The Watergate Under The Benghazi Bridge.....

It continues on. The Republicans want answers to Benghazi.

You notice that Republicans overplay their hand. They did it during the Tea Party protests in 2009. They did it while there was the Gulf Oil spill in 2010. They did it during the health care debate. They did during the Operation Fast & Furious issue in 2011. They are doing it through the continuous repeals of Obamacare in 2012. And now we're in 2013 and the very same party of obstruction continues down the path to defeat.

They're worked up over this Benghazi consulate attack and it's becoming more of a migraine instead of a real controversy. The Republicans are using the victims as props in a political sabotage of President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State and floated presidential candidate.

The Republicans are never blameless but they hate it when the Democrats bring up the past.

For you see that during the previous term of George W. Bush, on September 11, 2001, our nation was attack on home soil by foreign nationals. We went into two wars. One being the War on Terror (which is the ongoing Afghanistan war). The other was based on intelligence saying the nation of Iraq was holding "weapons of mass destruction". That war was closed out in 2011 with no weapons of mass destruction being found and over 4,500 soldiers and thousands of innocent victims. This president managed to see many Americans die on home soil during the Hurricane Katrina disaster. This president allowed young men and women die at Virginia Tech. This previous administration fired lawyers, outed a CIA agent, paid columnist to speak talking points, appoint a Fox News host as a press secretary and a press secretary becomes a Fox News host. His vice president shot a man in the face. And yet, the Democrats didn't think of drafting Articles of Impeachment on a president. Scratch that there was Dennis Kucinich.

Is one to believe that "RACE" doesn't have a thing to do with all this rabble rousing from those Republicans?

The people over at Loserville are furious at the rest of the junk food media. They're so angry over the fact that no one in the junk food media cares about this Benghazi incident.

The tragedy happened on September 11, 2012 in which extremists attacked the United States Diplomatic Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. A group with ties to an extremist group stormed the compound. The chaos occurred during an outburst of reactionary outrage. The incident ended up killing four Americans.

The Islamic protests over in Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco were sparked by the viewing of an anti-Islamic video. The effects happened in Libya as well. How are we to know that a video would inspire a terrorist group?

President Barack Obama was angered over this. He ordered then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to return back to the United States. The next day, he expressed outrage and determined that those involved this "act of terror" will be brought to justice.

Four of these extraordinary Americans were killed in an attack on our diplomatic post in Benghazi.  Among those killed was our Ambassador, Chris Stevens, as well as Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith. We are still notifying the families of the others who were killed.  

Along with his colleagues, Chris died in a country that is still striving to emerge from the recent experience of war. 

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.

But we also know that the lives these Americans led stand in stark contrast to those of their attackers.  These four Americans stood up for freedom and human dignity.  They should give every American great pride in the country that they served, and the hope that our flag represents to people around the globe who also yearn to live in freedom and with dignity.

We grieve with their families, but let us carry on their memory, and let us continue their work of seeking a stronger America and a better world for all of our children.

The president, Vice President Joe Biden attended the viewing of diplomats J. Christopher Stevens, Ty Woods, Sean Smith, and Glen Doherty. The president met with the families of each victim.

What started this nonsense was the White House press statement determining it to be a "spontaneous" event sparked by anti-Islamic movie and the chaos that sparked overseas.

United Nations secretary Susan Rice appears on most Sunday news programs to say the side of the story.

The perennial loser Mitt Romney tried to bait the president into this conflict. He immediately licked his chops on the news of a terrorist attack. Romney thought of potential of winning the White House on this tragedy. The conservative media figures such as that Guy Who Helped Obama Win (best known as Sean Hannity) was relentless in this. He made calls to the Romney campaign demanding the perennial loser take up this issue as well as Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers.

At the presidential debate, the perennial loser Mitt Romney got his ass handed to him. The president told him that he acknowledge the word "terror" in his Rose Garden statements. CNN anchor Candy Crowley even helped the president and Romney get in a few words.

