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?

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..

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

This spring, she was among a handful of employees given the agency’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal, its highest honor except for those recognizing people who have come under direct fire. But when dozens of others were given lesser awards, the female officer lashed out.

“She hit ‘reply all’ ” to an e-mail announcement of the awards, a second former CIA official said. The thrust of her message, the former official said, was: “You guys tried to obstruct me. You fought me. Only I deserve the award.”

Over the past year, she was denied a promotion that would have raised her civil service rank from GS-13 to GS-14, bringing an additional $16,000 in annual pay.

Officials said the woman was given a cash bonus for her work on the bin Laden mission and has since moved on to a new counterterrorism assignment. They declined to say why the promotion was blocked.

He was more dishonest in the second Presidential debate.

297. LOC = ?

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.

Comment by Sammy Finkelman (dcc9ca) — 12/7/2012 @ 12:07 pm

LOC = Library of Congress.

AL-QAEDA IN LIBYA: A PROFILE

A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office’s Irregular Warfare Support Program

August 2012
Federal

The article I linked to contains a greater proportion of fact to opinion than you give it credit for.

You 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.

Comment by Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 12/7/2012 @ 10:55 am

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.