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‘Real News:’ Damaging Details Reported on the Obama Administration’s Response Following Benghazi Attack

Oct. 26, 2012 7:18pm Christopher Santarelli

While the situation on the ground in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012 was unclear in the heat of the moment, the timeline of who knew what when in Washington D.C. is beginning to grow clearer. We now know that the streaming video of the attack from drones overhead and a number of emails from the Embassy in Tripoli painted a clear portrait of a consulate under duress. We also know there was now at least an indication of the involvement of organized terror groups. Despite the abundence of information pouring in during the early hours, Leon Panetta and the Pentagon maintained that there was too little information available to deploy troops to Banghazi. Why, two days later and with all of the evidence to the contrary, did we have a Secretary of State essentially saying we’re going to arrest and prosecute a person who made a YouTube video?

The ‘Real News’ panel Friday discussed the latest news surrounding the Benghazi attack, including the Panetta statement and the father of one of the Navy SEALs killed in the attack on the consulate telling Glenn Beck that President Barack Obama wouldn’t even look him in the eye and Vice President Joe Biden was disrespectful during the ceremony when his son’s body was returned to America. Watch a clip from Friday’s show below:

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Derus
Posted on October 29, 2012 at 9:41pm
OBAMA: TREASON OR IMPEACHMENT?

1. Why was USA Ambassador in Benghazi without adequate protection?

2. What was he discussing with Turkey Consulate counterpart shortly before his death?

3. Why could the Turkish representative leave safely, and Chris Stevens was gunned down?

4. 400 tons of military weapons/?humanitarian aid including USA stinger missiles sent by Muslim Brotherhood/Al Qaeda ship from Benghazi to the Al Qaeda “Syrian freedom fighters” within the same time period.

5. Why no ground or air support for our Libyan Ambassador before or during the events of 9/11/2012?

6. Did Obama rather have Chris Stevens/Navy Seals die rather than Chris Stevens get out alive and reveal the truth of his GUN RUNNING activities for the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda in Libya and Syria?

7. Dead persons can no longer speak? Was that an Obama consideration when he let the 4 die.

8. IMPEACHABLE collusion with Al Qaeda?

9. Darrell Issa 166 pages and the lies of Obama, Hilliary, Panetta, Biden should be all you need to skewer these guys?

10. The Republic is in mortal danger. And Fox “trembles”?

11. Gentlemen, if you fear speaking the truth: known facts from Darrell Issa’s 166 pages yourselves, find someone who does have the “balls to speak the truth”.

12. To quote the despicable Joe Biden at the return our our 4 fallen heroes, find someone “with balls the size of BILLIARD BALLS.

Obama: Treason or Impeachment? Biden? Clinton? Panetta? P

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sgtstubbs
Posted on October 27, 2012 at 12:52pm
Don”t worry about it, if he gets reelected he will have four years to finish off the u.s. AND COMPLETE the down fall of this country. But then we do have the option of electing A Liberal Republican who will slow down the progress somewhat. I trust NONE OF the Above.

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leonardo44
Posted on October 27, 2012 at 10:11am
thank heavens for patriots like Glenn Beck who had the guts to create the Blaze TV and website.
The Obama administration is the heart of darkness and what transpired in Benghazi, along with the subsequent coverup, just shows how deeply this evil has possessed our core.

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tbolt71
Posted on October 27, 2012 at 6:21am
Glenn told us weeks ago that the Blaze had uncovered a story about the State dept. negotiating with the Muslim Brotherhood for the release of the blind sheik. The Western Center for Journalism sources were able to connect the dots and posted a story about this. The deal was that the Muslim brotherhood would kidnap Stevens and the Obama would step up and offer a prisoner swap of the blind sheik for Stevens. This was set up as a win-win for everyone. The Muslim brotherhood would get what they wanted and Obama would get an election boost out of it. The only problem was that Obama didn’t plan on two CIA operatives arriving from the CIA annex and defending the Ambassador until their deaths. Once this all got out of hand, the Obama regime had to resort to plan B…the ant-muslim video. Ultimately, Americans died and Obama lied. Here is the Western Journalism article. http://www.westernjournalism.com/muslim-brotherhood-behind-benghazi-attack-with-link-to-obama/

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- The citizen who cares
  Posted on October 27, 2012 at 10:45am
  Man, this is like its straight out of a movie… except real people died and our real president is absolutely lying to us! I do hope we get a movie ending to this real life nightmare.
  
