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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (782915)	4/30/2014 10:43:52 PM
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Judicial Watch: Carney is Lying, We Sued for Benghazi Talking Points Washington Free Beacon ^ \| 4/30/14 Judicial Watch’s President Tom Fitton hit back at Jay Carney over false statements made by the White House press secretary during his heated exchange with ABC’s Jon Karl regarding newly released emails about Benghazi. The emails were only released by the White House after Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against them. Carney said that talking points given to Ambassador Susan Rice to recite on talk shows following the Benghazi attack centered around protests in the Middle East, not specifically pertaining to Benghazi. “If you look at that document, that document that we’re talking about today was about the overall environment in the Muslim world- the protests outside of Khartoum…These were big stories. These were- this was a big problem. And this was an ongoing story through that weekend when Ambassador Rice appeared in the Sunday shows,” Carney told Karl. (Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ..

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (782915)	5/1/2014 12:51:11 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1576791

Retired Lt. Col.: My Sources Say Obama Was in the Room Watching Benghazi Attack Happen ......................................................... Oct. 28, 2012 Madeleine Morgenstern theblaze.com Retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer said Saturday he has sources saying President Barack Obama was in the room at the White House watching the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya unfold. Two unarmed U.S. drones were dispatched to the consulate and recorded the final hours of the attack, which killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. “This was in the middle of the business day in Washington, so everybody at the White House, CIA, Pentagon, everybody was watching this go down,” Shaffer said on Fox News’ “Justice with Judge Jeanine.” “According to my sources, yes, [Obama] was one of those in the White House Situation Room in real-time watching this.” Shaffer served as a senior operations officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan in 2003 and wrote a book critical of the policies there. The U.S. government purchased the entire print run for $47,000 in an attempt at censorship just before its 2010 publication, claiming it contained classified material. Shaffer said the question now is what precisely Obama did or didn’t do in the moments he saw the attack unfolding. The CIA reportedly made three urgent requests for military backup that were each denied. “He, only he, could issue a directive to Secretary of Defense Panetta to do something. That’s the only place it could be done,” Shaffer said. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last week the military did not intervene because they did not have enough information about what was happening on the ground. Col. David Hunt, a Fox News military analyst, said the military could have had jets in the air within 20 minutes and forces on the ground within two hours. “The issue is always political with the White House, but the secretary of defense gives the order, has to be approved by the White House, they wouldn’t pull the trigger, and it’s disgraceful,” Hunt said. “We’ve got guys dead.”

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (782915)	5/1/2014 12:10:45 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576791

<<No one alive today has suffered slavery in the USA - no one alive today was a slave owner - nothing to apologize for or anyone to apologize to.>> We tortured the African American for 400 years. That is not healed over night. And our society has an obligation to help with the healing. why can't you get that. It is not a matter of anyone getting over anything. It is a matter of doing the right thing. No one alive remembers slavery, but lots of people alive remember segregation, black chain gangs and racism is still alive and well today. Just ask any black person and did you miss the news this week?

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (782915)	5/1/2014 2:05:45 PM
From: Alex MG	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1576791

No one alive today has suffered slavery in the USA - no one alive today was a slave owner - nothing to apologize for or anyone to apologize to. as always, you right wing asshats are always wrong, with your heads up your collective asses 1930s Georgia Southern Gulag: How 20th Century Slave Labor Undermined the US Labor Movement September 3rd, 2008 \| Nathan Newman Let us talk this Labor Day about slave labor in the United States. No, not the antebellum kind before the Civil War but the slavery that persisted well into the 20th century, the slavery that was integral not only to the southern economy but slaves owned by northern corporations and used to break strikes and keep the South a union-free reserve. And I don’t mean some metaphorical slavery, but, as Douglas Blackmon writes in his recent Slavery by Another Name, the slavery of brutal forced labor, whips, death and sexual rape of black women–in many ways worse than that of the older form of slavery. The author is not a leftwing journalist but Atlanta bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal, but what he documents is seven decades of a southern gulag- and I use the word “gulag” deliberately for what his story shows is that the U.S. had within its borders as brutal a regime of degradation as the worst that Stalin could dish out. This southern gulag involved millions of black workers enslaved through a combination of capitalist employers, farm owners and a legal system that promised a brutal fate for anyone defying their de facto masters. And it is a key story for understanding the ultimate weakness of the overall U.S. labor movement, since having a deunionized Southern region was an essential tool in disciplining Northern workers who feared loss of jobs to a region without labor rights. That is the story that Blackmon tells. I urge every person to go out and read the book, but the following gives the highlights (or lowlights if you will). todaysworkplace.org