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From: "Joseph R. John" <jrjassoc@earthlink.net>

To:  bellringer@fourwinds10.com

Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 6:44:03 PM

Subject: Nothing "Phony" About The Benghazi Cover-up

 

The parents, wives, children, brothers, sisters, extended relatives, Team

Mates, and the majority of caring Americans do not consider the abandonment

of 4 brave Americans in Benghazi, that facilitated  their murder by Al

Q'ieda terrorists a "Phony Scandal."  The American people want to know what

the occupant of the Oval Office was doing for the 8 hours, while over 125 to

150 well-equipped and disciplined Al Q'ieda terrorists were prosecuting a

well-coordinated and rehearsed attack against the Special Mission Compound

and the CIA Annex in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11.  The

American people and the press were certainly informed in detail, with plenty

of photos, what Obama and Hillary were doing for 8 hours when SEAL Team SIX

took out Osama Bin Laden---then we watched in horror while the occupant of

the Oval Office exposed Top Secret operational information to the world,

outed SEAL Team SIX, and alerted terrorists worldwide to vacate their

premises.   On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, all US Forces should have been

on a High State of Alert worldwide, as they had been in 10 previous years,

especially in Libya where terrorists had previously attacked the US Special

Mission and blown a hole in the outer perimeter wall. The entire US

Intelligence establishment had been alerted in advance that an Al Q'ieda

attack in Libya was imminent, because the new Al Q'ieda leader Ayman

al-Zawahiri <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayman_al-Zawahiri>  ,who had

replaced Osama Bin Laden, had declared that Abu Ya Hya al-Libi still needed

to be avenged in Libya on the anniversary of 9/11.  Yet repeated requests by

Ambassador Stevens for enhanced security that he made to the State

Department, and the National Security apparatus in the White House for many

weeks, leading to the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attack, were turned down

by Hillary and Obama.

 

 

 

Once the attack was initiated, the Ambassador in Benghazi and the Embassy

staff in Tripoli repeatedly and urgently begged the White House Situation

Room and Hillary Clinton at the State Department, for a military rescue and

security forces in Europe & Tripoli for the support that could have been

sent---they were told to stand down---they let them die.  While the Al

Q'ieda terrorists were executing their well-coordinated and preplanned

commando assault, every attempt to rescue the Americans under attack by

different commands, were ordered to stand down by the White House Situation

Room---they let them die.  That unconscionable abandonment of US personnel

under attack resulted in the murder of J Christopher Stevens, the US

Ambassador to Libya, Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, and the US

Embassy Information Management Officer, Sean Smith.  The Obama

Administration has muzzled the survivors of the attack and prevented them

from speaking to Congress for 11 months. One of the most severely wounded

survivors of the Al Q'ieda terrorist attack in Benghazi, Diplomatic Security

agent David Ubben, risked his life to help save his fellow Americans, and is

still being treated at Walter Reed Medical Center to this day-he doesn't

think the events in Benghazi is a "Phony Scandal."

 

 

 

With jet fighter support 2 hours away, the American people, the Congress,

personnel in the US Armed Forces, and the families of the murdered US

personnel want to know why they weren't ordered to provide close air

support, and why every other attempt to rescue the Americans by US military

forces and by State Department Security personnel were ordered to stand

down-they just let them die..  Why did Obama and Hillary force the military

to abandon our ancient and noble warrior code "Leave no man behind"?  For 11

months the pliant left of center liberal media establishment hasn't even

tried to do the basic investigative journalism our Founding Fathers counted

on the third estate to do, their complicity in this ongoing cover-up and

their abandonment of those 4 Americans is because of their blind support for

Obama and Hillary---it is shameful.  We will we stand with and support the

families, friends, and Team Mates of the Ambassador Stevens, the 2

courageous SEALs, Glen Doherty & Tyrone Woods, and Sean Smith in their

efforts to seek the answers to what Obama inappropriately calls a "Phony

Scandal."   "Phony Scandals" don't come home in body bags, make no mistake

about it "Benghazi is a Major Scandal." 

 

 

 

Cong Tom Rooney, Cpt-USA (JAG) (R-FL-16) wrote the below listed article on

the Benghazi cover-up; it was printed in the Tampa Tribune.

 

 

 

Joseph R. John, USNA '62

 

Capt            USN (Ret)

 

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Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will

go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!"-Isaiah 6:8

 

 

 

 

 

From: John Horgan 

Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 9:03 AM

To: Joseph R. John

Subject: From Tampa Tribune 5/13

 

 

 

Help wasn't coming in Benghazi: The new reality

 

   During a Senate hearing on Benghazi, former Secretary of State Hillary

Clinton famously asked: "What difference at this point does it make?" My

answer is this: After Benghazi, America changed.

