I have been trying really hard not to talk about Obama (O) as often as I did in the past here at this blog. The reason? Because everything he did (and will do in the future) will one day "fall to dust and blow away." (ht: Jars of Clay lyrics from "Worlds Apart.")
The lyrics in that song express how different a person is once Christ enters the heart in the form of the Holy Spirit and becomes Lord and Savior over one's life. But it also could apply to how different one sees the world around him/her when he or she know God's Word and compares this fallen world to Christ's Kingdom and our future heavenly dwelling place. More on this in a future post.
This morning, I tried to listen to Obama's news conference. Ed Henry of The Fox News Channel was called upon first to ask questions. He asked about the "red line" Obama stated regarding the use of chemical weapons in Syria, and O just bloviated on and on about it; claiming that it doesn't just involve America (and him) but includes the international community (a.k.a. the do-nothing U.N.) blah blah blah.
No surprise there.
However, I was waiting for the answer to the second question - the one about how the Benghazi survivors are being threatened into silence regarding the attack there that claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens, Special Ops Navy SEALS Tyrone Woods, Sean Smith, and Glen Doherty on September 11, 2012.
No surprise that I would be sorely disappointed in O's response. After taking was seemed like FOREVER to discuss "stuff" (he uses middle school terminology and he's a Harvard grad? sheesh....) regarding Syria, he spends about a few seconds on the Benghazi question. And get this...he claimed not to know anything about the blocking of survivors testimonies about Benghazi by his BADministration!!! At that point, I had to turn the T.V. off.
That is "unaware" claim number one.
How many fools in that room and Obots watching on T.V. could possibly believe such lying drivel???
Fortunately, there will be more hearings in Congress and the information is said to be "explosive."
Several blogs discussing the topic are listed below. Read the comments, too, and you will learn more!
The Ulsterman Report: Special Ops Benghazi Survivor Speaks Out Against Obama Administration (M.I. RELATED)
The Ulsterman Report: BREAKING: Obama Administration Intimidating Benghazi Massacre Survivors Into Silence
Gretawire.Fox News Insider: THREATS AGAINST BENGHAZI WHISTLE BLOWERS ALLEGED
Copy of Gretawire post:
Benghazi: Threats against ‘Whistleblowers’ Alleged*******
By James Rosen
At least four career officials at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency have retained lawyers, or are in the process of doing so, as they prepare to provide sensitive information about the Benghazi attacks to Congress, Fox News has learned.
Victoria Toensing, a former Justice Department official and Republican counsel to the Senate intelligence committee, is now representing one of the State Department employees. She told Fox News her client and some of the others, who consider themselves whistle blowers, have been threatened by unnamed Obama administration officials.
“I’m not talking generally, I’m talking specifically about Benghazi – that people have been threatened,” Toensing said in an interview Monday. “And not just the State Department. People have been threatened at the CIA.”
Toensing declined to name her client. She also refused to say whether the individual was on the ground in Benghazi on the night of September 11, 2012, when terrorist attacks on two U.S. installations in the Libyan city killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens.
However, Toensing disclosed that her client has pertinent information on all three time periods investigators consider relevant to the attacks: the months that led up to September 11, when pleas by the ambassador and his staff for enhanced security in Benghazi were mostly rejected by senior officers at the State Department; the eight-hour time frame in which the attacks unfolded; and the eight-day period that followed the attacks, when Obama administration officials falsely described them as the result of a spontaneous protest over a video.
“It’s frightening and they’re doing some very despicable threats to people,” she said. “Not ‘We’re going to kill you,’ or not ‘We’re going to prosecute you tomorrow,’ but they’re taking career people and making them well aware that their careers will be over [if they cooperate with congressional investigators].”
Federal law provides explicit protections for federal government employees who are identified as “whistleblowers.” The laws aim to ensure these individuals will not face repercussions from their superiors, or from other quarters, in retaliation for their provision of information about corruption or other forms of wrongdoing to Congress, or to an agency’s inspector-general.
Rep. Darrell Issa, the Republican from California who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote to Secretary of State John Kerry on April 26 to complain that the department has not provided a process by which attorneys like Toensing can receive the security clearances necessary for them to review classified documents and other key evidence.
“It is unavoidable that Department employees identifying themselves as witnesses in the Committee’s investigation will apply for a security clearance to allow their personal attorneys to handle sensitive or classified material,” Issa wrote. “The Department’s unwillingness to make the process for clearing an attorney more transparent appears to be an effort to interfere with the rights of employees to furnish information to Congress.”
