Report: Hillary Ignored Warnings
Today, the Independent is reporting shocking details about the attack on the Libyan consulate that resulted in the death of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. The details are so explosive that they will result in a Congressional investigation. In fact, they’re so explosive that they should result in the resignation of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The only question now: What did Hillary Clinton know, and when did she know it?
Yesterday, we reported that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was responsible under the law for the “security policies and programs that provide for the protection of all US government personnel … on official duty abroad.” Clinton herself seemed bewildered by the attacks on the Libyan consulate, asking, “How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction?”
But according to the Independent, she had no reason to be puzzled. Quoting senior diplomatic sources, the paper reports, “the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted.” Nonetheless, “no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and ‘lockdown,’ under which movement is severely restricted.”
It gets worse. According to security sources, the State Department had greenlit a “health check” at the consulate I preparation for 9/11. Nonetheless, the attackers broke the perimeter within 15 minutes of the Libyan mob forming. Local guards did nothing. One witness reported, “The security people just all ran away and the people in charge were the young men with guns and bombs.” According to sources, the Ambassador died from smoke inhalation after he was trapped in a building set on fire and besieged by rioters. READ MORE
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Obama: Desaparecido en las sesiones de inteligencia
Según un artículo de opinión del periodista Marc Thiessen aparecido en el Washington Post, el presidente Obama no está acudiendo a sus sesiones informativas de inteligencia diarias tan a menudo como sería necesario.
De hecho, Thiessen asevera que el presidente se está perdiendo más de la mitad de las diarias sesiones informativas de inteligencia , acudiendo sólo a alrededor de un 38% de sus sesiones de inteligencia de los Informes Presidenciales Diarios (PDB) durante 2011 y hasta mediados de 2012.
Si eso es cierto, estamos ante algo realmente problemático.
Estaremos de acuerdo en que eso no quiere decir que no haya ningún asunto de alta prioridad nacional sobre el que el Comandante en Jefe necesite ser informado. Hay gran cantidad de razones por las que el mundo está en ebullición y los intereses americanos se están viendo amenazados en muchísimos lugares del mundo.
¿No sería magnífico saber que el presidente se mantiene al tanto de cómo está marchando la lucha en Afganistán, donde 60,000 valientes americanos están combatiendo contra miembros de al-Qaeda, de la Red Haqqani y de los talibanes?
O quizás se pregunte ¿qué está pasando en Siria, donde ya han muerto más de 20,000 personas durante los últimos 18 meses? Es más, ¿qué hay del programa nuclear de Irán, que tiene a los observadores especialmente nerviosos porque Teherán esté más cerca de conseguir la “bomba”?
Las cosas tampoco están yendo bien en Asia. Corea del Norte tiene un nuevo líder, China está en ascenso y las disputas territoriales en los mares del Este y del Sur de China tienen a la gente preguntándose si hay un verdadero problema a la vuelta de la esquina.
Y no es que perderse las sesiones informativas de inteligencia sea una práctica habitual de los presidentes americanos. Thiessen comenta que “Por el contrario, el antecesor de Obama, George W. Bush, casi nunca se perdía su diaria sesión de inteligencia ”. READ MORE
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Paul Ryan Blasts Obama Over Weak Foreign Policy
If you thought for one nanosecond that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan were going to wither in the heat of the savage media assault launched against Romney after his statements about the Barack Obama Administration’s apology to the Islamists yesterday, think again.
This is not the John McCain campaign in 2012, hampered by its leader’s ineffectual approach. Paul Ryan stood up in Owensville, Ohio yesterday and lambasted the Obama Administration:
The administration sent mixed signals to
those who attacked our embassy in Egypt, and mixed signals to the world.
I want to be clear; it is never too early for the United States to
condemn attacks on Americans, on our properties, and to defend our
values. That’s what leadership is all about.
Undercutting allies like Israel, outreach
to enemies like Iran, national security leaks and devastating defense
cuts. A weak America breeds insecurity and chaos around the world. The
best guarantee of peace is American strength. And peace through strength
will be the Romney/Ryan foreign policy of this country.
Nope. This isn’t 2008. This time we have two candidates who are unafraid of a fight.
