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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Tarp Regulator: Obama Admin Tried To Bride Me With Judgeship; Compares Them To Drug Lord Pablo Escobar

Interview with Neil Barofsky, former Regulator of TARP and author of:
Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street



FULL VIDEO:
Web Exclusive: Bill Moyers interview with Neil Barofsky from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.


As Special Inspector General for the U.S. Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), Neil Barofsky had unique insight into the complicated and corruption-prone intersection of government and banking. His mandate was to root out and prosecute waste, fraud and abuse, standing up to the most powerful people and institutions in Washington D.C. In this web-exclusive conversation with Bill Moyers, Barofsky shares his expert perspective on last week's resignation of Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit.
 
Barofsky also shares his deep disappointment in President Obama for protecting -- instead of reigning in -- the big banks.

"I thought that if there was ever going to be a political figure that would take on the interests of Wall Street, it was going to be President Obama. And that just didn't happen," Barofsky says. "It was the exact opposite of that... He had the same ideology as Secretary Geithner and, frankly, the same ideology as a lot of those people who came from Wall Street.""

Currently an Adjunct Professor at the New York University School of Law, Barofsky is the author of Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street, a behind-the-scenes account of insider-dealing and mishandling of financial bailouts by the U.S. Treasury Department.

Bill and Barofsky share a larger conversation about the financial sector's seeming omnipotence on this weekend's Moyers & Company. Check local listings.

In this bracing, page-turning account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, Neil Barofsky offers an irrefutable indictment, from an insider of the Bush and Obama administrations, of the mishandling of the $700 billion TARP bailout fund. In vivid behind-the-scenes detail, he reveals proof of the extreme degree to which our government officials bent over backward to serve the interests of Wall Street firms at the expense of the broader public—and at the expense of effective financial reform.

During the height of the financial crisis in 2008, Barofsky gave up his job as a prosecutor in the esteemed U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York City, where he had convicted drug kingpins, Wall Street executives, and perpetrators of mortgage fraud, to become the special inspector general in charge of oversight of the spending of the bailout money. From his first day on the job, his efforts to protect against fraud and to hold the big banks accountable for how they spent taxpayer money were met with outright hostility from the Treasury officials in charge of the bailouts.

Barofsky discloses how, in serving the interests of the banks, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and his team worked with Wall Street executives to design programs that would funnel vast amounts of taxpayer money to their firms and would have allowed them to game the markets and make huge profits with almost no risk and no accountability, while repeatedly fighting Barofsky’s efforts to put the necessary fraud protections in place. His investigations also uncovered abject mismanagement of the bailout of insurance giant AIG and Geithner’s decision to allow the payment of millions of dollars in bonuses—including $7,700 to a kitchen worker and $7,000 to a mail room assistant—and that the Obama administration’s “TARP czar” lobbied for the executives to retain their high pay.

Providing stark details about how, meanwhile, the interests of homeowners and the broader public were betrayed, Barofsky recounts how Geithner and his team steadfastly failed to fix glaring flaws in the Obama administration’s homeowner relief program pointed out by Barofsky and other bailout watchdogs, rejecting anti-fraud measures, which unleashed a wave of abuses by mortgage providers against homeowners, even causing some who would not have lost their homes otherwise to go into foreclosure. Ultimately only a small fraction (just $1.4 billion at the time he stepped down) of the $50 billion allocated to help homeowners was spent, while the funds expended to prop up the financial system—as Barofsky discloses—totaled $4.7 trillion. As Barofsky raised the alarm about the bailout failures, he met with obstruction of his investigations, and he recounts in blow-by-blow detail how an increasingly aggressive war was waged against his efforts, with even the White House launching a broadside against him. Bailout is a riveting account of his plunge into the political meat grinder of Washington, as well as a vital revelation of just how captured by Wall Street our political system is and why the too-big-to-fail banks have only become bigger and more dangerous in the wake of the crisis.