The Obama administration maintains that it has been more than forthcoming on Benghazi and that it is time for the State Department to move on. At a recent hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Kerry noted that administration officials have testified at eight hearings on Benghazi, provided twenty briefings on the subject, and turned over to Congress some 25,000 documents related to the killings.
“So if you have additional questions or, you think there’s some document that somehow you need, I’ll work with you to try to get it and see if we can provide that to you,” Kerry told committee chairman Rep. Ed Royce, also a Republican from California, on April 17. But Kerry added: “I do not want to spend the next year coming up here talking about Benghazi.”
Asked about Issa’s complaints about attorneys not receiving security clearances, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell on Monday indicated that – far from threatening anyone – the administration hasn’t been presented with any such cases. “I’m not aware of private counsel seeking security clearances or — or anything to that regard,” Ventrell told reporters. “I’m not aware of whistle blowers one way or another.”
Ventrell cited the work of the FBI – whose probe of the attacks continues, almost eight months later and without any known instances of perpetrators being brought to justice – and the Accountability Review Board. The ARB was an internal State Department review panel led by former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Thomas Pickering and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen. An unclassified version of the ARB’s final report that was released to the public contained no conclusions that suggested administration officials had willfully endangered their colleagues in Benghazi or had misled the public or Congress.
“And that should be enough,” Ventrell said at Monday’s press briefing. “Congress has its own prerogatives, but we’ve had a very thorough, independent investigation, which we completed and [which was] transparent and shared. And there are many folks who are, in a political manner, trying to sort of use this for their own political means, or ends.”
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James Rosen
Chief Washington Correspondent
Host, “The Foxhole”
And here we have "unaware" claim number two:
Asked about Issa’s complaints about attorneys not receiving security clearances, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell on Monday indicated that – far from threatening anyone – the administration hasn’t been presented with any such cases. “I’m not aware of private counsel seeking security clearances or — or anything to that regard,” Ventrell told reporters. “I’m not aware of whistle blowers one way or another.”
Really??? Who in their right mind would believe such bull**it???
Of course we have the new Secretary of State - John Kerry - covering for this BADministration just like Hillary did:
“So if you have additional questions or, you think there’s some document that somehow you need, I’ll work with you to try to get it and see if we can provide that to you,” Kerry told committee chairman Rep. Ed Royce, also a Republican from California, on April 17. But Kerry added: “I do not want to spend the next year coming up here talking about Benghazi.”
Yes!!! And we can all certainly surmise exactly WHY Kerry doesn't "want to spend the next year coming up here talking about Benghazi!!! " It takes a lot of lying and evil machinations to keep a cover-up this big going.
Hmmm...a certain lyric from a song called Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who just popped into my mind...
"meet the new boss...same as the old boss..."
I am really grateful and thankful for these whistle blower patriots who won't allow the threats from this BADministration to silence them!!!
The truth will come out...it always does!!!
Hat tips to all links.
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On second thought, another 40 second portion of the press conference turned out to be worthwhile:
Comment there:
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Well, since you didn't bother to listen to the rest of the press conference (that “I didn't want to know” wailing you talked about in earlier posts), then you don't deserve to know any more. You can suck up the version you like from Fox or Glenn Beck or your favorite blog buddies, and come up with the conclusion you prefer...not that you need them for that.
I will tell you one thing though: there was no hesitant speech regarding Beck's 'ultimatum' of the 19th. The subject never even came up. The first rule of ultimatums is: Never deliver one, unless you are both willing and able to carry it out. Guess he hasn't reached the 'able' part yet.
As for Obama's use of language:
"Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things," Rumsfeld said. "They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things. And that's what's going to happen here."
Looting, he added, was not uncommon for countries that experience significant social upheaval. "Stuff happens," Rumsfeld said. (Source)
Ten years ago, remember? And you didn't complain then about—oh, wait, he was a Republican and a conservative, wasn't he? With no 'suspicious' background. Well, that's okay then. Carry on.
I just didn't want to waste my time listening to O's lying and bull**it.
Who cares what Rumsfeld said 10 years ago? Besides, he wasn't a president at the time. However, the "stuff" comment pales in comparison to O's "Navy corpsemen" trifecta during a speech years ago.
Back to the topic. There is more...MUCH more:
The Blaze: Explosive Report Contradicts the Obama Administration’s Benghazi Story in a Big Way
Of course that special ops member chose to remain anonymous. If I got as many details wrong as he did, I wouldn't want to be identified either.
As for his (and Fox's) claims, this should put paid to them.
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