The nominations of John Brennan for CIA Director and Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense held up by Republicans in the Senate because... | |
Ms. Superduper (OP) User ID: 46155084 United States 11/13/2013 01:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: The nominations of John Brennan for CIA Director and Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense held up by Republicans in the Senate because... And continuing: The interview took place the day after outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s testimony to Congress, which Adm. Lyons discussed in our interview. It was before outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey testified before Congress, which raised questions about how in-the-loop Obama was during the terrorist attack, which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. I asked Adm. Lyons what he thought of Hillary Clinton’s question to the senators when she was feeling the heat from their questions. “What difference does it make?” she angrily asked, referring to how the men died. The questions asked of Sec. Clinton were trying to get an answer to why the administration had claimed for weeks that the attack was in response to an anti-Islamic video produced in the U.S., when records and testimony made it clear that it was a planned terrorist attack on the 11th anniversary of September 11, 2001, and the intelligence community knew it from the first day. Adm. Lyons answer to “What difference does it make” was, “Richard Nixon found out what the difference is when you lie to the American public—and in his lie, it was only a bungled burglary attempt; nobody got killed. In this case, we had four Americans murdered. Furthermore, we knew, within a matter of hours, that this was a determined, preplanned terrorist attack. So you have to ask yourself, why perpetuate this lie for almost two weeks?” --------------------------------------- And there's still more. Greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world. Whatever feels good to your soul, do that. |
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