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An order to stand down to the defense of Americans was given by someone.

How anyone can not want to identify that someone and get them to answer questions is beyond me. Anyone defending the hampering of the investigation is being partisan.

Or maybe some of us just think the simple explanation - insufficient security in place followed by a few hours of hesitation and confusion while the DoD, State, CIA and White House tried to get a clearer picture on what exactly was happening - is more plausible than the nutjob theory that Obama and Clinton are such amoral psychopaths (not to mention tone-deaf politicians) that they decided to let their own State Department people get killed because they thought it would be less politically damaging than sending reinforcements and thereby suggesting the attack was terrorism.



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1. There were multiple stand-down orders, not just one. Special operations forces were told, twice, by their chain of command not to board aircraft to Benghazi to rescue the Americans then under attack. The U.S. deputy diplomat, Greg Hicks, testified that the military commander, Lt. Col. Gibson, had his team ready to go twice. They were on the runway about to board a flight to Benghazi in the middle of the attack. They were ordered to stand down and remain in Tripoli to receive wounded who would be coming out of Benghazi. One of the orders came in the middle of the attack, the other came toward the end after Hicks’ team had traveled from Tripoli to Benghazi. The fact that Hicks’ team was able get to Benghazi before the end of the assault strongly suggests that the special operations team could have made a real difference.
At the same time, the State Department’s commander on the scene, Hicks, ordered his personnel into Benghazi and went there himself. Hicks testified that Gibson never told him who issued the stand-down orders. He commented that Gibson told him that the military stand-down was a shock: “This is the first time in my career that a diplomat has more balls than someone in the military.”

Hicks also testified that the U.S. government never even requested military overflight to support the Americans in Benghazi. The U.S. had an unarmed drone overhead and could have gotten permission to fly fighters over the scene, at least, but never asked



I'll add this...Clinton's question, "It’s 3 a.m. Who do you want answering the phone?" during the primarys was certainly answered...apparently we got more of the answer than she would have liked. She blamed it on a movie, Obama went to bed then to Vegas. What great leaders we have.

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I didn't make a single post about the Eligibility Question until Obama's lawyers argued that U.S. Citizens has no standing to vet their elected officials. Then I got immensely interested and watched Barack Obama's lawyers give the Democratic Party and the Republican Party more control over our elections than I thought possible.

I don't recall exactly when you started posting on the subject, but your arguments were definitely not solely about standing, at least not at first. You frequently engaged on the underlying substantive points as well. Now, maybe you were just playing devil's advocate, but you were very clearly in the "it's a reasonable line of inquiry" camp.

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Since you didn't follow the issue, here's the legal outcome:

Only the nominating party has legal authority to challenge a candidate's standing; only the nominating party can vet that candidate's standing; and if the nominating party says that candidate is eligible, neither the Federal Government in general; the Senate, House, and DOJ specifically; nor other approved candidates in the election can challenge their eligibility.

Can you point me to the case(s) with that holding regarding Congress and other approved candidates? Also, if you happen to know of any cases holding that electors and/or the opposing Party lack standing, I'd appreciate pointers to those as well. I lost interest in the cases years ago, but my understanding is that whether or not Congress, opposing candidates, opposing Parties and electors have standing remain open questions.


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How does that contradict what I just posted?


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Fyi, here's the official DoD timeline of events:

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How does that contradict what I just posted?



Because you are trying to whitewash it all to protect your boy?

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I'm not following your logic here, Nitefox. I stated that confusion and hesitation resulted in a delayed response. You countered by saying there was a delayed response. So again, how does your comment contradict what I posted?


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"Your Boy" would be considered by most to be an thinly veiled ethnic slur.


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I'm not following your logic here, Nitefox. I stated that confusion and hesitation resulted in a delayed response. You countered by saying there was a delayed response. So again, how does your comment contradict what I posted?



I don't think there was all this confusion that you seem to be hanging on to...what we do know, is that help was available and it was denied twice. That's what we know. Confusion is your opinion, help being denied is a fact. Folks in the area back this up. Your confusion excuse is pretty weak. It's like you are trying to get by with the bare minimum of blame. We also know that the folks in the area give zero credence to the movie being the source of the attack.

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"Your Boy" would be considered by most to be an thinly veiled ethnic slur.



Only if they have the warped mind you have. White guilt, I get it dude. Keep working on it. Maybe one day you will get over it.

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"Your Boy" would be considered by most to be an thinly veiled ethnic slur.


No, not most. Dude, shut up about this kind of ****. Please.

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Again, what part of treason is acceptable just because Obama did it? He issued an illegal stand down order that resulted in the deaths of American citizens;


???

Please explain how the commander-in-chief giving a stand-down order to the military is illegal. If the CIC is forced to allow forces to respond to, well, anything, we need to have this corrected immediately. Decisions on this sort of reaction needs to be made, not be the default with no recourse.

