Benghazi, Part Two

[gun sane]

U.S. security agencies are clamoring for more information about terrorist plans to launch eminent, significant attacks on embassies and other foreign targets. I wouldn't be so worried if Obama had not again "directed his National Security Team to take all appropriate steps to protect the American people and will continue to be updated on a regular basis.”

 

http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/315393-white-house-officials-terror-threat-emanating-from-arabian-peninsula

[Sam1]

Maybe each of the embassies could set up projectors and screens and the speecher in chief could talk them into submission instead of having to rely on those pesky guns?

[Guest 6.8 AR]

You could have named this thread "Al Qaeda, Round Fifty" and been more accurate. The Cole, several embassies,

several planes, several unnamed assassinations, etc. It will keep going on. All Muslim Brotherhood, all the time. It has been

going on since the Iran hostage crisis, or probably earlier. You can count the times we were prepared. The difference,

this time, is that our government gave up and opened the door for the enemy.

 

This current president gave up on is immaculation when he went on his apology tour of the middle east.

[Randall53]

In addition to that some think the Administration revealed too much and may make early warnings like this much harder to gather in the future maybe?

http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/3/intel-community-worried-obama-administration-discl/

[Guest nra37922]

Our culture of tolerance is going to destroy us.

[Dolomite_supafly]

At least we are moving in the right direction by closing diplomatic posts. 90% of our embassy buildings should be vacant because there is no need for diplomatic relations with countries that would be considered our enemies 50 years ago.

 

Along with closing those posts we should also be cutting aid. If we cannot safely stay in a country then they should not get any of our money.

[TMF]

In addition to that some think the Administration revealed too much and may make early warnings like this much harder to gather in the future maybe?


http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/3/intel-community-worried-obama-administration-discl/

I think they hedged their bets on burning the plan rather than close hold the intel and risk another embarrassing, successful attack by AQ. I don't think there is anyone qualified outside of the few people who know all the intel related to this threat to definitively say if it was right or wrong.

I will say, however, if the circumstances of the intel was such that they knew of imminence of hostilities but could not narrow it down enough to effectively target offensively and defensively, they probably made the right call. By doing this they likely caused the enemy to back off rather than risk conducting a mission they knew was burnt. The damage done may be a combination of the enemy using better OPSEC in the future and maybe killing a source or two, but who knows what they had planned and how damaging it would have been to us? I doubt anyone thought the WTC could be brought down by a bunch of goat herders or that an Ambassador of the United States would be raped and murdered, but it happened. I'm gonna say that driving these guys back underground was probably a good choice.

[Randall53]

I find this statement interesting. "The part that is alarming is the confidence they showed while communicating and the air of certainty." If that's not normal, maybe the whole thing was a distraction and they were flushing out the informants to be ellimated so the real attack could be safely communicated. Al-Quida is not lacking in patience.



http://abcnews.go.com/politics/t/blogEntry?id=19865399&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fdrudgereport.com%2F

[Dustbuster]

Benghazi:
Everyone was asleep at the wheelhouse
Hillary Clinton
No marine detachment response noted
No response to protocol procedures regarding emergency countermeasures

And a panel of liars looking for a liar to cover up lies....

Situation normal in dc: they're following their protocol: put on a good show while we close the box office and run....same shit,different event

[K191145]

In addition to that some think the Administration revealed too much and may make early warnings like this much harder to gather in the future maybe?

http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/3/intel-community-worried-obama-administration-discl/

 

They don't always have to attack, just chatter like they are planning something and get us to panic. Do that enough times and eventually we let our guard down.