’m sick of going over the same ground because you’d rather not face reality. Keller bleats that Rice got it wrong because there were no foreign correspondents on scene?
There were in Cairo. CNN had been reporting on the “protests” at the US embassy. They interviewed the organizers, including AQ emir al Zawahiri’s brother. And the protests were organized to call for the release of the blind sheik, GITMO detainees, and other US prisoners.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPszLCEyu-I
It was only after the administration came up with the video lie, because they had to claim that these protests had nothing to do with the administration and its policies, that CNN decided to stop reporting the truth and instead assist the administration with the cover-up.
http://www.chicagonow.com/publius-forum/2012/09/cnn-hides-facts-cairo-riots-not-about-offensive-american-movie-but-freedom-of-blind-sheik-the-goal/
(Whoever writes there gets the conclusion wrong; it wasn’t primarily about making it America’s fault but making it not-about-Obama’s-fault.)
Hard to believe? Then you haven’t been paying attention. CNN has a history of carrying water for governments. Read Eason Jordan’s 2003 NYT piece (of what I’ll leave to your imagination) “The News We Kept To Ourselves.”
If you search on the terms the page briefly comes up, then disappears and the Times says it can’t find it. Liars.
CNN willingly reports government propaganda. They did it for 12 years in Baghdad; they did it again in 2012 in Cairo.
The administration can’t rewrite history. What makes you think you can rewrite history, Sammy?
The lie originated with the administration. Why do you think it took so long for them to respond to those shameful Cairo embassy tweets apologizing for the first amendment?
Here’s a clue. Those tweets were by direction. The embassy speaks for the President. That was the start of the cover-up. Eventually they had to disown them. For the same reason they fabricated the narrative in the first place. Pure politics.
The news agencies had been reporting what they saw until they realized the administration needed them to support the narrative for campaign purposes. Then they reported the lie instead.
That’s the timeline. It’s a matter of record. Deal with it.
Or keep imagining soooper sekrit intel. The same way the administration is fabricating it. As I and other observers have been saying from the start there was never any “fog of war.” It was the Obama campaignistration fog machine operating at full blast. They’re still operating it.
You seem to be still lost in it.
Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/6/2012 @ 8:35 amSince you still seem to be lost, and since someone reading my last mega-comment may have gotten lost, I want to make one thing clear.
The administration didn’t believe the story you’re peddling, Sammy, was true because they read it in the press.
They thought they could get away with the cover-up because the story they planted in the press had been so widely reported.
It appears they may prove right as their conspirators in the media are insisting Benghazi is a non-story. Why would they expose their own complicity?
And they’re still reporting administration disinformation and you’re still buying it, Sammy. So why wouldn’t they get away with the lie.
You Sammy aren’t making any cogent points. You’re simply providing the evidence that the administration can get away with the most ludicrous and transparent lies.
Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/6/2012 @ 8:41 amEven though I disagree with the author’s conclusions, please note one thing.
The article, link above, was published September 14th.
The spontaneous movie criticism ridiculousness was an obvious lie the moment the administration peddled it to the press.
But per their usual M.O. they jumped into cover-up mode and started laying false trails.
SOME people are still following them.
Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/6/2012 @ 8:46 am“The CIA now is still, still, still – pay attention because you can miss this thing – claiming they were not wrong about this being inspired by what happened in Cairo (and therefore not preplanned) and that what motivated the attackers was the video.”
Sammy – Pay attention now Sammy, because you can miss this, who in the CIA is still saying this and who are they saying it to? Please provide links.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/6/2012 @ 8:51 amwell said Steve57
SPQR (83d044) — 12/6/2012 @ 8:51 amBill Keller, former editor of the New York Times in an Op-ed piece in the Monday, December 3, 2012 New York Times:
Comment by Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/5/2012 @ 4:52 pm
Is it a requirement that one get a lobotomy to work at the NYT?
The NYT is not a source of intelligence. Well, not a source that the US uses for foreign intel.
It is too similar to what the New York Times (and other outlets) reported right at the beginning, to be coincidence.
