State Dept Slamned For Playing Dumb On Benghazi Whistleblowers

The State Department spinning. In full force. It is interesting that the usual State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland has disappeared from the scene as her implication in the coverup is slowly unfolding.  It is going to be hard for the MSM to keep looking the other way. Just take a look at the timeline and ask how did they get so far with this?

Damning, the complete Timeline in Spreadsheet form  can be found at Doug Ross  … no one should have to die like this. While Obama slept H/T:Adrienne’s Corner

CNN Foreign Affairs Correspondent Elise Labott slammed Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell for saying that the State  Department hasn’t had access to transcripts of interviews with upcoming witnesses in the Benghazi hearing scheduled for Wednesday. “Come on, Patrick,” Labott said. “You know the gist of what they’re saying and what their arguments are.” “Let the record reflect that that was CNN was asking that question and not Fox News,”

Transcript:

MR. VENTRELL: I mean, it’s a little bit hard for us to – given that we don’t have a lot of information about how the hearing was scheduled and the various sort of formation of the majority’s decision to have this hearing, it’s a little bit hard to comment on the witnesses. Let me do – let me say one thing here, though, at the very top. We have always encouraged any State Department employee who wants to share their personal story, whether it be to the ARB or the Congress to tell the truth, period, full stop, end of story. That’s long been our position. We’ve made that clear from the start. In terms of these particular individuals, the committee didn’t come to us asking witnesses. We found out through the media and through the announcement the same way you all did. In terms of these potential transcripts out there, we haven’t seen the transcripts. So it’s –
QUESTION: Yeah, you have.
QUESTION: Oh, yes, you have. Come on, Patrick.
MR. VENTRELL: We have seen excerpts of these transcripts, but we do not have them, and they have not been provided to us.
QUESTION: Well, you’ve seen them – I mean, you’ve seen – you know the gist of what they’re saying and what their arguments are. First of all, Greg Hicks makes charges that he thought that there were assets in Libya that could have been able to be sent from Tripoli to Benghazi that night, and they were rejected. I mean, there are numerous charges that he makes.
MR. VENTRELL: There have been –
QUESTION: Let the record reflect that that was CNN was asking that question and not Fox News. Please continue.
MR. VENTRELL: Right. Well, let me just say that this has been made – these statements have been made to the media. They haven’t been made to us. Now, we understand this testimony is going to go forward and we want people to go and tell the truth. But in terms of the full context of these remarks or these sort of accusations, we don’t have the full context so it’s hard for us to respond.
QUESTION: Well, what about – okay. So – but just what do you make of the idea that more could have been done that night, sending assets from Tripoli to Benghazi, and that they weren’t?
MR. VENTRELL: Well, again, it’s hard for me to respond to specific allegations, not having the full context. Let me say this, though. And I said this last week. I can’t remember if you were here, Elise, on Friday. But these issues have been addressed and reviewed in great detail by the Accountability Review Board. There were eight hearings, 30 briefings, 25,000 documents; the ARB interviewed over a hundred witnesses, including people on the ground. And the ARB’s credible, comprehensive process was led by Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Admiral Michael Mullen.
QUESTION: I know –
MR. VENTRELL: But let me finish because not everybody does, and it’s worth saying this, that these are two of the most respected, nonpartisan leaders in Washington, each highly praised by both sides of the aisle for their long, distinguished careers. They put out a statement today saying that from the beginning of the ARB process, they had unfettered access to everyone and everything, including all the documentation they needed.

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Dan Rather: ‘ Obama’s opponents want to “cut his heart out and throw his liver to the dogs’

It is amazing how they dig out this old war-horse that was put out to Pasteur years ago, but apparently never too old to be resurrected by NBC and MSNBC and Tingles.  Perhaps after the Benghazi hearing this week more will have a taste for it. I thought this was Obama’s idea of what to do with his opponents.

A yummy image indeed.

Via The Blaze:

Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather said Sunday that President Barack Obama’s opponents want to politically “cut his heart out and throw his liver to the dogs.”

Rather’s descriptive analysis came during “The Chris Matthews Show” on NBC. Obama has been on a so-called “charm offensive” to try to foster better relations with Republicans.

“All of these things we’ve said about what the president could do, should do, might have, could have, but the central thing to keep in mind is his opponents — you talk about taking them out to dinner, making nice with them — these people politically want to cut his heart out and throw his liver to the dogs. That does make it very, very difficult to come on nice to them,” Rather said.

“Yeah, it causes indigestion over dinner don’t you think?” Matthews cracked.

ACLU attacked Reid's gun law, cites privacy and civil liberties

Reblogged from BUNKERVILLE | God, Guns and Guts Comrades!:

UPDATE

My modem is down, so have not been able to post. keep in mind, the ACLU was opposed to the gun bill. So while everyone is in a tizzy about the NRA... These are the facts. Here is a repost ..trying to do it from my iPad.

