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Heisman Winner [111935]
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America was subjected to another tragic injustice today
May 8, 2013, 9:24 PM
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when fox news was not permitted to testify at the congressional oversight hearing pertaining to Benghazi. For 6 months their top rate sleuthing and investigative journalism has uncovered a treasure trove of clandestine whitehouse crimes, yet they were not permitted to reveal their finding on the in the capital building this afternoon.
Instead, we were forced to listen to boring facts from the DOJ employees, witnesses to the event, as well as emails sent to the white house in the following days.
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Re: America was subjected to another tragic injustice today
May 8, 2013, 9:26 PM
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Go back to believing that it was all a video that caused the problems
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Re: America was subjected to another tragic injustice today
May 8, 2013, 9:27 PM
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I never said I did, but I am still waiting for the impeachment of Barry and Clinton's political career to be left in ruin. That is all the crap the wing nuts have been posting for the last 6 months.
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Re: America was subjected to another tragic injustice today
May 8, 2013, 9:34 PM
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keep defending terrible actions-keep acting like the video cause the "demonstration"; keep blasting FOX and showing your ignorance
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Orange Blooded [2429]
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NO way you watched it....
May 8, 2013, 9:39 PM
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because if you did, you would have learned some interesting details.
Regardless of your political leanings, if you aren't at least concerned with what happened in Benghazi and how the administration handled it and the inconsistencies brought up in the hearing today, then you're an idiot.
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Re: NO way you watched it....
May 8, 2013, 9:45 PM
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well since you are so secure in your beliefs, I am shocked that you resorted to name calling.
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I don't claim to be capable of a lot of finesse or....
May 8, 2013, 10:33 PM
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sophisticated ways of making a point. Sometimes, it's just easier to call 'em like I sees 'em.
Now...if you want to volunteer to fit the description I laid out....have at it.
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Re: NO way you watched it....
May 8, 2013, 9:52 PM
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your last statement is 100% correct
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Re: I'm an idiot.***
May 8, 2013, 10:05 PM
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thank you for your honesty
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Re: And sky is blue :)***
May 8, 2013, 10:31 PM
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From what I can tell (bear in mind I've paid nearly zero attention), the worst possible scenario is that the administration could've done better, and lied about what they knew about their screwup in order to protect the president's campaign.
Is that right?
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Well...in previous congressional testimony, it was said....
May 8, 2013, 10:40 PM
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that the security team in Tripoli was not told to "stand down". Testimony today seemed to contradict that.
The admin and military officials also previously stated that there were no options to get help to the consulate in time to help. That was also brought into doubt.
To mean the quote from the Lt. Col. in charge of the security team about "for the first time the diplomats had more balls than the military" and the fact that they were furious that they were told to stand down was enlightening and not contained in the review board findings.
There's a fair bit more, but my point is that it was far from a "waste of time" or strictly political in nature.
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Not sure if that was a yes or a no.***
May 8, 2013, 11:08 PM
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It was neither...
May 8, 2013, 11:50 PM
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I think the hearings have illustrated that there is more to the story than we've been lead to believe....or at the very least, there is more to learn and see where it leads.
If you want to know, listen to the testimony and questioning from today for yourself. I will say, that after listening to the testimony directly for a couple of hours earlier today and listen listening to the coverage on all sides tonight...that it reinforced my long held belief in watching/listening to c-span if you really want the less-filtered "truth".
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Re: It was neither...
May 9, 2013, 6:47 AM
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This sort of vague nothingness is the reason I don't bother to pay attention. You heard the questioning and admit you have no answers. I assume I'd end up in the same place, which is why I won't bother.
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And contradictory testimony is always correct.
May 8, 2013, 11:31 PM
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This story may have legs of some sort, but they're undermined by blatant, incessant Republican opportunism.
From what I can tell, the worst case scenario is the Obama admin tried to downplay a tragedy that met the necessary criteria to be dubbed "terrorism" during an election cycle. Conservatives made that point on 9/12/2012. Everything since then has been
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Considering the testemony is from career diplomats....
May 8, 2013, 11:47 PM
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I think it deserves a certain weight.
The point here is that there is more to learn and, in my opinion, the hearings are justified. I think there is a good bit more to this story than we've seen so far.
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There's always more to the story.
May 9, 2013, 12:21 AM
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That's why it's catnip. Benghazi is the right-wing version of Lost. Today's testimony = smoke monster.
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Now I want to watch and follow it!
May 9, 2013, 12:24 AM
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All the way to its inevitable underwhelming ending!
#loveLost
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It appears that some on the right are convinced that...
May 9, 2013, 10:06 AM
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... these diplomats were intentionally sacrificed (by Barack Obama personally) for some bizarre political reasons that have yet to be explained. That is at least their fervent hope.
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I actually DID watch it.
May 8, 2013, 11:03 PM
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As biased as Fox was for airing the entire hearing nearly commercial-free, it's equally ###### up that the other cable news channels didn't even acknowledge it.
That said, if there are no criminal allegations, then it's just theatrics and Republicans are shamelessly exploiting an American tragedy for political ends.
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You know what sux?
May 8, 2013, 11:50 PM
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They all do it.
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How is it that you figure airing a hearing unedited is....
May 8, 2013, 11:52 PM
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biased?
And if you did watch it on FNC, you would know that it wasn't nearly commercial-free at all and they kept apologizing for having to break away. They took all normal commercial breaks. Now that I think about it...you sure you watched it?
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It was biased because it's GOP catnip.
May 9, 2013, 12:15 AM
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And yeah, they did take commercial breaks occasionally. At one point they apologized for their commercial timing because it allowed one side more time than the other.
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Re: Like Katrina?***
May 9, 2013, 12:27 AM
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:) At who? I was actually interested in your comment about
May 9, 2013, 4:11 AM
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shamelessly exploiting American tragedies for political gain. Thought you might have insights, given your strong opinion about that phenonenon. You mad?
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Benghazi was 9/11/2012. It happened because of 9/11/2001.***
May 9, 2013, 4:18 AM
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That's what I'm talking about. Good call. But Katrina
May 9, 2013, 11:13 AM
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happened because of global waming caused by the economic expansion in the US during the booming Clinton years. Or were the booming Clinton years good and the booming Reagan years bad? I forget. Hard for a guy to stay cool nowadays.
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It was the polar activity... Bi-polar.***
May 9, 2013, 11:17 AM
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Might be on to something there.***
May 9, 2013, 11:33 AM
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Re: I actually DID watch it.
May 9, 2013, 9:32 AM
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Mainstream doesn't want their viewers to have a clue about what happened.
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Riiiight! Like you wouldn't be all over this like white on
May 9, 2013, 7:51 AM
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rice or stink on shyatt, if this had happened under Bush's watch.
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You are really well informed..
May 9, 2013, 9:12 AM
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the people testifying were from the Department of State, not DOJ.
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Hillary told Mrs Smith, mother of one of the murdered,
May 9, 2013, 9:24 AM
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Face to Face, nose to nose, that it was a result of the tapes.
Hillary blatantly lied to cover up and protect some associates.
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let's hope her 2016 chances are now as dry as her
May 9, 2013, 10:10 AM
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osteoporotic snooch.
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