Panetta: Obama absent night of Benghazi

Panetta: Obama absent night of Benghazi. “There were no calls about the what was going on in Benghazi. He [the president] never called to check-in.” Hillary’s 2008 “who’s gonna answer the White House phone at 3am” ad was prescient but ironically, she didn’t answer it either. Where’s that damn janitor????

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  • i bet theyre all drunk there every night in that corrupt Washington dc-the whole country or half is so moronic they dont even know about this incident or dont care

  • Guess on the way out the door Leon decided to throw barry and the Hildabeast under the bus. Yet of course he kept his mouth shut until after the election. Now the truth is coming out and all the people can see that these shit heads let 4 Americans die all the time trying to figure out how to spin this story away from der leader.

    • Yeah, wow. To be honest, that Obama was nowhere to be found doesn't surprise me, but the fact that Panetta is admitting it in public testimony shocks the hell out of me. Can't wait to see the White House spin this one. "Well, the president monitored everything all night. Didn't even sleep. But he was talking to someone other than Panetta."

  • BHO obviously doesn't give a tinker's damn about Benghazi. Or he is just enormously ignorant making it impossible for him to have been even cognizant of the horrible events that occurred in Benghazi. This is an unacceptable scandal and yet no one has even been pressured, from any angle, by anyone. Certainly not the POTUS and certainly not Clinton. The hearings so far have been soft soap. Hillary's hearing was nothing more than a stage giving her a chance to act like a righteous victim. Lies, lies, lies! Benghazigate, Benghazigate, Benghazigate!!!

  • He was supposed to be on his way to a "National Security fund raiser" and golf game in Lost Wages, NV.

  • No different from any other time when there's a crisis, "Dear Leader" always disappears.