{"id":16362,"date":"2012-11-16T15:14:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T20:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16362"},"modified":"2012-11-16T15:14:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T20:14:27","slug":"when-national-security-takes-a-backseat-to-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16362","title":{"rendered":"When National Security Takes A Backseat To Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the day <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"David Petraeus\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Petraeus\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">General Petraeus<\/a> testified before <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Congress<\/a> on the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benghazi\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=32.1166666667,20.0666666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=32.1166666667,20.0666666667 (Benghazi)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Benghazi<\/a> attack of September 11.<a href=\"http:\/\/mrctv.org\/videos\/king-petraeus-said-cias-talking-points-were-edited-play-down-terrorism\"> MRC.TV<\/a> is reporting on a statement made by Representative Peter King after the General testified.<\/p>\n<p>This is the video:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/118421\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"546\" height=\"312\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The article reports Representative King&#8217;s statement:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Representative Peter King stated that former <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Central Intelligence Agency\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.951796,-77.146586&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.951796,-77.146586 (Central%20Intelligence%20Agency)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">CIA<\/a> Director David Petraeus stated that he knew the Benghazi attack was terrorism and that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Talking point\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talking_point\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">talking points<\/a> given to Ambassador <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Susan Rice\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ambassadorrice\" rel=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Rice<\/a> were different from the ones prepared by the CIA. Petraeus stated Rice&#8217;s talking points were edited to demphasized the possibility of terrorism.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reason behind this is simple. The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Democrat<\/a> Convention was all about killing <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Osama bin Laden\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=34.1691666667,73.2425&amp;spn=0.05,0.05&amp;q=34.1691666667,73.2425 (Osama%20bin%20Laden)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Osama Bin Laden<\/a> and the end of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Al-Qaeda\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al-Qaeda\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Al Qaeda<\/a>. The attack on Benghazi showed that Al Qaeda was alive and quite capable of attacking <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">American<\/a> assets. Therefore, the fact that the attack at Benghazi was Al Qaeda needed to be covered up&#8211;at least until after the election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=9defd30f-4898-4d00-abf6-55d7959a7642\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the day General Petraeus testified before Congress on the Benghazi attack of September 11. MRC.TV is reporting on a statement made by Representative Peter King after the General testified. This is the video: The article reports Representative King&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16362\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[257,3947,659,4260,1142,4191,4377,285],"class_list":["post-16362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-al-qaeda","tag-benghazi","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-david-petraeus","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-susan-rice","tag-talking-point","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16364,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362\/revisions\/16364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}