Ben Rhodes emails to Susan Rice outline cover up over Benghazi

PACEDOG#1 wrote:http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/article/20140430/NEWS05/304300041/Senator-Benghazi-e-mails-reveal-White-House-misinformation?sf25615062=1

It's unraveling faster than even the Dems can spin shit now.

Sal wrote:Why would they cover it up?

It's the same thing we've known since the fall of 2012.

Three days after the attack, the White House didn’t have much information on what had actually happened and was casting around for an explanation it could throw out to the baying jackals of the press to keep them occupied for a few days while the various intelligence and law enforcement agencies involved in the investigation worked the case and get a more complete picture.

It’s called investigative work, and sometimes it is slow and painful.

Especially when the investigation is taking place across the ocean in a semi-collapsed petro-state with little infrastructure or government.

What else would you expect from someone whose title is “Strategic Communications Adviser”.

lol

EMAILGAHZI!!

Wordslinger wrote:The worst part of the seemingly unending republican's effort to destroy Obama because of the disaster in Benghazi, is that most of us no longer give a shit.

The ambassador and his guards were killed in a terrorist attack.  That's awful, but on a scale of 1-10, 10 being the worst White House mistake that caused loss of American lives, compared to, say, invading Iraq, Benghazi isn't even a 1.

Did the government fuck up by not providing adequate protection to the ambassador and his guards?  Yes, surely.

Did the government then try to spin the situation?  Sure.  Every government we've ever had spun shit to look better.  That's what governments do.

The facts are, what makes the Benghazi incident so profoundly important to idiots like Pacedog and Herr Markle, is their complete awareness they can't win an election by persuading African Americans or Hispanics, Women or college students that the world would be better run by a few bloodsucking corporations.  And besides, a significant portion of the republican coalition doesn't want black or brown members anyway.

So, if you can't win the driver's seat by elections, you're left attacking the existing government by leaping on any available scandal, or by limiting the voting of the folks you can't stand anyway.

Reality.

Sal wrote:Why would they cover it up?

It's the same thing we've known since the fall of 2012.

Three days after the attack, the White House didn’t have much information on what had actually happened and was casting around for an explanation it could throw out to the baying jackals of the press to keep them occupied for a few days while the various intelligence and law enforcement agencies involved in the investigation worked the case and get a more complete picture.

It’s called investigative work, and sometimes it is slow and painful.

Especially when the investigation is taking place across the ocean in a semi-collapsed petro-state with little infrastructure or government.

What else would you expect from someone whose title is “Strategic Communications Adviser”.

lol

EMAILGAHZI!!

PkrBum wrote:Having overthrown and destabilized the country prior... cutting security was either naive or incompetent.

Neither of which were politically expedient just before an election... that's the fucking reality. It worked on most.

Terrorism was on the run alright... running roughshod over Americans.

Wordslinger wrote:The worst part of the seemingly unending republican's effort to destroy Obama because of the disaster in Benghazi, is that most of us no longer give a shit.

The ambassador and his guards were killed in a terrorist attack.  That's awful, but on a scale of 1-10, 10 being the worst White House mistake that caused loss of American lives, compared to, say, invading Iraq, Benghazi isn't even a 1.

Did the government fuck up by not providing adequate protection to the ambassador and his guards?  Yes, surely.

Did the government then try to spin the situation?  Sure.  Every government we've ever had spun shit to look better.  That's what governments do.

The facts are, what makes the Benghazi incident so profoundly important to idiots like Pacedog and Herr Markle, is their complete awareness they can't win an election by persuading African Americans or Hispanics, Women or college students that the world would be better run by a few bloodsucking corporations.  And besides, a significant portion of the republican coalition doesn't want black or brown members anyway.

So, if you can't win the driver's seat by elections, you're left attacking the existing government by leaping on any available scandal, or by limiting the voting of the folks you can't stand anyway.

Reality.

Floridatexan wrote:

PkrBum wrote:Having overthrown and destabilized the country prior... cutting security was either naive or incompetent.

Neither of which were politically expedient just before an election... that's the fucking reality. It worked on most.

Terrorism was on the run alright... running roughshod over Americans.

Congress (translation: GOP members) cut funding for embassies prior to this event.  This was not even an embassy, and was supposed to be guarded by the CIA (translation:  Patraeus).  It would take a person who's naive to think that an occurrence like this just prior to an election shouldn't be questioned in that light.  The effing reality...the whole thing began with Bush's illegal and pre-emptive invasion of Afghanistan and then Iraq, in a blatant bait and switch and a need to cast blame on the "other" for the tragedy of 9/11.  None of this holds a candle to what Bush did...not even close.

Wordslinger wrote:The worst part of the seemingly unending republican's effort to destroy Obama because of the disaster in Benghazi, is that most of us no longer give a shit.
Reality.

PkrBum wrote:Polly want a cracker?

PkrBum wrote:It's telling that you so desperately want to change the subject and ignore the political cover up and lies.

I imagine it gets hard to ignore that little voice of reason telling you that your standards are corrupt and partisan.