Obama Skipped Intelligence Briefing the Day After Benghazi Attacks

[theDoctorisIn]

The report's available for all to read, clown. Making shit up doesn't work anymore.

No Military Asset Ever Deployed': Gowdy Unveils House Benghazi Report



"Nothing could have reached Benghazi because nothing was ever headed to Benghazi," he said, faulting the White House for holding a two-hour meeting as the attack unfolded.

'No Military Asset Ever Deployed': Gowdy Unveils House Benghazi Report

You should do as Gowdy asked, and read the damn report. You can start on page 87.

http://benghazi.house.gov/sites/republicans.benghazi.house.gov/files/2 Part I Redacted DR_0.pdf

Just minutes after word of the attack reached the Secretary, he and General Martin E. Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, departed the Pentagon to attend a previously scheduled 5:00 p.m. meeting at the White House with President Obama and National Security Advisor Thomas E. Donilon. The Secretary recalled two details about the attack on the U.S. facility in Benghazi: a building was on fire and Stevens was missing. As the Secretary and Dempsey briefed the President on the evolving situation in Benghazi, Libya, the Secretary recalls the following guidance: The President made clear that we ought to use all of the resources at our disposal to try to make sure we did everything possible to try to save lives there. Immediately following the meeting with the President, at roughly 6:00 p.m., the Secretary and Dempsey returned to the Pentagon and convened a meeting that included Ham who was in Washington D.C. at the time, and relevant members of the Secretary’s staff and the Joint Staff.

According to the Secretary, within an hour of his return to the Pentagon, he issued an order to deploy the identified assets.

The scum president went to bed and skipped the briefing the following morning as he flew off to Vegas for a fundraiser..He was very concerned you know

The President "went to bed"?

When? Where are you getting this information from?

The attack was over by midnight EST - are you saying that Obama went to sleep before then? Do you have a link to back that up, or did you just make it up?

As for "missing his briefing" - he got the day's intelligence report.

The "briefing" is a figment of Bush's Presidency, because he apparently didn't like to read, and insisted on getting an oral briefing every day.

Obama, like Clinton and Bush Sr. before him seem to prefer to just read the intel report themselves, rather than have someone read it to them.

Lame Duck President Barack Hussein Obama was not at the 7:30 meeting. Where was he?

As you know, the attack went on for THIRTEEN HOURS. Where were he and the Secretary of Defense?

I'm sure they were doing something more important than sitting in a logistics staff meeting. Why would the President or SecDef be in that meeting?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Why don't you try reading the actual report, rather than the "talking points"?

It'll clear up a lot of your misconceptions.

What in those 22 items are not factual and not taken from the report. Would you like a link to the 800 page report?

It is not that they are "not factual", but as I've already pointed out, they are out of context and incomplete - in a way that's easy to misunderstand (as you did).

Come one then, step up, show us all which of the above points are misleading or false. Will you do that for us, please? Your silence will serve as admission that you, like all Progressives...have NOTHING.

I already did. Did you conveniently miss that post?

Show us and tell us why it is wrong. Come on!

I already did. Maybe if I make it bigger this time...

For example, let's take one of those talking points that you've already used (mistakenly):

[*]A Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team (FAST) sat on a plane in Rota, Spain, for three hours, and changed in and out of their uniforms four times. [pg. 154]

Page 154 of the report:

The C-130s arrived six hours later, and the FAST Platoon loaded its gear within an hour. Yet, another three hours would elapse before the FAST Platoon departed for Libya. The FAST Platoon commander explained the cause of the delay:

A: After we were loaded, which was around [1:00 p.m. local time], so about an hour after the C-130s were there, we still did not lift off until [4:00 p.m. local time] was when the first aircraft took off.

Q: Why was there another delay to get off the ground?

A: So we were told multiple times to change what we were wearing, to change from cammies into civilian attire, civilian attire into cammies, cammies into civilian attire.
​

That's 1:00PM - 4:00PM on Sept. 12. The attacks had been over for more than 6 hours by that time.