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In this bracing, page-turning account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, Neil Barofsky offers an irrefutable indictment, from an insider of the Bush and Obama administrations, of the mishandling of the $700 billion TARP bailout fund. In vivid behind-the-scenes detail, he reveals proof of the extreme degree to which our government officials bent over backward to serve the interests of Wall Street firms at the expense of the broader public—and at the expense of effective financial reform.

During the height of the financial crisis in 2008, Barofsky gave up his job as a prosecutor in the esteemed U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York City, where he had convicted drug kingpins, Wall Street executives, and perpetrators of mortgage fraud, to become the special inspector general in charge of oversight of the spending of the bailout money. From his first day on the job, his efforts to protect against fraud and to hold the big banks accountable for how they spent taxpayer money were met with outright hostility from the Treasury officials in charge of the bailouts.

Barofsky discloses how, in serving the interests of the banks, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and his team worked with Wall Street executives to design programs that would funnel vast amounts of taxpayer money to their firms and would have allowed them to game the markets and make huge profits with almost no risk and no accountability, while repeatedly fighting Barofsky’s efforts to put the necessary fraud protections in place. His investigations also uncovered abject mismanagement of the bailout of insurance giant AIG and Geithner’s decision to allow the payment of millions of dollars in bonuses—including $7,700 to a kitchen worker and $7,000 to a mail room assistant—and that the Obama administration’s “TARP czar” lobbied for the executives to retain their high pay.

Providing stark details about how, meanwhile, the interests of homeowners and the broader public were betrayed, Barofsky recounts how Geithner and his team steadfastly failed to fix glaring flaws in the Obama administration’s homeowner relief program pointed out by Barofsky and other bailout watchdogs, rejecting anti-fraud measures, which unleashed a wave of abuses by mortgage providers against homeowners, even causing some who would not have lost their homes otherwise to go into foreclosure. Ultimately only a small fraction (just $1.4 billion at the time he stepped down) of the $50 billion allocated to help homeowners was spent, while the funds expended to prop up the financial system—as Barofsky discloses—totaled $4.7 trillion. As Barofsky raised the alarm about the bailout failures, he met with obstruction of his investigations, and he recounts in blow-by-blow detail how an increasingly aggressive war was waged against his efforts, with even the White House launching a broadside against him. Bailout is a riveting account of his plunge into the political meat grinder of Washington, as well as a vital revelation of just how captured by Wall Street our political system is and why the too-big-to-fail banks have only become bigger and more dangerous in the wake of the crisis.

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FROM BAILOUT

The further we dug into the way TARP was being administered, the more obvious it became that Treasury applied a consistent double standard. In the late fall of 2009, as I began receiving the results of two of our most important audits, the contradiction couldn’t have been more glaring. When providing the largest financial institutions with bailout money, Treasury made almost no effort to hold them accountable, and the bounteous terms delivered by the government seemed to border on being corrupt. For those institutions, no effort was spared, with government officials often defending their generosity by kneeling at the altar of the “sanctity of contracts.” Meanwhile, an entirely different set of rules applied for home- owners and businesses that were most assuredly small enough to fail.

Nowhere was the favoritism toward Wall Street more evident than with the government’s approach to AIG, where inviolable contract terms were cited to justify the absurd executive bonus payments as well as far richer payouts provided to the megabank counterparties to AIG’s CDS deals, honoring even their most reckless bets. For homeowners and small business owners, though, contracts went from being sacrosanct to inconvenient irrelevancies. So when mortgage servicers blatantly disregarded HAMP contracts by trampling over homeowners’ rights, Treasury turned to an endless series of excuses to justify its refusal to hold them accountable. Similarly, for more than two thousand auto dealerships, Treasury’s auto bailout team sought to void the contractual rights granted them under state franchise laws to shut them
Book Source: Simon & Schuster

Thursday, October 25, 2012

EXCELLENT VIDEO-"CONSERVATISM IS CALLING" A MUST WATCH AND SHARE!

