GOP Senators Not Backing Down On Benghazi

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I apologize but I wanted to try and pull together some Benghazi reference points of the last two months buried in the Faux and friends s#!t pile...

Benghazi Consulate:

The Benghazi Consulate was at its heart a CIA operation, more than 30 American officials evacuated from Benghazi
seven worked for the State Department. Nearly all the rest worked for the CIA, under diplomatic cover

http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/02/report-benghazi-presence-was-a-cia-operation/#ixzz2DSBtFWms


Consulate Attack Time Line
September 11/12

9:42 p.m. -- Assault begins
9:59 p.m. -- Surveillance drone directed to fly over the U.S. compound
10:32 p.m. -- The Office of the Secretary Defense and the Joint Staff are notified of the attack
11 p.m. -- Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey meet with President Obama at the White House to discuss unfolding situation and how to respond.
11:10 p.m. -- The surveillance drone arrives over the Benghazi facility.
11:30 p.m. -- All surviving U.S. personnel are evacuated from the consulate. U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and State Department computer expert Sean Smith were killed in the initial assault.

Midnight to 2 a.m. -- Panetta gives verbal orders for Marine anti-terrorist teams from Rota, Spain, to prepare to deploy to Tripoli and Benghazi. Panetta also orders a special operations force team training in Croatia and an additional special operations force team in the United States to prepare to deploy to a staging base in southern Italy.
1:30 a.m. -- A six-man security team from the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli arrives in Benghazi.
2:39 a.m. to 2:53 a.m. -- The National Military Command Center gives formal authorization for the deployment of the two special operations force teams from Croatia and the United States.
5:15 a.m. -- Attackers launch assault on a second U.S. facility in Benghazi. Two former U.S. Navy SEALs acting as security contractors are killed. They are identified as Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
6:05 a.m. -- A C-17 aircraft in Germany is told to prepare to deploy to Libya to evacuate the consulate personnel.
7:40 a.m. -- The first wave of Americans are evacuated to Tripoli via airplane.
10 a.m. -- A second group, including those killed in the attack, are flown to Tripoli.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/09/world/africa/libya-benghazi-timeline/index.html

Susan Rice Appears on Network TV Sunday September 16:

Susan Rice appears on TV networks and repeatedly stressed an ongoing investigation into the attacks.

Deliberate Misinformation:

#1 Ambassador Susan Rice lied to the American people in the days after the attack" when she suggested that a viral anti-Islam video sparked violence and wide-spread protests. Fox News has repeatedly pushed this narrative to make it seem like the administration was deliberately misleading the American people.

James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, "confirmed that Rice told the truth in describing the assessment of the intelligence community at the time of her remarks." Williams went on to explain that CIA Director David Petraeus briefed the House Intelligence Committee with the same intel Rice used.

#2 ...requests for extra security in Benghazi were denied by the administration...the attack would have been stopped, and the ambassador still alive, if the requests had been granted.

...at a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee this month, Charlene Lamb, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and head of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, testified that the request was for added security in Tripoli, the capital of Libya, and not Benghazi. The added manpower would have been based 400 miles away from the violence. In addition, U.S. security officials report more guards could not have repelled heavy weapons used by the attackers.

#3: "[T]he attack on Benghazi is evidence that al Qaeda is resurgent." Fox News has pushed this myth multiple times, suggesting on October 11 that one of the reasons for violence toward U.S. officials overseas is a "resurgence of Al Qaeda attacks" in the Middle East and North Africa. In another segment on October 12, notorious warmonger John Bolton suggested that the Libya consulate attack shows a "resurgence of Al Qaeda"...

The reality is that missions authorized by the Obama administration have killed the top commanders of the terrorist group, including bin Laden. In addition, President Obama's drone strikes targeting al Qaeda members have decimated the remaining members of the group.Tommy Vietor, a National Secretary Council spokesman, explains the impact. "Our assessment that we have decimated al Qaeda leadership is unchanged. Dozens of their senior leadership have been taken off the battlefield as a result of the president's anti-terror policies," Vietor said. "We know affiliates like al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula will seek to target us and that's why we go after them relentlessly."

Security Failures of Benghazi:

Probing — lapses in diplomatic security that led to the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Libya.

House Republicans cut the administration’s request for embassy security funding by $128 million in fiscal 2011 and $331 million in fiscal 2012.

Last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that Republicans’ proposed cuts to her department would be “detrimental to America’s national security” — a charge Republicans rejected.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/10/22/deliberate-misinformation-fox-host-juan-william/190827

http://mediamatters.org/video/2012/10/25/fox-military-analyst-counters-rest-of-network-d/190932#disqus_thread