Tommy Vietor
This interview by Fox News' Bret Baier leaves me shaking my head. Here we have another Obama hack defending the actions of the government during the attack on our mission in Benghazi and telling Baier, "Dude, this was like two years ago." Watch this interview of some guy named Tommy Vietor, former Obama aide. As usual, we have the conflicts over who said what, when, and when the administration knew it was dealing with a terrorist attack on that fateful evening-as opposed to a bunch of people outraged over some video. Take particular note of Vietor's answers to questions about where President Obama was on that night.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/05/03/did-ex-white-house-aide-benghazi-comments-conflict-with-former-cia-director/
So who else was in the situation room that night-Justin Bieber? Nobody knows where President Obama was during those many critical hours. Vietor assures us he was in the White House. Doing what-watching a ball game on TV as he packed his bags for Las Vegas? Hillary Clinton? Oh, she called the President at 10 o'clock that night. Wonderful.
I wonder which of these games Obama was watching that night.
Was Justin Bieber in the White House situation room with Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes?
The nation should take great comfort in knowing that in moments of crisis, we have people like Tommy Vietor and Ben "Talking Points" Rhodes in the White House situation room holding down the fort.
Ben Rhodes
Sleep well America.
Red herrings and weak talking points. Libya was more complicated than we realized, the same people who wanted our aid wanted to gain street cred by taking us out, loyalties shifted constantly, our people on the ground were caught by surprise, nobody has made a credible case that a different or faster response by anyone up the line could have saved the lives lost.
ReplyDeleteRepublican focus on this issue has nothing to do with strengthening the United States of America. It is one more venal talking point in their never ending rage that sometimes, Republicans lose elections. They are still suffering from their sense of wounded entitlement that 1980 did not usher in their expected Thousand Year Reich, or at least a Republican century.
That's all there is to this. Shameful.
"....nobody has made a credible case that a different or faster response by anyone up the line could have saved the lives lost."
ReplyDeleteNo, but we didn't even try.
So, this little prepie dude was in charge of the 'Situation Room" when Benghazi was being attacked. The absent President was preping in the residence, for his fund-raiser in Nevada. The conclusion is that this wet behinf the ears dude is in charge of the security of the four men who lost their lives in Benghazi. Hillary was absent as well. A CIA operative who was at Benghazi resigned from that organization with this statement: I do not want to be left behind on the ground to die, again."
ReplyDeleteThe take-away is that the condition of the Nation's security is compromised when dufuses like Vietor are in charge.
Squid
No Gary, you didn't even try to make a credible case... a rare and welcome admission.
ReplyDeleteAdmission hell! General Lovell said that while nobody can say with certainty whether the military could have gotten to benghazi in time, we could have at least tried. That is what it is all about.
ReplyDeleteMonday morning quarterbacking... and no evidence that anyone presented a plan to the president or anyone in the White House with the recommendation "Sir, we could do this," or that such a recommendation was turned down.
ReplyDelete(The opportunistic thing for the White House to have done, had such an option been clearly presented, would have been to send in the troops and make the President look like a hero.)