U S Wants The Film "innocence Of Muslims" To Be Removed From Google

[Ulysses G.]

Benghazi is what happens when people are in dangerous or unstable places and are expected to operate with limited and dwindling funding.

What happened in Benghazi was a real shame, but what makes it a criminal offense is falsely blaming it on a video and the subsequent cover-up.

[mopar71]

I bet there are lawyers lined up around the block for the man who made that awful video. He was held up as a scapegoat based on a lie. The government sent more armed men to arrest him then they did to protect their people in Benghazi. Then they threw him in jail for a minor parole violation. Didn't the US Gov't even condemn him in the UN and buy ad time in Pakistan condeming the video? If the gov't is going to arrest people for offending religious people, Martin Scorsesse had better join Polanski in exile.

[Sing_Sling]

The horrible filmmaker is in jail (crimes against art!).

Who is watching that stupid video anymore, banned or not?

This thread topic is very old news.

As Hillary would say: What difference does it make!

It makes a difference to the families of the four murdered US citizens that were left to fend for themselves on the altar of a re-election.

This is what you get when you look at life through politically-charged bias'.

What an utterly ridiculous post -

[Ulysses G.]

What an utterly ridiculous post -

Ridiculous indeed. Blaming the video and her "What difference does it make?" remark have come back to haunt Hillary.

[chuckd]

The horrible filmmaker is in jail (crimes against art!).

Who is watching that stupid video anymore, banned or not?

This thread topic is very old news.

As Hillary would say: What difference does it make!

It makes a difference to the families of the four murdered US citizens that were left to fend for themselves on the altar of a re-election.

There are concerned Members of Congress and the public who genuinely care about the lives lost in Benghazi and the whole of the security question surrounding the U.S. Consulate Office there, and about U.S. national security.

However, then there are the other 80%, which include lecturers, pontificators, political agenda types, and, at foreign forums, America haters and the like.

Rand Paul: Benghazi should preclude Hillary Clinton from higher office

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/05/11/rand-paul-benghazi-should-preclude-hillary-clinton-from-higher-office/

Any citizen of the United States who experienced or studied (or taught) Watergate does not need lectures or pontificating about government - government right on all the way to the top. The Executive Branch was horrendous in precipitating Watergate, but the Supreme Court and the Congress, respectively, did its job. As did the public, the body politic.

The opposition in Congress and the right are screaming about Benghazi now.

I recall when Bill Clinton was president the opposition screamed and hollered every day for four years about something called Whitewater, a failed mountain resort in the Clinton's home state of Arkansas, where Clinton had been a long time governor. Here it is almost 20 later and the so-called Whitewater remains what it always was - a nothing constructed by the opposition to try to discredit the president of the United States.

During Obama's first term there were the "birthers" who said he was disqualified from the presidency because, according to them, absolutely was born outside the United States. More bullsh*t. To the birthers, Obama's real threat was to be black while president.

When an Arizona border officer was shot and killed by drug gangs, the chairman of the particular House Committee, Congressman Darrell Issa said the Attorney General of the United States was guilty of conspiracy to murder the police officer. Again, guilty of being black while Attorney General.

Now Issa has Benghazi:

The Benghazi Show, Brought to You by Darrell Issa http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/05/benghazi-darrell-issa/65030/ I can't believe Issa is still in a position of any responsibility in the Congress. But then again, 12% of American people believe Congress is doing a good job.

These backwoods low roads are long and winding, but most familiar. Everything in Washington is political bullsh*t.

And of course Google should not ever pull the movie, nor should the president of the United States be asking Google or anyone else to do so.

SecState Clinton did appear before committees of the Congress where she, as secretary of state, was called to account. Sec Clinton accounted for herself and for the DEPSTATE. For one thing, she reminded Congress it kept cutting the budget for the State Department dating back more than a decade. Warren Christopher, Prez Clinton's first SECSTATE, had criticized the Congress for budgeting the United States to conduct diplomacy "on the cheap." The bottom line is that Sec Clinton faced her interrogators on Capital Hill and in the press/media.

It is true Hillary did, indeed, testify before the House Committee. However, it should be noted she did so AFTER she was no longer the SecState and did so NOT under oath. Issa is now saying he is considering issuing a subpoena for her to testify again, this time under oath.

Congressional cutting of the budget is nonsense. The State Department budget was not cut but has been growing every single year. Only the rate of increase has been lowered. This budget nonsense is more of the smoke and mirrors thrown out by the administration.

There are two classic examples of distractions that have come out when the heat is turned up on Benghazi.

First was the Gen. Petraeus affair and subsequent resignation as DCIA immediately after the attack.. This focused the media on something other than Benghazi for a few weeks and threw them off the trail. The administration had known about he alleged affair for months and only broke it during the heat of the moment.

Second is the current furore being bandied about concerning the IRS harassment of political groups identified as conservative or tea party oriented. This will last a specific period of time until the Benghazi investigation calms down and is completely out of the news. Then it will be dismissed by the main stream media. It should be noted that Press Secretary Jay (Art) Carney pointed out when the administration announced the investigation that the Director of the IRS when this began was appointed by the previous administration. In other words, it was Bush's fault.

One thing I have never heard an answer to is...where was Obama and what was he doing during the attack? He retired to his quarters shortly after being informed of the attack and did not return or, according to testimony, even inquire as to the status of the ongoing situation for the duration of the evening. Seems a rather strange stance for the CIC to take during an assault on US diplomatic personnel.

The real crime here, as UlyssesG pointed out, is the cover-up by blaming the video in the first place. This administration knew full well there were no demonstrations over the video the night of the attack. They were told instantly by the State Department personnel on the ground in Libya that it was a terrorist attack by an Al Qaeda affiliate.

The administration tried to cover their collective rumps by blaming the video, rather than having to provide a believable response to the question of who was asleep at the switch when the train went off the tracks.

Edited May 13, 2013 by Scott

[chuckd]

The horrible filmmaker is in jail (crimes against art!).

Who is watching that stupid video anymore, banned or not?

This thread topic is very old news.

As Hillary would say: What difference does it make!

It makes a difference to the families of the four murdered US citizens that were left to fend for themselves on the altar of a re-election.

This is what you get when you look at life through politically-charged bias'.

What an utterly ridiculous post -

Would you care to contribute anything meaningful to the discussion?

[Scott]

Although a nice poster had asked that the topic be re-opened and seemed to think that it could be a mature and adult discussion, it appears that it is headed in the direction of many such topics.

alas.....

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