They all said the attack in Benghazi was connected to a protest about a film that mocked Mohammed, or something close to that. (The NYT actually did not say film)
Now I think the whole thing is a little bit special pleading about the value of foreign corespondents, but yes, He suspects the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and CNN are used by the CIA as a source intelligence. Call it cheating if you want, but he thinks so. And there’s the famous statement by President Kennedy aboutthe Bay of Pigs that he should have paid more attention to the New York Times than the CIA (something like that)
Now I think it is indeed too similar to be a coincidence, but the connection s not so simple. All these newspapers, and the CIA, were targets of the same disinformation. Indeed there must have been some common source – these newspapers all got the same wrong story, but probably not because they just copied from each other. The big source I think was that Libyan deputy interior minister who had his name transliterated into the Latin alphabet 4 different ways, Wanis al-Sharef. He told CBS News that as soon as news of the video came out everybody should have been evacuated. The day before he told Agence France Presse that everybody was safe.
I suspect that the United States government was in contact with him ll through the seven hours o more the events took, and with false promises and lies, he prevented any form of effective American response – anything at all except a panicky evacuation designed to try to make sure nobody would ever come back and that the American government would not find out just where and when and how the Ambassador to Libya had been killed.
Sammy Finkelman (dcc9ca) — 12/6/2012 @ 8:55 am* all through the seven hours… (the a is missing in the word all)
Sammy Finkelman (dcc9ca) — 12/6/2012 @ 8:56 amSammy – Here is a nice piece by Stephen Hayes that details the squid ink thrown over Benghazi by the administration.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/6/2012 @ 8:56 amI’m not apologizing for them.
Sammy, I’ve detected rather foolish liberal biases in the back of your mind. Don’t listen to them. And remember most of all: Those left-leaning emotions do not necessarily make you a nicer, more humane, more decent, more generous human being. They certainly don’t make you or anyone else a more honest person.
Mark (56b304) — 12/6/2012 @ 8:58 amSammy – I’m still waiting for those links you promised about ICE agents suing Obama for being too tough on immigration enforcement.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/6/2012 @ 9:01 amTHE NEW YORK TIMES
All The News That’s Fit To Omit
To Brainwash Our Readership
The Liberal Twit
Other variations available
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/6/2012 @ 9:07 amYeah. It’s a mystery how the news can coordinate the reportage so thoroughly.
Almost like they’re working together as well as with the administration. Like they have, oh I dunno, some sort of e-mail distribution list so they can all get the talking points. Some sort of “journolist,” if you will.
But of course that’s impossible.
Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/6/2012 @ 9:08 amThe fact that most of the media are of the left, have emotional ties to Obama, are comfortable with the ethos of “blame America first” (eg, a mean, unkind, racist, sexist, homophobic video produced in the West, and posted to Youtube, hurt the feelings of sad, suffering, noble people in the Middle East), is merely coincidental.
BTW, in reality, most of the MSM are NOT full of liberal biases because….they’re owned by big corporations!!!
Mark (56b304) — 12/6/2012 @ 9:16 amI’m sure he does. That’s why we in the military used to use them as dupes.
I used to laugh out loud at the news when I was deployed for ONE/OIF. I’m reading the message traffic, and watching and reading what they’re saying. Their analysis was hilarious.
Still, it’s important to know what they are saying. And to let them think they’re right. If you want to protect sources and methods. And keep actual events classified.
That way we know what cover-story will work.
“Boy, you guys sure nailed that Jessica Lynch thing,” we’ll tell ’em. “How did you find out?”
Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/6/2012 @ 9:18 am“But of course that’s impossible.”
Steve57 – Pure crazy talk. Just like those weekly/daily conference calls.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/6/2012 @ 9:31 amHe’s the same joker who also tried to shift blame from the Islamists to die-hards from the old Qaddafi regime.
He’s also trying to shift blame from himself. He wasn’t just the deputy interior minister. He was deputy interior minister for the eastern region of Libya. As in where Benghazi is located.
He was on Al Jazeera the next day saying (in addition to the above) that it’s the fault of the US State Dept. for not beefing up security after the assault on the consulate the previous June.
