McCain: Pics of Prez monitoring bin Laden raid - NO pics of Prez night of Benghazi attack

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from TPM:


McCain Falsely Claims No Photos Exist Of Obama From The Night Of Benghazi Attack

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) today accused the Obama administration of showcasing the President’s actions only when they reflect well on him, falsely claiming that no picture was ever released from the night of an attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

McCain was on Fox News this afternoon when he made the claim, railing once more against the administration’s handling of the attack’s aftermath. “What we don’t know is what he did in the intervening hours between then and when he left for Las Vegas,” McCain told host Neil Cavuto, continuing a right-wing meme that has speculated that the President went to sleep during the attack.

McCain then compared the administration’s actions in Benghazi to those during and after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden as evidence of the cover-up he has long alleged:

McCAIN: Now, we’ve got dramatic pictures of everybody watching the raid that took out bin Laden. Right? We don’t have any pictures, we don’t have depiction of what the president was doing while the lives of four brave Americans were being taken in this what is clearly a terrorist attack by an Al Qaeda affiliated organization.

The problem with that statement, however, is that the White House did release a photo from the night of the attack in Benghazi. On the White House’s Flickr account, you can see the photo taken by White House photographer Pete Souza clearly labeled “September 11, 2012.” In the photo, then-Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough can be seen briefing Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on the situation in the Middle East:



Denis McDonough, Deputy National Security Advisor, left, talks with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and Chief of Staff Jack Lew in the Oval Office, Sept. 11, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)


This isn’t even close to the first time that McCain has fumbled the facts on Benghazi to score political points against Obama. The Arizona Republican led the smear campaign against U.S. Ambassador the U.N. Susan Rice last October over the administration’s response to the attacks.


read: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/05/08/1984551/mccain-photo-obama-benghazi/

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The Benghazi "Whistleblower" Cover-Up That Wasn't http://mm4a.org/174V6a9

[malaise]

1. Bush monitoring the real 9/11

[BlueStater]

2. Here's one of him monitoring Katrina. Remember this, Johnny-boy?

[malaise]

3. Freaking perfect

Ha!

[freeplessinseattle]

10. Precisely! Thank you eom

[AnnaLee]

4. Just keep in mind that McCain is the white man that lost to change.

America as McCain remembers it is gone. Maybe, maybe he can erase his nightmare if only, if only, if only - I know impeach that symbol of change and turn back the clock for all old white men everywhere.

But actually I suspect that they are trying the Monica thing again using Benghazi (since there isn't a Monica). Just a cover for not allowing the government to govern by pretending this stuff is governing.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Well THAT PROVES IT!

Those neighborhood kids have been stealing my garden gnomes!

[AtomicKitten]

6. ridiculous accusation

[FSogol]

7. Exactly. McCain doesn't understand the difference between the US leading an attack

where we choose the time/place and being attacked in some random place on the globe?

[AtomicKitten]

11. It's nap time for Grandpa.

[FSogol]

18. Seriously. Someone needs to take his car keys away from him. n/t

[Blue Owl]

8. Remember the good ol' days when Johnny was in his cone of silence?

Oh, to be there once again...

[mnmoderatedem]

9. Finally! A tacit admission of what the Benghazi farce is all about!

The bin Laden raid. They can't stand that Obama comes off looking good, and still want to peddle their false notion that democrats are soft on terrorism. Thanks John for finally coming to the point.

Imagine this. A conservative president orders the successful bin Laden raid. Democrats subsequently pay a billion times more attention to an isolated terrorist incident overseas in order to undermine that conservative president who took down the world's most wanted terrorist..

could you just imagine the republican response? Staggers the imagination.

[Rex]

12. Their desperation is making them look pathetic.

Benghazi - same thing that happens to all POTUSes.

Benghazi (GOP) - Obama was there dropping bombs from a space platform.



Senator McSame is never one to stray far from eating his own shoes.

[Zoeisright]

13. Gramps, you are a lying sack of shit.

Just retire. You are useless.

[City Lights]

14. Is that all ya got, Johnny Boy?

Pathetic!

[GeorgeGist]

15. Well, Duh

[Dash87]

16. The Republican meme is that Obama went to sleep

while Benghazi was happening, and went campaigning the next day. As a result, two more died during the attack.

It's a complete load of crap.

[Boomerproud]

17. Yep, looks like PBO and admin are having a party in that photo.

Someone, please fax that photo to McCain's office and Faux.