 

[Markle]

Cole was attacked in October 2000, Bush took office less than three months latter.

Hey numbnuts just exactly what authority did President Elect Bush have in October of 2000?

The election was in November. He was only a candidate. The DoD didn't complete it's investigation until January 2001, right before the transfer of power. After being warned by the outgoing Clinton Administration about the greatest threat the nation faced, how long was it before President Bush called any kind of meeting about Osama and the threat the terrorist in Afghanistan posed to the US?

Were they ignoring the warnings so they could use the next attack as a catalysis for projection of US military power in the region?

How many other pdb did President Bush receive warning of impending attacks?

Once again for the intentionally uninformed:


Once AGAIN for the very, very S-L-O-W!


As you well know, President William Jefferson Clinton erected a wall of silence between each of the 16 or 17 intelligence agencies so they were NOT able to communicate. The IDEA was admirable. To prevent security leaks through different agencies having access to top secret information. That was also the fatal error.


The agency who learned that Muslim's were taking flight lessons, and not particularly interested in landing or taking off, were NOT allowed to communicate that information to the agency that learned that al Qaeda was planning to use aircraft to launch a terrorist attack. Yet another agency that picked up increased "chatter" concerning an attack, could not communicate that to the other agencies and on, and on and on.


There was NO LEGAL WAY for them to connect the dots. It was done in the interest of security. Someone in one agency, would not find out what was known in another.


After President George Bush brought down the Gorelick Wall of Silence.... the pre-Patriot Act "wall" prevented foreign intelligence and criminal investigative communities from collaborating. ... the wall barred anti-terror investigators from accessing the computer of Moussaoui, the 20th hijacker.

The wall was originally erected by Jamie Gorelick to hide contributions to Clinton's presidential campaign from foreign sources...over $1.2 million was hidden by straw donors....but in turn it also prevented the sharing of foreign and domestic intelligence.

Bush assigned Stanley McChrystal as the commander of Joint Special Operation Command from 2003-2008...Under McChrystal JSOC had a dramatic change in worldwide intelligence....he successfully combined military, domestic and international intelligence to form a worldwide sharing of intelligence data.....and Obama continues JSCO...they were responsible for Bin Laden's demise.


Legislation put forth by President George Walker Bush, and a new oversight agency created after the attack, remedied this fatal error and gathers intelligence from all agencies. How many fatal Islamic Terrorist attacks...until President Barack Hussein Obama, did we have?


NONE of the fatalities on your feeble attempt at proving me wrong were AMERICANS. Try again.

 

[Markle]

I'm sure they were doing something more important than sitting in a logistics staff meeting. Why would the President or SecDef be in that meeting?

PLEASE, I'm going to give you the chance to tell us all that you were being facetious when you made that statement or...were drunk.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

I'm sure they were doing something more important than sitting in a logistics staff meeting. Why would the President or SecDef be in that meeting?

PLEASE, I'm going to give you the chance to tell us all that you were being facetious when you made that statement or...were drunk.

It was a staff meeting, not a Cabinet meeting. There is no possible reason why the President should have been there, or the SecDef. They had already given their directives, now the staff was meeting to carry them out.

You don't seem to have a good grasp on how things work.

From the report, page 105:

While Team Tripoli was urgently seeking transportation from the Benghazi airport to either the hospital or the Annex, Denis McDonough, the Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs convened a secure video teleconference meeting at 7:30 p.m. in Washington with the State Department and the Department of Defense. The State Department attendees included Cheryl D. Mills, Chief of Staff, Jacob J. Sullivan, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Planning, Stephen D. Mull, Executive Secretary, Wendy R. Sherman, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, and Kennedy and the Secretary. The Defense Department was represented by Jeremy B. Bash, Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense and Tidd. The two representatives who normally would have participated in the meeting—the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy—did not do so that night.

Why would the President be in a meeting with State and Defense staffers?

 

[Dragonlady]

The sad thing is that this kind of reveals how the left sees truth which is something that is secondary to their theme that they are trying to convince the public with. It is a fact that people died and someone in charge made a mistake. That is the truth but since it may incriminate one of their own then the truth is negated because it is political. How do you negate something that is true?

