Fox News and those Benghazi detainees

[Wehrwolfen]

Fox News and those Benghazi detainees​

Hmm..., What about those CIA Detainees in Benghazi? Why did the people in Benghazi Abandoned?​

By: Erik Wemple
11/14/2012 |

CIA requests for help in Benghazi attack denied? | Fox News Video

Fox News’s now-famous Oct. 26 story on the tragedy of Benghazi carried this headline: “EXCLUSIVE: CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say.” Reaction to the story skewed toward the monster revelations in its first paragraph: namely, that the CIA chain of command had told security officials to “stand down” instead of jumping immediately to the assistance of a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on the night of Sept. 11. The CIA, too, denied requests for military backup, according to the Fox News story.

Far, far less attention attached to a contention deep down in the Fox story:

According to a source on the ground at the time of the attack, the team inside the CIA annex had captured three Libyan attackers and was forced to hand them over to the Libyans. U.S. officials do not know what happened to those three attackers and whether they were released by the Libyan forces.

So the CIA had taken a few detainees. No big deal, right?

Right, until biographer Paula Broadwell came along. As news of her affair with CIA Director David Petraeus emerged, folks started mining the Broadwell public record. As first reported by IsraelNationalNews.com, Broadwell had given some remarks at the University of Denver on Oct. 26, the same day of the Fox News piece that frames this sprawling series of posts. And Broadwell was up on the news; she took a question about Petraeus’s handling of Benghazi and steered her audience to Fox!

So the most recent news that came out was a Fox News report by Jennifer Griffin. I got it on a distribution list I’m on, and it has some pretty insightful stuff in it, if you want to look for it.



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Read more:
Fox News and those Benghazi detainees - Erik Wemple - The Washington Post

 

[Wehrwolfen]

Broadwell: Petraeus Knew of Benghazi Plea for Help​

Writer allegedly involved with ex-CIA chief said he knew "within 24 hours" of CIA annex's request for reinforcements.​

By Gil Ronen
11/11/2012


Reuters

Military expert Paula Broadwell, who was allegedly improperly involved with resigned CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus, confirmed in October that the CIA annex in Benghazi asked for reinforcements when the consulate came under attack on September 11. She also acknowledged that "there was a failure in the system."

Broadwell was speaking at her alma mater, the University of Denver, on October 26. Her lecture, which is on YouTube under the title "Alumni Symposium 2012 Paula Broadwell," now has added value, because based on the recent disclosures, it can now be assumed that she indeed knew exactly what it was that Petraeus knew about the attack.

Broadwell confirmed the reports on Fox News that the CIA annex asked for a special unit, the Commander in Chief's In Extremis Force, to come and assist it. She also said that the force could indeed have reinforced the consulate, and that Petraeus knew all of this, but was not allowed to talk to the press because of his position in the CIA.

"The challenge has been the fog of war, and the greater challenge is that it's political hunting season, and so this whole thing has been turned into a very political sort of arena, if you will," she said. "The fact that came out today is that the ground forces there at the CIA annex, which is different from the consulate, were requesting reinforcements.

"They were requesting the – it's called the C-in-C's In Extremis Force – a group of Delta Force operators, our very, most talented guys we have in the military. They could have come and reinforced the consulate and the CIA annex. Now, I don't know if a lot of you have heard this but the CIA annex had actually taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner, and they think that the attack on the consulate was an attempt to get these prisoners back. It's still being vetted.

"The challenging thing for Gen. Petraeus is that in his new position, he's not allowed to communicate with the press. So he's known all of this – they had correspondence with the CIA station chief in Libya, within 24 hours they kind of knew what was happening."

 

[waltky]

Obama gonna be ready next time dem Mooslamics get outta line...

U.S. considers increasing military presence in Mediterranean
November 21st, 2012 - Senior U.S. military officials are considering increasing the American military presence in the Mediterranean because of what they see as growing instability in recent months, CNN has learned.

"This is post-Benghazi," one military official told CNN. "We're looking at instability in Libya, Egypt, Syria and now Israel and Gaza." The official who has direct knowledge of the discussions declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the information. The Pentagon is looking at a number of options, according to military officials. The easiest would be to extend deployments of Navy ships passing through the region. The Navy just extended by at least 10 days the tour of three amphibious ships carrying more than 2,000 Marines, Harrier jets, V-22 tilt rotor aircraft and a variety of helicopters, as CNN first reported last week.

