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Subscribe to RSSPresident Barack Obama calls the attacks on U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice "politically motivated" and says they are unacceptable.
President Barack Obama on Sunday called security issues that led to the deaths of four Americans in the Benghazi consulate attack "a huge problem," although he continued to defend U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice as a victim of political scapegoating by Republicans who have suggested an administration coverup of the situation.
"We're not going to be defensive about it," Obama said of the State Department review of the attacks during an exclusive interview on NBC's Meet the Press. "We're not going to pretend that this was not a problem. This was a huge problem. And we're going to implement every single recommendation that's been put forward."
Saying that some State Department officials "have been held accountable," Obama said that the review of the September 11 attack showed there was "sloppiness" in terms of security measures but that mistakes were not intentional.
In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, President Barack Obama tells David Gregory he's optimistic the fiscal cliff can be averted, lays out the goals for his second term, and also discusses the Benghazi attack and how it was handled by the administration and those on Capitol Hill.
But he defended U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who withdrew from consideration to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after Republicans vigorously opposed her for her role in discussing the attacks after the raid.
"She appeared on a number of television shows reporting what she and we understood to be the best information at the time," Obama said. "This was a politically motivated attack on her. I mean, of all the people in my national security team, she probably had the least to do with anything that happened in Benghazi."
Obama indicated that intelligence officials have "good leads" as to who carried out the attack.
"With respect to who carried it out, that's an ongoing investigation," he said. "The F.B.I. has sent individuals to Libya repeatedly. We have some very good leads, but this is not something that I'm going to be at liberty to talk about right now."
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obama is the problem here. very poor excuse for a human being in office.
To all the libs who are apparently "in the know" & start hemorrhaging blood from their eyeballs at the merest mention of an administration cover up re; the Benghazi issue, please take a moment to read the following article which, by the way, comes from The Washington Post which is not exactly pro-conservative:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/robbins-report/2012/oct/28/general-losing-his-job-over-benghazi/#ixzz2AvsgwZIn
You voted for it and you got it. Now we all have to try to live with the results.
I pray that God will see thru these next 4 years and that America wakes up and realizes the path we are on leads to an end we don't want.
You mean like the war years under Bush?
That's a good example. The wars all the democrats voted for.
we will never know what happened and why it was lax. reason they don't want us to know. I find it hard to believe that they were not told in a briefing that the attack was being considered. I think they just ignored the warnings. Also I am waiting to hear our president admit that we where holding prisoners at the secret location against his orders. Had this been Bush the reporter doing the questions would have pressed him on that.
Your right Barry, that was a huge problem. All your lying almost cost you the election.
This is nothing but the same old lies that we expect from a lying POS president that only has a socialist agenda. Keep everybody argueing among themsleves and take all of our freedom.
ahh the muslium murderer,,,the bhengazi butcher...
what a legacy he is gonna leave....
obama is a joke
I
DON'T CARE ANYMORE ABOUT FIAT MONEY AND EASY MONEY FROM WALL STREET.
WAKE
UP! FISCAL CLIFF IS HOAX TO HIDE THE REAL AGENDA.
After
the Senate unanimously passed National Defense Authorization Act () 2013
Tuesday, Pro Publica has Friday an explanation about what is new in and how it
impacts Americans on United States soil.
NDAA
2012, according to rights experts, . Award-winning journalist Chris Hedges sued
the U.S. government over NDAA 2012, calling it "corporate fascism."
(See
and w
NDAA
2013, according to legal experts this week, strengthened the former act.
By
failing to veto NDAA 2012, and signing it on New YearS Eve, , according to Raha
Wala, advocacy counsel for First. There is consequently little hope Obama will
veto NDAA 2013, although appeal is being lodged for him to do so.
Hedges
has said that Obama would expand NDAA in his second term.
(Watch
hedges on Russia Today, "NDAA to expand if Obama re-elected?" on this
page at the left.)
Washington
Times reports on NDAA Friday in its article, Indefinite Detention and the NDAA:
The rise of America’s imperial presidency, including an interview with Tenth
Amendment Center’s Blake Filippi who recently authored a column on the
Feinstein Amendment.
"Of
utmost importance is that section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA authorizes the “armed
forces to detain [such] covered persons” pending disposition by the President
according to the Law of War," Filippi says. "Thus, the armed forces
are purportedly authorized to detain all persons within the USA; an implicit
and wholesale repeal of posse comitatus, the post-reconstruction ban on the
military exercising a police function over the domestic civilian
population."
