believer;1446395 wrote:or tick, tick, tick, tick
Sound of the Republican party imploding over fake scandals?
But it was not until a month later that it became clear that the CIA, rather than the State Department, maintained the most significant presence in Benghazi. Near the diplomatic outpost was a CIA installation where about two dozen intelligence and security personnel were based. Their mission was to track weapons shipments out of the country and to identify the numerous militias operating in Benghazi. Security at this annex was the responsibility of the CIA, not the State Department. But because the annex operated under diplomatic cover, its existence as an intelligence facility was classified.
After Petraeus’s morning coffee on Sept. 14, the CIA’s Office of Terrorism Analysis sent an internal agency e-mail with the subject line: “FLASH coordination — white paper for HPSCI,” referring to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
The committee “has asked for unclassified points immediately that they can use in talking to the media,” the e-mail said.
Included was a six-point draft that began, “We believe based on currently available information that the attacks in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired” by anti-American demonstrations elsewhere “and evolved” into assaults against “the U.S. consulate and subsequently its annex.”
It followed with a reference to previous attacks against foreign interests in Benghazi and a mention of Ansar al-Sharia, a terrorist organization with links to al-Qaeda. That information, put in at Petraeus’s request, would become the chief source of tension between the agency, the State Department and the FBI.
Guess who is on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence?
http://intelligence.house.gov/about/hpsci-majority-members plus John Boehner.
Now this is funny, The Republican led Select Committee makes a request of the CIA Director, he honors the request and then the House investigates the results of that request as if they had nothing to do with the request. Full on idiots. The House committee wants to protect sources and methods with limited release of information in the first days after Benghazi but then investigate "talking points" that comply with the request.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/petraeuss-role-in-drafting-benghazi-talking-points-raises-questions/2013/05/21/db19f352-c165-11e2-ab60-67bba7be7813_story.html
Running list of former explosive scandals that wingnuts thought were going to sink candidate, then President, now two-term President Obama:
- Jeremiah Wright
- Bill Ayers
- Being born in Kenya
- Being educated in Indonesia
- Secretly a Muslim
- His college transcripts
- Tony Rezko
- His law license
- Derrick Bell
- Smoking dope in school
- Acorn
- Tim Geithner's tax returns
- Targeting conservative-run car dealerships
- Illegally bailing out the UAW
- Joe Sestak
- Purposefully increasing the price of oil
- Working with MediaMatters
- Pentagon leaks
- Apologizing for America
- Bowing to foreign leaders
- Teleprompters
- Fast and Furious
- Obamaphones
- Solyndra
- Vacation costs
- Trip to India costs
- Time spent playing golf
- Denying extra embassy security so he could claim he'd beaten terrorism
- Apologizing for the anti-Islam videos
- Daughters protected by armed guards
- Watching the Benghazi attacks live
- Doctoring talking points
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