The mundane facts behind Benghazi tragedy emerge
A gunman preens for the camera while the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi burns in the background. (AP)
As expected, the independent Accountability Review Board investigation into the tragic death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi has found more than enough blame to go around.
But before we get into the details, let’s get the various conspiracy-theory stuff out of the way:
– The board, led by retired diplomat Thomas Pickering and retired Admiral Mike Mullen, former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, once again made it clear “that there was no protest prior to the attacks, which were unanticipated in their scale and intensity.” However, because its work was focused on the attack itself, rather than its aftermath or the politics involved, the board did not discuss whether U.S. officials had legitimate intelligence reasons to believe that such a protest had occurred or whether politics played any role in how the tragedy was presented to the American people.
– Contrary to claims by some, including Fox News, “The board members believe every possible effort was made to rescue and recover Ambassador Stevens and Sean Smith. The inter-agency response was timely and appropriate, but there simply was not enough time for armed U.S. military assets to have made a difference.”
In fact, the investigation found, armed reinforcements from the Tripoli embassy had reached the facilities in Benghazi by the time the second deadly wave of attacks was launched early the next morning.
– Contrary to claims by some, including Fox News, no one in Washington or elsewhere issued orders to “stand down” or delay efforts to rescue Stevens. As the report states clearly, “The board found no evidence of any undue delays in decision-making or denial of support from Washington or from the military combatant commanders.”
With that behind us, we can turn to more important questions: How did this happen, who was at fault, and most importantly, how can we prevent a recurrence?
Let’s take a look at the players identified in the report:
THE BUREAUCRACY: The board points out that the Benghazi facilities were never officially designated as either a consulate or as a permanent State Department station. Within the State Department, its designation as a temporary “special mission” made it difficult to find the financial resources to secure the Benghazi facility or assign enough security personnel to the site. It got caught in a Catch-22 that no one in leadership stepped up to correct.
CONGRESS: The State Department was denied the financial resources that it needed and had requested to improve security at its facilities around the world. In the words of the report:
“The solution requires a more serious and sustained commitment from Congress to support State Department needs, which, in total, constitute a small percentage both of the full national budget and that spent for national security. One overall conclusion in this report is that Congress must do its part to meet this challenge and provide necessary resources to the State Department to address security risks and meet mission imperatives.”
STATE DEPARTMENT LEADERSHIP: According to the report, “The board found that certain senior State Department officials within two bureaus demonstrated a lack of proactive leadership and management ability in their responses to security concerns posed by Special Mission Benghazi, given the deteriorating threat environment and the lack of reliable host government protection.”
The senior officials were not identified by name. However, the two bureaus in question are the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, responsible for overseeing operations in that region, and the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, responsible for security staffing and facility hardening. Three State Department officials resigned today in the wake of the report.
“Board members found a pervasive realization among personnel who served in Benghazi that the Special Mission was not a high priority for Washington when it came to security-related requests, especially those relating to staffing,” the report states.
It goes on to point out, however, that repeated denials of funding requests from Congress “has also had the effect of conditioning a few State Department managers to favor restricting the use of resources as a general orientation. There is no easy way to cut through this Gordian knot, all the more so as budgetary austerity looms large ahead.”
Ambassador Chris Stevens (AP)
AMBASSADOR STEVENS: It’s a delicate issue, but the board clearly found fault with Stevens’ judgment as chief of mission in Libya. It noted:
“As the president’s personal representative, the chief of mission bears ‘direct and full responsibility for the security of [his or her] mission and all the personnel for whom [he or she is] responsible,’ and thus for risk management in the country to which he or she is accredited….”
“The Board found that Ambassador Stevens made the decision to travel to
Benghazi independently of Washington, per standard practice. Timing for his trip was driven in part by commitments in Tripoli, as well as a staffing gap between principal officers in Benghazi.Plans for the ambassador’s trip provided for minimal close-protection security support and were not shared thoroughly with the embassy’s country team, who were not fully aware of planned movements off compound. The ambassador did not see a direct threat of an attack of this nature and scale on the U.S. mission in the overall negative trendline of security incidents from spring to summer 2012. His status as the leading U.S. government advocate on Libya policy, and his expertise on Benghazi in particular, caused Washington to give unusual deference to his judgments.”
