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ANOTHER BOMBSHELL:Obama Administration Was Warned About Benghazi Attack 3 Days Prior

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Libya: We gave US three-day warning of Benghazi attack - Africa - World - The Independent

American diplomats were warned of possible violent unrest in Benghazi three days before the killings of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three members of his team, Libyan security officials say.

The claim came as the country's interim President, Mohammed el-Megarif, said his government had information that the attack on the US consulate had been planned by an Islamist group with links to al-Qa'ida and with foreigners taking part.
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Thoughts?
 
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What can the administration do but lie? Whether they received a tip or not, neglecting to reinforce security on the anniversary of 9/11 was a huge blunder. After bragging incessantly about killing bin Laden how can they admit the terrorrists outsmarted them?
 
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Im sure the MSM will tell us this will give Obama a bump...
 
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jerry7 said:
What can the administration do but lie? Whether they received a tip or not, neglecting to reinforce security on the anniversary of 9/11 was a huge blunder. After bragging incessantly about killing bin Laden how can they admit the terrorrists outsmarted them?
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Especially since the terrorists are using Obama's drone attacks to justify the riots...
 
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Travis007 said:
Im sure the MSM will tell us this will give Obama a bump...
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Or try to blame it on Romney. lol
 
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This concerns me, but we really don't know why it was ignored. Maybe there had been multiple prior threats that never materialized so they assumed this was another false alarm. I don't know what went wrong. I am certain, however, that this was not an intentional plan to leave them as sitting ducks.
 
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Fisher said:
This concerns me, but we really don't know why it was ignored. Maybe there had been multiple prior threats that never materialized so they assumed this was another false alarm. I don't know what went wrong. I am certain, however, that this was not an intentional plan to leave them as sitting ducks.
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How about getting too cocky over their drone successes? It's basic common sense to heighten security on 9/11. Unless you assume your enemy's been defeated.
 
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But is this a decision that the POTUS makes or is it more a decision that someone at the State Department makes? If I had to make the decision, security at any US facility anywhere near the ME would remain on heightened alert forever.
 
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Fisher said:
But is this a decision that the POTUS makes or is it more a decision that someone at the State Department makes? If I had to make the decision, security at any US facility anywhere near the ME would remain on heightened alert forever.
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I would think Clinton would recommend policy. However Obama hadn't attended a security briefing for more than a week prior to the attack and in fact skipped the briefing again on the day after the murders. Ultimately the buck stops with Obama as his team is running the show.
 
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jerry7 said:
I would think Clinton would recommend policy. However Obama hadn't attended a security briefing for more than a week prior to the attack and in fact skipped the briefing again on the day after the murders. Ultimately the buck stops with Obama as his team is running the show.
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I think it certainly is worthy of a little scrutiny with the hope of preventing future deaths, but it really isn't an issue that will resonate in the election IMO. I would assume that there would be someone whose primary job it is to assess these things and make, or at least recommend decisions. Someone I met once who did embassy security as a Marine told me that they got the same security briefing as the POTUS, etc. for threats so the people at the consulate may have known of the threat themselves already.
 
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Disputatious71 said:
Another nail in 0bama's reelection coffin !
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Not so fast...

What diplomat was notified? Usually, if such information was provided to someone within the President's Administration, the article would state such along the lines of "...a source within the Obama Administration..." not as a diplomat. So, who within the Ambassador core knew? And was that information passed on to the State Department?
 
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I don't see how the hell anyone can look at this attack and think it wasn't preplanned, the very fact that the terrorists knew where our safe house was shows there was planning involved among several other points. I wish the US military could launch attacks of this complexity without any pre-planning.

As for the warning, it is also troubling. 48 hour warning isn't a lot of time to take action, but its enough time to take productive steps towards the security of the embassy, the ambassador, and people working there. I'm also curious about the specific details of the warning, sometimes you get warnings that don't appear to have any substance behind them and in places like Libya you tend to get them a lot. Other times there's no clear action to take from a warning, again because of its vagueness and lack of details. So what the warning specifically was would be interesting to look at.
 
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Wiseone said:
I don't see how the hell anyone can look at this attack and think it wasn't preplanned, the very fact that the terrorists knew where our safe house was shows there was planning involved among several other points. I wish the US military could launch attacks of this complexity without any pre-planning.

As for the warning, it is also troubling. 48 hour warning isn't a lot of time to take action, but its enough time to take productive steps towards the security of the embassy, the ambassador, and people working there. I'm also curious about the specific details of the warning, sometimes you get warnings that don't appear to have any substance behind them and in places like Libya you tend to get them a lot. Other times there's no clear action to take from a warning, again because of its vagueness and lack of details. So what the warning specifically was would be interesting to look at.
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Remember that the actual US embassy is in Tripoli. The Ambassador was in Benghazi in the consulate there on 9/11. Not the smartest thing in the world. If there was any hint of trouble at all you have to believe that the embassy in Tripoli would be the safest place for him.
 
