The Benghazi Hearings

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by bigtex

And that's on LL(DINO's) best days. It's all downhill after that!

Another moron .. except this one is a Chihuahua-moron:

18 USC Section 1112: Manslaughter
Involuntary--In the commission, … without due caution and circumspection, of a lawful act which might produce death.

Guilty of “…involuntary manslaughter shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both.”

18 USC Section 1114 Protection of Employee or Official of the U.S.

[markroxny]

Conspiracy debunked: Intelligence community changed Benghazi talking points

For weeks now Congressional Republicans, Fox News, and CNN’s Erin Burnett have been obsessed with making a Watergate-sized scandal out of the Benghazi attack. They have suggested that President Obama is engaged in sinister cover-up of some yet-to-be-identified wrong doing surrounding the attack on our Mission in Benghazi on 9/11.


The conspiracy theory kicked into high gear Friday when former CIA Director David Petraeus told a closed door hearing of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees that a talking points memo had been altered by someone, but he did not name the individual who did the altering. That was enough for the conspiracy theorists to kick their innuendos into high gear.
Despite the fact there is violent conflict raging between Israel and Gaza, and we are about to go over the fiscal cliff, the topic du jour in Washington is “who altered the talking points memo?” It reminds me of “who shot JR?”


The conspiracy theory took a direct hit Monday when CNN reported that neither the White House nor the Justice Department changed the talking points on Benghazi.
“The intelligence community was responsible for the substantive changes made to the talking points distributed for government officials who spoke publicly about the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi. The unclassified talking points on Libya, developed several days after the deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, were not substantively changed by any agency outside of the intelligence community, according to the spokesman, Shawn Turner,” CNN’s Pam Benson wrote.


Talk about a buzz kill. With this revelation will they end their conspiracy quest or take it up another notch? It’s too early to tell but for the first time in weeks, the Benghazi conspiracy was not one of the top five news stories on CNN’s OUTFRONT.


CNN said the unclassified talking points were first developed by the CIA at the request of the House Intelligence Committee. Members wanted to know what they could say publicly about the Benghazi attack.


When the initial version was drafted it included information linking individuals involved in the attack to al Qaeda, according to a senior U.S. official familiar with the drafting of the talking points. However, when the document was sent to the rest of the intelligence community for review, there was a decision to change "al Qaeda" to “extremists.” The official said the change was made for legitimate intelligence and legal reasons, not for political purposes.
Turner elaborated. “First, the information about individuals linked to al Qaeda was derived from classified sources. Second, when links were so tenuous - as they still are - it makes sense to be cautious before pointing fingers so you don't set off a chain of circular and self-reinforcing assumptions. Third, it is important to be careful not to prejudice a criminal investigation in its early stages.”


"The intelligence community made substantive, analytical changes before the talking points were sent to government agency partners for their feedback," Turner said, referring to the White House, Justice Department, State Department, Pentagon and FBI. "There were no substantive changes made to the talking points after they left the intelligence community," he said.


Republicans did not like the testimony because it should have put the conspiracy to rest. It seems they will keep on looking. Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham have called for a “Watergate scale” investigation costing tens of millions of dollars to find the conspirator(s) and bring him or them to justice. Fortunately, that notion has not caught on in Congress—yet.


We will see if Congress can focus on more important matters like the fiscal cliff rather than continual investigations of the Obama Administration none of which have found a gun let alone a smoking one.

http://www.examiner.com/article/cons...talking-points

[CJ7]

you cant educate rightwingers mark

[Guest040616]

Originally Posted by LexusLover

Another moron .. except this one is a Chihuahua-moron:

18 USC Section 1112: Manslaughter
Involuntary--In the commission, … without due caution and circumspection, of a lawful act which might produce death.

Guilty of “…involuntary manslaughter shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both.”

18 USC Section 1114 Protection of Employee or Official of the U.S.

DINO's posts are starting to take on I B Crying's creative style.

Keep up the good work, Loser!

[CJ7]

And by the way genius ... its not "youre" ...

no dumbass, actually its you're

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by CJ7

And by the way genius ... its not "youre" ...

no dumbass, actually its you're

By the way, dumb-ass, it is not "its". It is "it's".