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CEO BKI
Posted on October 27, 2012 at 4:10am
Can anybody tell me why I shouldn’t think this was most likely a conspiracy to get rid of the ambassador?

They refused multiple requests for additional American security. In fact they reduced it. They did hire members of the Feb.17th MARTYRS Brigade to help out. Did no one in the chain of command know what kind of Muslims desire martyrdom?

Then on the totally innocuous date of 9/11, they set up a meeting with the Turkish General Counsel in the most dangerous city in Libya, Benghazi. Where we were shipping arms out of for use by the rebels in Syria. But don’t fear, we had the administration’s buddies in the Muslim Brotherhood making sure they were only going to the good guys.

Stevens goes to Benghazi in an unarmored vehicle with no security detail, Is that normal protocol for an ambassador? He meets with the Turk who then leaves. About an hour later, it all breaks loose..

Despite 3 requests for assistance over the 7 hrs, of the battle, none is forthcoming. Only the two ex-Seals who went in against orders provided aid. They wouldn’t even send in a plane or chopper with one smart missile to take out the mortar which was laser targeted by 1 of the Seals.

This was either the result of having the worst command group ever assembled; or, Stevens had become a liability because of what he knew.. This administration seems to have a penchant for sending arms to the wrong side.

I think the American people are entitled to know. The choice of investigator is “not opt

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- CEO BKI
  Posted on October 27, 2012 at 12:55pm
  Just wanted to finish last thought which got cut off:
  
  The choice of the investigator is “not optimal” unless one’s looking for additional resources for the cover up. He has extensive ties to Muslim organizations and even to a Soros-funded group. Are you kidding me. Does anyone expect a thorough unbiased investigation?
  
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gb123
Posted on October 27, 2012 at 12:29am
One thing Glenn brought up some time ago is also something to consider. The Ambassador’s vehicle was not armoured. They could not escape in it. I went back and read about the attack on the British Consul’s Vehicle. Reuters shows a quote that It was an RPG attack, almost a carbon copy. The difference was the British Ambassador was using the standard amoured vehicles normally used for diplomatic vehicles. It took a direct RPG hit but managed to get the people to a safe place with minor injuries. Not supplying an armoured vehicle is yet another mistake.

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nzkiwi
Posted on October 27, 2012 at 12:10am
The “conspiracy theory” comes in when the evidence does not directly connect one dot to the next. Assumptions made to complete the connection could be wrong.

So let’s just look at the facts.

The attack was pre-planned and occurred on a quiet night after the Ambassador had met with a Turkish envoy. The attackers were controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda. Despite knowing exactly what was going on, and having the means to easily assist, the administration would not help and ordered those that could to stand down, abandoning the embattled Americans to their fate. Why?

The suggestion that they did not have enough information is ludicrous. One of the defenders was even lasing the mortar in hopes of an air strike.

President Obama initially allows that the strike was preplanned and then, with his senior staff, insists that it was a random mob action as a result of the video. Why do that? Why keep up this charade even as it is being ridiculed and damaging his election prospects? It was a deliberate distraction. A cover up.

What is worth the risk of being caught in this cover up? Don’t tell me its because they wished to disguise the fact that they were “over-cautious”, or that they wanted the Lybian intervention to appear settled.

There are also facts regarding Syria. I think that they are connected, but the facts between these two dots are scarce.

We should stop thinking what and when, and start asking why.

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- nzkiwi
  Posted on October 27, 2012 at 3:31am
  While being convinced for some time now that the Benghazi attack was connected to Syria/Turkey, I lacked the information to convincingly connect the two dots.
  