AWESOME VIDEO EDUCATING THE MASSES ON WHAT CONSERVATISM IS. PLEASE SHARE WITH ALL YOU KNOW. 

Exceptional : ~ THIS IS OUR LAST chance to get it right ~ everyone should see , take the laptop and show those in your circle of influence to your church groups , club events share with those who do not understand or refuse to know : ANYONE can learn quickly from this presentation . Watch , Share in your groups , Post on walls, and show other citizens. Share, Tweet, Blog....Share.

Joe The Plumber Dead 2012-One Families Loss Of Everything Due To Obama Recovery


The story of a multi-million dollar plumbing company that could not survive the Obama RECOVERY. Many thanks to Wells Fargo for not being there when we needed them. They were unwilling to pick up the phone and tell us that until it was too late. But then again they only ignored all follow-up attempts for 13 months in all. Too big to do it right.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Glenn Beck Connects the Dots in Benghazi Attack: ‘This Is Fast and Furious Times 1,000′














During his show on TheBlazeTV Wednesday night, Glenn Beck said President Barack Obama has “crossed a line” concerning the “lies” about the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi on Sept. 11. In fact, he claims “Benghazi-gate” is “Fast and Furious times 1,000.”

“I don’t think that we are going to have time to be able to get this out to the American people before the election, because the press is of no help,” Beck said. “You need to try to listen and get your friends to listen next door because this isn’t about politics. This truly is about the future of the country because we are in grave, grave danger.”

Beck explained that America has had three major scandals in the White House: Former President Richard Nixon’s Watergate, the Iran-Contra scandal with former President Ronald Reagan and former President Bill Clinton’s sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky.

But in those cases, “as the old catchphrase goes, When Clinton lied, no one died,” Beck said. In Benghazi, four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed in a horrific manner.

Speaking from the model Oval Office in his Dallas studio, the host said “when you’re in this office” every lie told matters.

“[President Obama] is putting American lives in dangers and he doesn’t seem to care about the consequence of his own actions,” he added. “The Libya story hasn’t passed the smell test with me from the beginning but it keeps getting worse.”

Beck went on to discuss Tuesday night’s explosive report that revealed 300 to 400 national security officials received emails detailing the Benghazi terrorist attack as it was happening on 9/11, raising fresh questions about the truth behind the Benghazi attack.

The emails show that the Libyan radical Islamic group Ansar al-Sharia claimed responsibility for the attack just two hours after it began via social media. White House officials told CBS News that an unmanned Predator drone was sent over the U.S. mission in Libya, providing Washington with a live feed to the chaos that unfolded.

“Everyone had these emails, everyone,” Beck said, holding a hard copy of the emails in his hands. “These emails were accompanied with video and links to be able see everything live as it was happening. It makes it very, very clear. This was a terrorist attack conducted by a terrorist organization. There’s nothing in here about a YouTube video.”

Beck explained that if the administration was really working off the “facts,” the White House would have never mentioned the anti-Muslim YouTube video.

But one of the most disturbing developments involves the Obama administration’s response to the assault, according to Beck.

“Why would he choose not to send in a quick response force?” he asked. “Why were they not dispatched to Benghazi? Why were people in the situation room standing around watching our people get killed. Help could have been there within the hour.”

A frustrated Beck lamented the fact that there are still more questions than answers regarding the Benghazi attack.

On the most dangerous day of the year, in one of the most dangerous cities in the world, Beck said, four Americans were at a CIA safe house. However, we still don’t know why.

Beck says Americans deserve answers.

He then delved into the distressed message left by U.S. diplomat Sean Smith, who was killed in the attack, on a gaming website, a strange place to post a message like this: “Assuming we don’t die tonight, we saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures.”

“I believe this is a place where he said ‘listen if I’m in trouble I will let you know on this site.’”, Beck said. Thirty four minutes later, when the Americans in the CIA safe house already knew something was wrong, U.S. Ambassador Stevens took a meeting with the Turkish ambassador.

