Instead of answering Rosen’s follow-up question, Carney said, “James, I think we’re done here. Thank you,” and walked away from the podium. Today at 1:46 am

Get used to the word Stonewall. It seems to apply more to the administration of President Barack Hussein Obama than it did to Watergate.

Fox reporter goes a round with Jay Carney on Benghazi; Carney walks out

October 18, 2013 by Michael Dorstewitz

When Fox News national security correspondent James Rosen questioned White House press secretary Jay Carney on Benghazi at Thursday’s daily briefing, things became so rancorous that Carney walked out.

Carney often accuses Fox News White House correspondent Ed Henry of “playing to the conservatives” when he asks pointed questions. It was no different here.

Carney accused Rosen of “creating an exchange for Fox.”

“What we are engaged in here is for the record, not for Fox,” Rosen shot back.

Instead of answering Rosen’s follow-up question, Carney said, “James, I think we’re done here. Thank you,” and walked away from the podium.

Read more: http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/10/18/fox-reporter-goes-a-round-with-jay-carney-on-benghazi-carney-walks-out-85431

Great source material. Look at the results of the polls and then you realize this is the crazy time cryer........where the nuts congregate.

2seaoat wrote:Great source material.  Look at the results of the polls and then you realize this is the crazy time cryer........where the nuts congregate.

What did I post which is not true? Why doesn't this administration want to prove the transparency they promised? Is the SNAFU at Benghazi to embarrassing? Are those Americans, in an American Embassy not important? What are they hiding and why?

If something goes well, like the assassination of Osama bin Laden, they're blabbing secrets and information before bin Laden's feet hit the water. Why?

Two trillion and four thousand dead Americans, and it becomes a bit more difficult to frame the picture of those heroes above the White House........and fortunately the American people know the difference as we all await until 2014 to flush the toilet. Hillary will waltz into the White House because guess who is going to take responsibility for the Libyan call.......it is not a multiple choice quiz because there is only one answer, and once you realize the same.......you will understand that Hillary is from Chicago too.

2seaoat wrote:Two trillion and four thousand dead Americans, and it becomes a bit more difficult to frame the picture of those heroes above the White House........and fortunately the American people know the difference as we all await until 2014 to flush the toilet.  Hillary will waltz into the White House because guess who is going to take responsibility for the Libyan call.......it is not a multiple choice quiz because there is only one answer, and once you realize the same.......you will understand that Hillary is from Chicago too.

As you well know, and refuse to acknowledge, the War on Terror, since it began in 2001 has cost us less than $1.5 TRILLION. That's about how much President Barack Hussein Obama has plunged us into debt EACH YEAR he has been in office.

The Act of War on 9/11/2001 cost us $2 TRILLION, plus the costs world wide plus the lives of 3,000 innocent men, women and children.

Please be specific, how many more of those attacks should we have absorbed before we fought back? Or are you going to run and hide again. A number please and remember Democrat AND Republicans voted for and supported the War on Terror.

The $5 Trillion War on Terror


Last week, the Pentagon told you the costs of the war on terror had eclipsed $1 trillion. Wednesday morning, a panel of academics experienced in war accounting says that’s only a down payment — and that its real, total cost is around $5 trillion.

Five trillion dollars: that’s $16,000 per American; $64,000 for a family of four.

The final tally of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan will reach at least $3.7 trillion, and could go as high as $4.4 trillion, according to a study done by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. Borrowing the money needed to fight the wars will cost an estimated additional $1 trillion through 2020, according to the study.

Its “Costs of War” study group brought together some two dozen academics to account for the wars’ costs — along with their casualties — amid sloppy record-keeping on both fronts. The study says an “extremely conservative” death toll is 225,000, with 365,000 wounded. U.S. dead include 6,000 troops and 2,300 contractors.

The report concludes:

However one judges the US waging of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, at the very least, we should know what each of those wars has been like. We should know who has been killed, what kinds of wounds have been suffered, and what kinds of economic costs and consequences have been incurred. Those costs have been consistently minimized, misunderstood, or hidden from public view.

The reports’ authors are academics from Brown and Boston universities and other institutions, and give the wars’ costs a more rigorous scrub than the government, which has consistently under-estimated the wars’ costs and duration.

One gets a sense of the immense amounts of money being poured into security whenever one visits a federal installation ringed with new barricades manned by new guards, 24/7. The public airwaves in the capital are filled nonstop with ads from companies you have never heard of seeking to hire “personnel holding Top Secret/SCI clearances” for thousands of jobs funded by the U.S. Treasury. Washington subway billboards — especially those near the Pentagon — are crammed with huge glossy photographs of multi-billion-dollar weapon systems that defense contractors want the government to buy.