In this particular instance, there was concern over security at the Tripoli embassy, and concern that by relocating SF to Benghazi we would leave the Tripoli embassy poorly defended. This concern was echoed by staffers at the embassy, based on interviews during the State Department investigation.

Now, whether the security concern in Tripoli is accurate, or well grounded, or whether the stand-down order was a good move or not (I think it's safe to say in hind sight that it was not), I fail to see how that decision could be in any way, shape, or form considered "illegal". This is the one part of this situation that I have the least issue with. Bad decisions are bad decisions - it's the failure to own up to them that I have primary issue with.


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"Your Boy" would be considered by most to be an thinly veiled ethnic slur.

Only if they have the warped mind you have. White guilt, I get it dude. Keep working on it. Maybe one day you will get over it.

Was "boy" not a pejorative term for black people in common usage in the South for, oh, the last hundred years or so?


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I didn't make a single post about the Eligibility Question until Obama's lawyers argued that U.S. Citizens has no standing to vet their elected officials. Then I got immensely interested and watched Barack Obama's lawyers give the Democratic Party and the Republican Party more control over our elections than I thought possible.
I don't recall exactly when you started posting on the subject, but your arguments were definitely not solely about standing, at least not at first. You frequently engaged on the underlying substantive points as well. Now, maybe you were just playing devil's advocate, but you were very clearly in the "it's a reasonable line of inquiry" camp.
Actually, I simply said ...
"It's a reasonable line of inquiry, because Stanley Ann Dunham could not legally confer citizenship at the time of his birth. She had not lived the preceding 5 years on US soil, and thus her ability to confer citizenship on the natural son of a foreign national is questionable according to the US law that affected Obama's birth."

That's sum total of my engagement on the substantive points. I engaged the stupidity of the Obama NOT ponying up the following:

1. The Hospital Record of Birth
2. The Hawaii State Long-Form Birth Certificate

I have issues with him not providing both of those, as any claims they are not available are patently false. And perpetuating that particular falsehood has no value in this argument, as far as I can tell, because they would end the discussion once and for all.

The issues with the short-form provided are just hilarious and laughable for all sorts of other reasons: wrong counterfeit protection border for the date stamped on the document is probably the best. I suspect that happened because some idiot printed it without getting the right paper stock. Totally not something that probably matters, but it doesn't lead any credibility to this situation.
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Since you didn't follow the issue, here's the legal outcome:

Only the nominating party has legal authority to challenge a candidate's standing; only the nominating party can vet that candidate's standing; and if the nominating party says that candidate is eligible, neither the Federal Government in general; the Senate, House, and DOJ specifically; nor other approved candidates in the election can challenge their eligibility.
Can you point me to the case(s) with that holding regarding Congress and other approved candidates? Also, if you happen to know of any cases holding that electors and/or the opposing Party lack standing, I'd appreciate pointers to those as well. I lost interest in the cases years ago, but my understanding is that whether or not Congress, opposing candidates, opposing Parties and electors have standing remain open questions.
Opposing Parties and Candidates were decided in Keyes v. Bowen, wherein the Supreme Court denied appeals and the lower Court determined that other parties and candidates did not have standing to request the necessary verification documents. Both Alan Keyes (as Candidate) and the American Independent Party were specifically denied standing in that case.

Citizens in general were handled through all of Orly Taitz's lunacy.

The one case that still remains totally baffling is Archibald v. Department of Justice, since the FOIA request was denied on questionable grounds and Archibald's suit for compliance was denied.

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keep trying Nitefox. maybe someday you'll be able to convince us you're NOT a racist. (Note I'm not leveling that charge at anyone else, this has nothing to do with the president, and everything to do with your own your behavior and the words you chose. You don't even see how bad it is.


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"Your Boy" would be considered by most to be an thinly veiled ethnic slur.

Only if they have the warped mind you have. White guilt, I get it dude. Keep working on it. Maybe one day you will get over it.

Was "boy" not a pejorative term for black people in common usage in the South for, oh, the last hundred years or so?



Probably so. Why does that matter? If you've read things I've written on this board, I've used that phrase a ton about folks of different races. TheRiov and now you honing in on the racial part of if only goes to prove what I've said all along. The left is the one obsessed with race. Ya'll need a new hobby.

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Thanks for the case pointers, Khross. Looks like I have some reading to do. I do agree that individual citizens shouldn't have standing for basic reasons of practicality, but my instinct is to strongly disagree with denying standing to opposing candidates and parties.


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keep trying Nitefox. maybe someday you'll be able to convince us you're NOT a racist. (Note I'm not leveling that charge at anyone else, this has nothing to do with the president, and everything to do with your own your behavior and the words you chose. You don't even see how bad it is.



Kind of like one day maybe you'll convince us you aren't a sexual deviant?

Like I said to RD, you, he and most leftys/dems just keep proving my point. I've used that phrase on these boards and in real life to refer to folks from all races. Have never had a problem with it. But being the race obessed freak that you are, of course that's all you can see. You're pathetic.