The report, available here in full, also details the extraordinary heroism and good decision-making of security personnel on the ground in Benghazi, which prevented a very bad situation from becoming even worse.
Overall, though, the board’s findings aren’t particularly sexy or politically explosive. They document mundane bureaucratic mistakes by generally well-meaning people, including Stevens himself, that ended up having tragic consequences, and they suggest ways to minimize chances that such tragedies will be repeated.
– Jay Bookman
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They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
8:23 pm
Crying Con
This might help you out. Might actually make you appear to have an ounce of knowledge about something
“The vacant seat on the court to which Bork was nominated eventually went to Judge Anthony Kennedy who was unanimously approved by the Senate, 97-0.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork
But keep swinging little guy. You will get a hit someday, even if it is a foul ball
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
8:25 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGrz9xJEGRE
josef
December 19th, 2012
8:25 pm
DOGGONE
That was pretty much the point I was trying to make earlier. We go looking for great conspiracies in the tragic events which befall us when, in the moment by moment outplay, the events that bring it on are. well, mundane. Like I said back there, WWI actually was precipitated by a chauffeur making a wrong turn…
JamVet
December 19th, 2012
8:27 pm
Joe Walsh produced and played on the stunning Souvenirs album.
Dan died five years ago this week, and it still seems like a bad dream…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm8×38USBiM
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
8:29 pm
CC
where did you go? Being without fact and knowledge is not new for you, so you shouldn’t be embarrassed…….
Doggone/GA
December 19th, 2012
8:29 pm
“We go looking for great conspiracies in the tragic events which befall us when, in the moment by moment outplay, the events that bring it on are. well, mundane”
Yeah, but there’s a big difference between looking for them…and inventing them. There’s been too little looking and too much inventing for my taste. If I was a betting person, I’d bet all I have that NONE of the people here bitching about this tought about it twice when it was being reported as just another protest over a film trailer, gone bad.
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
8:30 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnttI7aEI0g
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
8:31 pm
Doggone
WORD……. great post
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 19th, 2012
8:31 pm
BOTH
Did our little princess get put in timeout next door?
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
8:33 pm
Sink, Andy, I report, Aesop
Guess it was past your bedtime?
Doggone/GA
December 19th, 2012
8:33 pm
Thanks Both!
josef
December 19th, 2012
8:34 pm
ZamVet
A little seasonal music from the wonderful Dan…you’ll appreciate the introduction…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhjYbfK9vrk
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
8:35 pm
Kam
I was in the process of reading Brother Jam’s scorched earth policy against some of the more “troubled” bloggers next door……. and Prince melted………………
Kyle shut it DOWN
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
8:36 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k2vmwOU2HM
Rightwing troll
December 19th, 2012
8:38 pm
Yes USAP… All the adults were over at Kyle’s… They were so adulty Kyle had to shut it down for the night…. Again… Real adults they were…
Jam, you do realize Cryberious over at Kyle’s is really Dave R. Don’t you?
God rest Robert Bork’s soul… If he had one…
JamVet
December 19th, 2012
8:39 pm
jonix, saw him twice,and being the greedy kind of guy I am, I wish it had been twice that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUgUcVnT3NI
getalife
December 19th, 2012
8:40 pm
I think the prince was banned here too but Jay never shuts down his blog.
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
8:41 pm
Rightwing
He and all of us know. Ask him about his name change one time.
He will meltdown and say he changed because he was being stalked not because he was bounced from here.
That guys is too funny, along with his little friends
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
8:42 pm
getalife
Some might say he want too far, but without a doubt, Jam had them back peddling………….
