The Benghazi Drip-Drip-Drip
As he left his Marine One helicopter Wednesday evening and walked to the residence of the White House, President Obama did not respond to a question shouted out by ABC News’s Mary Bruce about when he would begin to provide answers to the numerous questions building up about what exactly what went wrong in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012.
The president smiled and continued walking.
Perhaps he couldn’t hear the question over the din of the chopper’s blades, but either way the smile and wave – almost Reagan-esque in style – underline the apparent strategy the president specifically and his administration in general have seemed to adopt when it comes to the myriad inquiries about the decisions that led to the deaths of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens: they are deferring detailed answers to the investigation and – critics say –running out the clock until Election Day.
As of now, the White House has disclosed that President Obama was informed about the attack on the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi at roughly 5pm by his National Security Adviser Tom Donilon as he was in a pre-scheduled meeting with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey. At that meeting, senior administration officials say, the President ordered that the U.S. begin moving military assets into the region to prepare for a range of contingencies.
But beyond that, the White House has punted, saying the Accountability Review Board established by the State Department is investigating the matter and what went wrong. No detailed tick-tock, no information about the president’s involvement in decision-making. In addition, they’re preparing for a closed-door hearing of the Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence on November 15.
Without question in this hyper-partisan environment, Republicans operatives are fanning flames and creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing, trafficking in false rumors and idle speculation. The White House has felt the necessity to pop its head up to shoot down stories it says are false.
For instance, Tommy Vietor, the spokesman for the National Security Council, has said that despite some claims, there was no real-time video of the attack being watched in the Situation Room.
As for recent stories suggesting otherwise, Vietor says, “the White House didn’t deny any requests for assistance. Period. Moreover, what the entire government did – the White House, State Department, Intelligence Community, Department of Defense included – was to work to mobilize all available assets and move them into the region as quickly as possible. That’s what the President ordered the Secretary of Defense and Chairman to do the first time he was briefed about these issues. Many of those assets were later used to reinforce embassies in places like Yemen, Libya and Egypt.”
But that doesn’t mean the myriad questions stacking up are all political in nature, nor that those interested in answers about the Benghazi tragedy are motivated by partisan and nefarious aims.
The Washington Post’s respected foreign policy columnist David Ignatius just yesterday posed “Lingering Questions about Benghazi.” One of them, pointedly, was “At a time when al-Qaeda was strengthening its presence in Libya and across North Africa, why didn’t the United States have more military hardware nearby?”
In the place of a detailed description from the Obama administration about what happened more than six weeks ago comes the drip-drip-drip of stories about the failures of the Obama administration to provide those Americans on the ground in Libya with all the security assets they needed.
ABC News broke some stories on this, ranging from a security team being denied continued use of an airplane its commander wanted to keep in country to better do his job; to the security team leaving Libya before Ambassador Stevens wanted it to.
Fox News Channel’s Catherine Herridge last night reported on a newly discovered cable indicating that in August, less than a month before the attack, the diplomatic post in Benghazi convened an “emergency meeting” concerned about local Al Qaeda training camps. Said the cable: “RSO (Regional Security Officer) expressed concerns with the ability to defend Post in the event of a coordinated attack due to limited manpower, security measures, weapons capabilities, host nation support, and the overall size of the compound.”
The cable stated that “In light of the uncertain security environment, US Mission Benghazi will submit specific requests to US Embassy Tripoli for additional physical security upgrades and staffing needs by separate cover.”
The State Department’s comment to Fox: “An independent board is conducting a thorough review of the assault on our post in Benghazi. Once we have the board’s comprehensive account of what happened, findings and recommendations, we can fully address these matters.”
It was the exact same statement given to ABC News earlier in the month about a different revelation.
This afternoon, journalists Harald Doornbos and Jenan Moussa in Foreign Policy Magazine reported that when they arrived at the compound in Benghazi on October 26 they found “several ash-strewn documents beneath rubble in the looted Tactical Operations Center, one of the four main buildings of the partially destroyed compound. Some of the documents — such as an email from Stevens to his political officer in Benghazi and a flight itinerary sent to Sean Smith, a U.S. diplomat slain in the attack — are clearly marked as State Department correspondence. Others are unsigned printouts of messages to local and national Libyan authorities. The two unsigned draft letters are both dated Sept. 11 and express strong fears about the security situation at the compound on what would turn out to be a tragic day. They also indicate that Stevens and his team had officially requested additional security at the Benghazi compound for his visit — and that they apparently did not feel it was being provided.”
A Sept. 11 missive to the head of the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs notes that on that morning, “one of our diligent guards made a troubling report. Near our main gate, a member of the police force was seen in the upper level of a building across from our compound. It is reported that this person was photographing the inside of the U.S. special mission and furthermore that this person was part of the police unit sent to protect the mission. The police car stationed where this event occurred was number 322.”
On Air Force One today, White House press secretary Jay Carney was asked by ABC News how closely the President is reading and following the media reports about what went wrong in Benghazi.
“Is he engaged in the investigation and receiving updates on the investigation, or is he waiting until it’s complete?” ABC News’ Devin Dwyer asked.
Carney noted that since the “investigations are being conducted by both the FBI and the Accountability Review Board” the president himself “is not participating in the investigation. He is anticipating results that show us exactly what happened, who was responsible and what lessons we can learn from it in terms of how we ensure that it never happens again.”
The White House press secretary – who has not held a full-fledged briefing with the White House press corps since October 12 – said that the president “expects the investigations to be rigorous. He is extremely focused on making sure that we find exactly what happened and who was responsible, and tracking down those who were responsible and bringing them to justice.”
-Jake Tapper, Mary Bruce, Devin Dwyer and Dana Hughes
I suppose I could be more underwhelmed by the GOP’s desperate need to make some sort of conspiracy stick against the President. But, you know, there is that whole history of hyperbolic and increasingly bizarre and ridiculous conspiracies fomented by people who make me sincerely hope that we are alone in the universe, because being associated with anti-Obama conspiracy nuts even just because we inhabit the same planet is just humiliating.
Posted by: roooth | November 1, 2012, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm
The public relations arm of the Obama administration, aka: the Mainstream Media, needs to do their job, investigate and get the facts. You know, like they did for Watergate.
Posted by: Neal Kaye | November 1, 2012, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm
Shame on anyone who sweeps this pathetic response from obama under the rug. Every day we learn more about the many requests for additional security that were refused. They were litterally begging for security and were denied. Then during the attack we know that several requests for help were denied. Then to top it off we have the lies told by this pathetic admin that it was just a few protestors, when they knew within hours it was a coordinated terror attack. Screw you obama.
Posted by: Tom Angelo | November 1, 2012, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm
The media is electing our presidents now, just like the Hearst propaganda days. They shamelessly call themselves “journalists.” Obama needs lots of help from the media to be re-elected because he is a total failure as president. Sad to lose our great country. The founders must be spinning in their graves.
Posted by: jonnie | November 1, 2012, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm
Roooth, what is wrong with the media reporting this story and letting the American people decide what is bizarre and ridiculous? You don’t need a conspiracy to account for the fact that for the first time in 30 years an American ambassador was murdered and the President and his staff had no knowledge of his whereabouts for seven hours.Any real leader would have had a Press Conference by now ; Obama is terrified by unscripted questions and has no answers. How many Americans were killed at the Bay of Pigs? At least JFK had the guts to admit a F— up.
Posted by: Nene | November 1, 2012, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm
We’re witnessing the most corrupt administration in U.S. history, people. Hold them accountable before it’s too late.
Posted by: Reality Check | November 1, 2012, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm
Somebody should ask Barack Obama if he thinks the Navy SEALS who disobeyed orders to help our diplomats in Libya should be court-marshaled if they were still alive.
Posted by: EL Chamberlain | November 1, 2012, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
Romney won’t win the popular vote or the electoral college….
but keep an eye on the voting machine company that the Romney’s own and their contract in Ohio.
Posted by: TypicalGuy | November 1, 2012, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm
When the SEALS were called to kill OBL, they replied. When they fought their guts out in Benghazi they were denied. It has been reported thhat when the terrorist went to clean up the embassy massacre, they were thoroughly pissed that 2 Americans killed 89 of their scum brothers. We are talking something along the lines of the Alamo!
BTW, the video that Bamster and Hillery claimed caused this was only viewed 17 times the day before the attack. No wonder she is lawyering up per Bill Clinton.
Posted by: buster lhode | November 1, 2012, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm
obama, lies, and videotape. no matter how much the media assists, the truth will come out and there will be hell to pay…..
Posted by: danman | November 1, 2012, 5:05 pm 5:05 pm
So finally, after all this time, what 7 weeks, respectable David Ignatius is asking some questions. Seems just like yesterday, September 12th or so, Mr. Ignatius and David Kirkpatrick of the NYT were interviewed by Charlie Rose. Mr. Ignatius seemed very focused and bothered by Mitt Romney’s response. Sorry, the election is next Tuesday, and foreign policy reporters and columnists did what they did during those 7 weeks. Whatever they question or report now, is too late for the truth to be given a fair hearing. After all, we need to wait for the “rigorous investigation” after being spoonfed a “spontaneous attack”.
Posted by: ltw | November 1, 2012, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm
The Obama Benghazi Libya Scandal marks a time in history when Americans asking for help prior to a terrorist attack were denied help by the POTUS. The main function of the U.S. government is to protect its citizens. When the attack occurred the POTUS watched idly and passively as Americans died when he could of prevented it in the first place and interrupted the attacks as it was progressing. Moving FORWARD would demand ANSWERS, REAL ANSWERS PRIOR TO THE ELECTION! This president told the people involved in the hurricaine that “we don’t leave anyone behind”, well he certainly did in Libya. What makes anyone trust him with theri own life? your parents life? your childrens? Why is it the DHS under this administration labels patriotic Americans as potential terrorist when it is unable to call real terrorists for what they are? If the POTUS told the Gen Ham and Adm Gaouette to stand down because it wasn’t a terrorist attack then it must of been a executive order government assassination.
Posted by: Jo | November 1, 2012, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm
Nothing to show wrongdoing??? Are you kidding me? There is a bigger coverup than Watergate dreamed of being, and 4 people are DEAD. There is plentiful evidence of plentiful incidents of plentiful wrongdoing. Do your JOB.
Posted by: Jen | November 1, 2012, 5:12 pm 5:12 pm
No One left behind, ever.
Posted by: bl | November 1, 2012, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm
Funny how this story is moved from the front page and squelched a little over an hour after it is posted.
Posted by: Jo | November 1, 2012, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
”Republicans operatives are fanning flames and creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing, trafficking in false rumors and idle speculation.’ YOU DID SAY YOU ARE A BIASED REPORTER, RIGHT?
Posted by: POLLIE | November 1, 2012, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
So will ABC finally be a responsible news outlet and hold President Obama accountable for the murders of four people he abandoned?
Posted by: Al | November 1, 2012, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
Glad Jake has been keeping up on Benghazi but ABC is doing a disservice by burying this in the Politics section, There are many., many questions that have yet to be answered. The odd timing of General Ham. was there an order to mobilize forces or wasn’t there? There are conflicting statements from many various sources and no, they are not all coming from right wing folks.
Posted by: BostonIndy | November 1, 2012, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm
Sad to see there is minimal coverage… where are the calls for resignations? where are the calls of a coverup? Shame on ABC, NBC, CBS, cnn… and the newspapers must not have any journalist left to write about this shame. The media spent more time on Valerie Jarret and her pathetic life story (an nobody was KILLED) than this joke of a president…. No more will I support a democrat…even at the dog catcher level.
Posted by: Biff Lowman | November 1, 2012, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm
Obviously no answers are coming until after the election.
Posted by: Tmaxx | November 1, 2012, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm
Sad excuse for a President even sadder that people actually vote for him.
Posted by: Lisa | November 1, 2012, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm
The initial bloviating from the Republicans fell on my deaf ears. But allegations of not providing support for the rescue of the victims now raise questions that I believe that the President is obligated to answer. IT is his responsibility to inform the American public on what they need to know concerning foreign affairs. I can conceive of numerous rationales why it would not be feasible to go into an uncertain urban situation. There was a decision-making process that can answer these questions, one that doesn’t need an independent board to investigate. People made decisions based upon the information available at the time period. Nothing needs to be investigated, that is, unless someone missed something important that they should have caught.
For me, I”ve given the President the benefit of the doubt. I can understand that they couldn’t send in the calvary in an uncertain, chaotic battle/attack without risking or creating trapped units or soldiers (think Blackhawk Down). But not to answer questions or to give an accounting is not acceptable. IT will decide my vote for me.
Posted by: whosear | November 1, 2012, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm
Hmm, last I knew the prez worked for us and his PRIMARY duty is the security of the country and it’s citizens. Refusing to detail his actions is not acceptable. He works for us, is accountable to us and especially so for this. Mr. President, I served, I did my job and was responsible to the American people. You sir, owe us the facts as you know them.
Posted by: SoCalPilot | November 1, 2012, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm
What is with this over the top racist attacks on the President? I guess nobody has noticed that Obama is out saving lives and personally making sure each and every person suffering from Hurricane Sandy is taken care of.
Nobody cares about this stupid story and how Romney is trying to place the blame on Obama. The American public knows if anyone is at fault it is Romney for making such a big deal out of this. We want a President to take care of the American people, not just blame others like Romney does all day long.
Obama is taking care of those suffering the most and doesn’t care one bit about the stupid election that is a total waste of time. Everybody knows Obama is going to win with a total landslide yet Romney is making us pay for an expensive election because he is mean and is only interested in what he and his best buddies the Koch brothers can keep for themselves.
Posted by: Patrick | November 1, 2012, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm
Complete non-sequitor El Chamberlain: “but keep an eye on the voting machine company that the Romney’s own and their contract in Ohio.”
And this is related to Benghazi, how?
But if you want to go there, perhaps you haven’t noticed that the reports of voting machine issues have all been about ROMNEY votes mysteriously becoming Obama votes. You might want to catch up on the news…
Posted by: Fran Davis | November 1, 2012, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm
Conspiracy? The president’s bungling has led to the deaths of these good people. He doesn’t have the balls or decency to address the issue and you delusional liberals turn on the GOP. I hope you face the same tragedy in your lives. A vote for Obama says you hate America.
Posted by: former democrap | November 1, 2012, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm
Jake providing lip service to this massive coverup of RAPE and MURDER of a US Ambassador and 3 others.. the denial of help.. and the lack of protection in the 1st place
Nothing here will appear on Sawyers nightly spin of the world news
OBAMA LIED and PEOPLE DIED……IF Tapper can live with his protection of OBama…so be it
But you cannot trust ABC to provide you with anything that will make their” Obama” appear negligent in his duties
Posted by: Yep I said that | November 1, 2012, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm
It’s Amazing how Obama’s sheep supporters want this story spiked? Can you put aside your worship for king Obama and realize that 4 Americans were slaughtered so the President should be held accountable for his Muslim videotape narrative deception? F’in ponderous!
Posted by: Demitri | November 1, 2012, 5:19 pm 5:19 pm
ANY previous President (or for that matter future President) would have the headline banner news “what did he know and when did he know it” etc across every media news outlet almost 24/7…
Every bit of information that comes out contradicts the WH story…on every levels from the non-existant protest to not enough time to send help for 7 hours..
..and whether it is the fake story or the lack of military response it all ends at Obama. Not Bush not Elvis not Santa Claus… ..Obama.
Posted by: Brian | November 1, 2012, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm
If there was an investigation, why were sensitive documents still strewn on the floor of the abandoned consulate on October 26th, six weeks after the attack??? Why was the general commanding Africom relieved along with a Navy Admiral carrier task force commander? How could a soldier in the compound “light up” an enemy target wit a laser if there was no aircraft in the area that could actually engage the target? Why did Obama let our people die??
Posted by: Dave C | November 1, 2012, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm
Tapper continues to be the least biased reporter in the MSM!! —- Soooo…. Incompetence leads to tragedy… which is then covered-up by LIES to the public for 13 days!! — Bottom line… the WH will be successful in delaying anything substantial until after the election… then the MSM will work to downplay the story until soem “internal investigation” finds some underling ccapegoat!! —- Just like Fast & Furious!!! —- This administration will continue to pull this junk until they get kicked out of office… hopefully moving out in January!!!
Posted by: theloyalopposition | November 1, 2012, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm
Mr Tapper-
Will any of your analysis get airtime on the nightly news? A web post is nice, but this needs some ABC airtime too.
Best Regards
Kevin Norman
California
Posted by: Kevin Norman | November 1, 2012, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm
ABC News has been discredited almost as much as CBS, so why should anyone believe the author’s claim that the Republicans are inventing stories for political purposes ? Yes, they are using the incident for political purposes but once Obama is out of office the facts will all be known and it will be just as everyone suspected. Obama is incompetent as is Panetta and Hillary will rat out both of them in anticipation of her own run for the White House (in a moment of delusions of grandeur for her)
Your ABC agit-prop only fools the 47%’ers and they don’t matter anymore. When your messiah Obama loses on Tuesday do America a favor, fire all of your so called reporters and try and re-invent ABC as a fair and credible source.
Posted by: Bob Onnit | November 1, 2012, 5:23 pm 5:23 pm
I hope to see Obama and some of his cheer leading media stand trial for this cover-up and willful disregard for our personnel in Libya! Just unbelievable!
Posted by: Cav16 | November 1, 2012, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm
Shame on you nbc for helping Obama with his cover-up of Benghaz
Posted by: mike | November 1, 2012, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm
Wow! The Democrat deniers of Obama’s wrongdoing are severely delusional. I mean Watergate was bad, but Nixon resigned over the cover-up. We have 2 weeks of provable public cover-up by Obama specifically and his administration. And nary a word from the MSM. The MSM spent weeks on Bush’s drunk driving record from 25 years previous, no one died, but Benghazi gets a pass?
This isn’t some GOP trying to get a scandal to stick, this is American Citizenry trying to get the MSM to do their job as the unofficial 4th arm of government.
Posted by: Machtyn | November 1, 2012, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm
Mr. President we have these things called aircraft carriers that can land and launch airplanes. We have submarines that can deploy onboard SEALs. We have things called air bases with drones and jets that can be launched within minutes. Remember, those things you scolded Romney about. How can we use drones to kill terrorists in Pakistan and Yemen and not use them to kill them when they are attacking our embassy? And how can you sir, the Commander in Chief, go on a campaign swing the very next morning after these 4 souls were brutally murdered? You are an incompetent leader at best adn should resign. If the election doesn’t get you hopefully impeachment will!
Posted by: Roger | November 1, 2012, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm
Jake, I cannot imagine ABC will renew your contract when it expires but I am sure Fox would be delighted to have another real journalist in its ranks.
Thanks for what you do.
Posted by: jnsesq | November 1, 2012, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm
Mr. President, please tell us the truth.
For once.
Posted by: John Wolf | November 1, 2012, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm
Dear President Obama,
As a muslim living in America, I want to thank you for fanning the flames of hatred toward us. It is hard enough trying to gain the trust of my neighbors without you telling them we would kill Americans over a video. You are as much help as cancer.
Posted by: Abu-Matar | November 1, 2012, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm
Tapper is one of the few real journalists left in the MSM. I know we won’t get the answers until after Nov. 6th, and the administration has run out the clock (for better or worse), but kudos to Jake for keeping the WH’s collective feet to the fire.
Posted by: ddriz | November 1, 2012, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm
The “3AM phone rang” and it kept ringing and ringing…
Obama is a joke of a leader. Now he does have a track record.
Posted by: mpgunner | November 1, 2012, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm
Why are you not talking about the BIG LIE.. That is was all about a video when everyone knows from the moment it happened that it was a Terriost attack?
Posted by: diane smith | November 1, 2012, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm
It’s not a coverup if it’s due to incompetence.
Posted by: mannyv | November 1, 2012, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm
This is not over. Even if Obama is re-elected this will haunt him like Watergate haunted and eventually ousted Nixon.
Posted by: NoFear | November 1, 2012, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm
I am beginning to think that it was in fact, a plan to kidnap our Ambassador. This would have made Obama look brilliant, when he traded the blind Sheik for out Ambassador.
Posted by: John Wolf | November 1, 2012, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm
The All Barack Channel comes through … no pushing Carney for an answer that is different from the same old crap that spews out of Obama’s mouth to EVERY single question about Benghazi. You all in the MSM should be ashamed of yourselves – the only real reporters are those like Baier, Griffin, Herridge, etc., who are actually digging up the facts to this case. Nixon was destroyed over stupid campaign crap and with Benghazi FOUR PEOPLE DIED FOR NO REASON and yet the libs and the MSM don’t give a rat’s ass. Of course, the rat also happens to be C-in-C.
Posted by: Jean Pennie | November 1, 2012, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm
“Republicans operatives are fanning flames and creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing, trafficking in false rumors and idle speculation”
Are you kidding me??? This is impartial journalism??? Give me a break. This administration LIED to us for weeks about some video when they knew FOR MONTHS that the Benghazi consulate was being targeted for attack by terrorists. Does any journalist feel the need to ask WHY???? Does ABC News wonder WHO told the Navy Seals to stand down????
But wait, the deaths of four Americans after repeated pleas for help and additional security and the subsequent cover up is nothing more than “idle speculation” to ABC News. It saddens and sickens me to witness the downfall of the American media.
Posted by: MominMiss | November 1, 2012, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm
Nixon covered up a two bit political break-in.
The cover ups of this administration are much worse. Many people have died
Posted by: John Wolf | November 1, 2012, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm
@Roooth: I wonder if what you’re feeling is anything close to the humiliation I feel when I think how many people support an impostor and a lying scumbag like Obama. You see, the great thing about America is we can see things from different sides yet not kill each other. Unlike the four brave men Obama sacrificed to keep his fading hopes of reelection alive. I’m sure we will see more phony unemployment numbers tomorrow, somewhere in the 6% range, because the White House already knows the majority of Americans are too stupid to understand the scam being conducted – Obama’s presence in the White House is proof enough of that.
Posted by: Throckmorton09 | November 1, 2012, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm
Must somehow be Bush’s fault.
Posted by: Hicks, Weston W. | November 1, 2012, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm
Good Afternoon ABC News, glad to see you have finally awakened from your deep sleep of the past few days.
Outrage over the Americans that were killed in Benghazi and were slipped under the news radar because it was inconveinient for Obama’s re-election is justified. I don’t know if they were Republicans or Democrats or whatever, they were Americans – and we should all remember that we are too!
Posted by: Sandy | November 1, 2012, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm
I’m calling BS on there not being real-time video of the attack being watched in the Situation Room. The drones were flying, recording and transmitting to the situation room. They watched the whole thing as it went down. Just how many people will lie to CYA’s????
Posted by: dixon | November 1, 2012, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm
the only one’s brought to justice are the US citizen that made a video – jailed and the general of AFRICOM that was retired
Posted by: al777 | November 1, 2012, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm
Did I just read this and it wasn’t sarcasm?
“I guess nobody has noticed that Obama is out saving lives and personally making sure each and every person suffering from Hurricane Sandy is taken care of.”
Please, please tell me this was tongue-in-cheek, SOCALPILOT. Otherwise, I’d say it is head-in-***.
Posted by: ddriz | November 1, 2012, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm
What is there to investigate? Of whom are they asking questions? Each other? Is it a mystery to the President as to why he decided not to okay a military rescue operation? Is it a puzzlement for Sec of State Clinton to figure out why she herself made the decision not to add security before the attack ever took place? They made choices and now can’t remember why?
“Why didn’t you give the okay for a rescue attempt, President Obama?” “Not sure, I will have to investigate why I didn’t and get back to you on that.” Does this sound preposterous to anyone else besides me?
Posted by: L. Sward | November 1, 2012, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm
How absolutely disgusting to wait until after the election. Sounds like Obamacare: “vote me in and I’ll tell you what happened”. Shameful and obviously he has no respect for the American people and those who served in Libya.
If there was nothing to hide, there should have been no problem telling us in the past 6 weeks.
Obviously all is not as being portrayed and it can’t be good.
Mind boggling this doesn’t bother EVERYONE.