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"Your Boy" would be considered by most to be an thinly veiled ethnic slur.

Only if they have the warped mind you have. White guilt, I get it dude. Keep working on it. Maybe one day you will get over it.

Was "boy" not a pejorative term for black people in common usage in the South for, oh, the last hundred years or so?


And gay meant happy. People who keep looking for reasons to be offended will never be disappointed - they will simply be wrong.

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"Your Boy" would be considered by most to be an thinly veiled ethnic slur.

Only if they have the warped mind you have. White guilt, I get it dude. Keep working on it. Maybe one day you will get over it.

Was "boy" not a pejorative term for black people in common usage in the South for, oh, the last hundred years or so?



Probably so. Why does that matter? If you've read things I've written on this board, I've used that phrase a ton about folks of different races. TheRiov and now you honing in on the racial part of if only goes to prove what I've said all along. The left is the one obsessed with race. Ya'll need a new hobby.



Funny story. Its fairly easy to do a board search on every use of the word "Boy" you've used. (in hellfire its about 25 times if we exclude quotes)

If we exclude quotes, occasions where you're referring to an actual male child and common uses of the phrase "boy" (such as an exclamation, or terms like "fan boy") the ONLY time you use the phrase is to refer to the black president of the United States of America.


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Probably so. Why does that matter? If you've read things I've written on this board, I've used that phrase a ton about folks of different races. TheRiov and now you honing in on the racial part of if only goes to prove what I've said all along. The left is the one obsessed with race. Ya'll need a new hobby.

Well, just to clarify, my comment regarding the history of the term was more about whether referring to a black man as "boy" could reasonably be seen as a racial thing in general rather than about your use of it in this particular instance. Anyway, I don't want to get into a whole race-related derail here, so I'll drop the point, except to say that you might want to consider that those who have benefited from a wrong usually want to forget long before those who have been harmed are ready to forgive.


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So when I call Hannibal my boy or my bro I'm being racist?

Get over yourself. Your perception is NOT reality.

"Your boy" is a pretty common phrase referring to someone who is a close non-family relationship.

You make yourself look even more ridiculous than I had thought possible.

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"Your Boy" would be considered by most to be an thinly veiled ethnic slur.

Only if they have the warped mind you have. White guilt, I get it dude. Keep working on it. Maybe one day you will get over it.

Was "boy" not a pejorative term for black people in common usage in the South for, oh, the last hundred years or so?


With due respect, who gives a crap? First, "boy" has lots of uses and connotations, and one must assume the worst in order to take offense. If you find yourself assuming the worst in people, you're the problem. Second, EVEN IF Nitefox was a raving white supremacist, how does this impact the conversation? Provided we are discussing the issue and not our general opinions of Barack Obama, it doesn't. It's a needless distraction and decent into personal attacks and negativity.


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"Your Boy" would be considered by most to be an thinly veiled ethnic slur.

Only if they have the warped mind you have. White guilt, I get it dude. Keep working on it. Maybe one day you will get over it.

Was "boy" not a pejorative term for black people in common usage in the South for, oh, the last hundred years or so?



Probably so. Why does that matter? If you've read things I've written on this board, I've used that phrase a ton about folks of different races. TheRiov and now you honing in on the racial part of if only goes to prove what I've said all along. The left is the one obsessed with race. Ya'll need a new hobby.



Funny story. Its fairly easy to do a board search on every use of the word "Boy" you've used. (in hellfire its about 25 times if we exclude quotes)

If we exclude quotes, occasions where you're referring to an actual male child and common uses of the phrase "boy" (such as an exclamation, or terms like "fan boy") the ONLY time you use the phrase is to refer to the black president of the United States of America.



That search goes back 10 years does it?

It's all good perv, you keep seeing racsit speech everywhere you go. I'll keep scoring one in my favor.

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keep trying Nitefox. maybe someday you'll be able to convince us you're NOT a racist.
Statistically speaking, the most racist subset of the American population is African American females.

As for the term "boy" ...

That's a race neutral pejorative. Male children were not "boys" until relatively recently; "boys" were male-servants of a subordinate station for a good 2-300 years -- house-boy, cabin-boy, pool-boy ...

In fact, most of the pejorative uses you'll find require an ethnic qualifier, since most male hand and body servants were called -boys. It wasn't until relatively recently everyone got up in arms about the word itself as a pejorative, in fact. Most people didn't know that it was a Middle English term for fetters and shackles. In fact, I'd be willing to bed, most of you just learned that ...

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Nitefox I don't have to convince you of anything about my various proclivities. You want to claim I'm outside the norm? Go for it. If that means 'deviant' to you, knock yourself out. I'll proudly plant my flag that I'm not vanilla.

Publicly Accuse a father, of abusing children, with zero evidence and thats another story entirely.


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Publicly Accuse a father, of abusing children, with zero evidence and thats another story entirely.
You were the one who claimed they were going to "that special hell" on a board full of Browncoats.

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