But of course, that’s not true. The host nation provides security for diplomatic missions. Here’s a clue. The militias that have a quasi-official status and are authorized to provide security for facilities like the US consulate belong to the Supreme Security Committee. The Supreme Security Committee is under what Ministry, do you imagine?
Oh, and those repeated requests for more security that Amb. Stevens complained to State were repeatedly ignored; what regional deputy minister do you think they would have gone through?
Oh by they way; Wanis al-Sharif was fired from his post as Deputy Interior Minister for the eastern region of Libya by the end of September as part of a general purge of incompetent or unreliable types.
Who do you think he was working for? Or, more importantly, who do you think the CIA thinks he was working for? Really working for, as opposed to the Libyan government.
Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/6/2012 @ 9:46 amI know. Just like it was crazy to think that Ezra Klein of the WaPo (hmm, where have I heard that name before) was briefing those Senate Democratic chiefs of staff on that conference call he led.
He was not briefing them! “We had a ‘free-ranging discussion.'”
It wasn’t a briefing, m’kay? That conference call he led in that closed-door off-the-record session in the Capitol building was just a half-hour “free ranging discussion.”
To imagine pure-as-the-driven-snow Ezra Klein, of all people, would coordinate strategy in a secret meeting with the most powerful Democratic staffers on the hill is, well, you called it, daley. Pure crazy talk.
Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/6/2012 @ 10:02 amMy mistake; I was always under the impression this was a conference call attended by the chiefs of staff. But rereading the articles that broke the story, it looks like Ezra Klein personally went to the hill to
Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/6/2012 @ 10:06 ambriefhold a “free ranging discussion with the assembled chiefs of staff.Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/6/2012 @ 9:01 am
Sammy – I’m still waiting for those links you promised about ICE agents suing Obama for being too tough on immigration enforcement. </i
I'll get them too (and the indications the CIA is still sticking to the story about the unplanned assault inspired by the protest in Cairo, something that many people, including Senators like Kelly Ayotte have failed to pick up on.
They only withdrew the part about there being a demonstration, at least right before the attack.
The CIA never claimed that the issue in the demonstration was the video. The video is not in the talking points!
They also acknowledge that they deliberately removed mention of Al Qaeda (but not exactly that they tried to pin the blame for removing it on other agencies) It's the wrong connection to al Qaeda, though)
I knew there was some links I owed you but had forgotten what they about. I mentioned this here somewhere already. The lawsuit was earlier this year.
Sammy Finkelman (dcc9ca) — 12/6/2012 @ 10:19 am“The CIA never claimed that the issue in the demonstration was the video. The video is not in the talking points!”
Sammy – Then stop mentioning the video in your comments.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/6/2012 @ 10:23 am“The CIA never claimed that the issue in the demonstration was the video. The video is not in the talking points!”
277. Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/6/2012 @ 10:23 am
Sammy – Then stop mentioning the video in your comments.
The video is everywhere else a demonstration in Benghazi is mentioned, including what Susan Rice said on September 16..
But it is curiously omitted from the “talking points”
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/6/2012 @ 11:17 amSammy, why do you insist on believing the smoke and mirrors and not the evidence?
There was no demonstration in Benghazi. There was a demonstration in Cairo but over US detainees, the Blind Sheik most notably.
Every cogent individual knew that on the 12th of September.
Why do you insist on proving Obama right; that he could get away with a flimsy lie?
Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/6/2012 @ 11:25 am“But it is curiously omitted from the “talking points””
Sammy – Review your comments. You keep reintroducing the video as part of what the CIA said. Why are you deliberately confusing the issue?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/6/2012 @ 11:36 am267. Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/6/2012 @ 9:01 am
Sammy – I’m still waiting for those links you promised about ICE agents suing Obama for being too tough on immigration enforcement.
I never said they sued him for being too tough. I said they disobeyed his orders. He only wanted to go after criminals or people who had repeatedly violated immigration law. They wanted all to count equally. They sued him for being too lenient. I was pointing out how much they were resisting his orders.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/6/2012 @ 12:22 pm“But it is curiously omitted from the “talking points””
The CIA never said what the (imaginary) demonstration was about – presumabably they knew that in Egypt it wasn’t about the video.
Later on, people who had taken part in the attack in Benghazi claimed it was because of the video.
Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/6/2012 @ 11:36 am
Sammy – Review your comments. You keep reintroducing the video as part of what the CIA said. Why are you deliberately confusing the issue?
What I said was (number 261)
252 261.“The CIA now is still, still, still – pay attention because you can miss this thing – claiming they were not wrong about this being inspired by what happened in Cairo (and therefore not preplanned) and that what motivated the attackers was the video.”
They are now talking about the video, or the New York Times is. But back the first week, they didn’t.
It’s just that everybody thinks that if this was inspired by what happened in Cairo, the video must have been the issue.
I think what I am confusing is what the CIA said on Sept 15 and what I think they are saying now.
They said “spontaneous” and Cairo in September, but they never said the video.
They never gave any cause for the demonstration.
I think that was no accident.
But everybody reads “video” or “Mohammed film” into the talking points.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/6/2012 @ 12:31 pmAfter Benghazi Attack, Talk Lagged Behind Intelligence – Oct 22 New York Times
Nothing about a video in that quote.
But the writer of that article thinks the video is in the talking points somehow.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/6/2012 @ 12:42 pmAnd I don’t think even today the CIA is conceding this was planned before the Cairo protests,
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/6/2012 @ 12:43 pmThey just make up new “stuff” as they go along since they’ve told so many lies they can’t keep them straight.
askeptic (b8ab92) — 12/6/2012 @ 12:52 pmThis is one of those times that an Independent Prosecutor could come in handy.
If you’re going to tell tall tales, there should be some cost involved, and those DC lawyers don’t come cheap.
279. Comment by Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/6/2012 @ 11:25 am
Sammy, why do you insist on believing the smoke and mirrors and not the evidence?
There was no demonstration in Benghazi.
I know.
There was a demonstration in Cairo but over US detainees, the Blind Sheik most notably.
The ringleader of the 1993 World Trade Center bonbers, convicted in a sting operation that followed it.
Every cogent individual knew that on the 12th of September.
No they didn’t. Every cogent individual should have no known that it was in no real way caused by the Mohammed film.
Why do you insist on proving Obama right; that he could get away with a flimsy lie?
This was not HIS lie, or his aides. The idea that there was ademonstration in Benghazi about the video was a lie by the perpetrators.
The CIA had relatively good information on September 12 and then chose to rely on bad information.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/6/2012 @ 1:10 pmComment by Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/6/2012 @ 9:46 am
Oh by they way; Wanis al-Sharif was fired from his post as Deputy Interior Minister for the eastern region of Libya by the end of September as part of a general purge of incompetent or unreliable types.
Who do you think he was working for?
I’m not sure. Quite possibly, whoever was behind the Moslem Brotherhood and the attack. Now saudi Arabia funsd the Moslem Brotherhood. The video maker claimed “Jews” had paid for his movie – that points to Saudi Arabia.
Or, more importantly, who do you think the CIA thinks he was working for? Really working for, as opposed to the Libyan government.
Good question. I would expect the CIA probably have a position on that, except maybe that he was just incompetent, which is unlikely to be true.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/6/2012 @ 1:14 pmaskeptic @285, they have to make new stuff up as they go along. The inherent hazard of falsifying history as it’s unfolding is you don’t yet know what you’re going to lie about.
Naturally it’s going to take multiple drafts to accommodate what can’t be denied before you get a somewhat coherent cover-up.
Which is what’s amazing to me. We can see the lie evolving, know it’s a lie, yet they keep lying and blaming it on a nonexistent fog of war.
This Keller idiot at the NYT tries his hand at assisting with the cover-up, blaming the lack of MFM foreign correspondents for Rice “getting it wrong.” I guess picking up on Panetta’s lead that we just didn’t have enough real-time intel to send in forces. Because Keller either is idiot enough to believe that foreign correspondents could have given Rice ground truth, or his NYT readership is idiot enough to believe that.
This is why we laughed at reporters; they don’t know what they’re looking at even if they’re there looking at it, and they don’t know enough to know they don’t know what it is they’re seeing.