Posted by: sb | November 1, 2012, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm
Jake, investigative reporter you are not. Woodward and Bernstein would be a good model for you to follow, politician who are in trouble lie, its inherent, get over your apologetic pro Obama submissive self and become for the country what Walter Cronkite was, the most trusted man in the country…. that would be a blessing the the country. BE SOMEBODY, BREAK THE CHAINS!!
Posted by: Michael Alburn | November 1, 2012, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm
Blood on your hands Mr. Obama. Stop being the politician and try being a leader.
Give answers you coward !!!!!!
Posted by: Nick | November 1, 2012, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm
Funny, seeing as you’ve dedicated 2 minutes on this story since Sept 12th on the nightly news. I wonder why you’re ratings are down, as well as the trust Americans once had in you.
Posted by: Mike Oliver | November 1, 2012, 5:39 pm 5:39 pm
The more I learn about what happened in Libya the more angry I become. I listened to the interview with formed Navy Seal Tryone Wood’s father and it is heart breaking. I have my political views and have my political opinions, but this is beyond politics, the Commander and Chief has a responsibility to all serving our country around the country. You never leave your people behind. To sit around for 7 hours doing nothing while watching a US embassy getting attacked is unforgivable. To refuse 3 separate request for help from those in harms ways is a failure in leadership. To then take the facts and try to cover it up is the act of a coward. It was easy for Obama to make the call to send the Seals to get Osama, but when Seals asked for help Obama turned his back.
Posted by: Ruth | November 1, 2012, 5:39 pm 5:39 pm
The President has lied so many times about this, it deserves to be on the front page. First he blamed it on the video. He went in front of the UN and blamed the video 5 or 6 times! then, he tells Romney it was always a terrorist attack, because of a brief reference to terrorism in a speech in the Rose Garden. Now, he says he told the military to do everything they can to secure our people in Benghazi. We could of had jets there in an hour, and special forces in 2-3 hours. Panetta, the Sec. of Defense, who was with Obama in the White House, now says they lacked enough information to act. So they did nothing!? Now General Ham, the four star in charge of Africa, has been relieved of his command… did he want to help and was ordered not to? This is not an issue that should be ignored because it is so close to the election. These questions should have beeen asked and answered already, if the White House delays until the weekend before the election that is their fault not the Republicans. ABC, ask the questions don’t ignore this.
Posted by: Steve Y | November 1, 2012, 5:40 pm 5:40 pm
there was no real-time video of the attack being watched in the Situation Room. yeah that’s the ticket,
not in the situation room, see, you must be loony. No one was even in the situation room, see. All those republicans are liars, yeah that’s it.
Posted by: Parser Mcgillicutty | November 1, 2012, 5:41 pm 5:41 pm
Jake,
Rumors and wild speculation fill a vacuum. Do your freaking job, Jake. Are you a reporter, or just another cricket?
One benefit you boys and girls in the Obama press machine will get when Romney becomes CIC: you will all suddenly get backbones. Give President Romney HELL, Jake! Start up that count of coffins returning from Afghanistan again. Put Cindy “Joan of Arc” Sheehan back on her pedestal. You people are pathetic. And as Pat Cadell said “a threat to our democracy”.
Carry on with with your chirping, Jake.
Posted by: Don Monfort | November 1, 2012, 5:41 pm 5:41 pm
Thanks Tapper!!! —— The media was foaming at the mouth for months over the “outing” of a CIA agent…. how about the “MURDER” of an Ambassador???? —- zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!! —- The silence is deafening!!!!!
Posted by: theloyalopposition | November 1, 2012, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm
The left and the media went crazy for Cindy Sheehan and completely ignores the murder of an ambassador and three other Americans
Posted by: Sigmonde | November 1, 2012, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm
The President says he gave an order that evening to do whatever it took to secure our personnel. Either someone disobeyed that order or the president is lying. Either way it’s a big hairy deal. And that’s not even taking into account the fairy tale about the video we were told for two weeks. Bigger than the third rate burglary at Watergate by far….
Posted by: chrisdj614 | November 1, 2012, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm
Nice try ABC to attempt to give this some attention. All you idiots have to do is ask a few VERY simple questions.
1. Mr. President what decisions did you make and when did you make them specifically?
2. Mr. President since there are conflicting accounts between the WH, DOD, and State Department who is directly disobeying your orders?
Simple questions even the Brilliant Barak Obama could answer…………
Posted by: Oboner | November 1, 2012, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm
A terrorist attack happened on 9-11 and Americans were killed. They had prior knowledge that an attack was imminent, and predicted, and anticipated. Pleas for extra security were denied. They took no measures to head off the attack. When cries for help came during the 7 hour battle, they were ignored. They attempted to pass this off as a spontaneous demonstration that got out of control, knowing all the time that this was a planned assault on the embassy. They found a scapegoat and jailed him .
Unfit for command.
Posted by: Mark S. | November 1, 2012, 5:43 pm 5:43 pm
Mr. Tapper…. please show that you have integrity…. MAKE THIS STORY PUBLIC! Time is running out!
Posted by: LADY CON | November 1, 2012, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm
The silence by most of the mainstream media is DEAFENING. It’s nothing short of bizarre even given how deeply in the tank they have been for Obama. It’s a disgrace. WHEN WILL WE GET ANSWERS?
Posted by: Joseph Bosworth | November 1, 2012, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm
Border Agent dead??…… Executive privilege!!! ————- Ambassador dead??….. Silence!!!!!!!
Posted by: theloyalopposition | November 1, 2012, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm
Look on the bright side, folks: Obama is defeated Nov 6; the Senate Select Committee starts investigating Nov 15; “invitations” go out to Obama, Biden, H Clinton, Pineta, et al, to testify under oath shortly after Romney takes office Jan 20 2013. It should make for good political theatre – and the final word to the Obama/Biden legacy. Perhaps it will even forfeit any chance for H Clinton & hubby to try for the White House in 2016.
Posted by: Prof Lovell | November 1, 2012, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm
Obama didn’t attend his daily security briefings.
Posted by: Wiggy123 | November 1, 2012, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
Barack Obama has blood on his hands. Don’t let an election loss save him. Impeach him!
Posted by: JustAGuy | November 1, 2012, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
If any reporter had an ounce of guts or credibility, they would ask a few questions to Obama or Carney:
1) Why have you not conducted a press conference in almost a month?
2) Where was Obama during the 7-hour siege on our consulate in Bengazi?
3) What orders did he give specifically during the siege?
4) If he said defend our people, why weren’t they defended?
5) Was POTUS disobeyed or is that a lie?
6) When will this investigation be completed?
It’s been 6 weeks since the incident. We knew the day on 9/11/01 exactly who was responsible and had a detailed account of the President’s whereabouts on that day.
Posted by: JD | November 1, 2012, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
You are snarking, right? I mean, you couldn’t possibly report seriously anything the presstitute secretary says about the POS pledging a full investigation – after the (s)election, right?
You have heard the parable of the fox and the henhouse, right?
facepalm
Posted by: wyntre | November 1, 2012, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm
When Obama loses next week, the mainstream media will lose their incentive to protect Obama. Let the impeachment hearings start!
Posted by: JustAGuy | November 1, 2012, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm
You can barely find this story on your website, despite it being more recent than the majority of articles currently up.
Posted by: Michael | November 1, 2012, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm
It’s apparent that “tracking down those who were responsible and bringing them to justice” would include confirming that Barack Hussein Obama was responsible for denying aid to the beleaguered men in Benghazi, and bringing him to justice — starting at the polls on Nov. 6.
Posted by: Thomas Beckett | November 1, 2012, 5:50 pm 5:50 pm
Hmmmmm, what do we know so far….. 1) The ambassador was denied all requests for extra security….. 2) the attack is coordinated and not a “spontaneous demonstration”….. 3) TWO drones were giving “real-time” info within an hour of the attack…. 4) three emails alert the WH that the attack is happening and the act of Al Qaeda…. 5) Both Seal and Delta teams are available, within reach, and told to “stand down”… 6) For the next 13 days, Obama, Rice, Biden, and Gibbs STILL CLAIM that the attack was “spontaneous”….. 7) Rumors out there that a major network has a copy of the “stand down” order…. would love to see it!!!!! —- Pathetic leadership… OBAMA!!!!
Posted by: theloyalopposition | November 1, 2012, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm
They let Ambassador Stevens and the other men down. And no one is holding them accountable. So sad, so disgraceful.
Posted by: Joseph Bosworth | November 1, 2012, 5:52 pm 5:52 pm
….and don’t forget AFRICOM General Ham has assembled a Special Forces rescue team, and was promptly arrested and replaced by Leon Panetta.
Posted by: JustAGuy | November 1, 2012, 5:53 pm 5:53 pm
Mr. President, you said the other day in regards to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy that we ‘leave no one left behind’. Where was this tone on 9-11 in Benghazi? You went to bed that night not knowing where our Ambassador was or what had happened to the other brave Americans. And the following morning you made a few comments in the Rose Garden and then jetted off to Vegas. How can you be called a Commander in Chief with this behavior? You are nothing more than a Campaigner in Chief…as evident today after your photo op yesterday in NJ. Next Tuesday lets hope those Americans who are on the fence on who to vote for make the right decision and pull the lever, push the button, or poke the hole that says ROMNEY/RYAN. Because we definately need new leadership because you’re just not cutting it.
Posted by: Roger | November 1, 2012, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm
Hey friends at ABC News, if this had been a Republican President who had given the American public a FALSE narrative for weeks following a senseless and UNNECESSARY attack in which we LEFT our heroes to fight ALONE and ultimately die, you can be SURE that it wouldn’t be “Drip-Drip-Drip” from the “news people”…it would be FLOOD waters, AS WELL IT SHOULD BE! This American Mom is MAD about Benghazi!
Posted by: CaliforniaMom | November 1, 2012, 5:57 pm 5:57 pm
The White House press secretary – who has not held a full-fledged briefing with the White House press corps since October 12 – said that the president “expects the investigations to be rigorous. He is extremely focused on making sure that we find exactly what happened and who was responsible, and tracking down those who were responsible and bringing them to justice.”
YA RIGHT WHAT A JOKE..HE SHOULD BE IMPEACHED…
Posted by: NENA | November 1, 2012, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm
Hear no evil see no evil MSM + a CYA administration = danger for the future of America
Is Benghazi a beginning or an end?
Posted by: jimbob | November 1, 2012, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm
7 hours! If a battle goes on for 7 freaking hours and there is no military response and/or no military intervention, then someone is lying! There should have been a response of some kind. If Obama truly gave orders as he claimed, there would be a paper trail and we’d know exactly who ignored those orders… that is, if Obama actually gave those orders. The lack of curiosity in the MSM and in Obama’s supporters who wanted to know every little detail over Abu Graib or Trayvon Martin is disturbing. To overlook this to aid their side tells me that they are the ones putting party over country.
Throw in the cables predicting attack and the attacks previous to 9/11 and it makes the administrations prior responses and then 2 weeks of blaming a moronic internet video all the more derelict and infuriating.
Posted by: odetocentipede | November 1, 2012, 6:01 pm 6:01 pm
ABC, you should be ashamed to report this story with the obvious pro administration slant! Many commenters have noted the damning evidence of malfeasance, at best, which has already emerged about the disaster in Benghazi. At worst, the behavior of the troika of Obama, Clinton and Panetta is guilty of being an accessory to murder.
You people are not real journalists. If you were, you would treat this matter with more seriousness than you treated Watergate.
Posted by: Nomadic100 | November 1, 2012, 6:01 pm 6:01 pm
Hmmmmm…. denied requests… fired an Admiral… told rescuers to “stand down”….. its almost like somebody wanted Stevens dead!!! — Hmmmmmm!!!
Posted by: theloyalopposition | November 1, 2012, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm
The left are disgusting hypocrites. Obama has to go. He is a corrupt liar who surrounds himself with liars.
Posted by: TPRTR | November 1, 2012, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm
Just about everyone seems to be ignoring the obvious questions: If there was nothing to cover-up by the White House, then why did the White House perpetuate the “It was the video” cover-up for over a week? Why wasn’t the response “We are reserving statement on cause and response until we complete our fact gathering.” It’s the cover-up that has made this the story it is. The MSM knows this and is complicit in it by reporting as little as possible, only responding when Fox News (the only watchdog on this catastrophe) digs up more heinous information such as the August 16th letter reporting the consulate’s inability to defend itself.
Posted by: Nunny | November 1, 2012, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm
Mr. President, you (and your hack Carney) have said that you and the WH were not aware of the security concerns and requests made by Ambassador Stevens and the embassy. Could this perhaps be because you’ve missed most of the daily security briefings?
ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/PMSNBC: You were all over the Valerie Plume ‘outting’ as a CIA agent with wall-to-wall coverage night after night after night for several months. And no one died leading up to that. So why are you absent in finding out what happened in Benghazi when 4 Americans were murdered?!
Posted by: Roger | November 1, 2012, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm
Drip, drip, drip, Mr President. Recall the Nixon resignation? It was not what he knew or when he knew – it was the cover-up. Are you sure you want to continue to attempt building a stone wall about you? There will be a dedicated reporter or two who will eventually expose the truth & allow the American people to examine that truth. How do you want history to write it?
Posted by: Prof Lovell | November 1, 2012, 6:07 pm 6:07 pm
I appreciate the fact that Jake Tapper and ABC are asking questions, and certainly this isn’t the first criminal cover up of this Administration and in fact Fast and Furious cost far more innocent lives and may still be. As for my self I would like to know the reasoning behind reducing security in Libya when more is being asked for, then blame the attack on a non existent protest for weeks after it is painfully obvious that the protest was a bad lie when Obama had accurate information within hours, then to deny help that was readily available. Even if you like Obama and support his policy, why would anyone settle for being LIED to in such a ridiculous manner for weeks on end.
Posted by: Philip | November 1, 2012, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm
I am disheartened to say that I have found more news on Benghazi in the editorial pages than on the front page of all national news papers. American sovereign territory was attacked and worse Americans murdered. In the news section silence. I have wondered for a couple of weeks now, why?
Sir Arthur Cannon Doyle provided me with insight in his work “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night” (Silver Blaze). In the midst of studying a crime scene, Sherlock Holmes is disturbed by what does not happen. A dog in the stable does not bark to alert of an intruder stealing a race horse (Silver Blaze). Of course the dog would not bark, the intruder was the dogs owner. No reason to be curious.
The default position of the news divisions is similar. There is such trust in the administration there is no reason to doubt the official party line, despite the limits of credulity being ruptured. Wait until the investigation is complete. Were it a third party investigation this approach might seem plausible, though very unlikely. Why have news?
The WH stonewall is all about the video. In Cairo, the embassy sent email apologies about the video (that no one had seen) which incited the storming of the walls on 9/11. This was merely the WH attempt to deflect failed policy and decisions in the Mideast to a “straw man”. Sadly this pitiful tactic became policy and motive for coverup. This is Patrick Donlin’s masterpiece. The promotion of the video to camouflage anything 9/11 (instead of dumb policy) had to be preserved even at the cost of lives which is why support never came in Benghazi. The President accepted Donlin’s political premise throwing the professionals Mr. Panetta, Mr. Petraeus, and Mrs. Clinton into the torture chamber promoting U-Tube as the source of all 9/11/12 problems.
The President should have said NO! to Donlin instead of Ambassador Stevens.
Having the administration whistle to the news divisions to roll over and play dead on Benghazi is no longer a mystery; it is merely canine obedience.
Posted by: Bob McConnell | November 1, 2012, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm
Democrats: “Nothing to see here. Move along. Nothing happened. Move along. Move along.” Republicans: “Four people are dead.” The media: “Nothing to see here. Move along. Nothing happened. Move along. Move along.”
Posted by: rayg | November 1, 2012, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm
I agree that this is a big deal and should be looked at. However, if you think this will win the election Romney will lose. The Iran-Contra scandal in which Reagan and Ollie sold arms to our good friend (lol) Iran, which in turn came back to killing Americans (given to terrorists) & allies was equally if not more awful a cover up. Republicans/Dems doesn’t matter! Politicians have blood on there hand equally.
Posted by: Brian | November 1, 2012, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm
“For instance, Tommy Vietor, the spokesman for the National Security Council, has said that despite some claims, there was no real-time video of the attack being watched in the Situation Room.”
Of course not. The President could not be bothered to gather his national security team to meet in the Situation Room. He had fund raising phone calls to make in preparation for his trip toe Las Vegas.
In other news, The Accountability Review Board has announced that their investigation is running behind schedule because the embassy in Benghazi has not been available for comment.
Posted by: RDH | November 1, 2012, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm
Obama’s strategy of silence is paying off – little to no pressure coming from the media (except for Fox News). I guess America will have to wait until after the election to see if he’s actually worthy of retaining his CIC position … vote Romney and eliminate the problem!
Posted by: Liblab Itis | November 1, 2012, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm
Seriously though if the Republicans win….What will the right have to complain about? There would be a lot of out of work right-wing media.
Posted by: Brian | November 1, 2012, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm
Obama just wants to get re-elected and then he will stonewall as usual. Worst prez ever.
Posted by: Cam | November 1, 2012, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm
So Jake can I look forward to you doing a two minute report on Dianne Sawyer’s show tonight?. We both know the answer to the question–”of course not!”
Posted by: Dan in Washington State | November 1, 2012, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm
Sleazy journalism. If Bush were President, no doubt Jake would sound like the Republicans do demanding answers to Benghazi. Icky!
Posted by: EMILY | November 1, 2012, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm
Well, he was asked & he answered, now ABC can sweep it under the rug again untill the election.
Don’t you think it would be nice to know BEFORE the election whether or not this guy is willing to let Americans die so as not to offend Arab sensibilities, or maybe can’t think under pressure etc?
Wouldn’t it make sense to know BEFORE the election if this administration concocted a fairy tale to tell the American people? Just a thought. All I can say is thank God for the internet so i=at least the word can get out in spite of the Network’s deliberate neglect of this issue.
Posted by: Anthony Pazol | November 1, 2012, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm
Obama knew about 9-11-12 and did nothing. He watched drone footage of our anbassador being gang raped then he went and played two rounds of golf anf then went to a fundraiser
Posted by: Rotal | November 1, 2012, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm
MY GOD JAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: MB | November 1, 2012, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm
JAKE – you’re too funny! Obama has to wait to see what the investigation shows?!? He is SUPPOSED to be the CiC. If ANYTHING happened that night, HE IS THE GUY that was SUPPOSED to order it. Is the investigation into whether he ordered something and it wasn’t done? (Right. Like he’d let THAT be known) Or that he FAILED to order something and lives were lost (Right. He’ll let THAT be known right before an election, for sure!!!) No. All he is doing is BLAMING HIDING PRETENDING and LYING. I mean, you gotta love how SURE he was about the video causing the whole mess – he did not hesitate to make that claim at least 15 times on national TV and worldwide TV at the UN!!!! And yet….there is NOT ONE SHRED of evidence to support that particular Malarkey, is there? Come on Jake – stop covering
Posted by: gael | November 1, 2012, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm
it’s disgusting to watch the GOP and the rabid right wing media try to use this tragedy for politcal gain.
Posted by: Tim Crowley | November 1, 2012, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm
OBAMA is a TRAITOR, HE MUST BE IMPEACHED
Posted by: sandy bottom | November 1, 2012, 6:30 pm 6:30 pm
If Benghazi happened under a republican president, the media would be digging like thier life depends on it.
Posted by: anon | November 1, 2012, 6:30 pm 6:30 pm
There are to many people drinking the kool-aid of both parties instead of thinking for themselves. We the people put this man in office and now he must answer us honestly and clear this mess up. If he was negligent then he needs to accept responsibility and resign. If he is lying, and we find out he needs to be impeached, if he is telling the truth then show the evidence and move on. The test of our own inclinations is what would a reasonable person believe, not the proclivity of what a political partisan hack would believe. There are too many Democrats and to many Republicans and not enough Americans who stand on the principles this country was created on. Put aside the bickering for a while and look at the facts and vote based on those facts without emotion. The truth needs no defense.
Posted by: Leatherneck101 | November 1, 2012, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm
No kidding Tim! Kinda like the way Democrats and their rabid left wing (and the media!) used nightly casualty counts from Iraq and Afghanistan for politcal gain.
Posted by: Roger | November 1, 2012, 6:32 pm 6:32 pm
its been almost two months? what the heck happened that night. no explanation no vote for obama! sure sounds like someone choose them over us and let these people perish.
Posted by: DaveinTampa | November 1, 2012, 6:33 pm 6:33 pm
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has returned. Don’t ask about Bengazi and Obama isn’t telling about Bengazi.
Posted by: Oren | November 1, 2012, 6:33 pm 6:33 pm
THIS LIBYA STORY IS ABOUT 1,000,000,000 TIMES MORE DAMNING THAN WATERGATE.
And the mainstream media would rather show photo-ops of Obama glad-handing with RINO Chris Christie.
PATHETIC.
Posted by: RoccoRolo | November 1, 2012, 6:35 pm 6:35 pm
This fiasco and the apparent cover up by the media is dangerous to our system. It is an outrage that our ambassador and 3 other Americans are dead, the President is mum and the NY Times has nothing, nothing to say about it. They just REFUSE to cover this story. An outrage.
Posted by: rockman2257 | November 1, 2012, 6:36 pm 6:36 pm
Don’t listen to the Liberals their just mad that their President is a failure and he’s about to get exposed ! FINALLY !
Posted by: Sia | November 1, 2012, 6:36 pm 6:36 pm
Didn’t hear it, my behind! Of course he heard the question, he just doesn’t want to answer it.
If it had been a question favorable to him he sure as hell would have heard it.
Posted by: Dave | November 1, 2012, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm
Did they leave the computer behind? LOL…….so many flubs from this administration!
Posted by: Chukkalady | November 1, 2012, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm
The one fact the little child pretending to be a president can’t deny is that 4 people are dead on his watch. He cannot spin this as a Romney October Surprise. He cannot claim that he was prepared or that he had *adequately* deployed forces capable of protecting the Bengazhi 4. He cannot deny that for *weeks* he and his idiot cronies blamed a video – publicly – in front of the UN General Assembly and various talk shows. He cannot deny that he has been stonewalling in hopes that it won’t affect the outcome of the election – which makes the memorial service that he led a complete and utter farce. We have a little child in the White House, and I’ve not seen a single person in the entire administration who seems to be older than 7 or 8 years old.
Posted by: BobVedari | November 1, 2012, 6:39 pm 6:39 pm
Jake, you are better than a stenographer for this corrupt cover up are you not? So far , Ms Sharyll Atkinson is about the only person in the old, decaying media to attempt to ask these hard questions about fast and furious and Benghazi. We will remember who did their jobs, as opposed who wanted to stay in with the paid “in crowd” Remember the words of the father of one of the brave seals that died helping(against stand down orders) It is better to die a hero than live a coward. A coward dies a thousand deaths..
Posted by: cassisanass | November 1, 2012, 6:40 pm 6:40 pm
Jake,
Please get to the real truth. As a Veteran, I find this very disturbing that from the facts we have seen come out don’t match up with what is being told to the American people.
questions I have,
1. where was the Ambassador’s security team? There was none! This in it’s self shocking.
2. Clearly, the white house knew in real time, why didn’t they send support? If the ambassador was the President we would have had an entire division on site within 8 hours, let alone a QRF team within two hours.
Please keep asking the questions, It smells BAD.
Posted by: Jonathan | November 1, 2012, 6:42 pm 6:42 pm
4 dead, coverup = hyperbolic according to libs. Cute.
Posted by: Chicago869 | November 1, 2012, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm
It pains me to say it but Hillary was right. The phone rang at 3:00 AM and Obama didn’t answer.
Posted by: Roger | November 1, 2012, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm
The Liar in Chief will never tell the truth. It’s time to vote him out, then we will find out the truth. If the liar actually gave the order to help in Benghazi he would be waving the documentation in everyone’s face. THE MSM IS A DISGRACE AND THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY BY PROTECTING THE LIAR!
