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White House Contacted Youtube DURING Benghazi Attack.[W:324]

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Absolutely, the White House could cooperate and provide the facts but they wont. Frankly the dems know this fall is going to sting, and perhaps they are hoping that this Benghazi thing might make the republicans less popular. They are playing politics, much as they did when they left 4 Americans to die, on 9/11, by Al Qaeda-and all for political gain.

Yes...in all likelihood they covered it up to save the 2012 election for Obama and the democrats........now they are afraid it's going to bite them in the ass in the 2014 elections.
 
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The video had already sparked demonstrations elsewhere in the Middle East. Was is so far out of the realm of possibility, at the time, that someone might have thought this to be an extension of those demonstrations? Are you a mind reader?

Spntaneous demonstrators do not just happen to carry RPGs and mortars. Sorry!
 
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zero ****s are given about Hillary Clinton. make sure and scroll upthread. i posted a list of embassy attacks in the past couple decades. please provide links that show two years of saturation fox news coverage for any of the other ones.

thanks.

Again...none of those on your list involved the murder of a US ambassador or attempted white house cover ups.
 
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Lmao, I explicitly remember hearing about it on the news shortly before Benghazi, death threats and stuff were occurring. It went viral fast.

I'm not sayin you are full of ****...but NO ONE was talking about that video prior to the attacks.
 
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It might be a good idea for any American President to keep a watchful eye on things when his people are under attack.

i can hold the obama administration accountable for what happened before the benghazi attack, specifically the state department and C.I.A for bureaucratic mistakes, bad management and questionable malice.

i also hold the administration accountable for what happened after the attack. However, my blame is specifically targeted at the disjointed explanations by the state department and CIA provided during multiple inquiries. i don't see that as evidence of engaging in a coverup in pursuit of some political goal, i see it as a consequence of the CIA and state department not getting a coherent picture of what had happened before they tried to explain what had happened.

As for the night of the attack, i cannot blame anyone of willful negligence because i believe that no one had a clear understanding of what was happening. i know it sounds like a copout but i think the fog of war played a part in influencing our response to the events unfolding several timezones away. i think we were slow to react because we simply lacked enough information to respond quickly.
 
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i think you might have a bit of a blind spot. the Republicans are absolutely trying to use this tragedy as a political tool. it has annoyed me for years, and i finally just couldn't take it any more. when i was a libertarian, i watched fox regularly during the time period of a lot of the other attacks, and they never went after the Bush administration with two years of saturation coverage.

No blind spot here. Let's try again. The administration has been providing absolutely no substantial co-operation with the inquiries in regards to Benghazi. They have done nothing but stonewalling. Four Americans including a US ambassador died and the administration lied to us for two weeks blaming a you tueb video. The American public and especially the families of the Americans killed deserve answers. You can scream partisan witch hunt until the cows come home. It does not matter. I just want answers.....I do not care about political benefit.

gerrymandering. most of the problems on both sides have serious and deep roots in gerrymandering

The gripes about gerrymandering from the left is a fairly recent habit. Gerrymandering helped the democrats control congress for virtually 5 decades. Now it favors republicans and the left suddenly hates gerrymandering. Go figure.
 
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Lol, now you're asking us to believe a country just recently removed from the state sponsor of terrorism list, with an Islamist-backed leader - instead of a far more plausible possibility like the Muslim world going nuts over a video making fun of their prophet. Your partisanship is showing. If the state department chose to ignore the words of the Islamist backed government in Libya, I don't blame them. :shrug:

Huh ??


'' The State Department, on September 12, days before our ambassador went on national television, is telling the ambassador to Libya the group that conducted the attacks, Ansar al-Sharia, is affiliated with terrorists."

Sept. 12 E-mail Identified Terrorist Group in Benghazi Attack
 
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Were you just as angry at the democrats over the Valerie Plame scandal? If there ever was a partisan witch hunt...That was it.

mostly i compare it to them coming out every time there's a mass shooting and making it political. now, we could talk about whether it's ok to let paranoid schizophrenics have arsenals or not, but that's fodder for another thread, and honestly, i don't enter the gun forum unless i have to. however, using a tragedy for partisan teamsports just rubs me the wrong way when anyone does it.
 