“What’s bizarre is, he comes in while they are under threat…and here comes the Turkish ambassador.”

The Turkish ambassador leaves with no incident, unharmed. Hours later, the attack began. The fight lasted for seven hours, until the break of dawn. The live feed was streamed to the White House Situation Room.

“The picture is frightening and you need to share it with your friends,” Beck concluded.
Watch Beck’s entire analysis via TheBlazeTV here:
Obama has crossed a line


TheBlazeTV host also provided more details about his theory, which seems to make more sense every day, that the U.S. is running weapons to Syrian and Libyan rebels, which he called a scandal that was “Fast and Furious times 1,000.”

During his radio show on Wednesday, he said arming the enemies of the United States — for any reason — is grounds for treason, adding that people may “go to jail” over this scandal.

Watch Beck explain his gun-running theory and why he believes the president is lying:

SOURCE: THE BLAZE

Monday, October 22, 2012

Miners Fight Back Against Obama TV Ad: "Absolute Lies"



Coal miners tell Obama to stop the absolute lies in TV ad accusing miners of being props at rally for Romney. Miners held a press conference to release a letter signed by over 500 miners saying they were not forced to attend Romney event. They wanted to attend because their is a war on coal and Obama is leading it. If Obama is re-elected he will put us all out of work permanently.

Saturday, October 20, 2012

An Urgent Message for America~By Trevor Loudon (VIDEO)


"I recorded this video a couple of weeks ago. It is my message to America. In it, I attempt to explain the global implications of the upcoming US elections.

This election is the most crucial in modern American history. It is not primarily about jobs and economics, it is about national security and, to be blunt, national survival.

America, and indeed the entire Western World, faces destruction if communist sympathizer Barack Obama is returned to office.

This video is being distributed all over the United States. Please watch it, and if you agree with the basic ideas expressed, send it out through your networks, to as many people as you can, conservative, liberal, undecided, it doesn’t matter.

Sometimes it takes an outside view to clarify important matters. I hope this message will serve that purpose.

From a very grateful New Zealander."
Political author and researcher Trevor Loudon presents key findings from his extensive research -- identifying President Obama's inner circle of friends, socialist supporters, and the mentors who dramatically influenced his political perspective. His findings are eye-opening because the mainstream media has consistently refused to inform the American public about Barack Obama's motivations and underlying ideology. With the approaching 2012 elections, it is critically important that voters have a clear understanding of what they can expect if he is re-elected.

Mr. Loudon describes himself as, "... a political researcher from Christchurch, New Zealand. "I believe in freedom with responsibility, not freedom from responsibility. My ideal society is one in which government is confined to protecting its citizens from criminals and external enemies. I believe in working with all those who are moving in broadly the same direction."

Russia's Nikita Khrushchev once threatened the USA with "We will bury you." This victory would occur without firing a shot because the working class of America would become Communists and replace Capitalism. That prophecy is now being fulfilled by President Barack Obama, according to Mr. Loudon.

According to Glenn Beck, "Trevor Loudon does the job that few in the media ever attempt. This eye-opening book is proof that one person really can make a difference, especially when they have no agenda other than finding the truth."

Friday, October 19, 2012

Obama Carter Comparison - PolitiZoid


President Obama sounds more like Jimmy Carter every day. The "Obama Carter Comparison" PolitiZoid presents a compilation of sound bites from Obama and President Jimmy Carter's speeches in their own words. The resemblance is uncanny.

Obama Admin Is Using A Program To Buy The Election By Hiding Cuts To Medicare?


Republican Rep. Darrell Issa has threatened to subpoena the Department of Health and Human Services if it does not turn over documents by Thursday on a program he claims is being used to “buy” the election by hiding the effects of ObamaCare.   Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, made his demands in a letter late Wednesday to Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

His office effectively is accusing the department of stringing them along in their months-old request for documents about an $8 billion program that pays bonuses to Medicare Advantage plans.