 

   You see, the worst part of this tragedy wasn't the failure to protect our

own, and it wasn't the Obama administration's efforts to cover up that

failure, as seen in the disturbing emails between top officials at the State

Department and other agencies.

 

   The worst part about the assault on our consulate in Benghazi and what

we've learned since is this: When terrorists attacked our people, the

cavalry never came. And it was never going to come.

 

   As a former Army officer, I had the privilege of serving alongside some

amazing human beings. They wear the uniform knowing they may lay down their

lives for their country. Their charge is to fight and win this country's

wars. Our service members live by the motto, "Leave no one behind." This is

in our DNA.

 

   Or at least it was.

 

   On dates like 9/11, we know our enemies want to make a statement with

terror. What better target on that date than an unguarded embassy, in the

midst of the Arab Spring? To those of us who opposed our involvement in

Libya from the start, Libya's failure to become a wellspring of a burgeoning

democracy was no surprise. Benghazi was a ticking time bomb, and Ambassador

Chris Stevens knew it. And so the terrorists attacked, and hours went by

before the terror would end.

 

   Secretary Clinton talked to embassy officials during the siege. During

one of these calls, two of our men who would ultimately give their lives

were still alive. As they defended their ground in the middle of the night

on hostile territory, far away from home, one thought was surely racing

through their minds: Help is on the way. Backup will be here soon. They must

have repeatedly looked to the sky expecting an American aircraft to arrive

carrying Marines or Special Forces. As more hours went by, no one came. I

can only imagine what they were thinking before they died: Where are they?

 

   When the dust settled, the administration claimed there wasn't enough

time to send a rescue team, a claim repeated countless times. I want to

know: How did they know that when they first decided not to send help?

 

   The attack went on for more than eight hours. How did the Obama

administration know when the assault was going to end? What if it lasted for

10 or 20 hours? Why not send a rescue team or aircraft at hour two or four

or six? Wouldn't it have been worth it to try?

 

   Politically, Obama could say he tried to save their lives but there just

wasn't time. Tactically, we would have reminded the world that if you mess

with the United States, your actions will not go unanswered. Sending help

would show Americans serving in harm's way around the world that we still

look after our own.

 

   But the truth is, help was never coming in Benghazi. That is a new

reality in this country. Our government wants to portray to the world that

everything is fine. They want to show how progressive and open-minded we

are. Shows of strength and security at the consulate before the attack

wouldn't fit that mold.

 

   Yet the president was comfortable establishing a consulate, with a real

live ambassador, in the middle of one of the most dangerous places in the

world without real security. Why? To portray to the world that the Arab

Spring was working and President Obama was far removed from the mistakes of

the Bush administration. The thinking inside the administration goes: Obama

helped the Arabs overthrow oppression where Bush went to war with them.

 

   When the initial attack disproved this notion, the administration did

everything it could to protect the narrative. They refused to send help.

Sending in military support would have constituted "boots on the ground," a

responsibility the commander in chief did not want to bear. Isolated drones

strikes and NATO-led missions are the crux of the Obama Doctrine, and both

are worthless against a sudden attack.

 

   In the aftermath, they falsely blamed the attack on a video, then claimed

ignorance, and then when caught in a campaign of misinformation, claimed to

have acknowledged it was a terrorist attack all along. Confused? That's the

idea.

 

   To cap it all off, no one has been arrested. You burn our consulate? You

kill our ambassador? What's the ol' U S of A going to do about it? Well,

nothing actually. That sends the wrong message not just to the world, but to

our troops, and to our kids who may want to serve someday.

 

   Whenever someone raises concerns about Benghazi, the other side cries

"politics." I really don't care about the politics. I don't care about what

this means for 2014 or 2016. This is bigger than Benghazi, and it's

certainly bigger than election cycles.

 

   I care about the moment those men knew they were alone and would die, and

the sinking feeling they must have experienced when they realized help

wasn't on the way. I care about the new reality, where Americans under

attack can't expect relief to come. And that breaks my heart. The "shining

city on the hill" is a little dimmer after Benghazi.

 

   Tom Rooney

 

   Congressman Tom Rooney is a member of the House Intelligence and

Appropriations Committees and a U.S. Army Veteran. Cong Rooney represents

Florida's 16th Congressional District.