Rand Paul Makes It Clear: ‘I Really Think’ The Admin May Have Had a ‘Gun-Running Operation’ in Libya
Few Democratic or Republican leaders have been as outspoken in their views on the Benghazi debacle and the administration’s role in a potential gun-running scheme than Sen. Rand Paul. In fact, the Kentucky Republican excoriated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her recent testimony on the matter, saying that if he had been president at the time, he would have “relieved” her of her post.
Since then, the senator has been consistently pressing the administration for answers on whether it had been running guns through Libya, thereby catalyzing the death of Ambassador Stevens.
A partial transcript of the senator’s Thursday appearance on Fox News featuring his key points on the issue is featured below [emphasis added]:
I really think part of the cause may have been there was a gun running operation going on in Benghazi, leaving Libya and going to Turkey and distributing arms to the rebels… They’ve interviewed the captain of the ship. A ship from Libya sailed for Turkey a week before the ambassador was killed. It was full of arms and they interviewed the captain and he actually specifically talks about the distribution of the arms to Syrian rebels… And I think the administration needs to answer, ‘are they running guns through Turkey to Syria?’
While not as direct as Paul, House Speaker John Boehner indicated in late January that he, too, might have knowledge of a potential gun-running scheme via an alleged “classified source.”
(h/t: Jim Hoft)
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Gonzo
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 4:02pmRemember when he asked Hillary about it and she acted like it was the first she had heard about it? This is the MOST corrupt administration of all time. I hope we survive it.
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Keatonc333
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 5:27pmMaybe… just maybe she hadn’t heard about it.. you know being that there is NO evidence to support it. just Rand Paul’s baseless speculation… the same speculation that led to an embarrassing showing by him and the GOP in the hillary libya hearing.
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term limits for congress
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 6:01pmAt the end of this regime, we’ll remember Hillary’s words,… “what difference does it make now?”
@Keaton – testimony from a ship captain – that should count as evidence. BTW, they still haven’t produced the people who survived the Benghazi attack. Where are they? What do they have to say?
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ALL4FREEDOM
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:20pmWe must all insure that Benghazi becomes Hillary’s “Chapaquidic Moment”.
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RayOne
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 9:53amIt looked like a BenghaziDeception weapon deal gone bad, and this was without the Dept.ofJustice Holder.
The Fast&FuriousDeception was assigned to another hemisphere.
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CABERNETQHS
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 9:57amGun running, negligence at the very least for not protecting our people, covering up his screw up by imprisoning a rookie movie producer, declaring administrative power to execute Americans without due process. What else do we need to impeach this traitor. I’d take Nixon any day over what we have now.
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pdw
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:33pmWell just maybe the only proof we will ever get from this administration is that the weapons used to kill them were American made weapons used by our military. It is also funny how the president and Leon were else where when all this went on and were not available to respond in 9 hours! What happened to that if we are attacked a 4:30 am I will be able to respond?
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Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:38pmThere is our buy back program!
Nice, Eric Holder you know how to redistribute.
Just in case, you thought those firearms were being destroyed.
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desertspeaks
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 4:03pmplease, someone tell me how many laws must be broken, how many lies must he tell, how many LIVES must end, before we put his man in prison???
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mikem1969
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 5:51pmdesert, I wish someone in congress had the balls to do what needs to be done and impeach this treasonous sob and all in his administration, but they are all of the same cloth except maybe the first termers.
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MissEllaneous
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:32pmAltogether now: Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh.
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:42pmBut he’s smart. If he States the obvious the alinsky media will use the standard”Conspiracy” refrain.
But if you say “investigatory” you can say to them- “Conspiracy” One must be fluent in alinsky, to combat alinsky. It is time we beat them over the head with their own alinsky stick. Remember this always. It works great with Liberals indoctrinates who don’t even know they’ve been alinskyed. They do not know what hit them when they argue their case. They run into a brick wall.
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Wolf
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 5:44pmAyyeee–yupppp. Real big surprise here, hey?
Nope.
Ya think?
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SharksOnTractors
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:18pmHe knows there was an operation going on. If he says that he will be droned.
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PK_SEA
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:25pmClassic! I hope that phrase “you will be droned” catches on. “Johnny, eat your peas or you will get droned!” “Whoa, did you see that football player get tackled? Man, he got droned.”
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Chris Walker
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 4:26pmDon’t drone me bro!