Posted by: ThoroughlyDisgustedAmerican | November 1, 2012, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm
Can’t wait until after the election and we can get on with the “investigation” and move on to a trial for treason for “derelection of duty” as referenced in the constitution. Oh yea, our beloved and sacred constitution that scarry lyin barry so abhors and hates. Lady Liberty will come back to feast on obama and she will dictate his sentence. At least give the moron a padded cell at Gitmo so he can’t hurt himself…….naaa
Posted by: Xperson | November 1, 2012, 6:44 pm 6:44 pm
I voted for Obama in 08 – I don’t know how anyone can still be supporting this guy. Bengazi is a disgrace. Obama was throwing out any kind of info he had to make himself look good when they got bin Laden, and now, he is trying to run out the clock. Obama has ZERO leadership skills. We will be better off on Nov. 7.
Posted by: rOHIOj | November 1, 2012, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm
Hey, ABC. Aren’t you a little embarrassed at your lack of coverage? But then a company run by a mouse can be relied upon to support a rat.
Posted by: Chicago869 | November 1, 2012, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm
The White House did not deny cries for assistance in Benghazi. Did they just not respond at all? Did they just move assets into the region and let them SIT there? If the requests were denied, by WHOM were they denied? Who told this person/agency to deny them? Is the Commander in Chief NOT in charge? Answer, President Obama, for the sakes of those who died–Chris Stevens, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith, and Ty Woods–and for their loved ones. I submit that the Commander in Chief is responsible, no matter WHO did WHAT. We, the people, hired him; and he has failed us.
Posted by: pierjo | November 1, 2012, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm
If a Republican had been in the White House, Benghazi would be on the front page of Time Magazine and Newsweek and Michael Moore would have already released a movie on Benghazi, and every want to be Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein would be doing everything they could to bring down the President, Now that is hypocrisy!
Posted by: Milt | November 1, 2012, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm
It was reported this morning that a major news organization had gotten hold of a copy of the “stand down” memo, and is refusing to release it.
That news organization wouldn’t be ABCnews, now would it?
Posted by: Gayle | November 1, 2012, 6:52 pm 6:52 pm
Following the logic, the Administration is agreeing that things went wrong and they don’t know why. Therefore they are saying we need to wait and see how it went wrong. In otherwords….the buck does not stop with Obama Admin and the Presdient is confident he has done everything right. If the President according to Jay carney is not part of the investigation, then why is it that he will not talk about his role?
Posted by: David | November 1, 2012, 6:54 pm 6:54 pm
It takes weeks and months to fabricate a good cover story and a backup lie. It takes time to plant fake evidence to back up the new lies, and to assassinate witnesses. Hail Obama!!
Posted by: Haarp | November 1, 2012, 6:55 pm 6:55 pm
ABC should be charged with fraudulently representing themselves as a news medium.
Posted by: Ralph | November 1, 2012, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm
… but when the WH writes the news for the MSM, it happens instantaneously.
Posted by: Haarp | November 1, 2012, 6:57 pm 6:57 pm
Unmanned drone in the sky; 4 dead in Ben-gha-zi. (Music ’4 Dead in O hi o’)
Obama admin sitin’ round, 4 dead in Ben-gha-zi.
They made call for help, 4 dead in Ben-gha-zi .
Fightin went on for 7 hours, 4 dead in Ben-gha-zi .
Who gave order all “Stand Down”? 4 dead in Ben-gha-zi
No rescue to Amewricans. 4 dead in Ben-gha-zi
4 dead in Ben-gha-zi . 4 dead in Ben-gha-zi
Mr Obama just tell true. 4 dead in Ben-gha-zi
All we want is your truth. 4 dead in Ben-gha-zi
Posted by: deanbob | November 1, 2012, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm
Good Lord – can you imagine if you wrote this incident had happened just 5 or 6 years ago and in this article the name Bush was substituted for Obama, how this would be playing out? I’m quite sure the same people who are ridiculing or mocking folks who question Obama’s role in Benghazi as “conspiracy theorists” are the same folks who were ridiculing Bush. Back at you.
Posted by: steven d | November 1, 2012, 7:03 pm 7:03 pm
Hey ABC, I see Fox News has drug you to this story. However, I’m not surprised that your “news” department, and I use that term loosely, has hardly mentioned this story. A story this large, where a US citizen died as a direct result of incompetence by our government and then covered up by lying to the US citizens, has not happened since, say . . . Fast and Furious. Oh, your not really covering that story either. Surprise, Surprise.
Posted by: ASmileyGuy | November 1, 2012, 7:03 pm 7:03 pm
PROBLEM TAPPER: Obama, Rice, and HR Clinton were CERTAIN enough about Benghazi to spin the story of a video dissing the “prophet.” Obama even took that story to the UN. < No one has explained that yet. And Charles Wood, when they brought his son's body home, was told by HR Clinton that they would jail the person responsible for the video…. homemade justice or were they SURE they had the video story all tied up?
Yesterday Hillary spoke out against the rebels… well after 4 deaths…
No one died in Watergate- but reporters feeding frenzy was in hyper mode. MSM quiet on this.
Posted by: who's who | November 1, 2012, 7:05 pm 7:05 pm
Simple questions that should be asked:
Ms. Lamb testified under oath to congress that she was watching the attack in “real time” and now the Whitehouse says they were not, which is it. Is the State Department more sophisticated that the situation room?
At what time did the President issue his order, as he has said, “To do everything possible to help, with all resources” and who did he give that order to? What was their response?
If reports to the Whitehouse from Benghazi prior to the attack stated that al Qaeda was building in the area, and almost immediately after the attack, some officials said that it was a terrorist attack, why did the President, Ms. Rice and Hillary Clinton, for almost two weeks, continue to blame a video?
If the president , as he has stated himself, ordered an increase in security at all diplomatic locations worldwide, how was CNN and now ABC able to enter the burned out consulate and retrieve scattered documents, some sensitive and the personal journal of the Ambassador?
Who, if the Commander in Chief gave a direct order to help, did not carry out that order and why?
Posted by: tommyVA | November 1, 2012, 7:06 pm 7:06 pm
Obama has lived his life in a coverup, just like his father did. We know little to nothing of his friends, his writings, his grades, his intentions for the “fundamental transformation’ he is tyring to impose upon us. Obama is corrupt to the core. He’s never been competent to lead this country, a country he doesn’t even like. For goodness sakes, Obama married a woman never proud of America until her dopey husband was elevated to the Presidency. I guess she was proud of America’s stupidity in choosing her husband and no doubt she’ll have disdain for America again when America fires her husband.
I’ve had enough of the high unemployment, the failed economy, the shoving of families into poverty, bloated food stamp roles, massive deficit spending, atrocious exploding national debt, job and economy killing regulatory burdens, and hostility towards business. Obama has purposely done as much as he could to divide the people of America to advance himself and his political agenda.
Obama was grossly negligent at best in the Benghazi disaster, a predictable and preventable event that resulted in the deaths of our Ambassador and 3 other Americans. At worst, Obama sacrificed them knowingly to maintain his own favorable image in the Islamist world. Obama is not about to divulge the truths of Benghazi before the election or he might as well resign.
We have a chance to save this country by replacing the failed and angry Obama with the optimistic, experienced, virtous and moral Mitt Romney, a candidate that promises to balance the budget, make the necessary government changes to let the American people restore a vibrant economy and create jobs, and to roll back the bureaucracies impeding our energy independence and controlling our day to day lives and movements.
Posted by: ObamaIsGodAwful | November 1, 2012, 7:06 pm 7:06 pm
This story should be on the front page of every news website and paper across our country! Journalists…do the job you are paid to do and RESEARCH and REPORT the facts!!!
Posted by: Greta | November 1, 2012, 7:06 pm 7:06 pm
“Republicans operatives are fanning flames and creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing, trafficking in false rumors and idle speculation. The White House has felt the necessity to pop its head up to shoot down stories it says are false.
For instance, Tommy Vietor, the spokesman for the National Security Council, has said that despite some claims, there was no real-time video of the attack being watched in the Situation Room.”
Really? Than why did Charlene Lamb testify under oath that the State Department was watching the attack in real time to Congress? Was she lying too, or considered to be a Republican operative?
No wonder, nobody trusts the media anymore. Absolutely a shameful and misleading statement in this article.
Posted by: ToastMaster19 | November 1, 2012, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm
Well Jake, LP , the drip would become a torrent if WH reporters, like you, did a scintilla or work finding out the skinny instead of being sycophants and lap up the drek that gets shoveled to you each day/briefing. You “reporters” never really press that clown Carney at all and let him slide and evade. You all lack the courage to call him out. And lest you have forgotten, he works for you and should only be accorded respect when he is not prevaricating – which is always. The tail is wagging the LP Jake and you keep lapping it up. Do you sleep well at night? And what will you do when even you and ABC are confronted with everthing. I suspect not cover it at all, but cover it up.
Posted by: cps3434 | November 1, 2012, 7:09 pm 7:09 pm
We know that the media has been harassing Gov. Romney about his FEMA remark made during a debate. We’ve heard that they’ve shouted 14 questions at him about it.
so where is that same aggressive style when it comes to Pres.Obama and Benghazi?
Posted by: Jan | November 1, 2012, 7:10 pm 7:10 pm
Haarp, seriously? America in the 1980s’s and 00′s was worse. In recent presidential history, Republicans have a terrible track record when it comes to transparency AND the number of Americans killed and embassies or consulates attacked by terrorists under their leadership so the hypocrisy of Republicans continuing to play politics and engage in wild-eyed conspiracy theories is stunning and as the president said, offensive. Look up the records under the Bush and Reagan. Lots of Americans killed by terrorists. Not a lot of transparency.
“Between April 1983 and September 20, 1984, 260 Americans died in two attacks on America’s embassy in Lebanon and one explosion at the marine barracks near the Beirut airport, all committed by Hezbollah. Seventeen Americans, including the CIA’s chief Middle East analyst, died that April, with 241 marines dying in the October barracks assault, the worst loss of US troops in any single incident since Iwo Jima. A month and a half before the 1984 presidential election, an attack on a new embassy cost two more American lives. Suffering twenty-three other losses before and after the barracks attack, the marines had already left Lebanon months before the second embassy attack.
Ronald Reagan overruled his Pentagon advisers and deployed the marines in Lebanon, then ignored 100 warnings of the sitting duck jeopardy they were in, yet won re-election in a landslide.
To win, the Reagan administration sought to deflect blame for the attack with smokescreens of false statements and misrepresentations. Shortly after the bombing, Reagan appointed a Pentagon commission to investigate. The Reagan administration launched a preemptive attack to blunt the report’s impact before it was released. The Washington Post reported that the White House “delayed release of the report for several days, allowing Reagan to respond to its criticism before it became public, and then attempted to play down its impact by vetoing a Pentagon news conference on the document.” The New York Times noted, “A White House official said Mr. Reagan wanted his own statement about the report to come out first to deflect any criticism.
David Ignatius, cited in the above blog post, also wrote, “Looking back, it may indeed have been wise not to bomb targets in Libya that night. Given the uproar in the Arab world, this might have been the equivalent of pouring gasoline on a burning fire….A final, obvious point: The “fog of battle” that night was dense not just in Benghazi but also in Cairo, Tunis and elsewhere. As one official concedes, “The reports were all over the map that night, and there was a lot of confusion.” America needed better intelligence. ” Perhaps, its best to seek truth and justice and allow the investigations to be completed without all the wild-eyed speculation of some.
Posted by: Lucy | November 1, 2012, 7:13 pm 7:13 pm
ROmney is winning this election and will sweep Ohio, Wisc, Colorado, and New Hampshire for a winning total of electoral votes. The data is clear and Obama knows he has lost at this point. He can hope, but his hope ran out 2 years ago.
Posted by: Byron | November 1, 2012, 7:14 pm 7:14 pm
ABC CBS NBC all part of the lies and deceipt of our POTUS and their administration. I hope to GOD this country wakes up and votes correctly on November 6. Our country is heading down the tubes with these thugs at the helm. MSM leftie b.s. You make this seems like a joke. We are very serious. I’m glad I hate all of ABC’s programming so I don’t have to give up any crap programs.
VOTE in the honor of these 4 Americans who were let down by their President and his corrupt Administration. How on earth Clinton had the audacity to talk about the Video at her “friend” Chris Stevens’ funeral.
Posted by: Lee Matthews | November 1, 2012, 7:14 pm 7:14 pm
STEVEN D | NOVEMBER 1, 2012, 7:03 PM…….What Bush incident are you referring? No investigation is required for Obama to call a news conference and tell the American people what he said and when – that is unless he wants to avoid (at all costs) telling us what he said! Kind of like spending millions on legal expenses to keep his college records sealed. And passing on giving $5 million to his favorite charity – just to keep those records sealed? Must be some power info in those records.
Posted by: deanbob | November 1, 2012, 7:14 pm 7:14 pm
“Tommy Vietor, the spokesman for the National Security Council, has said that despite some claims, there was no real-time video of the attack being watched in the Situation Room.”
One wonders how the Asst. Sec. of State testified before Congress in a televised hearing that she watched the attack in real time, and yet the intelligence apparatus and White House did not? Doesn’t pass the smell test
Posted by: Larry H | November 1, 2012, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm
LUCY | NOVEMBER 1, 2012, 7:13 PM….Are you saying that because Reagan may have not been taken to task that Obama should get a pass?
Posted by: deanbob | November 1, 2012, 7:16 pm 7:16 pm
It took months to gather all 9/11 facts. What exactly are the concrete facts anyone has to prove wrong doing on this story? Not theory, or conspiracies, or speculation, but FACTS
Posted by: Chris | November 1, 2012, 7:19 pm 7:19 pm
We witnessed several months of moral preening and righteous indignation from the progressives over a couple dirt bags being water boarded. Now four Americans are murdered by the same dirt bags and it’s really no big deal. Just part of our new foreign policy. Disgusting
Posted by: scott | November 1, 2012, 7:20 pm 7:20 pm
There’s two news agencies that have some seriously damning information on this they are sitting on until after the election or at least as long as possible until then. There’s more than just a couple of cables saying that Al Quaida was building up presence around are and that the Embassy could no longer hold off a second attack after the first bombing before the major attack. The Obama Administration denied help leading up to and kept denying help after the attack happened. We know the Turkish gvt met with our Diplomats the same day just hours before the attack. We know about the Fast and Furious gun running to Islamic militants in Syria. We know two high level Military leaders whom decided to disregard the Stand Down and acted to help, but were relieved of command, taken into custody and sent back to the US. We know the Seals that called in for support were heard in DC and in the theater of operations and gave up their lives waiting for support to come that was denied to them. We know the whole situation was alerted to the President and was watched and that orders were given to allow the attacks and killings to go without support. We also know there were drones broadcasting the live events back to the White House and DOD. We know the president was involved in allowing this terrorist attack to happen with full knowledge. Still, when Obama, whom controlled the situation and called the shots was asked, what he did, he says there’s an investigation going on to figure that out. WTF? What did you do? Why can’t he answer what he did? Why is he waiting for an investigation to figure out what the hell he did? Doesn’t he know? How could he not? Was he in Choom King mode again? Is that why he went to bed while the attack continued? This is not even close to be a closed story. It’s huge!
Posted by: TexBork_2012 | November 1, 2012, 7:20 pm 7:20 pm
“Without question in this hyper-partisan environment, Republicans operatives are fanning flames and creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing, trafficking in false rumors and idle speculation.”
No! Not the Republican operatives! They wouldn’t stoop to that!
Posted by: Dave | November 1, 2012, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm
@SocialPilot
“What is with this over the top racist attacks on the President? I guess nobody has noticed that Obama is out saving lives and personally making sure each and every person suffering from Hurricane Sandy is taken care of.”
Really, racist????? And saving lives–really??? I didn’t see Mr Obama saving lives in Libya–oh wait–that’s because this incident may have caused him some votes–oh wait, allowing Americans to be murdered and hoping the MSM would perform their typical boot licking job of covering up for him didn’t quite turn out the way he envisioned it to be.
“Nobody cares about this stupid story and how Romney is trying to place the blame on Obama. The American public knows if anyone is at fault it is Romney for making such a big deal out of this. We want a President to take care of the American people, not just blame others like Romney does all day long.”–stupid story? Are u for real???? Romney is at fault–how–oh wait, is he the POTUS now? Go drink some more koolaid!!!!
Posted by: DianeB | November 1, 2012, 7:23 pm 7:23 pm
can we get to the primary issue – men on the ground dying?
It doesn’t matter if Obama told anyone to do anything to go help those men; that is SOP he can only STOP. Standing orders for this situation are to launch a rescue force, period. Those orders must be countermanded for that force NOT to go. They ONLY can be countermanded by POTUS or SecDef. That means Obama ACTIVELY PREVENTED an in-progress launch of reinforcements. Obama preventing SOP is why those Americans are dead, period.
Further – the laser designator used by the SEAL to designate the mortar pit as a targe ONLY works when synced to an on-station attack air asset – drone, F/A-18, AC-130, etc. The designator evidently was functioning, so air assests were ON STATION AND ENGAGEMENT DENIED by SecDef or POTUS. This also is probably why Ham and Gaouette have been relieved – for acting as they had been trained and were required to do by Standing Orders to launch a rescue/reinforcement op.
Posted by: Alex Scipio | November 1, 2012, 7:25 pm 7:25 pm
Deanbob, No, I was addressing Haarp’s hyperbole which apparently has since been removed. I also am pointing out the hypocrisy and projection of Republicans and substantiating my point. I’m also touching on the length of time it takes for an investigation. And then I’m following up the Ignatius quote from the blog with what Ignatius wrote next .
I’d prefer reasoned pressure for truth and justice over politicization with intent to frame and blame.
Posted by: Lucy | November 1, 2012, 7:25 pm 7:25 pm
Baiting the Breitbart conspiracy theorists is just plain mean. A better story to cover is Charles Woods, a grieving father that is being fed misinformation to repeat on later broadcasts. Exploiting Charles Woods’ pain is as low as it gets, even for Fox.
Posted by: BlueTrooth | November 1, 2012, 7:26 pm 7:26 pm
Why don’t we not worry about FEMA as they are needed. Lets get down to the real business Why Obama did nothing about the attack on the consulate in Libya. I hadn’t made up my mind yet but after hearing that the US Security Council wasn’t notified of the terrorist attack that night but our troops had to stand down per orders. It is breaking on every news channel. CNN FOX more to come. While Romney wasn’t going to do away with FEMA and no one with the right mind would he was going to adjust their spending. I think FEMA did a great job responding to this disaster and while we affiliate it with the president he really doesn’t control it like he didn’t the Libya disaster or Osama other people did it. Independent to night and neutral but eyes are wide open on this latest news flash. Watch the news. Yikes
Posted by: Steve | November 1, 2012, 7:26 pm 7:26 pm
The article and, for that matter, none of the stories I’ve seen on ABC News mention the story Fox News broke claiming the Obama Administration denied help to those attacked and killed by terrorists at the US consulate in Benghazi on September 11. Much less any mention of stories in the alternate media claiming Obama actually cancelled efforts made by General Ham to send military support during the attack, had Gen Ham removed from his position and forced him to retire. Shouldn’t ABC look into that and tell us if it’s true or not? I’d sure like to know.
Posted by: Mike Brannick | November 1, 2012, 7:32 pm 7:32 pm
We had planes an hour away. The attack went on for 7 hours. Therefore it is self evident that the claim that the government “work[ed] to mobilize all available assets and move them into the region as quickly as possible” is a bald-faced lie.
Posted by: David Pittelli | November 1, 2012, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm
Here’s why waiting for the full investigation is important. As the above blog post indicates, new and important documents were just found on October 26th, stunningly AT the consulate one month AFTER an FBI team visited the compound to collect evidence, and six weeks after U.S. ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans lost their lives in the attack. Those documents reveal that the day of the attack, concerns arose over Libyan police — who were supposed to be guarding the consulate — taking pictures of the grounds from a building across the street. Now, I want to know more but I think it is bizarre to jump and down and scream cover up and point fingers and get all wired and weird. The only reasonable explanation for jumping to conclusions and seeking blame versus the whole story, truth and ultimately justice as well as steps to prevent such a tragedy in the future is the election and partisanship.
Posted by: Lucy | November 1, 2012, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm
ABC slow on the breaking Benghazi news – again! Even CBS has this as does FOX.
O administration did not call its top counterterrorism group during the attack.
“The CSG is the one group that’s supposed to know what resources every agency has. They know of multiple options and have the ability to coordinate counterterrorism assets across all the agencies,” a high-ranking government official told CBS News. “They were not allowed to do their job. They were not called upon.”Counterterrorism sources and internal emails reviewed by CBS News express frustration that key responders were ready to deploy, but were not called upon to help in the attack.” CBS news
Posted by: tos | November 1, 2012, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm
Jakey,
Is the claim that there were drones (possibly armed) flying over the Benghazi demonstration/terrorist attack an idle rumor spread by Republican operatives? Has any White House apparatchik stuck his/her head above the parapet to deny that one? You do know those drones transmit real-time video via satellite that can be seen in the White House situation room, should some responsible party want to see it?
Shame on you, Jake.
Posted by: Don Monfort | November 1, 2012, 7:34 pm 7:34 pm
How on earth Clinton had the audacity to talk about the Video at her “friend” Chris Stevens’ funeral.
Posted by: Lee Matthews | November 1, 2012, 7:14 pm 7:14 pm
The main reporting from on the ground at the time of the attack still holds – that the attackers stated they were incensed at the video and inspired by the riots in Cairo.
How on earth do you have the audacity to judge and condemn when you clearly don’t know all the facts?
Posted by: Judy | November 1, 2012, 7:35 pm 7:35 pm
During the Watergate investigations, President Nixon was forced to resign or be impeached for the attempted cover-up of breaking into a hotel room to uncover the Democrats election strategy. This was sold as a constitution crisis by the left.
Now President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, and a host of the lefts most shrill talking heads, willfully try to cover up their mendacious storyline blaming the deaths of four Americans, on a obscure video. They refused ambassador Christopher Stevens numerous requests to increase security in Benghazi, on the anniversary of 911. An Ambassador killed, and three other fine Americans dead who by all accounts refused orders to stand down, and tried to save the ambassadors life.
The disastrous foreign policy of this administration, and the deaths of these four Americans, should bring immediate calls for impeachment and several high level resignations.
Posted by: Chuhyona | November 1, 2012, 7:37 pm 7:37 pm
This is definitely huge! When I heard last Friday that the calls came in for help and were ignored I had tears in my eyes. These guys saved approximately 30 people! I’m a screenwriter and I already see the movie! Bigger than Black Hawk Down, All the President’s Men, ARGO, and any Bin Laden movie! What heroes – leaving no one behind. Now we learn that not only were the drones unarmed and running low on gas, but that the Libyan “police” had been infiltrated by the enemy. Imagine what these heroes must have been thinking? And now we hear about Republicans making much ado about nothing? Is it a vast right wing conspiracy? Do your job! If you can’t, you shouldn’t be working there! I don’t want shot in the back by my own country or by the enemy that is infiltrating the police. We WILL be seeing the movie, make no mistake about it. I’ll bet documents and video are being altered and destroyed….
Posted by: JUST THE FACTS | November 1, 2012, 7:39 pm 7:39 pm
Where are the journalists? The blood of four Americans are on Obama’s hands and the media is assisting!
Posted by: CDFG | November 1, 2012, 7:39 pm 7:39 pm
Deanbob, No, I was addressing Haarp’s hyperbole which apparently has since been removed. I also am pointing out the hypocrisy and projection of Republicans and substantiating my point. I’m also touching on the length of time it takes for an investigation. And then I’m following up the Ignatius quote from the blog with what Ignatius wrote next .
I’d prefer reasoned pressure for truth and justice over politicization with intent to frame and blame.
POSTED BY: LUCY | NOVEMBER 1, 2012, 7:25 PM
Most of the question revolves around what the president said and did during the 7 hours the Americans were waiting for help. No investigation is required for the president to tell the American people what he said and did; and he can do that any time – and the investigation can go on independently. There are other American Ambassadors and personnel in the mideast that might benefit from a speedier investigation.
Posted by: deanbob | November 1, 2012, 7:43 pm 7:43 pm
The U.S. Navy said Saturday it is replacing the admiral in command of an aircraft carrier strike group in the Middle East, pending the outcome of an internal investigation into undisclosed allegations of inappropriate judgment.