On the other hand we know that not only were there eye-witnesses but CIA operatives and ex-SPECWAR contractors on site. Men trained in strategic reconnaissance. To gather exactly the kind of intel you need to put bombs on target or to insert troops (the SPECWAR types wouldn’t even have considered going into that situation any kind of assault but a link-up considering men like Woods and Doherty were actually on top of the objective providing intel).
Or exactly the kind of intel to un**** Rices story.
The only conclusion, pace Sammy, is that the administration didn’t want to un**** Rice’s story.
They’re the ones who ****ed it up exactly the way they wanted it.
And Sammy keeps trying to decipher the smoke pouring out of the fog machine; charming.
It’s actually not that complicated; it’s pretty simple. Those of us who got it right the first day got it right. None of the disinformation since has stood up to scrutiny.
Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/6/2012 @ 1:28 pmThey got it from the Cairo embassy tweets. The ones in conformity with the WH spin that the protests in Cairo had nothing to do with Obama or his policies. Because that could not be permitted to be thought in the last few months before an election.
Obama has already taken ownership of this. During the debate he claimed to find the idea he didn’t do all he could “offensive.” His ambassadors, he said, speak for me.
Who do his embassies speak for, Sammy?
Steve57 (1922f2) — 12/6/2012 @ 1:35 pmThe beclowning of the media…..
Back during the Rodney King Riots (or, Rebellion as per Ms.Waters),
askeptic (b8ab92) — 12/6/2012 @ 2:27 pmsomeone (I don’t know what side they were on) had a bright idea.
One of the local TV vans pulled up, and started to set up for a “stand up”.
When the Info-Babe took her spot in the floodlight, a “sniper” let loose with some rifle fire impacting the van.
Said “babe” dove into the van immediately and she and her crew vamoosed unhurt.
She quit the next day, and never again appeared IIRC on L.A. TV again, with the possible exception of a studio interview as the interviewee.
Some confirmation of what I’ve been saying.
Former officials: CIA politicized intelligence on Benghazi
The video narrative was the administration’s lie. The salafists, and the MFM, just picked it up and ran with it.
The above points are all part of a greater whole. I have no doubt about the knee-jerk anti-American pro-third world pro-jihadi instincts of this administration. And of the intel officials they employ. I’ve worked with those guys. I’m still taking showers to get the filth off.
But the over-riding issue are the policies based upon those knee-jerk anti-American pro-third world pro-jihadi instincts. Obama has poured gasoline all over North Africa and the ME. He has done so because that’s who he has always been. He has brought the freshman dorm attitudes shaped by bull sessions in which he by his own admission sought out the Marxist professors and third world revolutionaries, reinforced by the faculty lounge an dinners at former PLO spokesman Rashid Khalidi, to the WH. And he won’t tolerate any POV that conflicts with his own. Hence the rigid PC. Naturally Clapper and the other tapeworms living in the bowels of the DC bureaucracy are only too happy to go along.
The overriding concern with this administration, just as it is at FBI, is to shield the organization from any criticism for its actions. This is why Carney immediately announced that no matter what, the administration is not at fault. It is never at fault. Because of course it is at fault. But the truth can’t get out.
Naturally the false narrative intended to shield the administration from blame is an anti-American “blame America first” lie. What else do these people know? It’s like Hamas (and I’m not picking the example by accident) who’s to blame for the weather. Of course it’s the Joooos.
And if anyone is mislead by the false trails and smokescreen laid down by the CIA, keep in mind that these are the same people who waged war against Bush. They’re using the same methods now, but they’re not waging war to undermine Bush but prop up Obama.
But, again, the meat of the nut is that Obama is married to his fantasy vision of foreign policy. Libya was his showpiece. He could lead from behind. He doesn’t need to rely on the military (hence no military response). A navy the size of the Belgian coast guard, an air force the size of Ecuador’s, and ground forces the size of the Costa Rican police reserve will suit him just fine. Perhaps with the Hong Kong SWAT team thrown in as his Special Forces (no slam on Hong Kong SWAT, they’re really good). Then with the awesome power of his awesome mind, his compelling personal narrative, and unconventional looks he can exercise “smart diplomacy” and topple whole dictatorships. No boots on the ground needed, you cold-war throwbacks!