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Again...none of those on your list involved the murder of a US ambassador or attempted white house cover ups.

how do we know that there were no cover ups? fox and the rest of the media didn't approach the other ones like the CTers dissect 9/11.

anyway, i just don't care. you all know what you're doing deep down. that's why you come into these threads and spend half your lives quote farming to pretend you are actually seeking justice for the tragedy. in reality, you're using this tragedy as a foothold to attack a president that you hate and a mediocre, dynastic candidate who might run for president that you also hate.

if just one of you would admit that, it would restore some of my faith in our stupid two party system.

come on. someone just come out and admit it.
 
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i so feel like the kid in The Emperor's New Clothes right now.
 
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None of the inquiries has exonerated the Administration. The Administration has simply stonewalled and attempted to ride it out. Every other administration appoints special prosecuters to get to the bottom of what went on. This administration is simply attempting to avoid scandals by denying they exist. Its the same with the IRS scandal. The "Let's move on...nothing to see tactic is not working for them. At some point the administration is going to have to answer some basic questions such as: Why did they refuse repeated requests for more security? Why did they not mount a rescue effort? And why did they lie to the American people and blame the attack on a you tube video?

Of course the Administration was exonerated of any crimes otherwise there would be impeachment hearings. The questions have all been answered and because you don't like those answers you are in denial. But I hope they keep it up it though. It makes the Republicans look REALLY partisan and stupid.
 
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I'm not sayin you are full of ****...but NO ONE was talking about that video prior to the attacks.

Not true.
 
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I for one am sick and tired of the endless droning on about the video. Even if the administration lied its ****ing ass off about what led to the attack, that is quite literally the least consequential element of the entire Benghazi incident.
 
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I for one am sick and tired of the endless droning on about the video. Even if the administration lied its ****ing ass off about what led to the attack, that is quite literally the least consequential element of the entire Benghazi incident.

That's what pisses me off & is extremely disappointing - being (consistently) lied to by the government.

Trust is the primary ingredient in a relationship.

Yet, internally, the government looks at people who distrust them suspiciously, as if we're not supposed to be upset about being lied to & just blindly trust every single word they have to say. As George Carlin would say, "The government wants us to be obedient."

In my household when I was growing up, honesty was rewarded & dishonesty was punished.
 
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That's what pisses me off & is extremely disappointing - being (consistently) lied to by the government.

Trust is the primary ingredient in a relationship.

Yet, internally, the government looks at people who distrust them suspiciously, as if we're not supposed to be upset about being lied to & just blindly trust every single word they have to say. As George Carlin would say, "The government wants us to be obedient."

In my household when I was growing up, honesty was rewarded & dishonesty was punished.

but you have not shown us that we were actually lied to by the administration
if you are able to do so, please post your proof of it
 
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That's what pisses me off & is extremely disappointing - being (consistently) lied to by the government.

Been happening my entire life. I'm used to it.
 
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Been happening my entire life. I'm used to it.

My life experiences has made me cynical but I can't envision myself becoming apathetic to being lied to or purposely deceived. :shrug:
 
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I for one am sick and tired of the endless droning on about the video. Even if the administration lied its ****ing ass off about what led to the attack, that is quite literally the least consequential element of the entire Benghazi incident.

All this "most transparent ever" administration needs to do is hand over the documents and answer the questions and this goes away.

I know many lefties dont care, but I dont believe our govt should lie to its people. And to honor those who died, and to prevent more from joining them-I think we need to know what happened.

Its going to happen, regardless of what you think.
 
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All this "most transparent ever" administration needs to do is hand over the documents and answer the questions and this goes away.

I know many lefties dont care, but I dont believe our govt should lie to its people. And to honor those who died, and to prevent more from joining them-I think we need to know what happened.

Its going to happen, regardless of what you think.

Let's be honest here. The only answer you'll be happy with is one in which Obama says he ordered the hit on the ambassador himself.
 
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Let's be honest here. The only answer you'll be happy with is one in which Obama says he ordered the hit on the ambassador himself.

Lets be honest here, your delusions are preventing you from admitting to what is clearly an ethical and wise idea-to find out what happened to prevent it from happening again. My politics dont change that.

Why are you making this political?
 
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