He’s not blaming the president for Al-Qaeda being a bigger threat, but Rep. Peter King says it’s certainly counter to the president’s message Al-Qaeda has been decimated. He says that’s one reason he believes the administration lied about Benghazi because it’s proof that Al-Qaeda is far from decimated.

When asked why he says they’ve become an even bigger threat, he says they’ve spread out across different countries and become much harder to identify as they now have even more affiliates in other countries like Ansar-al-Sharia and Boko Haram.

Here’s the full video:




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SKL53
SKL53

New York Times tells all about how this administration is LYING to the American people about what is going on in Syria! The latest scandel about to unfold! Seems Biden and Obama were briefed about Al Queda surging in Syria. Biden LIED during the debate!!! He knew before the debate that Al Queda was on the move to take over Syria!They are now an easy target thanks to this president! Obama/Biden has done NOTHING to stop them!!!! Biden knew he perfectly well that he was lying!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ryan was the one with the true information! We must get these two buffoons out of the WH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

maynardb50
maynardb50

Her daddy did not spank her butt enough.

Suzyqpie
Suzyqpie

Mr Peter King had an islam "inquiry" on Capt Hill recently. It wasn't serious. Keith Ellison and some other street level hoodlums appeared. When Rep King calls Andrew C McCarthy, Cliff Mays, Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, Geert Wilder, Steven Emerson, Daniel Pipes, and/or Mosab Hasan Yousef, then I will interpret the investigation as a serious endeavor.

BayouCoyote
BayouCoyote

AQ is now equipped with 10-20K MANPADS. That's more than enough reason for them to be more of a threat to the entire region.

famouswolf
famouswolf

Pardon, but what are those? Some form of munitions I suppose, but could you describe them or provide a link?

Wolfie
Wolfie

I know you didn't ask me, but I'm not from the government and I'm here to help! :-)

MANPADS - Man Portable Air Defense System.*1

Relation to Libya: This ABC report from 2011 details some of it: Nightmare in Libya: Thousands of Surface-to-Air Missiles Unaccounted For.*2

*1: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/intro/manpads.htm

*2: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/nightmare-libya-20000-surface-air-missiles-missing/story?id=14610199

Wolfie
Wolfie

Hahaha! Sorry shouldn't laugh... Next time I'll be sure to write: "I'm NOT from the government... " :-)

famouswolf
famouswolf

Thanks, my lupine brother.

Although the first sentence just about gave me a heart attack...

Susitna
Susitna

So, Soledad is here on Mission Impossible to proof that there was no cover-up from Administration. How much money is she getting for that? A Bonus?

Susitna
Susitna

So we have parallel Worlds: The administration, Hillary's Travel Office and the Security Professionals........and they don't necessarily have to work together. AMAZING! This women is willing to trade her soul for power. Hillary, please forget about 2016, 2020......and nobody will ever read your memoirs: "Dreams from my secretary Huma" or "Hillary and the Muslim Sisterhood"......

mike3e4r7
mike3e4r7

Yeah, Soledad, the president mentioned the word 'terror' one time on 9/12. He didn't say the attack was a terrorist attack, but the word 'terror' crossed his lips one time. Awesome point! What a comeback. You really want to dig down there and find the truth don't you?

I guess at some point even she realizes if she continues to parrot the party line 100% she will have lost any credibility that she still has left with some people, but she's going to go down kicking and screaming.

K-Bob
K-Bob

Michele Bachmann doesn't live in a "safe" district, but she speaks out like this all the time.

King has been working the hearings on radical islam for a while, but he's not up for re-election this year. What about the rest of the GOP Congressmembers? Why can't they join the call for her to resign?

The drones at thinkprogress are hilarious. They put up this same vid as some sort of proof that King is a bad person. It's a win for King, because the majority of people in the US agree with his take on the creeping shariah and jihad. They even bold the quotes where he says stuff we like to hear. Heck, here it is, so you don't have to give them traffic:

O’BRIEN: Never once in that speech, as you know, which I have the speech right here. that was — he never once used the word “apology.” He never once said “I’m sorry.”

KING: Didn’t have to. The logical — any logical reading of that speech or the speech he gave in France where he basically said that the United States can be too aggressive. [...]

O’BRIEN: Everybody keeps talking about this apology tour and apologies from the President. I’m trying to find the words ‘I’m sorry, I apologize’ in any of those speeches. Which I have the text of all those speeches in front of me. None of those speeches at all, if you go to factcheck.org which we check in a lot, they all say the same thing. They fact check this and they say this whole theory of apologies…

KING: I don’t care what fact check says.