Rear Adm. Charles M. Gaouette is being sent back to the USS John C. Stennis’ home port at Bremerton, Washington stae, in what the Navy called a temporary reassignment. The Navy said he is not formally relieved of his command of the Stennis strike group but will be replaced by Rear Adm. Troy M. Shoemaker, who will assume command until the investigation is completed.
It is highly unusual for the Navy to replace a carrier strike group commander during its deployment.
The Navy did not reveal details of the allegations, citing only an accusation of “inappropriate leadership judgment” that arose during the strike group’s deployment to the Middle East. Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Navy’s chief spokesman, declined to discuss the investigation.
The Stennis group deployed from Bremerton in late August and had entered the Navy 5th Fleet’s area of operations in the Middle East on Oct. 17 after sailing across the Pacific. The Stennis made port visits in Thailand and Malaysia on its way to the Middle East.
It deployed four months earlier than scheduled in response to a request by the commander of U.S. Central Command, Marine Gen. James Mattis, to maintain two aircraft carriers in the Middle East. The Stennis replaced the USS Enterprise carrier group.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visited the Stennis and its sailors in Bremerton shortly before they departed. He thanked them for accelerating their deployment on short notice.
“I understand that it is tough,” Panetta said. “We are asking an awful lot of each of you, but frankly you are the best I have and when the world calls we have to respond.”
Posted by: Mike Butler | November 1, 2012, 7:43 pm 7:43 pm
Once again I challenge someone…anyone to prove to me any concrete smoking gun or facts that PROVE the administration did something wrong. Stop telling me about your speculations or your conspiracy theories. Prove something
Posted by: Chris | November 1, 2012, 7:44 pm 7:44 pm
Can you imagine hearing the sound of American men pleading for their lives and doing absolutely nothing but walking away to campaign and then – to add insult to injury and death – you cover it up with “we’re doing an investigation”. As much as people hated President Bush, he would have been glued in the White House, ordered some type of response and then followed up with water boarding anyone he could get his hands on to find the killers. Obama does nothing but surround himself with self-centered politicians puffed up with corruption and power to satisfy their own pockets and arrogance – meanwhile the real heroes die in the streets and the liberal media doesn’t give a crap – as long as President Obama is re-elected – blood can flow without comment.
Posted by: mountainlover | November 1, 2012, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm
Last I heard, the Obama haters had him munching popcorn and watching the killings live on drone TV while gloating over his secret mission to destroy western civilization.
Nut cases.
Posted by: Judy | November 1, 2012, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm
Apparently Obama does not only have a war on US energy, oil, coal; but he has a war on Catholics, Evangelicals and Jews over HHS regs and dissing of our allies like Israel. He has a war on legal immigrants but not illegals. He has a war on voting honesty while Dems vote the dead, felons and voting machines vote Obama even if you vote for the Libertarians! And now he has a war on our own US reps, Ambassador, CIA people and our military. The naif in the WH doesn’t like our military and now we see how he waits and waits and waits till they …die. He ought to be impeached. Voters should simply dump him on Nov. 6.
Posted by: Glenn Koons, LB, Ca. | November 1, 2012, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm
Lucy, look how fast all of the video appeared when OBL was successfully eliminated by the Navy Seals – and no “investigation” was required. If this administration want to give us the truth the OBL procedure can be followed – it has now been weeks.
Posted by: deanbob | November 1, 2012, 7:46 pm 7:46 pm
I started reading this article with interest, I thought that it may finally be a mainstream media non-biased report on the Benghazi incident .
But after reading down to “Republicans operatives are fanning flames and creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing, trafficking in false rumors and idle speculation.” did I realize that it’s yet ANOTHER pro-Obama propaganda article.
We want UNBIASED journalism. Simply leave your personal opinion and/or attempts to sway public opinion out of the article. This is an excellent example of why the majority of Americans don’t trust the mainstream media anymore. One of these days you’ll wake up and see the public shaking their heads in disgust at the non-ending propaganda that you’re trying to feed us one spoonful at a time.
Posted by: Anna | November 1, 2012, 7:46 pm 7:46 pm
Really, ABC? Your question to Jay Carney is “How closely is the President following the media reports”? Such hard-hitting, investigative journalism. A more appropriate question would have been:” How else can we help you run out the clock, Jay? ” or perhaps ” Can I get the Preezy to sign this campaign hat for my kid?”
My guess is , if Romney wins, you will magically find your “journalistic integrity” on November 7.
Posted by: Rogueco | November 1, 2012, 7:48 pm 7:48 pm
Obama is too busy servicing Reggie Love in the Lincoln Bedroom.
Posted by: Haarp | November 1, 2012, 7:48 pm 7:48 pm
Can you imagine hearing the sound of American men pleading for their lives and doing absolutely nothing but walking away to campaign
Posted by: mountainlover | November 1, 2012, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm
Wrong again. The shooting in Benghazi had been over and finished for 12 hours by the time the President flew to Nevada.
You’re straight out lying.
Posted by: Bill | November 1, 2012, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm
Americand died,Obama lied! Impeach Obama!
Posted by: redware | November 1, 2012, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm
Lucy, look how fast all of the video appeared when OBL was successfully eliminated by the Navy Seals
Posted by: deanbob | November 1, 2012, 7:46 pm 7:46 pm
What video are you talking about and when did it appear?
Posted by: Bill | November 1, 2012, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm
Don’t you see what’s going on here, gang? By putting the occasional hard news piece on their web site, ABC is trying to convince you that they’re not just another lamestream news media Obama cheerleader.
Nice try ABC, feeble though it is. One piece on your web site doesn’t balance out all the Obama butt-kissing that goes on during your daily, evening and weekend news programs.
Posted by: dwstick | November 1, 2012, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm
Americand died,Obama lied!
Posted by: redware | November 1, 2012, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm
Obama didn’t lie. Four died.
Bush lied. Thousands died.
Posted by: Ralph | November 1, 2012, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm
If you don’t like the “transformation” of America, get as many as you can to the polls. There are also many house and senate, as well as local races that need your votes. Is there an elderly of handicapped person you can help to the polls? And before you “cast” your vote, that the voting machine has select the candidate of YOUR choice. Several states have had Obama override Romney for some voters (I have read of any of the reverse).
Posted by: deanbob | November 1, 2012, 7:52 pm 7:52 pm
Can you imagine hearing the sound of American men pleading for their lives and doing absolutely nothing
Posted by: mountainlover | November 1, 2012, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm
You have no idea what was or wasn’t done, nor by whom, not the reasons for any decision. But you are certainly self-righteous in your ignorance.
Posted by: Danny | November 1, 2012, 7:53 pm 7:53 pm
Posted by: deanbob | November 1, 2012, 7:52 pm 7:52 pm
Already took six people today to vote for President Obama.
Posted by: Susan | November 1, 2012, 7:55 pm 7:55 pm
Right Wingers are treating Benghazi like it’s the TMZ. They hear a rumor here…a small detail there…then draw wide assumptions to pull conspiracy theories out of their rear end that they can’t prove or support with factual information
Posted by: Chris | November 1, 2012, 7:56 pm 7:56 pm
Jake Tapper keep asking the question, Americans need to know if our President abandoned our guys.
Posted by: Rick | November 1, 2012, 7:56 pm 7:56 pm
I like how we are supposed to just blindly trust the government to investigate itself — behind closed doors — and wait patiently for them to come out and hand over their chosen scapegoat to the mob. Is that how journalism works now?
Posted by: Joe | November 1, 2012, 7:57 pm 7:57 pm
I am glad to see that ABC is finally printing something on this failure of the Administration to protect our Ambassador….
Posted by: wrongheifer | November 1, 2012, 7:57 pm 7:57 pm
Please, for the love of God, never, ever describe anything Obama does as “almost Reagan-esque in style”
Having Reagan’s name used on the same page as this pretender is an insult to the nation and raises the hackles of those that know how Reagan would have dealt with this.
Reagan would not have left our men to die on a roof top without support. Reagan would have sent the Marines. All of them if needed and cleaned house.
Obama has no clue how a President should act nor any idea how to handle a Military crisis since he never served, never worked and never had to make a hard decision in his life.
I can’t wait to tell him that on Nov. 6
Posted by: ChuckB | November 1, 2012, 7:57 pm 7:57 pm
“no evidence of wrongdoing”
How do you define wrongdoing?
Posted by: Stefan | November 1, 2012, 7:57 pm 7:57 pm
I can’t believe they were left to defend themselves for so many hours, We know with technology we have now, they knew what was going on there. I just hate what those guys had to go through, and their family’s are having to go through now. I can’t believe they are planning on holding the investigation off until after the election. Wow, those were our men, we need to know what really happened and after the elections is not good enough.
Posted by: t | November 1, 2012, 7:58 pm 7:58 pm
The Obamas and the Clintons will watch you and your children die without batting an eye. Benghazi proves that much. Democrat Big Labor Bureaucracy is the Soviet gulag in America. AFLCIO president Richard Trumka is the new Stalin.
Posted by: firehawk | November 1, 2012, 7:58 pm 7:58 pm
Guns and Arms being run…to Syria?…are we arming Al Queida?…I want the truth…
Posted by: wrongheifer | November 1, 2012, 8:00 pm 8:00 pm
Hey Jake,
The Libyans (including the local terrorists) know what AC130s can do. Do you think that attack would have gone on for seven hours, if an AC130 had shown up? I will help you, Jake? HELL NO!
No help from our vast inventory of military assets in the region was sent, Jake. Look at a map, journalista. How far is Benghazi from U.S. air bases and ships on station in the Med. Sea? You got some work to do, journalista. Redeem yourself. Get at the truth.
Posted by: Don Monfort | November 1, 2012, 8:00 pm 8:00 pm
Yes, it clearly is partisan.
There are Americans that want the truth.
And then there are those that are on the other side.
Posted by: Al Blue | November 1, 2012, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm
RALPH | NOVEMBER 1, 2012, 7:51 PM…..Nancy Peolsi and Bill Clinton are on the record saying the believed SADAM had WMD’s. Did they lie too?
Posted by: deanbob | November 1, 2012, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm
For all of you who think Jake Tapper is doing any real reporting on this issue, read this again:
“Republicans operatives are fanning flames and creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing, trafficking in false rumors and idle speculation.”
If he can drop his obvious political bias, there’s a chance. Otherwise, not so much.
Posted by: John Patterson | November 1, 2012, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm
RALPH | NOVEMBER 1, 2012, 7:51 PM….all that back in 1999.
Posted by: deanbob | November 1, 2012, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm
To all of those that refuse to believe Benghazi is a scandal bigger and worse than Watergate, keep drinking the Kool Aid. You will ultimately meet the same end as the original Kool Aid drinkers of Jonestown.
Posted by: JustaMom | November 1, 2012, 8:02 pm 8:02 pm
Why is it that only FOX News tells the truth about what actually happened in Libya? The TV News from ABC, NBC, and CBS are no longer newsworthy. Obama actually watched in real time (6 or 7 hours of real time and torment), while the Ambassador and the others were slain. WHAT GIANT TRAITORS ARE OBAMA AND HIS ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION. And then, after watching the people being bludgeoned, left on his merry way, to go campaigning in Las Vegas! IMPEACH HIM! He is not worthy to run for DOG CATCHER!
Posted by: Sara | November 1, 2012, 8:03 pm 8:03 pm
If he can drop his obvious political bias, there’s a chance. Otherwise, not so much.
POSTED BY: JOHN PATTERSON | NOVEMBER 1, 2012, 8:01 PM
Jake normally does a good job. Maybe his mgmt is putting heat on him to fall inline and do what he can to help Obama.
Posted by: deanbob | November 1, 2012, 8:04 pm 8:04 pm
OBAMA LIES, ALL THE TIME, ABOUT EVERYTHING.
And ABC et al are right there with him.
Posted by: ironhorzmn | November 1, 2012, 8:05 pm 8:05 pm
Why is it that only FOX News tells the truth about what actually happened in Libya?
SARA | NOVEMBER 1, 2012, 8:03 PM
I have been wanting the same answer.
Posted by: deanbob | November 1, 2012, 8:05 pm 8:05 pm
There are Americans that want the truth.
And then there are those that are on the other side.
Posted by: Al Blue | November 1, 2012, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm
Actually the way it looks right now is . ..
There are Americans who want the truth.
And there are those who pretend they already know the truth . ..
Posted by: Susan | November 1, 2012, 8:09 pm 8:09 pm
Deanbob,
What if it turns out that the president talked to certain people but doesn’t want to throw anyone under the bus until he knows the full story. For example, the admin gave out talking points they received from Petraeus and that turned out to be inaccurate, but Obama didn’t throw Petraeus or intelligence under the bus. The White House has said they didn’t deny any requests for assistance. Period. Moreover, they have said what the entire government did – the White House, State Department, Intelligence Community, Department of Defense included – was to work to mobilize all available assets and move them into the region as quickly as possible. It has been reported that there were some delays due to Libya militia. I don’t know. I don’t know what happened but what if it turns out there is a good reason for the way the administration is handling this. Police departments don’t tell you everything prematurely, typically for a reason. I get that right wingers don’t trust Obama, but I don’t trust the bs-meter of Republicans given Reagan, W, and Romney. Who was that fake that Fox promoted against ACORN and then it turned out his tapes were edited and he engaged in all kinds of illegal activities?
Most people experienced with these type of events and tragedies– CIA analysts, generals, former secretaries of state– are saying not to jump to conclusions and to wait for the investigations.
Posted by: Lucy | November 1, 2012, 8:10 pm 8:10 pm
Why is it that only FOX News tells the truth about what actually happened in Libya?
SARA | NOVEMBER 1, 2012, 8:03 PM
Sorry Sara, you don’t know the truth about what happened in Libya – so you don’t know who is telling the truth.
Posted by: Susan | November 1, 2012, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm
“Republicans operatives are fanning flames and creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing, trafficking in false rumors and idle speculation.”
This is actually a true statement.
Posted by: Lucy | November 1, 2012, 8:12 pm 8:12 pm
“Without question in this hyper-partisan environment, Republicans operatives are fanning flames and creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing, trafficking in false rumors and idle speculation. The White House has felt the necessity to pop its head up to shoot down stories it says are false.”
Hey Jake, I’m not a Republican operative, I’m the daughter, the wife, and the mother of veterans and I want to know what Obama knew about Tyrone Woods pleas for help and when he knew it. The families of these four men deserve to know what happened to their loved ones. It is disgusting how yellow journalists dismiss our questions as political partisanship. We need the truth and you have a responsibility to tell us the truth…
Posted by: Susan in Texas | November 1, 2012, 8:13 pm 8:13 pm
Posted by: Lucy | November 1, 2012, 8:10 pm 8:10 pm
Only the extremist, anti-Obama haters know what really happened. Each and every one of them is kept fully informed by their secret inside sources in the CIA. Only they know ‘the truth’.
Posted by: Susan | November 1, 2012, 8:13 pm 8:13 pm
I would like President Obama to provide a copy of the “execute order” to the press. Bing West is on point with this issue. He gave a great interview on Greta’s program.
President Obama – Stated that he told his team to do everything that they needed to do to help the consulate.
Secretary of Defense – Spoke of behalf on General Dempsey (strange) stating that it’s policy to not send troops into uncertain situations.
General Dempsey – Keeping quiet.
General Ham – Was never given an “execute order.” He stated that he was never asked to provide support. He had AC-130s and soldiers ready.
The way that Obama spoke is that he gave an execute order – was it not carried out? I want a reporter with some b***s to ask him. Where is our generation’s Woodward and Bernstein?
Posted by: justaguyDP | November 1, 2012, 8:13 pm 8:13 pm
The latest data about Benghazi is an email from the Consulate saying they could not defend the building fi attacked. The Special Response team never assembled because somebody told them to stand down. It is clear that Obama was more interested in campaigning than protecting the Ambassador. He is a criminal, fraud and incompetent power hungry fool. He must be thrown out of office. He has been exposed for exactly who he is.
Posted by: Byron | November 1, 2012, 8:13 pm 8:13 pm
1. Lybia is Obama’s own war.
2. Obama claimed Al Queda is on the run.
3.The attack on Benghazi proves otherwise.
4. If troops were to intervene, Lybia will be another Afghan or Iraq.
5. The guy with the anti-Muslim was locked in jail and he was blamed for the spontaneous demonstration by Susan Rice, Hillary and Obama himself.
6. The CIA from. Benghazi annex asked to intervene and they were ordered to stand down.
7. Four Americans were allowed to die during 7 hours of attack.
8, WE the people needs to know WHO ordered the cover up.
9. This is not Water Gate. This is a criminal act.
Posted by: acdc2012 | November 1, 2012, 8:14 pm 8:14 pm
Obama spiked the ball when he should have kept his eye on the ball. Out of all the days in the year… out of all of the days… common sense dictates that you amp up security on 9/11. Especially, on American interests abroad. Libya – According to Amb. Steven’s own diary he was worried that he was on a “hit list.” The consulate was attacked twice before 9/11. We now know that Lt. Col. Andrew Wood (Special Ops) requested more security. Eric Nordstrom went on record stating security was inadequate… requested more… and was consistently turned down. He even went so far to describe the bureaucracy within the President’s State Department as the “Taliban.” We also now know that the fallen SEALs soldier, Tyrone Woods, was denied backup at the Annex while he was painting the source of the mortar fire with a laser designator. Why weren’t AC-130s sent? The fire fight lasted seven hours… SEVEN HOURS.
Where’s all this transparency that Obama promised? Release the audio and video to the Benghazi attack. My bet is that Obama won’t release them because a now deceased CIA-SAD operator (former SEAL) would be heard screaming for backup for seven hours. That operator was Tyrone Woods.
Posted by: justaguyDP | November 1, 2012, 8:14 pm 8:14 pm
“Republicans operatives are fanning flames and creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing, trafficking in false rumors and idle speculation. The White House has felt the necessity to pop its head up to shoot down stories it says are false.”
Have you no shame, sir? This is your country and your fellow Americans are dead.
Posted by: jcp370 | November 1, 2012, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm
When are journalists in this country going to wake up and do their jobs? Are you all really either that terrified of this administration or still that mesmerized by them? Wake up! My Marine son is appalled that this story is getting as little coverage as possible. Shame on all of you!
Posted by: Lucy | November 1, 2012, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm
“Republicans operatives are fanning flames and creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing, trafficking in false rumors and idle speculation.”
Couldn’t have put it better myself. God whispers the truth in these peoples’ ears. Or is that a CIA implant?
Posted by: Susan | November 1, 2012, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm
I don’t believe any media totally. I think you should try to research from all sources, what has actually been said. The trouble with this one is the roadblocks being put up to keep us from knowing why our men where left to defend themselves.
Posted by: t | November 1, 2012, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm
Posted by: acdc2012 | November 1, 2012, 8:14 pm 8:14 pm
You don’t know the facts. But you are an anti-Obama extremist. Why would anybody think you know the truth?
Posted by: Jack | November 1, 2012, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm
As of last week I gave up on ABC which I had watched for over 50 years. I finally realized that you don’t report actual news, just the news that you want us to see. Imaging if you were one of the 4 that were killed in Benghazi. You know America would be there any minute because they have always responded quickly. Then it hits you that no one is coming and you will die. And why did they die? Because the president has to win an election. He already said al qaeda was gone. If they show up here you lied and it will be held against you. I can’t rely on media that spins the story to save an election. You are a disgrace. And a waste of my time.
Posted by: Debbie | November 1, 2012, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm
Lucy, there was only circumstantial evidence that convicted Scot Peterson. Since the president is not (or not allowing) turning over the video tape, the direct eveidence is being withheld. This is precisely why we want to see the tapes. All Obama has to do is tell us what happened before the election. Is that unreasonable?
Posted by: deanbob | November 1, 2012, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm
I am with Debbie. I refuse to watch you cover up the news anymore. By the way, CBS just broke the story
Posted by: Catherine | November 1, 2012, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm
And why did they die? Because the president has to win an election.
Posted by: Debbie | November 1, 2012, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm
Sorry, this is just stupid, stupid conjecture an imagination on your part. And projection of your prejudgements.
People with clearer minds have not pretended they know all the facts and rushed in to judge and condemn like the anti-Obama fanatics have.
We know exactly who you are.
Posted by: Jack | November 1, 2012, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm
Wow, I was actually watching Fox and Brett Baiier when he mentioned that CBS and ABC were now reporting on the Behghazi story. It only took you 7 weeks to catch up. Pretty impressive. That was news in itself that you were actually doing your job and REPORTING THE NEWS. Quit covering for this president. Do your journalistic duties and inform the American people — not your interpretation or lack thereof — but the actual news story. That would really be a step up for a news organization I used to admire.
Posted by: Lisa Urscheler | November 1, 2012, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm
No president can survive who listens to pleas from Americans under attack and fails to send help.
American people to Obama —- Stand Down!
Posted by: AmericanHeretic | November 1, 2012, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm
jack said-”-We know exactly who you are.”—- OOOOOOOO NOOOOOO SCARYYYYY!!!! TOOO FUNNY —
Posted by: whathappened016 | November 1, 2012, 8:29 pm 8:29 pm
If Tapper and the rest of the ABC crew let this manure cure a bit, it will be worth something as fertilizer.
Some of the responses are just as bad. It is a conspiracy theory to want answers to the myriad questions about what happened, and why suspect stories were told by officials for days afterward? Somebody needs to grow up and quit reading fairy tales. This was a major screw-up followed by a major cover-up. Obama and his MSM allies are desperately trying to keep it covered until after the vote is cast.
By the way, for those who defend the lack of action on the basis of Panetta’s phony principle, here is a short excerpt from the Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 1: Warfighting the following passage on pages 86 and 87:
“We must have the moral courage to make tough decisions in the face of uncertainty–and to accept full responsibility for those decisions–when the natural inclination would be to postpone the decision pending more complete information. To delay action in an emergency because of incomplete information shows a lack of moral courage”
I hope that SOCAL pilot is not a professional. With his thinking I would hate to think of him actually responsible for passengers.
Posted by: BogG | November 1, 2012, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm
Plenty of people here obviously suffer from Obamaphobia. There is no other explanation for their conspiracy theories and claims they can’t prove…or their claim to know the “truth” on Benghazi when they have yet to prove anything. Their hatred of Obama is so strong…that even when you ask them for proof they will simply divert from giving a clear, reasoned answer
Posted by: Chris | November 1, 2012, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm
No president can survive who listens to pleas from Americans under attack and fails to send help.
Posted by: AmericanHeretic | November 1, 2012, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm
You mean like George Bush reading from that Goat Book?
Posted by: Wendy | November 1, 2012, 8:36 pm 8:36 pm
Wake up America!! The President and the White House clearly lied about Benghazi and are trying to cover up what happened. Even a casual observer can see all of the contradictions in the White House story.
Posted by: Chris | November 1, 2012, 8:39 pm 8:39 pm
Barack is clearly practicing management through distance and without so much focus just like how he run his administration that gave us Solyndra and other mismanagement. No wonder we are now hearing his proposal to have another bureaucrat for a proposed post of Secretary of Business Management ! By that proposal, Barack is tacitly admitting he leacks ability to manage his duty as President ! VOTERs should just FIRE him next Tuesday and hire Mitt as his replacement ! Community organizer clearly is not enough experience to manage affairs of the country and Barack have failed the country on multiple level. While he indeed got credit for killing OBL, and have vowed to hunt down the killers of our Ambassador, killing them will never bring back the lives of those 4 US patriots ! It is very alling for Barack to give us promise to hunt the killers when it really meant anything as it can’t bring them back to life ! FIRE Barack next Tuesday !
Posted by: wyl5326 | November 1, 2012, 8:44 pm 8:44 pm
Seven weeks after the incident and no breakthrough in investigation?!! Anybody with a brain can smell something fishy, except the brain dead!!
Posted by: CC | November 1, 2012, 8:46 pm 8:46 pm
“creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing”
Jake you useless twit. Do you sleep at night without self medicating? Do you even believe the garbage you write or is it dictated to you by your handlers? We are no longer dealing with media bias, but the end of the media’s role as reporters and the beginning of their attempt to act as arbiters.
