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Old 05-07-2013, 11:06 AM
 
Location: Too far from home.
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Are there no leaders within the GOP led House who voted to cut security funding rather than approve the amount President Obama requested?
Did you ever hear: take from Peter to pay Paul? The State Dept had a dollar budget, which was allocated for certain departments/needs. How is it with the budget they allocated $16 million to purchase 2,500 kindles at the inflated price of $6,600? How is it they could allocate $2.2 billion to spend to "strengthen democratic institutions in Pakistan" knowing that funds for security coverage to embassies was insufficient? Having the funds to purchase Kindles and fund Pakistan and insufficient funds for US embassies - speaks of their priorities wouldn't you say?

State Department Had No $$$ for Benghazi Security, Did Have $16 Mil for Kindles and $4.5 for Art | FrontPage Magazine

 
Old 05-07-2013, 11:09 AM
Status: "everybody getting reported now.." (set 24 days ago)
 
Location: Pine Grove,AL
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Rice is the UN, not State Dept.
Her boss is Obama, not Clinton.
Rice said Hillary was too tired to go on the air.
My tin foil says Hillary refused to go on the air and tell that story.

Hillary didn't go on those 5 TV shows, Rice did.
Rice from the UN went on TV to talk about the State Dept not Hillary.
the ambassador of the UN is under the Department of state, not a separate department as you are claiming.

Ambassador Susan E. Rice

yes, it is a position with special status, but it is under DoS

regardless, her info was signed off on by the entire intelligence community.
 
Old 05-07-2013, 11:13 AM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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Default So, which tactics will the Democrats use to destroy the Benghazi whistleblowers?

So, what tactics will the Democrats use to destroy the Benghazi whistleblowers?

Will it be discovered that one of them has had an extramarital affair? Claimed by a woman he knew casually, and who shortly afterward disappears with no attempt to prove anything she said? Surely that means that what the man says in Congress, must be a lie.

Will we soon learn that another one didn't pay his taxes? A sure sign of a liar-before-Congress there.
How long before we learn that someone's daughter had a baby out of wedlock? How could we possibly believe a man's testimony about foreign attacks, whose daughter did that?

Which one(s) of them used to run a business, for which he did not have all the right permits and permissions?

What are the chances that an army of lawyers is digging into the backgrounds of each one of these whistleblowers, right now? (If the consulate in Benghazi had had the kind of attention and manpower now being devoted to investigating the people who might tell the truth, what chances that the attack would never have happened in the first place?)

How likely is it that the Democrats have already written up long lists of charges and accusations against these people who will soon appear before Congress? And are only waiting to decide which name to put on which list, before releasing them publicly?

Time to take a pool. What other accusation(s) will be levelled against the people who will testify before Congress, on the Benghazi terrorist attacks?

[bueller]

....anybody?

....anybody?

[/bueller]
 
Old 05-07-2013, 11:13 AM
 
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The average Congressional hearing costs $125,000 a day... a price tag that should be reimbursed by the Republican Party, since this is pure politics and not about actually doing the business of the people. But that's not the whole costs. The whole costs have to account for the failure of Congress to spend that time on actually governing. It is time not spent on jobs, not spent on fixing the sequester, not spent on legislating.
Please explain where you get this cost from.

Every Congressman and staff member gets paid whether there is a hearing or not.

The buildings are heated or cooled no matter if there is a hearing or not.

Where does this cost come from?
 
Old 05-07-2013, 11:14 AM
 
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They will just sweep it under the rug, only report what the admin says and be done with it. The whistleblowers will have accidents and never be heard from again most likely.
 
Old 05-07-2013, 11:14 AM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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the ambassador of the UN is under the Department of state, not a separate department as you are claiming.

Ambassador Susan E. Rice

yes, it is a position with special status, but it is under DoS

regardless, her info was signed off on by the entire intelligence community.
She didn't author that and she said as much but she refused to say who gave her those talking point.
"High level officials" is all she said.

That's the entire point of this call for an investigation.
 
Old 05-07-2013, 11:15 AM
 
Location: DFW
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regardless, her info was signed off on by the entire intelligence community.
Was it? I thought the report sent to the WH was not the report that came out of the WH. Someone decided it was a video and not a terrorist attack.

I'm an idiot and I knew it was not a video. I doubt the entire intelligence community thought so, they are much smarter then me.
 
Old 05-07-2013, 11:16 AM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Well for the unknown peons there's always suicide.
For the more publicly known ones there's the sex scandal that ruins their reputation.

Take your pick.
 
Old 05-07-2013, 11:17 AM
 
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A small team of Special Forces operatives was ready to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi last year after Libyan insurgents attacked the U.S. mission there, but was told it was not authorized to board the flight by regional military commanders, according to a career State Department official scheduled to testify before Congress on Wednesday.

Official: US Special Forces team wasn't allowed to fly to Benghazi during attack - Open Channel

But we are getting off subject. Obama and Clinton wanted us to believe the attacks were because of a video.
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