Doggone/GA
December 19th, 2012
8:42 pm
“but Jay never shuts down his blog”
But Paul does!
josef
December 19th, 2012
8:43 pm
ZamVet
Hard to pick, but this would be a top contender for my favorite of his…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxClQ_pInzc
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
8:44 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqeErugWXZ4
josef
December 19th, 2012
8:45 pm
getalife
“Jay never shuts down his blog.”
Nyanh…he lets Paul do his dirty work!
josef
December 19th, 2012
8:46 pm
DOGGONE
Great minds!
Georgia
December 19th, 2012
8:46 pm
Ted Kennedy really torpedoed Bork, yet Bork became the verb meaning to “torpedo a nomination”. ei: “Susan Rice got borked by John McCain”. You can find similar sentences in romance novels.
Doggone/GA
December 19th, 2012
8:48 pm
“Great minds!”
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
8:48 pm
josef @ 8:34
great tune
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
8:49 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDwm3QIwfg
it will come out
December 19th, 2012
8:51 pm
The real facts are not so mundane. Obama has been sending weapons to Syria via Libya for a year, but most of the weapons got into the hands of Al Qaeda. The ambassador and the other four men were killed by Al Qaeda.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 19th, 2012
8:51 pm
BOTH
I saw Kyle’s final statement, but when I went looking for any posts by our fresh princess, nothing.
Kyle musta scrubbed the thread clean of his presence.
JamVet
December 19th, 2012
8:53 pm
josef, and that was the very first song on his very first album. And it is so awesome, huh? The composition, musicianship, fantastic lyrics and his amazing vocals.
He was hugely popular of course, but I seldom find anyone who was as really crazy about his stuff as I was. On his first seven records, there is not one single song I don’t like and won’t listen to. How many artists can I say that about???
What a genius and true musical hero of mine.
And for my money he is in the same league as Harrison, Rundgren, Young and Browne – the creme de la creme…
One more (for the cons!) and I’ll give the peanut gallery a break! (grin)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b90ZVVq1hD8
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
8:54 pm
Kam
I was done the street enjoying a tasty margarita and reading the comments……… It was getting good, I refreshed and BAM………. kyle shut it down
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
8:57 pm
jam
Let me know if you would like to get together sometime and enjoy a tasty beverage………….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBiLrZT3eno
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
8:58 pm
*down
josef
December 19th, 2012
8:59 pm
ZamVet
This one has a special meaning to me for a time and place in my life…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUZohcS-cWI
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
9:00 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmw3MINdaTw
JamVet
December 19th, 2012
9:02 pm
Just now cranking that Melvin Taylor. Wow…
TBs, you’re on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZxHAZChcYU
Recon 0311 2533
December 19th, 2012
9:04 pm
Where there’s smoke typically there is fire. This administration certainly has had an abundance of smoke around it. The next four years based on the last four appear as though America is in for a very rough ride. Fasten your seat belts.
josef
December 19th, 2012
9:04 pm
BOTH
“done the street…”
So many lines, so little time….
josef
December 19th, 2012
9:06 pm
BOTH
Look who’s here….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKHUGvde7KU
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
9:08 pm
josef
@ 9:04
I can relate
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
9:09 pm
Recon
We made it through the smoke and fire of the last one, I’m sure we will make it through this one.
JamVet
December 19th, 2012
9:09 pm
Thanks for sharing that one, jo. I almost remembered all of the lyrics!
Well, why not…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8C7bupfY9s
Hmmmm
December 19th, 2012
9:10 pm
**CONGRESS: The State Department was denied the financial resources that it needed and had requested to improve security at its facilities around the world.**
“It has been suggested that budget cuts are responsible for a lack of security in Benghazi, and I’d like to ask Miss Lamb,” said Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.). “You made this decision personally. Was there any budget consideration and lack of budget which lead you not to increase the number of people in the security force there?”
“No, sir,” said Lamb.
Hmmmm.
josef
December 19th, 2012
9:10 pm
BOTH
How can i resist…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifDycyRNpcI
Recon 0311 2533
December 19th, 2012
9:13 pm
TBS, Sure hope and truly pray you’re right.