Those tours were extended as a result of the conflict in Gaza as a precautionary measure should there have been a need to evacuate Americans from Israel. A cease-fire was reached on Wednesday after a week of violence. The Pentagon is focusing on the eastern Mediterranean, where the ships will stay, the military official told CNN. "From there, you can get to a lot of places in a short period of time," he said. "What we are looking at is what is our presence in the region and what should it be."

The Navy also previously announced that four warships capable of providing ballistic missile defense will now be based at Rota, Spain, putting them closer to potential threats from Syria and Iran. They are the USS Ross, the USS Donald Cook, the USS Carney and the USS Porter. Four other ships are stationed off the coast of Israel as a hedge against any ballistic missile launch from Iran. Short of being ordered into combat, the Navy is looking to beef up its presence in order to conduct humanitarian assistance missions and training exercises with other nations in the region, the sources said.

But clearly more ships and aircraft also give the military an increased capability to evacuate Americans from a hotspot or put forces on the ground to conduct security operations to protect embassies. The developments come amid increasing concern about weapons being smuggled into Gaza. U.S. and Israeli officials say some of those weapons are coming from Libya where arms stashes have been ransacked after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi. A U.S. official told CNN that the current assessment by the intelligence community is that surface to air missiles from Libya have made their way into Gaza after being smuggled through Egypt.

Source

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U.S. still concerned over violence in Bahrain
November 20th, 2012 - Continued violence by protesters and security forces and a deeply divided population remain concerns of the United States a year after an independent commission offered a scathing report into Bahrain's crackdown on anti-government protests.

Two Obama administration officials briefed reporters in Washington about concerns the U.S. had over the tiny Persian Gulf nation, considered to be a longtime ally in the Middle East and home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. "There needs to be created an environment for the possibility of genuine dialogue and negotiation that leads to a prosperous and rights-respecting Bahrain," according to a senior Obama administration official. The concerns come a year after the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry, which was set up by the government, recommended a series of law reforms and better training of its security forces. The February 2011 protests were aimed at the government and part of the greater Arab Spring protests spreading through North Africa and the Middle East as repressed populations rose up against their governments.

U.S. officials commended the country on creating the commission and following up on some of the recommendations but said it would like to see the government focus on issues of accountability for misconduct of Bahraini government officials and the ongoing detention of individuals. The U.S. believes they were imprisoned for "actions of free expression and criticism of the government." While the country has admitted to wrongdoing and said it would change, there are still reports of protests being banned and repression of freedom of expression of the government, as well as taking away citizenship of others. The U.S. must balance a fine line with Bahrain as the country continues to host the U.S. Navy's chief headquarters in the Middle East. It's a key node in its efforts to contain the influence of Iran. "We need to do the best job we can to balance those interests ... given our commitment to the fact that reform is the only way genuine stability and prosperity will emerge in the region," according to a second administration official.

As protesters continue to use violent protests to get their message across, the officials said the U.S. has reached out to opposition leaders to preach a message of nonviolence. The U.S. has also told the government that there must be requirement for people to express their views without repercussion by the government. "We have concerns about bans on demonstrations and the taking away of citizenship," according to one of the officials. "All of these parties need to find the way to bridge these difference to move closer to each other rather than to take actions that tend to exacerbate the sense of grievance each of them shares," according to the second official.

While the officials would not directly say Iran was involved in the protesting inside Bahrain, there was concern that Iran could play a significant role if the country falls into chaos. "It is absolutely clear that if the society breaks apart, Iran will be the big winner and beneficiary," one official said. The majority of Muslims in the Islamic world are Sunnis, with only 10% of the Muslim population being Shiite. But Iran and Bahrain have Shiite-majority populations. Bahrain's ruling Khalifa family, however, is Sunni Muslim. The officials were also asked how secure the thousands of U.S. troops are that are based in the country, only saying that the U.S. takes seriously their safety and the safety of the U.S. Embassy staff there as well.

Source

 

[Annie]

Obama gonna be ready next time dem Mooslamics get outta line...