Or halt Iranian nuclear programs.
Of course, we’ve seen that this naive manchild has just kicked the table over and armed jihadis from Mali to Syria. And we’re all going to pay the price for his idiocy.
But he’s convinced he’s right. He knows deep down that the jihadis may be right to hate us unwashed redneck knuckle-draggers, but not him. They can’t hate him. So he’ll double down on stupid abroad, just as he’s doing at home.
And the inevitable cover-ups to shield him from blame for his inevitable blunders will always be anti-American “blame America first” lies. Because just like the economy he can’t fix the reputation of this country that we neanderthals ****ed up amongst the righteously indignant yet at heart peaceful third-worlders.
Steve57 (d941b2) — 12/7/2012 @ 9:44 amComment by Steve57 (d941b2) — 12/7/2012 @ 9:44 am
The video narrative was the administration’s lie. The salafists, and the MFM, just picked it up and ran with it.
For that to be true, or entirely true, the tweets done by the person at the Cairo embassy would have had to be aimed at an audience other than the purported one. I thjink they were probably seriously worried about being attacked and seriously trying to forestall it.
Now it could be some informants told them (falsely) a mob was going to assemble angry at the video. But it didnt really start from the Cairo embassy.
The whole problem in figuring this thing out is I don’t really know what were the events of earlier that day September 11th.
I’m quite sure there’s spin (and comfortable thinking) going on from John Brennan, but that’s not the same thing as inventing the video as cause, and the unplanned nature of Benghazi attack. That was not invented in Washington, D.C.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/7/2012 @ 10:53 amYou know they’re getting ready to invade Mali or help an invasion.
Look at the front page of today’s Wall Street Journal.
Obama is getting very cloise to asking for authorization. It shouldn’t be done thinking those were the people who directed the aattack in Benghazi.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/7/2012 @ 10:55 am@steve57Seve57. I found some interesting things in that article (but remember this is mostly not knowledge, it’s opinion , albeit informed opinion, which is always very good to listen to. It’s also being pushed in a certain way by the writer:
Anyway:
I guess I’ll have to look up what administration, since he’s not tellng me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._deGraffenreid
Apparently we don’t know, but he was an intelligence officer in the Navy and worked for the Chief of Naval Operations. He was on the minority staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, apparently during the 1970s, and wrote something about Soviet intelligence activities directed at U.S. arms control monitoring capabilities and then was on the transition team at the Central Intelligence Agency and helped draft then administration’s program for intelligence reform and then he was a Senior Director of Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council from 1981-1987 ad for a whhile was Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In the George W. Bush Administration he was the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Support in the Department of Defense From 2001-2004 and then till 2005, a National Counterintelligence Executive.
So, Reagan and Bush II (first term)
He said
Now, were they Democrats, or were they moles?
You could also propose ideologues, but I would would think it’s more likely they were wrong on purpose, and if so, more likely doing this to affect policy and not politics, and so therefore moles. Or some kind of self-serving old boys club.
Sammy Finkelman (dcc9ca) — 12/7/2012 @ 11:49 amIntelligence is surprising, open source, this is why I harp on the LOC report, on the situation in Benghazi, a month before, the original intelligence
narciso (ee31f1) — 12/7/2012 @ 11:57 amat the time of the attack, pointed to all the players we the US govt had acquiesced, Bel Hadj,
bin Qumu, Azzouz, et al,
deGraffenreid probably knows Clapper personally.
But Clapper’s not the villain here, or at least not the mastermind. He probably did not tell the CIA to say certain things.
Douglas Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy in the George W. Bush administration, seems to think the way I do: there really was bad intelligence: (not that anybody should have believed it. Not that anybody should have preferred it when they had some very unimpeachable sources – career U.S. government employees- telling them different about some details)
Feith said
This is a little bit wrong. Even the talking points said extremists = terrorists might have joined in something other people started.
\\The key points in Benghazi is: 1) Nobody else started anything – something the CIA may still not be conceding – they are only conceding no demonstration immediately preceded the attack 2) it was not inspired by he events in Cairo, (also I think not being conceded) but, if related, both must have been planned together – and there are very visible signs of connections to Egypt and proto-al Qaeda organizations and 3) planned well in advance – just from a logistical standpoint and 4) if they knew about the video, they must have themselves been part of the publicity campaign for the video. Probably commissioned the video, too.
