John Bolton says that it doesn’t fly for the White House to say they didn’t know about the security needs of Benghazi. He says of course they won’t be involved in the nitty gritty of hundreds of security decisions around the world, but Benghazi he says is very different:

But in a high threat mission where you’ve had evidence of Al Qaeda attacks against other missions, where for goodness sakes the Red Cross has withdrawn from Benghazi – the Red Cross that lives in the environment of war thought it was too dangerous – that’s something that the President, Vice President, and certainly the Secretary of State should be aware of ALL THE TIME.

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bobemakk
bobemakk

John Bolton is a brilliant man and he is so right. Benghazi is an embarassment to this administration, make sure you vote for Romney/Paul and get rid of the miserable Obama regime with is clown Biden and their cronies.

Erc Seitz
Erc Seitz

Everything and everywhere Obama/Biden go they leave a trail of wreckage in their wake. The economy, their foreign policy, their war on affordable energy, their war on affordable healthcare.

To make matters worse, they have have a Federal Reserve Chairman who is willing to print money (devalue everyone else's dollars) to make up for a rotten economy devoid of tax revenue.

We need a change in leadership and we need it now!

Romney / Ryan 2012!

dk_in_tn
dk_in_tn

I look for the intel community to turn on Obama.

dk_in_tn
dk_in_tn

Obama is INEPT.

It is very important for Presidents to go to Daily Security Briefings.

Suzyqpie
Suzyqpie

Calling 0bama inept is very charitable. Leading from behind is the single most absurd concept ever. All of American should remember that our CIC went to the UN not our Congress as a kick off to this disgraceful Benghazi disaster.

Liz_Liz
Liz_Liz

Obama went into Libya without Congressional approval. It's his MO.

In my opinion, that gives him even more personal responsibility for keeping Americans safe in the aftermath of his "kinetic military action".

Obama's incompetence has lost enough American lives. He needs to be replaced.

Suzyqpie
Suzyqpie

Excuses are no substitute for performance. Excuses are no substitute for performance. Will some one please transmitt to 0bama. Comrade 0bama are you listening.....Comrade 0bama....over and out....Comrade?

Rich Wojcik
Rich Wojcik

For our embassies there should be military help/guard WITHOUT asking -

.......................................................................but one has to be a COMMANDER.

WordsFailMe
WordsFailMe

There never was a "Protest" or a "Demonstration" in Behghazi.

All of the videos we saw on 9-11 and 0-12 were from other cities, not Benghazi.

And the demonstrations in all the other cities was to bring pressure on the US to release the blind sheik.

http://beforeitsnews.com/blogging-citizen-journalism/2012/10/cnn-exposed-emmy-winning-former-cnn-journalist-amber-lyon-blows-the-whistle-2444190.html

Not only was President Pinocchio lying about the cause of the "demonstration," they were lying about the very existence of a protest or demonstration in Benghaizi.

This president and the people around him are so stupid that it defies imagination.

Rosebud
Rosebud

Do our boys and girls in the military know about the huge coverup re Benghazi and are "They" maybe a tad concerned that we have a complete incompetent in the White House "that doesn't bother to look at "terrorist briefings".

pdxlady
pdxlady

Bolton is so right, it is truly inexcusable for someone running this country to claim ignorance.

Throughout my professional career my motto has been, "I don't know is not an option." I always made it my business to find out.

In the case of this administration I would say, "Ignorance is NOT an option." You were hired to do a job, for crying out loud! It's not symbolic.

Erc Seitz
Erc Seitz

When Obama can't blame someone else he claims ignorance.

What a leader. sarcasm.

Romney / Ryan 2012!

Rich Wojcik
Rich Wojcik

is it FORE TASTE of obamacare - when a bureaucrat far way makes life/death decisions for you.

iaintlyin
iaintlyin

Tossed under the bus. Hilarious. How about hit by the bus. The bus (AKA the truth) route, if it is reported and examined properly, in a chronological time line of ALL comments, media releases DoJ statements, Carney statements etc etc, that bus (the Truth), won't have enough room on it for all the soulless people it will run over. That bus (the truth) if driven properly by the Right should have an ending destination of the White House the day after the elections. It would be making its final stop to pick up the guy MOST responsible for the successful act of war against our Country on 9/11/12, 0. And by the way, I mentioned this before, we had better start labeling the Benghazi incident properly, 9/11-2, otherwise these progressives will have everyone forgetting the actual 9-11, which doesn't even get a full 40 min acknowledgement/study in many h.s. classes today.

