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ProSense

(116,464 posts)
Wed May 8, 2013, 03:29 PM May 2013

Please, make the crazy stop!

Fox News Invites Convicted Cover-Up Expert Oliver North To Comment On Alleged Benghazi Cover-Up

By Igor Volsky

On Wednesday, in a moment of rich irony, Fox News invited Oliver North, a military official who was convicted of covering up the government’s role in the Iran-Contra scandal, to discuss the Obama administration’s alleged cover-up of the Sep. 11, 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. North joined host Megyn Kelly to analyze the House Oversight Committee’s hearing featuring three witnesses who claim that the government could have done more on the night of the attack to save American lives.

During the segment, North explained that the administration “falsified talking points provided to people who were going to speak publicly about it” in the days following the incident and manipulated the Accountability Review Board report, which came out months later, to escape political blame.

North specifically singled out Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Admiral Mike Mullen, who headed the review, and accused them of lacking “integrity.” Watch it:

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http://thinkprogress.org/media/2013/05/08/1982891/fox-news-invites-convicted-cover-up-expert-oliver-north-to-comment-on-alleged-benghazi-cover-up/

Cheney slams Obama over Benghazi: ‘We were always ready on 9/11?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022815670

Grampy McCain says Benghazi just like Iran-Contra.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022805271

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Please, make the crazy stop! (Original Post) ProSense May 2013 OP
This is just some JustAnotherGen May 2013 #1
Well, ProSense May 2013 #2
Exactly JustAnotherGen May 2013 #4
So why was it okay for GWB to lose people at embassies during his reign? Rex May 2013 #3
Ha! JustAnotherGen May 2013 #5
I feel personally insulted by this furthering of idiocy by the GOP. Rex May 2013 #6
hell with the embasies BobbyBoring May 2013 #14
And no record of any testimony given The Wizard May 2013 #15
Fake News blkmusclmachine May 2013 #7
Political tabloid AgingAmerican May 2013 #10
Leave it to Fox: trot out the worst examples of leadership possible to make a point. Buzz Clik May 2013 #8
OFFS. SunSeeker May 2013 #9
The first two words of the headline are a contradiction. lpbk2713 May 2013 #11
Trying to @#$% with Tom Tomorrow? MannyGoldstein May 2013 #12
Oh, I see. A felonious liar Zoeisright May 2013 #13

JustAnotherGen

(31,839 posts)
1. This is just some
Wed May 8, 2013, 03:45 PM
May 2013

Horse and Pony show for them to keep half of this country's minds on things less important than sequestration, defaulting on our debts to other countries, decimating the cap on what we pay into SS each year, etc. etc.


I'm not paying attention to it because I already believe it's just a bunch of made up lies by the Republicans. There is nothing truthful to their supposed evidence that lead to this investigation. It's just a bunch of lies.

ProSense

(116,464 posts)
2. Well,
Wed May 8, 2013, 03:53 PM
May 2013

"This is just some

Horse and Pony show for them to keep half of this country's minds on things less important than sequestration, defaulting on our debts to other countries, decimating the cap on what we pay into SS each year, etc. etc."

...if anyone needs proof of that, here it is.

Top Republican ‘Fairly Satisfied’ With White House’s Account Of Benghazi

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Corker (R-TN) said Wednesday that he's "fairly satisfied" with the Obama administration's account of events that led to the deaths of American diplomats in Benghazi last year.

"We need to know were these people culpable or not. If they were, why are they still on the payroll? Other than that, I've been able to read all the cables. I've seen the films," Corker told MSNBC. "I feel like I know what happened in Benghazi. I'm fairly satisfied."

He cautioned House Republicans to be "respectful" if they probe the issue further.

"Look, if the House wants to have hearings," he said, "I hope they're done in a respectful way and hopefully it will shed some light on what happened."

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/top-republican-fairly-satisfied-with-white-houses-account



JustAnotherGen

(31,839 posts)
4. Exactly
Wed May 8, 2013, 03:56 PM
May 2013

Thanks you! I'm going to watch Rachel real time tonight (I usually DVR and watch in the AM) because I bet you anything she'll call them out.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
3. So why was it okay for GWB to lose people at embassies during his reign?
Wed May 8, 2013, 03:55 PM
May 2013

Rhetorical question, I know why.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
6. I feel personally insulted by this furthering of idiocy by the GOP.
Wed May 8, 2013, 03:59 PM
May 2013

Cheney had the GALL to compare it to 9/11 and then went on to say how safe we were (under HIS terms) and that Obama dropped the ball!

REALLY!?!? WE WERE SAFE DICK?

Tell that to the thousands and thousands of dead and their family. If he was in front of me, I would spit in his face!

BobbyBoring

(1,965 posts)
14. hell with the embasies
Wed May 8, 2013, 05:49 PM
May 2013

How about the 3,000 that were killed on US soil on Jrs watch. Bush fought tooth and nail against having ANY investigation of the original 9/11 and would only testify with Cheney in private and not under oath.

I wish the Dems would scream this all day long!

The Wizard

(12,546 posts)
15. And no record of any testimony given
Wed May 8, 2013, 06:00 PM
May 2013

They did the full coverup. The war criminals belong on a scaffold.

lpbk2713

(42,764 posts)
11. The first two words of the headline are a contradiction.
Wed May 8, 2013, 05:27 PM
May 2013



"Fox" and "News" are polar opposites.


Faux is the propaganda Ministry of the Greedy Obstructionist Party


Zoeisright

(8,339 posts)
13. Oh, I see. A felonious liar
Wed May 8, 2013, 05:37 PM
May 2013

is criticizing someone else. Fuck you, North. I wish there was a hell so you would burn in it. You wouldn't know integrity if it bit you in your pasty white ass.

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