Navy SEALS Ad Blasting Obama

 

 

Plus:  The mother of murdered State Department employee Sean Patrick Smith told reporters this week, “I believe that Obama murdered my son.”

Drip Drip Drip

Fox News Exclusive: Security officials on the ground in Libya challenge CIA account.

Report: Ambassador Stevens Called For Help During Benghazi Attack, Got None

Chaffetz also told van Susteren that Gen. Carter Ham, former head of U.S. Africa command, "personally" told him that “he did not get a directive from the White House, from the president of the United States to engage in the fire fight to help protect those people.”

Plus:  Benghazi consulate warned 3 hours before attack of militia gathering arms.

And:  Fox News defends Benghazi “stand down” report against new CIA timeline released.

Fred Thompson "Totally Disgusted" By Obama Administration's Handling of Benghazi Terrorist Attack

Via The Other McCain: 

[T]he former Republican senator from Tennessee invoked his experience nearly 40 years ago as a Watergate investigator, saying that Congress must “get to the bottom of” the administration’s failures in the Sept. 11 incident that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead in Libya.

“This is probably the biggest cover-up in American history – and you’re talking to an expert in cover-ups,” Thompson said

It Just Keeps Getting Worse And Worse

More and more information continues to trickle out about the attack on our Benghazi Consulate and CIA annex: Via Hotair:

• Troubling Surveillance Observed Outside Consulate Before Attack
• Today, the White House press secretary let it slip during a press gaggle aboard Air Force One that President Obama’s inaction on the Benghazi situation now extends to inaction on the supposed investigation taking place. The administration has still not made clear what exactly is being investigated, or the extent of the investigation. And President Obama doesn’t much care.
• Senior Department of Defense official:  “There was no request from the Department of State to intervene militarily on the night of the attack.”The president, however, would have the final say as to whether or not to send in the military.

Plus - Via Ace:

[D]uring the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Obama Administration did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource: the Counterterrorism Security Group, (CSG)

"The CSG is the one group that's supposed to know what resources every agency has. They know of multiple options and have the ability to coordinate counterterrorism assets across all the agencies," a high-ranking government official told CBS News. "They were not allowed to do their job. They were not called upon." ...

Counterterrorism sources and internal emails reviewed by CBS News express frustration that key responders were ready to deploy, but were not called upon to help in the attack...

Absent coordination from Counterterrorism Security Group, a senior US counterterrorism official says the response to the crisis became more confused. The official says the FBI received a call during the attack representing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and requesting agents be deployed....

Another senior counter terrorism official says a hostage rescue team was alternately asked to get ready and then stand down throughout the night, as officials seemed unable to make up their minds.

 Sadly, the most shocking thing about this last story may be that it was actually reported on by the legacy media over at CBS News.  It would also seem to confirm the rumors Newt Gingrich referenced Tuesday night.

Classified Cable Warned Benghazi Consulate Couldn't Withstand 'Coordinated Attack'

Fox News Exclusive:

While the administration’s public statements have suggested that the attack came without warning, the Aug. 16 cable seems to undercut those claims. It was a direct warning to the State Department that the Benghazi consulate was vulnerable to attack, that it could not be defended and that the presence of anti-U.S. militias and Al Qaeda was well-known to the U.S. intelligence community.

Drip, drip, drip.

Interesting

Newt Gingrich:  I heard networks have emails sent directly from the White House instructing a counter-terrorism group to stand down in Benghazi.

WH Pushes Pic Of Obama In Situation Room For #Sandy,

But Where Was Benghazi Situation Room?

Related:  Former Pacific Fleet chief pulls no punches:

Having been in a number of similar situations, I know you have to have the courage to do what’s right and take immediate action. Obviously, that courage was lacking for Benghazi. The safety of your personnel always remains paramount. With all the technology and military capability we had in theater, for our leadership to have deliberately ignored the pleas for assistance is not only incomprehensible, it is un-American.

Former National Security Adviser Bud McFarlane: For Obama to Do Nothing During Benghazi Attack is “Dereliction of Duty”

On today's Fox News Special Investigation.

But if you don't watch Fox:  Media Blackout: Aside from FOX, Sunday News Hosts Fail to Raise Benghazi

The "Panetta Doctrine"

And why it doesn't add up.

Fox News Special Report Investigates - Benghazi

I was watching tv earlier today and stumbled upon a Fox News Special Report on Benghazi.  It's an hour long special that investigates what happened before, during, and after the attack.  I only caught the tail end of the special, but it looks like they are reairing it at 10:00 p.m. 