Enter 2013, the Republicans are rehashing this stuff again. They're looking at these "whistleblowers" as the key to finding out what happened in Benghazi.

The Guardian reports that Gregory Hicks, deputy to murdered US ambassador Christopher Stevens, revealed for the first time in public a detailed account of the desperate few hours after the terrorist attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi.

Rescuers tried to save Christopher Stevens.

He also said that Stevens went to Benghazi to beat a 30 September deadline to convert the mission to a permanent posting. There was additional time pressure because Clinton planned to visit Libya later in the year and to announce the opening of the post, Hicks said.

But Hicks and two other state department witnesses also singled out the government response for criticism. Until now that criticism had been largely dismissed as a partisan effort by Republican congressman to smear former Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time.

Hicks claimed Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, telephoned him to complain that he had given critical evidence to congressional investigators without the presence of a "minder" from the state department. "A phone call from that senior a person is generally considered not to be good news," said Hicks, who said he had since been demoted. "She was upset. She was very upset."

The career diplomat also alleged he was actively discouraged by officials from asking awkward questions about why other top Clinton aides, including the UN ambassador Susan Rice, initially blamed the attack on a spontaneous protest that got out of control. He described that briefing he described as "jaw-dropping, embarrassing and stunning". It is now thought the attacks, involving up to 60 heavily armed militia, were co-ordinates by Ansar al-Sharia, a group affiliated to al-Qaida, and timed to coincide with the 11th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.

The allegations of a state department cover-up follow equally embarrassing claims that military leaders blocked efforts to dispatch special forces troops to the Benghazi consulate.

In testimony that first emerged on Monday, Hicks claims that four special forces soldiers with him in Tripoli were "furious" when they were told by superiors in Washington that they could not join a relief flight to Benghazi organised by the Libyan government in the hours after the initial attack.

Trying to sabotage any potential thoughts of her running for president, the Republicans harp on Benghazi in order to put a dent in the President Obama's agenda and try to derail Hillary Clinton's potential run for president.

Mark Thompson, a former marine who heads the foreign emergency support team, also alleged that the White House blocked his efforts to dispatch a specialist group from the US that is designed to respond to incidents such as the Benghazi attack.

Hicks said he was told that US air force jets based in Italy could have reached the consulate in "two to three hours" but were blocked, out of fear of offending the Libyan government, and because a refueling tanker could not be found.

Pentagon officials have repeatedly argued that none of the available military assets could have reached Benghazi in time to prevent the death of ambassador Stevens and three other consular staff. But Hicks insisted even if they had been too late, better attempts should have been made. "People in peril in future need to know that we will go to get them," he said. "That night we needed to demonstrate that resolve even if we still had the same outcome."

While under oath, three men testify about Benghazi.

Hicks also rejected the defense given by Hillary Clinton when pressed on the initial delay in attributing the attack to terrorists, arguing the US undermined its Libyan allies who were rightly pointing to Ansar al-Sharia.

"President Magarief was insulted in front of his own people, in front of the world. His credibility was reduced. His ability to govern was [damaged]. He was angry … He was still steamed about the talk shows two weeks later. I definitely believe it negatively affected our ability to get the FBI team quickly to Benghazi."

Hicks also testified that part of the reason that Stevens was in Benghazi was to make preparations to convert the mission to a permanent post, and to lay the groundwork for a visit by Clinton. "At least one of the reasons the ambassador was in Benghazi was to further the secretary's wish that that post become a permanent constituent post" and because Clinton "intended to visit later that year" to announce the conversion.

Democrats on the committee attempted to play down the significance of the new evidence. "There is no smoking gun today," said Mark Pocan of Wisconsin. "There is not even a lukewarm slingshot." Deputy chair Elijah Cummings said the hearing would not be able to get to a full picture without recalling other military witnesses.

But the powerful and at times emotional testimony of the state department witnesses is likely to rekindle questions over the government's handling of the incident. The Obama administration had hoped that an earlier independent review panel had drawn a line under the issue.

