Sister of Slain Ambassador: Hillary Isn’t To Blame For Benghazi, REPUBLICANS Are


Dr. Anne Stevens, sister of slain Ambassador Chris Stevens, who spoke out against right-wing conspiracy theorists and Republican budget-spenders in an interview with the New Yorker, absolving former Secretary Clinton of blame for the attacks and placing it squarely where it belongs – with the House Republicans who slashed embassy security funds in the name of austerity.

Dr. Stevens said that “I do not blame Hillary Clinton or [then Secretary of Defense] Leon Panetta. They were balancing security efforts at embassies and missions around the world. And their staffs were doing their best to provide what they could with the resources they had. The Benghazi Mission was understaffed. We know that now. But, again, Chris knew that. It wasn’t a secret to him. He decided to take the risk to go there. It is not something they did to him. It is something he took on himself.”

When asked if she thought the issue was politicized, she replied “Yes! Definitely politicized. Every report I read that mentions him specifically has a political bent, an accusatory bent.” She then went on to place to blame for the attacks where it truly belongs: with the Republican-dominated House of Representatives.

“It is clear, in hindsight, that the facility was not sufficiently protected by the State Department and the Defense Department. But what was the underlying cause? Perhaps if Congress had provided a budget to increase security for all missions around the world, then some of the requests for more security in Libya would have been granted. Certainly the State Department is underbudgeted…It would be much more useful for Congress to focus on providing resources for security for all State Department facilities around the world—for increasing personnel, language capabilities, for increasing staff to build relationships, particularly in North Africa and the Middle East. I would love to hear they are drastically increasing the budget.”


http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/chris-stevenss-family-dont-blame-hillary-clinton-for-benghazi?utm_content=bufferd52c6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

So, Republicans forced Obama and Hillary not to send rescue forces to Benghazi?

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Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz (Utah) acknowledged on Wednesday that House Republicans had consciously voted to reduce the funds allocated to the State Department for embassy security since winning the majority in 2010.

CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien asked the Utah Republican if he had “voted to cut the funding for embassy security.”

“Absolutely,” Chaffetz said. “Look we have to make priorities and choices in this country."

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So, Republicans forced Obama and Hillary not to send rescue forces to Benghazi?

That's not what Gowdy's report said d2.  Have you bothered to read that latest republican report?

So, Republicans forced Obama and Hillary not to send rescue forces to Benghazi?

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republicans are no match for the clinton brain

The report also finds that the military did not carry out then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's order to deploy U.S. forces to help rescue Americans under fire in Benghazi.

"What was disturbing from the evidence the Committee found was that at the time of the final lethal attack at the Annex, no asset ordered deployed by the Secretary had even left the ground," the report says.

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https://www.youtube.com/v/Dd9fKxMzeAM
https://www.youtube.com/v/9prSnWynJDo

So the wife of a liberal democrat hack appointee is falsely blaming Republicans for Hillary's incompetence and indifference?  Does that about sum it up?  Shame on her.

Democrats are truly disgusting.  (http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/Smileys/classic/angry.gif)

Republican traitors, sullying the lives of 4 American diplomats for an attempt at political gain.  Shame.

All this time I thought a YouTube video was the cause.

Yall keep jumping from cause to cause don't you?

The Washington Post Fact Checker: “The Reality Is That Funding For Embassy Security Has Increased Significantly In Recent Years.” “Moreover, while Boxer claims that Republicans ‘cut’ the budget, she is only comparing it to what the Obama administration proposed. The reality is that funding for embassy security has increased significantly in recent years. The Department of State’s base requests for security funding have increased by 38 percent since Fiscal Year (FY) 2007, and base budget appropriations have increased by 27 percent in the same time period,’ said the bipartisan Senate Homeland Security report on the Benghazi attack.” (Glenn Kessler, “Barbara Boxer’s Claim That GOP Budgets Hampered Benghazi Security,” The Washington Post's Fact Checker (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/barbara-boxers-claim-that-gop-budgets-hampered-benghazi-security/2013/05/15/d1e295cc-bdb0-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html), 5/16/13)

democrat traitors, sullying the lives of 4 Americans for an attempt at political gain.  Shame.