Rocco11
Rocco11

Obama is a proponent of infanticide, you really think he gives a damn what happened to Ambassador Stevens?

Libertyship46
Libertyship46

Biden is so full of junk. Even if you could make a case that Obama and Biden didn't know what was going on in Libya BEFORE the attack (which would be a stretch in and of itself), but the certainly knew what was going on right AFTER the attack. Are you telling me that we had four Americans killed in Benghazi, one of them being the American ambassador, and the White House, the State Department, the CIA, the NSA, and the National Security Council didn't put their full efforts and resources into finding out what happened and who was responsible for the attack? The entire Administration probably knew the next day exactly what happened, yet FIVE DAYS after the attack Susan Rice went on FIVE Sunday talk shows and spread the myth about the video being the cause of the attack. This is a lie and a coverup, made worse by the fact that we have dead Americans involved here. Nobody died in Watergate. We have four dead people here and no good answers why they were left defenseless in a very dangerous part of the Muslim world on the anniversary of 9/11. Someone has to pay for this, and I'm getting this feeling Hillary Clinton is about to get tossed under the bus for this. We'll probably know in about a week, but certainly before the last debate which is on, ironically, foreign policy.

anneinarkansas
anneinarkansas

Remember the plaque on Harry Truman's desk that said The Buck Stops Here.

Truman and Kennedy are the only good Democrats of the 20th Century.

Paul C.
Paul C.

They keep throwing lies at the wall and hoping something will stick. Really is this what we want in the WH. Can you imagine what goes on behind close doors.

Erc Seitz
Erc Seitz

"Can you imagine what goes on behind close doors."

I can, and it scares me to death.

Romney / Ryan 2012!

Wolfie
Wolfie

NObama and Biden - Bold Faced Liars! Shameless s**mbags!

Terry Smith
Terry Smith

Mr. John Bolton, future Sec'y of State?

Orangeone
Orangeone

Perhaps Chief of Staff?

colliemum
colliemum

That would be a waste!

Let him clean out Foggy Bottom, with an iron broom.

One job I can see him in is Director of National Intelligence. He'd not have to go through a congressional hearing and could start immediately with getting rid of the muslim-brotherhood-infection in State, Defence, and probably Intelligence.

badbadlibs
badbadlibs

This snake...er... administration (the heads of this snake are bo and biden) will never take responsibility for any failures. Never. Both those snakes would throw their own wives and children under the bus to protect their hairy backsides and keep the WH. And with bo's over exaggerated view of himself he doesn't worry about some little peons like the Clintons...after all, he beat their machine.

These people are evil to the core.

iaintlyin
iaintlyin

There is very little difference between the way 0 (and his cadre of creeps) are playing this and the old Laurel and hardy routine of "Who's on Third".

KenInMontana
KenInMontana

It was "Who's on First" and it was Abbott and Costello.

iaintlyin
iaintlyin

hahahhahhaahaa, you got me there kenny me boy. Hope you had the same reaction to my post as I did to yours. Too funny man, I get those four dudes mixed up all the time. And the third or first thing, i get dyslexia of some sort when I think hard.

KenInMontana
KenInMontana

I have pretty good memories of both the Abbot and Costello, as well as Laurel and Hardy. My parents used to take us to a local pizza parlor, they ran those old comedy films on Thursdays. It's indeed tragic that we have an administration that can be compared to those old routines.

FreeManWalking
FreeManWalking

the Laurel and Hardy routine was humor.

There is nothing humorous about the way 0b0 handles the presidency or his administration.

iaintlyin
iaintlyin

If you think I made the comparison based on both being viewed as comedic, Ummmm, lets just say, you're mistaken.

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

It sure is getting crowded under that ole bus. When Obama has put everyone there, the drive may just get a little bumpy for him. Oh, yeah, he did say there would be 'bumps in the road', didn't he.

As to the Nobel Putz Prize. Everyone knows it's just a political joke anyway. Whoever gets one (the EU, Obama, Al Gore and the IPCC, Mohamed ElBaradei and IAEA, Carter, Kofi Annan and the UN, Yasser Arafat, Mikhail Gorbachev - the list goes on) is guaranteed to be forever known as a world class putz. It has no meaning whatsoever.

3D 81
3D 81

slightly off topic. But John Bolton has the coolest moustache ever!