Journalism is dead. You killed it.
Posted by: Ben Ghazi | November 1, 2012, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm
This attack happened on Sept 11. Precautions were surely being taken at plenty of locations, simply because of the date. It’s ludicrous to believe US airlines were being more secure but our own US military was not. Not nearly enough precaution was taken at Benghazi, obviously, and that was an ENORMOUS error, but WHY was that error made?
We’ll never really know.
The reason we’ll never know is that the problems lie with intelligence and the military Ignatius can ask all he wants, but the government can’t reveal everything intelligence knew nor where the military was stationed at the time. I don’t want hostile foreign groups knowing where the US places troops on Sept 11th, do you?
As for people claiming no one has reported on this story, I’m left scratching my head about that. A quick search for news will show dozens of outlets reporting on this for weeks. Just look at the Wikipedia article’s sources: Fox, CNN, Associated Press, UPI, NBC, Reuters and The Washington Post, plus foreign reports from Guardian, Daily Mail, Al Jazeera. And guys, ABC has reported on this before, you can just do a search on this site to see for yourself. Or read the article, it’s right about breaking some news on the story in the past.
Anyone who says no one has been reporting on this is LYING. They’re just trying to make it seem like the “liberal media” is hiding a huge scandal to help Obama. Fox News is pushing this Benghazi news while pretending Hurricane Sandy didn’t happen, which is unbelievably partisan, and which trivializes everyone who was hurt or killed in both Benghazi and Sandy, by turning into a pathetic last-ditch effort to hurt Obama so he will not win re-election.
Posted by: Marsha | November 1, 2012, 8:49 pm 8:49 pm
Memo to WENDY: Bush met with his advisors 7 MINUTES after being informed of the 2nd plane hitting the WTC.
Posted by: Logicsgood | November 1, 2012, 8:51 pm 8:51 pm
For Barack fanatics who still prefers to close their eyes, and let bias media cover-up for Barack and pretend not to be judgmental, why don’t you hound media to go after Barack’s evasion as Watergate coverup was uncovered only by persistent media ! Barack is clearly doing cover-up as he let Rice appear on 5 TV shows to propagate falsehood when she could just let facts appear as they are ! Unfortunately, incompetent Barack never learned anything from Watergate ! VOTE him out next Tuesday !
Posted by: wyl5326 | November 1, 2012, 8:52 pm 8:52 pm
“And why did they die? Because the president has to win an election.”
Does it really make sense in your mind that president would allow US citizens to be killed in an international incident to WIN an election? Are you certifiable? That doesn’t make any sense!
Posted by: Jackson | November 1, 2012, 8:52 pm 8:52 pm
The consulate repeated asked for help.
They did not get it. Period.
Posted by: Logicsgood | November 1, 2012, 8:52 pm 8:52 pm
Thank God for Jake!!! He is a true journalist, head and shoulders above most of his peers.
Posted by: kets be clear | November 1, 2012, 8:56 pm 8:56 pm
Repeated attempts for increased security, repeated attempts for help….all seemingly ignored. Just two questions: When a U.S. Ambassador asks for this type of help why did you not provide it immediately, as a matter of principle, barack, and ask questions later. Secondly, what was the name of the human being who told Susan Rice and Jay Carney to tell the world it was a video that caused this. Then, who told that human being. and so on and so on until we get to you, barack.
Posted by: Gary | November 1, 2012, 8:58 pm 8:58 pm
“Republicans operatives are fanning flames and creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing.”
When a diplomat ask for extra security because of mounting threats and ignored, then Americans are dead…i guess there is no wrong doing.
Military operators were at the compound for hours asking for help to save lives, kill terrorist and the Obama administration was watching the events in real time while Americans died…i guess there is no wrong doing.
Posted by: Jamal | November 1, 2012, 8:58 pm 8:58 pm
Some people on this site try to blame those who want the president and his staff to tell the truth about Benghazi. Some of our best have died begging for help – which was available. That help was, if fact denied! You idiots on the left don’t give a lick about the truth when it comes to YOUR president. You can’t handle the truth – and won’t, when it come to your lying, cheating, leftest democrats. Wake up America. Don’t vote for a single democrat anywhere in the country.
Posted by: Hunsaker | November 1, 2012, 8:59 pm 8:59 pm
Those who are accusing the left of being “blind” or trying to ignore the truth. Again…what truth? Where’s the truth? What do you have besides a conspiracy theory of what you think happened?
Posted by: TruePatriot | November 1, 2012, 9:04 pm 9:04 pm
Deanbob, Lacey Peterson went missing on Christmas Eve; the police did not immediately cite Scot as a suspect, and he wasn’t arrested until April. Moreover, nobody in the administration is guilty of murder which you are insinuating. Amber Frey didn’t come forward immediately because she didn’t realize what had happened immediately. Your analogy just doesn’t work.
My Reagan one was better. You all re-elected him. You also re-elected W. Which is why I find all this frame and blame hypocritical. Focus on truth, justice, protection and prevention in the future, and hold those accountable as it becomes clear what mistakes were made and by whom.
Posted by: Lucy | November 1, 2012, 9:04 pm 9:04 pm
As an Army veteran, I believe that when the distress calls went out, QRFs (Quick Response Forces) geared up and were enroute to the ‘sounds of the guns.’ I believe that these rescue forces were RECALLED when the Obamastines discovered they were enroute. The local commanders sent the troops, and Obama stopped them. Somebody(s) is going to write a book. Obama will not be able to cover this up for long.
As Romney said, Obama’s role in this is a “disgrace.”
Posted by: JDB Esq. | November 1, 2012, 9:08 pm 9:08 pm
This report says
“For instance, Tommy Vietor, the spokesman for the National Security Council, has said that despite some claims, there was no real-time video of the attack being watched in the Situation Room.”
According to the timeline given to David Ignatius at the Washington Post by the CIA,
“11:11 p.m.: An unarmed military Predator drone arrives over the compound to provide aerial reconnaissance.” .
I thought the function of the Predator was to provide real-time video. It’s not credible that the President wouldn’t have access to that video in real-time. Why are we getting different stories from the different agencies involved?
Posted by: Lynnw | November 1, 2012, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm
Dear Mr President……. The Navy Seals made you look good….They got there man, Bin Laden is dead….. But later, you didn’t answer their call, now their dead.
Posted by: john | November 1, 2012, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm
From the article: ” who was responsible and what lessons we can learn from it in terms of how we ensure that it never happens again.”
Don’t want a repeat? Don’t re-elect President Obama….
Just sayin…
Posted by: CB | November 1, 2012, 9:10 pm 9:10 pm
So if Obama met with his people and told them to move assets in—wouldn’t it be logical to call the counter terrorism unit—-SINCE THAT IS WHAT THE COUNTER TERRORISM UNIT IS SPECFICALLY TRAINED TO HANDLE!!!
Posted by: whathappened016 | November 1, 2012, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm
I think we need and deserve some truth. The 2 weeks of lies about the “movie” in itself was so bizarre anyone in their right mind would question this attack on “American Soil” on 9/11
Posted by: CW | November 1, 2012, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm
What do you have besides a conspiracy theory of what you think happened? —
Right… that’s the problem. Its all speculation and coverup for Romney’s lack of foreign policy acumen
Posted by: Lucy | November 1, 2012, 9:13 pm 9:13 pm
So Obama’s latest excuse is that he ordered help (assets) but they just didn’t get there in time (6 hours)….does he think everyone is as dumb as he?
Posted by: dontbuytheObamaBs | November 1, 2012, 9:14 pm 9:14 pm
“Those who are accusing the left of being “blind” or trying to ignore the truth. Again…what truth? Where’s the truth? What do you have besides a conspiracy theory of what you think happened?”
Are you denying the veracity of the requests for protection from our Ambassador TruePatriot??
Good grief – email after email after email was ignored. Almost real-time drone footage of the attack set to the WH Situation Room.
Conspiracy? Maybe not. Incompetence and Dereliction of Duty? ABSOLUTELY !!!!!
Posted by: Logicsgood | November 1, 2012, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
Drip. Drip. Drip uuntil the election.
Posted by: Girish | November 1, 2012, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
Obama claims that he can’t say anything because “we’re investigating.” Does that mean that WE can’t investigate too?
Would Al Capone be allowed to claim immunity until he finished his own investigation into his tax evasion?
Posted by: Larry | November 1, 2012, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
Release the video, which for some reason has been classified as TS. Strange that the most tech savvy POTUS didn’t watch attack live in the situation room. Maybe he was on the phone with Hollywood trying to book another movie… Barack’s Got Your Back… Except for you Americans in Benghazi
Posted by: hockey44 | November 1, 2012, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
If there is no cover up why cant president Obama just answer the questions? where is the transparency the President promised?
Posted by: BudW | November 1, 2012, 9:18 pm 9:18 pm
“Conspiracy? Maybe not. Incompetence and Dereliction of Duty? ABSOLUTELY !!!!!”
That’s for you too Lucy.
Posted by: Logicsgood | November 1, 2012, 9:19 pm 9:19 pm
Jake,
It must really suck working for a media outlet that does it’s best to downplay your great reporting on a scandal this huge.
We must never forget the MSM’s efforts to aid Obama by sweeping the Benghazi attack under the rug until after the election. Their behavior leaves no doubt that corruption abounds.
Posted by: Billy | November 1, 2012, 9:20 pm 9:20 pm
Betrayal in Benghazi. America wants justice and to honor our fallen citizens.
Posted by: Nemesis | November 1, 2012, 9:25 pm 9:25 pm
To me, the tone of this article is defensive. It’s like you are saying, “Hey ABC is kind of covering this story.”
I give you credit for the luke warm coverage, but even this article is buried to where you have to search for it. Kudos to Mary Bruce for at least trying to ask.
I worry about our country when the press chooses what is and what isn’t news. There is no accountability and there will be no answers until the press really begin demanding answers. The more evasive, the more demanding you should be to get the truth. Smells fishy to me, but you have the power. Use it.
Posted by: Independent CK | November 1, 2012, 9:26 pm 9:26 pm
But this was all that California Egyptian Video guy’s fault
Posted by: Kent | November 1, 2012, 9:26 pm 9:26 pm
Ah, finally a column that the rich and rabid can relate to.
Posted by: BikernAz12 | November 1, 2012, 9:27 pm 9:27 pm
Everyone go to ABC and post stuff about Watergate.
Thanks,
Karl Rove
Posted by: Kb | November 1, 2012, 9:28 pm 9:28 pm
Quote: Everyone go to ABC and post stuff about Watergate.
Thanks,
Karl Rove
Guess what KB. American’s are outraged. They need no prodding to post on ABC. ABC has chosen to ignore our please for a month.
Posted by: Catherine | November 1, 2012, 9:33 pm 9:33 pm
That’s for you too Lucy.
POSTED BY: LOGICSGOOD | NOVEMBER 1, 2012, 9:19 PM 9:19 PM
All caps isn’t logic— it requires a bit more than that and a few exclamation points.
From David Ignatius tonight: “A detailed CIA timeline of the assault on U.S. facilities in Benghazi paints an anguishing picture of embattled Americans waiting for Libyan security forces who didn’t come and courageous CIA officers who died on a rooftop without the heavy weapons they needed, trying to protect their colleagues below.It’s a story of individual bravery, but also of a CIA misjudgment in relying on Libyan militias and a newly formed Libyan intelligence organization to keep Americans safe in Benghazi.While there were multiple errors that led to the final tragedy, there’s no evidence that the White House or CIA leadership deliberately delayed or impeded rescue efforts….”
Check out the timeline and get back to me, see “In Benghazi timeline, CIA errors but no evidence of conspiracy”
Posted by: Lucy | November 1, 2012, 9:33 pm 9:33 pm
The X-Navy Seals that died defending others in the compound were HEROS and at least, their story needs to be told.
As to Obama and his band of thugs, shame on all of you.
Some credit to Jake Tapper, at least he took the time to write the story. If ABC wants its dignity and credibility back, he needs to keep digging and writing.
Here’s a start Jake:
Why wasn’t the order given to save our people?
Who refused to give that order?
Explain the cover story and why has Susan Rice not resigned in shame?
Why was the Africom Theatre Commander General fired?
What has Obama done to deserve the complete culpability of the “MSM”?
Posted by: XBOLTS | November 1, 2012, 9:35 pm 9:35 pm
What amazes me is that the very same Democrats that demonized President Bush for the smallest things are willing to turn a blind eye to this as if it simply wasn’t “optimal”, or just “bumps in the road”.
Posted by: Jake | November 1, 2012, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm
Here’s a reason to put a Republican in the Whitehouse…… So the Press will again do their frakking job and hold the President accountable for answers! Every media outlet has uncovered some small piece here and there about what appears to be at the very least, incompetence, and possibly an effort to distort the truth to hide that incompetence. There was a time not so long ago when a president would have been inundated for answers as these concerning stories began to pile up. Well there seems to be no shortage of stories….when do we finally see the Press do its job? Maybe TIME magazine’s next cover should read: “Is Journalism Dead?”
Posted by: Tyler Durden | November 1, 2012, 9:37 pm 9:37 pm
Obama is toast, but the mainstream media your nightmare has just begun. The American people will not forget.
Posted by: Charles | November 1, 2012, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm
LUCY | NOVEMBER 1, 2012, 9:04 PM …..You didn’t answer my question about why the president doesnt just show the video and answer the questions NOW?
Posted by: deanbob | November 1, 2012, 9:43 pm 9:43 pm
What is partisan about Obama’s participation in the terrorist attack in Benghazi that allowed them to kill our diplomats? When Obama is asked what he did, he acts like he doesn’t know and says there is an investigation going to figure out what he did. That’s not a partisan thing. That’s an Obama thing. Why does he say he needs an investigation to figure what he did when he should already know what he did? Who’s dumb enough to swallow that? One would have have to be critically incompetent to think that Obama didn’t know what he did without an investigation telling him what he did. Who really does he think he’s fooling? Surely nobody is swallowing that steaming pile of stupidity. Obama’s orders were in support of the terrorist attack. HE did nothing and allowed no help. He ordered no help to be allowed. It was on purpose. The question is why, not did he or didn’t he. That time to answer that has past. Obama blames the investigation for not providing the answer for what he did. What a worm.
Posted by: TexBork_2012 | November 1, 2012, 9:45 pm 9:45 pm
@Lucy – Did you read my entire post? It’s not very long at all… I conceded NO conspiracy.
And “all caps”?? No, just one word. Geez, come on…
Posted by: Logicsgood | November 1, 2012, 9:47 pm 9:47 pm
My fellow Americans, In early 2012 Fox News came to the same conclusion most of America has. Fox viewers are very uneducated. Viewer comments online were filled with grammatical errors and misspellings, racist rants, domestic terrorist threats, and outright paranoia. Fox understands that their viewers place is to be told what to think, not to share what they think. In order to further control their minions and protect them from exposing their own stupidity, Fox decided to take the commenting feature off their website. Rupert Murdoch commented “It is better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt.”
This is why we now see all the Republican pig trolls on mainstream sites, spewing their ridiculous paranoid opinions. Please send Rupert an email asking him to set up a playpen area on Fox News where his viewers can go back to and talk about Libya all day, everyday, for months. Thank you.
Posted by: Chris Christie | November 1, 2012, 9:50 pm 9:50 pm
Fox News is smart enough to not allow their viewers to comment anymore. Fox Bot posts made the network look bad, exposing their uneducated racist viewer base. That is why you see the pigs flinging their scat around mainstream boards.
Posted by: Chris Christie | November 1, 2012, 9:51 pm 9:51 pm
Read the blog, deanbob, ” there was no real-time video of the attack being watched in the Situation Room.” See also the CIA timeline at “In Benghazi timeline, CIA errors but no evidence of conspiracy”.
Posted by: Lucy | November 1, 2012, 9:52 pm 9:52 pm
From CBS News — “U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens warned the State Department of “unpredictable, volatile and violent” security conditions in Libya a month before the deadly assault that killed him and three other Americans…
Stevens sent the cable to request an additional 11 bodyguards at the U.S. Embassy in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. In a July 9 cable, he noted that conditions in the country hadn’t met “benchmarks” to reduce American security personnel.
“Host nation security support is lacking and cannot be depended on to provide a safe and secure environment for the diplomatic mission of outreach,” Stevens wrote in the Aug. 2 cable.”
Ignored.
Posted by: Logicsgood | November 1, 2012, 9:56 pm 9:56 pm
From ABC News — “The first email, with a subject line of “U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi Under Attack,” sent at 4:05 PM about 25 minutes after the attack began, describes an assault on the compound by 20 armed people.”
Ignored.
Posted by: Logicsgood | November 1, 2012, 9:57 pm 9:57 pm
From the NY Post — “The United States had an unmanned Predator drone over its consulate in Benghazi during the attack that slaughtered four Americans — which should have led to a quicker military response, it was revealed yesterday.
“They stood, and they watched, and our people died,” former CIA commander Gary Berntsen told CBS News.”
Posted by: Logicsgood | November 1, 2012, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm
We care about Hurricane relief, jobs news, and hearing about all the terrorist Obama is responsible for killing. We don’t care to have the extreme right’s conspiracy theories pandered too. ABC I know the Fox Bots are thanking you for doing as they wish, but most Americans don’t want conspiracy theories about Libya shoved down our throats. Stop.
Posted by: Chris Christie | November 1, 2012, 9:59 pm 9:59 pm
Ironically Logics good, you provided caps and exclamation points but no logic or evidence to support your claims– just emotion and that special magical right wing certainty that independents, moderates, and normal people don’t understand because of the missing logic, missing specifics, and such. Shoot first, aim later then cover for your lack of reason and your candidate’s lack of foreign policy acumen. Jake is accurate when he writes that in this hyper-partisan environment, Republicans operatives are trafficking in false rumors and idle speculation.
I prefer reason, truth, justice and taking steps to prevent this ever happening again (though tragedies will occur no matter who is president) over frame and blame.
Best wishes, and good night.
Dems, get out the vote! if everybody votes, America wins (and so does Obama).
Posted by: Lucy | November 1, 2012, 10:01 pm 10:01 pm
It’s been 7 weeks since we were attacked!
I have a high school junior interested in the foreign service and a college freshman in Army ROTC. Do you think we will know what happened by the time they graduate so they can decide if their country will back them should they both serve overseas?
Posted by: R Green | November 1, 2012, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm
Mr. President, why…why…why will you not explain what you knew and when you knew it? Just answer the questions. They are legitimate questions. It is beyond me why you do not let the American people know the truth! How can any American support you when you refuse to answer basic questions surround ing the deaths of 4 Americans? You smile and walk on??? I am disgusted beyond belief!
Posted by: Brendito | November 1, 2012, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm
This is the most incompetent bunch of leaders this country has EVER seen. Obama makes General George B. McClellan look like a superstar. Of course, a true leader (Abraham Lincoln) removed McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac when he spent all his time and energy training troops and rarely made a meaningful move to prosecute the war!
Posted by: Looneytoonsindville | November 1, 2012, 10:16 pm 10:16 pm
No question the Obama campaign is suppressing the sordid details of this massive foul-up and clumsy coverup attempt in which flagrant lies were fabricated and fed to the media for weeks.
If Obama is lying about this, just think about how he is lying about many other corrupt and misguided failed actions during his term. We cannot keep this corrupt ideologue in office any longer.
Posted by: Shuman | November 1, 2012, 10:19 pm 10:19 pm
“Remember Benghazi” banners be placed outside every polling station in America!!!
Posted by: Gayle | November 1, 2012, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm
Chuhyona — I agree — Benghazigate should result in impeachment proceedings (although it may be too late) and the heads of several cabinet members — like HRClinton and Penetta. Disgusting times in American history.
Posted by: wildandblue | November 1, 2012, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm
If the main stream media had done their job in investigating the Benghazigate, Obama has resigned (after impeachment proceeding) in the way and Hillary would be the running candidate for the Democratic party…
Posted by: Ralph | November 1, 2012, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm
Good grief – email after email after email was ignored. Almost real-time drone footage of the attack set to the WH Situation Room. -LogicsGood
Umm…a few things. One, every embassy that belongs to the US around the world is under threat on 9/11. Blame your Republicans for cutting funding. Second, do you have proof of your claims? In other words, where is your proof there was a live feed, among other claims? Please show me. If you can’t show irrefutable evidence, you’re a conspiracy theorist
Posted by: Chris | November 1, 2012, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm
It’s 5 p.m. in Washington, D. C. The phone call comes in. There is a crisis somewhere in the world. Who do you want to answer the phone?
Well, we now know what happens when B. O. and Hillery answer.
Posted by: DHix | November 1, 2012, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm
This administration was very likely arming the bad guys, just like they did in Fast & Furious (which is probably why they won’t release THOSE documents either). Here’s what happened: Our ambassador was under attack asking for help..our Seals tried, they asked for help, they were denied, so they were murdered. Obama watched as they died. Then Obama and his team lied and lied, the media complied, and Americans cry out for justice for our men left behind. Here are the questions: why was Stevens there in the worst AQ crawling city in Libya in the first place, why was security pulled earlier even though they knew it was a dangerous place, why wasn’t the consulate given more security when the Ambassador begged for it, why weren’t the Seals given military support to take out the mortar nests that they painted with lasers, and finally why in hell was the Obama team LYING to the parents and the American people about the video being the cause of the attack for 2 weeks, when they KNEW it was a terrorist attack? This was more than incompetence…this was more than dereliction of duty…this was negligent homicide.
Posted by: Rachel | November 1, 2012, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm
I see the tea party has a bone….. to late tea necks…. Obama is up in the polls all over the map, few care about Bengahzi…
Posted by: robertmiii | November 1, 2012, 10:27 pm 10:27 pm
When will Democrats begin to care about credibility, ethics, competence, and awareness of how to restore a self-sustaining growth economy instead of winning the next election and accumulating political power?
Posted by: Shuman | November 1, 2012, 10:29 pm 10:29 pm
“Republicans operatives are fanning flames and creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing”
Sorry, but I think an attack on an American embassy coupled with the deaths of American citizens is evidence enough of “wrongdoing”, but I guess that’s just me.
Oh, and to you die-hard Obamatons out there: You want to vilify Bush for inaction concerning the first 9/11 attacks, yet in the same breath you defend Obama’s inaction concerning the second. No person with an ounce of rational thought can adhere to such inconsistency, which is why we see such blatant pandering to the ignorant and uneducated masses. You WANT people to be stupid so they can no longer spot your duplicity. It’s the very reason your party is failing.
Posted by: Michael | November 1, 2012, 10:32 pm 10:32 pm
I’m reading the same teabot posts here that I’ve read on CBS…. the teabots are running around national media sites with this non-issue news as if they struck gold… America is more concerned about 80 dead in our nation after Sandy than four dead in Libya after Benghazi… I blame FOX for shutting down their comment sections, after reading the radical teabots here it’s no wonder…
Posted by: robertmiii | November 1, 2012, 10:34 pm 10:34 pm
There is absolutely no acceptable excuse for the murdered 4 in Benghazi on 9/11… it shouldn’t have happened. It did happen and journalists should prod, investigate and report.
Posted by: Cartol T | November 1, 2012, 10:34 pm 10:34 pm
Blah blah Obama left them to die, cover-up, this and that. Plenty of claims against Obama, but no evidence to prove it so. Which tells me this more about what the anti-Obama crowd wants to believe so he’ll lose the election. Not very patriotic if you ask me. I will wait for a full investigation instead of jumping to conclusions because I don’t have hate within me
Posted by: TruePatriot | November 1, 2012, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm
I cannot believe that people can still believe in Obama. Put yourself in the place of the families that lost loved ones in Benghazi. You would have a lot of questions unanswered. You would want to know what happened. Obama is corrupt.
Posted by: Alice | November 1, 2012, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm
Obama is not Patriotic. He never answers a darn question, he goes around it.