The study says, contrary to what the government told us last week, the cost of the war on terror since 9/11 is not $1 trillion but $2.5 trillion. “Our estimate is larger because we include more than the direct Pentagon appropriation for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the larger global war on terror; wars always cost more than what the Pentagon spends for the duration of the combat operation,” the report says.

The Pentagon spins the costs of its wars to the U.S. public the same way it spins the cost of its weaponry. Every aircraft the military buys, for example, carries several different price tags, depending on what is being measured. Here’s a tip: the Pentagon rarely cites the real cost of an airplane, which is the program’s total cost divided by the number of planes it is buying. Instead, it will cite the plane’s “fly-away” cost — which doesn’t include the development required to build it, and other hidden expenses. Such sleight-of-math can cut an airplane’s cost in half.

The study’s estimate of $4 trillion also includes items not counted by the Pentagon, including homeland security, veterans care and various developmental efforts. Then there is the additional $1 trillion in interest payments on the war debt.

The costs of the wars, especially in Iraq, were dramatically low-balled by the Bush Administration. Before the Iraq war began, Larry Lindsey, a top White House economic adviser, pegged the cost of the war at $200 billion; others said $300 billion. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld declared such numbers “baloney.” He also said that “it is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.” The final U.S. troops in Iraq are slated to come home by the end of this year, nearly nine years after Rumsfeld made that estimate. Apparently, his cost estimates follow a similar trajectory.



Read more: http://nation.time.com/2011/06/29/the-5-trillion-war-on-terror/#ixzz2iHMO2sTe

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I don't think the study included opportunity cost, either...the cost to other, more beneficial programs.  And how do you put a cost on a human life?  You probably use actuarial tables and cost/benefit analyses...don't you, Markle?  Stop with your lies and false equivalency.  And I forgot to mention our horrible loss of standing in the world, by a president who ignored the Geneva Conventions and bragged about the use of torture on prisoners, many of whom are guilty of nothing.

And this:

September 13, 2006 11:37 AM

Remember the anthrax letters?

By Steve Benen
Perhaps the single most common refrain from the White House and the president's allies is that there have been no terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. That's incorrect — about a month after 9/11, someone sent weaponized anthrax to two Democratic senators and several news outlets. Five Americans were killed and 17 more suffered serious illnesses.

One woman in Florida who was widowed by the attack is still waiting for some answers, and she's willing to go to court to get them.

Nearly five years after Bob Stevens' death, the first in the anthrax attacks that terrified a nation, "I want to know what happened," his widow, who's sued the government, said Wednesday from her lawyer's office. "I want to go into court and find out what happened. What information's obviously there. The truth is there."

It's been five years; where did this story go? The administration stopped talking about it, the media stopped reporting on it, and the public stopped asking about it. Why is that?

-- Guest Post by Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report



A close look at the anthrax attacks reveals the deadly bacteria could only have been produced by a covert bioweapons program in violation of international law. Is that the reason why the FBI hasn't been able to catch the killer?

Floridatexan wrote:The $5 Trillion War on Terror

Last week, the Pentagon told you the costs of the war on terror had eclipsed $1 trillion. Wednesday morning, a panel of academics experienced in war accounting says that’s only a down payment — and that its real, total cost is around $5 trillion.

Five trillion dollars: that’s $16,000 per American; $64,000 for a family of four.

The final tally of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan will reach at least $3.7 trillion, and could go as high as $4.4 trillion, according to a study done by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies.

Come on Floridatexan, HOW MANY MORE 9/11 ACTS OF WAR BEFORE WE SHOULD HAVE FOUGHT BACK?

Cute try. The cost to date is less than $1.5 TRILLION. If you want to project all the years down the road, that is a different story.

In THAT case you also must accept the FACT that our total debt including our unfunded liabilities is:

[b]Current Debt . . . $17.2 TRILLION Plus the $1.2 TRILLION proposed by President Barack Hussein Obama for 2013. (No budget approved)

Unfunded Liabilities (money we have PROMISED, do not have, nor do we have it coming in)

Social Security. . . . $16.6 TRILLION (10,000 Baby Boomers RETIRE EVERY DAY) (How many workers are entering the job market daily?)

Prescription Drugs .$22.0 TRILLION

Medicare. . . . . . . . $87.5 TRILLION

Total Unfunded Liabilities $126.2 TRILLION!

Number of Households in 2010 = 112,611,029

Unfunded Liability Per Taxpayer $1,101,203.00

http://www.usdebtclock.org/index.html

http://nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/?redirect=cow

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

Markle wrote:

2seaoat wrote:Two trillion and four thousand dead Americans, and it becomes a bit more difficult to frame the picture of those heroes above the White House........and fortunately the American people know the difference as we all await until 2014 to flush the toilet.  Hillary will waltz into the White House because guess who is going to take responsibility for the Libyan call.......it is not a multiple choice quiz because there is only one answer, and once you realize the same.......you will understand that Hillary is from Chicago too.