Issa claims the bonus program is being used to mask the first round of Medicare Advantage cuts in connection with the health care overhaul — in order to win favor with seniors. He said in a recent letter that “the only plausible explanation” for the program is that it’s being used as a “temporary bandage” to cover up cuts, “realizing the political danger” of those cuts in an election year.   The program in question is called a “demonstration” project. But Issa’s office complains the project is far more sweeping than a run-of-the-mill test program, and conveniently lasts until 2014.
Read More: http://beforeitsnews.com/tea-party/2012/10/obama-admin-is-using-a-program-to-buy-the-election-by-hiding-cuts-to-medicare-2460828.html

U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Vote for Jobs on November 6 (VIDEO)


A new day of American free enterprise begins with your vote Nov. 6. Share our video!

Friday, October 12, 2012

Excellent Video-The top five reasons Barack Obama should not be re-elected as President (Video)



Janet Porter's website: Faith 2 Action

Proverbs 29:9 Used to Describe Joe Biden During VP Debate

One Twitter trend that might have gone under the radar during last night's vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and GOP Congressman Paul Ryan was viewers' reaction to President Obama's running-mate constantly smirking, chuckling and interrupting his rival – so much so, that many were reminded of Proverbs 29:9, which speaks of a "wise man" and a "fool."

Proverbs 29:9 reads in the NIV: "If a wise man goes to court with a fool, the fool rages and scoffs, and there is no peace." The biblical verse was noted numerous times on Twitter last night as Americans tuned into the debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky. It's not immediately clear who started the trend, but a Twitter user calling herself "Jesus lover" seems to have been among the first commenters to link Proverbs 29:9 to the vice presidential debate.

At about 57 minutes into Thursday night's debate, Amber Vanderslice (@amberviolin), shared with her 138 Twitter followers: "'When a wise man has a controversy w/ a foolish man, The foolish man either rages or laughs, and there is no rest.' - Proverbs 29:9 #VPDebate."

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Fmr Regional Security Officer, Eric Nordstrom, On The Refusal Of State Dept For More Security in Libya, "FOR ME, THE TALIBAN IS ON THE INSIDE OF THE BUILDING"


Per C-Span Transcript:






00:00:31 THESE FOLKS HAVE TO RELY ON YOU TO MAKE THE DECISION.
00:00:39 IT DOES COME FROM THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH.
00:00:42 IF YOU LOOK AT THE ORGANIZATIONAL CHART, THE SECRETARY OF STATE HAS A GREAT DEAL OF RESPONSIBILITY.
00:00:50 WE LOST FOUR AMERICAN LIVES.
00:00:52 WE HAVE TO ASK THESE TYPES OF QUESTIONS.
00:00:56 WHAT DID WE LEARN FROM THE LOSSES?
00:00:59 IF WE DO HAVE PEOPLE OUT THERE IN HARM'S WAY, ARE WE PROTECTING THEM THE WAY WE SHOULD?
00:01:06 THEY PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE.
00:01:14 IT IS PRIORITIES THAT COUNT.
00:01:16 HOW DO YOU PRIORITIZE THOSE?
00:01:18 I HAVE TO TELL YOU, I HAVE WATCHED THIS THING SINCE SEPTEMBER 11.
00:01:25 I AM TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY IN THE WORLD WE WILL CONTINUE TO TRY TO FIND OUT WHO TO BLAME.
00:01:30 THERE IS A GROUP OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND WERE REALLY BAD PEOPLE.
00:01:35 WE PUT OUR PEOPLE IN HARM'S WAY.
00:01:37 DO WE DO THE BEST JOB WE COULD TO PROTECT THEM?
00:01:41 THEY PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE.
00:01:45 AFTER, WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN BENGHAZI, WHY DID WE LEARN FROM THAT?
00:01:52 THERE IS NOT A CRIME SCENE THAT HAS BEEN MORE CONTAMINATED THAN THAT ONE.
00:01:59 IT HAS BEEN A LONG DAY FOR ALL OF US.
00:02:03 FOR THOSE FOUR AMERICANS AND THEIR FAMILIES, IT IS A MUCH LONGER DAY.
00:02:11 I DO APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE.
00:02:16 AS ELECTED OFFICIALS, WE HAVE A COMMITMENT TO DO WHAT WEEK -- WHEN WE TOOK OUR OATH OF OFFICE.
00:02:25 WE BETTER START TO BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THIS AND PLACE EMPHASIS ON WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE.
00:02:33 >> THANK YOU, MR.
00:02:35 JORDAN. >> I WILL BE BRIEF.
00:02:38 WE HAD 230 TO SECURITY INCIDENTS IN LIBYA.
00:02:44 WHEN THE 231ST HAPPENED, THE ADMINISTRATION BLAMED IT ON THE VIDEO.
00:02:50 WE HAD TWO GUYS ON THE GROUND TO REPEATEDLY ASKED FOR ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL AND ARE DENIED.
00:02:56 DENIED BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN TO THE COUNTRY.
00:03:01 THERE IS A PROCESS IN PLACE OR PROFESSIONALS COME TOGETHER AND MAKE ASSESSMENTS AND DECISIONS ABOUT WHAT THE FIELD IS REQUESTING.
00:03:16 EARLIER, HE SAID FACTORS THAT YOU LOOK AT.
00:03:19 I DID NOT GET ALL OF THEM LISTED.
00:03:22 STABILITY OF THE GOVERNMENT, THREATS, AND FACILITY CONCERNS.
00:03:26 IN THOSE THREE, THERE WAS NOTHING IN LIBYA THAT WOULD SAY, THEY SHOULD NOT GET WHAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR.
00:03:35 IT IS A TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT.
00:03:38 THREATS AGAINST US, WE HAD 230.
00:03:43 FACILITY CONCERNS, YOU HAVE ADMITTED THAT THE FACILITY WAS NOT UP TO COACH.
00:03:48 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT -- UP TO CODE.
00:03:52 WHAT WOULD IT HAVE TO UPOK TO GIVE THE GUYS ON THE GROUND, TO GET THE ADDITIONAL SECURITY PERSONNEL?
00:04:05 232?
00:04:09 250? A GOVERNMENT THAT HAD BEEN IN POWER EIGHT MONTHS, NOT FIVE MONTHS?
00:04:17 TO DO WHAT THE PROFESSIONALS IN THE FIELD OF FELT WHAT NEEDED TO BE DONE?
00:04:24 WE WILL START WITH YOU, AMBASSADOR.
00:04:29 >> WE DO ASSESSMENTS EVERY DAY OF SECURITY AROUND THE WORLD.
00:04:32 WE'VE LOOKED AT EVERY LOCATION.
00:04:35 THERE WERE 2304 INCIDENTS.
00:04:46 ONLY 20% OR IN BENGHAZI.
00:04:48 THE REST OF THEM WERE IN TRIPOLI OR ELSEWHERE.
00:04:50 THERE HAD NOT BEEN A SINGLE INCIDENT IN BENGHAZI.
00:04:54 THERE WAS NOT EVER US SINGLE INCIDENT IN BENGHAZI OF THE LETHALITY OR THE NATURE OF THE ARMED ATTACK, WHICH IS ALMOST UNPRECEDENTED.
00:05:07 THEREFORE, WE WERE VERY CAREFUL, WE CANNOT AND THE RISK TO OUR PEOPLE OVERSEAS.
00:05:15 THE STATE DEPARTMENT MUST GO INTO HARM'S WAY.