Originally Posted by CJ7

you cant educate rightwingers mark

Educating sotted, Kool Aid sucking saps is worthless.

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by bigtex

DINO's posts are starting to take on I B Crying creative style.

Keep up the good work, Loser!

Documenting one's POV with substantive facts is foreign to you, isn't it BigKoTex?

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by CJ7

at the end of the day what is it youre looking for?

punishment of some sort?


the same punishment Reagan and his admin recieved for letting the Lebanon embassy be bombed resulting in 220 amreican deaths and a BLANTANT act of war against the USA?

that my friend is nothing short of one of those unfortunate happenings

But you lie and distort, CBJ7. It took years to trace the perpetrators of the Beiriut bombing and you know that, you disgusting, lying prick.

After some years of investigation the bombing was thought to have been committed by the Lebanese Shia militant militia and political party Hezbollah while it was still "underground," though opinion is not unanimous. Hezbollah did not formally announce its existence until 1985.[33] The U.S. government believes that elements that would eventually become Hezbollah, backed by Iran and Syria, were responsible for this bombing,[34] as well as the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut earlier in April. Hezbollah, Iran and Syria have denied any involvement. [wiki]

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by CJ7

here ya go cupcake ...

Lamb, the official in charge of protecting U.S. embassies and consulates, told the committee, "We had the correct number of assets in Benghazi at the time of 9/11."

Once again CBJ you are omitting that Lamb also said the number of security personnel in Libya was "artificially low." In essence, what Lamb said is they "had the correct number of assets in Benghazi" so as to give the appearance of being "artificially low" in order to APPEASE Islamic terrorist forces.

[acp5762]

Originally Posted by markroxny

HUH? WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GETTING THAT BULLSHIT?

You guys are really jackasses. One conspiracy theory falls apart and you have to come up with another one?

Just fucking lame.

In the end I only agree with one thing you said:

"Well unfortunately Lamb and H. Clinton made poor decisions". That in concert with congress cutting funds for Embassy security.

It was a terrible unfortunate incident that cost 4 lives, but they need not die in vain. We can learn from it and make sure it never happens again. As for all this conspiracy bullshit because you hate Obama and can't deal with the fact that he got re-elected. You really need to get over that fucking bullshit.

Well heres a video from a journalism web site. Plus the patterns of the whole incident point to something like this. The WH can't use budget cuts to justify any of this. Just because there may have been a drop in security at these Embassies due to budget cuts doesn't mean they shouldn't deploy reinforcements during an emergency or unforeseen event. They have an obligation to do so when a request is made.


http://youtu.be/M4ZHImBO3Rw

[markroxny]

You cant be taking that video seriously. It offers no proof or evidence to support the wild claim that Obama staged the whole attack. it's worse than "spare change" in terms of conspiracy videos.

The fact that you would even entertain the thought tells me a lot.

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by CJ7

And by the way genius ... its not "youre" ...

no dumbass, actually its you're

There is some hope yet. It does learn. See there is nothing wrong with being ignorant, as you are, it's when you are dumb that is problematic. That's genetic.

Now, if you could just paper train BT-Chihuahua ...

.. he keeps following your lead.

[CJ7]

Originally Posted by LexusLover

There is some hope yet. It does learn. See there is nothing wrong with being ignorant, as you are, it's when you are dumb that is problematic. That's genetic.

Now, if you could just paper train BT-Chihuahua ...

.. he keeps following your lead.

qutation marks on the correction you're ... really?

ponder that Nostradumbass

[Yoyoma]

So in other words, big brother did it for our own "good" ...

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by LexusLover

There is some hope yet. It does learn. See there is nothing wrong with being ignorant, as you are, it's when you are dumb that is problematic. That's genetic.

Now, if you could just paper train BT-Chihuahua ...

.. he keeps following your lead.

Originally Posted by CJ7

qutation marks on the correction you're ... really?

ponder that Nostrodumbass

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to repeat again what I previously posted.

One of the techniques of teaching children, as yourself, is repetition ... through repeated statements the child-learner soon begins to recognize the information.

Repeat after me. "CJ7 shall not be a dumbass" ...

.... over and over again. ok?