 

Meanwhile, other networks seem to have taken a different approach to the story:

Hat tip to Instapundit on the cartoon.

Context

Gingrich: Obama Cancels Campaign Trips Due to Hurricane, Didn't Cancel Them Over Benghazi

This Just Gets Worse And Worse

CIA ORDERED TO STAND DOWN DURING BENGHAZI ATTACK:

Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. Consulate and subsequent attack several hours later was denied by U.S. officials -- who also told the CIA operators twice to "stand down" rather than help the ambassador's team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11 . . . .

One guy was aiming a laser on a ground target, painting it for a plane to see. To drop a bomb, to attack with very heavy machineguns.  

But the laser itself is nothing, absolutely harmless. 

So he sat up there on the roof, risking his life to paint a target with laser light, and no one bothered to send anything to hit that target.  

Who Gave The Order To Let My Son Die?Asks Charles Woods, father of slain SEAL Tyrone Woods. 

Plus:  The CIA has seemingly just thrown the White House under the bus; denying that any order to stand down came from the CIA.

Obama, meanwhile, is ducking questions asking why no help was sent to Benghazi.

And Patterico rightly asks:  At what point does this become a story beyond Fox News?

With all of this new information, let's not lose sight of the fact that, just a few hours after these events unfolded, Obama responded by heading to Las Vegas for a celebrity fundraiser.

Who Decided Not To Save Tyrone Woods?

Via Powerline: 

Charles Woods, the father Tyrone Woods, who was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, reveals details of meeting Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at the publicly broadcast memorial service for the slain Americans at Andrews Air Force Base only days after the attack. And, in a recent radio appearance, Woods questions who made the call not to send in back-up forces to possibly save his son’s life, as well as the three other Americans killed in Benghazi (which includes the American ambassador to Libya) . . . .

“Well, this is what Hillary did,” Woods continues. “She came over and, you know, did the same thing—separately came over and talked with me. I gave her a hug, shook her hand. And she did not appear to be one bit sincere—at all. And you know, she mentioned that the thing about, we’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video. That was the first time I had even heard about anything like that.”

Allahpundit focuses on what I too found to be the most troubling aspect:

What I found significant about this wasn’t the “movie protest” versus “preplanned attack” element, it was the fact that Hillary’s promise of vengeance to the father of a fallen SEAL wasn’t that we’d get the jihadis who killed him but that we’d punish the filmmaker. That’s perverse, but in keeping with the fact that she decided to run ads on Pakistani TV apologizing for the film while Islamist cretins menaced American diplomats across the region. Even if you give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she had no intention of prosecuting the filmmaker but was merely telling Woods something she thought would console him, why on earth would she zero in on the filmmaker as the target of blame instead of the degenerates who actually shot his son? She and O need to answer. Let’s see how much they really value free speech. Simple question for both: Is Woods a liar or not?

Former Top Defense Official: If Your Ambassador Has Been Killed or Captured You Don’t Ask “Mother May I” before You Cross the Border (Video)

Via Gateway Pundit: 

For the United States military to say that they were 480 miles away and they couldn’t do anything, and they couldn’t move one aircraft in 8 hours? I’d say it’s time to relieve a lot of people in the chain of command… If your ambassador has been either killed or captured, and is missing at the hands of terrorists, you do not ask any country for “Mother may I?” before you come across the border to save your own.

What seems so obvious apparently isn't to some people.  Sadly, in this instance, that failure may have cost four American lives.

 

White House and State Department Told Of Terrorist Claim Two Hours After Libya Attack

And yet, "Administration spokesmen, including White House spokesman Jay Carney, citing an unclassified assessment prepared by the CIA, maintained for days that the attacks likely were a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim film."

As Professor Reynolds notes over at Instapundit, "Mr. Nakoula was unavailable for comment — since, you know, he’s in jail until after the election."

Obama = Not Optimal

Obama Campaign Accepted Foreign Donation

May be hiding more.

It would be nice if more media outlets started covering this story.

Link via Drudge.

 

"Act of Terror"

Is the Benghazi Attack Obama's Madrid Train Bombings?

I was actually living in Madrid at the time of the bombings at the Atocha Train Station and have been drawing the same parallels for a while.  One difference, however, is that Spain's conservative PP did not enjoy the media run interference Obama has.  Still, it is looking less likely that Obama will be able to rely on that holding up until the election.  While it was only a matter of days until the election in Spain, here there will be two months for the truth to reach the American people.