CBS still on Benghazi - hit piece on Obama

[ProfessionalLeftist]

Interesting timing of this...VERY interesting:

CBS News has learned that during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Obama Administration did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource: the Counterterrorism Security Group, (CSG).

"The CSG is the one group that's supposed to know what resources every agency has. They know of multiple options and have the ability to coordinate counterterrorism assets across all the agencies," a high-ranking government official told CBS News. "They were not allowed to do their job. They were not called upon."

Information shared with CBS News from top counterterrorism sources in the government and military reveal keen frustration over the U.S. response on Sept. 11, the night ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 other Americans were killed in a coordinated attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57544026/sources-key-task-force-not-convened-during-benghazi-consulate-attack

Now, if the President and security personnel didn't even goddamned know if this was a coordinated terrorist attack, or a reaction to that stupid video, why would they convene the CSG until or unless they had this information and were certain about what they were dealing with?

Note the article says that DURING the attack. How the FUCK would Obama or anyone for that matter know who they were dealing with DURING the attack? They didn't. They didn't know if it was a coordinated terrorist attack or a reaction to the video. So why the hell would they have convened this CSG group?

Is it just me or is are GOP, Tealiban, and their respective media mouthpieces reaching for straws here as a last-ditch effort to keep Obama from winning the election - manufacturing smear jobs and seemingly senseless hit-pieces like this?

Am I missing something here?

[Purveyor]

1. We'll know in just a few seconds if Pelley leads with this... eom

[FVZA_Colonel]

2. Regardless of whether or not they knew, would they have had time, after

coordinating an immediate response, before the attack was over?

[Enrique]

3. there have been reports favorable to the administration

for example the report about the CIA briefing which supported their statements about a spontaneous attack. The favorable reports are not necessarily "covering for" the administration, and the negative ones aren't necessarily "hit pieces". They are just reporting.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

6. It's really bad reporting. One-sided, uninvestigated

incomplete, and the timing as I say, is very interesting.

[warrprayer]

4. Gee, not quite as bad

... as letting some people fly three airliners into some buildings killing thousands of Americans, is it CBS? Assholes.

[Art_from_Ark]

29. +1000

[lpbk2713]

5. CBS News must be understaffed

What a pity they have to copy the stories they use from Faux Noise.

[jody]

7. "Am I missing something here?" YES and it will take months if ever to uncover all the facts

and fix blame if any is deserved.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

8. That's exactly why I question the timing of such reports. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

9. Funny how absolutely NOBODY in the media wants to talk about the "filmmaker"

and his connections anymore...Along with just WHO helped get enough people whirled up in a spittin' rage over there...

Those were the questions I had from the start, and they still remain mostly unanswered...

[SickOfTheOnePct]

10. The idea that this attack had anything to do with the film

was debunked weeks ago.

[dennis4868]

11. No

Reports show the video is what started everything and militants took advantage of the situation.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

17. Not according to the State Department

The State Department now says it never believed the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was a film protest gone awry .... The State Department's extraordinary break with other administration offices came in a department briefing Tuesday, where officials said "others" in the executive branch concluded initially that the protest was based, like others in the Middle East, on a film that ridiculed the Prophet Muhammad. That was never the department's conclusion, a senior official told reporters.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/10/state_department_says_innocence_of_muslims_didn_t_prompt_benghazi_attack.html

There is no proof whatsoever to your assertion that this was started by a film.

[dennis4868]

18. First of all this doesn't make a difference

And I saw a report (have to find it) that the CIA still feels the video started the protesting. People other than the militant group were protesting. It's still not clear.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

26. I think it does make a difference

To me, there is a huge difference between a spontaneous reaction and a planned attack, but YMMV.

[Blue_Tires]

15. So it's just a coincidence that the attack happened during a protest against the movie that turned

violent?

Even if the embassy/CIA attackers and organizers of the movie riots are two completely different groups, the timing still suggests some kind of collusion....

