Yeah, I noticed. Denis McDonough. Same guy who was in Oval Office September 11th 2012 when Tom Donilon came in from situation room to advise Obama on Benghazi attack.
The only picture ever released of the White House on Sept. 11th 2012 ☝️
Photograph taken at 7:18pm EST / 1:18am in Benghazi.
DoS consulate lost, ambassador missing & security team just arrived back at CIA annex. McDonough briefing Obama/Biden, who just completed a phone call with Bibi Netanyahu (Biden notes). Jack Lew and Tom Donilon looking on.
Obama asked McDonough to summon then Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to give options.
Unfortunately covert operation "Zero Footprint", the reason for the CIA annex (weapons buy-backs), was an Obama finding memo initiated and requested by Panetta when he was CIA Director.
With Benghazi gone sideways; and with an Ambassador missing, presumed hostage at the time; Leon Panetta held a conflict of interest as Defense Secretary on this mission.
Launching an immediate rescue mission would expose the CIA. Specifically the CIA when Panetta was director.
Panetta's CIA replacement, Gen. David Petraeus, didn't know about operation Zero Footprint and held no liability for the fallout.
Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta and by extension President Obama held the bag that night. Everything had a political prism. It was an election year.
Valuable time was lost during the White House debate (all political) about what to do. Ambassador Chris Stevens status was unknown throughout most of it.
AFRICOM Commander, General Carter Ham, was never activated to initiate a rescue mission.
[The Obama Administration replaced General Carter Ham with General David Rodriguez at AFRICOM on October 18, 2012. The next month]
Leon Panetta and President Obama ultimately decided doing nothing was the best political option. The operational security people (CIA and DoS) in Benghazi rescued themselves using chartered flights after they fled the Annex for the airport.
CIA Director Petraeus, like Carter Ham, became a liability in the aftermath. Petraeus was removed and replaced with acting director Mike Morrell.
SoS Hillary Clinton started media avoidance with a cold, then faked a slip-n-fall concussion to avoid pre-election questioning.
The FBI then claimed they could not safely travel to Benghazi to investigate. This claimed seemed even more silly when contrast against U.S. and international media walking around the compound broadcasting reports from the burned-out consulate.
The FBI stalled for 19 days to ensure any evidence of value at the consulate or annex was destroyed or removed. They arrived 19 days after the original attack.
By then everything in DC was about covering up what happened and stalling through the mid-term election.
It worked
Personally I think Hillary's 2012 'slip-n-fall' was actually a stress induced stroke. Hence the prism glasses.
The "concussion" was a cover story
Lots of people were eventually compromised over the Benghazi scandal and subsequent cover-up.
The subsequent 2012 "Thanksgiving Day fire" directly above Hillary Clinton's office in Washington DC was a tell. Few people noticed it.
1) The people who installed the current occupant of the White House; that's the people who control the "presidency" of Joe Biden; have this to say about their intent to block any effort seeking to stop the process they used.
2) The people in control of the presidency, are doing this, and other things, to ensure the continuation of what they call "rule of law" and "our democracy":
3) This is literally what "their democracy" looks like.
[For those unaware, this was what was once called "the people's house" in popular representative parlance.]
2) A play-by-play perspective of a Democratic Convention showdown....
3) Clyburn heads to the White House for a meeting with Biden. He lays it all out – Biden needs to step down! Feeling the pressure, Biden announces he’s not running for re-election, leaving his supporters stunned and betrayed.
1. After Eric Holder left the Obama administration as Attorney General, he was hired by the State of California to defend against the Trump administration in early January 2017.
2. When Eric Holder left the Obama administration, his firm was contracted by California during a process of linking the motor vehicle registration files to the Secretary of State voter registration system.
Holder was advising on part of a technology system being constructed to bridge the DMV and SoS offices. You might know this as a “Motor/Voter” process. However, former AG Eric Holder had a very specific function in the construction of this technology bridge.
3. The process of adding voters to the registration rolls when they receive or update their driver’s license was seen as an opportunity to expand the voter rolls. Making the voter rolls as big as possible is the key to the utilization of mass mail-out balloting.
1) Let me bring FU type clarity to the "reasonable reforms" argument.
I have talked to everyone in DC about this. They are idiots. Not making mistakes, just plain allowing the IC to tell them nonsense. So, let me be clear.
2) Office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified April 27, 2023, more than 3.4 million search queries into the NSA database took place between Dec. 1st, 2020 and Nov. 30th, 2021, by government officials and/or contractors working on behalf of the federal government.
3) These search queries were based on authorizations related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and 702 search authorization.
1) There are two general flaws in this type of analysis.
While likely accurate that ISIS did not originate the planning of the attack. Two elements stand out that appear to point away from Galloway's supposition.
2) First, the suspects are alive. Meaning, there was no mop up operation behind them to remove the fingerprints of operational control.
Example (mop up): They didn't jump in the car after the attack and have the car explode with them in it. Essentially eliminating the trail.
3) The absence of the clean-up (could have been anything - not just my example) implies the people who organized the attackers wanted the attackers to be captured.... and therefore, talk about their prior instructions.
1. Let me be very clear, I have talked to congress about everything involved in Spygate, far, far, far, beyond the @shellenberger generalities and provided over 600 pages of verifiable info documents to prove the events as they took place. THEY DON'T CARE.
2. I also talked to J. Durham and W. Aldenberg about the specific info that proves the IC was coordinating with the Senate (SSCI) on all the Trump targeting stuff. I have been vetted, researched and investigated for providing the docs. Again, they don't care.
3. The apparatus of our govt, has made it perfectly clear they intend to do nothing except cover-up all of the activity because the institutional damage is too encompassing for them to deal with. QUOTE: "The IC activity was too big to cope with," the system is not designed...