Posted by: Alice | November 1, 2012, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm
Oh, and to you die-hard Obamatons out there: You want to vilify Bush for inaction concerning the first 9/11 attacks, yet in the same breath you defend Obama’s inaction concerning the second. – Michael | November 1, 2012, 10:32 pm
You wanna know something about Bush and 9/11 my friend? For the 1st month or so Americans were behind the President. Because, ya know, that is what rationale American Patriots do in the face of tragedy. We don’t exploit, we come together. Are you saying we had all the facts from 9/11 within 2 months? Or, did it take months of investigation for any significant criticism to happen? The only slight criticism was his immediate response while in a classroom, which in all fairness wasn’t a fair criticism. But it wasn’t a very loud criticism either, unlike what many of you are doing here
Posted by: TruePatriot | November 1, 2012, 10:40 pm 10:40 pm
Hey Alice: why hasn’t Romnut answered questions about Richard Mourdocks rape comment or questions about his comments on doing away with FEMA or his lies that Jeep is moving to China? You vote for Stalin if he was running against our President.
Posted by: robertmiii | November 1, 2012, 10:43 pm 10:43 pm
There is absolutely enough proof that President Obama and his state dept and administration did not handle the Benghazi attack in a responsible manner. They have blamed. They have lied. They had choices to make and they made bad, bad choices. And, they are getting a pass. The details would be clear if the media had investigated like they would any other administration after a disaster like this. The media has failed the American people. They have failed the fighting men and women of America. And for what? An incompetent president and his bungling administration. I ask anyone still supporting this president…how would you feel if your son was in Afghanistan? Mine is and I don’t feel too great about it. Now, I know Obama can’t be trusted to do the right thing and neither can the media who covers for him.
Posted by: Newsjunkie | November 1, 2012, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm
Interesting that there were video shots and still shots of the taking down of Osama Bin Laden, but none of the President and his staff evaluating what to do to save the Americans under attack in Benghazi. That attack went on for 7 hours, not one shot of who was there or what they were doing. Interesting!
I watched the coverage of the news conference the day after the murders. Hillary Clinton looked totally devastated. The President made his statements and looked intense. Then he got on a plane an flew across country to campaign. I find it hard to see him in charge when he has focused on campaigning for the past 2 years, come terrorist activity or high water.
Posted by: Annetta Forrer | November 1, 2012, 10:48 pm 10:48 pm
Afganistan will be over within 18 months…. if Romney gets elected buckle up because our troops will be in Syria by next summer… Obama has saved 1000′s of lives getting us out of Iraq, think of those that would be dead if McCain had been elected…
Posted by: robertmiii | November 1, 2012, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm
Moving assets into the region?
Really?
What happened to the US 6th fleet in the Mediterranean?
What happened to SETAF?
What happened to AFRICOM?
What happened to the Marines afloat in the Mediterranean?
What happened to…..?
When did they disappear off the face of the planet?
Plenty of assets were already in the region.
Plenty of assets were ready to go….
Plenty of assets were trained specifically for this type of rescue mission (the kind that requires going in with minimal intelligence — despite the misleading statements of the Secretary of Defense….)
There is a lot more to this than meets the eye…..and that, among other things, is the subject of this media-assisted cover-up.
Even that super-incompetent, Jimmy Carter, at least TRIED to rescue the Iran hostages……
Posted by: Never Drank the Kool-Aid | November 1, 2012, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm
The media is beyond corrupt. If they are not skeptical of EVERYONE in power they no longer serve any purpose. The media should be demanding Obama answer some questions that are posed by someone besides late night comedians and the ladies from “The View”. ABC will inquire to the depth of telling you Obama’s favorite color.
Posted by: UAW_member | November 1, 2012, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm
Barry and the Dems didn’t care about 4 Americans in danger in Libya. You think he and his minions are gonna care about you? Nov 6, he’s gone and not soon enough…
Posted by: DVS1 | November 1, 2012, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm
Could it be that because the administration and the State Department kept referencing a ridiculous movie that suspicions were inflamed.
Posted by: Beth Kinne | November 1, 2012, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm
More on Benghazi.. I pray for Whistleblowers because Whistleblowers have guts and are not cowards. The real Heros are Woods, Doherty, Anderson, and Smith who lost their lives in Benghazi we will not forget you and we the American people, not the media, will bring Justice and transparency for you and your families.
Posted by: Marie | November 1, 2012, 10:56 pm 10:56 pm
Just wanted to point out that “there was no real-time video of the attack being watched in the Situation Room.”
Doesn’t mean there wasn’t real time video. Just means that if there was, it wasn’t being watched in the Situation Room.
Other news outlets (yes new – not blogs) have stated that there was an unarmed surveilance drone in the area.
So – somebody was watching it real time.
Posted by: bogopogo | November 1, 2012, 10:56 pm 10:56 pm
Conspiracy theories are not fact… FOX NEWS has made up most of this subject, There was nothing that could have been done to stop the Behgahzi attack.. What will come out after a full investigation is that Benghazi was not safe and Stevens was told not to go there but he did anyway…. this subject is going to come around and bite the tea party in the but…
Posted by: robertmiii | November 1, 2012, 10:57 pm 10:57 pm
Obama watched this travesty from the Situation Room just like he watched Sandy… and he did nothing to come to the aid of the Ambassador and others who lost their lives this evening.
ABC News, please pursue this. He has let down our military and all of America, and it should not be swept under the rug.
Posted by: Bob S. | November 1, 2012, 10:57 pm 10:57 pm
I have watched ABC News for more than 40 years. I gave you another chance after your choosing to ignore the Fast & Furious cover-up, but I will no longer waste my time. You are no longer relevant. You are no longer a news organization. You should be ashamed of yourselves for protecting ANY president instead of simply DOING YOUR JOB! No wonder that FOX News is kicking you and the rest of the mainstream media’s collective behinds.
Posted by: Kathy Gray | November 1, 2012, 10:57 pm 10:57 pm
“The View” is an insult to intelligent women like myself, that said, I’m done.
Posted by: Marie | November 1, 2012, 10:58 pm 10:58 pm
Finally a ABC reporter covering the worse cover-up since Watergate. It is about time you all tell the American people what really is going on in our country and around the world. STOP hiding the real news. TELL THE TRUTH!!! My thoughts and prays go out to all of the men & women who protect our countries and sacrifice their lives for our freedom and safety. God Bless Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Greg Doherty, and Tyrone S. Woods RIP.
I agree with Marie, The View is an insult to intelligent women CANCEL THE SHOW!!!
Posted by: Patti | November 1, 2012, 11:02 pm 11:02 pm
Speaking of Afghanistan, there’s a story for a whistleblower/journalist if there ever was one, someone needs to check on the safety of our troops in Afghanistan the MSM hasn’t been reporting on several dangerous incidents involving attacks and deaths and of course the administration does not want us to know. Go out and save some lives even if you have to be a whistleblower you’ll be more respected.
Posted by: Marie | November 1, 2012, 11:03 pm 11:03 pm
And, as for impeachment after the President is re-elected that won’t happen because there is not and will never be any PROOF of a crime being committed by anyone… Oh, the GOP may try to impeach Obama but they do that to every second term Democratic President…
Posted by: robertmiii | November 1, 2012, 11:07 pm 11:07 pm
There are 30 to 40 American people about to be massacred and there was no real video in the sitaution room. The whole administration got frist raw seat to see how Obama was killed, was that more important that prevent americans from dying?
Posted by: Al | November 1, 2012, 11:11 pm 11:11 pm
Actually Alice the verdict is split. Two of the victim’s families are waiting for an investigation and don’t like the way people like you politicize it. And two have the opposite reaction but then again the latter of the two are repeating right wing talking points that have no proof. I can personally say even if it was a Republican president and I lost a loved one, I’d wait for a complete investigation and actual evidence
Posted by: TruePatriot | November 1, 2012, 11:11 pm 11:11 pm
What original investigation has ABC done? As I recall, none. By original investigation, I mean reporting as it has been done for generation where reporters put shoe leather on the streets, find people, question them, and report the answers. Apparently, ABC has no reporters.
Posted by: Theo Goodwin | November 1, 2012, 11:15 pm 11:15 pm
To all the comparisons to Nixon’s Watergate, tell me – who died in Watergate?
Posted by: schatzi | November 1, 2012, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm
None of us know enough details to make a judgement, but in this voter’s eyes it’s either:
a) incompetence
b) cover-up
c) both
Either way, it’s a great tragedy that should never have happened.
Posted by: Louise | November 1, 2012, 11:26 pm 11:26 pm
Some issues transcend party labels, Mr. Tapper, and this is one of them. I am an Independent voter that did not vote Republican during the 2008 election. The media needs to understand that many people care about this issue from a “fellow AMERICAN” perspective rather than the D/R paradigm. I watched the CSPAN hearing coverage and have been troubled and saddened by this administration’s responses. Our government DENIED fellow AMERICANS’ repeated requests for additional security before the attack, then DENIED their pleas for help during the attack. This is unconscionable.
There are questions that should be answered by this administration and the media should answer as to why this tragedy in foreign policy isn’t being addressed.
Posted by: Anna | November 1, 2012, 11:31 pm 11:31 pm
No evidence of wrongdoing? You’ve got to be kidding me. A smalltime filmmaker sits in jail under the pretense of a minor parole violation, but in reality is a scapegoat for this Administration who are pointing their collective fingers at his act of free speech. ABC News did they teach you anything about the First Amendment in journalism school? Hilary Clinton continued to blame the filmmaker while standing next to the coffins of the recently slaughtered Americans and apparently promised the families that they would prosecute the filmmaker. “Idle Speculation and Rumors”? . . . then why the heck don’t you actually lift a finger to investigate the death of these four brave Americans who were ruthlessly abandoned by this Administration for apparently political reasons. The public is outraged and are searching out the answers for themselves along with the excellent reporting of Fox News and the Daily Beast . . . while the MSM sit idly by speculating whether they can hold off this story long enough to get Obama re-elected. God bless these men and their families. SHAME on this administration and the formerly MSM. Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty . . . you are incredible heroes and your story needs to be told. It sounds like we also lost two very dedicated public servants in Ambassador Stevens and Sean Smith. Is politics as practiced by the MSM more important than their unnecessary and horrific deaths?
Posted by: RCJHgirl | November 1, 2012, 11:37 pm 11:37 pm
Please ABC Please do more coverage on this. I watched World News tonight just because I heard that more media were FINALLY picking up the story. But no coverage at all! Instead airtime given for a 23 million dollar lottery winner. I have a son that is enlsted in the army!!!!! These are questions that I want investigated by more than just one media outlet. Start being true journalists. Make news by reporting the news. Dig deep, ask the questions. Why are you allowing this President to to dismiss your questions????? I truly hold hope out for a NEWS cast to do the hard task of getting the scoop. Thank you for this articlle at the very least. But give it more attention.
Posted by: Lisa | November 1, 2012, 11:43 pm 11:43 pm
I think ABC and some other media outlets are the sleeping giant that has been awoken in regurds to Lybia. Wher as from day one Fox news media has been all over this and still do this day are still on this.As it should be covered by all good decent and moral media outlets such as Fox News. Obama and his group or Administration is a guilty as sin in this and God knows what other messes he has all America in. Such a down right Shame that 4 ask for help and were denied.
If I was Military I tell the Comander-N-Chief to go stick it in his own Ass.
As he dosen’t give a Damn care about no one but his own Ass! And the proof are in his not leadership ability’s.The smart thing woud be to Resign if he but he-Obama is not to smart.
Or play the game and get impeached for a cluster you know what happened in Lybia, Ft.Hood,Fast and Furious-etc!!!!
Posted by: David Smith | November 1, 2012, 11:44 pm 11:44 pm
ROBERTMIII—Obama did NOT end Iraq war. That’s another of his lies. My son was in Iraq writing orders for the withdrawal months before the election. The withdrawal from Iraq was already planned and signed in 2008 but Obama screwed it up after he took office. My son is in AFghanistan now. Casualties have TRIPLED since Obama took office in 2009 and he’s told the enemy when we are going to give up. The media doesn’t report on the casualties anymore. More great reporting. We were done in Afghanistan until Obama claimed it was the real war so he could look strong during the election. Then he sent in the surge….remember. NATO was losing that war. Now we are. So get your facts straight and don’t rely on the Obama campaign machine or ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN or MSNBC.
Posted by: Newsjunkie | November 1, 2012, 11:51 pm 11:51 pm
Jake,
Obama’s in trouble, an election looms, and your kneejerk reaction is to cover for him:
“Republicans operatives are fanning flames and creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing, trafficking in false rumors and idle speculation.”
I have often appreciated your persistence in asking the President questions he would prefer not to answer. Here’s hoping you have sufficient moral fiber to at least be mildly embarassed for carrying his water when there’s no evidence of his interest in anyone other than himself as he deliberately abandoned theses Americans to die.
Posted by: Wayne Farrar | November 1, 2012, 11:51 pm 11:51 pm
The only evidence the right wing has is the You-tube video. Well guess what? Reports(which the right wing ignored) say witnesses heard chants against “Insulting the prophet” right before the attacks, which references the video. Even the group that was accused in the email mentioned the insult to the prophet. Besides that, you have no proof of anything. Once again, all you have are your theories..no fact. Just your bias towards this President and what you want to believe. Oh and NewsJunkie…Bush, McCain, and Romney had no intentions of ending the Iraq war
Posted by: Chris | November 1, 2012, 11:53 pm 11:53 pm
Obama’s first election could be compared to the marketing program of a prototype automobile that gets a whole bunch of hype, but is not yet available for a test drive. The initial offering results in a huge number of pre-sales. Everyone wants to get in on the action. They want to be a part of the “cool” crowd and the first on their block to have that revolutionary new car. What happens when the new prototype car is delivered and the public finds out it only makes left turns and the wheels fall off of it soon after the break-in period. The maintenance cost is sky high and the warranty is non-existent. That is what Obama will face in this election. An electorate that no longer has to listen to the hype and can look at the results of the test drive. The Obama experiment has proven to be a dismal failure.
When it comes to hype and hyperbole versus performance and effectiveness Obama is the “segway” of presidential history.
“Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.”
Posted by: Golfendude | November 2, 2012, 12:04 am 12:04 am
The consulate staff was under attack and the selfless Seals answered the call to come to their aid. Two Seals holding off the terrorists for hours and hours called for help and all they got was an empty chair.
Posted by: RCJHgirl | November 2, 2012, 12:05 am 12:05 am
FACT 1. – Our embassy in Benghazi is attacked on September 11, 2012 resulting in 4 American deaths, including the Ambassador. There had been a previous attack a couple weeks before which blew a hole in our embassy’s wall.
Fact 2. – testimony before the Senate that the CIA and State Department knew in less than an hour that the attack was a terrorist attack.
FACT 3. – President spoke in the Rose Garden several days AFTER the attack on our embassy blaming the attack on a film posted on You Tube and a demonstration that got out of hand. He mentions that American does not tolerate hate and terrorism – seemingly linking the phrase to the film maker.
FACT 4. – 5 days after the attack, the US Ambassador to the UN in a speech before the Assembly blames the attack on demonstrators and the You Tube posted film. (unless the Administration is completely incompetent or the UN Ambassador went rogue, every word uttered by the Ambassador in such a speech would be approved by the White House.)
Question – Why did the Administration feel the need to mislead the American People and the world?
Question – If the President truly did not know personally that it was a terrorist attack until more than a week after the event – why was he not informed?
Question – If e-mails and cables were going back and forth for several weeks between the embassy and the State Department (Hillery Clinton’s office) regarding lack of security at the embassy and requesting additional security personnel, why did Hillery’s office refuse the request?
Question – If the Paris, France embassy deserves a security force of US Marines – why would the State Department not feel the embassy in Benghazi Libya on September 11 (of ALL DAYS) should have increased security?
Question – Why will the press not follow a story of such national importance? Why does the press feel the need to be in bed with politicians? Why will the national press not see that the reason that they are losing subscribers and audience share is the lack of “journalism” in their product and the over the top blatant cheer-leading for their personal views.
We lose control of our government when we the voters are not informed because the press refuses to do its job.
Posted by: DHix | November 2, 2012, 12:09 am 12:09 am
The MSM will not fall for the right wing conspiracy theories, and for good reason. They have no facts to go on, so they will not get into swift boat tactics which says they have at least some integrity left. The country deserves a complete investigation that lasts longer than a few weeks in an election. The only reason the Right wing wants this covered is to use it against Obama, they don’t care about a thorough investigation. And quite frankly Americans care about the economy. Anti-Obama’s don’t realize their conspiracy theory is distracting them. They have no facts and are falling into “Bengazi-Gate”
Posted by: Chris | November 2, 2012, 12:10 am 12:10 am
Obama IS trying to run out the clock and the news media is huddled around him making sure it happens!
Posted by: tbranch | November 2, 2012, 12:12 am 12:12 am
Posted by: Chris | November 2, 2012, 12:10 am 12:10 am
7 weeks and still no answer. But road bumps, those can be a problem…
Posted by: Carney | November 2, 2012, 12:16 am 12:16 am
Sorry, ABC… you’re still not reporting on the Benghazi scandal… only sniffing the cork of someone else’s champagne… reporting on what others reported. Jennifer Griffin and Catherine Herridge at FOX NEWS have done the heavy lifting. They are the true reporters and deserve all the credit. ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN all chose to NOT INFORM the public until now… and only after you have been shamed into action. There’s PLENTY more to this scandal if you want to investigate. Doubt you will.
Posted by: Tex Geoas | November 2, 2012, 12:18 am 12:18 am
The only thing Barry is “focused” on is covering his ass so that he has a chance to be re-elected and screw the country for another 4 years.
We’re still waiting for answers on “Fast and Furious”.
So when does Barry pull out his “Executive Privilege” on Benghazi? Oh, he’s already done it.
Posted by: GarandFan | November 2, 2012, 12:20 am 12:20 am
The story says “Republicans operatives are fanning flames and creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing.”
Really?
Four Americans murdered, including our ambassador, after several ignored pleas for help. The Brits pulled out, and so did the Red Cross because the risk was manifest. The administration followed events in real time and did nothing. The administration was forewarned that our security was inadequate, and threats were gathering. And there was ‘no evidence’ of wrongdoing? ‘Republicans’ are fanning the flames of suspicion?
In just a few words you have revealed what is wrong with the MS media — you’re clueless and too shameless to understand just how partisan you are.
Posted by: Michael | November 2, 2012, 12:20 am 12:20 am
The President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of State of the United States, the Secretary of Defense of the Untied States and the United States Ambassador to the U.N…. each and all… CONCOCTED A FALSE ACCOUNT OF THE BENGHAZI ATTACK AND LIED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE REPEATEDLY UNTIL CAUGHT BY FOX NEWS.
And in response, ABC goes quiet. Crickets from ABC.
Posted by: Tex Geoas | November 2, 2012, 12:22 am 12:22 am
One question the investigation will likely ignor is, ‘where was the President and what was he doing during the attack’? Obviously, his meeting with the defense secretary and chairman of the joint chiefs did not last for the duration of the attack.
Posted by: ztarbod | November 2, 2012, 12:22 am 12:22 am
I can answer your questions DHIX :) -
Question 1 : Whether or not it was inspired by a You-tube video(which was possible), it is still a terror attack. Any attack that attacks our embassy is an “act of terror”, as Obama said for 2-3 days after the attack
Question 2 : As noted above, it is a terror attack regardless. There was conflicting intelligence as to who did it, and they have to investigate who did it. Witnesses say attackers referenced the video before the attack, according to reports. Susan Rice, according to the CIA was also given conflicting information
Question 3 : Requests and talks between the Secretary of State and her Ambassadors happen all the time, it’s pretty standard. We have many embassies around the world that need protection. As noted before, Republicans cut funding for embassy security for all of our embassies. All American embassies and anything American is at risk on 9/11, so why did Repubs cut funding?
Question 4 : There are almost 300 embassies and consulates around the world, many of them in the Middle East. Need I say more?
And to finally to your last question. The American people will no longer allow swift boating, conspiracy, and lies or imagination. They do not like smearing or politicizing a tragedy, and will not stand for the increasingly extreme right wing hate. That is why the MSM has given Libya occasional coverage, because there have not been any facts to go on, only conspiracy theory and imagination which you guys are great at. You think 7 weeks is a long time when it’s taken longer for past attacks and mishaps for a complete picture? Goodnight
Posted by: Chris | November 2, 2012, 12:25 am 12:25 am
DHIX, Here are some facts–
“On September 12, the day after the attack that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Obama said in comments in the Rose Garden that he had learned about the attack on the consulate the night before. He said: “Our country is only as strong as the character of our people and the service of those both civilian and military who represent us around the globe. No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.”"
The next day,” President Obama said, ‘”No act of terror will dim the light of the values that we proudly shine on the rest of the world, and no act of violence will shake the resolve of the United States of America.”"
“Fourteen hours after the attack, President Obama sat down with Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes” for a previously scheduled interview and said he did not believe it was simply due to mob violence:
“You’re right that this is not a situation that was — exactly the same as what happened in Egypt and my suspicion is that there are folks involved in this who were looking to target Americans from the start.”"
“On September 19, Matthew Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the ambassador and three other Americans “were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy.”"
““Talking points” prepared by the CIA on Sept. 15, the same day that Rice taped three television appearances, support her description of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate .” It is not unusual for it to take time to sort out conflicting reports of an attack of this nature.
Posted by: Julia | November 2, 2012, 12:29 am 12:29 am
I too care about Benghazi. The only difference is, I have no interest in exploiting this. I wouldn’t if Reagan or Bush were President, and I have no intention of exploiting this without facts and a thorough non-politicized investigation. Anything less is unAmerican
Posted by: Chris | November 2, 2012, 12:30 am 12:30 am
The story says “Republicans operatives are fanning flames and creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing.”
No evidence of wrongdoing? Four dead Americans, testimony to Congress told there was live feed but Administration has denied that, Administration blames event on video, etc… What more evidence do you need?
Please drop the ‘Conservative are stupid conspiracy theorists’ bit and do the job of a journalist.
Posted by: Pam Pugmire | November 2, 2012, 12:31 am 12:31 am
This is the first time a president has ever gotten away with ignoring questions on such a disastrous event with culpability somewhere in the administration. A Republican president would have been hung in the media weeks ago, which would be demanding resignation or impeachment, especially with an impending election. The American media is an enemy of the people.
Posted by: Lincoln Robertson | November 2, 2012, 12:40 am 12:40 am
Finally ABC started to talk about serious issues. Go ABC Go…
Posted by: niley | November 2, 2012, 1:06 am 1:06 am
Jack Tapper needs to get his facts straight and stop covering for Obama. Four men are dead because the communist in chief failed to do his job. Their blood is on his hannds. And these so-called journalist need to report the truth for once instead of covering up for this scum bag. The White House refused to send air support.
Posted by: Michael Boyd | November 2, 2012, 1:06 am 1:06 am
Obama used Navy SEALs to get Bin Laden for his polictical gain. In Libya their just a bump on the road!!!
Posted by: J Barrick | November 2, 2012, 1:08 am 1:08 am
Stevens was set up to a) be kidnapped and or b) killed. Turkish Consul help set him up. Stevens flew in from Tripoli to “have dinner with the Turkish Consul”… Valerie Jarrett, the de facto WH boss, a born Iranian probably orchestrated the whole deal with her family the Muslim Brotherhood. So transparent it is sickening… I bet the drugstores sold a lot more antacid meds this past month as we Americans are dragged through the cesspool that is this Adminstration AND the miserable excuse of a media. I can’t wait to vote on Nov. 6th.
Posted by: Diane R | November 2, 2012, 1:30 am 1:30 am
ABC needs to own up to there own cover up. The man claiming to be president of the USA, Mr. BO himself said, FOR 2 WEEKS, THAT THE ATTACK WAS AN UPRISING DUE TO AN ANTI-ISLAMIC VIDEO. Where the hell did this story come from and why aren’t the LAME ABC REPORTERS CONFRONTING THE OBAMA ADMIN ABOUT THIS???? WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? WHY IS ABC COVERING UP FOR OBAMA? YOU’VE SOLD OUT AND SOLD OUT TO THE USA PUBLIC. THIS IS THE LAST TIME I WILL VISIT YOUR LAME SITE OR WATCH YOUR LAME STATION.
