re: Darrell Issa suffers a Benghazi slap; GOP chair exonerates Obama and Clinton

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How about we put the blame where it rightly belongs...on those who attacked us

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You mean all those faceless people in the crowd that have yet to be arrested in the last year and a half. I agree, it would be nice but for some reason they are still faceless.

You're just being deliberately stupid and dishonest. The very reason for the Rose Garden speech was the death of four Americans...

"No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.

It is quite clear to anyone with an honest functioning brain that his narrative there was continuous and that he's including the terrible act of killing the four Americans as an act of terror.

You, however, do not have an honest functioning brain.

There was no order to stand down, liar.

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Everyone here knows how I feel about Obama, but he played no role in the actual order, which was "remain in place". He had no contact with Defense Secretary Panetta or any military personnel, after approximately 5:30 PM on the 11th through the next morning.

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I don't think there is any doubt here. And I don't have a lot of pain about the being unprepared part. Terrorists are hard to predict. We will never be right 100% of the time. I have very little problem with any of the pre/in action activities.

It's the after-action antics by the administration I have problems with, and have caused the political circus. All could have Ben avoided by simply being truthful and candid.

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He had no contact with Defense Secretary Panetta or any military personnel, after approximately 5:30 PM on the 11th through the next morning.

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This is the part that a lot of people have trouble understanding. I believe the next morning was the day of a fundraiser out in Colorado somewhere that he flew to. The unaccounted for time between 5:30 one day until up into the next morning just doesn't pass the smell test when it concerns being the president of the U.S. and some kind of attack with deaths at an embassy.

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Didn't one witness before Congress who was the Master over there, Gregory something-or-other, testify under oath that the military was told to stand down when he wanted to send them during the attack?

I seem to remember that during the testimony.

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I addressed this specifically in two posts just above, but I recognize that oftentimes my Benghazi posts are of a length that some choose not to read them and I understand.

During Hicks' testimony he never once used the words "stand down". Those words were used by three congressmen in their questions to him: Rep. Chaffetz, Rep. Turner and Rep. DeSantis. Hicks never corrected their usage of the term, but he never used it himself. Hicks said he did not know (by name) who told Gibson not to go to Tripoli. Hicks never said that Gibson was told to "stand down". However, Hicks, did not verbally, in his testimony, dispute the term. Most believe that Hicks, as a non-military person, viewed the terms "stand down" and "remain in place" interchangeably, and that is why he did not correct those who used the term in questioning him.

The Hicks testimony was about a month before the Losey-Gibson-Ham testimonies before a different House committee that made it clear that the term "stand down" was never used.

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He said the same exact words in a speech about a week earlier. He was just regurgitating right off the teleprompter. Another Rex lie that was disproved. He didn't mention Benghazi once -- IN EITHER SPEECH you f*cking MORON.

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You truly are a hopeless idiot. Where did those four Americans to which he was referring die? We all knew he was talking about deaths in Benghazi; he didn't have to speak the word.

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If your LIE was true and he was referring to Benghazi, then he was going against the supposed "intelligence" that you now claim he was relying on from the CIA.

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No, he wasn't, birdbrain. As the CIA, itself, reminded us... a terrorist act could have been prompted by the video or could have been pre-planned without it or could have been prompted by both. Nothing there is mutually exclusive.

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He didn't mention Benghazi once -- IN EITHER SPEECH

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For the record, Obama did say the word "Benghazi" four times in his 9/12 rose Garden speech.

He chose to use the term "acts of terror" in that same speech, rather than "terrorist acts".

That same evening, in a Las Vegas campaign speech, he again used the term "act of terror" and avoided using the word "terrorist".

The following morning (the 13th), in a morning campaign speech in Golden, CO, he again used the term "act of terror", and avoided the word "terrorist".

The morning after that, the 14th, at the transfer of remains ceremony, Obama chose not to use the word "terror" or terrorism" or terrorist.

At that same event, Hillary Clinton said, "We've seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We've seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with." She also quoted the president of the Palestinian Authority who described the killings as "an act of ugly terror".


The young man who stabbed 20+ individuals at a school in Pennsylvania last week committed an "act of terror", though he was not a "terrorist".

Any deranged person, in fact, can on their own commit an act of terror, with no agenda, no reason, no cause - the characteristics that define a terrorist.

The Candy Crowley debate fiasco centered completely around the "act of terror" vs, "terrorist act" descriptions.

It's not a matter of semantics, it's a matter of intent and Obama chose to use "act(s) of terror" for political reasons.

So CIA info given to Obama , good..... CIA info given to bush, bad..... Amirite ??