tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post2923897372143741439..comments2024-02-14T11:00:03.180-05:00Comments on Tom McLaughlin: Interview with Hillary Clinton about BenghaziTom McLaughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07691546351143209227noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-22215994560640956102016-01-08T17:01:04.654-05:002016-01-08T17:01:04.654-05:00Hilly plainly lied and continues to lie. Telling a...Hilly plainly lied and continues to lie. Telling a different story each time she is interview. Why not ask the parents who lost their sons who is lying.Jud Tirrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17852724661826236142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-43613635752786138362016-01-06T21:36:42.021-05:002016-01-06T21:36:42.021-05:00In mid-2002, when the Bush administration was comp...In mid-2002, when the Bush administration was compiling its case for war, George Tenet met with the Senate intelligence committee to brief them on the latest intelligence regarding Iraq’s WMD capabilities. His conclusion was that Saddam was rebuilding his nuclear capacity, they had better than 500 locations throughout the country were WMD were hidden and they developed UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) capable of delivering chemical and biological agents that could possibly reach Israel. Dick Durbin and Bob Graham asked to read the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the matter. None was prepared. An NIE is the intelligence community’s most current summary of any geopolitical issue. The found it odd that the White House didn’t request one from the CIA. When one was finally completed, it was classified and kept in a secure room at the Capitol. Peter Zimmerman, scientific advisor to the Senate foreign relations committee had access to the 96-page report and read it twice. He was alarmed. All of the blunt declaratives asserting Iraq’s possession of chem/bio agents and their active nuclear program were tempered, deeper in the document, with qualifiers, dissents and outright disagreements from other agencies. Zimmerman urged his peers to read the NIE saying the dissents were “shocking.” “Bush hadn’t asked for the NIE, nor – as the White House would later acknowledge – did he ever read it. Nor would most members of Congress. Senate aides would later calculate that no more than a half-dozen or so members actually went to the secure room where the highly classified NIE was kept under lock and key before the upcoming vote on Bush’s Iraq resolution.” <br /><br />Another claim that fueled the mushroom cloud comparison was Bush’s claim that Iraq sought upto 500 tons of yellow cake uranium from Niger. The origin of the claim came from documents obtained, or created, by an Italian, Rocco Martino, who made a living selling documents and information to journalists, businesses and intelligence agencies. The documents were supposed to be signed agreements for Iraq to buy the yellowcake from Niger. Berlusconi received the documents shortly after 9/11 and forwarded them to U.S. and British intelligence. U.S. intelligence was skeptical from the start, because Niger’s uranium industry was controlled by a French consortium. 500 tons equaled one-sixth of Niger’s annual uranium production. This lead to Joe Wilson volunteering to go to Niger to research the claim. His prior foreign service experience in Africa and Niger, specifically, was substantial. He discovered nothing. Most of the uranium from the only two mines in the country was used in nuclear plants belonging to the countries represented by the consortium. The industry was rigidly controlled by them. The CIA even got the claim removed from Bush’s Sept. ‘12 UN Speech. The State Department also wanted it removed from the NIE but wasn’t successfully, and the CIA disavowed the claim shortly after its publication. The Washington Post eventually published what the intelligence community already knew; the documents were forgeries. <br /><br />There’s so much more to all of this. Everything I’ve written is summarized or quoted from the book, Hubris, by Michael Isikoff and David Corn. <br />Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01343163377040116742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-7654317825193623882016-01-06T14:21:04.084-05:002016-01-06T14:21:04.084-05:00THAT was a brilliant piece of reportage Tom! Great...THAT was a brilliant piece of reportage Tom! Great work! It is so refreshing to hear SOMEBODY ask Hillary the questions that demand answers...or evasive obfuscations, in her case.MTHarpoonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13617337964238507152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-26566971523422824852016-01-06T07:12:53.940-05:002016-01-06T07:12:53.940-05:00I wonder what's worse, plagiarized interpretat...I wonder what's worse, plagiarized interpretation of history, or a clear and present danger concerning the immediate future.