While the talking heads seem to blow off any concern about universal background checks as nothing serious and the "at least" we can do, it is a trojan horse according to the ACLU as they looked at the Reid bill that is floating around in the Senate.

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Kerry lies about the death of Afghan Diplomat

I was stunned to hear Kerry speak this morning. Kerry now says it was an I.E.D. After posting last week that the story of the death of a Diplomat in Afghanistan was morphing, a new version was now being promulgated. Even worse, when I googled the story, many of the versions did not include the FBI was being called in. Now why in the world would the FBI be called in? This was a military incident. Why not talk to the survivors before spinning this new version? Stay alert on this on, another Benghazi to be buried.

Was it a I.E.D? A Suicide Bomber, were they lost?

“As long as I am secretary of state I promise you I will do everything in my power to cover your back, you cover mine. We’ll be a good team and together we’ll get the job done.”

An FBI investigation is in its preliminary stages.

Smedinghoff was just 25 when she and four other Americans were killed while walking from a military base to a nearby school. Two explosions occurred, apparently a suicide car bombing followed by a roadside blast.

On Friday I posted :State Department has new story on Afghan blast that killed Diplomat

The State Department has acknowledged that five Americans killed in Afghanistan, including 25-year-old diplomat Anne Smedinghoff, were on foot when they were caught in the blast of a suicide bomber, and not in an armored vehicle as officials told bereaved relatives earlier this week.

The deaths of U.S. diplomatic personnel — and the State Department’s changing account of how they died — raise echoes for some of the security failures in Benghazi, Libya, where Islamist extremists killed four Americans in assaults on the U.S. diplomatic compound Sept. 11.

 Questions about the incident are likely to multiply in coming days, as more details about the attack are revealed. A witness reported Thursday that the provincial reconstruction team was lost, which is why the personnel were caught in the blast

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday he would be making a stop on the way home from a 10-day overseas tour to visit the family of a young diplomat killed in Afghanistan.

“We are not going to be deterred. We are going to be inspired. And we’ll use Anne’s idealism as another motivation to the idealism that brings all of you to this effort in the first place,” he told embassy staffers.

“We can make this world better,” Kerry said. “We can strengthen other countries. We’ve seen it happen.

H/T:Kanasas City

“As long as I am secretary of state I promise you I will do everything in my power to cover your back, you cover mine. We’ll be a good team and together we’ll get the job done.” Yepper!

Margaret Thatcher tells reporter: ‘I won’t jump’

 

I can’t think of any better way to honor and remember Margaret Thatcher than this video. She deals with this idiotic reporter with the dignity worthy of the office. Quite a contrast from what we have these days, isn’t it?

Radical Angela Davis Documentary funded by Jada Pinkett Smith

Jada Pinkett Smith Praises Radical Leftist Angela Davis, Finances Pro-Davis Film, so the headline reads. The movie trailer is unbelievable. Where are the McCarthy hearings when we need them once again? These are the people who are now being lionized? Those who would destroy our country? Here we go:

Former Communist Party member and long-time radical left activist Angela Davis is the subject of a new documentary partly financed by Hollywood mogul Jada Pinkett Smith (wife of actor Will Smith), who praised the Lenin Peace Prize winner as a “figure that embodied justice and freedom.”

“You know what was most surprising to me is that the idea of what she [Davis] inspired, not just nationally, but throughout the world, that she became this figure that embodied justice and freedom, and that people all over the world that were fighting for justice and freedom, you know, used her as the symbol in which to forge ahead,” said Smith

Davis was a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) from 1969 to 1991. She traveled to East Germany in 1979 to personally accept the International Lenin Peace Prize. She ran as a vice presidential candidate on the CPUSA ticket in 1980 and 1984, and today she is on the advisory board of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.

Davis also owned the shotgun that was used to kidnap and kill Marin County Judge Harold Haley on Aug. 7, 1970 in a scheme involving one of Davis’s acquaintances, a crime that led to Davis fleeing from authorities, being placed on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List, and facing a trial and acquittal in 1972 on murder, kidnapping, and criminal conspiracy charges. She was found not guilty on all counts.

Of course, she now teaches our children and is a College Professor. She joins the rest of the Marxist Commies that came out of the 1960′s. Those that are not indoctrinating our kids, are in our government. First the trailer before the interview.

 Jada Pinkett Smith Praises Radical Leftist Angela Davis. They speak of “our political struggle.” Really?

H/T and more at: CNS News

Maryland Taxes Rain – as mandated by the EPA

Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley has instituted a tax on citizens for the amount of rain that falls on their property.

