Twenty Questions that Obama Needs to Answer

[gongoozler]

1. Were there references to Libyan security threats in the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) during the three weeks before the attacks in Benghazi?

2. If there were, did President Obama participate in an intelligence briefing after the Libya threat was raised in the PDB?

3. Did President Obama ask his CIA briefer about threats in Libya during the three weeks before the attacks?

4. Were Libyan security threats discussed in any daily intelligence briefing that President Obama did not attend?

5. How many morning intelligence briefings did President Obama participate in during the month prior to the Benghazi attack?

6. Did any other governments or liaison intelligence services warn us about threats in Libya in the days before the attack in Benghazi?

7. Did any of the communications from intelligence officials in Libya on September 10 include discussions of threats to the consulate in Benghazi or other U.S. interests? Will the administration make those communications available?

8. The State Department’s timeline notes that Ambassador Stevens, who participated in meetings around Benghazi on September 10, was instructed to remain in the Benghazi compound on September 11, the day of the attack? Why? Were there specific threat warnings?

9. Did any intelligence product—raw or finished—include detailed reporting on any protest outside the compound in Benghazi before the attack began?

10. If not, why did administration officials repeatedly mention alleged protests? Where did those claims originate?

11. A senior administration official told the Washington Post on September 13 that the compound in Benghazi featured a “robust American security presence.” Does the White House stand by that assessment?

12. Why did U.N. ambassador Susan Rice, who has no direct involvement in the Libya attacks and no special intelligence knowledge on Libya, appear on multiple TV shows on September 16 to claim that spontaneous protests over the video led to the attack? Was Secretary Clinton or some other high official asked to represent the administration, before Rice was sent out instead?

13. Did James Clapper, the director of national intelligence and CIA director David Petraeus clear Susan Rice’s talking points? If not, who did?

14. A September 28 statement from Clapper’s office claiming that administration talking points had come from the intelligence community was not signed by Clapper. Why not?

15. Who was on the interagency phone call on Saturday, September 15, to prepare Rice for her TV interviews?

16. Did Rice talk to any senior Obama campaign advisers before she spoke for the administration?

17. Is there any intelligence product—raw or finished—that links the attacks in Benghazi to the anti-Islam YouTube video?

18. If not, why did President Obama himself make a direct link between the film and the attack during his September 18 appearance on the David Letterman show?

19. Will the White House release unclassified versions of the PDBs and Daily Threat Briefs for the three weeks before the Benghazi attack?

20. Will President Obama ever hold a news conference to address these and other unanswered questions about the attacks in Benghazi?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/ ... tml?page=1

[Stinger]

Still too dim to figure out that if there were Muslim protests worldwide, and another attack on an embassy (Egypt) because of the anti-Islamic film, it would be a fairly reasonable assumption that the attack in Libya was similarly inspired?

The rational world can figure it out. Keep working on it.

Oh, and good look on finding out about the top secret PDB. We're still trying to find out what the Bush admin was told about the September 11th plot. And we're not going to find out. There are good reasons that it's classified.

[Supsalemgr]

Stinger has not been keeping up. It is now common knowledge there was no demonstration in Libya. It was clearly an attack, but he obviously continues to have a serious case of denial.

[Stinger]

Stinger has not been keeping up. It is now common knowledge there was no demonstration in Libya. It was clearly an attack, but he obviously continues to have a serious case of denial.

Were you trying to make a point?

If so, you failed. I'm more informed than you'll ever be. SSDD.

Whether there was a "demonstration" or not has no bearing on whether one Muslim attack on an embassy might easily be assumed to be driven by the same motivations that inspired an earlier attack on an American embassy.

Logic much?

And the credible reports from Libya say that the militia attacked because it was angry over the video.

But keep trying, Soupy.

[Supsalemgr]

Thanks for confirming my original post.

[Stinger]

Thanks for confirming my original post.

Thanks for thinking you said anything at all. It provides much amusement for the rest of us.

I confirmed that your "original post" was hot air wrapped in a turd pie and that I am better informed than you. You confirmed that you still have nothing to say.

[gongoozler]

Wonder why security reinforcements were denied.

[Stinger]

Wonder why security reinforcements were denied.

State Department policy. Read the articles. Stay informed.

Wonder why the Republicans cut so much embassy security funding.

[Crock Hunter]

Wonder why security reinforcements were denied.

That's "almost" a legitimate question ... quite out of character for you...

How'bout... "Were security reinforcements denied and if so why? "

Yea.. I know.. not as partisan as you'd like but.... .. .

[Howard Gap]

Maybe the president knew more than he is admitting to.

The United States had an unmanned Predator drone over its consulate in Benghazi during the attack that slaughtered four Americans — which should have led to a quicker military response, it was revealed yesterday.

“They stood, and they watched, and our people died,” former CIA commander Gary Berntsen told CBS News.

The network reported that the drone and other reconnaissance aircraft observed the final hours of the hours-long siege on Sept. 11 — obtaining information that should have spurred swift action.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/internatio ... rPf7Z5BHWO

[Supsalemgr]

I trust Stinger will now be able to connect the dots. Is this coverup the "October surprise"?

[Bungalow Bill]

We now know that the attackers were responding to the film, as they themselves have said.
In cases like these, the intelligence is apt to change as days pass and things start to become
clearer. Now, where are those 20 questions that Dumbya should answer about 9/11, which
was of a whole other magnitude than the attack in Benghazi?