<br />Let's have a look at the Eastern, and Western omelets, from the last seven years of professional "egg breaking", shall we?<br />What IS the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist? Oh, Progressive Democrat is BETTER? <br />But if "history" is what you seek Brian, let's have the resume/cv/rap sheet of current candidate Clinton's career to date. In graciousness, starting AFTER the Sophomore year in college.<br /> Column A, actual achievements. Column B, "problematic".<br />OR, "we" could chat about the Kennedys, maybe Pres. Wilson and HIS "posse", but I hardly feel that's a pertinent derailment/diversion from "current events".<br />CaptDMO <br /> <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-53671716159598673782016-01-05T20:52:03.812-05:002016-01-05T20:52:03.812-05:00One of the first and most obvious was Bush/Cheney’...One of the first and most obvious was Bush/Cheney’s attempt to link Saddam to Al Qaeda be declaring there had been dozens of “high-level” meetings between Iraqi defense officials and Al Qaeda operatives., which didn’t happen. They stated Mohamad Atta met with Iraqi intelligence operatives in Prague despite the CIA and FBI discrediting any such meeting. <br /><br />They said we repeatedly interrogated an alcoholic, Iraqi defector, code named Curveball, who had refuge in Germany. Curveball was a chemical engineer who fled to German in 1999 after he embezzled from the government. After being classified as a refugee, he then changed his story by saying he worked on mobile biological weapons labs, an assertion the White House would repeatedly use. No U.S. individual every interrogated him. We relied on his Arabic accounts translated into German and then translated into English for us to read. The German and British intelligence suspected he was fraud, a fabricator and probably suffered from a nervous breakdown.<br /><br />In the 96-page National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that made the case for war, most of the biological weapons section was solely based on Curveball’s claims.<br /><br />Iraq’s secret attempt to refurbish its nuclear program was another issue. A single CIA agent, also working with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) heard of a report that Saddam sought to buy 60K aluminum tubes from Hong Kong. He concluded they must be used for uranium enrichment and presented it to the Center for Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation and Arms Control (WINPAC). This was presented to Bush in April 2001. Tracking any such purchases and shipments was easy since the Iraqis made no attempt to conceal them. They faxed out multiple purchase orders, negotiated over the cost and even advertised online for the tubes. We got a hold of the tubes when, at our request, Jordanians seized a shipment of them. Several nuclear scientists interviewed, along with the Dept. of Energy and the State Dept. Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) concluded the tubes were not compatible for use in centrifuges but were nearly identical to the ones Iraq used in their conventional rocket launchers. This nuclear threat that didn’t exist was some of what Cheney fed to the NYT as a confidential source in the now infamous Sept. 7, 2001 article making the case for war. Cheney and other White House officials fanned out that Sunday on all of the talk shows to highlight Saddam’s threat and coincidentally relied on that article as proof. This discredited nuclear threat was also the basis for Bush’s apocalyptic prophecy of the smoking gun being a mushroom cloud. <br /><br />It's getting late and I need to get to bed. I'll pick this up again tomorrow. <br />Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01343163377040116742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-57280760060390060112016-01-05T18:03:24.048-05:002016-01-05T18:03:24.048-05:00Steve, could you elaborate on those lies?Steve, could you elaborate on those lies?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-67908466007104713542016-01-05T17:52:11.344-05:002016-01-05T17:52:11.344-05:00Mr. McLaughlin, which do you think is the greater ...Mr. McLaughlin, which do you think is the greater injustice: the lies the Bush administration told so they could start an unnecessary war in Iraq or the Obama administration’s lie that the assault in Benghazi was the result of a coordinated terrorist attack rather than a spontaneous response to a video? Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01343163377040116742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-56314230922554233292016-01-05T12:58:58.523-05:002016-01-05T12:58:58.523-05:00The call came in at 3AM. Hillary turned over and ...The call came in at 3AM. Hillary turned over and went back to sleep.MikeLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-49567425958182438292016-01-05T11:18:09.947-05:002016-01-05T11:18:09.947-05:00Media outlets running accounts of the above interv...Media outlets running accounts of the above interview with Hillary so far:<br /><br />http://mrctv.org/blog/hillary-clinton-gets-caught-conflicting-benghazi-lies-interview-new-hampshire-newspaper-editors<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3380562/Hillary-Clinton-insists-never-told-victims-families-terror-attack-began-protest-anti-Islam-video.html<br /><br />http://nation.foxnews.com/2015/12/31/somebody-lying-hillary-goes-offensive-against-benghazi-victims-families<br /><br />http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/31/hillary-goes-on-the-offensive-against-benghazi-victims-families/<br /><br />http://www.redstate.com/2015/12/31/hillary-doubles-calling-benghazi-victims-families-liars/<br /><br />http://www.detroitnewstime.com/regional/115626-hillary-clinton-insists-she-never-told-victims-families-the-terror-attack-began-as-protest-over-an-anti-islam-video.html<br /><br />http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3378514/posts?page=28<br /><br />http://www.weaselzippers.us/248358-completely-despicable-hillary-calls-families-of-the-benghazi-victims-liars/<br /><br />http://www.allenbwest.com/2015/12/new-low-what-hillary-just-said-about-benghazi-families-is-beyond-despicable/<br /><br />https://pjmedia.com/trending/2015/12/31/hillary-nailed-again-on-benghazi-lie-in-new-hampshire/1<br /><br />Newspaper in Angola ran it<br /><br />http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/the_clinton_honor_roll_those_bill_and_hill_call_liars.html<br /><br />http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/261321/hillary-clinton-someone-lied-about-benghazi-it-daniel-greenfield<br /><br />http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/01/whos-lying-hillary-or-members-of-several-benghazi-victims-families.php<br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2016/01/02/in-new-hampshire-hillary-clinton-throws-benghazi-families-under-the-bus/<br /><br />http://lidblog.com/clinton-to-nh-newspaper-benghazi-famlies-confused-she-never-blamed-attack-on-video/#<br /><br />http://www.barenakedislam.com/2016/01/01/hillary-clinton-now-says-the-families-of-benghazi-victims-are-liars/<br /><br />http://www.morningnewstime.com/update/1310051/hillary-nailed-again-on-benghazi-lie-in-new-hampshire.html<br /><br />http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2016/01/hillary-clinton-throws-benghazi.html<br /><br />http://rightedition.com/2016/01/01/hillary-clinton-calls-benghazi-victims-families-liars/<br /><br />http://www.youngcons.com/hillary-clinton-calls-benghazi-victims-families-liars/<br /><br />http://www.discussionist.com/1015680106<br /><br />http://gop-news.us/3744/in-new-hampshire-hillary-clinton-throws-benghazi-families-under-the-bus/#<br /><br />http://www.ijreview.com/2016/01/505742-trump-has-message-for-hillary-after-she-explains-lying-to-benghazi-families/<br /><br />http://libertyfirstnews.com/hillary-clinton-confronted-for-lying-to-benghazi-families-and-trump-mocks-her-3-word-response/#<br /><br />http://www.unionleader.com/article/20160102/AGGREGATION/160109947<br /><br />http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/01/04/hillary-im-not-lying-so-the-benghazi-families-must-be-n2099353<br /><br />http://menrec.com/hillary-clinton-says-families-of-benghazi-victims-are-lying/<br /><br />http://www.peoplespunditdaily.com/news/politics/2016/01/04/hillary-clinton-says-benghazi-victims-families-lied-about-her-blaming-youtube-video/<br /><br />https://reason.com/blog/2016/01/04/mainstream-media-finally-takes-interest<br /><br />https://stevedeace.com/news/first-lady-senator-secretary-of-state-liar/<br /><br />http://usherald.com/hillary-add-insult-injury-publicly-shaming-benghazi-victims-famlies/#<br /><br />https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/01/04/what-benghazi-family-members-say-hillary-clinton-said-about-the-video/<br />Tom McLaughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691546351143209227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-80128706068621621362016-01-04T15:12:39.573-05:002016-01-04T15:12:39.573-05:00Uh oh.