[dennis4868]

19. This is what the CIA is saying

[SickOfTheOnePct]

27. No, the CIA isn't saying that

On Thursday, intelligence officials said they had early information that the attackers had ties to al-Qaida-linked groups, but did not make it public immediately because it was based on classified intelligence. And they said the early public comments about the attack and its genesis were cautious and limited, as they routinely are in such incidents.

They added that while intelligence officials indicated early on that extremists were involved in the assault, only later were officials able to confirm that the attack was not generated by a protest over the film.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h5dFLv_VbErb9yVHME7LKUiCvEfA?docId=edeb551412dd4de68875d3ae5c950591

[DCBob]

12. Granted is was a terrible event but Benghazi is not an issue..

for the vast majority of Americans at this point in time.

[progressivebydesign]

13. I'm still waiting for CBS' expose' on how Bush/Cheney ignored intelligence leading to 9/11

Yeah.. still waiting on that. Fuck them...

[WinkyDink]

24. That will be a CBS Special.....in 2051.

[Enrique]

25. "the existence of the August PDB was first revealed by CBS News' David Martin"

http://www.thenation.com/blog/156081/condis-cover-caves#

The existence of the August 6 PDB was first revealed by CBS News' David Martin on May 15, 2002. But Martin's report only referred to the PDB in one sentence that noted the PDB had warned that an attack by bin Laden could involve hijacking U.S. aircraft. CBS did not report the title of the briefing or any other material it contained. A media furor erupted after the White House acknowledged Bush had received this PDB. The day after the CBS News report, The New York Times carried a front-page story with a headline declaring, "Bush Was Warned Bin Laden Wanted To Hijack Planes."

[madrchsod]

14. issa outs 3 Libyans working for the cia

he also outs the location of the cia base in Libya.

issa walks away with big pat on the back from the msm media and his fellow republicans

[Faith9326]

16. I just don't understand

Why people don't just wait until all the facts come out. Why jump to conclusions?

[dennis4868]

20. Because people want to impeach

Obama if he wins.

[Bolo Boffin]

21. CIA just released a timeline of their actions

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-rushed-to-save-diplomats-as-libya-attack-was-underway/2012/11/01/c93a4f96-246d-11e2-ac85-e669876c6a24_story.html?wpisrc=al_national

U.S. intelligence officials insisted that CIA operatives in Benghazi and Tripoli made decisions rapidly throughout the assault with no interference from Washington, even while acknowledging that CIA security forces were badly outmatched and largely unable to mobilize Libyan security teams until it was too late.

Among the new disclosures is that the CIA station chief in Tripoli sent an emergency security force, with about a half-dozen agency operatives as well as two U.S. military personnel, to Benghazi aboard a hastily chartered aircraft while the attack was underway.

The CIA team attempted to organize an effort to make its way to a hospital where U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens had been taken and was thought to be still alive. But the team was held up by Libyan officials at the airport and scrapped the plan to reach Stevens after learning that the security situation at the hospital was uncertain.

The only difference between Benghazi Trutherism and 9/11 Truth is that BT has a major news network and leaders of the opposition party pumping it up.

[WinkyDink]

22. Meanwhile, Dan Rather was fired.....

[kydo]

23. You mean people still watch CBS Nightly News?

I haven't watched a nightly news program on regular broadcast tv since cable news started, about 1982. I do still read the newspaper, either online or in print. But I get most of my news online or cable news either msnbc, cnn or my local cable channel.

And this whole Libya stuff is not as important as other things right this moment. I am not saying it does not matter because it does matter. Its just right now other things matter more. The events in Libya were tragic especially for those who died and their family and friends. But we can't change that.

The repugs are politicizing this which makes it even more tragic.

[Lex]

28. Presidential Daily Briefing: Osama Bin Laden determined to attack United States.

That's the September 11 failure I always think about.

[Enrique]

30. and when CBS News broke that story

the other side no doubt called it a "hit piece" on Bush.