Posted by: J Walters | November 2, 2012, 1:37 am 1:37 am
that BHO is even on the ticket shows how low the USA has gone, a thin resume and a thin skin
if BHO wins my 6 figure salary and tax payment goes away, pay for your own destruction
Posted by: bobopinkie | November 2, 2012, 1:37 am 1:37 am
Americans, when the times get tough Obama has your back – just ask Ambassador Stevens. Oops, Stevens is dead, I guess you’ll just have to trust Obama.
Posted by: Tom | November 2, 2012, 1:40 am 1:40 am
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Posted by: bobopinkie | November 2, 2012, 1:48 am 1:48 am
“What went wrong in the Benghazi attack” Mr. Tapper. Here’s what went wrong: In 2011 House Republicans cut over 128 or 129 million from the embassy security budget. In 2012 they cut an additional 438 or 439 million from the embassy security budget needed to secure America’s embassies around the world. Hillary Clinton warned them of he danger in such a move, but they rejected her pleas.
Posted by: tsk_tsk_shameOnUTapper | November 2, 2012, 1:56 am 1:56 am
Why isn’t the MSM doing it’s job? Did you forget your lessons in college:
WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHY, AND HOW COME?
Posted by: Justify | November 2, 2012, 2:02 am 2:02 am
I watched Hillary stand in front of the victims’ coffins at the memorial service and lie. I saw Carney lie. I saw Susan Rice lie. I’m pretty certain Panetta has lied, though this may be a bit less certain. This Administration has no credibility; they have lied away the benefit of any doubt. These people work at the discretion of the President. Since they are still in-place, he has no credibility.
These weren’t just little lies, they were intentional deceitful proclamations to the American public, the U.N., and the world. Their proclamations regarding the video have clearly harmed America; the video wouldn’t have seen the light of day without the Administration trumpeting it up to the Muslim world. Obama may succeed in stringing this out past the election, but he won’t survive this incident in office.
Posted by: Tom Wilcox | November 2, 2012, 2:02 am 2:02 am
tsk,
Are you out of your mind? What part of Obama’s lies aren’t sinking in? Because first it was about a video that Obama blamed the attack on, then he said he called it terrorism the very next day, then he admits it wasn’t about the video only after we realize there was NO MOB, no protests. Then we saw the email stating that an Islamic militant group claims responsibility dated September 11, 2012, yet still Obama for 2 weeks kept lying to us about a video and blaming the attack on an American citizen. Obama is far worse than Bush and Nixon combined. Obama is the Patriot Act on Steroids and he is the liar in chief over how 4 American citizens died – going so far as to lie that it was the fault of an American citizen.
Liberals have an incredible ability of somehow blaming and never accepting a shred of responsibility for ANYTHING. Like Rocky Balboa said, “But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that”
Obama is a coward.
Posted by: EPU | November 2, 2012, 2:09 am 2:09 am
For the sixth night in a row, ABC World News, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News refused to give one single second of coverage to a Fox News report that the Obama Administration denied help to those attacked and killed by terrorists at the US consulate in Benghazi on September 11. According to a Media Research Center analysis, ABC, CBS, and NBC have failed to cover this devastating story – not to confirm it, not to knock it down, and never mind do their own investigation. The story broke last Friday, long before Hurricane Sandy swamped the news cycle.
The story broke Tuesday night on CBS Evening News. Since then, according to a Media Research Center analysis, ABC has almost completely refused to report the email evidence, giving it a scant 25 seconds on Good Morning America and 20 seconds on World News yesterday. Further, neither The Washington Post nor The New York Times has committed a single inch of their newspapers to a news story about this report.
According to Fox News, “sources claim officers at the nearby CIA annex in Benghazi were twice told to stand down when they requested to help those at the consulate.
They later ignored those orders. Fox News was also told that a subsequent request for back-up when the annex came under attack was denied as well.”
In response, I just released the following public statement.
“Every other broadcast news network has produced at least one major story on the release of emails related to the attack in Benghazi that killed our ambassador and three other brave Americans. While not enough, in some cases, it’s something. From ABC News, it’s nothing.
“The liberal ‘news’ media’s refusal to cover this story exposes how corrupt they have become.
Four Americans died in Libya in a coordinated terrorist attack on the anniversary of 9/11.
The Obama Administration has been caught in a maze of falsehoods. This reeks of a cover-up. This scandal could and would derail the Obama re-election efforts. ABC, CBS, NBC, The Washington Post, and The New York Times are so vested in the re-election of Barack Obama that they are deliberately spiking this huge story. It’s sickening.
How big is this story? Bigger than Watergate. No one was killed in that burglary, and no one covered up the truth about the deaths of four brave Americans.
“Now there are rumblings that one or more of these so-called news networks have emails from the National Security Advisor’s office telling a counter-terrorism unit to stand down. If that’s true, they must tell the American people what they know, and how long they’ve known it. And if it isn’t true, then the networks need to say so. Their silence is deafening.
“The Obama administration’s cover-up of their deceitful response to the Benghazi terrorist attack is without a doubt the biggest political news story of 2012. The American people have a right to know what really happened before they cast their ballots on Election Day.
“If ABC, CBS, NBC, The Washington Post, and The New York Times refuse to ask the tough questions, then they no longer serve any purpose. And if they’re sitting on evidence to help Obama win re-election, they’re as guilty in this cover-up as is the administration.”
Posted by: Dr. William Gill MD S.F.A | November 2, 2012, 2:16 am 2:16 am
Obama was notified at beginning (about 5:00 PM), Navy SEAL Ty Woods was killed about seven hours later (i.e. around 12:00 AM).
Just curious… what time did Obama go to bed?
Posted by: Curious | November 2, 2012, 2:21 am 2:21 am
Jake you sat on National TV and listened to Dr Rice lie to you and the American people on “This Week”. Then you actually went to Twitter and chastised and challenged Romney/ Ryan for not coming on to speak to the Bengahzi killings…..basically praising Dr Rice for coming on and being so brave. Unreal!
Posted by: dawner | November 2, 2012, 2:25 am 2:25 am
Fox makes up stuff about Benghazi on a daily basis hoping something will stick but it never does… their last lie was that Washington told the CIA and others on the ground to stand down and not go to the aid of the consulate… Any forces outside of the country did not respond because it was over before they could get there and on the scene… lot’s of smoke by Fox and the GOP before the election in hopes of smearing Obama to get Romney elected.
Posted by: robertmiii | November 2, 2012, 2:47 am 2:47 am
Bush ignored reports that Bin Laden was going to attack the USA in two days and he went to a school to read kids stories instead… not one word from you tea bots about that though..
Posted by: robertmiii | November 2, 2012, 2:51 am 2:51 am
I cry for what my country and my leaders have become. It is time for us to stand for truth and to speak it with boldness. We don’t have a fighting chase without it.
Posted by: Western_Elf | November 2, 2012, 2:57 am 2:57 am
GOP…reflect on this…..
June 14, 2002, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Suicide bomber kills 12 and injures 51.
February 20, 2003, international diplomatic compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Truck bomb kills 17.
February 28, 2003, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Gunmen on motorcycles killed two consulate guards.
July 30, 2004, U.S. embassy in Taskkent, Uzbekistan
Suicide bomber kills two.
December 6, 2004, U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Militants stormed and occupied perimeter wall. Five killed, 10 wounded.
March 2, 2006, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Suicide car bomber killed four, including a U.S. diplomate directly targeted by the assailants.
September 12, 2006, U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria
Gunmen attacked embassy with grenades, automatic weapons, and a car bomb (though second truck bomb failed to detonate). One killed and 13 wounded.
January 12, 2007, U.S. embassy in Athens, Greece
A rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the embassy building. No one was injured.
July 9, 2008, U.S. consulate in Istanbul, Turkey
Armed men attacked consulate with pistols and shotguns. Three policemen killed.
March 18, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana’a, Yemen
Mortar attack misses embassy, hits nearby girls’ school instead.
September 17, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana’a, Yemen
Militants dressed as policemen attacked the embassy with RPGs, rifles, grenades and car bombs. Six Yemeni soldiers and seven civilians were killed. Sixteen more were injured.
Posted by: Diane | November 2, 2012, 3:13 am 3:13 am
You right wing looneys who keep claiming that Obama turned down requests for help during the attack. There were no such requests for help when they were being attacked. There is no reliable source which claims this. I can’t believe Fox News is so ethically corrupt that they go the extent of concocting stories by ostensibly ‘annonymous’ sources (whose identities they will of course not ‘reveal’ to protect their privacy..yea right) just so that they can get respectably Mr Romney into the White House.
It’s atrocious. Do you believe Fox News or the CIA top guys? Come on fellas. You are being played. Not everything to do with Obama is a conspiracy. Lol. Seriously.
Posted by: Jason | November 2, 2012, 3:53 am 3:53 am
Most of the suspicions and conspiracy theories could be dispelled if only the White House would produce some substantive answers. If Democrats were subjected to such opaque responses by a republican president, they would be engaged in mass hysteria.
Posted by: Cecil Nims | November 2, 2012, 5:21 am 5:21 am
obozo is a sleezebag…he’s desperate cuz he knows Romney is clearly outwitting him on every issue. drip, drip…obozo is a drip
Posted by: redhotrash | November 2, 2012, 5:45 am 5:45 am
Dont worry nothing with come of this until after the election…rest eazy Sheep.
Posted by: Vic | November 2, 2012, 6:29 am 6:29 am
Barry lied…. people died!
Posted by: guido | November 2, 2012, 6:33 am 6:33 am
Incompetency Kills
Posted by: woody | November 2, 2012, 6:57 am 6:57 am
“creating suspicions where there’s no evidence of wrongdoing, trafficking in false rumors and idle speculation. ”
Come on Jake. You can do better than that. If you think having the President on the record stating he ordered all resources committed to saving those in Benghazi and then we find out that resources were not committed by the Defense department is not enough to warrant suspicions, perhaps you should resign yourself to counting the number of flakes in a a box of cereal.
Posted by: NoMoreObama | November 2, 2012, 7:04 am 7:04 am
Jason 3:53 AM
Just keep believing what the White House tells you to believe. Read the NY times, watch the network news. That is all you need to know.
Posted by: Mike inflyoverland | November 2, 2012, 7:36 am 7:36 am
Obama & Clinton must have both been ELATED to welcome Hurricane Sandy. It takes a BIG STORY to push the MURDER of an American Ambassador off the headlines. Now all we see are stories about power outages in NYC, flooding, and hospital shut-downs. We’ll have to wait until after the election to get the bloody details of the incompetence at the highest levels of government.
Can you say… Benghazi-Gate?
Posted by: Tom Grapevine | November 2, 2012, 7:37 am 7:37 am
This is absolutely at the level of Watergate, with one exception. The second rate burglary back in the 1970′s never led to the deaths of 4 Americans!!!! Obama needs to lose this election only because there will be post election hearings and this administration is dead in the water. We cannot afford this, now, in this environment.
Posted by: Bill | November 2, 2012, 7:39 am 7:39 am
How about this? Why don’t your take one of your sharp young reporters who are assigned to shill for Obama off that case and interview Gen. Carter Ham and Rear Adm. Charles M. Gaouette? What do they know? Why were they relieved of their command at such an awkward time? Was Gen. Ham, as rumored, about to launch a rescue operation, and was he ordered to stand down?
Posted by: Janet P | November 2, 2012, 7:44 am 7:44 am
Good for Mary Bruce but too little too late. Even if Obama manages to win the election,the media is now a proven elitist failure in the eyes of millions of Americans. Go cheerlead someplace else…like Cuba or Russia.
Posted by: Mauren | November 2, 2012, 7:57 am 7:57 am
Now that a few – very few – so-called news organizations have noticed this story, a timeline is emerging. None of the reports contain a smidgen of information about an offensive video or a spontaneous mob that got out of hand. Obama and Clinton owe the country a BIG and QUICK explanation about why they so passionately touted that story and why they put out the phony videos all over the Arab world assuring them that the U.S. had NOTHING to do with the imaginery video. Somewhere within the administration there had to be coordination for this story. Obama, Clinton, Carney, Rice repeated it for a couple of weeks; it was unmistakably the concocted cover story.
Posted by: Janet P | November 2, 2012, 7:59 am 7:59 am
Typical Guy points the finger at Romney with a warning to beware of voting machines. Looks like it’s the other way around. Votes cast for Romney are curiously switched to bho. This stinks. I do not trust anything associated with the current administration. MUST GO
Posted by: Noma | November 2, 2012, 8:02 am 8:02 am
“I suppose I could be more underwhelmed by the GOP’s desperate need to make some sort of conspiracy stick against the President.”
Oh please Roooth, Obama could hold a campaign event and pull a knife out and stab his Secret Service detail and then start grabbing babies out of the crowd and eating their hearts on live television with the blood squirting everywhere that it shows on your television screen, and you and your ilk would still be worshiping him as your Messiah and would call any investigation as Republicans trying to make some conspiracy or scandal stick.
Posted by: krp | November 2, 2012, 8:06 am 8:06 am
It’s terrible to see all the Americans ignored by our president. That includes everyone dying anywhere because of him, dumpster divers, and the millions out of work while he jets around to Vegas and TV shows. Let this be a lesson to never count on corrupt and incompetent people to protect us . Have a plan and try to save yourselves and your families at all times.
Posted by: JUST THE FACTS | November 2, 2012, 8:08 am 8:08 am
Thank God for Jake Tapper (Jake might ask the White House & Leon Panetta to assign him a “food-taster” for the next few weeks).
Posted by: dave theisen | November 2, 2012, 8:30 am 8:30 am
The Obama (peace be upon him) plan: Deliver the entire mid east into the hands of the Islamists and call it Spring.
Posted by: Casca | November 2, 2012, 8:49 am 8:49 am
If Obama is, unfortunately, re-elected, this tragedy and the cover-up is going to sink his administration because the whole truth will finally get out. This will be a repeat of Watergate with him probably resigning before the end of his second term. Welcome to President Biden.
Posted by: Mep Pehsa | November 2, 2012, 9:12 am 9:12 am
I am old enough to recall the daily pressure applied by these same news agencies when President Nixon was embroiled in Watergate. Thes same agencies who surrounded the story of a supposed Whitehouse outed Vallerie Plame, inactive CIA employee. I am disgusted with how with few exceptions the alphabet networks are carrying the water for one party yet castigates another. The author of this article in one of the rare exceptions from what has come to descibe what use to be honest networks…………….Lamestream media. Were it not for the blogs and FOX this would be swept away. It is interesting that even with the co-ordinated efforts of Lamestream 51% of the country disapproves of how Bengazi is being handled by President Obama. It is always the cover up that gets them.
Posted by: AZsmitty, Arizona | November 2, 2012, 9:22 am 9:22 am
How does the sorry episode make deployed military personnel feel? The military culture is that they ‘leave no man behind.’ Apparently, that culture is not shared by Obama.
Posted by: Janet P | November 2, 2012, 9:24 am 9:24 am
So it’s November 2nd four days after Super Storm Sandy.
It’s cover time for O’Bama is running out but the media will try and stretch it to Tuesday.
FEMA is busy doing what it does best, mismanaging it’s endless cooperation and promising a river of cash to the local and state governments while it is unable to get a few generators to gas stations, because that is private enterprise, to ease the gas lines.
Barry Hussein O’Bama is kicking the can down the road, tight lipped on Benghazi in an attempt to win re-election so that his most transparent administration ever can continue for 4 more years.
Liberals here are continuing their assault on the very good man Mittens Romney in an attempt to portray him as something he’s not, avoiding the issues because, quite frankly, that’s all they got.
Michigan and Wisconsin are tipping towards Romney and there’s hope that by Tuesday we won’t need to follow the Mess that will be Ohio as The Mitt Man will have the election sewn up with or without it making the Demo Voter Fraud there irrelevant.
The world turns.
The Sun heats the planet a little more or less as it fuses Hydrogen into Helium.
All is well and it’s another great day in America!
Posted by: Noz | November 2, 2012, 9:33 am 9:33 am
This is not a Republican conspiracy by any means. This is an American scandal. ANYONE who cares the least bit about our military will vote this thug out this Tuesday. This isn’t Vietnam and our troops are suppose to trust us. It sickens my soul that Ty Woods fought off 60 jihadists for 7 hours of ___ without any outside help. He died sitting on the roof slumpt over his m16. He died thinking our country did not care about him. Please Americans, I beg you. This POTUS does NOT care. The lies are mounting and he is stalling until after the election. This has NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS!!!! I am a registered Democrat and will be voting for Romney.
Posted by: Erin | November 2, 2012, 9:34 am 9:34 am
Anyone who believes that the president did’t screw up here is either stupid, black , democrat or all three. To think that this tragic event could not have been prevented by a more intelligent administration is accepting of lies about everything these Obama idiots do.
The level of stupidity required to support the noises coming from third idiot administration is enormous. The investigation AFTER the electing will shatter the integrity of Obama and his gang of liars!
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Posted by: truspeek | November 2, 2012, 9:38 am 9:38 am
Of course Obama is “running out the clock.” The campaign he’s running gets more crooked and deceitful by the day. One correction: there is absolutely NOTHING “Reaganesque” about this president.
Posted by: Ben Gazzi | November 2, 2012, 9:41 am 9:41 am
Let’s face it people, there will be no investigation until after the election. However, we can demand an answer from the president “who told Susan Rice and Jay Carney to go on television days after
the massacre and lie to the American people”? Obama told us it was a video after he said just the
opposite. Unless you are just totally stupid, you can see, there is a problem with transparency.
In other words, we were lied to.
Posted by: Roger | November 2, 2012, 9:58 am 9:58 am
has the W H ordered an investigation into who gave the order to ” stand down ” ? why not ? …unless…
Posted by: paprtowl | November 2, 2012, 9:58 am 9:58 am
The president is “extremely focused” on making sure we find out exactly what happened? In other words, the White House is asserting that the White House doesn’t know what happened in the White House on the night of 9/11?
Yeah, and wearing a bomber jacket on the campaign trail assures the next soldier, sailor, National Guardsman or diplomat that the president will have his/her back under duress. Right.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger | November 2, 2012, 10:03 am 10:03 am
We all have our own political views but this coverup goes so far beyond party lines that it’s scary. HEY JOURNALISTS, DO YOUR JOBS AND QUIT ENABLING THIS COVERUP!!!!!! Vote this liar out this coming Tuesday.
Posted by: Stand Down | November 2, 2012, 10:08 am 10:08 am
My hat’s off to FOX NEWS for reporting a very news worthy story. Where is ABC?
Thank you Jake for reporting, and I appreciated you questioning Carney on Libya.
By- the-way, where has Jay Carney been the last couple weeks.
Apparently, the president doesn’t need anyone representing
him now. Guess he’s afraid of you asking Carney questions on Benghazi.
Posted by: Susan | November 2, 2012, 10:09 am 10:09 am
@ SocialPilot “Nobody cares about this stupid story and how Romney is trying to place the blame on Obama. The American public knows if anyone is at fault it is Romney for making such a big deal out of this. We want a President to take care of the American people, not just blame others like Romney does all day long.”
Really? So this is Romney’s fault? Where was his care for his Ambassador when militant islamic terrorists, by accounts 100 strong (20 by the end…) attacked “American Soil” our embassy and killed four americans. I’ll give Obama credit for saying he will do all he can for Sandy victims, but seriously, if you don’t think Americans do not care about 1. either the lack of ability to assess and make rapid decisions of life or dead or 2. the pure stonewalling of what actually happened (gun running from Lybia to Syria…wait for that to come out) then you are either A. Braindead or B. totally biased.
Be an American sir. Ask the right questions and get answers.
Posted by: Rich | November 2, 2012, 10:11 am 10:11 am
Romney has not said one thing about this EXCEPT for the debate when he was RUDELY interrupted by Obama’s journalist minion moderator. This coverup is INSANE. Former Navy SEAL says Obama’s actions over #Benghazi “unconscionable” #StandDown
Posted by: Stand Down | November 2, 2012, 10:23 am 10:23 am
We are investigating this is really getting old. Funny how they had pictures in the situation room, etc the next day after the Seals killed Osama but some how can’t get their act together months after they let four Americans die while Obama went to bed to rest up for him campaigning and fundraising in Vegas. How could any America vote for Obama is beyond me.
Posted by: Freedom | November 2, 2012, 10:27 am 10:27 am
Talk about transparency; The media wing of the democrat party (ABC,NBC,CBS,etc) are looking foolish here. Do your jobs, media, and at least pretend to have a modicum of integrity.
We the people are owed an explanation.
The disrespect to all of us, especially to the families of the fallen, by both the administration and the media and is disgusting.
Posted by: John Q Public | November 2, 2012, 10:28 am 10:28 am
The way the administration is dodging questions and refusing to provide full information (so much for transparency – yet another Obama lie) is proof they are hiding the facts about their incompetence
Posted by: makka | November 2, 2012, 10:33 am 10:33 am
Yes, the “investigation” will be completed “after” the election. And you will be informed of the “results” just like you were on operation “Fast and furious”! Oh thats right, obama illegally sealed those records when the truth began to come out!
Posted by: Lee | November 2, 2012, 10:34 am 10:34 am
More lies and coverups by this administration! How dare Obama NOT tell the American people what happened! We have a RIGHT to know! This is NOT a communist country YET! And Carny not holding any press conferences…..wonder why that is?! Because they don’t want to get any questions about Benghazi! Media hound Obama would be more than happy to have Carny tout how Obama went to see the damage from Sandy, but yet NOTHING!
Posted by: pagrow | November 2, 2012, 10:37 am 10:37 am
Mr. President, you owe it to all Americans to tell the truth about what happened in Benghazi.
Posted by: Fastgirl | November 2, 2012, 10:39 am 10:39 am
Lucy – ‘Its all speculation and coverup for Romney’s lack of foreign policy acumen’ Are you serious?! What does Romney have to do with the administration’s lack of response and lack of telling the American people why?! Give me a break!
Posted by: pagrow | November 2, 2012, 10:39 am 10:39 am
Fastgirl – ‘Mr. President, you owe it to all Americans to tell the truth about what happened in Benghazi.’ I couldn’t agree with you more! I don’t understand why ALL Americans are not up in arms over the LACK of information from this administration! And Obama said it would be a transparent government if he were elected president. RIGHT!
Posted by: pagrow | November 2, 2012, 10:46 am 10:46 am
Mary Bruce, Thanks for the question to Pres. Obama.
Jake and the rest, Thanks for another installment.
We are waiting for more investigation and more prominent coverage. An article here and there buried in the ABC News website does not convey the significance of this story. Have you checked the number of comments on the Benghazi articles compared to others in “Political Punch?”
Posted by: DISPARAGED | November 2, 2012, 11:10 am 11:10 am
In the debate when Obama said he was offended that Romney would use Benghazi for political
gain, Well Mr. President, I am offended that you let 4 beautiful Americans die while defending this
country, and you did it for political reasons. How can you sleep at night knowing you watched on
real time while these brave men were being slaughtered and you did nothing fearing you would do
harm to your chance of being re-elected. I see this as a COVER UP as does all reasonable people.
Posted by: Linda | November 2, 2012, 11:10 am 11:10 am
The main function of the US Government is to protect itself. Citizens be damned.
Posted by: luxomni | November 2, 2012, 11:27 am 11:27 am
Pagrow, yes, its a wrongheaded, ginned up rumor-driven right wing smear campaign and cover up for Romney’s lack of foreign policy acumen. Republicans are well known for their unethical smear campaigns. A slew of new reporting this morning debunks right wing reports–check out
C.I.A. Played Major Role Fighting Militants in Libya Attack
CIA responded within 25 minutes to Benghazi attack
New Details Discredit Fox News Reports On Benghazi Attacks
In Benghazi timeline, CIA errors but no evidence of conspiracy
“In releasing a detailed timeline of CIA actions that night, senior intelligence officials have put aside long-standing concerns about revealing the extent of the agency’s presence in Benghazi in order to push back against what officials say are baseless allegations”
WSJ: the security situation in Benghazi relied on a “symbiotic” relationship between the State Department and the CIA, in which the State Department in Benghazi served as a front for CIA activities while the CIA provided backup security. But on the night of Sept. 11, it became clear that the arrangement was flawed…”
“the CIA had an extensive presence in Benghazi, and the two former Navy SEALs who died in the assault, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, were contractors working for the agency.”