O’BRIEN: There are fact checks. You may not care, but they’re a fact checker.

KING: No. Soledad. Any commonsense interpretation of those speeches, the president’s apologizing for the American position. That’s the apology tour. That’s the way it’s interpreted in the Middle East. If I go over and say that the U.S. has violated its principles, that the United States has not shown respect for islam, that’s an apology. How else can it be interpreted?

O’BRIEN: I think plenty of people are interpreting it as a nuanced approach to diplomacy is how some people are interpreting it. So I don’t think that everybody agrees it’s apology.

Emphasis theirs. HaHaHa! They are losing even when they think they are winning.

colliemum
colliemum

From 'plenty of people' to 'some people' in one sentence: Soledad sure shows how her little mind is twitching and turning, and trying to unsay what she said a few seconds before.

Hilarious.

Wolfie
Wolfie

I almost pity them... Almost!

proudhispanicconservative
proudhispanicconservative

I just can not watch soledad (soledad in spanish means loneliness) that is how she is going to be one day, even though I dont like this person I pray for her that she will one day see the light.

colliemum
colliemum

Same here!

Her pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-concerned grimaces and her gotcha-attempts with a sort of superior sneer just turn my stomach.

Rocco11
Rocco11

Obama offered up Ambassador Stevens as a sacrifice to his prophet muhammed.

las1
las1

Bin Laden is dead. Al Queda is not!

AmyInWI
AmyInWI

The names, the faces & the locations may have changed over the years - but the underlying threat to our way of life is the Muslim religion. Period. It doesn't really matter if they call themselves the Muslim Brotherhood, the PLO, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Boko Haram or the Bozo's of Muhammad - the religion of peace is the threat.

I think Rep. King gets it (although his willingness to trample on our Constitutional rights is troubling!). I wish more elected officials got it. That goes for the bean counters & policy wonks in the Pentagon as well.

anyonebutbarry2012
anyonebutbarry2012

i like peter king and he has been correct from the get go, on what is going on worldwide and in the US. wish we had more like him speaking out.

Haywoodjbl
Haywoodjbl

Why would Clinton be smiling when talking about taking the blame when we have DEAD AMERICANS? She does not care....they all do no understand these are people.

Obama and Biden both knew what she knew and when she knew it....If I were president she would be FIRED if she did not instantly brief me so as to not look like a fool.....

This is a cover up...pure and simple

Galatiansch2vs20
Galatiansch2vs20

When you start to devalue human life in your mind, like pro-abortion Democrats do, the corrosion of character to one of not caring about other lives is a continued careening down that slippery slope.

gunclinger
gunclinger

Knowing how the Chicago gang works, Obama probably promised her a couple billion of the dollars he has stolen from us...

Why else would she fall on her sword?

Rocco11
Rocco11

Soledad is clearly incapable of handling the truth.

sjmom
sjmom

Here's the bottom line. Obama should have known but he was too busy with other things to find out, needed a scapegoat and the movie seemed like the perfect one in a fix. Susan Rice did not bother to check with State who knew there was no protest and Biden, the foreign policy expert, showed his ineptitude in this area. Hillary took responsibility but should have done it at the beginning.

Good for Peter King who did not allow Soledad to ruffle him or deter him from speaking the truth. After listening to this it shows how blind and deceived the libs are to believe AlQaeda died with Bin Laden and just because Obama said it. They are true sycophants being led by the nose down the road to destruction. As for me, I am NOT going with them.

I would like somebody to remind Soledad about Obama's UN speech well after the attack because everyone seems to forget about his apology for the movie.

Finally, I am waiting for the intel community to have their say and something tells me it won't be long until we hear from them. Let's see who falls on the sword there.

NYGino
NYGino

James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence did. The administration was hoping that would take this problem away from Obama but it didn't. Now we're seeing pawns closer and closer to the one taking the bullets.

The problem for the White House is that the ultimate responsibility rests with the President and he's not going to take it, too negative politically. Therefore the evolving cover-up.

Clinton taking the blame is a somewhat last ditch effort to remove Obama from the firing line but that's not going to work either. Another reason for Clinton to "accept" responsibility is to give the impression to the American people that she has the qualities needed to be President, in other words, she will take responsibility, unlike her boss. The Clintons are ALWAYS thinking down the road politically.