[Stinger]

I trust Stinger will now be able to connect the dots. Is this coverup the "October surprise"?

I know Soupy is still lost at sea. Dim as ever.

[Stinger]

Maybe the president knew more than he is admitting to.

The United States had an unmanned Predator drone over its consulate in Benghazi during the attack that slaughtered four Americans — which should have led to a quicker military response, it was revealed yesterday.

“They stood, and they watched, and our people died,” former CIA commander Gary Berntsen told CBS News.

The network reported that the drone and other reconnaissance aircraft observed the final hours of the hours-long siege on Sept. 11 — obtaining information that should have spurred swift action.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/internatio ... rPf7Z5BHWO

Clue: Former, retired, out-of-the-loop, I-don't-know-I-wasn't-there, I'm-just-taking-a-FWAG-here, Gary Berntsen.

The State Department, White House and Pentagon declined to say what military options were available. A White House official told CBS News that, at the start of the attack, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta "looked at available options, and the ones we exercised had our military forces arrive in less than 24 hours, well ahead of timelines laid out in established policies."

But it was too late to help the Americans in Benghazi. The ambassador and three others were dead.

A White House official told CBS News that a "small group of reinforcements" was sent from Tripoli to Benghazi, but declined to say how many or what time they arrived.

That's the more complete picture from the CBS article, not the cherry-picked-we-hate-Obama version.

I would hope that Obama knows more than he's saying. I would hope that Bush knows more about the September 11th warnings than he was saying.

But the "We just sat on our azzes and did nothing and watched 'em die" version is just more right-wing mythology.

Tertius's "Obama led a conspiracy to get a gay ambassador killed" nonsense is true, I'm-ready-for-the-funny-farm nutjobbery.

[Stinger]

Rick Nelson, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former Navy pilot who worked in counter-terrorism, says such missions can be very risky. "A lot can go well, right, as we saw with the bin Laden raid. It was a very successful event," he says. "But also, when there are high risk activities like this. a lot can go wrong, as we saw with the Iranian hostage rescue decades ago."

Add to the controversy the fact that the last two Americans didn't die until more than six hours into the attack, and the question of U.S. military help becomes very important.

Sending the military into another country can be a sensitive and delicate decision. CBS News has been told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did seek clearances from Libya to fly in their airspace, but the administration won't say anything further about what was said or decided on that front.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-33816_162-5 ... ya-attack/

More from the report at CBS News.

[Tertius]

Stinger has not been keeping up. It is now common knowledge there was no demonstration in Libya. It was clearly an attack, but he obviously continues to have a serious case of denial.

you are correct Ms. Lamb knew there were no protest prior to the attack. It takes either prior knowledge or on the ground observation to use indirect fire. Further the escape route was covered by armed attackers to hit those that escape. Their positions were such to maximize their area of fire without firing on each other. This does not happen by accident.

Additionally when dealing with an armed enemy one does not base intelligence on assumptions.

[Stinger]

Stinger has not been keeping up. It is now common knowledge there was no demonstration in Libya. It was clearly an attack, but he obviously continues to have a serious case of denial.

you are correct Ms. Lamb knew there were no protest prior to the attack.

And? That doesn't mean that the attack wasn't motivated by anger over the video, as all credible reports have indicated.

What color is the sky in your world.


It takes either prior knowledge or on the ground observation to use indirect fire.

This from the military "expert" who still doesn't know what branch of service was supposed to be involved.

Were you trying to make a point?

Further the escape route was covered by armed attackers to hit those that escape.

And?

Their positions were such to maximize their area of fire without firing on each other. This does not happen by accident.

And?

Additionally when dealing with an armed enemy one does not base intelligence on assumptions.


The assumptions were made after the attack, not during. Try to keep up.

People with common sense would probably speculate that an attack on the same day as other attacks and protests was probably similarly motivated. Reports after the fact support that speculation.

Keep swinging. You might hit something one of these years.

[Stinger]

It was clearly an attack, but he obviously continues to have a serious case of denial.

Who denied that it was an attack? Please try to keep up. You're wasting cyberspace here.

[AntiAlias]

Still too dim to figure out that if there were Muslim protests worldwide, and another attack on an embassy (Egypt) because of the anti-Islamic film, it would be a fairly reasonable assumption that the attack in Libya was similarly inspired?

The rational world can figure it out. Keep working on it.

Oh, and good look on finding out about the top secret PDB. We're still trying to find out what the Bush admin was told about the September 11th plot. And we're not going to find out. There are good reasons that it's classified.

Hey, Stinger, just ignore gongoozler and then maybe he and his 3 sock puppets (so far) will go away.

[Stinger]

Still too dim to figure out that if there were Muslim protests worldwide, and another attack on an embassy (Egypt) because of the anti-Islamic film, it would be a fairly reasonable assumption that the attack in Libya was similarly inspired?

The rational world can figure it out. Keep working on it.

Oh, and good look on finding out about the top secret PDB. We're still trying to find out what the Bush admin was told about the September 11th plot. And we're not going to find out. There are good reasons that it's classified.

Hey, Stinger, just ignore gongoozler and then maybe he and his 3 sock puppets (so far) will go away.

I'm doing research on gullibility. It's lead me to examine how a person of seemingly average intelligence can so consistently keep adding two and two and getting twelve-digit answers.

That's a poser, but then to try to examine the process by which they believe their leaps of illogic make sense is simply mind-boggling.

These guys would all make classic case studies.