The sad thing is that Republicans politicized these deaths starting before the bodies were cold. They have continued these long 5 years to continue to use the deaths of these Americans as a stick to beat on Hillary Clinton's standing and reputation, at the expense of the American Taxpayers.

The first review of this tragedy, the internal review conducted in house by State Department staff, was the only one which dealt with recommendations to save lives in future, and the State Department has implemented those suggestions. There are now rescue teams stationed closer to high risk areas. Different channels of communications in the event of emergencies.

Ambassador Stevens' family has asked that this tragedy be put aside and the attempts to blame Mrs. Clinton cease, and yet here you are, still attempting to blame her.

What will it take for you to stop it?

 

[Mertex]

What will it take for you to stop it?

Another more credible scandal that they can conjure up.

 

[Jroc]

Cole was attacked in October 2000, Bush took office less than three months latter.

Hey numbnuts just exactly what authority did President Elect Bush have in October of 2000?

The election was in November. He was only a candidate. The DoD didn't complete it's investigation until January 2001, right before the transfer of power. After being warned by the outgoing Clinton Administration about the greatest threat the nation faced, how long was it before President Bush called any kind of meeting about Osama and the threat the terrorist in Afghanistan posed to the US?

Were they ignoring the warnings so they could use the next attack as a catalysis for projection of US military power in the region?

How many other pdb did President Bush receive warning of impending attacks?

There was a little thing called a contest election result unlike other presidents Bush didn't have his team in place fully until well after he took office..But you're an idiot and don't remember these things..Clinton's warning probably consisted of...Oh there may be a terrorist attack because I didn't kill Bin- Laden when I had the chance..Not many details there boy

 

[Jroc]

Obama or Hillary could give shit

President Barack Obama skipped his personal daily intelligence briefing the day after the 2012 Benghazi attacks.

The revelation is buried in one of the appendices to the 800-page report released by the Republican-controlled committee Tuesday. According to the Executive Coordinator tasked with delivering the daily briefings, she first delivered the briefing to White House chief of staff Jack Lew. But instead of giving Obama a briefing, she gave the folder to a White House usher.

Report: Obama Skipped Intelligence Briefing the Day After Benghazi Attacks

30 to 50% of the American public jackass

You really think half the country wants to micro manage how the President manages time and information in the midst of a crisis situation? I do this all the time on busy mornings. "Skip the overnight briefing, give the review to Maryanne, I'll read over it in a little bit. Right now I have to find out what is happening in Housekeeping."

Nah... It'd be nice if he was concerned about the lives of our people, but he wasn't..His (and Hillary's) only concern, as is always the case with Obama the scum, was how would it effect him politically

 

[Jroc]

The sad thing is that this kind of reveals how the left sees truth which is something that is secondary to their theme that they are trying to convince the public with. It is a fact that people died and someone in charge made a mistake. That is the truth but since it may incriminate one of their own then the truth is negated because it is political. How do you negate something that is true?

The sad thing is that Republicans politicized these deaths starting before the bodies were cold. They have continued these long 5 years to continue to use the deaths of these Americans as a stick to beat on Hillary Clinton's standing and reputation, at the expense of the American Taxpayers.

The first review of this tragedy, the internal review conducted in house by State Department staff, was the only one which dealt with recommendations to save lives in future, and the State Department has implemented those suggestions. There are now rescue teams stationed closer to high risk areas. Different channels of communications in the event of emergencies.

Ambassador Stevens' family has asked that this tragedy be put aside and the attempts to blame Mrs. Clinton cease, and yet here you are, still attempting to blame her.

What will it take for you to stop it?

Whats sad is how the lying scum Hillary and Obama, lied to the families, and to the American people, even at the funerals of our dead heroes

 

[Jroc]

Lame Duck President Barack Hussein Obama was NOT present at this meeting. We have no clue where he was but he wasn't at the 7:30 PM meeting where the senior Cabinet member was Hillary Clinton. The reason given for the change of clothes had to do with the IMAGE they wanted to put forth. President Obama was not present, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was not present. Why? Where were they?