Wolfie
Wolfie

"Boko Haram" Hmmm.... Didn't they sing a "Whiter Shade of Pale"? :-)

K-Bob
K-Bob

I think the title was "A Wider Shape of Veil"

Wolfie
Wolfie

LOL! My dogs think I'm nuts. All quiet and I burst out laughing and they look at me like "What? Why did you wake us up? You better have a good reason... Or a treat" :-)

K-Bob
K-Bob

Sounds like fun.

Wolfie
Wolfie

You probably wouldn't like my dogs. They get me up around 3am-4am for their 10 minutes out back. Then between 6am and 7am I have to get up because they jump on me and bark to wake me up and I get up and let them out again. Luckily, we have a fenced in back yard so I can let them out there unsupervised but they are house pets for the most part.

K-Bob
K-Bob

I really hated having to get up early to take the dog out when she got old (before she had to go in the house).

I really miss seeing the sun rise, though.

Wolfie
Wolfie

Ah darn! It was there this morning. Sorry. :-(

K-Bob
K-Bob

Thanks, Wolfie! Looks like the link is to a missing FaceBook page. But that gives me a place to start if I decide to go for it! I've owned or spent a lot of time around almost all of those breeds, and they are great animals.

Wolfie
Wolfie

Hmmm... Just like all women then! ;-)

colliemum
colliemum

Heh!

That's what they're here for, and some of them have their training of us down to a fine art, especially the females of the dog species!

:-)

Wolfie
Wolfie

:-)

My wife tells me the dog training is going great... They have me almost totally trained now!

Wolfie
Wolfie

Allen West tweeted this message a couple of hours ago. You might have already seen it.

“@AllenWest: Marine Corps Dogs Need Homes! See here for more info to help

Except from linked page: (which is a Facebook page)

===

The United States Marine Corps has around 400 IED (Improvised Explosive Device) sniffing dogs that are being decommissioned and need forever homes.

They all need forever homes. Most of the dogs are breeds such as: Labradors, Belgian Malinois, Border Collies, German Shepherds & Rottweilers.

These dogs are all incredibly well-trained. Many of them have served in war zones and are responsible for saving countless American, NATO and foreign lives. The dogs are based in the District of Columbia (D.C.). Adoptive families must be able to travel to D.C. to pick up the dogs or arrange transport at their own expense.

===

You, or anyone else interested can visit the site: http://tinyurl.com/95hrcxf

for more info.

K-Bob
K-Bob

That's what's missing around here. Dogs.

Time to think about it again. I could use some company out in the woods when I'm tracking.

Joe
Joe

WHY does anyone

give this piece of crap an interview

No one watches CNN anyway?

4Hoppes2
4Hoppes2

Of course Al-Qaeda is a bigger threat now, our abilities to infiltrate them have been curtailed, Obama telegraphs our intentions and the terrorists sit quietly planning their their next move while this regime deconstructs,and defunds our capabilities and denies their existence.

Good thing there is an edit function!!

Galatiansch2vs20
Galatiansch2vs20

And leaks things such as the name of the doctor who helped the U.S. in regards to Osama bin Laden. As far as I know, that doctor is still in prison? Who wants to help us infiltrate with that kind of pay back?

Philo Beddoe
Philo Beddoe

obama funds Arab Brotherhood. Arab Brotherhood funds al qaida. What's so hard to figure out?

And the politicians just go along, some are permitted to speak out, others stay silent all in the effort to either gain power or maintain it.

All at our expense.

Rich Wojcik
Rich Wojcik

and WH is OK with a criminal not coming in front of the judge:

"Mohammed, who has previously said he planned the Sept. 11 attacks, gave no reason for his absence but on Monday he dismissed the military tribunal with scorn, saying "I don't think there is any justice in this court."

Just like that. What's next - US citizenship, 12 wives, free housing, food stamps, obamaPhone, etc.?

Libertyship46
Libertyship46

King is sharp and he's right. The attack in Libya could be a warning, just like the attacks on our two embassies in Africa were a warning prior to 9/11/2001. But now stop and think about that. We now have to clarify which 9/11 attacks we're talking about, the one in 2001 or the one in 2012. All I know is that for almost eight years after the attack on 9/11/2001, Bush and Cheney prevented a major terrorist attack on American soil, and an American embassy or consulate is American soil. Under Obama, we've had the Ft. Hood killings, the attack on 9/11/2012, and very near disasters with the "underwear" Christmas bomber and the "Times Square" bomber, to name just a few. So, tell me, who was more successful keeping Americans safe? You make the call.