As you well know, and refuse to acknowledge, the War on Terror, since it began in 2001 has cost us less than $1.5 TRILLION.  That's about how much President Barack Hussein Obama has plunged us into debt EACH YEAR he has been in office.

The Act of War on 9/11/2001 cost us $2 TRILLION, plus the costs world wide plus the lives of 3,000 innocent men, women and children.

Please be specific, how many more of those attacks should we have absorbed before we fought back?  Or are you going to run and hide again.  

A number please and remember Democrat AND Republicans voted for and supported the War on Terror.

Please be specific concerning what Iraq did to cause the Twin Towers to fall?

How many more attacks?

We're not in Iraq, President Barack Hussein Obama is allowing it to revert to the country it was before the United Nations and our Congress voted to use force on Saddam Hussein.

January 1977 President Jimmy Carter takes office 1977

March 9: Three buildings in Washington, DC were seized by members of the militant African-American Muslim Hanafi sect, and over 100 hostages were taken. One bystander was shot and killed, and Washington city councilman Marion Barry was shot in the chest.

August 3: Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN in Manhattan, New York bombed the offices of Mobil Oil and a building containing US Defense Department security personnel, killing one person and injuring eight others in the Mobil offices. [Note: FALN Members serving time in prison were pardoned by President William Jefferson Clinton on his last day in office.]

1978
No Fatal Islamic Terrorist Attacks on our soil

1979
November 4: Iran Hostage Crisis takes place. Iranian Muslim students take over the American Embassy, taking 52 US diplomats hostage for 444 days. (Ended January 20, 1981)

1980 January 1981 President Ronald Reagan takes office 1981
May 16: One dead in an explosion in the toilets at the Pan Am terminal at New York's JFK airport. The bombing is claimed by the Puerto Rican Resistance Army

1982
No Fatal Islamic Terrorist Attacks on our soil

1983
April 18: 1983 United States Embassy bombing takes place. A suicide car bomber stole a van carrying 2,000 pounds of explosives and slammed into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon killing 63 people including 18 Americans.

1984
No Fatal Islamic Terrorist Attacks on our soil

1985
October 7 – October 10: Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front, during which passenger Leon Klinghoffer, a 69 year-old wheelchair-using Jewish American citizen, is shot dead and thrown overboard.

1986
April 5: 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing. A Berlin discotheque frequented by US servicemen was bombed, killing 3 people--A Turkish woman and two US servicemen--and injuring 230 including over 50 US servicemen. Libya was held responsible for this act.

1987
No Fatal Islamic Terrorist Attacks on our soil

1988
April 12: Japanese Red Army terrorist Yu Kikumura was arrested at a rest stop on the New Jersey turnpike in possession of pipe bombs on his way to New York

December 21: Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. At the time, it was the worst act of terrorism perpetrated against the United States, and involved the greatest number of peacetime fatalities (270) in the United Kingdom. Libyan agent, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, was convicted on 270 counts of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment

January 1989 President George Bush takes office

1989
No Fatal Islamic Terrorist Attacks on our soil

1990
November 5: Assassination of Meir Kahane head of Israel's Koch party and founder of the American vigilante group the Jewish Defense League in a Manhattan, New York hotel lobby by early elements of Al Queda.

1991
No Fatal Islamic Terrorist Attacks on our soil

1992
No Fatal Islamic Terrorist Attacks on our soil

January 1993 President Clinton takes office 1993

January 25: Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, fires an AK-47 assault rifle into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, killing two and injuring three others

February 26: World Trade Center bombing kills six and injures over 1000 people, by coalition of five groups: Jamaat Al-Fuqra'/Gamaat Islamiya/Hamas/Islamic Jihad/National Islamic Front, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Ramzi Yousef. June: Failed New York City landmark bomb plot, see FBI Most Wanted Terrorists

1994
March 1: In the Brooklyn Bridge Shooting, Rashid Baz kills a Hasidic seminary student and wounds four on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City in response to the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre.

1995
No Islamic terrorist attacks on our soil

1996
August The fatwa is entitled "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places."

1997
February 24: Ali Abu Kamal opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself

1998
No Islamic terrorist attacks on our soil

1999
August 7: U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, killing 225 people and injuring more than 4,000, by al-Qaeda December 14: Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the United States-Canada border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots

2000
October 12 USS Cole attack suicide attack against the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) on October 12, 2000 while it was harbored in the Yemen port of Aden. Seventeen sailors were killed and thirty-nine others were injured in the blast. 17

January 2001
President George Walker Bush takes office 2001

September 11: Attacks kill 2,997 , and many more later from exposure to toxic dust in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, and The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth plane, originally intended to hit the United States Capitol Building, crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after an apparent revolt against the hijackers by the plane's passengers.