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jerry7 said:
Remember that the actual US embassy is in Tripoli. The Ambassador was in Benghazi in the consulate there on 9/11. Not the smartest thing in the world. If there was any hint of trouble at all you have to believe that the embassy in Tripoli would be the safest place for him.
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Right my mistake using that word
 
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Wiseone said:
Right my mistake using that word
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What I mean is if they had 48 hour warning of trouble in Benghazi, all staff could have been recalled to Tripoli. The consulate in Benghazi did not need any immediate measures taken to increase security. And the ambassador should never have been allowed to travel there.
 
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Bronson said:
Libya: We gave US three-day warning of Benghazi attack - Africa - World - The Independent



Thoughts?
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So then you must be one of those people that blames Bush for the 9/11 attacks? After all, not preventing a strike on US soil that killed 3,000 and forever impaired the American way of life ought to be a much bigger sin than failing to prevent the strike on a US consulate (not even an embassy) that resulted in four deaths on foreign soil in an unstable country.

The President's Daily Brief

If not even more outraged by Bush's omission then stand down and don't be a hypocrite here.
 
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jerry7 said:
What I mean is if they had 48 hour warning of trouble in Benghazi, all staff could have been recalled to Tripoli. The consulate in Benghazi did not need any immediate measures taken to increase security. And the ambassador should never have been allowed to travel there.
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True, but this is why I really want to see the warning. Being an ambassador, especially in a place like Libya, is obviously dangerous and I'm sure warnings come all the time but there is still is a mission to do and risks have to be taken to accomplish it. If we could see the warning we could better judge the decision to accept that risk, but perhaps it would have been better to move them to Tripoli.
 
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"Libyan security officials say"

Lost me right there.
 
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Disputatious71 said:
Another nail in 0bama's reelection coffin !
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Our's for Romney is already done :).
 
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Fisher said:
But is this a decision that the POTUS makes or is it more a decision that someone at the State Department makes? If I had to make the decision, security at any US facility anywhere near the ME would remain on heightened alert forever.
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This is definitely a decision that the president ought to have made...

Just to bring you up to speed... the State Department is part of the executive branch... The sitting president dictates policy to them, and selects the cabinet level representative...

The president also chooses the embassadors...

The president is ultimately charged with protecting the safety of all Americans at home and abroad...

He failed in that regard, and not out of ignorance, but out of complete negligence... As this indicates... the warnings were given... and were not followed up on...

This is 2 straight 9/11 anniversaries where US embassies in embattled Arab nations struggling with security issues from radical jihadist elements were attacked...

The lack of response could only have emboldened those who perpetrated the recent ones...

Just last year, even, Obama and his Secretary of State were heralding the actions of the unruly mobs in Egypt, which were known to have beaten, raped, and murdered innocent western journalists in overthrowing a staunch pro-US ally... They then replaced him with a member of one of the most notorious terrorist organizations, the Muslim Brotherhood, who formed simbiotically with al qaida... and you can even tell from these attacks, when the al qaida flag was raised at a US Embassy on 9/11 the Obama Adminstration failed miserably at providing adequate security knowing the Egyptians would not...

The Arab Spring has now turned to fall... and now Obama's actions, at militarily assisting rebels in overthrowing leadership in Libya and his praising of the mobs that violently took out the leader of the country that was our most secure ally in the region have now cost us, in 2 coordinated attacks on embassies...

After we were even warned by the Israeli's about it...

You cannot spin this in a way that benefits the president... Despite all those initial reactions to focus on Romney... the facts are going to come out to show failures to heed warnings, failure to adequately staff for security in the arab world on 9/11, negligence in skipping security briefings, weak and overly apologetic foreign policy, lack of response to earlier attacks, slow response in the aftermath, and a lack of priorities in raising campaign funds in vegas being more important than the security concerns in Egypt at one of our embassies under his watch... if not worse, as more and more details come out...

To top it off, the administration is lying about the fact that there were prior warnings, when they were even printed 3 days prior in Israeli periodicals...
 
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shiang said:
Our's for Romney is already done :).
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Well done... that will give you enough time to spend with your loved one as he passes away over the next few months...

Note: the election is in November... not a wise decision to celebrate in September... before the debates even occur...

I wouldn't be shocked if the smoke and mirrors disappear by then... and a cold dose of reality hits with September's job numbers released in October just prior to the debates... 40% of those on unemployment were on it for over 26 weeks... I have 3 family members who were laid off Sept 1... and I just passed a block of shops in Downtown Boston today on my way home from work... what was 6 shops in June 5 shops in July, is now down to a sole 7-11 left on the block... This is Downtown Boston looking like a ghost town... and we're supposed to be one of the best performing areas in this economy...

Once all this papparazzi style politics calms down... the real stuff will be a center stage discussion of actual relevant issues during the debates... see you then...
 
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shiang said:
"Libyan security officials say"

Lost me right there.
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Where did you get lost? Which of the four words was most difficult?
 
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