That's what Hillary told the widow of one of the victims after knowing it was a terror attack from the beginning.  That's what she said to us all for three weeks before admitting what she knew on day one.

So, Republicans forced Obama and Hillary not to send rescue forces to Benghazi?

The report also finds that the military did not carry out then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's order to deploy U.S. forces to help rescue Americans under fire in Benghazi.

"What was disturbing from the evidence the Committee found was that at the time of the final lethal attack at the Annex, no asset ordered deployed by the Secretary had even left the ground," the report says.

Denial will not solve Stevens and the other murders from lack of protection by Hillary and Obama even when the Amb. Stevens requested it for months before the Islamic terrorists murdered the Americans.   But we can always blame it on a video as Hillary and Obama did with Hillary lying to the families of the dead as they have stated after speaking with her on the AFB tarmac where the coffins were unloaded.

So, Republicans forced Obama and Hillary not to send rescue forces to Benghazi?

Republicans forced Hillary's State Department to lose $6 billion?

Republicans forced Hillary's State Department to uses local security instead of Marines or Blackwater?

The report also finds that the military did not carry out then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's order to deploy U.S. forces to help rescue Americans under fire in Benghazi.



The report claimed that White House officials convened a meeting at 7:30 PM just after the attack began which ran about two hours long. During the meeting, administration officials focused on an anti-Islamic YouTube video. Other action items discussed during the meeting said that before military support is provided , “Libya must agree to any deployment.”

Also included in the report was the fact that a Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team (FAST), was activated in Rota, Spain, but was grounded for as many as three hours. FAST teams are comprised (http://www.military.com/special-operations/marine-fleet-antiterrorism-security-team.html) of highly trained Marine Corps elements responsible for protecting Navy and Marine Corps assets abroad in emergency situations.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/28/benghazi-report-claims-government-officials-failed-to-act-on-obamas-orders/

LOL, the idiots think it was a money problem not to protect the Ambassador...  Try again idiots.  No one is that stupid.   

Other dumb post by Mrs wvit-hawkie (http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/Smileys/classic/emo_hattip.gif)

so you guys are still relying on people telling you what's in the report and you refuse to read it yourselves?

Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz (Utah) acknowledged on Wednesday that House Republicans had consciously voted to reduce the funds allocated to the State Department for embassy security since winning the majority in 2010.

CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien asked the Utah Republican if he had “voted to cut the funding for embassy security.”

“Absolutely,” Chaffetz said. “Look we have to make priorities and choices in this country."

So, Republicans forced Obama and Hillary not to send rescue forces to Benghazi?

Republicans forced Hillary's State Department to lose $6 billion?

Republicans forced Hillary's State Department to uses local security instead of Marines or Blackwater?

you should read the report d2 because they idiocy you spew isn't in it anywhere.

https://benghazi.house.gov/NewInfo

So, Republicans forced Obama and Hillary not to send rescue forces to Benghazi?

Republicans forced Hillary's State Department to lose $6 billion?

Republicans forced Hillary's State Department to uses local security instead of Marines or Blackwater?
                                                                                                                                       

The following facts are among the many new revelations in Part I:

Despite President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s clear orders to deploy military assets, nothing was sent to Benghazi, and nothing was en route to Libya at the time the last two Americans were killed almost 8 hours after the attacks began. [pg. 141]

The ones truly responsible for Benghazi are those who believe Hillary and Obama bear no fault in the failure there.

 Not once during those 13 long hours did Obama, Panetta or Hillary request an update on the rescue!

The fact is they didn't care and showed no concern for the lives of those people in Benghazi!

They simply didn't care!

is that just something else you made up d2?

Who then was held responsible for failure to execute those clear orders?  What sort of consequences did they suffer?

Who then was held responsible for failure to execute those clear orders?  What sort of consequences did they suffer?


Who do you think?  It's the responsibility of the CIC 

have you read the report?  I can't read it for you.

the report mentions no "stand down" order being given xyz.  what are you blabbering about?

you can look through the timeline in Appendix G for a stand down order but I haven't seen anything about one.

The operators on the ground clearly stated there was two stand down orders give them

But they went in anyway!

