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| − | On the night of September 11, 2012, a heavily armed group of Muslim terrorists attacked the American Consulate in Benghazi Libya, killing U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and another diplomat. This was followed by an attack the next day against another U.S. station nearby | + | On the night of September 11, 2012, a heavily armed group of al-Qaida-linked Muslim terrorists attacked the American Consulate in Benghazi Libya, killing U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and another diplomat. This was followed by an attack the next day against another U.S. station nearby. The Obama administration quickly said the incident was a result of a protest over an anti-Islam YouTube video that got out of control, yet the evidence and witnesses declared the event a terrorist attack almost immediately after it happened. |
National security adviser Susan Rice went on television and told the American people the attack was nothing more than a spontaneous demonstration that got out of hand over an anti-Muslim video, rather than terrorists. | National security adviser Susan Rice went on television and told the American people the attack was nothing more than a spontaneous demonstration that got out of hand over an anti-Muslim video, rather than terrorists. | ||
Prior to the attacks Ambassador Stevens repeatedly requested more security at the consulate and that security was repeatedly denied. The Ambassador had received multiple threats which he felt were to be taken seriously. | Prior to the attacks Ambassador Stevens repeatedly requested more security at the consulate and that security was repeatedly denied. The Ambassador had received multiple threats which he felt were to be taken seriously. | ||
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| + | CIA agents who could have helped were told to "stand down" when the Benghazi Consulate in Libya was attacked. | ||
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| + | President Obama proclaimed al-Qaida defeated during his first term. Evidence that the Benghazi attack was linked to al-Qaida may have hurt his reelection campaign. The truth about the attacks was suppressed in a scandal involving Susan Rice that can be traced back to Hillary Clinton. Clinton ignored urgent requests for more security, her mistake resulted in the death of four Americans and was an embarrassment to the Obama administration. President Obama's culpability is in the decision to appoint Clinton to the office of Secretary of State, but likely ends there. Blame for the incident seems to fall directly upon Hillary Clinton since she knew it was a dangerous place, and she neither pulled the Ambassador out nor took measures to properly protect him and his staff. | ||
* Tyrone Woods - Navy S.E.A.L. fallen hero | * Tyrone Woods - Navy S.E.A.L. fallen hero | ||
* Glen Doherty - Navy S.E.A.L. fallen hero | * Glen Doherty - Navy S.E.A.L. fallen hero | ||
* Chris Stevens - U.S. Ambassador assigned to consulate in Benghazi who asked Hillary Clinton for more security. He died in the attack. | * Chris Stevens - U.S. Ambassador assigned to consulate in Benghazi who asked Hillary Clinton for more security. He died in the attack. | ||
| − | * Sean Smith - | + | * Sean Smith - the Foreign Service Information Management Officer assigned to the American consulate in Benghazi that died in the attack. |
* David Ubben - | * David Ubben - | ||
| − | * Susan Rice - National Security Adviser who misinformed American public about the attack on the Consulate, likely under the direction of Hillary Clinton | + | * Susan Rice - National Security Adviser who misinformed American public about the attack on the Consulate, likely under the direction of Hillary Clinton. Many believed she knew it was a lie even before she repeated it to the public. |
* Hillary Clinton - Secretary of State who ignored requests for increased security for the Benghazi Consulate, likely instructed Susan Rice to give the false report about the attack being a demonstration over a video, and faked a concussion to avoid testifying about Benghazi at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. Clinton is where responsibility for the dead Americans in Benghazi rests. | * Hillary Clinton - Secretary of State who ignored requests for increased security for the Benghazi Consulate, likely instructed Susan Rice to give the false report about the attack being a demonstration over a video, and faked a concussion to avoid testifying about Benghazi at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. Clinton is where responsibility for the dead Americans in Benghazi rests. | ||
| − | * Nakoula Basseley Nakoula - the | + | * Nakoula Basseley Nakoula - the man who made the Anti-Islamic Youtube video, "Innocence of Muslims," which was falsely reported as being the cause of the attack. He is the first person imprisoned in the United States for violating Islamic anti-blasphemy laws and is a scapegoat for Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration. |
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| + | Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have went on the record to state that they believe former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other high-ranking officials of the State Department were directly responsible for reducing security levels at the Libyan consulate despite a high threat environment. This contradicts Clinton’s testimony, given before Congress, during which she said, "''The requests didn’t come to me, I didn’t deny them.''" | ||
Secretary Clinton had been scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill about the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, in September that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador when she conveniently sustained a concussion after becoming dehydrated and fainting December 16, 2012. On January 23, 2013 former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "''With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?''" | Secretary Clinton had been scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill about the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, in September that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador when she conveniently sustained a concussion after becoming dehydrated and fainting December 16, 2012. On January 23, 2013 former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "''With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?''" | ||
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| + | Real Clear Politics analysts Charles Krauthammer commented, "''When you think of the question that Hillary Clinton asked, what difference does it make? You know, there's something Clintonian in the question. There's a difference between the truth and a lie.''" | ||
