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| Gen Hayden: Sticking with false Benghazi story not forgivable |
| 2013-05-11 |
| Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, said the Obama administration's false account of the Benghazi attacks is "not understandable" or "forgivable," reports Newsmax: I have no problem "understanding" why it was done. Yeah, that part came to me pretty easy too... "I've been in these kinds of circumstances where if you've got a worldview, if you've got a narrative that you believe in, you try to make the facts presented to you fit the narrative," Hayden said. "I fear there may have been some people in our government who kind of fell into that trap in the days after Benghazi, which is understandable and, frankly, forgivable, and then in the weeks after Benghazi, which is not understandable and is not forgivable." I believe what you are referring to in the first sentence in the above para was once referred to within the intelligence community as having in unhealthy bias. "Anyone like me who saw those events would quickly conclude it was a terrorist attack," Hayden said. "It was fairly complex, synchronized, direct and indirect fire weapons on multiple locations, and it took place in a part of Libya that was the heartland of the Libyan Islamic fighting group." Additionally, Hayden said Wednesday's Oversight Committee hearing raised further questions about how the Benghazi attack could have been prevented or better handled. "If you had this very short menu of very bad choices to make during the event, why is that? Why do you put people in harm's way the way we did when there was solid intelligence that Benghazi was very dangerous?" he said. "And then, afterward, I guess I would say don't treat me like a child. It's very obvious as to what happened here so give me some clarity, rather than obfuscating what really happened on the ground." It's not just you General, who is being "treated like a child". |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 Do you have an opinion about which state or states, Pappy? In no particular order: Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran (Al Quds Force or through Hesb'allah) and (yes) Russia. It depends on whether a) gun running was involved, or b) there was gun-running with a belated attempt at controlling who the recipients were, c) or there was an operation in place to stop gun-running or at least one aspect of it (like MANPADS). |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-05-11 20:29 |
| #10 Putin seems an interesting name to look at here. If the Turks were meeting with our Ambassador to talk about the arms flow to the Syrian rebels from recovered Libyan armories, and the Russian client state of Syria was loosing it's grip, perhaps the old KGB colonel thought using cutout militants to wack our guy would send a signal that was familar to someone from Chicago. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2013-05-11 19:28 |
| #9 Do you have an opinion about which state or states, Pappy? |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2013-05-11 18:03 |
| #8 An act of war requires a state to be behind it I am still of the opinion that there is a state or states behind the attack. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-05-11 17:50 |
| #7 All having the exact same "Religion". Go after that "fake" religion. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-05-11 16:44 |
| #6 Or rather, an affiliation of individuals from dozens of different countries, both allied and enemy. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-05-11 16:07 |
| #5 An act of war requires a state to be behind it - what we are calling terrorism are essentially acts of war without an identified state associated with them. Kind of like if Pearl Harbor had been attacked by unknown entities. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-05-11 16:06 |
| #4 Word, KBK. |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2013-05-11 16:00 |
| #3 I wouldn't style it "terrorism". A coordinated attack on a US embassy, annnex or no, is an act of war and should be recognized as such. And responded to appropriately, at the time and afterwards. |
| Posted by: KBK 2013-05-11 14:44 |
| #2 All this is contradicted by the Nov. 2012 election. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-05-11 11:58 |
| #1 It's not just you General, who is being "treated like a child". We the people Of the United States of America are the ones treated like a child BY OBAMA,and we're sick of it, we are NOT morons, we won't accept ANY LIE and swallow it, But OBAMA thinks so. So we get Lie after Lie and are told "Swallow it". |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-05-11 10:54 |