Not one mention of the video, which will be playing at this years Sundance Festival and should by all means take the honors as the film is the best I have ever scene and I mean it is the best everrrrrrrr. Secondly it is conveniently after the election so I am sure there will be aggressive acceptance of responsibility for his administration not dealing with this tragedy appropriately. And Last - its his last term so SCREW YOU AMERICAN PEOPLE what can you do to me?? Shouldn't this article been written days after and not months after. YOU PEOPLE ARE SHEEP AND I HAVE A KNIFE, PLEASE COME VISIT. I WILL ONLY TAKE WOOL and NOT ANY MEAT...I promise.
Obama is a huge problem. enough said
And now we hear Hillary has a blood clot. There are many who will claim she lacks blood in her veins in the first place.
This is ironic on so many levels. Hillary went to Washington originally in the 'hate Nixon' feeding frenzy after Watergate. She fell in love with the power and that power has been her guiding star throughout her life.
The world has come full circle since then. Then it was the 18 minutes of tape recordings that vanished. Now it's Hillary's memory that will vanish. 'I'm sorry Senator. I do not recall Senator. I had a blood clot you know, Senator'.
At one time it was the Mafia dons who went to trials in wheel chairs with oxygen tanks seeking pity and to avoid close examination. That's the lastest tactic in use to avoid anything leaking out about Libya. It's not very original but it will probably work.
Imagine; Hillary Clinton as a weakened, frail, object of pity. I wonder what Obama has filed away to blackmail her with.
If I had brothers.... they would have looked like the dead American soldiers in Benghazi...right Treyvon?? I mean daddy Obama.
Look at the Headlines....Bengazie"This was a Huge problem".....
You see Mr President .... That is your problem.... This still a huge problem and America wants answers on why you were so Inept that day ....Enough to put 4 Americans in harms way.
They also want to know why you and your Administration thought it was ok to lie to the American people...
Because sir you did lie... You said in the debates you knew and told the American People in the Rose Garden the next day after the attack this was a Terroristic attack... then you went on the View and down to the United Nations days later and told the world this was a spontanaeous attack caused by an Anti Muslim Video....Then you and your Lying Sec Stae advanced the lie with a $70,000 tax payer paid comercial explaining the Violence to be a product of Anti Muslim Video and a spontanaeous reaction to the Country of Pakistan.... That sir is a lie! You need to answer for it.
Ok ...If Hilary is taking full responsibility.....Then do it. She should resign and be prosecuted! Dont pay us LIP SERVICE.....take responsibility ...use it as a badge on why you should never hold office again.. It should be brought up everytime people use her name...Just like Nixon...Except ..this is worse...4 people died ..and you want to be Accountable for it...So be it!!!
If Obama walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then Obama must be a duck...pun intended...
Obama lied and people died
Really...you f'n clown? obozo is the most worthless, lying POS President this country has EVER had and the @$$wipe LIBERAL media continue to fly cover for this EPIC F'G EMBARRASING CLOWN.
"She appeared on a number of television shows reporting what she and we understood to be the best information at the time," Obama said. "This was a politically motivated attack on her. I mean, of all the people in my national security team, she probably had the least to do with anything that happened in Benghazi."
Lies, more lies and contradictions...don't you obomots remember the debate when the clown said he mentioned the next day in the rose garden that it was a terrorist attack? That fat lard-@$$ candy crowley held up the transcripts during the debate, remember? And the clown said, 'can you say that again candy"?
Then why send Susan Rice out to LIE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE CLOWN HIMSELF CONTINUE WITH THE VIDEO BULLSHI*....if you supposedly knew it was a terrorist attack?
And if, as the clown obozo says and I quote.."I mean, of all the people in my national security team, she probably had the least to do with anything that happened in Benghazi."
Then why are you sending HER out with the bullshi* story if she had the "least to do with anything that happened in Benghazi?
Maybe the stupid idiot, entitlement-welfare recipients, 97% of African Americans and 70% of the latino (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT PROPONENTS) voted for this lame @$$, AMERICANS WANT THE TRUTH and the family of the dead U.S. citizens and Ambassador DESERVE THE TRUTH you lying bag of shi*.
Obama, you are such a clown. Whose lapdog are you? Inquiring minds want to know.
Yeah it was a big problem obozo. Fortunately for you, your lap dogs in the MSM down played and deflected it for you. Just as they have for the last four years.
You are talking about Clinton right? "One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them.
That is our bottom line."
President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998-Truth!
This was a quote from President Clinton during a presentation at the Pentagon defending a decision to conduct military strikes against Iraq.
"Saying that some State Department officials "have been held accountable,"
From what I've read, those officials are still on the government payroll, why? Could it be that as long as they have something to lose, they'll continue to shade the truth about this to protect certain people?