Sammy Finkelman (dcc9ca) — 12/7/2012 @ 12:05 pmLOC = ?
Who are Bel Hadj, bin Qumu, Azzouz?
I know they knew about all kinds of Islamist armed groups around Benghazi, who were getting more bold with time.
Sammy Finkelman (dcc9ca) — 12/7/2012 @ 12:07 pmSept 5, 2012 a British official came by, to see if it was safe to return.
Sammy Finkelman (dcc9ca) — 12/7/2012 @ 12:09 pmBel Hadj was the LFG leader, detained by the CIA, bin Qumu is the head of AAS (L) Azzouz was Zawahiri’s detailee to set up the network
narciso (ee31f1) — 12/7/2012 @ 12:12 pm295, 297, 299
LFG = ? When was he detained? Where?
AAS = Ansar Al Shariah (The L stands for Libya?)
LOC = Library of Congress? Libyan O? C?
There was somebody else whose name began with an A who went from Egypt to set up the whole thing.
Now the Obama Adminsitration (or civil servants) are recognizing that the arm they agreed Qatar should send to Libya went to terrorists groups – they think those probably were not the same arms used in an attack on the consultant
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/10/2012 @ 9:13 amIf Susan Rice had read and relied on the New York Times, she would have known that what the CIA told her was wrong, or very problematical:
New York Times September 14, 2012, page A10:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/world/africa/libya-attacks-came-in-two-waves-official-says.html?pagewanted=all
Theer were demonstration later in many countries that were ostensibly about the video, or so people were told.
Here we have the “spontaneous demonstration” that morphed into an armed assault. They get the disionformation from a Libyan official on Sept 13 in Libya.
This isn’t true either. They were still in place AT THE TIME OF THE ATTACK(s) There was an attack on the people traveling from the site of the “consulate” to the annex, but it subsided. Nobody was killed while everybody was leaving for the airport.
Now, the New York Times already had information indicating what what Wanis al-Sharef told them this was wrong:
Which means they were not so sure he died because of the fire.
It took the not days, but weeks, for the CIA to catch up with mainstream media in the United States, and I think they probably haven’t completely coirrected their story.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/10/2012 @ 9:34 amCBS News September 12, 2012 6:24 AM Eastern Time:
(Updated at 9:27 a.m.)
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57511043/assault-on-u.s-consulate-in-benghazi-leaves-4-dead-including-u.s-ambassador-j-christopher-stevens/
That isn’t how they found out where the Ambassador was. (the Libyans they had hired) And they weren’t all killed in the second building.
From this confusion developed between the building in the first villa that had a firetrap safe room, and the other location a mile or so away.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/10/2012 @ 9:40 amBreitbart Sept 12:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/12/Libyan-Official-Libyan-Security-Handed-Ambassador-Stevens-Over-to-Attackers
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/10/2012 @ 9:42 amSome leaders of Jewish organizations have been trying to support Susan Rice – evidentally she talks to them or lets them talk to her and they like it and don’t want to lose the connection to Obama. There was even a letter in the Wall Street Journal Friday!
(they also don’t have much to complain about what she did at the UN – and sometimes she even incorporated an idea or two they gave her into her speeches)
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/10/2012 @ 9:45 amThere’s an op-ed piece today in the New York Times against Susan Rice.
Susan Rice and Africa’s Despots
She praised a whole bunch of dictators or near dictators in 1998.
Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia (who died recently and was eulogized by Susan Rice in Addis Abba on September 2, 2012), Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea, Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Yoweri K. Museveni of Uganda, Jerry J. Rawlings of Ghana, and Thabo Mbeki of South Africa.
Only Jerry Rawlings left voluntarily. Mbeki was eased out – he was best known for wrong information about AIDS.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/10/2012 @ 9:53 amDude, take a breath.
SPQR (768505) — 12/10/2012 @ 10:20 amSammy is a Benghazi Truther
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/10/2012 @ 11:02 amLOC = Library of Congress.