Casey Kasem
December 19th, 2012
9:15 pm
Good evening everybody. An urgent holiday request about someone in hiding as been brought to my attention…………
Don’t fight it. Come out, come out wherever you are. Do it for you. Not anyone else.
Merry Christmas and happy times at “Closer Capers”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edC3SinuhSQ
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
9:20 pm
Recon
Americans as a whole are a resilient people made up from as much different fabric as any place on earth. We can argue politics all day and both have sound points to make, but in the end the sun has not set on this great country…….
Many on the left claimed it was over with Reagan and Bush Jr. The right said it with Clinton and now Obama.
We are as a nation better than all of those Presidents. That is not a knock on each one, but a collective praise for the people regardless of their political affiliation.
Now off my soapbox and back to the tunes
josef
December 19th, 2012
9:22 pm
ZamVet
As we always say…the power of music. A little story on “Stars.” Not long ago I got in touch with a childhood friend who’s now living in Jackson. He said, more or less in passing, that he had run into “somebody from your past,” my Gypsy Prince, David. “He said to tell you hello.” That song, and all its words, came back as if it were just yesterday. Same feeling. I pulled it up, and Unmentionable says, “you know I always liked that song.” I didn’t say anything, though. He has a certain, well, jealousy of David even if he never met him and he was long gone before Unmentionable appeared on the scene. I guess we all have that feeling toward our Significant Other’s “first love.”
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
9:23 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmbpniMD8_M
rch
December 19th, 2012
9:24 pm
Jay
You are just a low information hack aka moron.
This report proves nothing. Just cya for the Hildabeast and Prez BO
keith
December 19th, 2012
9:27 pm
leave it to bookman to see the silver lining in a scathing report about this admin incompetance.
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
9:28 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-B3bWwK_Bk
Rex
December 19th, 2012
9:29 pm
“Mundane” is an inappropriate word given that people died–but I don’t buy into the conspiracy theories either.
josef
December 19th, 2012
9:29 pm
BOTH
Come out, come out wherever you are… but…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5k68vWyWGg
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
December 19th, 2012
9:29 pm
I was in the process of reading Brother Jam’s scorched earth policy against some of the more “troubled” bloggers next door……. and Prince melted………………
Well, dang it, I miss out on everything. I even went over there to Wingfield’s to see what this Prince had to say and what do you know? Wingfield deleted every post Prince made. I was just interested in the educational value, or whatever you say when you’re caught with a porn magazine. Now I’ll never know.
Have a good night everybody.
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
9:30 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhrqZP_qVyU
So, what is your president 's definition of "the greater good"?? (reward failure and punish success?)
December 19th, 2012
9:32 pm
“After what we’ve gone through over the past several months, a devastating hurricane and now one of the worse tragedies in our memory, the country deserves the folks to be willing to compromise for the greater good.”
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
9:34 pm
“she don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie………”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhrqZP_qVyU
Rightwing troll
December 19th, 2012
9:36 pm
Yes Recon, should things gradually get better over the next four years,like they have over the last four, that would be awful…just awful… If the recovery began to pick up steam and improve even more over the next four years, than they have over the last four…that would be disastrous…
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
9:37 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IRjl3SWC2U
Jm
December 19th, 2012
9:39 pm
Nutters
Still here I see
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
9:41 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j83xviHVmGg
josef
December 19th, 2012
9:42 pm
BOTH
@ 9:37
Thanks…I haven’t heard that in ever how long!!!
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
9:43 pm
“Nutters
Still here I see”
At least one (you) each time you show up. Thanks for the acknowledgment and dropping in. Don’t let your ODS keep you down too long. Haven’t seen much of your posting relating to the Dow. Why is that?
Take care Supply Side Singapore
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
9:45 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAGSgfhiR-o
Rightwing troll
December 19th, 2012
9:46 pm
I agree Jm…. There’s still a couple cranky old liars hanging out here… They have nowhere else to go since they got Kyle’s blog shut down… again…
Casey Kasem
December 19th, 2012
9:50 pm
I see we have a long time AJC blogger and scorned Bookman groupie with us tonight.