“at no point in the October congressional hearing did any of the State Department officials testifying use the word “consulate” to describe the Benghazi compound. This was no accident. In fact, the compound served little routine diplomatic purpose, and was largely under the operational control of the CIA.”
“When secret agencies are involved, and especially when they are as pivotal as they were in Benghazi, public explanations can be treacherous, and officials will go out of their way to avoid exposing the agency’s role, especially if the operations could be ongoing.
“The CIA can’t admit their role because it compromises the cover of the facility, and that’s the most important thing,” said Bob Baer, who spent two decades as a field officer in the CIA. “You can never compromise cover.”
Focus on truth, justice and correcting the problems, not framing and blaming the president in wild-eyed accusations.
Posted by: Julia | November 2, 2012, 11:47 am 11:47 am
Barack Obama is a shameless, self-centered liar and a national disgrace.
He is unfit to serve as this nation’s Commander-In-Chief.
One can only hope that the American people will prove to be smarter on Tuesday than they were four years ago.
Posted by: Danram | November 2, 2012, 11:47 am 11:47 am
Roger, there are ongoing investigations right now!
Posted by: Julia | November 2, 2012, 11:48 am 11:48 am
Danram, many people think Obama has a been a good commander in chief and that Romney would be a disaster, particularly for the 47% of Americans he loathes and disregards.
Posted by: Julia | November 2, 2012, 11:50 am 11:50 am
The Obama administration is a disgrace, it’s that simple.
Posted by: Atlasobjectivist | November 2, 2012, 11:51 am 11:51 am
Anyone who watches Fox News is up to date on this Ocrap. The lamestream urinalists are running with their blinkers on, covering up for our glorious mis-leader. If this had been a Bush screw up……
Posted by: Colonel Bat Guano | November 2, 2012, 12:02 pm 12:02 pm
Batty, many of Fox News crazy accusations have been debunked.
Facts gleaned from investigation trump crazy conspiracy theorists spinning webs and eventually getting tangled in them.
Posted by: Julia | November 2, 2012, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm
Obama wanted to center his re-election campaign on “bin Laden is dead & GM’s alive”. He wanted the American people to think that since he killed bin Laden, he had defeated al-Qaida & weakened & destabilized terrorists throughout the Middle East. But, in a desperate attempt to hold onto to his campaign slogan, the President let go of the truth.
Radical Islam hijacked & transformed the Arab Spring (as those with sophisticated understandings of the region predicted it would) into a militant Islamic uprising. Neither bin Laden’s death nor drone assassinations in Pakistan & elsewhere have slowed al Qaeda down. If anything, they inspired al Qaeda.
Egypt is becoming Islamist; Syria’s a bloody mess; Libya has descended into chaos; Iran is on its way to becoming nuclear; and Lebanon is threatening to explode into renewed violence.
Sending military forces into Libya (or even admitting there was a terrorist attack on our consulate) ran counter to the President’s campaign narrative. And that would also explain why the President failed to convene the Counterterrorism Security Group. Once the President agreed to use that obscure video as a scapegoat for the violence & unrest in the Middle East, doing any of the things the situation begged for would undo his story.
Posted by: R. Freedom | November 2, 2012, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm
Thank you Mr. Tapper for once again helping to uncover a White House cover up and straight out lies to the citizens.
Posted by: Theresa | November 2, 2012, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm
Pres Nixon was forced to resign or be impeached for the attempted coverup of breaking into a hotel room to uncover the Democrats election strategy. This was sold as a constitution crisis by the left. Hillary was on the democrat prosecuting side during Watergate.
Now Obama, Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, and a gaggle of leftists shrill talking heads, try to cover up their mendacious storyline blaming the deaths of four Americans, on a obscure video. They refused ambassador Christopher Stevens numerous requests to increase security in Benghazi, on the anniversary of 911. An Ambassador killed, and three other fine Americans dead who by all accounts refused orders to stand down, and tried to save the ambassadors life.
Sources, emails point to communication breakdown in Obama administration during Libya attack
The disastrous foreign policy of this administration, and the deaths of these four Americans, should bring immediate calls for impeachment and several high level resignations.
Obama lied Four Died . OBAMA MUST BE DEFEATED
Posted by: dick Lipschitz | November 2, 2012, 12:26 pm 12:26 pm
The mainstream liberal media needs to wake up and take notice. Please do your job!!!!! Take this more seriously. There is a major cover up happening. IF you get on top of this you could take credit for uncovering a major conspiracy. Please think about the welfare of America. And stop protecting this administration. Please do your job. Americans deserve answers!…
Posted by: hislilpigeon | November 2, 2012, 12:39 pm 12:39 pm
Think of the Top Secret information that was lost.
Posted by: convertextion | November 2, 2012, 12:40 pm 12:40 pm
How can this be from the most Transparent Administration in the History of the United States of America ? Would you want to delay your trip to Vegas. If you have to explain to Michelle why it has been postponed. For a 10th world S*%hole like Benghazi ? LMFAO
Posted by: KCEddie | November 2, 2012, 12:42 pm 12:42 pm
This should be Obama’s WATERGATE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU NEVER STAND DOWN WHEN AMERICANS LIVES ARE IN THREAT. What a Weenie !!!!! No Back bone, It is no wonder that the United States is now a Target.!
Posted by: Ranger01 | November 2, 2012, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm
The very first commenter, ROOOTH
Posted by: truspeek | November 2, 2012, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm
The very first commenter on this report, ROOOTH, must be a complete idiot, to the extent that it’s “Don’t confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up!” In her zeal to show support for a failed presidency, she exposes her lack of thought(?) to the importance of objectivity. Where in Gods name does she get her startling ignorance? She must be the dumbest person to comment on this article.
Posted by: truspeek | November 2, 2012, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm
Obama = Weakness
Posted by: Noz | November 2, 2012, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm
CBS News has learned that during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Obama Administration did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource: the Counterterrorism Security Group, (CSG).
“The CSG is the one group that’s supposed to know what resources every agency has. They know of multiple options and have the ability to coordinate counterterrorism assets across all the agencies,” a high-ranking government official told CBS News. “They were not allowed to do their job. They were not called upon.”
Information shared with CBS News from top counterterrorism sources in the government and military reveal keen frustration over the U.S. response on Sept. 11, the night Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in a coordinated attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya.
Posted by: jschmidt | November 2, 2012, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm
I have always thought that you probably are the most fair journalist in the Press Corp. but to state that Republicans are creating suspicions where no evidence of wrong doing exists? How can you say that no evidence of wrong doing exists? Which part of denying security when they were BEGGING for it up to the morning of the murders is not wrong doing on the part of this administration? Is that not wrong doing? If it is true that Obama put a directive to secure those in danger then why was there no attempt by the military to deploy? Is that not wrong doing? Either Obama is lying and no order was given or someone didn’t follow orders, it cannot be both? Is that not wrong doing by someone. These are all known facts so what do you mean no evidence? The problem is that the same media that had sleeping bags camped out in front of Rove’s house during the Plame affair (by the way no one died in that trumped up mess) and the same media that had a huge media tent next to Cindy Sheehan to capture her every word against Bush has completely ignored an equally grieving parent in Mr. Charles Woods. The media should be ashamed of themselves, it is as if Woodward and Bernstein are colluding with Nixon to cover up Watergate. The Press should be DEMANDING answers from the President. We are hiring a Commander in Chief on Tuesday. I as an American citizen who has her only son serving in the Army under who ever that is for the next 4 years would like President Obama to answer some very serious questions regarding the incompetence of his administrations handling of this tragedy or worse possible treason. Why is no one asking what the Ambassador was doing in Benghazi? What were the CIA doing? Rumor has it they were arming the AQ affiliates funneling the weapons thru Turkey to take down Assad. Don’t we have a RIGHT to know this before voting? Last time I checked it is TREASON to arm America’s sworn enemies, like AQ? I am giving America my only son to fight its wars, I deserve to know what the Commander in Chief is doing and so does the rest of America and most definitely so do the families of those murdered on 9-11-12 in service to their country. And we deserve to know why his entire Administration lied to the American people and blamed some idiot whose video only had 17 views before they started blaming him. Why did they LIE? I WANT ANSWERS!
Posted by: Cheryl Pryor | November 2, 2012, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm
ZSCHMIDT seems to think that false accusations are incumbent upon the accused to disprove
Posted by: LA RAY | November 2, 2012, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm
and Julia …. (who doesn’t realize that Libya is a foreign sovereign state)
Posted by: LA RAY | November 2, 2012, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm
not to worry, obama ………………Pres Romney will complete the investigation of the murder of YOUR ambassador and others in benghazi
America…………..Rest assured, obama will answer for these deaths thru his incompetence and disinterest
obama denied & lied and Americans died ………………. RIP: Agent Terry, Ambassador Stevens, Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith
Posted by: Real American | November 2, 2012, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm
Julia – I have a clearance level (but will not divulge what agency I work for) that allows me to know certain information, so please don’t quote what the liberal media has to say! I know otherwise!
Posted by: pagrow | November 2, 2012, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm
Pagrow,
Your pants are on fire just like Romney’s!!!!! It is hilarious though. H.I.L.A.R.I.O.U.S. !!!!!!
Vote Obama-Biden because Romney and his supporters are lyin’ fleas on dirty dogs!!
Posted by: Romnican't for Obama!!!!! | November 2, 2012, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm
Romnicat for obama – Whatever….Unfortunately for you, I do NOT lie! Never thought it was worth it! Look what the lies have done for Obama. But then again, that’s what people like you do when they can’t back up facts, they just put others down. Tell me, do you know anything about clearances or the government?! Apparently not! And btw, I have held this clearance since 1990, so please spare me your hatred.
Posted by: pagrow | November 2, 2012, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm
Ty Woods, Ambassador Stevens,Doughty, and Sean Smith unavailable for comment!
Posted by: reneeca | November 2, 2012, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm
abc cbs and nbc is a sham of a news media. they spoon feed us lies and keep the population fat and happy…when indeed what we need is the TRUTH. We are AMERICANS and we can handle the truth, but the lies from the media is treasonous and S O M E D A Y people will go to jail for for lies they put upon us by the media.
Posted by: delane | November 2, 2012, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm
Obama’s Benghazi scandal has sent a chilling message to our military components: ‘While on an assigned mission deep in enemy territory, if your besieged in an untenable combat scenario, you CANNOT rely on the current occupant of the WH to issue an execute order to the Rescue-Package assembled, and in a Standby mode, in preparation to come to your assistance.’ Your rescue may conflict with the political narrative dispensed by this Administration. What a chilling blow to the morale of America’s combat forces dispersed to defend our vital National Security interests! Greg Neubeck
Posted by: Greg Neubeck | November 2, 2012, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
Jake,
Why don’t you ask Jay Carney who instructed him to blame the video and why? Either they thought it was a spontaneous reaction or they were, “informed about the attack on the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi at roughly 5pm.” It can’t be both.
The media has participated too long in this lie of omission. It is criminal.
Posted by: Jon | November 2, 2012, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm
Who thinks that Diane Sawyer will make Tyrone Woods the Person of the Week on tonight’s broadcast?
Posted by: Noz | November 2, 2012, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm
The attacks in Benghazi had been going on for 3 hours when Leon Panetta arrived at the White House for a scheduled meeting with Mr Obama. Is it possible they met without discussing what to do in response to the attacks and calls for security from Ambassador Stevens and what was left of his security team or talking about it at all? No, it is not possible. Decisions were made and calls for help routed through State and DOD were met with replies of “stand down.” 4 hours later Chris Stevens was dead and the aircraft requested by the CIA people who did respond arrived just in time to remove the bodies of 4 dead Americans.
Bill Clinton looked the country in the eye and lied about his encounters with an intern in the Oral Office. Now we have an effort to protect BHO from a decision he made to not defend an American embassy and the people who worked there on behalf of their country. It’s a matter of character and the thin-skinned nature of this president when called to account for anything.
Posted by: sandiego1969 | November 2, 2012, 6:18 pm 6:18 pm
I am offended to see the name Obama used in the same sentence as Reagan. This president will be held responsible for the deaths in Benghazi.
Posted by: Linda C | November 2, 2012, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm
Obama is Richard Nixon on steroids. People didn’t die in Watergate and the news was all over it relentlessly. In Benghazi 4 Americans are dead and the media is MIA – in fact, the media is actively trying to cover for Obama compared to a media who was more than willing to skewer Nixon during Watergate.
And again, nobody died in Watergate.
Posted by: EPU | November 2, 2012, 7:20 pm 7:20 pm
So according to ABC there is no news in Bengazi. So then why did Susan Rice, wife of an ABC news producer, go to 5 different talk shows and talk about a video. Why bring up a video when you haven’t finished the “investigation”. There is something that smells about the whole incident and the news cover-up doesn’t hide the stench.
Posted by: klr56 | November 2, 2012, 7:27 pm 7:27 pm
Applying spin and denial are expected with regard to timelines and actions in Libya. I’ve said from the beginning this was going to be big and it will; either before or after the election. They may try to summon up excuses but there is no denying that this president went on entertainment shows and spoke over and over again about that stupid video. No competent executive would have done so and put more Americans at risk. This guy did; he deserves to be fired for this if nothing else…but there is so much more.
Posted by: Cal | November 2, 2012, 7:43 pm 7:43 pm
Perhaps another outcome of this story will be which network / media outlet to watch…
just a few days ago, we were worried about our “free speech” —
now, it seems we should be concerned about a “free press”…
Posted by: Lynn | November 2, 2012, 7:47 pm 7:47 pm
I don’t know about you all but I am SICK of be lied to by Obama and his cast of characters. Is he uncertain of how he reacted and what his response was? He won’t even answer that question. It’s like Nancy Pelosi saying “we have to pass the bill to see what’s in it”…Obama is saying “re-elect me if you want to know the truth about Benghazi”. It’s disgusting.
Posted by: Bristar | November 2, 2012, 7:54 pm 7:54 pm
If you lie enough you loose all credibility which is eactly what has happened with this administration. They are the kings of deception and have done everything possible to stonewall any time that any questions come up. This is 100 times worse than Watergate and Obama should resign immediately because if he does and wins , we will have a replay of Watergate and end up with Biden as president. No one died in relation to Watergate and this is far, far worse.
Posted by: RBCinTexas | November 2, 2012, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm
I don’t think this is so much about some conspiracy as it is about the lies from the Obama administration in the aftermath and the complete failure to make efforts to protect against this attack prior to it occurring. What’s really ashame is that the bravery of the Americans who gave their lives on September 11th has gone largely unnoticed because the media by and large has consciously elected not to give this story the attention it deserves.
Posted by: BJ | November 2, 2012, 9:18 pm 9:18 pm
This administration that claims to be transparent is ANYTHING BUT and all the news media except FOX have been ignoring this story. I have NEVER seen biased media to this extent that they would cover up news to protect a president in order to get him re-elected! This is unprecedented and it makes me sick. Whatever happened to ethics?????
Posted by: bjhost | November 2, 2012, 9:33 pm 9:33 pm
Im glad this story was written but ABC, NBC, and CBS all need to be held accountable for their clear attempt to bury this story. BOYCOTT their sponsors.
Posted by: dan | November 2, 2012, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm
If Obama wins, like Nixon, he should be impeached for the murder of four Americans. Only down side to that is Biden. Dear Lord. help us….and I am not even that religious. If Obama wins the Gop is going to win the Senate and keep the House. We will be in another partisan grip. If Romney wins we will suffer hyper inflation sooner but not as long then if Obama wins. Either way, the American people are in for a real rough period until the debt is under control and the dollar is solid once more.
Posted by: zucccchini | November 2, 2012, 11:20 pm 11:20 pm
Embassies on fire an ambassador dead, and the president flies to las vegas the next day.WOW! what a great president.
Posted by: ashley | November 3, 2012, 5:16 am 5:16 am
Benghazi
They came across the wall at night
Hundreds of fighters armed for a fight
We were told they were mad at a video
By those who were supposedly in the know
They stormed the gates with grenades and guns
They forced our ambassador to run
But the attackers found him in the safe house then
Killed him and dragged him down the lane
Meanwhile two American heroes defied
The orders they’d received from on high
To “stand down” and not fire a shot
Despite the hundreds whose firing was hot
These brave men, they begged for support
As our leaders watched from their secure fort
The armed jets were only two hours away
But they wouldn’t come to the rescue that day
And so our heroes lost their lives
They leave behind children and wives
But why weren’t they supposed to fight
When our embassy was attacked that night?
As I said those orders they defied
But when asked outright our leaders lied
Over and over on TV they said
The video is why the ambassador’s dead
So for hours and hours on that dreadful night
The two special forces men continued the fight
Hugely outnumbered with valor they fought
But it turned out it was all for nought
For the ambassador was already dead
The order to stand down had already been read
No help would be coming to them that night
And they both were killed in that firefight
So two diplomats and two heroes were dead
The president on this matter never led
His surrogates lied again and again
It wasn’t terrorism—we offended them!
Well I’m not afraid to call it what it was
A terrorist act against the U.S.
On the anniversary of 911
America lost four of its sons
And to this day the real questions aren’t asked
Such as why weren’t the rescue forces tasked
With saving those men and the grounds they defended
But real journalism long ago ended
One final point I want to make
It was our president’s chance for a stand to make
He could have said they invaded our soil
But that might have cause Muslims’ blood to boil
So instead in the morning the very next day
The president left to go and play
A big party they had in Vegas that night
To help with the president’s reelection fight
And so I end this sad tale
Of America and its latest travail
A story which could have had a different bent
If only some help the president had sent
Posted by: Tom | November 3, 2012, 7:16 am 7:16 am
If the Benghazi incident has taught us anything, it is how incredibly lacking in curiosity and understanding the American people are. We shouldn’t have to let the media set the priority of a story in order to recognize that it is substantive and has dire implications. During the Bush II era, I watched in near amusement as the relatively innocuous “outing” of CIA operative Plame led the a near constant drumbeat by the press of some major scandal. The story itself was small potatoes, but the media convinced the American people that it was earth-shattering, perhaps worthy of the ouster of a President. Now we sit on a situation in which gross negligence, and worse yet, election-year miscalculating by an administration, led to the deaths of 4 Americans…and the crickets are chirping in the mainstream media…
Posted by: JJ | November 3, 2012, 7:49 am 7:49 am
If only Bush was out of the picture things would be dif. So here comes this cool guy Obama and everybody drank the cool aid. now it is 2012 reality kicks in Bush was not the problem afterall he only understood the languge of the radicals FORCE. in the mind of this radicals they are fighting a holy war you covert to islam or die so says allah in his book the quran. bcos you are infidels.
mark my word 1 day some body will bring a law suit against taking the oath of office of the presidency with the Bible we have seen this on the issue of ten comandments, the cross the Pledge of Allegiance. WAKE AMERICA or else 1 day you will all have to grow beard and women will have to cover thier faces when al qaeda gets it,s hand on a nuk and bcos you don,t know where they are you have no choice than to convert. or else hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Posted by: ashley | November 3, 2012, 9:20 am 9:20 am
THIS IS THE MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION?
Posted by: GRIZZ MANN | November 3, 2012, 9:26 am 9:26 am
I’m confused as to why these nobody RACIST BIGOTS get the right to question the Messiah and his practices! YOU VOTED FOR HIM AMERICA! CHOKE ON HIM! HAD TO HAVE HIM SO JST SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP AND LET HIM IGNORE THE CASE! I WONDER IF OJ HAS FOND THE REAL KILLER OF HIS WIFE YET?! MAYBE HE AND OBAMA THE MESSIAH CAN COMPARE NOTES ON HOW TO IGNORE THEIR INVESTIGATIONS!
Posted by: Jason Edward Prather | November 3, 2012, 10:08 am 10:08 am
Dead heroes cant come back and tell the truth… Obama and his administration are guilty of an obscene abomination, using the dead men as pawns to fabricate a narrative of this event that cannot be proven one way or the other. Instead the mountain of evidence in fact points to the Obama administration has having been requested numerous times to send help and the mountain of evidence indicates that the CIA operatives in the safe house were told to stand down THREE TIMES… If this is not true then there should be a REAL set of emails and call logs going back and forth that will tell the story.
So… WHERE ARE THEY? WHERE are the logs and emails asking for immediate assistance and the responses from the White House saying that help is coming as soon as possible? WHY would those remain hidden to this point in such a vitriolic campaign atmosphere where revealing such documents indicating the President was actively working on getting assets to the region would not only help him but perhaps clinch a re-election? The reason the documents are not provided is… THEY DONT EXIST!!!!
Obama is an ACCIDENT of the presidency. He is a MISTAKE… And he is in way over his head. Chicago politics doesnt WORK in Libya…
OBAMA = ACCIDENT
BIDEN = VILLAGE IDIOT
Posted by: ron spectre | November 3, 2012, 2:17 pm 2:17 pm
Thank you for your coverage of this story; I hope you will do more before the election. I fear the media is aiding a cover-up by its refusal to pursue this story and it will come back to haunt them.
Posted by: Tori | November 3, 2012, 4:40 pm 4:40 pm
If Obama is re-elected, Nov. 7th smells like IMPEACHMENT time , (including Biden) for
lying, dereliction of duty, breaking oath of office, etc., etc…..Boehner would be President.
Posted by: Nicola P. | November 3, 2012, 7:58 pm 7:58 pm
I notice that those like Julia and Romneycant get off the posts once they spew their useless negativity, which their president has embraced of late, and not back anything up that they are confronted with! Typical!
Posted by: pagrow | November 4, 2012, 10:11 am 10:11 am
The only thing I can add at this time is that it is absolutely disgusting that ABC,CBS and NBC”S news medias no longer have journalists or reporters. They only have individuals professing their opinions as fact. If Pres. Bush was involved in this mess it would have been front and center and probably would have gotten more coverage than Caycee Anthony which is saying a lot because we were inundated with that news for months on end. Let’s get some real reporters back.
Posted by: Mary E | November 4, 2012, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm
The feeling of hopelessness is pervasive as some voices out there are asking, “What happened to news reporting on television, in the papers, anywhere? What can we do to get the truth?”
I’m depressed. I know that if the media gets away with what is going on now, that is, blatantly covering, protecting one candidate, then is this the way it’s going to be?
Fox News is influential but has been battered by liberal media just as many are resorting to Fox for some information about Benghazi.
Now we have CIA story and a few select news outlets who were asked to withhold news of Benghazi.
I’m thankful for Jake Tapper. He is ABC but apparently, he is also independent of ABC as he has asked questions and recognized the failures of the media in not covering Benghazi, a story that has actually become a benefit for the president as audiences believe what is in the media defenses of obama.
Posted by: Pat | November 4, 2012, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm
A vote for Obama is a vote for assured gridlock for 4 years In DC. On the one hand that’s good Obama won’t be able to harm our democracy any more than he already has. Its not good that nothing will happen for the next 4 years.
Posted by: max beadroom | November 4, 2012, 7:29 pm 7:29 pm
Shame on ABC for not investigating and asking questions of the administration from the beginning after they paraded Susan Rice out blaming it on a You-Tube video. Happening on 9/11, any 5th grader would have known it was a terrorist attack. Why lie about it? Obama hoped it would blow over until after the election so he could continue saying Al-Queda was on the ropes, etc. What a
sorry excuse for commander-in-chief. Further, why was the consulate not given better security in the first place? Located in one of the most dangerous and unstable places in the world, come on!
Posted by: texmexgal | November 5, 2012, 4:52 pm 4:52 pm
Under-coverage of this story is just one example of how the press and media helped re-elect the president. It is a sad morning for America. Our democracy needs a nonpartisan press.
Posted by: DISPARAGED | November 7, 2012, 7:56 am 7:56 am
Chris Stevens, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods, and Sean Smith
How did these people die. Why are you protecting the Obama administration on this tragedy. Why is the sex scandal more important than the deaths of these 4 Americans. Your coverage of Benghazi is actually quite pathetic and appalling.
Posted by: Bert | November 14, 2012, 8:53 pm 8:53 pm