Congressman Devin Nunes, who serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told the press that "''I’ve met with the Benghazi survivors numerous times, the guys who saved everbody from getting killed. They knew it was a terrorist attack. All the other officials on the ground that night, they knew it was a terrorist attack. I watched the video, over-and-over again, it’s clear that it was a planned and well-orchestrated attack. There was never any demonstration whatsoever, and I believe that they all knew that, and Susan Rice had to know that. If not, she was just a useful idiot in the process.''" | Congressman Devin Nunes, who serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told the press that "''I’ve met with the Benghazi survivors numerous times, the guys who saved everbody from getting killed. They knew it was a terrorist attack. All the other officials on the ground that night, they knew it was a terrorist attack. I watched the video, over-and-over again, it’s clear that it was a planned and well-orchestrated attack. There was never any demonstration whatsoever, and I believe that they all knew that, and Susan Rice had to know that. If not, she was just a useful idiot in the process.''" | ||
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a report that determined the attack, and the deaths of four Americans, could have been prevented. Former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli Gregory Hicks was one of the last persons to talk to Ambassador Stevens before he was killed. Hicks has since expressed his frustration with the Obama administration's portrayal of the facts surrounding the attacks and recent accusations that Ambassador Stevens was responsible for his own death. During congressional testimony Hicks said the YouTube video was a "non-event" in Libya and said his jaw hit the floor when he learned the administration was blaming the attack on a video. Hicks, second-in-command to Stevens in Libya, was on the ground in Tripoli when the attack occurred and reported directly to Clinton immediately that the consulate was under attack. He never reported a protest. | The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a report that determined the attack, and the deaths of four Americans, could have been prevented. Former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli Gregory Hicks was one of the last persons to talk to Ambassador Stevens before he was killed. Hicks has since expressed his frustration with the Obama administration's portrayal of the facts surrounding the attacks and recent accusations that Ambassador Stevens was responsible for his own death. During congressional testimony Hicks said the YouTube video was a "non-event" in Libya and said his jaw hit the floor when he learned the administration was blaming the attack on a video. Hicks, second-in-command to Stevens in Libya, was on the ground in Tripoli when the attack occurred and reported directly to Clinton immediately that the consulate was under attack. He never reported a protest. | ||
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| + | ==Tyrone Woods== | ||
| + | Senior Chief Petty Officer US Navy SEAL, retired, Tyrone Snowden Woods died September 12, 2012 while defending the U.S. Diplomatic Post in Benghazi, Libya at the age of 41. Woods was working for the CIA as a Senior Security Operative and was part of a small team who was at the CIA annex about a mile from the U.S. consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens and his team came under attack. | ||
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| + | When Tyrone Woods and others heard the shots fired, they informed their higher-ups at the annex to tell them what they were hearing and requested permission to go to the consulate and help out. They were told to "stand down." Woods and at least two others ignored those orders and made their way to the consulate which at that point was on fire. Shots were exchanged. The rescue team from the CIA annex evacuated those who remained at the consulate and Sean Smith, who had been killed in the initial attack. They could not find the ambassador and returned to the CIA annex at about midnight. | ||
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| + | After their return, they again asked for military support. The request was denied. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours which would have allowed enough time for military support aircraft to arrive from the nearest base. Tyrone Woods was later joined at the scene by fellow former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty, who was sent in from Tripoli as part of a Global Response Staff. hey were killed by a mortar shell at 4 a.m. Libyan time, nearly seven hours after the attack on the consulate began. | ||
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| + | ==Glen Doherty== | ||
| + | Glen Doherty, the former Navy SEAL who was working for the CIA's Global Response staff in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012 lost his life with Tyrone Woods while defending the U.S. Diplomatic Post in Benghazi, Libya. | ||
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| + | == Sean Smith == | ||
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| + | Sean Smith was a Foreign Service Information Management Officer assigned to the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Smith was a husband and father of two, an Air Force veteran, and a 10-year veteran of the Foreign Service who had served in Baghdad, Pretoria, Montreal and The Hague. Smith was posthumously awarded the Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service on May 3, 2013. | ||
Latest revision as of 19:44, 16 March 2014
On the night of September 11, 2012, a heavily armed group of al-Qaida-linked Muslim terrorists attacked the American Consulate in Benghazi Libya, killing U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and another diplomat. This was followed by an attack the next day against another U.S. station nearby. The Obama administration quickly said the incident was a result of a protest over an anti-Islam YouTube video that got out of control, yet the evidence and witnesses declared the event a terrorist attack almost immediately after it happened.
National security adviser Susan Rice went on television and told the American people the attack was nothing more than a spontaneous demonstration that got out of hand over an anti-Muslim video, rather than terrorists.
Prior to the attacks Ambassador Stevens repeatedly requested more security at the consulate and that security was repeatedly denied. The Ambassador had received multiple threats which he felt were to be taken seriously.
CIA agents who could have helped were told to "stand down" when the Benghazi Consulate in Libya was attacked.