00:05:21 WE ATTEMPT TO MITIGATE THAT LEVEL OF THREAT.
00:05:24 IF WE CANNOT MAKE A LEVEL OF THREATS, AND WE WILL WITHDRAW OUR PEOPLE.
00:05:30 >> THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR -- OUR EMBASSY WAS BOMBED TWICE.
00:05:40 WHAT DOES IT TAKE?
00:05:46 THESE ARE THE PROFESSIONALS IN THE FIELD WHO SAY, WE NEED MORE SECURITY PERSONNEL IN LIBYA.
00:05:54 THIS IS FOR LIBYA.
00:05:56 THE WHOLE COUNTRY.
00:05:57 YOU GUYS SAY NO.
00:05:58 YOU ALLUDE TO IN YOUR TESTIMONY THIS PROCESS OF CONSIDERED JUDGMENTS OF CAN IT -- OF PROFESSIONALS IN WASHINGTON.
00:06:08 I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THOSE CONSIDERED JUDGMENTS -- WHAT DOES IT TAKE?
00:06:20 >> IT IS WHAT I SAID, MR.
00:06:22 JORDAN.
00:06:24 THERE WAS NOT ANY ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
00:06:31 >> ARE THESE GUYS PROFESSIONALS?
00:06:35 THESE GUYS SAID THEY NEEDED MORE HELP.
00:06:39 >> IF I COULD FINISH MY STATEMENT, SIR.
00:06:41 >> THERE WAS NO ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE AVAILABLE THAT INDICATED THERE WAS A PLAN OR ANY INDICATION OF A MASSIVE ATTACK OF THE NATURE AND LETHALITY.
00:07:03 THERE WAS A SINGLE ROCKET PROPELLED GRENADE FIRED AT THE RED CROSS.
00:07:07 THERE WAS AN ATTACK ON THE BRITISH COMPOUND.
00:07:09 WE ANALYZED THOSE THINGS.
00:07:12 THE FRENCH AND ITALIANS AND THE UNITED NATIONS LIFTED THAT SAME THREATS -- >> MR.
00:07:21 NORDSTROM, DO YOU THINK THERE WERE EVER GOING TO GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANTED?
00:07:24 WHAT WOULD WARRANT THEM SAYING, THESE GUYS KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT?
00:07:30 >> THANK YOU FOR ASKING THAT QUESTION.
00:07:33 I HAD THAT CONVERSATION WHEN I CAME BACK ON LEAVE FOR TRAINING IN FEBRUARY.
00:07:39 I WAS TOLD BY THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR THAT THERE HAD ONLY BEEN ONE INCIDENT INVOLVING AN AMERICAN WHERE HE WAS STRUCK BY CELEBRATORY FIRE.
00:07:55 THE TAKE AWAY FROM THAT, FOR ME AND MY STAFF, IT WAS ABUNDANTLY CLEAR, WE WOULD NOT GOING TO GET RESOURCES UNTIL THE AFTERMATH OF AN INCIDENT.
00:08:07 THE QUESTION THAT WE WOULD ASK, AGAIN, HOW OFTEN DOES THE EYES HAVE TO GET IT BEFORE SOMEONE FALLS THROUGH?
00:08:16 -- THIN DOES THE ICE HAVE TO GET IT BEFORE SOMEONE FALLS THROUGH?
00:08:23 >> NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL STRUCK BY A BULLET, BUT WE ALSO HAD INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS WHO HAD A SHOOTING INCIDENT BEFORE RETURNING TO OUR DUTIES.
00:08:41 IT WAS AN ATTEMPTED CARJACKING AND THERE WERE SHOTS FIRED GOING BOTH WAYS.
00:08:50 >> LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WERE YOU PULLING YOUR HAIR OUT?
00:08:52 WERE YOU JUST FLABBERGASTED?
00:08:55 WHAT CAN WE DO?
00:08:56 WHAT CAN WE SAY?
00:08:59 WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO?
00:09:04 IT WAS THAT YOUR SENSE AN ATTITUDE WHEN YOU GOT THE ANSWERS FROM WASHINGTON?
00:09:21 >> HE CONTACTED ME WHEN I ASKED FOR 12 AGENTS.
00:09:25 HIS RESPONSE TO THAT WAS, YOU ARE ASKING FOR THE SUN, MOON, STARS.
00:09:30 MY RESPONSE TO HIM, AT THE KNOW WHAT MAKES THIS THE MOST FRUSTRATING?
00:09:35 NOT THE HARDSHIPS, NOT THE GUN FIRE, IT IS DEALING AND FIGHTING AGAINST THE PEOPLE, PROGRAMS AND PERSONNEL WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SUPPORTING ME.
00:09:47 FOR ME, THE TALIBAN IS ON THE INSIDE OF THE BUILDING.
00:09:51 >> I WANT TO THANK OUR WITNESSES.
00:09:56 >> I WANT TO THANK ALL OF OUR WITNESSES.
00:09:59 IN THE CASE OF LT.
00:10:01 COLONEL WOOD AND MR.
00:10:05 NORDSTROM, IS THIS THE RESULT PROCEED OR ACTUAL OF YOUR TESTIMONY HERE TODAY, YOU ARE APPROACHED OR ANYTHING HAPPENS IN YOUR PROFESSIONAL LIVES WITH THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT THAT YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT, PLEASE COME TO THIS COMMITTEE.