AL-QAEDA IN LIBYA: A PROFILE
The article I linked to contains a greater proportion of fact to opinion than you give it credit for.
It is a fact, not opinion that Obama was much more deeply involved in arming the al-Qaeda linked groups in Libya than they’ve let on. Blaming Qatar or any other tiny gulf state, as the press has tried to do to provide Obama cover, for arming these groups is like blaming the Ryukyu islanders for Pearl Harbor.
Consequently, Obama has also greatly exacerbated the situation in north west Africa, particularly Mali, and Syria and it will not end well.
Having learned nothing from “leading from behind” in Libya that’s once again the plan in Mali. So once again we can predict the results. Obama will go around creating mess after mess in one nation after another with the mess spilling over into ever more neighboring states.
These are the result of his uninformed knee-jerk anti-American pro-third world pro-jihadi impulses ingrained over a lifetime of indoctrination.
But as I said earlier, he’s married to this vision of lunacy he considers “smart” foreign policy. He’s in denial about his incompetence and as I firmly believe about denial there is an element of conscious awareness of the problem. Which is why they puritanically enforce the code of PC in his briefings. Obama is aware there are other ways of looking at the world; hence his desire to be insulated from them.
This is why the first statement out of Carney’s mouth as events unfolded in Cairo and Benghazi was that these events had nothing to do with the Obama administration or it’s policies. Obama and everyone else in the administration knows perfectly well that it does, but they also have the ability to convince themselves otherwise. Over time they really do come to believe their own lies, even with the knowledge that the cover story was fabricated by them they can still come to believe it.
As Obama told Richard Wolffe, author of Renegade: The Making of a President, “You know, I actually believe my own bullshit.”
A remarkable talent. He knows it’s BS. But it’s his BS, so he can convince himself it’s true. All the while remaining aware it’s BS.
This is our recently reelected President. A man who will believe BS as long as it’s his.
Steve57 (d941b2) — 12/10/2012 @ 11:11 amHow?
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/10/2012 @ 11:24 amCan you narrow that “How” question down a little, Sammy?
Steve57 (d941b2) — 12/10/2012 @ 11:31 amSammy – Obama’s speech at the U.N. on September 24 was just as dishonest as Rice’s Sunday telethon. Why not address that?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/10/2012 @ 11:48 amObama’s speech was not as dishonest, although it has many dishonest points.
He was more dishonest in the second Presidential debate.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/11/2012 @ 8:57 amMore evidence of terrorist moles in the CIA: (which most people will miss, or not read that way)
In ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ she’s the hero; in real life, CIA agent’s career is more complicated
Or on one single page, but without pictures:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-zero-dark-thirty-shes-the-hero-in-real-life-cia-agents-career-is-more-complicated/2012/12/10/cedc227e-42dd-11e2-9648-a2c323a991d6_print.html
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/11/2012 @ 9:01 amOf course a promotion would give her more influence in the CIA, but a cash award is just money.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/11/2012 @ 9:02 amNew Yorker article about David Petraeus:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/12/17/121217crat_atlarge_filkins?currentPage=all
he claims that Petraeus really was lucky, not good, or at least not great..
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/11/2012 @ 9:05 am“Obama’s speech was not as dishonest, although it has many dishonest points.”
Sammy – Referring back to #311, please correct me if I am wrong, but it is my impression that you have defended Susan Rice as an innocent snowflake merely repeating talking points provided to her by the administration on national television. In comment #315 you finally admit she was dishonest.
Why have you wasted everybody’s time with so many inane comments defending her honor?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/11/2012 @ 1:22 pmNo, Petraeua wasn’t lucky, of course, Filkins was a clueless beat reporter for the Herald, promoted upwards, a similar strategy worked in Ramadi under Major Mirabile in the early part of the intervention, and McMaster in Tall a Far, Casey was kicked up to Army Chief of Staff, so
narciso (ee31f1) — 12/11/2012 @ 1:35 pmPetraeus had to navigate around Mullen, him, and Fallon, the above report does have a remarkable amount of detail, about the entire atmosphere, Stevens would be facing,