Attkisson Wants To See White House Pictures From Night Of Benghazi Attack

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Former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson revealed to Greta Wodele Brawner in an interview on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal that pictures taken by the White House photographer on September 12, 2012, have never been released to the media. Ms. Attkisson said that she intends on publishing a new list of questions that might explain what President Obama was actually doing on the night of the Benghazi attacks.

“Some of those questions remain…but new questions have arisen as more information comes out that conflicts previous information. But I still would like to know, and I think the public should know, what President Obama did that night. We don’t have to know every little step that he took and every little word that he uttered, but the total lack of willingness of them to tell us anything, really, about what happened throughout the course of the night; what decisions the Commander-in-Chief made while Americans were under attack on foreign soil. There could be nothing, that I can think of, that’s of more important public interest, and yet it’s been shrouded in secrecy even two years later. I really think that’s an important question to answer.”

Ms. Attkisson said that she had requested the White House photos from that night because they are public information. She made several attempts to reach then-deputy press secretary Josh Earnest for approval to obtain the photos from that night, but Earnest would never return a phone call or email.

“We would go back to the White House press photographer’s office and say, ‘You’ve given us an impossible task. You’ve told us to talk to somebody who won’t talk to us. You need to give us another route to follow to try to get these photos.’ And they would say, ‘No, you have to talk to Josh Earnest.’ So, that just went down a dead-end road. I think that’s entirely unacceptable.”

Attkisson said that since the press officers are paid by the public, the White House photos should be available to American citizens as long as they don’t reveal any national secrets.

“To this day they remain secret. I would just be interested in seeing whatever they show.”

 

h/t Eagle Rising

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BREAKING: AirAsia Plane Mystery Partly Solved With What Searchers Have Just Found

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Luggage, a plane door, oxygen tanks, an emergency slide and at least 40 bodies have been discovered in the Java Sea — all confirmed to have come from the missing AirAsia flight 8501 that disappeared on Sunday.

The Daily Mail reports that the bodies and debris were found floating in the water some 100 miles off the coast of Borneo Island after three days of searching for the Airbus A320-200 that was on its way from Indonesia to Singapore when it vanished.

Distressed family and friends of the 162 people on board the AirAsia flight were reportedly watching live TV coverage of the search effort when shocking images were shown without warning.

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Images on Indonesian television showed a half-naked bloated body bobbing in the sea. Search and rescue teams were lowered on ropes from a hovering helicopter to retrieve the corpses.

As family members of the plane’s passengers sat together in a waiting room at Surabaya airport, they watched the graphic details on television.

Many screamed and wailed uncontrollably, breaking down in tears while they squeezed each other. At least two people fainted and were carried out on stretchers to waiting ambulances.

Officials say the bodies were not wearing life jackets, leading to speculation that a catastrophic event of some kind occurred that allowed for no time to prepare for ditching into the sea.

Sky News reports that the man in charge of the search has indicated that the main wreckage of the plane may also have been spotted.

Search chief SB Supriyadi also said an air force Hercules had “found an object described as a shadow at the bottom of the sea in the form of a plane”.

BBC reports say that AirAsia previously had an excellent safety history with no fatal accidents on its record prior to this crash.

On board the plane were 137 adult passengers, 17 children and one infant, along with two pilots and five crew.

Most were Indonesian but the passengers included one UK national, a Malaysian, a Singaporean and three South Koreans.

Investigators will now turn their attention to what happened and why with AirAsia flight 8501.

 

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Reporter Uncovers Chilling Similarities Between Pilots Of Flights 8501 And 370

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According to an exclusive report by Walid Shoebat, the lead pilots aboard both Malaysia Airlines flight 370 and AirAsia flight QZ8501 shared one frightening trait: a deep devotion to Islam.

Shoebat, a self-professed former Islamic terrorist who converted to Christianity and has since spoken out against the violence associated with his former faith, pointed out that the captain of the flight that disappeared over the Java Sea this past weekend had dark and deadly extremist ties.

His report relied in part on Indonesian news sources, which described Captain Iriyanto as a devout Muslim.

English translations of the foreign reports, Shoebat wrote, indicate the pilot was “active in the community as a board member and chairman of the mosque at his residence” and “also served as a board leader of Masjid Nurul Yaqin, which is located in the housing complex.”

Not only was he a faithful follower of Islam, reports also indicate he spent nearly a decade as an airman for the Indonesian military. The jets he flew were used in missions until the end of the 20th century and were reportedly responsible for the annihilation of about one-third of East Timor’s predominantly Christian population.

Shoebat wrote that both the pilot and co-pilot of flight MH370 were also devout Muslims. He also pointed out that both flights lost radar contact under suspicious circumstances.

While wreckage from the latest jet has been found, speculation still surrounds the disappearance of MH370, with some suggesting it landed safely to await use in a future terrorist operation.

Though his report affirms there is no concrete evidence that the pilots’ respective Islamic faith played any role in the disappearance of these jets, Shoebat concludes that such a scenario is “not far-fetched,” adding that “being paranoid at times is better than being skeptic.”

 

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Palestinian Viral Video Teaches Jihadists ‘How To Stab A Jew’

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A disturbing video released by the “Resistors of Occupation in the West Bank and Jerusalem” instructs jihadists how to stab a Jew to death quickly and efficiently. The masked instructor displays several different knife attacks on a masked “victim” that demonstrate how to inflict maximum injury. The video has gone viral on Palestinian social media networks. JewishPress.com reports:

“Arab stabbing attacks on Jews have increased significantly this year and every Israeli is a potential victim when “resistors” educate every Arab to be a murderer.”

In the 1-minute instructional video, several techniques of knife attacks are demonstrated. The instructor begins with a forward thrust to the torso of the “victim” and twists the knife to maximize damage. The next lesson shows the instructor grabbing his victim from behind and inflicting several stab wounds to the stomach.

The lesson continues with the assailant casually stabbing the victim in the abdomen as he walks by, causing the victim to double over in mock pain. Then the attacker demonstrates another tactic of slashing the victim’s neck with the blade. The final assault is a combination attack that inflicts stab wounds to the back of the leg, the stomach, and the back as the victim falls forward.

In the Old City of Jerusalem on Friday, a Palestinian armed with a knife wounded two Israeli border police officers. There is no indication that the attacker was inspired by this video.

 

h/t Breitbart

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Columnist Calling For Repeal Of ‘Stupid Second Amendment’ Gets Scolded By Readers

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In a recent column for the Wisconsin Gazette, writer Tom Hastings took the position that the U.S. should abolish the constitutionally protected right to bear arms. The Portland State University teacher and director of Peace Voice criticized America as a nation that “fetishizes, lionizes, valorizes, idolizes, and sacralizes guns” more than any other nation with the exception of Mozambique.

His article suggested that gun violence has passed the point at which the nation should “repeal the stupid Second Amendment,” going on to insist that America’s founding fathers in no way supported the right of individuals to freely carry firearms.

He scolded Supreme Court justices who upheld that freedom and lamented the fact that “conservatives took away” the right of any city or state that “wants to outlaw firearms.”

Ostensibly speaking for “American people,” Hastings concluded that the nation is “exhausted by the proliferation of death, of threats, of bloodshed, and by the NRA/gun industry moral garbage spewing forth every time someone challenges the ubiquity of guns.”

The response to his opinion, however, reveals that plenty of readers resent his characterization of both the Second Amendment and the American people’s feelings toward it.

“Not only does the author not understand the 2nd Amendment,” one reader commented, “he has no clue as to why the framers inserted it. The author would disarm law abiding citizens and believe that would stop violent crime. The professional felons would applaud your work.”

Another reader pointed out that the amendment in question also guarantees an individual’s right to not carry a gun if he or she so chooses.

“If the author wishes to exercise that right,” the commenter wrote, “who am I to stand in his way in the manner that he attempts to stand in mine?”

The repeal of the Second Amendment, the reader continued, would “also see the fall of the First Amendment.”

Dozens of comments expressed a virtually unanimous opinion regarding Hasting’s editorial, which has earned a reader score of 1.11 stars on a scale of one to five at the time of this writing.

 

h/t Breitbart

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