Advertising dollars.

which is why they are in last place.

There is definitely a story there. We just have to hope it doesn't catch on.

Enlighten me please.

before I start worrying

to be fair (and balanced?) what's her name followed with the Ohio story, and how badly Romney is doing there. no punches pulled, either.

interestingly, as I type they're doing a story on the Cal pepper spray settlement

didn't see that on msnbc....but I skip around, searching for validative succor

tweety having fun with Michael Rennie/Romney

I can live with this....hope it lasts til November

the right wing is saying obama should have known the embassy in Libya would be attacked on 9/11.

official

it was in the Independent, and immediately pounced upon by the likes of Fox, Breitbart, etal. that was about all you could find if you googled that story

A CNN reporter walked into the largely unsecured consulate in Benghazi three days after the riots there and found Chris Stevens' personal diary. In the diary they found that Stevens had been writing for months about his fears for his personal safety and about the security. CNN contacted the family, the family wanted the diary back, CNN returned the diary and said they wouldn't use information from it, then they did. CNN says they were referring to personal information, not information that could be construed to be of national interest.

A top aide to Hillary Clinton came out swinging at CNN. Sunday morning a reporter sent some pointed emails to said aide. The exchange became heated and the aide told the reporter to FUCK OFF, in writing.

The upshot is that the whole thing sort of makes State and the WH look incompetent. That Stevens wrote for months that he was worried that he was being targeted by al Qaeda (and then he was), that the consulate was left unguarded and the diary found by a reporter (while State is busy telling everybody that no sensitive information was taken from the compound) and that the aide lost his shit and told somebody to fuck off in writing. The last part is the least and probably not going to be a big deal. The rest....could be.

I fail to see how this is bad for Obama. Is the Obama Administration supposed to know all pending and active terrorist attacks?

It seemed BAD to me that a US Ambassador wrote for eight months that he was worried for his life, that his security wasn't sufficient and that he was being targeted by al Qaeda and then he was MURDERED BY AL QAEDA. I also thought it might not look good that we allowed somebody to wander in off the street and walk out of the consulate with his diary.

But hey, I guess I can see how that is all just really no big deal. Now all we have to do is hope the rest of the country agrees with you.

You can't possibly provide maximum security to every single location where a threat might emanate. It's not possible.

Also, remember this was a consulate, it wasn't even the embassy. As for allowing the ambassador to go on the street, that's a risk that must be taken when you're an ambassador. You have to do your job in a risky area.

Look, I don't know enough about foreign consular security to say definitively that they should have had more security. I am just thinking the fact that the guy is DEAD lends me to believe maybe he was onto something about being targeted. And I think maybe you could make the case that if you have an Ambassador who is in fear for his life, that on the anniversary of 9/11 you might have more security around.

But, I really DON'T know that much about this and maybe it won't get picked up, but there is something there that might smell bad and pretending there isn't doesn't make it go away.

that diary (and isn't it oh-so convenient how we "find" all this "evidence"?) is a FAKE designed to make us think that Al-Quaeda ISN'T CIA!

I think they would have said something if it were a fake.

Like Ghaddhafi before him, and Hussein and probably Bin Laden, too.

...and clearly that's NOT the cause of the attack in Libya!

Yes, it's a problem when Susan Rice is on all the Sunday shows 2 weeks ago saying it was the video...the video... the video...

Now, it's pretty evident it was a pre-planned attack, and not being able to protect an American Ambassador (the first killed in over 30 years) is a PROBLEM!!!

And that Stevens wrote for months that he was in fear of his life, but let's be honest, the security in Benghazi was not that great. We were relying on local police many of whom dropped their weapons and ran off when the trouble started.

armed US officers at the consulate?

did you read anything at media matters, which pooled some sources that hold a slightly different interp than yours?

indluding, as I said, that left wing rag owned by Murdoch

I actually like Obama. I don't really WANT this to be a thing. If it isn't and I overreacted, good.

What I hope is that they missed the news cycle on this and that nobody else will pick it up because they will consider it tainted from CNN's handling of the diary. And that, over time, the investigation will show that there was nothing anybody could have done differently.

national scene since 1960, however, and deplore what they and their corporate stringpullers have done to the world since then

Ike was right about them, and, unfortunately, the dems have seen where their own bread is buttered, as well

the slide might be a little slower, a little more alterable without the likes of tool Romney, etal, to finish off the process Cheneybush accelerated 12 years ago

Hillary said that. What are you talking about?

Look....the Administration can't know everything immediately.

The were protests all over the middle east because of the video. How were they supposed to know at the time this was different? The investigation is obviously still on going. Clearly Al-Qaeda took advantage of the video protests.

This story isn't going anywhere. Sorry.

and I paid very close attention to Rice's appearances, particularly on FOX. She said, basically, this is what we think happened based on what we know, but are investigating. Obama is saying it was a combination of both, the mobs from the video and organized terror group. Still investigating the details.

is a smoke screen for a flailing network.

Whether it gets picked up by other news outlets is up for grabs. Hopefully, CNN has tainted the whole thing by their handling of the diary.

It isn't good. I am hoping like hell they missed the news cycle on that one.

In the days before Sept. 11, intelligence agencies issued their annual warning of heightened security risks around the anniversary of the 2001 attacks. Many counterterrorism officials saw a lessened risk this year than last year, which was the 10th anniversary and the first one after the killing of Osama bin Laden.

In Libya, embassy personnel conducted a security review right before the anniversary. It determined there was no reason to think an attack was planned or the consulate in Benghazi was "insufficiently postured," said a senior administration official. --

The Wall Street Journal, 9/21/12

not defending the protection, but who you going to believe when it comes to the idea of 'reasonable protection?'

you are right. I was going on Chris Stevens writing in his journal for eight months that he was afraid for his life and that he thought he was being targeted by al Qaeda. As someone else pointed out the other day, if he did not communicate those fears up the chain of command, then the WH and State are in the clear.

diary against his family's wishes? I thought that was a disgusting act by CNN.

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I do hope President Obama is prepared in the debates especially with Crawly

a commie, yes?

I kid

They've turned on Romney.

But the Reps are going to give Obama a lot of grief. 4 senators are going off on Susan Rice's statements and they are pretty steamed over the Senate briefing they received. It will probably be their card to play to protect military spending.

thank you

of questionable, to be more than fair, assertions, along with some egregious bullshit/character assassination

how come you always come up on the, uh, contrarian side of things, presenting issues in mostly always an unfavorable slant

don't bother to answer that last. it's obvious to all who read your contributions

Or what interests me.

Mostly I post about things that make me nervous.

And yes I expect a lot from Obama. He is the only President we have and he has to get it right.

Oh and source...I heard it from CNN and googled it.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2012/09/republicans-demand-answers-from-white-house-on-libya-136721.html?hp=l1_b1

interests me


as does the only source I could find that wasn't WAY out in the Oort cloud

not that Politico carries much weight here, owned as it is by a megarich right wing lunatic

talking about.

Because they got called out for reading the private diary of Stevens so they are creating a smoke screen.

this, including lunatic Johnny Isakson


http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/johnny-isakson-r-how-someone-could-take

your cred is taking a gigantic hit here, Mr. Vanderbilt

The very beginning is poignant and it essentially makes CNN look like the idiots that they are.

Rudy Giuliani, bestowing his knowledge upon us re: Iranian nukes

I do not kid this time

really?

really?

sensate being

I now depart for some sort of mixpack beer and a look at Louie, Season II, compliments of my socialist local library

cheerio!