FreeManWalking
FreeManWalking

If a GOP administration had BLOOD on its hands like 0b0's for the keeping an embassy open in a WAS ZONE without proper protection, it would still be the lead story on the MSM and on the front page of the leading News Print.

Instead the headlines are Romney, GOP escalate charges on Libya attack. or Romney accuses Biden of doubling down on denial on Libya. ... and these are not the lead story.

I know 0b0's MSM PACs will defend him to the end, but I thought they would still have a tinge of Patriotism, or concern for Americans being murdered on American Soil, or at least some respect for the families of the fallen seeking justice.

Now the only hope that the MSM PACs will bring this story to the front is if Bill and Hillery try to distance her from the 0b0 admin for a 2016 run.

It looks like the admin is trying to say the Buck stops with Hillery.... Is that Racist?

GuessWhoFan
GuessWhoFan

Here's the deal:

* If they knew and did nothing - corrupt.

* If they didn't know - incompetent.

Either way, they've got to go.

deeme
deeme

Thank you Mr. Bolton, If they don't know then they sure have no business, being in charge..Clueless is a cute movie for teens..not someone in charge of the security of the U.S. of America...

3EYE
3EYE

Hillary,State Dept,Intel community are going to be blamed. Obama will not take blame or responsibility for it. There is the lesson from Obama. Clinton just learned, what Obama is all about, Himself not them. A lot of people will be put under the bus. Bill and Hillary Clinton just learned, they got screwed, by none other than Obama. This will be interesting to watch.

JohnBarry2012
JohnBarry2012

Joe the jocker on national security, president and VP did not not know about Benghazi. Jay Carney went as far as to say that the vice president was speaking about himself and the president, and the White House, not the Administration. So, the president and vice president were not fully in charge of the State Dept and the whole Administration?

Not only they are leading from behind, but also the leadership in obscurity. Joe the jocker, enormous amount of passion and joy, constant laughing and sneering on serious issue such as national security, a breath way from the presidency. Wow!

Orangeone
Orangeone

So Carney said O'Bambi and Hitlary are still blaming the video as is Biden....Hummmm, cannot wait for Romney to bring that up at the next debate.

Where is the RNC ad on this one? Use clips of the Issa committee testimony from all of them under oath saying it was terrorism. Rub it raw RNC, man up!

Landscaper
Landscaper

Obummer is use to throwing people under the bus. But when he did that to the intelligence community....... hey dummy, they KNOW stuff on YOU too. Idiot ! Paybacks are hell brother.

conservative58
conservative58

Do you guys think that maybe Obama has not thrown Hillary under the bus just yet in order to not tick off the liberal base of 'Hillary fans' before the election?

Orangeone
Orangeone

Breaking at Breitbart: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/12/Obama-Clinton-Rift-Over-Libya-Threatens-Obama-Re-election?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

The Clinton v Obama feud is heating up!!!! We could see a total meltdown if Issa keeps up the pressure.

conservative58
conservative58

Maybe the Clintons will deliver their own October surprise!

Thanks for the link Orange; don't know how I missed that one. :-)

Orangeone
Orangeone

Thank you for letting us know!  I love Paul Ryan, looking forward to Ryan/West in 2016 or 2020.

conservative58
conservative58

Ryan gave a town hall speech in Ohio. He is really coming into his game -- very impressive!

Orangeone
Orangeone

Thank you!  Hopefully Scoop will post for us.

Orangeone
Orangeone

I actually caught it on  Twitter. Breitbart is putting out a lot of articles and the tweet each time, as does Scoop.

Betsey_Ross
Betsey_Ross

No. He doesn't care about the Lefty base at this point. He only cares about himself. He's only trying to get through the election. If he throws her under the bus, all he!! will break loose. Bill and Hill know many things about the O. If she goes under the bus so will the Once and it will be ugly. Right now they can call Republicans liars and they seem to be happy with that. It's the rank and file State Dept. workers and intel folks that are unhappy. Remember that all of the above blamed this on bad intel. The intel community is not going to be happy with that. As Bolton said revenge is on the way.

Orangeone
Orangeone

See my post above. Billy Boy Clinton is already lawyering up for Hillary!

conservative58
conservative58

BetseyR, I think you brought up a good point regarding the fact that Bill and Hill know things about the O.

And I think 911Infidel (in a separate post) nailed it about the revenge from the intel community when he said they would vote them out of office and testify against them later.