Republicans characterize their refusal to let the Benghazi issue go as a determination to find out what went wrong. But some Democrats have suggested that the real intention is to taint both the White House and Clinton in a bid to dent her chances in 2016 should she decide to run.

Hicks described receiving the final telephone call from ambassador Stephens revealing he was under attack. He said an attach ran into his villa "yelling Greg, Greg, the consulate's under attack". Hicks looked at his phone and had two missed calls. He called back and got ambassador Stevens. "He said, 'Greg, we're under attack.'"

"I said 'OK' and the line cut."

Hicks then described how he had taken refuge in a secure villa that was set alight with petrol by the attackers. He also told how the embassy building in Benghazi was hit by mortar fire and how a tiny group of soldiers at both sites fought through the night to prevent both facilities from being overrun.

"September 11 was a routine day until we heard the news that our embassy in Cairo had been stormed and they were trying to tear down the flag," recalled Hicks.

"I had bad cellphone reception but walked to the tactical operations center and heard that our consulate in Benghazi had been breached and at least 20 armed individuals were in the compound."

After twice not recognizing the number, he said he received a short call from ambassador Stevens, thought to be his last, who said they "were under attack". He and an assistant, Sean Smith, were led to a safe area inside a villa next to the consulate by security agent Scott Strickland. It was set on fire with jerry cans of fuel shortly after 9pm.

"Scott attempted to lead them out but they didn't follow. He tried to get back in but was beaten back by the smoke," said Hicks. "Petroleum-based fires emit cyanide gas and one full breath can kill you. They managed to pull Sean out, but he was dead. They couldn't find Chris."

A second wave was coming to attack and the remaining consulate staff fell back to a nearby CIA annex. "After about an hour and a half of probing attacks from terrorists that they were able to repulse they decided to evacuate," said Hicks. They met with a response team flown from Tripoli on a Libyan C130 transporter and retreated back to the capital.

Hicks says at this point he still thought that ambassador Stevens might be alive and he received word from the Libyan government that he was being held in a hospital run by the same group responsible for the attack. "I thought we might need a hostage response team to get the ambassador out of a hospital under enemy control," explained Hicks.

At the same time the group was claiming responsibility for the Benghazi attack on Twitter, embassy staff began noticing threats against their facility in Tripoli too.

"We began planning to evacuate, and took 55 people to the annex " said Hicks. "At 2am Hillary Clinton calls and she asks me what is going on. I brief her mostly about ambassador Stevens and told her we would need to evacuate. At 3am I received a call from from the prime minister of Libya who told me that ambassador Stevens had passed away. It was the hardest call I have ever had to take."

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Hicks says he has vivid memories of communications staff in Tripoli destroying classified equipment including a female officer manager "smashing hard drives with an axe". The contingent in Benghazi then tried to drive to the airport around dawn but were hit by two mortar rounds.

"The first mortar was long and landed among the Libyans who were escorting us – they took casualties. The next was short and landed on the annex roof, killing one of our people and seriously wounding another, David. Mark charged onto the roof and strapped David, who was a large man, to his back and carried him down the ladder."

Hicks says he wanted to send further reinforcements to Benghazi where they had been fighting through the night but was unable.

Eric Nordstrom, a security officer who also gave evidence to Congress said the lessons state department employees have taken from Benghazi were scathing: "Whether you're at a mission, preparing for a hearing or you're standing on top of a building "surrounded by a mob," he says, "The message is the same: You're on your own!"


The conservative agitating media seems to have collective memory loss when it comes to how the president handles these incidents. They never figured that being the president is 24/7. They don't see that the president is ready on day one.

So to hear these individuals on talk radio and the junk food news channels talk about how the president took a vacation or show no sympathy for the victims is ridiculous. I even hear that some are throwing in the children. Once again proving that they can't leave the innocent out of the discussion.