Our President chose to let these four men fight for seven hours and die alone in that Benghazi compound. How and why did Obama decide not to help them? More

CBS News has released a clip of an interview by Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes on Sep. 12 with President Barack Obama that indicates Obama knew the assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya was a premeditated terror attack–and suggests the White House later deceived the public by blaming protests against an anti-Islam video. CBS chose not to air the clip for over a month–but did air Obama’s attack on Romney that same night.  More…

Emails: White House Told Two Hours After Benghazi Attack Began That Radical Islamic Group Claimed Responsibility

by Ulsterman on October 21, 2012 with 18 Comments in News

EXCERPT:

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.

…Even as the administration continues to vow that the perpetrators will be brought to justice, the man identified by witnesses as a ringleader in the attack continues to walk the streets of Libya without fear of arrest.

Ahmad Abu Khattala has admitted being at the consulate during the horrific attack but has yet to be questioned by any Libyan authorities. …The tragedy — and alleged security lapses leading up to the attack — will likely be brought up at tomorrow’s final presidential debate. The 90-minute debate will be moderated by Bob Schieffer of CBS News. Schieffer has listed five subject areas, with more time devoted to the Middle East and terrorism than any other topic.

NOTE: What former CIA commander Gary Berntsen is confirming here is the fact high ranking officials within the Obama administration had to know EXACTLY what happened during the Benghazi Massacre because they were watching it via a real-time feed from a drone as the attack took place. Why then did Barack Obama have his own White House spokesmen and several other prominent officials within his administration repeat over and over again those attacks were due to a little known YouTube video? Was Barack Obama playing politics and attempting to deflect blame from his own administration’s incompetence that led to the deaths of those four Americans?  It certainly appears so.

Posted by  The Right Scoop on October 20th, 2012

This White House is unbelievable. According to Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge, she’s been informed by House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Rodgers that there is “a concerted campaign by people within the administration with specific leaks to the media to try and bolster the statements of people like Ambassador Susan Rice.” Herridge goes on to say that it’s a very one-sided leaking, that they aren’t going to leak documents that undercut this idea that it was a protest.  More…

The Obama administration appears to be mounting yet another version of its campaign to push back on claims that it misled on the intelligence related to the attacks in Benghazi on 9/11/12. But the new offensive by the administration, which contradicts many of its earlier claims and simply disregards intelligence that complicates its case, is raising fresh questions in the intelligence community and on Capitol Hill about the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes. 

The administration’s new line takes shape in two articles out Saturday, one in the Los Angeles Times and the other by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. The Times piece reports that there is no evidence of an al Qaeda role in the attack. The Ignatius column makes a directly political argument, claiming that “the Romney campaign may have misfired with its suggestion that statements by President Obama and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice about the Benghazi attacks weren’t supported by intelligence, according to documents provided by a senior intelligence official.”

If this is the best the Obama administration can offer in its defense, they’re in trouble. The Times story is almost certainly wrong and the central part of the Ignatius “scoop” isn’t a scoop at all. We’ll start there.  More…

The media’s failure to provide fair and accurate coverage of President Obama’s foreign policy has one unintended benefit for Mitt Romney. It offers him the opportunity to spring a surprise on Obama during next week’s debate.

The most troubling of Obama’s foreign policy failures involve undermining allies while embracing enemies. In one stunning yet virtually unnoticed example of this phenomenon, Obama pressured Israel into removing anti-terror checkpoints, resulting in the murders of Israel’s citizens. Read more: