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To: Don Hurst who wrote (682463)	11/2/2012 3:55:59 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571141

"The timeline provided by a senior U.S. intelligence official" what's his name ??? pure obama /chicago bullshit. why weren't spectres sent ?

To: Don Hurst who wrote (682463)

11/2/2012 4:06:01 PM

From: longnshort

Respond to of 1571141

Lmao... The underachiever/plagiarist ticket.

Wealthy Columbia donor: Obama’s GPA is 2.6
Nov 2, 2012 11:46 AM | 83 Comments

Looks like the Daily Caller has gotten what they are calling a credible tip from a Columbia...
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– The 2.6 grade can’t be confirmed, is contradicted by some evidence, and it doesn’t say anything about the courses, professors and associations Obama was immersed in during his two-year stay in Columbia.

But the source is credible, and he’s contributing to the collective effort by Americans to find out more about their president — who is a champion of a greater role for himself and other government officials in Americans’ personal lives, social norms and career opportunities.

The source for the 2.6 number is a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur and a Columbia alumnus who maintains good ties with the university.

In 2004, after Obama’s successful speech at that year’s Democratic convention, a Columbia University official told him Barack Obama’s GPA, he explained to TheDC.

“This person told me that he [Obama] was a pre-law, poli-sci major, had a lot of incompletes, and as best could be determined after sorting through the incompletes, had a GPA of 2.6,” said the businessman, a former Marine Corps combat veteran.

The source asked not to be named, but TheDC has verified at least one $2,500 contribution he made to Columbia.

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To: Don Hurst who wrote (682463)	11/2/2012 6:06:42 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571141

Do you get the feeling that Mr. Murdoch........I mean the WSJ is a little annoyed with this teevee movie? lol Barack Obama, Action Hero SEAL Team Six Sunday at 8 p.m. on National Geographic Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sylvester Stallone. Bruce Willis. Judging by "SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden," a television movie set to air on National Geographic just two days before the U.S. presidential election, producer Harvey Weinstein is bent on having Barack Obama join this pantheon of action stars. The film presents the story of how the CIA, its Pakistani assets and a small team of elite Navy SEALs located and neutralized the world's most wanted terrorist last year. "SEAL Team Six" offers no new revelations, and the plot's factual background will be familiar to most viewers, having acquired an almost mythical status thanks to White House leaks, journalistic accounts and a memoir penned by a member of the SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden. We are introduced to Vivian (Kathleen Robertson), the CIA analyst who tracked bin Laden to an inconspicuous compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, then struggled mightily to convince her superiors to pursue the lead. We also meet Stunner (Cam Gigandet), Cherry (Anson Mount) and the rest of the SEALs who carried out the operation with deadly efficiency and quiet professionalism. The scenes portraying the search for bin Laden and the covert raid on his compound bear Mr. Weinstein's signature: This is a well-executed action drama, exceeding the standards of both genre and medium. The able cast, pumping electronic soundtrack and rapid-fire editing make "SEAL Team Six" one of the most exciting items ever to appear on National Geographic. The film betrays Mr. Weinstein's close involvement in other ways, as well: Its well-timed and barely disguised electoral message may just turn "SEAL Team Six" into the most controversial TV movie ever made. In real life, it was the SEALs who did most of the airdropping, bullet-dodging and sniping that resulted in bin Laden's demise. But the film's editorial framing casts Mr. Obama as the toughest and most courageous of them all—the man who, after nearly a decade of failed efforts under the previous (unnamed) administration, finally dropped the hammer on bin Laden, healing a wounded nation. The president isn't played by an actor in "SEAL Team Six." But his voice is a constant presence, almost akin to a narrator's. "We will kill bin Laden," Mr. Obama vows at a 2008 presidential debate. "We will crush al Qaeda." By contrast, the seven years the Bush administration and the U.S. military and intelligence apparatus devoted to accomplishing the same mission before Mr. Obama's arrival in the White House—efforts that undergirded the ultimate success of the May 2, 2011, operation—are dismissed. During the Bush administration, Vivian sighs, "the trail had gone cold." As the SEAL team trains for the mission and as the intelligence chiefs debate the merits of their proposals for action, we see Mr. Obama holding tense discussions with his staff and taking lonesome walks, presumably to contemplate his immense historical responsibilities. The footage and photographs of the president are real and often bear a WhiteHouse.gov watermark, giving the whole affair the appearance of a well-oiled public-private partnership. Other Obama segments were put together "at the suggestion of Mr. Weinstein," the New York Times reported last week, "using material gathered by Meghan O'Hara, a producer who worked closely with the documentarian Michael Moore on politically charged projects like 'Fahrenheit 9/11' and 'Sicko.'" The ending of "SEAL Team Six" comes as no surprise, of course. Much of the dramatic tension, rather, surrounds the question of whether Vivian and her colleagues at the CIA will be able to gain the White House's approval for their findings and plans. If they don't act soon, it will be Tora Bora all over again, complains Vivian, when they had him and "let him go." An earlier cut of the film reportedly showed Mitt Romney, Mr. Obama's Republican challenger, voicing opposition to the raid. That scene was properly removed at National Geographic's behest. Even Hollywood electioneering has its limits. online.wsj.com

To: Don Hurst who wrote (682463)	11/2/2012 7:12:59 PM
From: jlallen	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571141

LOL!!! Interesting that Fox was not invited to that briefing.....how big of a sucker are you, Donny the Dumbfukk??

To: Don Hurst who wrote (682463)	11/2/2012 7:14:50 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1571141

Lefty don gets all his "news" from Susan Rice.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (682463)	11/3/2012 10:56:41 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1571141

No mention of 'protesters'; knew 3 hours before attack armed militia gathering... No mention of 'protesters'; knew 3 hours before attack armed militia was gathering...

To: Don Hurst who wrote (682463)	11/3/2012 11:42:54 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1571141

Exclusive: Security officials on the ground in Libya challenge CIA account By Adam Housley November 03, 2012 foxnews.com Despite a carefully narrated version of events rolled out late this week by the CIA claiming agents jumped into action as soon as they were notified of calls for help in Benghazi, security officials on the ground say calls for help went out considerably earlier -- and signs of an attack were mounting even before that. The accounts, from foreign and American security officials in and around Benghazi at the time of the attack, indicate there was in fact a significant lag between when the threat started to show itself and help started to arrive. According to the CIA, the first calls for assistance came at 9:40 p.m. local time from a senior State Department official at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, to the CIA annex about a mile away. But according to multiple people on the ground that night, the Blue Mountain Security manager, who was in charge of the local force hired to guard the consulate perimeter, made calls on both two-way radios and cell phones to colleagues in Benghazi warning of problems at least an hour earlier. Those calls allegedly went to local security contractors who say that the CIA annex was also notified much earlier than 9:40 p.m. U.S. military intelligence also told Fox News that armed militia was gathering up to three hours before the attack began. One source said the Blue Mountain Security chief seemed "distraught" and said "the situation here is very serious, we have a problem." He also said that even without these phone and radio calls, it was clear to everyone in the security community on the ground in Benghazi much earlier than 9:40 p.m. that fighters were gathering in preparation for an attack. Many of these security contractors and intelligence sources on the ground in Benghazi met twice a week for informal meetings at the consulate with Blue Mountain and consulate staff, and at times other international officials. They were all very familiar with security at the consulate -- and said the staff seemed "complacent" and "didn't seem to follow the normal American way of securing a facility." Both American and British sources say multiple roadblocks set up by fighters believed to be with Ansar al-Sharia were in place in Benghazi several hours before the 9:40 p.m. timeline and that communications also alluded to "heavily armed troops showing up with artillery." Fox News was told by both American and British contacts who were in Benghazi that night that the CIA timeline rolled out this past week is only "loosely based on the truth" and "doesn't quite add up." Fox News was also told that the local guard force meant to protect the consulate perimeter "panicked" and didn't know what to do as the attackers took up positions. Sources say other guards simply "walked away". One former Special Op now employed by a private company in Benghazi said that even the safe room wasn't properly set up. He said "the safe room is one of the first measures you take" and that he is "not sure how you can set a safe room without fire suppression and ventilation in case of fire." He also said, "Ambassador Stevens would likely be alive today if this simple and normal procedure was put into place." As details emerge of serious security issues before the attack on Sept. 11, Fox News is also beginning to hear more frustration from sources both on the ground in Benghazi and in the U.S. Multiple British and American sources insist there were other capabilities in the region and are mystified why none were used. Fox News was told there were not only armed drones that monitor Libyan chemical weapon sites in the area, but also F-18's, AC-130 aircraft and even helicopters that could have been dispatched in a timely fashion. British intelligence sources said that unarmed drones routinely flew over Benghazi every night in flight patterns and that armed drones which fly over chemical sites, some a short flight from Benghazi, "were always said to be on call." American sources confirmed this and questioned "why was a drone armed only with a camera dispatched?" Another source added, "Why would they put a ragtag team together in Tripoli as first responders? This is not even what they do for a living. We had a first responder air base in Italy almost the same distance away." Despite the team arriving from Tripoli that night, sources said sufficient American back-up never came. British sources on the ground in Benghazi said they are extremely frustrated by the attack and are still wondering why they weren't called for help. “We have more people on the ground here than the Americans and I just don't know why we didn't get the call?" one said. Both American and British sources said, at the very least, the security situation on the ground and the lack of proper response were the result of "complete incompetence." The covert team that came in from Tripoli was held up at the Benghazi airport for more than three hours by Libyan officials. Sources said the team notified officials in Washington that they were being delayed within 30 minutes of their arrival. They also point out that these questions "don't even address the military capabilities of our United Nations ally Turkey, who (has) forces available a similarly short flight away." Fox News has learned that Turkey had a number of embassy staff in town the night of the attack and that the Turkish consul general met with Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi the night he and the three other Americans were killed. One source asked, "Were the Turks not warned? What forces were available from our ally Turkey? Especially since they had officials there in Benghazi also and had to be concerned … and where was the U.N. in all of this?