Post by ivymike55 on Oct 28, 2013 19:09:46 GMT -7
No matter how hard Obama, Rice, Hillary, Reid, Pelosi, Durbin, little Jay and the main stream media, etc... attempt to white wash what happened in Beghazi, and who ordered the "stand down" it just won't go away. On Sunday evening, in a somewhat played down episode CBS News' 60 Minutes featured an investigative report on the Benghazi attacks by Lara Logan.
Logan's reporting confirmed that the Obama administration had been warned, months in advance, about inadequate security at the U.S. facility in Benghazi, and that it knew the story about a YouTube video was untrue. It was a reversal for CBS News, which played a key role in the Benghazi cover-up in 2012.
A year ago, CBS News released a previously unaired clip of an interview for 60 Minutes with President Barack Obama on Sep. 12, the day after the Benghazi attack, in which the president suggests clearly that the attack on the U.S. consulate was premeditated. The interview contradicted Obama's subsequent claims that the attack had been a response to an anti-Islam YouTube video, repeated to the public for several days.
CBS News had withheld that portion of the Sep. 12 interview until Oct. 19, choosing instead to release a portion in which Obama criticized rival Mitt Romney's condemnation of the administration's response to events--a repeated theme as the media helped Obama deflect responsibility. Romney had attacked the White House's apology for the video during the attack on the Cairo embassy, not knowing of the deaths in Libya.
After the election, Kroft continued to insist that there was "no information that anything's been covered up" by the media or the Obama administration about the Benghazi attacks. That statement was wrong based on what was known at the time, and looks even worse today, after whistleblowers testified to Congress earlier this year they were pressured by Clinton's chief of staff not to cooperate with congressional investigators.
Logan's investigation featured an interview with one of those whistleblowers, Greg Hicks, who had been the deputy to slain U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. Greg Hicks, our second-in-command in Libya on September 11, 2012, described his feelings as "stunned" in the CBS 60 Minutes video when he learned that the strongest military in the world wasn't coming to save American lives.
Logan also interviewed "Morgan Jones" (ficticious name to provide some form of protection) a former British Special Forces officer who had been advising the U.S. on security in Benghazi and had warned the State Department that unarmed Libyan guards being trained to guard the compound were not up to the job.`Morgan reported to DoD and State Department officials that Al-Queda has reported they would do 3 things; attack the Red Cross, attack the British and then attack the Americans in Benghazi. They had successfully performed the first 2 and were readying for the 3rd. Morgan reported to the Americans that the black Al-Queda flag was openly being flown in Beghazi on government buildings.
Morgan's warnings came to fruition on Sep. 11, 2012, when he saw the guards disperse after being told by the attackers: "We're here to kill Americans, not Libyans." Morgan did what little he could to stop the attack. A second attack at the CIA Annex was partly fought off by a small group that saved five American lives and has since, Logan reported, earned "the Distinguished Service Cross and the Navy Cross" for its bravery.
Yet the Obama administration did not send any assistance throughout the night, and is thought to have issued a stand-down order to prevent any intervention. What Logan's report makes clear is that there is no way that President Obama or his Secretary of State could plausibly claim that a YouTube video had inspired a spontaneous act of violence on that scale against the U.S. consulate, the CIA annex and their personnel. One thing they did not air and has been reported by Morgan repeatedly was that there was a British commando unit within 1 mile of the compound that had armored vehicles but were told by the Obama administration to also "stand down".
That story was a lie when it was told. It was a lie aided and abetted by the mainstream media, including CBS News and 60 Minutes, which could have exploded the administration's YouTube video alibi even as Obama and Clinton were telling it to the families of the victims, to the American people and to the world. I watched the entire interview and it struck me that Hillary was never mentioned by name. She was refered to as Obama's Secretary of State. The Sunday night report is somewhat worthy as an attempt to atone for the initial journalistic negligence, it is far too little, too late. Perhaps CBS is getting their report out now before the 2016 elections so that it will escape the memory of most Americans and they have some semblance of jounalistic integrity.
Logan's reporting confirmed that the Obama administration had been warned, months in advance, about inadequate security at the U.S. facility in Benghazi, and that it knew the story about a YouTube video was untrue. It was a reversal for CBS News, which played a key role in the Benghazi cover-up in 2012.
A year ago, CBS News released a previously unaired clip of an interview for 60 Minutes with President Barack Obama on Sep. 12, the day after the Benghazi attack, in which the president suggests clearly that the attack on the U.S. consulate was premeditated. The interview contradicted Obama's subsequent claims that the attack had been a response to an anti-Islam YouTube video, repeated to the public for several days.
CBS News had withheld that portion of the Sep. 12 interview until Oct. 19, choosing instead to release a portion in which Obama criticized rival Mitt Romney's condemnation of the administration's response to events--a repeated theme as the media helped Obama deflect responsibility. Romney had attacked the White House's apology for the video during the attack on the Cairo embassy, not knowing of the deaths in Libya.
After the election, Kroft continued to insist that there was "no information that anything's been covered up" by the media or the Obama administration about the Benghazi attacks. That statement was wrong based on what was known at the time, and looks even worse today, after whistleblowers testified to Congress earlier this year they were pressured by Clinton's chief of staff not to cooperate with congressional investigators.
Logan's investigation featured an interview with one of those whistleblowers, Greg Hicks, who had been the deputy to slain U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. Greg Hicks, our second-in-command in Libya on September 11, 2012, described his feelings as "stunned" in the CBS 60 Minutes video when he learned that the strongest military in the world wasn't coming to save American lives.
Logan also interviewed "Morgan Jones" (ficticious name to provide some form of protection) a former British Special Forces officer who had been advising the U.S. on security in Benghazi and had warned the State Department that unarmed Libyan guards being trained to guard the compound were not up to the job.`Morgan reported to DoD and State Department officials that Al-Queda has reported they would do 3 things; attack the Red Cross, attack the British and then attack the Americans in Benghazi. They had successfully performed the first 2 and were readying for the 3rd. Morgan reported to the Americans that the black Al-Queda flag was openly being flown in Beghazi on government buildings.
Morgan's warnings came to fruition on Sep. 11, 2012, when he saw the guards disperse after being told by the attackers: "We're here to kill Americans, not Libyans." Morgan did what little he could to stop the attack. A second attack at the CIA Annex was partly fought off by a small group that saved five American lives and has since, Logan reported, earned "the Distinguished Service Cross and the Navy Cross" for its bravery.
Yet the Obama administration did not send any assistance throughout the night, and is thought to have issued a stand-down order to prevent any intervention. What Logan's report makes clear is that there is no way that President Obama or his Secretary of State could plausibly claim that a YouTube video had inspired a spontaneous act of violence on that scale against the U.S. consulate, the CIA annex and their personnel. One thing they did not air and has been reported by Morgan repeatedly was that there was a British commando unit within 1 mile of the compound that had armored vehicles but were told by the Obama administration to also "stand down".
That story was a lie when it was told. It was a lie aided and abetted by the mainstream media, including CBS News and 60 Minutes, which could have exploded the administration's YouTube video alibi even as Obama and Clinton were telling it to the families of the victims, to the American people and to the world. I watched the entire interview and it struck me that Hillary was never mentioned by name. She was refered to as Obama's Secretary of State. The Sunday night report is somewhat worthy as an attempt to atone for the initial journalistic negligence, it is far too little, too late. Perhaps CBS is getting their report out now before the 2016 elections so that it will escape the memory of most Americans and they have some semblance of jounalistic integrity.