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fastfacts
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:14pmDid you see his speech as the Keynote Speaker at Heritage yesterday. He spoke of the danger of Radical Islamic Terrorism, a must see: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2013/feb/rand_paul_heritage.html
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katzkiner
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:07pmMexico estimates the F&F guns have killed 3000. The war in Syria has killed almost 60,000, the war in Libya, anybodys guess. Obama definitely is not the Prince of Peace. When Egypt turns the F16s and M1As on the Jews the death toll will be in the 100s of thousands. He is the master of diplomacy. For Satan.
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:16pmYou cannot underestimate the brash confidence the Radicals glean form the defensive capabilities obama is giving them. They are not under attack- but obama given them reasons to even less fear any retaliation. What obama is doing is escalating an arms race. An arms race where nuclear weaponry is glorified in the holy book of the enemy.
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Guitar Master
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:00pmzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
From THE REPORTER
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Notice the uneasiness of the interviewer and how she tried to cut the interview short. Fox news. . . very questionable as of late.
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Verceofreason
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 6:49pmHe was sounding like a paranoid conspiracy nut. Oh, that’s right, he is.
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spirited
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:00pmHillary Clinton may be done having to answer committee questions.
She may think she can pick-up her “cracked ceiling” by having kept herself poitically alive & in the public eye; by working for the friend of the “slum landlord”, and by her husband consuming large quantities of party-poop; helping Obama get elected (twice)…
Rand Paul started running for 2016; before the November 2012 election.
Ron Paul gathered quite a following –with hopes– that will –gladly– elect the son in leiu of the father.
Rand Paul only asked what he asked (the way asked) at the Benghazi hearing so that he could continue the campaign; as he is.
~~>The GOP is not gonna roll-over; RINOs beware!
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huey6367
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:17pmBut Rand is very different from Ron.
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Keatonc333
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 5:29pmPolitically alive? Hillary Destroyed the GOP in her hearing! it was embarrassing!
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Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:00pmSo what if it’s true? Assad is the worst dictator in the region. We should be doing everything we can to help the Syrian rebels, short of committing our own army to intervene directly. If we are giving them weapons, that’s good. We should continue to do so.
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:13pmNot so. Assad is way better than what would likely succeed him. I have given up caring how many Muslims he has and will kill. What he is facing is the muslim brotherhood. Any true dissidents will have to wait till we get a real American in the white house, and gone underground until that time.
I only care how many non-muslims get killed, for they are the only innocent. The others are accomplices to evil. It is good that Christians leave. We do not need them there as shields to be concerned about. Ultimately Islam is going to destroy itself, with a little help from it’s enemies they have declared war on.
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KidCharlemagne
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:48pmXylliab_of_the_Znarghh
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:00pm
We should be doing everything we can to help the Syrian rebels,
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Good luck with that then:
Reuters (Sept. 13, 2012): “Al Qaeda leader urges support for ousting Syria’s Assad”
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Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 4:46pmIf nobody ever over threw a dictator because it was likely that you might end up with something worse, then nobody would ever overthrow a dictator. That may seem okay to people like you, who just like to pretend that you are in danger of someday living under a dictatorship every time an election doesn’t go your way, but for people actually living under real dictatorship, a slim chance of really improving things is better than no chance. If the rebels are being supported by people who are not truly friends of liberty and don’t really want them to be free, that’s all the more reason for the countries of the free world to show them that we too support them in their struggle.
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KidCharlemagne
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 5:57pmXylliab_of_the_Znarghh
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 4:46pm
If nobody ever over threw a dictator because it was likely that you might end up with something worse, then nobody would ever overthrow a dictator.
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Maybe the people who actually live there full time should make that call then:
FOX News (Dec. 23, 2012): “Syrian Christians flee civil war, say they face a bleak future if Assad regime falls”
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Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 12:30amI did not realize that Mr. Assad had so many fans around here. If we choose to do nothing, that would still be choosing a side. Since we have to choose a side, I figured that it was a real no-brainer that we should be against the guy who used chemical weapons on his own people. Apparently I’m wrong and it’s okay to use poison gas on people yearning to breath free, as long as they’re just Muslims.
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walnutportconservative
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:58pmWhat difference does it make? So what if they were running guns. The point must now be, how do they successfully run guns from this point forward.