This goes to prove that elections have consequences. We were warned what the EPA had in mind to finish off our country. This will bankrupt our cities. The Maryland Dems are just going to do it the old fashion way, Churches and business goes first. Enforced by “surveillance”

Last October 2012 I ran a post EPA turns on the cities – Storm Water Tax coming our way.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Behold the Obama Administration’s new public works plan. Sue cities for polluting waterways and then as part of a settlement require them to spend, er, “invest” billions in extraneous sewer improvements. The White House doesn’t even need legislation to pour this money down the drain. The Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency have taken enforcement actions against 25 cities over the last four years for allegedly violating the Clean Water Act, and there are another 772 on their list. In addition to imposing millions of dollars in penalties, the feds have forced these cities into consent decrees that will cost their local taxpayers $21 billion. The decrees spell out in detail what capital upgrades they must undertake—everything down to the size of their pipes. The EPA says this extraordinary intrusion on local sovereignty is justified because cities are discharging waste into waterways during heavy rains. Many older wastewater systems include a safety valve that releases untreated stormwater and sewage into lakes and rivers when underground tunnels are flooded. This is to prevent waste from backing up in basements. The EPA has ordered cities to limit such wet weather overflows to four per year, regardless of how much rain they receive or how little muck they discharge. Many cities have already taken concrete steps to reduce such overflows by developing “green infrastructure” (i.e., permeable pavements, rain gardens, catch-basins) that soaks up and diverts stormwater. Such solutions are easier and less expensive to implement than reconstructing their underground systems as the EPA wants them to do.

Back to the Maryland Fiasco:

The tax, officially known as a “storm water management fee,” will be enforced in nine of the state’s counties. The state legislature passed it in 2012 purportedly to “raise revenue to cleanup [sic] the Chesapeake Bay,” according to MarylandReporter.com.

Former 2012 GOP U.S. Senate candidate Dan Bongino bashes the tax in a Wednesday afternoon press release. The law “requires individuals, businesses, and even charitable organizations and houses of worship to pay a tax based on the amount of rain that falls on their property and the ‘impervious surfaces’ on their land,” he says.

The tax, mandated by the EPA and enforced locally, will be calculated “through satellite surveillance of your property,” the statement claims.

H.T: Breitbart

Hagel: EPA Approval needed to Deploy Missile Defense Sites

As North Korea rattles its sabers, we have John Kerry and Chuck Hagel to count on. Wow.

Anyone who caught Michael Savage last night was in for some ride. In case your feel secure that Secretary Hagel is playing with a full deck, listen to the clips.

Since when does the EPA dictate where and how our defenses are deployed? We are in the hands of fools.

FYI this missile defense system is brought to you by the Reagan administration. The same one that he was mocked and criticized for when it, SDI aka Star Wars, was introduced!

Just for the memory,: Missile Defense; John Kerry  H/T:Thudbits March 15, 2013

A low key story in today’s newspapers mentions expansion of the US Missile Defense in CA and AK. During the Reagan years, every single Democrat voted against it. John Kerry said, “missile defense [was] a “dream based on an illusion,” with “real and terrible consequences?” “Being a Democrat means never being reminded of the times when you were wrong.” Which makes me wonder if John Kerry has ever been right on anything. He must subscribe to Hillary’s infamous, “What does it matter now?” He’s only Secretary of State and is a boot-licker to Obama.  As recently as 2008, Barack Obama said that he didn’t “agree with a missile defense system” and promised to slash funding for development of such systems. He did, too.

 

H/T: Saving the Republic

Karl Rove thinks little of Dr. Ben Carson as candidate

What’s the matter Karl, you don’t think you can control this fine man? I read that Fox has signed on Rove for four more years. So now we can watch him plot and plan to have someone like a Jeb Bush be our next candidate for President along with other Rinos.

Mark Levin puts his take on the Karl Rove fiasco. Sarah Palin has a few thoughts on the matter as well. A good smack down by Levin.

“But even more so, this idea that Michigan’s minority voters will suddenly abandon their liberal, union loving ways to support Carson – simply based on the color of his skin – should be offensive to both liberals and conservatives. The reaction to such a move was already outlined in the previously linked article”. So says and isn’t it  Nice that Jazz Shaw over at Hot Air agrees with Rove. Let’s keep nominating libtards. It is working out swell.

Jeff Gordon pranks a used car salesman

Time for a break from the heavy load of politics. Hang on for the ride of your life. Here we go:

 ”Jeff Gordon and Pepsi MAX go to a car dealership where a disguised Jeff Gordon takes an unsuspecting car salesman on the test drive of his life.”

The reaction of the car salesman is priceless. Gordon goes on a thrill ride. resulting in the car salesman nearly losing his mind.