Why are you so stupid nitwit? Ignorant as usual posting it with no shame makes you a lying psycho!

the report mentions no "stand down" order being given sine.  what are you blabbering about?

you can look through the timeline in Appendix G for a stand down order but I haven't seen anything about one.

do you think Gowdy hid or failed to report on some of the stuff he and his committee were told? 

Believe who wasn't there

Or believe eye witnesses who were there

You get suckered all the time nitwit.  Why are you so stupid?  Genetics or leftist brainwashing?

Not once during those 13 long hours did Obama, Panetta or Hillary request an update on the rescue!

The fact is they didn't care and showed no concern for the lives of those people in Benghazi!

They simply didn't care!

do you think Gowdy hid or failed to report on some of the stuff he and his committee were told?

Do you believe multiple eye witness report accounts

Or

Those who weren't even there, stooge?

do you think Gowdy hid or failed to report on some of the stuff he and his committee were told?

What I think is that when those guys you reference were under oath they changed their stories. 

No, they weren't and did not.

Apparently you need your lies to justify your insanity nitwit!

Still can't answer my questions, the true sign of a lying psycho that you portray here so well nitwit!

You're a couple bubbles off plumb sine.

have you read the report?  I can't read it for you.

You read all 800 pages of the report, wvit?   You are a liar.

Blah blah blah nitwit

Still refuse to answer you psycho stooge

Why are you refusing to answe sine?

The Chief of Base was adamant that he never told the Annex team members
to “stand down.”
You said that you let them go. Did you give them an affirmative
order for them to go?
A: I think I was working with [the Team Lead] the whole time –
Q: Okay.
A: —in an effort to get them to get them gone, to have them go.
So whether or not I gave an affirmative order, but I wanted them
to go. They were cleared to go. And they went.
Q: When you say they were cleared to go, is that you giving the
clearance?
A: Yes.
*****
see him yelling at [the Chief of Base]. He’s going like this. Now,
I didn’t hear it, but I asked him after what he said to him. He was
just there. Him and [the Chief of Base] are jaw jacking.
He gets in the car. I said what’s going on, dude? He said he’s
telling us to stand down. Now [GRS 1] told me that on the radio,
but I said my vehicle was doors were closed, armored vehicle,
but I remember seeing him go to the driver’s side and just—
Q: So it was just you and [GRS 5] in your vehicle?
A: Yeah. And then I also reconfirmed that when I asked [GRS 1]
later. He wasn’t happy.1
Q: Did you have any discussions—do you recall having any discussions
with the deputy chief of base about allowing the guys to
go?
A: I don’t recall any. It was never—I never had any doubt about
the GRS people going to the State Department compound. I had
great concerns and great worry about it but I did not, I did not
tell anybody to stand down.

The Chief of Base acknowledged he may have told the team to wait
while he was attempting to secure additional resources for them.
I may have said wait because we were trying to get this technical
truck that the team lead wanted. But it wasn’t 10 minutes, or 5
minutes. It was a short period of time. And the only time I remember
ever talking to [Annex team member] was when he
came up, and I said I’m trying to get a technical truck for [the
Team Lead]. There was nobody, myself or anybody else in Benghazi,
that did anything to hold up the GRS deploying. The team
lead was always cleared to go.164
He further added:
People were coming and going the entire time. But I did not issue
a stand-down order. And if there was a delay, there was a
very short delay, basically the team lead we have to try to get
this gun truck.

The butcher of Benghazi and the illiterate pos in the WH are the blame for the deaths of those in Benghazi, no if's, no and's and no buts...period..

Answer what?

I've asked you multiple times here to answer me but you continue to ignore me like a scared little girl that you are!

Answe what?  What's your question? 

was that from the report xyz or from the official deposition or what?

what page was it on?

https://benghazi.house.gov/NewInfo

Sorry did not mean to top post.......

but I can add this....

http://www.forwardprogressives.com/benghazi-ambassador-stevens-family-just-made-donald-trump-look-like-a-fool/

Not once during those 13 long hours did Obama, Panetta or Hillary request an update on the rescue!