Excellent questions... Unfortunately I feel we will never know the answers to them...

Obama was AOL..He's scum

 

[Markle]

What in those 22 items are not factual and not taken from the report. Would you like a link to the 800 page report?

It is not that they are "not factual", but as I've already pointed out, they are out of context and incomplete - in a way that's easy to misunderstand (as you did).

Come one then, step up, show us all which of the above points are misleading or false. Will you do that for us, please? Your silence will serve as admission that you, like all Progressives...have NOTHING.

I already did. Did you conveniently miss that post?

Show us and tell us why it is wrong. Come on!

I already did. Maybe if I make it bigger this time...

For example, let's take one of those talking points that you've already used (mistakenly):

[*]A Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team (FAST) sat on a plane in Rota, Spain, for three hours, and changed in and out of their uniforms four times. [pg. 154]

Page 154 of the report:

The C-130s arrived six hours later, and the FAST Platoon loaded its gear within an hour. Yet, another three hours would elapse before the FAST Platoon departed for Libya. The FAST Platoon commander explained the cause of the delay:

A: After we were loaded, which was around [1:00 p.m. local time], so about an hour after the C-130s were there, we still did not lift off until [4:00 p.m. local time] was when the first aircraft took off.

Q: Why was there another delay to get off the ground?

A: So we were told multiple times to change what we were wearing, to change from cammies into civilian attire, civilian attire into cammies, cammies into civilian attire.
​

That's 1:00PM - 4:00PM on Sept. 12. The attacks had been over for more than 6 hours by that time.

he 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]

• With Ambassador Stevens missing, the White House convened a roughly two-hour meeting at 7:30 PM, which resulted in action items focused on a YouTube video, and others containing the phrases “f any deployment is made,” and “Libya must agree to any deployment,” and “[w]ill not deploy until order comes to go to either Tripoli or Benghazi.” [pg. 115]
  

• The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff typically would have participated in the White House meeting, but did not attend because he went home to host a dinner party for foreign dignitaries. [pg. 107]

• A Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team (FAST) sat on a plane in Rota, Spain, for three hours, and changed in and out of their uniforms four times. [pg. 154]

• None of the relevant military forces met their required deployment timelines. [pg. 150]

• The Libyan forces that evacuated Americans from the CIA Annex to the Benghazi airport was not affiliated with any of the militias the CIA or State Department had developed a relationship with during the prior 18 months. Instead, it was comprised of former Qadhafi loyalists who the U.S. had helped remove from power during the Libyan revolution. [pg. 144]

 

[Markle]

Obama did not wait for Pakistan's approval to go in to get UBL so why the hell would he wait for Libyan approval to go in and rescue an American Ambassador and Americans being attacked by terrorists?!

And why would Obama even consider sending troops into combat wearing civies?!

Lame Duck President Barack Hussein Obama was NOT present at this meeting. We have no clue where he was but he wasn't at the 7:30 PM meeting where the senior Cabinet member was Hillary Clinton. The reason given for the change of clothes had to do with the IMAGE they wanted to put forth. President Obama was not present, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was not present. Why? Where were they?

Why should the President have been at that meeting?

Hillary wasn't at the 7:30 meeting either, by the way.

By the way, Secretary of State was the senior Cabinet member at the 7;30 meeting.

June 28, 2016 1:20 pm


Hillary Clinton and other senior Obama administration officials held an emergency meeting in the early hours of the Benghazi terrorist attack, and much of the discussion focused on a Florida pastor who criticized the Koran and an anti-Islam YouTube video, according to a report released by the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Tuesday.

Secretary Clinton appears to have been the most senior official to participate in the 7:30 p.m. teleconference, about four hours after the assault began on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. The attack lasted 13 hours in total and left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

As Benghazi Attack Unfolded, White House Meeting Focused on Pastor Jones, YouTube Video

 

[CMyers]

"Obama Skipped Intelligence Briefing the Day After Benghazi Attacks"

Of course he did. They were looking for intelligence.