Jm this song is dedicated to you and your delusions that Romney was going to win FL because there were Romney signs in yard and on your car…………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAGSgfhiR-o
Hang in there Jm………
Rightwing troll
December 19th, 2012
9:55 pm
Looks like Boner is going to take us over the cliff… Where are those jobs boner? Oh well … Keep it up lying liars, you refusal to acknowledge reality cost you the election, it’s going to cost us all in two weeks, and it will cost you the little bit of power you have left in the next cycle or two…
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
9:55 pm
Jm
Speaking of “nutters”. Whatever became of your “Obama is holding back foreclosures” conspiracy?
Did that play out besides anywhere in your mind?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
December 19th, 2012
10:06 pm
Been gone all day ………. so just in case someone missed this:
“NRA sees surge in membership after Connecticut school shooting”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/19/nra-sees-surge-in-membership-after-connecticut-school-shooting/#ixzz2FYdtaXtA
JamVet
December 19th, 2012
10:07 pm
Great story, jo.
God knows I can be petty and have had plenty of failures.
So in the spirit of humility and grace, I’ll leave you good folks with this.
Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyyetXvX76Q
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
10:12 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ-2O8CEXcA
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
10:15 pm
jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvH6fxP5hMo
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
10:17 pm
Scout
Like those faux evangelical faith healers on tv who “market” themselves for cash, if folks want to send money to the NRA, that is certainly their right
Bless their heart………….
Bob
December 19th, 2012
10:18 pm
Who needs a report, a guy made a video that hurt peoples’s feelings. Those people retailiated, what is to be reported on ?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
December 19th, 2012
10:20 pm
“Guns Out of Stock at Wal-Mart as Magazine Prices Surge on”
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
December 19th, 2012
10:24 pm
“In the wake of a monstrous crime like a madman’s mass murder of defenseless women and children at the Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the nation’s attention is riveted on what could have been done to prevent such a massacre.
Luckily, some years ago, two famed economists, William Landes at the University of Chicago and John Lott at Yale, conducted a massive study of multiple victim public shootings in the United States between 1977 and 1995 to see how various legal changes affected their frequency and death toll.
Landes and Lott examined many of the very policies being proposed right now in response to the Connecticut massacre: waiting periods and background checks for guns, the death penalty and increased penalties for committing a crime with a gun.
None of these policies had any effect on the frequency of, or carnage from, multiple-victim shootings ………………………………. Only one public policy has ever been shown to reduce the death rate from such crimes: concealed-carry laws.”
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-12-19.html#read_more
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
10:27 pm
Jam
If you still around
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGlOUc0LTiE
peace bro
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
10:30 pm
The Pinocchio Test
Gohmert’s statement was declarative and sweeping: “The facts are every time guns have been allowed, concealed-carry has been allowed, the crime rate has gone down.”
The actual evidence is much murkier — and in dispute. Certainly, it appears such laws have not increased the crime rate, as opponents had feared, but it is equally a stretch to say such laws are a slam-dunk reason for why crimes have decreased. Even those sympathetic to Lott’s research suggest that any decline in the crime rate from right-to-carry laws is more sporadic — as opposed to Gohmert’s claim that crime rate always goes down.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/do-concealed-weapon-laws-result-in-less-crime/2012/12/16/e80a5d7e-47c9-11e2-ad54-580638ede391_blog.html
getalife
December 19th, 2012
10:35 pm
The dems put cutting SS on the table so I am done with the dems.
JKL2
December 19th, 2012
10:36 pm
wilie- Can you give me a name of a good news source. I am very interested
Democrats luvs them some Comedy Central.
They BOTH suck
December 19th, 2012
10:39 pm
JKL2 can’t post one reference where any left leaning blogger referred to CC as news, yet like a broken record he post it each week………
bwhahahahahahah
Get some new material………
Hit 'em In The Pocketbook (Gun Owners).....That Will Get Their ATTENTION
December 19th, 2012
10:40 pm
@So, what is your president ’s definition of “the greater good”?? (reward failure and punish success?)