September 18, - Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others. American Professor was to be arrested in 2008 when he committed suicide. FBI closed the case in 2010.

War in Afghanistan October 7, 2001

2002
October: John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo conduct the Beltway Sniper Attacks, killing ten people in various locations throughout the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area from October 2 until they are arrested on October 24

December 22 - shoe bomb plot was a failed bombing attempt that occurred on American Airlines Flight 63 flying from Charles De Gaulle International Airport in Paris, France, to Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida. Richard Reid was convicted

War in Iraq begins on March 20, 2003

March 20, 2003
No Fatal Islamic Terrorist Attacks on our soil

2004
No Fatal Islamic Terrorist Attacks on our soil

2005
No Fatal Islamic Terrorist Attacks on our soil

2006
No Fatal Islamic Terrorist Attacks on our soil

2007
No Fatal Islamic Terrorist Attacks on our soil

2008
No Fatal Islamic Terrorist Attacks on our soil

January 2009 President Barack Hussein Obama takes office

2009
June 1, 2009
Little Rock Arkansas shooting by Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, an American who had converted to Islam and shot two killing one Army Privates

November 5, 2009
Fort Hood shooting mass shooting the most populous United States military base in the world, located just outside Killeen, Texas — killing 13 people and wounding 30 others The accused perpetrator is Nidal Malik Hasan

December 25, 2009
Alleged Nigeria terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutall tries to explode Northwest Airlines 253 to Detroit Followed by utter confusion in the Obama administration.

2010
No Fatal Islamic Terrorist Attacks on our soil

2011
No Fatal Islamic Terrorist Attacks on our soil

2012
Anniversary of 9/11/2001
Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, two Navy SEALS and one other American brutally murdered and the embassy destroyed in a terrorist attack planned by al Qaeda on our unprotected embassy in Benghazi, Libya. No investigation to date no answers. Wow…arrest warrants have been issued but no arrests have been made.

2013
Boston Marathon
April 15, 2013
BOSTON (AP) — Public health officials are now saying that 264 people sought treatment at hospitals for injuries sustained in the Boston Marathon bombings.

Three people were killed and at least 14 people lost all or part of a limb.

Administration quickly announces that Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev acted alone. President Obama then tells his corrupt Attorney General Eric Holder to HALT the interrogation of the surviving terrorist.

Why? Who’s side is President Barack Hussein Obama on?

August 5, 2013
Twenty one American Embassies in the Middle East and North Africa closed for at least a week because of threats from al-Qaida.

Floridatexan wrote:
And this:

September 13, 2006 11:37 AM

Remember the anthrax letters?

By Steve Benen
Perhaps the single most common refrain from the White House and the president's allies is that there have been no terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. That's incorrect — about a month after 9/11, someone sent weaponized anthrax to two Democratic senators and several news outlets. Five Americans were killed and 17 more suffered serious illnesses.


One woman in Florida who was widowed by the attack is still waiting for some answers, and she's willing to go to court to get them.

Nearly five years after Bob Stevens' death, the first in the anthrax attacks that terrified a nation, "I want to know what happened," his widow, who's sued the government, said Wednesday from her lawyer's office. "I want to go into court and find out what happened. What information's obviously there. The truth is there."

It's been five years; where did this story go? The administration stopped talking about it, the media stopped reporting on it, and the public stopped asking about it. Why is that?

-- Guest Post by Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report



A close look at the anthrax attacks reveals the deadly bacteria could only have been produced by a covert bioweapons program in violation of international law. Is that the reason why the FBI hasn't been able to catch the killer?

September 18, - Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others. American Professor was to be arrested in 2008 when he committed suicide. FBI closed the case in 2010.

2seaoat wrote:Two trillion and four thousand dead Americans, and it becomes a bit more difficult to frame the picture of those heroes above the White House........and fortunately the American people know the difference as we all await until 2014 to flush the toilet.  Hillary will waltz into the White House because guess who is going to take responsibility for the Libyan call.......it is not a multiple choice quiz because there is only one answer, and once you realize the same.......you will understand that Hillary is from Chicago too.

Seaoat, just like HIllary and Obama we know you don't care and that's why you're so irrelevant now. Hillary will answer these questions once and for all or she won't make it out of the Dem primaries. A POTUS left these people for dead and the Sec of State covered it all up by silence and then feigning sickness.

I find it hard to believe that the president and sos were not watching the live video feed. but if not... why not?