Well, the piece at "reason" citi...Uh oh.<br /> Well, the piece at "reason" citing the Sun interview has been linked by Instapundit.<br />I suspect crazy antics will ensue.<br />CaptDMO Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-60439508612434807312016-01-04T10:56:03.858-05:002016-01-04T10:56:03.858-05:00Well, Mr. E, Bernie cancelled the interview, but I...Well, Mr. E, Bernie cancelled the interview, but I didn't know until I drove all the way over there this morning and I don't know if it'll be re-scheduled. I had some tough questions ready for him but I'll save them for another time.Tom McLaughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691546351143209227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-26117090090913103612016-01-03T08:15:10.771-05:002016-01-03T08:15:10.771-05:00Ooooo...in light of the fact that there's no c...Ooooo...in light of the fact that there's no comparable candidate to Mr. Sanders on the other side, perhaps contact Peter Shumlin for a "What would you like to ask Bernie..?" inquiry?<br />Bearing in mind that In My Humble Opinion, he too is fond of dictating what "Our American Values" are, in defense of an illusion of "free stuff" in exchange for unsustainable, diminishing, "progress".(well, and votes of course)<br />Then there's ALSO the matter of migratory career political "scientists", (ie) "White Flight" progressive NIMBY socialists vs. (ie) Free State Project immigrants.<br />Or just ask him "If you were a tree, what would your sprit animal be?" I suppose.<br />CaptDMO<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-12083095550597938992016-01-03T05:30:49.443-05:002016-01-03T05:30:49.443-05:00I disagree with Bernie on almost everything, but I...I disagree with Bernie on almost everything, but I know he says what he thinks and I can respect that. I won't go after him the way I did Hillary, but I'm not sure what my question will be yet. I'll get at least one and maybe a follow-up or two.Tom McLaughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691546351143209227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-26222843441053332692016-01-02T15:37:00.633-05:002016-01-02T15:37:00.633-05:00Oh, I'll like it. It will be fun to see what ...Oh, I'll like it. It will be fun to see what mean spirited bullcrap you will pull out in order to degrade an old man of integrity. I am betting your piece will be especially vile because Bernie does not suffer fools gladly, and will chew you up and spit you out, which will get you especially angry. I am really looking forward to the column!<br /><br />It is interesting...I just just googled "conservatives against Bernie Sanders" to see what they had to say, and almost all the top sites to appear were columns about how conservatives LIKED him. But I guess in your case you just can't see it...it takes a man with integrity himself to recognize it and respect it in others.Mr. Enoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-82300411640894402152016-01-02T15:02:52.323-05:002016-01-02T15:02:52.323-05:00I bet Bernie is your man. I'm interviewing him...I bet Bernie is your man. I'm interviewing him Monday morning.<br /><br />You probably won't like that write-up either.Tom McLaughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691546351143209227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-77032424810080351592016-01-02T12:31:36.443-05:002016-01-02T12:31:36.443-05:00I glanced at your column and laughed. Again? Sta...I glanced at your column and laughed. Again? Started to read it to see if there was anything new. Yawn.<br /><br />Even House Republicans aren't shy anymore about admitting that the Benghazi Committee is a partisan farce. After failing to produce any new information on the tragic 2012 attacks at Benghazi despite a 17-month investigation, they tried the email angle. <br /><br />The committee has taken on a role as a taxpayer-funded arm of the Republican National Committee, spending $4.6 million of your money (which they are being called on to reimburse) and careening from subject to subject in an attempt to manufacture scandal.<br /><br />Well, they succeeded, alright. The Benghazi Committee isn't investigating a scandal, the Benghazi Committee IS the scandal. What's been discovered so far is an abuse of Congressional power, leaking and lying to the press, and alleged violations of several laws and Congressional rules.<br /><br />I don't plan on voting for Hillary, but it is hilarious how scared conservatives are of her, and the low depths they will sink to try and derail her.<br /><br />Keep it coming, chumps!Mr. Enoreply@blogger.com