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Orlando club Witness: Fla. gunman attacked to get US 'to stop bombing his country'
US Ambassador killing in Benghazi is said to be revenge for Obama drone attack
Boston Marathon BombingBill O'Reilly: Brokaw way off base with Afghanistan-Boston tie-in
April 27, 2013|By Bill O'Reilly
Shortly after the terror bombings in Boston last week, two different media people made statements that were alarming to say the least. Two days after the attack, McClatchy reporter Amina Ismail asked White House spokesman Jay Carney: "President Obama said that what happened in Boston was an act of terrorism. Do you consider the U.S. bombing on civilians in Afghanistan ... a form of terrorism?"
As usual, Carney didn't have an answer and referred the reporter to the Department of Defense.
What Carney should have said is this: "Are you kidding me? U.S. policy in Afghanistan is designed to protect civilians, and thousands of our military people have been killed and wounded doing just that. Your question is an insult to them, to this country and to the intelligence of any sane person."
That's what Carney should have said.
Four days later, Tom Brokaw appeared on "Meet the Press." The former NBC News anchor has drifted sharply to the left with age, much like Walter Cronkite did. Amazingly, Brokaw equated drone warfare with the Boston bombings.
"I think we also have to examine the use of drones, which the United States is involved in. There are a lot of civilians who are innocently killed in drone attacks in Pakistan, in Afghanistan and in Iraq," he said. "And I can tell you having spent a lot of time over there, young people will come up to me on the streets and say, 'We love America, but if you harm one hair on the head of my sister, I will fight you forever.' And there is this enormous rage against what they see in that part of the world as a presumptuousness of the United States."
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/201...-drone-attacks
Fox: Email Reveals Obama Advisor Urged Rice to Blame Video for Benghazi
by Noah Rothman | April 29th, 2014
On Tuesday, an email obtained by the government watchdog Judicial Watch revealed that a senior American advisor informed then National Security Advisor Susan Rice to emphasize that the deadly 2012 attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya was the result of a spontaneous protest arising from an inflammatory YouTube video. Transcripts later revealed that senior defense officials had informed the administration on the night of the assault that the event was a “terrorist attack.”
Fox’s intel correspondent Catherine Herridge reported that a September 14 emails links White House Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes advised Rice to focus on the YouTube video during her appearances on a variety of Sunday morning news programs:
Among the goals Rhodes outlined for Rice was for her “to underscore that these protests are rooted in an internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-email...-for-benghazi/
US Ambassador killing in Benghazi is said to be revenge for Obama drone attack
Boston Marathon BombingBill O'Reilly: Brokaw way off base with Afghanistan-Boston tie-in
April 27, 2013|By Bill O'Reilly
Shortly after the terror bombings in Boston last week, two different media people made statements that were alarming to say the least. Two days after the attack, McClatchy reporter Amina Ismail asked White House spokesman Jay Carney: "President Obama said that what happened in Boston was an act of terrorism. Do you consider the U.S. bombing on civilians in Afghanistan ... a form of terrorism?"
As usual, Carney didn't have an answer and referred the reporter to the Department of Defense.
What Carney should have said is this: "Are you kidding me? U.S. policy in Afghanistan is designed to protect civilians, and thousands of our military people have been killed and wounded doing just that. Your question is an insult to them, to this country and to the intelligence of any sane person."
That's what Carney should have said.
Four days later, Tom Brokaw appeared on "Meet the Press." The former NBC News anchor has drifted sharply to the left with age, much like Walter Cronkite did. Amazingly, Brokaw equated drone warfare with the Boston bombings.
"I think we also have to examine the use of drones, which the United States is involved in. There are a lot of civilians who are innocently killed in drone attacks in Pakistan, in Afghanistan and in Iraq," he said. "And I can tell you having spent a lot of time over there, young people will come up to me on the streets and say, 'We love America, but if you harm one hair on the head of my sister, I will fight you forever.' And there is this enormous rage against what they see in that part of the world as a presumptuousness of the United States."
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/201...-drone-attacks
Fox: Email Reveals Obama Advisor Urged Rice to Blame Video for Benghazi
by Noah Rothman | April 29th, 2014
On Tuesday, an email obtained by the government watchdog Judicial Watch revealed that a senior American advisor informed then National Security Advisor Susan Rice to emphasize that the deadly 2012 attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya was the result of a spontaneous protest arising from an inflammatory YouTube video. Transcripts later revealed that senior defense officials had informed the administration on the night of the assault that the event was a “terrorist attack.”
Fox’s intel correspondent Catherine Herridge reported that a September 14 emails links White House Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes advised Rice to focus on the YouTube video during her appearances on a variety of Sunday morning news programs:
Among the goals Rhodes outlined for Rice was for her “to underscore that these protests are rooted in an internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-email...-for-benghazi/
