To round up the basic positioning taking place within the U.S. administration vis-a-vi Iraq, it’s useful to look at similarly minded influential ideologues in and out of the current administration. Once you understand the mindset of the fellow travelers you can predict what the White House will do.
We start with Mike Morell, and his current position.
So there, we essentially have the framework outlined this morning for the current White House position.
So, is that indeed the message the day delivers? (more…)
WASHINGTON DC – The White House plans no discipline in connection with the accidental release to the press last month of the identity of the CIA’s station chief in Afghanistan, but is planning more safeguards to prevent such a mistake in the future, a White House spokesman said Wednesday.
“In all of these circumstances we are balancing our commitment to transparency with the need to protect some information for national security reasons,” spokesman Josh Earnest said, briefing reporters on a review conducted by White House Counsel Neil Eggleston. (more…)
(Via FOX News) The terrorists who attacked the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 used cell phones, seized from State Department personnel during the attacks, and U.S. spy agencies overheard them contacting more senior terrorist leaders to report on the success of the operation, multiple sources confirmed to Fox News.
The disclosure is important because it adds to the body of evidence establishing that senior U.S. officials in the Obama administration knew early on that Benghazi was a terrorist attack, and not a spontaneous protest over an anti-Islam video that had gone awry, as the administration claimed for several weeks after the attacks.
Eric Stahl, who recently retired as a major in the U.S. Air Force, served as commander and pilot of the C-17 aircraft that was used to transport the corpses of the four casualties from the Benghazi attacks – then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, information officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods – as well as the assault’s survivors from Tripoli to the safety of an American military base in Ramstein, Germany.
In an exclusive interview on Fox News’ “Special Report,” Stahl said members of a CIA-trained Global Response Staff who raced to the scene of the attacks were “confused” by the administration’s repeated implication of the video as a trigger for the attacks, because “they knew during the attack…who was doing the attacking.” Asked how, Stahl told anchor Bret Baier:
“Right after they left the consulate in Benghazi and went to the [CIA] safehouse, they were getting reports that cell phones, consulate cell phones, were being used to make calls to the attackers’ higher ups.”
A separate U.S. official, one with intimate details of the bloody events of that night, confirmed the major’s assertion. (more…)
How blatant are the lies ? Lies so blatant, brutal and transparent that even Andrea Mitchell can’t allow them to go unchallenged.
Some interesting dynamics at play, exposing a myriad of issues:
I’d like to draw attention to a specific moment @2:03 of this video when Andrea Mitchell accidently lets slip that the content of this interview was previously constructed and agreed upon. The collusion of media and administration reflected.
The sum of the interview is so fraught with obvious administration lies and misinformation it’s a case study in modern 2014 propaganda. (more…)
Perhaps this one of the most important discussion threads ever regarding Legacy Media manipulation.
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What you are about to read is not a subjective matter of opinion, the CNN stories are documented, attributed and cited. They are factual. Everything is verifiable within the embedded links and citations.
We have previously shared information which came to light as part of a CNN reporter, Amber Lyon, leaving the media conglomerate.
However, before getting to the CNN Amber Lyon expose’ (which is incredible and troubling) let’s first back up a moment and take you back to a previous video we shared a few years ago surrounding events in Libya, Egypt and the attack on the U.S. Benghazi compound of 9/11/2012. (more…)
How Our Stinger Missiles Wound Up In Afghanistan Being Used Against Our Own Troops:
On February 15th 2011 a civil war erupted inside Libya. Egyptian Islamists previously freed from jail by the Muslim Brotherhood flooded into Eastern Libya and joined with their ideological counterparts. al-Qaeda operatives hell bent on using the cover of the Arab Spring to finally rid themselves of their nemesis, Muammar Gaddafi.
President Obama chose to ignore an outbreak of violence in Libya for 19 days. Perhaps Obama was tentative from the criticism he and Hillary received over the mixed messaging in Egypt. Regardless, eventually Obama was begged to engage himself by leaders from France, The United Kingdom, and Italy.
The White House advisors (Emanuel, McDonough, Donolin, Jarrett, Axelrod, Plouffe) were more cautious this time. Initially Obama ignored the EU requests and later chose to dispatch the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, to Europe to address their concerns.
For the following 11 days American citizens, including State Dept. embassy officials, were trying to evacuate the country as vast swathes of the country erupted in bloodshed and violence, they became trapped in Tripoli. A bloody national revolution was underway.
The United Nations Security Council held urgent immediate emergency meetings to try to determine what to do. However, the United States Ambassador to those meetings, Susan Rice, was not present. She was attending a global warming summit in Africa. (more…)
This next phase is entirely predictable. The White House will dispatch “unnamed senior military officials”, and “anonymous White House sources” to start the PR campaign to rehabilitate the image of Bowe, Bob and Jani Bergdahl.
President Obama needs Bowe turned into a victim hero asap. To that end the stage crew (Denis McDonough, Tony Blinkin, Ben Rhodes, David Plouffe and Susan Rice) will coordinate a very specific messaging campaign. A ‘stubbed toe’ becomes a Purple Heart worthy wound etc.
WASHINGTON DC – Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has told people treating him at a U.S. military medical facility in Germany that he was tortured, beaten and held in a cage by his Taliban captors in Afghanistan after he tried to escape, a senior U.S. official said Sunday.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss what Bergdahl has revealed about the conditions of his captivity. The official said it was difficult to verify the accounts Bergdahl has given since his release a week ago.
Bergdahl, now 28, was captured in June 2009 after he disappeared from his infantry unit. He was held for nearly five years by Taliban militants. (more…)
Let’s quickly nip this one in the bud……
The White House political and communication team know they are in a world of political hurt for not notifying congress of the pending Bergdahl deal to swap Taliban officers for the missing army soldier. Now they attempt to spin their way out with another ridiculous justification.
BREAKING: Officials: Congress not told of swap because Taliban threatened to kill Bergdahl if it leaked .
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 5, 2014
There are many factual issues with this latest justification construct from the Denis McDonough/Ben Rhodes crew, which now extends into the military via Chuck Hagel. FULL AP story HERE
One of the more brutally obvious flaws in the “make-believe” is one of facts and history.
FACT – Before the Osama Bin Laden ‘Kill/Capture mission’ both Senate Intelligence Committee head Dem Senator Diane Feinstein, and Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss, were briefed during discussion of the mission.
A full week prior to the actual raid on OBL compound both Feinstein and Chambliss were told of the mission.
They were also briefed when the mission launched. (more…)