President Obama proclaimed al-Qaida defeated during his first term. Evidence that the Benghazi attack was linked to al-Qaida may have hurt his reelection campaign. The truth about the attacks was suppressed in a scandal involving Susan Rice that can be traced back to Hillary Clinton. Clinton ignored urgent requests for more security, her mistake resulted in the death of four Americans and was an embarrassment to the Obama administration. President Obama's culpability is in the decision to appoint Clinton to the office of Secretary of State, but likely ends there. Blame for the incident seems to fall directly upon Hillary Clinton since she knew it was a dangerous place, and she neither pulled the Ambassador out nor took measures to properly protect him and his staff.
- Tyrone Woods - Navy S.E.A.L. fallen hero
- Glen Doherty - Navy S.E.A.L. fallen hero
- Chris Stevens - U.S. Ambassador assigned to consulate in Benghazi who asked Hillary Clinton for more security. He died in the attack.
- Sean Smith - the Foreign Service Information Management Officer assigned to the American consulate in Benghazi that died in the attack.
- David Ubben -
- Susan Rice - National Security Adviser who misinformed American public about the attack on the Consulate, likely under the direction of Hillary Clinton. Many believed she knew it was a lie even before she repeated it to the public.
- Hillary Clinton - Secretary of State who ignored requests for increased security for the Benghazi Consulate, likely instructed Susan Rice to give the false report about the attack being a demonstration over a video, and faked a concussion to avoid testifying about Benghazi at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. Clinton is where responsibility for the dead Americans in Benghazi rests.
- Nakoula Basseley Nakoula - the man who made the Anti-Islamic Youtube video, "Innocence of Muslims," which was falsely reported as being the cause of the attack. He is the first person imprisoned in the United States for violating Islamic anti-blasphemy laws and is a scapegoat for Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration.
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have went on the record to state that they believe former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other high-ranking officials of the State Department were directly responsible for reducing security levels at the Libyan consulate despite a high threat environment. This contradicts Clinton’s testimony, given before Congress, during which she said, "The requests didn’t come to me, I didn’t deny them."
Secretary Clinton had been scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill about the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, in September that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador when she conveniently sustained a concussion after becoming dehydrated and fainting December 16, 2012. On January 23, 2013 former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?"
Real Clear Politics analysts Charles Krauthammer commented, "When you think of the question that Hillary Clinton asked, what difference does it make? You know, there's something Clintonian in the question. There's a difference between the truth and a lie."
Congressman Devin Nunes, who serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told the press that "I’ve met with the Benghazi survivors numerous times, the guys who saved everbody from getting killed. They knew it was a terrorist attack. All the other officials on the ground that night, they knew it was a terrorist attack. I watched the video, over-and-over again, it’s clear that it was a planned and well-orchestrated attack. There was never any demonstration whatsoever, and I believe that they all knew that, and Susan Rice had to know that. If not, she was just a useful idiot in the process."
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a report that determined the attack, and the deaths of four Americans, could have been prevented. Former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli Gregory Hicks was one of the last persons to talk to Ambassador Stevens before he was killed. Hicks has since expressed his frustration with the Obama administration's portrayal of the facts surrounding the attacks and recent accusations that Ambassador Stevens was responsible for his own death. During congressional testimony Hicks said the YouTube video was a "non-event" in Libya and said his jaw hit the floor when he learned the administration was blaming the attack on a video. Hicks, second-in-command to Stevens in Libya, was on the ground in Tripoli when the attack occurred and reported directly to Clinton immediately that the consulate was under attack. He never reported a protest.
Tyrone Woods
Senior Chief Petty Officer US Navy SEAL, retired, Tyrone Snowden Woods died September 12, 2012 while defending the U.S. Diplomatic Post in Benghazi, Libya at the age of 41. Woods was working for the CIA as a Senior Security Operative and was part of a small team who was at the CIA annex about a mile from the U.S. consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens and his team came under attack.
When Tyrone Woods and others heard the shots fired, they informed their higher-ups at the annex to tell them what they were hearing and requested permission to go to the consulate and help out. They were told to "stand down." Woods and at least two others ignored those orders and made their way to the consulate which at that point was on fire. Shots were exchanged. The rescue team from the CIA annex evacuated those who remained at the consulate and Sean Smith, who had been killed in the initial attack. They could not find the ambassador and returned to the CIA annex at about midnight.
After their return, they again asked for military support. The request was denied. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours which would have allowed enough time for military support aircraft to arrive from the nearest base. Tyrone Woods was later joined at the scene by fellow former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty, who was sent in from Tripoli as part of a Global Response Staff. hey were killed by a mortar shell at 4 a.m. Libyan time, nearly seven hours after the attack on the consulate began.
Glen Doherty
Glen Doherty, the former Navy SEAL who was working for the CIA's Global Response staff in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012 lost his life with Tyrone Woods while defending the U.S. Diplomatic Post in Benghazi, Libya.
Sean Smith
Sean Smith was a Foreign Service Information Management Officer assigned to the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Smith was a husband and father of two, an Air Force veteran, and a 10-year veteran of the Foreign Service who had served in Baghdad, Pretoria, Montreal and The Hague. Smith was posthumously awarded the Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service on May 3, 2013.
