White House calls Benghazi 'phony' scandal, as lawmakers seek answers on probe

[MarcATL]

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7/31/13

The White House said bluntly Wednesday that it considers the controversy over the Benghazi attack to be among the so-called "phony scandals" that President Obama has been complaining about in recent speeches -- even as new questions were being raised about the lack of progress in the investigation. Press Secretary Jay Carney was asked at the daily briefing about Obama's repeated claim -- which he asserted most recently during a speech in Tennessee on Tuesday -- that Washington is getting distracted by phony scandals. Asked what the president was referring to, Carney listed the scandals over the IRS targeting of...

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Funny isn't it, a CNN reporter just interviewed the reputed ringleader that led the Benghazi attack. They spent two hours commiserating while the FBI Keystone cops are still searching.
Lawmaker: If CNN can interview Benghazi suspect, why can't FBI? - CNN.com

What's the scandal exactly?

What new FACTS have been brought about by all these "investigations" in the last year?

Anything?

Please list facts, backed up by credible links please.

Thanks.

 

[LeftofLeft]

Nothing phony about the scandalous way Mittens tried to capitalize on the deaths of those four Americans in that attack on the Consulate building in Benghazi. But he paid for it.

Bet you still believe the 9/11 attacks were due to a video.

On September 11, 2012, a series of protests and violent attacks began in response to a YouTube trailer for a film called Innocence of Muslims, considered blasphemous by many Muslims. The reactions began at U.S. diplomatic mission in Cairo, Egypt, and quickly spread across the Muslim world to additional U.S. and other countries' diplomatic missions and other locations, with issues beyond the offense at the movie trailer becoming subjects of protest. In Cairo, Egypt a group scaled the embassy wall and tore down the American flag to replace it with a black Islamic flag.

On September 13, protests occurred at the U.S. embassy in Sana'a, Yemen, resulting in the deaths of four protesters and injuries to thirty-five protesters and guards. On September 14, the U.S. consulate in Chennai was attacked, resulting in injuries to twenty-five protesters.[14] Protesters in Tunis, Tunisia, climbed the U.S. embassy walls and set trees on fire. At least four people were killed and forty-six injured during protests in Tunis on September 15.[6] Further protests were held at U.S. diplomatic missions and other locations in the days following the initial attacks. Related protests and attacks resulted in numerous deaths and injuries across the Middle East, Africa, Pakistan and Afghanistan.


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Yes I believe it was a unjustified spontaneous assault on our compound based on the outrage whipped up by certain Mullahs over that stupid over-dubbed clip.

... and the artillery in hand by those protesting a video was just a coincidence?

 

[BlindBoo]

Bet you still believe the 9/11 attacks were due to a video.

On September 11, 2012, a series of protests and violent attacks began in response to a YouTube trailer for a film called Innocence of Muslims, considered blasphemous by many Muslims. The reactions began at U.S. diplomatic mission in Cairo, Egypt, and quickly spread across the Muslim world to additional U.S. and other countries' diplomatic missions and other locations, with issues beyond the offense at the movie trailer becoming subjects of protest. In Cairo, Egypt a group scaled the embassy wall and tore down the American flag to replace it with a black Islamic flag.

On September 13, protests occurred at the U.S. embassy in Sana'a, Yemen, resulting in the deaths of four protesters and injuries to thirty-five protesters and guards. On September 14, the U.S. consulate in Chennai was attacked, resulting in injuries to twenty-five protesters.[14] Protesters in Tunis, Tunisia, climbed the U.S. embassy walls and set trees on fire. At least four people were killed and forty-six injured during protests in Tunis on September 15.[6] Further protests were held at U.S. diplomatic missions and other locations in the days following the initial attacks. Related protests and attacks resulted in numerous deaths and injuries across the Middle East, Africa, Pakistan and Afghanistan.


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Yes I believe it was a unjustified spontaneous assault on our compound based on the outrage whipped up by certain Mullahs over that stupid over-dubbed clip.

... and the artillery in hand by those protesting a video was just a coincidence?

Benghazi is still a hotbed of radicals with lots of weapons. The one thing the Talking Points did get wrong was there were no mass protests at the Consulate, or if there was a protest, it quickly turned into an assault.

 

[MarcATL]

What is the scandal folks?

Spit it out.

What. exactly. is the scandal?

 

[BlindBoo]

What is the scandal folks?

Spit it out.

What. exactly. is the scandal?

President Obama calling it a "Phony Scandal"?

How dare he insult Faux that way......

 

[rdean]

Try as you guys might, Benghazi is not even close to the scandal that is Iraq. Tens of thousands of Americans dead and maimed and Republicans care about 4 in Libya? Really?

Well if you are mixing apples and oranges then millions are killed by abortion every year and the Democrats don't care, oh wait they don't care about the four men needlessly killed in Benghazi either, bad example.