  Well, the dots are slowly connecting…
  
  http://www.newsmax.com/FrankGaffney/Obama-Administration-Equipped-Enemies-to-Wage-Jihad/2012/10/25/id/461469
  
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richauthor
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 9:21pm
It is unfortunate that the Muslim terrorists chose to attack our Libya embassy on September 11th in the midst of the last days of the presidential campaign. It is also unfortunate that our government did not anticipate the possibility that beefed-up security would be needed in that volatile neo-nation on that historic date.

But it is CRIMINAL that our media does not care enough about the truth to even cover the Benghazi snafu. Their silence is proof of their complicity in all things Obama. Four brave Americans were literally abandoned, while Washington sat watching and did nothing except to order the heroes to “stand down…” and the main stream media now seems to be the ones who are standing down.

I’m old… I can easily remember that Pravda (Russian, for “truth”) was the only media allowed in the Soviet Union. Tass, another wholly-communist entity, was the official news agency of the Soviet government. Every real journalist in the free world understood that both Pravda and Tass were invented, structured, and commanded to become the propaganda arm of the Soviets. They reported only stories favorable to the Soviet leaders, they extolled the virtues of communism, and exaggerated crop and industrial statistics (we actually sold them wheat so they would not have massive hunger deaths). Their journalistic virtues were a joke. It is rumored that their unchanging daily weather forecast called for sunshine and light breezes… whatever the season.

It is sad

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- richauthor
  Posted on October 26, 2012 at 9:28pm
  It is sad that today’s main stream media is only yesterday’s Pravda and Tass.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on October 26, 2012 at 10:51pm
  For good or ill, the mass media is an enormously powerful weapon. It has not been used well with regard to this tragedy, and the unsavoury conclusion is inescapable.
  
  If it were not for the internet, and specifically outlets like the Blaze, the mass media would be much more able to lead us around by the nose.
  
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- Pouncing Porcupine
  Posted on October 27, 2012 at 12:08am
  Nobody wants Obama to go down for this more than I, but, I’m not buying the story by Woods that Hillary told him vid producer would be procecuted. That’s Bravo Sierra.
  
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SilentReader
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 9:01pm
This is the result of all the failed policies of this Obama-Clinton cabal in allying with the vile Islamist enemy. Libya and Syria are not the first time they’ve provided arms to the al Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood. They did it in Bosnia as well, when Bill Clinton-NATO in cooperation with Iran armed the al Qaeda and the Mujahedeen there, and he built a monument to them in the heart of Bosnia with one million of our taxpayer monies. They even brought the terrorists into Bosnia on NATO planes! Then he went on to ally with the KLA Muslim Albanian mafia and bomb the Christian Serbs in Serbia because they refused to stop protecting their people from the KLA terrorists in their own province of Kosovo! Madeleine Albright went on to profit from the spoils of war by buying up the telecommunications company in Kosovo recently, and of course, Soros is after the mine.

My guess is that they are arming the terrorists in all the countries they’ve gone into to “protect.” I think it’s about seven now. Including Jordan where they’ve sent people in there because the Muslim Brotherhood demanded that King Abdullah disband the government and now things are spiraling out of control. It’s hard to keep track of Obama-Clinton’s insidious wars where they’re managing to install worse people than were there before. Case in point Egypt where Mohammed Morsi is now establishing Sharia and calling for the destruction of Israel, where no one will be safe from Islam’s plunder, genocide and occupa

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The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:49pm
Stopped in a store last night and saw a “buddy” of mine while I was checking out. I asked him if he was voting and he said “Yeah…for Obama.” I said , you’ve got to be kidding me…how can you even consider that? He said “Romney’s too tricky.”

I had to go, so I said…I hope you think this over and don’t cancel my vote out. He said, “I’ve thought it over and on the 13th I’m voting team Obama.”

I said…The 13th? Ok…that would be fine then…and left.

This is what partially decides our elections? We’re doomed.

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oblique
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:44pm
Does anyone think there’ll be some kind of “spill” over the next few days, at least before the election? What I mean by that is that many people other than those at the top know what happened. There must be honourable people within the White House, Pentagon, CIA, NSA, Situation Room etc who KNOWS exactly what happened. If this reaches the ultimate conclusion, and if treason is proved, no one INVOLVED will be spared. So does anyone think there will be leaks of some kind from “someone” from any of these agencies? Or do we all have to wait until 15 Nov for the Congressional Hearing for more lies to be told?

