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What concrete facts have come out so far that suggests that this is some kind of cover up, as opposed to simply negligence?
We have a murdered Ambassador and negligence is OK?
When is the last time our embassy or consulate was violated and an Ambassador killed? And so far we've done squat.
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Anyway, to answer your question (why is it all the Libs wear their ignorance like it's armor? There's plenty of info out there, you needn't spoil your virgin eyes by watching Fox news. Watch CNN or google for print articles.)
- Within the first 24 hrs of the attack there were former intel and military officials on the TV explaining that this was a coordinated terrorist attack. Apparently, there is not a lot of 'secrecy' in Washington DC, but I suppose that shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody who actually pays attention to the news. These people knew, and explained to those of us watching, that there were heavy weapons like mortars, RPGs and vehicles with mounted machine guns.
- Later it became clear that the Libyan embassy and staff had been begging for more security. That includes those with the State Dept responsible for security who were stationed in Libya. We also learned that everyone else (e.g., British consulate etc) had pulled out of Benghazi because of the security concerns and previous attacks. Heck, our own consulate had been previously attacked. A fairly powerful bomb was detonated blowing up a large section of our security wall. It was reported that several militia groups associated with AQ operated in Benghazi.
- In spite of the above we're sitting there watching Clinton, Obama and Rice on TV numerous times (TV shows, UN speech and press conferences etc.) blaming the video and preaching down to us about not insulting "Islam". Pardon me, but but it pisses the fvck out of me to be lied to right to my face. Now I'm sure I've lied to by politicians quite a bit, but in most cases I don't know it until well after. Anybody who thinks people show up at a spontaneous demonstrations with mortars and RPGs is a g0d d@mn moron.
- Then we have the fact that no help was sent even though requested. The attack went on for 7 hrs and IMO it inexcusable that help wasn't sent. There were far too many ex-military and ex-CIA officials on TV describing our military assets in that region for any reasonable person to believe that at least those ex-SEALs couldn't have been helped. We have a large base located in Sigonella (Sicily, Italy) that is about 400 miles from Benghazi and help could have been sent from there. In any case, when an embassy or consulate is attacked you MUST send forces in, I don't give a g0d d@mn when they arrive. Even if too late to help people you go secure the facility and sensitive documents etc. The main objective of having Marines posted at embassies etc is to secure the classified and sensitives documents kept at such places. We still haven't done that to my knowledge. Heck, it was only about a week or so ago a US news crew was at the site and found sensitive documents lying on floor in plain sight (it was a draft of a cable from the Ambassador again requesting additional security).
IMO, you simply can NOT refuse to send forces when an embassy or consulate is attacked. By doing so, all we've done is let AQ and similar groups know that they can attack our facilities at will because if we can't get there in 15 minutes, with perfect fore knowledge, we ain't coming. This places our diplomatic staff in a very very bad situation. I'd be willing to bet that this Benghazi situation is going to cause us trouble in the future: Terrorists will be emboldened to attack us again somewhere because the clear lesson so far is that they can do so without repercussion etc.
And before anybody says we couldn't go in to Benghazi with forces because we didn't have info about the situation - that's a bunch of sh!t. We had people there on ground communicating with us and we had (practically) real time video from a drone. Moreover, we have advance forces whose whole job is to go into such situation WITHOUT advance info and place themselves in harms way. How the fvck do you think we get advance info? Call the enemy and ask nicely how many of them there are and what weapons they have?
I could go on but this is getting too long so I'll stop here and just say the amount of outright bullsh!t and lying is what angers many. If they'd have just dropped the BS and been upfront that this was a terrorist attack this wouldn't be news now. Mistakes are made and bad guys take advantage and bad things happen. It's life. I still don't understand the need for lying in the first place. But as often happens, once you start lying it seems you just gotta keep friggin digging the hole deeper.
Fern