Maybe you need to review the definition of war, like the war or not, and the definition of an ambassador position. Both those in Iraq and those in Benghazi VOLUNTEERED for their duty, the difference is in Iraq they knew people would be shooting at them.

Republicans have abortions to. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many clinics in Red States.

 

[rdean]

What is the scandal folks?

Spit it out.

What. exactly. is the scandal?

The president dares to be black.

 

[MarcATL]

What is the scandal folks?

Spit it out.

What. exactly. is the scandal?

President Obama calling it a "Phony Scandal"?

How dare he insult Faux that way......

In over a year and a half, they have found not ONE new fact that brings anything to light even REMOTELY similar to a scandal, yet the Far RW is SCREAMING and YELPING about "Ben" "Gah" "Zeeeee......!!!!"

 

[rdean]

What is the scandal folks?

Spit it out.

What. exactly. is the scandal?

President Obama calling it a "Phony Scandal"?

How dare he insult Faux that way......

In over a year and a half, they have found not ONE new fact that brings anything to light even REMOTELY similar to a scandal, yet the Far RW is SCREAMING and YELPING about "Ben" "Gah" "Zeeeee......!!!!"

Not true. We found out Republicans altered emails.

What this reminds me of. Harry Reid took a chance when he said he heard a rumor that Romney hadn't paid taxes for 10 years. Now if Romney had released his returns and he paid even a tiny bit, Republicans could scream Democrats are liars. That was the chance Reid took. But Romney didn't release his records.

So when Republicans altered emails, they just assumed this president would never release more. They took a chance. But Obama is not corrupt and a liar the way Republicans most definitely are. They took a chance and it was a big fail. Now they look like they committed fraud on the American people. Again.

 

[rdean]

Try as you guys might, Benghazi is not even close to the scandal that is Iraq. Tens of thousands of Americans dead and maimed and Republicans care about 4 in Libya? Really?

and yet your hero, obama, continued iraq, expanded afghanistan and didn't seek charges against bush

Bush got lucky.

 

[Yurt]

Try as you guys might, Benghazi is not even close to the scandal that is Iraq. Tens of thousands of Americans dead and maimed and Republicans care about 4 in Libya? Really?

and yet your hero, obama, continued iraq, expanded afghanistan and didn't seek charges against bush

Bush got lucky.

lucky? obama made a sound decision. if obama thought he could have gone after bush, he would have. don't be upset because your hero believes, as most people do, that bush did nothing illegal.

 

[Yurt]

What is the scandal folks?

Spit it out.

What. exactly. is the scandal?

The president dares to be black.

and we wonder why racism is still prevalent...because it is libs who push racism...without it, they don't have much of a platform to whine on

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

White House calls Benghazi 'phony' scandal...

Correct, it is a phony ‘scandal’ because there is no evidence of any criminal conduct on the part of any government official.

Republicans and partisan conservatives have sought to contrive a controversy where none exists for purely partisan reasons, particularly with regard to the right’s failed attempts to link the Administration to some sort of ‘cover up.’

It’s pathetic.

And what’s a scandal is the right’s attempt to score political points with a sad and tragic loss of life by Americans in foreign service.

 

[Yurt]

you don't need criminal conduct to have a scandal

see weiner

 

[MarcATL]

White House calls Benghazi 'phony' scandal...

Correct, it is a phony ‘scandal’ because there is no evidence of any criminal conduct on the part of any government official.

Republicans and partisan conservatives have sought to contrive a controversy where none exists for purely partisan reasons, particularly with regard to the right’s failed attempts to link the Administration to some sort of ‘cover up.’

It’s pathetic.

And what’s a scandal is the right’s attempt to score political points with a sad and tragic loss of life by Americans in foreign service.

NAILED IT!!!!

 

[MarcATL]

you don't need criminal conduct to have a scandal

see weiner

What exactly is the scandal Yurt?

 

[francoHFW]

Seek answers? GOOD ONE!! lol

 

[Yurt]

you don't need criminal conduct to have a scandal

see weiner

What exactly is the scandal Yurt?

the cover up and blaming it on the video maker

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

you don't need criminal conduct to have a scandal

see weiner

What exactly is the scandal Yurt?

Good question, and one that’s yet to be answered, and likely never will, given the fact there was never a ‘stand down order,’ as documented by Pentagon officials.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

you don't need criminal conduct to have a scandal

see weiner

What exactly is the scandal Yurt?

the cover up and blaming it on the video maker

And where’s the evidence of this ‘cover up’? There are no links in your post.

Who authorized the ‘cover up’?

Absent evidence of a ‘cover up’ and the name or names of those in the Administration who authorized the ‘cover up,’ there is no ‘scandal,’ hence the ‘scandal’ being phony, a partisan contrivance of the right.