johnlockedema said:
Now that we now know that the Obama Administration had live coverage via a drone of the terror attack, how can they possibly spin what happened?
johnlockedema said:
dave said:
Oh wait, I forgot. Romney is just using the deaths of people to score some votes.
Yeah, Obama's 'spiking the football' about Bin Ladens killing was exactly the same . . .
dave23 said:
johnlockedema said:
dave said:
Oh wait, I forgot. Romney is just using the deaths of people to score some votes.
Yeah, Obama's 'spiking the football' about Bin Ladens killing was exactly the same . . .
Not sure I'd equate Osama bin Laden with Ambassador Stevens.
rastro said:
According to the Wall Street Journal, "In reports to Obama, CIA did not alter assessment of trigger for Violence for 10 days, even as witness accounts disputed it."
"President Obama was told in his daily intelligence briefing for more than a week after the consulate siege in Benghazi that the assault grew out if a spontaneous protest, despite conflicting reports from witnesses and other sources that began to cast doubt on the accuracy of that assessment almost from the start.
New details about the contents of the Presidential Daily Brief, which haven't been reported previously, show that the Central Intelligence Agency didn't adjust the classified assessment until September 22, fueling.g tensions between the administration and the agency."
Sounds like another intelligence failure.
rastro said:
No one said eyewitnesses should be believed without investigation. But when multiple sources of doubt come up, that should be included in the PDB which, it appears, did not include them.
cjc said:
Funding was not an issue in this incident, per the testimony of this Administration.
Next.
So you're saying that even though the CIA had conflicting information about the attack, it was appropriate for them to continue to tell the President there was a riot?drummerboy said:
rastro said:
No one said eyewitnesses should be believed without investigation. But when multiple sources of doubt come up, that should be included in the PDB which, it appears, did not include them.
Excuse me, but since when are you an expert on what qualifies for inclusion in a PDB?
rastro said:
Again, the implication in the WSJ article is that they provided a conclusion, not a conclusion with caveats. The implication is that any discrepancies came from outside the PDB - "from news accounts and elsewhere."
hoops said:
The fact that the current administration has been far more successful in its foreign policy endeavors than previous administrations is a huge positive in my opinion.
rastro said:
Again, the implication in the WSJ article is that they provided a conclusion, not a conclusion with caveats. The implication is that any discrepancies came from outside the PDB - "from news accounts and elsewhere."
mtierney said:
More info to stir the pot!
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/10/22/judge-napolitano-libya-situation-getting-worse-the-more-we-learn-about-it/
mtierney said:
Well, well, now the Times shows some interest in the Benghazi debacle!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/world/africa/petraeuss-lower-profile-at-cia-leaves-void-in-benghazi-furor.html?ref=todayspaper
drummerboy said:
mtierney said:
Well, well, now the Times shows some interest in the Benghazi debacle!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/world/africa/petraeuss-lower-profile-at-cia-leaves-void-in-benghazi-furor.html?ref=todayspaper
Odd comment. The Times has been spreading the same disinformation about Benghazi as everyone else.
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"President Obama was told in his daily intelligence briefing for more than a week after the consulate siege in Benghazi that the assault grew out if a spontaneous protest, despite conflicting reports from witnesses and other sources that began to cast doubt on the accuracy of that assessment almost from the start.
New details about the contents of the Presidential Daily Brief, which haven't been reported previously, show that the Central Intelligence Agency didn't adjust the classified assessment until September 22, fueling.g tensions between the administration and the agency."
Sounds like another intelligence failure.