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Fred Thompson Makes News With Benghazi Comments at AFP Event

Posted on | November 1, 2012 | 31 Comments


 

Fred Thompson speaks in West Chester, Ohio

BLUE ASH, Ohio
News happens in weird ways. While we were driving to today’s Americans for Prosperity event in West Chester, Ali Akbar mentioned an article he’d just seen at Foreign Policy about the Benghazi attack. Meanwhile, CBS News was reporting that “during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Obama Administration did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource: the Counterterrorism Security Group, (CSG).”

My mind wasn’t on Benghazi much, and when we got there, the sleep shortage started catching up with me. Quite literally, I was nodding off at one point during Fred Thompson’s speech. And then Fred started talking about Benghazi.


 


 

He never raised his voice, but he was clearly angry and, when it was over, it was obvious that Fred had definitely made news:

Former Sen. Fred Thompson today said he was “totally disgusted” by the Obama administration’s handling of the Libya terrorist attack, saying that U.S. officials failed to act “while our people were being systematically slaughtered” at the Benghazi consulate.
Speaking at an event sponsored by the free-market group Americans for Prosperity, the former Republican senator from Tennessee invoked his experience nearly 40 years ago as a Watergate investigator, saying that Congress must “get to the bottom of” the administration’s failures in the Sept. 11 incident that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead in Libya.
“This is probably the biggest cover-up in American history – and you’re talking to an expert in cover-ups,” Thompson said. . . .

Read the rest at The American Spectator.

Update (Smitty): thanks, Instapundit and Daley Gator!

Category: Election 2012, Fear. Loathing., Libya, Ohio, Terrorism, Uncategorized

Comments

31 Responses to “Fred Thompson Makes News With Benghazi Comments at AFP Event”

  1. Mike G.
    November 1st, 2012 @ 10:05 pm

    Where’s Bob Woodward when you need him…ohhhh yeahhh.

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  3. Phaerisee
    November 1st, 2012 @ 10:29 pm

    I urge all Christians who have not taken the time to research Mitt Romney to do so. Anything that is of God should be able to stand in the Light of Truth. If you can’t vote for President Obama, then vote for Ron Paul, or write-in Ron Paul. God would never want us to choose “The Lesser of two evils.” Do not be deceived. No man is like unto God.
    Mitt Romney must NOT Be elected!

  4. Ryan
    November 1st, 2012 @ 10:51 pm

    Did Fred Thompson just put himself on Romney’s short list for AG?

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  7. JOHN STRONG
    November 1st, 2012 @ 10:59 pm

    Thanks Fred rack em Pack em Stack em.

  8. Forrest Sargente
    November 1st, 2012 @ 11:07 pm

    A vote for Ron Paul is a vote for Obama, and you’re probably a democrat troll.

  9. Forrest Sargente
    November 1st, 2012 @ 11:08 pm

    GO FRED!!!

  10. Dianna Deeley
    November 1st, 2012 @ 11:12 pm

    Good! Because I am incandescent with outrage. Go, Fred!

  11. George Fillmore
    November 1st, 2012 @ 11:17 pm

    http://theothermccain.com/2012/11/01/fred-thompson-makes-news-with-benghazi-comments-at-afp-event/

  12. Boom
    November 1st, 2012 @ 11:19 pm

    Lol

  13. Phil Breedlove
    November 1st, 2012 @ 11:35 pm

    Fred Thompson on Benghazi: “This is probably the biggest cover-up in American history – and you’re talking to an expert in cover-ups.”
    http://theothermccain.com/2012/11/01/fred-thompson-makes-news-with-benghazi-comments-at-afp-event/

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    November 1st, 2012 @ 11:38 pm

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  15. MGM
    November 2nd, 2012 @ 12:18 am

    Do you even know who and what the “Pharisee’s” were in the Bible? Intresting that you choose to speak of God and name yourself a Pharisee (BTW you misspelled it)

  16. beatbarack
    November 2nd, 2012 @ 12:48 am

    The dam is starting to break. Then again, the legacy media hasn’t given up on their chosen One quite yet. The only story over at cnn.com right now on Benghazi is one covering for Obama.

    Great coverage. I’m trying to do my part and linked the story here. http://beatbarack.blogspot.com/2012/11/fred-thompson-totally-disgusted-by.html

  17. Mme Scherzo
    November 2nd, 2012 @ 1:17 am

    Seriously, Romney is a decent man. Ryan is a decent man. There are no perfect people. Vote for decency, not Messiahs. Ron Paul’s a wee little creepie crawlie.

  18. David Gulliver
    November 2nd, 2012 @ 1:32 am

    You’re both a bigot and a liberal troll. Satan speaks through you.

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  23. richard40
    November 2nd, 2012 @ 7:46 pm

    Good for Thomson. I had been worried he was a little boring, but if he keeps this up he could become really exciting. Obama deserves all the flack he can get over bengazzi.

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