December 19th, 2012
9:32 pm
“After what we’ve gone through over the past several months, a devastating hurricane and now one of the worse tragedies in our memory, the country deserves the folks to be willing to compromise for the greater good.”
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?
What we ALL SHOULD DO.
We should ALL do the right thing.
Old Goober
December 19th, 2012
10:46 pm
The dems put cutting SS on the table so I am done with the dems.
First Congress diverts the money intended to pay SS benefits and uses it for other purposes, too cowardly to raise taxes to pay for the programs desired. Now Congress is about to be asked to cut the benefits too. It’s sort of like the guy who borrows $30,000 and then goes to the banker to ask that the outstanding amount due be cut because the borrower’s assets are out of whack. If SS gets sacrificed, I’m done with the Dems too. It’s bad enough that we have Republicans continuing their 75-year fight against SS.
Lynnie Gal
December 19th, 2012
10:51 pm
Maybe now the “Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi!” Tourette’s reflex of the rightwing will finally stop.
getalife
December 19th, 2012
10:58 pm
Old Goober,
It is political suicide and really ignorant move.
USA Patriot
December 19th, 2012
11:02 pm
Goober, not sure it’s about “fighting against SS” as it is, let’s preserve the monies people have paid into it and ensure they get a return on their investment. Both sides are responsible for spending “our” money someplace else. Just sayin’
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 19th, 2012
11:03 pm
Sock-puppets.
getalife
December 19th, 2012
11:16 pm
How do you spin cutting SS?
Call it strengthening SS.
Total bs and done with the dems.
They should not put that on the table.
USA Patriot
December 19th, 2012
11:26 pm
Uhm, get, don’t you think this might be a political move?
After all, do you really think the boys & girls in DC give a rat’s arse ’bout the commoners?
getalife
December 19th, 2012
11:31 pm
“Though Chained CPI would reduce lifetime benefits relative to the current cost of living adjustment formula, Pelosi said she does not consider it a benefit cut.
“No, I don’t,” consider it a benefit cut, she said. “I consider it a strengthening of Social Security.”
I would like to see Jay put lipstick on that pig.
USA Patriot
December 19th, 2012
11:32 pm
Taps for Patriot. Good evening, and…..Merry Christmas!
nobodyyouknow
December 19th, 2012
11:34 pm
joe hussane moma, I’m baaaacccckkkkk. To tick you off again!!!!!
getalife
December 19th, 2012
11:34 pm
USA,
I think our President is a horrible negotiator and helping the gop for some stupid reason.
Ronald Reagan
December 20th, 2012
12:28 am
Hillary will be resigning soon! Nobody puts shame to the head Liberal & stays!
Seantavious
December 20th, 2012
12:41 am
Nah he’s not a bad negotiator, he’s a pragmatist. Like most sensible people he understands that in order to keep social security solvent it needs to be tweaked from time to time.
Today’s seniors who want to milk the system dry and future generations be damned are being selfish and greedy.
Yeah...right
December 20th, 2012
12:51 am
So, let me see if I got this right. An internal report from the Obama administration says basically the same thing CNN and the mainstream media are saying, that the administration did everything they could to save the Americans that were killed? Oooook…..Did anyone honestly think that anyone in the state dept. would say anything other than what they said?
On Friday, 28 kids and adults were murdered by a sicko, and Obama couldn’t run fast enough to a camera and blame it on guns. But, Obama has yet to speak about what happened in Benghazi. Not a peep, and it has been 3 months now.
And we are to believe these puppets that were told what to say?
Yeah…right.
appleseed
December 20th, 2012
1:21 am
Hillary said one term from beginning.She was over worked.Hope she rest and stays healthy for 2016.
Get Real
December 20th, 2012
5:55 am
Nothing new in this report, still numerous unanswered questions. I’ll wait for the congressional hearings Jay, you can by the bs in this report if you like but the real facts will come out eventually.