He flew back from the Las Vegas golfing trip/fundraiser as soon as they told him that he was supposed to be there.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Obama did not wait for Pakistan's approval to go in to get UBL so why the hell would he wait for Libyan approval to go in and rescue an American Ambassador and Americans being attacked by terrorists?!

And why would Obama even consider sending troops into combat wearing civies?!

Lame Duck President Barack Hussein Obama was NOT present at this meeting. We have no clue where he was but he wasn't at the 7:30 PM meeting where the senior Cabinet member was Hillary Clinton. The reason given for the change of clothes had to do with the IMAGE they wanted to put forth. President Obama was not present, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was not present. Why? Where were they?

Why should the President have been at that meeting?

Hillary wasn't at the 7:30 meeting either, by the way.

By the way, Secretary of State was the senior Cabinet member at the 7;30 meeting.

June 28, 2016 1:20 pm


Hillary Clinton and other senior Obama administration officials held an emergency meeting in the early hours of the Benghazi terrorist attack, and much of the discussion focused on a Florida pastor who criticized the Koran and an anti-Islam YouTube video, according to a report released by the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Tuesday.

Secretary Clinton appears to have been the most senior official to participate in the 7:30 p.m. teleconference, about four hours after the assault began on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. The attack lasted 13 hours in total and left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

As Benghazi Attack Unfolded, White House Meeting Focused on Pastor Jones, YouTube Video

Not according to the report. You're welcome to read it, it's on page 105 of "Part II".

 

[theDoctorisIn]

It is not that they are "not factual", but as I've already pointed out, they are out of context and incomplete - in a way that's easy to misunderstand (as you did).

Come one then, step up, show us all which of the above points are misleading or false. Will you do that for us, please? Your silence will serve as admission that you, like all Progressives...have NOTHING.

I already did. Did you conveniently miss that post?

Show us and tell us why it is wrong. Come on!

I already did. Maybe if I make it bigger this time...

For example, let's take one of those talking points that you've already used (mistakenly):

[*]A Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team (FAST) sat on a plane in Rota, Spain, for three hours, and changed in and out of their uniforms four times. [pg. 154]

Page 154 of the report:

The C-130s arrived six hours later, and the FAST Platoon loaded its gear within an hour. Yet, another three hours would elapse before the FAST Platoon departed for Libya. The FAST Platoon commander explained the cause of the delay:

A: After we were loaded, which was around [1:00 p.m. local time], so about an hour after the C-130s were there, we still did not lift off until [4:00 p.m. local time] was when the first aircraft took off.

Q: Why was there another delay to get off the ground?

A: So we were told multiple times to change what we were wearing, to change from cammies into civilian attire, civilian attire into cammies, cammies into civilian attire.
​

That's 1:00PM - 4:00PM on Sept. 12. The attacks had been over for more than 6 hours by that time.

he 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]

• With Ambassador Stevens missing, the White House convened a roughly two-hour meeting at 7:30 PM, which resulted in action items focused on a YouTube video, and others containing the phrases “f any deployment is made,” and “Libya must agree to any deployment,” and “[w]ill not deploy until order comes to go to either Tripoli or Benghazi.” [pg. 115]

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  • The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff typically would have participated in the White House meeting, but did not attend because he went home to host a dinner party for foreign dignitaries. [pg. 107]

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  • A Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team (FAST) sat on a plane in Rota, Spain, for three hours, and changed in and out of their uniforms four times. [pg. 154]

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  • None of the relevant military forces met their required deployment timelines. [pg. 150]

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  • The Libyan forces that evacuated Americans from the CIA Annex to the Benghazi airport was not affiliated with any of the militias the CIA or State Department had developed a relationship with during the prior 18 months. Instead, it was comprised of former Qadhafi loyalists who the U.S. had helped remove from power during the Libyan revolution. [pg. 144]

Yes, we can see that you've mastered the art of cut and paste.