As this story continues being a topic in the news, I can't see the GOP's point at all.
http://freakoutnation.com/2013/05/14/full-white-house-benghazi-email-obtained-which-disproves-gop-claims-of-a-cover-up/ The summary: "So, words were twisted in various reports, which resulted in a display of right wing histrionics. Ironically, the email mentions, wrong information getting out into the public and of coure, the email stating as such became a distortion, leaked by a dubious source, resulting in misinformation being seeded onto the masses" At the end is the link to the CNN story which explains the entire scenario. On 12 May 2013 18:47, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is a former Defense Secretary who says that people's view of Military > capabilities regarding the Benghazi incident borders on the ridiculous. > This isn't a cartoon, he says. > > > http://www.businessinsider.com/gates-benghazi-critic-cartoonish-military-2013-5 > > ""We don't have a ready force standing by in the Middle East, despite all > the turmoil that's going on with planes on strip alert, troops ready to > deploy at a moment's notice and so getting somebody there in a timely way > would have been very difficult, if not impossible," Gates told interviewer > Bob Schieffer. > > Gates, a Republican appointee of former President George W. Bush, served > as Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011. He offered his own views on the > Sep. 11, 2012 attack, and what his response may have been. > > "Based on everything I've read, people really didn't know what was going > on in Benghazi," he said. > > "Given the number of surface to air missiles that have disappeared from > [former Libyan leader] Qaddafi's arsenals," Gates also reasoned, "I would > not have approved sending an aircraft, a single aircraft, over Benghazi > under those circumstances." > > ------------- > > And that's why there is no story about this. It's ridiculous. Next we will > hear Fox News run 24 hour programming about the redaction of "Terrorist > attack" from the initial press release. > smh. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:363547 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