To view the entire hearing: 4 hours, 10 minutes
  
Ms. Charlene R. Lamb (testimony)
Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Programs, Bureau of Diplomatic Security
U.S. Department of State

Mr. Eric Nordstrom (testimony)
Regional Security Officer
U.S. Department of State

Lt. Col. Andrew Wood (testimony)
Utah National Guard
U.S. Army

Ambassador Patrick Kennedy (testimony)
Under Secretary for Management
U.S. Department of State
Committee On Oversight And Government Reform

RELATED LINKS: Here’s a Recap of the House Investigation into the Benghazi Consulate Attack

Sunday, October 7, 2012

BOMBSHELL:Obama State Department withdrew 16 member SEAL Security Team 1 Month Before The Deadly Attack


Bombshell: The Obama State Department withdrew a 16 member SEAL security team from Benghazi one month before the deadly attacks. This was despite the fact that there were 13 attacks in the country in the past several months.

AWESOME AD~New Romney Ad from Black Americans – “We Need Mitt Romney”


Our nation's economic downturn and unemployment have caused suffering for millions of Americans, but they have hit the African-American community disproportionately hard. Mitt Romney's priority as president will be creating jobs, so that all Americans can have an equal opportunity.

Friday, October 5, 2012

Bishop E.W. Jackson Message to Black Christians


The Bishop E.W. Jackson, founder of Chesapeake, Virginia-based Exodus Faith Ministries, recently released a controversial video calling for African Americans to make a mass exodus from the Democratic Party. Throughout the clip, Jackson delivers stinging blows to both liberals and the African Americans who continue to support them, while decrying what he sees as a "slavish devotion to the Democrat Party."

"They have insulted us, used us, and manipulated us. They have saturated the black community with ridiculous lies," he said, speaking directly to the black community. "They think we are stupid and that these lies will hold us captive while they violate everything we believe as Christians."

Jackson went into detail in the video, taking aim at the "unholy alliance" that he sees between Democrats, faux-civil rights leaders and Planned Parenthood.

"The Democratic Party has created an unholy alliance between certain so-called civil rights leaders and Planned Parenthood, which has killed unborn black babies by the tens of millions," he proclaimed.

Just a reminder that this Sunday is 'Pulpit Freedom Sunday'.  Thousands of churches across America will challenge the IRS and openly speak out on political issues:

Jim Garlow - Indivisible Conference 

Watch Dr. Jim Garlow's inspiring message about unhindered biblical preaching and how it can set our nation free.

The future of religious freedom depends on a free pulpit to communicate fundamental, biblical principles to congregations across America. Join a growing movement of bold pastors preaching biblical Truth about candidates and elections from their pulpits on October 7, 2012.

Source: Pulpit Freedom.org
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