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- The_Almighty_Creestof
  Posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:53pm
  After hearing those interviews with Obama supporters on the Howard Stern show…I don’t think it would matter if they had an hour of live streaming video during prime time, of Obama praying to Alah and diddling a goat.
  
  These people are as brain dead as those who pick SuperBowl winners because they like the helmets.
  
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- donkeykong
  Posted on October 27, 2012 at 2:13am
  Well, my understanding is that there were more
  people at the compound than the 4 that were killed.
  That leaves x-# of witnesses to come forward with
  their stories. So, the ‘Bama team will have to do
  quite a few ‘hits’ in the coming days before one of
  them talks….and I’ll bet every survivor today is
  so scared they have constant shakes….I look for
  most of them to ‘disappear’ somehow….
  
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- donkeykong
  Posted on October 27, 2012 at 2:41am
  PS – If treason IS proved, it won’t matter, just
  like with Bill Clinton.
  
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Janice
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:33pm
This family has helped by convincing family members what obama is up to. I had a sister and bro-inlaw register to vote for the first time in 35yrs. They are going Romney/Ryan 2012. My other half pulled in 4 new voters from his side. Romney/Ryan 2012. I don’ tthink they believe half the stuff I tell them but they believe enough!

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JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:31pm
Obama is Americas’ disgracce.

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- barber2
  Posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:47pm
  JUST: Obama Administration is America’s punishment for becoming stupid and shallow. And for allowing the Mikhail Vasenkovs / aka Juan Lazaro Occupy our universities and brainwash our youth with their Far Left propaganda.
  
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barber2
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:31pm
The way the Obama people kept up the media charges that all of the Mid-East protests were caused by that video reminded me of the long, continual, media harangues they spewed during the Florida Zimmerman witch hunt. Both of these incidents had a forced, orchestrated stench to them. WHY ? What was behind all of these Obama Administration/ Democrat media machinations in both of these ?

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BerettaM9
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:31pm
Everyone should hunker down and get ready for another 20 years of Obama.I expect this site and its operators to be shut down by Christmas 2013.No more news on the liberals except flattery to the King of the World and his angels of finance.

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- Pouncing Porcupine
  Posted on October 27, 2012 at 12:13am
  Unclinch your sphincter and loosen the tin-foil hat a couple of clicks, buddy.
  That was free. Your welcome.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:24pm
When can we dump Obama once and for all?

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- Oldphoto678
  Posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:32pm
  You’re not dumping anyone. We aren’t going to let you.
  
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- lexington_green
  Posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:34pm
  he is not making it easy. just read that the absentee ballots that were being shipped (late) to our troops in afghanistan have been lost and were likely lost in a “plane crash”.
  
  he’s killing these men and won’t even let them have a voice. monster.
  
  the disenfranchisement of the military in this election is unforgivable.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:34pm
  As soon as we can dump the Far Left MSM which foists them on the American public and which ignores all of the hard investigations into the Obama Administrations actions. Ever ?
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:45pm
  BARBER2
  But how? Pocketbook? I don’t watch any of the big three channels and haven’t in years.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:45pm
  OLD: You are just another one of our anti-Tea Party Lefty Trolls who joined the Blaze in November of 2010. So you ” are not going to let us?” Sounds like the typical union, Chicago mob style threat we have come to expect from the Far Left Obama people. Have a nice day..probably at some OWS or Media Matters / Obama campaign site…
  
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- JEANNIEMAC
  Posted on October 27, 2012 at 1:10am
  We will not allow you and your left wingers to stop us from taking our country back from the usurper. He is either incompetent or a traitor. Either way, we don’t want him in the Oval Office any longer.
  He has been a liar, over and over again. Even when he us proven wrong, he still lies. No, you will not stop us from ridding ourselves of the stench of evil in the White House.
  
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