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Rick Maddow Unintentionally Exposes Obama
Oh snap. Rachel. Rachel Maddow.
Keep up the good work, Rachel, even when it’s not at all what you intended.
In the wake of last week’s deadly attack against the US consulate in Benghazi, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow helpfully provided Mitt Romney with plenty of damning information for use against President Obama in their upcoming debates.
Turns out there were warning signs going back months that the situation in Benghazi was rapidly deteriorating and the Obama administration did little to protect Ambassador Chris Stevens and the consulate.
On her cable show Thursday night, Maddow described how Stevens, an Arabic speaker and “longtime student of Libya” who “understood the country well,” traveled to the coastal city of Derna in 2008. Stevens wrote a classified memo, later published by WikiLeaks, warning of growing al Qaeda militancy in Derna, “right there next to Benghazi,” Maddow said.
Stevens’ cable to Washington “actually used the Bruce Willis movie ‘Die Hard’ as an analogy for understanding how intense the local attitudes were there about jihad,” Maddow said. Not only that, al Qaeda documents seized by American troops in Iraq revealed that more holy warriors were sent to Iraq from Derna “than any other place in the entire Arab world,” Maddow said.
Maddow also pointed out how CNN reported this past June that al Qaeda sent one of its top operatives in Pakistan to Derna during the uprising against Gaddafi in early 2011 “to capitalize on that town’s legendary militancy.” (Yes — “legendary”. She says things like that).
“The assignment was to set Derna up just outside of Benghazi as essentially a new, mini-Afghanistan,” Maddow said, “a new hub for al Qaeda, with multiple training camps there for al Qaeda fighters. That was last year and ultimately this murder of an American ambassador did not happen in Tripoli, didn’t happen way over on the western part of the country, in the capital where the US has its embassy and which is guarded by US Marines and has full security, it didn’t happen there. It happened when the ambassador was in this lightly fortified consulate building, over in the eastern part of the country, in a city that’s basically right next to what al Qaeda is trying to build as a new hub for terrorist training.”
Xavier
September 18th, 2012
NBC is saying that “multiple US officials and other sources” say former SEALS, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were not at the Consulate to provide security for Ambassador Christopher Stevens or Consulate personnel. In the video you will hear that security was “woefully low – no security whatsoever,” and that it’s not much better at the Tripoli Embassy – “shocking and irresponsible.”
http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2012/09/doherty-woods-slain-former-seals-not-at-libyan-consulate-to-provide-security/
dba_vagbond_trader
September 18th, 2012
Oh wait, she agrees the embassy was inadequately protected from muzzies and this WAS a premeditated attack?
Toaster
September 18th, 2012
Glenn Beck posed an interesting theory about the events surrounding the murders at the embassy on his show last night. My apologies to BFH for posting a Beck link. I still think Beck is a dick for the things he said during the primaries but he does have some interesting guests from the intel community on his show which is where this info came from.
Some key info from the link…
The “embassy” was a rented house.
The “ambassador’s” career resume reads like that of a intelligence agent rather than a diplomat.
Considering the overtime effort by the 0bama propagandists to distract from his abject diplomacy failure and assault on free speech in favor of the murdering savages, I’ll take all the info I can get.
Cynic
September 18th, 2012
I’m glad she exposed Obama, and not herself.
MaryfromMarin
September 18th, 2012
Everything about what happened on 9/11/12 stinks, especially the amount of lying and deception in the so-called “coverage” by the msm and the deflections by our government.
The biggest fabrication is how the people “rescuing” Ambassador Stevens were so ‘thankful and joyful’ to have found him alive that they cheered, pumped their fists in the air, and shouted “allahu akbar”–because they were just so pleased to be able to rescue him!
Oh, sure.
billy c
September 18th, 2012
aren’t most of these ambassadors really just apppointed as political payback, anyway?? whoopee, he speaks arabic AND he’s an idealistic democrat
seems qualified to me
bob
September 18th, 2012
What you guys should realize is that this level of complexity, the situation in the middle east outlined by this article, is far too involved for the Obarry administration to comprehend.
If it isn’t backstabbing political manipulation or redistribution and community planning, it just isn’t important.
Chicago doesn’t have problems like this, so they just aren’t equipped.
IronyCurtain
September 18th, 2012
He “understood the country well”…?
I’d hate to see the guy who DIDN’T understand these psycho muslim savages.
Jack
September 18th, 2012
The Marines have been to Derna before… I recall that we got a special sword out of it…
Alxandro
September 18th, 2012
Hate to say, but exposing Obama is not something Romney is exatly good at, and it just might cost him the election.
Where’s Newt?
Liberal Larry
September 19th, 2012
I wonder when we will see the video that one of the muslims took of the two men who orally and anally raped the ambassador. It does exist, although the ‘State Department’ is doing everything possible to keep the compliant media from pursuing it. But conversation was picked up in which members of a known muslim cell were discussing it.
Anonymous
September 19th, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeNTNfERnaM&playnext=1&list=PL0D1E1CAD68EE4EE4&feature=results_main
charlotte
September 19th, 2012
Was the CIA (Stevens) going to retrieve weapons at Derna? Weapons the US had given to the rebels when Gadaffi was overthrown? Gunrunner/Fast & Furious for Al Qaida perhaps?