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Nevermind
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:57pmGold star for Captain Obvious here, give me a break. Anyone who doesnt know that the CIA was running weapons in Libya and that Amb. Stevens was part of it should just give up on life. I have been on here saying since the day it happened that this was a CIA mission , not Obama, and making it front page knews actually hurt the USA rather than helping it. They did fly out 2 dozen CIA operatives that night so anyone with 2 brian cells can tell what was going on.
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spirited
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:04pmYes, but most (as Obama calls us), folks do not know this.
They watch Letterman, Maher, Colbert and Stewart…. MSNBC or CNN
or, HBO.
They read Salon (if at all)
or,
8^>are too busy ….. or trying to live.
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tonypro
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:52pmbarry doesn’t even try to hide the fact that he is supporting terrorism.
He’s become so bold about it, that it’s like “yeah I did it, what are you gonna do about it”
Just look at the fighter jets he is sending to the egyption muslim terrorists.
…….and if R.P. gets to close with evidence, he’ll probably have a car accident, or a heart attack.
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Longgonegator
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:51pmI have said this since the beginning – They (those people) assassinated Ambassador Stevens to keep it quiet. Dead men cannot talk. Didnt want the election messed with
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ACMESAGE
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 5:07pmI’ve always had that nagging at me too.
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GuruMeditation
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:46pmStrongly agree with Sen. Paul.
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walnutportconservative
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:53pmYou can agree with him, just don’t travel abroad with him.
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GuruMeditation
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:00pmI wouldn’t “go abroad” if someone paid me an immense sum to do so. With or without him.
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Disabledvet
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:45pmObama wants to get rid of all the guns in the states by giving them to everyone that would use them on us.
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tonypro
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:53pmSo sad, but true.
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fixer
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:43pmpretty obvious they did.
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Strange_Paradox
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:06pmThis administration ran guns into Mexico with Fast and Furious and got Brian Terry murdered….dont think they didnt run guns out of Libya and got Chris Stevens murdered too…
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Saff SGT
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:43pmWell immediate impeachment of Obama and most of his crooked administration will cure this problem real fast. Then ship them all to Gitmo for water boarding to get the facts.
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MCON29
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:54pmHa! Love it!
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walnutportconservative
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:55pmOr… send Paul and other radicals on a fact finding mission “Abroad” wink, wink
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pap pap
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:40pmNothing to see here just move along. They have been taliking about the gun running issue since 9/11 except in the MMS. That’s why they can’t tell us the truth about Benghazi.
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KidCharlemagne
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:39pm“and he actually specifically talks about the distribution of the arms to Syrian rebels”
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It’s like Deja Vu all over again:
Jewish Virtual Library: “The Iran-Contra Affair”
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:37pmMr Paul – no ‘may haves’ about it, there was arms running to the terrorists and thus Obama is guilty of treason.
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Tri-ox
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:36pmTHE ADMINISTRATION MAY HAVE HAD A ‘GUN-RUNNING OPERATION’ IN LIBYA … which is perhaps one reason that obama gave the “STAND DOWN” order which led directly to the deaths of Stevens, Smith, Doherty and Woods.
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pragmaticpatriot
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:35pmGet em Rand
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FISH_BONE
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:35pmTalking about it is all fine and dandy, but what is he going to DO about it? Does Mr. Paul have the cajones to act or is he just going to talk?
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huey6367
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:33pmYou think or you know? Get the facts and then drop a bomb on them. It makes the GOP look better. The Dems spead rumor as fact and the GOP is not capable of doing a very good job of that.
If Obama as involved (and he probably was) he will pass the blame onto someone else unless you have the evidence to PROVE he was invoved. Then you may begin impeachment proceedings.
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shorelineliz
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:29pmDear Rand Paul: “May have” had a gun running operation in Libya? May Have?
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richauthor
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:37pmOh, pshaaw! Not the Nobel prize winning Kenyan!
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Blivit
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:39pmUnfortunately he isn’t on the intelligence committee which is likely the only group that may have high enough clearance to have a chance of knowing about something like that. you can bet that any info about something like that is classified so highly that very few people would know for sure… its going to take one of them to grow a BIG pair and speak up about it, and then their clearance is gone forever and they’ll probably face lots of legal problems.
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Theodwulf
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:58pmTrying my hand at fiction.. ..when things were going bad for the “rebels”, a ship from an unknown middle eastern country could have gone to a military instalation (not the Hahvaid yahd) and picked up uniformed service members (not DoD) and then went to another instalation (maybe with a realy long pier) to pick up weapons to be delivered to libayan rebels …sound plausible..Movie of the week?
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