The fact is they didn't care and showed no concern for the lives of those people in Benghazi!

They simply didn't care!                                                                                                                                       

I asked you this before d2 but you never answered.  Is that just something else you've made up?

That is what the facts tell me!

Had they asked for updates they would have known the rescue wasn't taking place and been able to get things moving!

The fact the rescue never got off the ground proves they never asked for an update at any time during those 13 hours!

Logic and reason lead to the truth of it!

Sorry, you are not capable of doing the same!

so, the short answer is yes, it's just something else you made up.

Wvit admits he has no logic, reasoning or deductive capability!

How sad!

Add "devoid of honesty," and you've got a deal.

Fair point!

Isn't that what you just said d2?  That you made it up?

So, Wvit are you saying Obama/Hillary regularly go updates and were satisfied no rescue operation was underway?

I didn't say that.  Was that in the report d2?  All I can go by is what Gowdy's republican lead committee put in the report.

Wvit it is one of the two!

Either not once during those 13 long hours did Obama, Panetta or Hillary request an update on the rescue!

Or,  Obama/Hillary regularly got updates and were satisfied no rescue operation was underway?   

Either way the fact is they didn't care and showed no concern for the lives of those people in Benghazi!

They simply didn't care!                                                                     

I think the report actually says that the president and secretary of state were fully involved and updated throughout the attack and it's aftermath doesn't it.

I guess your thoroughly disappointed in the committee report since it doesn't back up any of the crazy stuff you believe.

Sounds like a standard Command Level Cluster Fuck.

 So you admit Obama/Hillary regularly got updates and were satisfied no rescue operation was underway?   

The fact is they didn't care and showed no concern for the lives of those people in Benghazi!

They simply didn't care!                                          

I don't see where the report said anything like that d2.  you should really stop just making up stuff.


I guess your thoroughly disappointed in the committee report since it doesn't back up any of the crazy stuff you believe.

Wvit it is one of the two!

Either not once during those 13 long hours did Obama, Panetta or Hillary request an update on the rescue!

Or,  Obama/Hillary regularly got updates and were satisfied no rescue operation was underway?   

Either way the fact is they didn't care and showed no concern for the lives of those people in Benghazi!

They simply didn't care!            

Don't expect an honest answer from wvit.

You guys must really be disappointed in gowey's report.

Everything I posted is in sync with the Benghazi report!

Sorry you have no reasoning ability, Wvit!

I doubt you have the ability to analyze let alone reason, DVD.
 
You have no room to talk.  Your illogic is legendary.
 
 
 
 

Hillary Isn’t To Blame For Benghazi, REPUBLICANS Are
 
So what you are telling us is that when Obama and Hillary got the news that the Benghazi Embassy was under attack the best they could do was send out a memo proclaiming "Sorry, we don't have the funds Steven, yer on your own."
 
How many other ways does the left have that can make both Obama and Hillary look even less competent?

Prove me wrong, Davik?

You cannot so instead you bleat feeble childish insult!

jews have an effective word for the anti hillary viputeration

drech

keep it in mind

You cannot prove me wrong so instead you bleat feeble childish insults!

Jews have a great word for someone who supports Hillary: putz.

... I thought it was schmuck.

They have similar connotations.  Both apply to cas.

 

Hillary Isn’t To Blame For Benghazi, REPUBLICANS Are

So what you are telling us is that when Obama and Hillary got the news that the Benghazi Embassy was under attack the best they could do was send out a memo proclaiming "Sorry, we don't have the funds Steven, yer on your own."

How many other ways does the left have that can make both Obama and Hillary look even less competent?

Tray Goudy is a terrorist enabler.

No, jw, he is not an Obama supporter or a democrat.

republicans cut the funding for protection

be a man and tell the truth

You would say they were false numbers 5th........

It is one of the two!

Either not once during those 13 long hours did Obama, Panetta or Hillary request an update on the rescue!

Or,  Obama/Hillary regularly got updates and were satisfied no rescue operation was underway!

Either way the fact is they didn't care and showed no concern for the lives of those people in Benghazi!

   

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http://freedomsback.com/ann-coulter/this-hidden-fact-predicts-terrorism/