U.S. considers increasing military presence in Mediterranean
November 21st, 2012 - Senior U.S. military officials are considering increasing the American military presence in the Mediterranean because of what they see as growing instability in recent months, CNN has learned.

"This is post-Benghazi," one military official told CNN. "We're looking at instability in Libya, Egypt, Syria and now Israel and Gaza." The official who has direct knowledge of the discussions declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the information. The Pentagon is looking at a number of options, according to military officials. The easiest would be to extend deployments of Navy ships passing through the region. The Navy just extended by at least 10 days the tour of three amphibious ships carrying more than 2,000 Marines, Harrier jets, V-22 tilt rotor aircraft and a variety of helicopters, as CNN first reported last week.

Those tours were extended as a result of the conflict in Gaza as a precautionary measure should there have been a need to evacuate Americans from Israel. A cease-fire was reached on Wednesday after a week of violence. The Pentagon is focusing on the eastern Mediterranean, where the ships will stay, the military official told CNN. "From there, you can get to a lot of places in a short period of time," he said. "What we are looking at is what is our presence in the region and what should it be."

The Navy also previously announced that four warships capable of providing ballistic missile defense will now be based at Rota, Spain, putting them closer to potential threats from Syria and Iran. They are the USS Ross, the USS Donald Cook, the USS Carney and the USS Porter. Four other ships are stationed off the coast of Israel as a hedge against any ballistic missile launch from Iran. Short of being ordered into combat, the Navy is looking to beef up its presence in order to conduct humanitarian assistance missions and training exercises with other nations in the region, the sources said.

But clearly more ships and aircraft also give the military an increased capability to evacuate Americans from a hotspot or put forces on the ground to conduct security operations to protect embassies. The developments come amid increasing concern about weapons being smuggled into Gaza. U.S. and Israeli officials say some of those weapons are coming from Libya where arms stashes have been ransacked after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi. A U.S. official told CNN that the current assessment by the intelligence community is that surface to air missiles from Libya have made their way into Gaza after being smuggled through Egypt.

Source

All well and good, lesson learned. Now when will they explain to us that they had 'something to learn?' Ok, I'll give them the attack and no response, based upon the above, if that plays out.

What about the crazy responses by Rice 5 days later or Obama at UN 2 weeks later?

What about the continued response of, "Still under investigation?"

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Fox News and those Benghazi detainees

What could be more-amusing than to watch Joe Scarborough melting-down, when he gets his nose rubbed in his....

....FAUX-Noise-style assumptions.

 

[Sallow]

Fox News and those Benghazi detainees​

Hmm..., What about those CIA Detainees in Benghazi? Why did the people in Benghazi Abandoned?​

By: Erik Wemple
11/14/2012 |

CIA requests for help in Benghazi attack denied? | Fox News Video

Fox News’s now-famous Oct. 26 story on the tragedy of Benghazi carried this headline: “EXCLUSIVE: CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say.” Reaction to the story skewed toward the monster revelations in its first paragraph: namely, that the CIA chain of command had told security officials to “stand down” instead of jumping immediately to the assistance of a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on the night of Sept. 11. The CIA, too, denied requests for military backup, according to the Fox News story.

Far, far less attention attached to a contention deep down in the Fox story:

According to a source on the ground at the time of the attack, the team inside the CIA annex had captured three Libyan attackers and was forced to hand them over to the Libyans. U.S. officials do not know what happened to those three attackers and whether they were released by the Libyan forces.

So the CIA had taken a few detainees. No big deal, right?

Right, until biographer Paula Broadwell came along. As news of her affair with CIA Director David Petraeus emerged, folks started mining the Broadwell public record. As first reported by IsraelNationalNews.com, Broadwell had given some remarks at the University of Denver on Oct. 26, the same day of the Fox News piece that frames this sprawling series of posts. And Broadwell was up on the news; she took a question about Petraeus’s handling of Benghazi and steered her audience to Fox!

So the most recent news that came out was a Fox News report by Jennifer Griffin. I got it on a distribution list I’m on, and it has some pretty insightful stuff in it, if you want to look for it.



(Excerpt)

Read more:
Fox News and those Benghazi detainees - Erik Wemple - The Washington Post

NOW you are getting somewhere.

FOX and the GOP are picking at a scab.



They may not like..what they find.