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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (514472)	10/17/2012 1:47:12 PM
From: KLP	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793575

Excellent way of asking the question, and not actually asking the question. I find this particularly apt......HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? Is the President of the United States EVER asked or told anything of value or note? Has he assigned others to every aspect of his job, except the ceremonial parts? WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THIS COUNTRY AND THE SECURITY OF THIS COUNTRY? It is NOT possible today that the POTUS would not have know about the Libya situation.....Look back to 9-11-2001.....ALL OF US knew the situation that very minute....we even knew where the President was, and what was happening that day.... Is the Obama government telling us they DIDN'T know anything that day, or even the next two weeks? And yet we were seeing the Embassy on fire, and the pictures of the dead Ambassador nearly immediately. We had better know exactly what is going on in the WH and start asking WHY DIDN'T Obama know anything.... I really don't understand why it has been established that the Benghazi attack was watched for hours in real time and yet there was no response? I find it amazing that the President would not be contacted? It is difficult to understand how assets were not made available to provide assistance during the many hours the attack take place? Hillary has taken responsibility for the response, but in any organization, including the US Government, the buck stops at the top office, that would be the President. It is incomprehensible to me that after four Americans were killed in a terrorist attack on American ground, the President would jet off to Las Vegas for a fund raiser.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (514472)	10/17/2012 1:54:35 PM
From: ManyMoose	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793575

Have you sent those suggestions to Ted Olsen? You should. A post further upstream framed the perfect way to get the people thinking, without being disrespectful to the President (which could alienate some). Instead of asking, "Mr. President, why..." (which only invites obfuscation in the reply), better to phrase the questions thusly: I really don't understand why it has been established that the Benghazi attack was watched for hours in real time and yet there was no response? I find it amazing that the President would not be contacted? It is difficult to understand how assets were not made available to provide assistance during the many hours the attack take place? Hillary has taken responsibility for the response, but in any organization, including the US Government, the buck stops at the top office, that would be the President. It is incomprehensible to me that after four Americans were killed in a terrorist attack on American ground, the President would jet off to Las Vegas for a fund raiser.