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VIDEO: Soledad O'Brien and Romney advisor John Sununu spar in post-debate analysis on Libya, coal, taxes, guns

This morning on "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien," Soledad & Romney Advisor John Sununu sparred on topics ranging from the U.S. Consulate attacks in Libya to Mitt Romney's claims on coal, taxes and guns. And in the end, despite the fiery conversation, the discussion was ended amicably. Check out the video links below for more.


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  1. Kenneth MacKenzie, Plaintiff Pro Se, U.S. Supreme Ct. 08-9595,

    U.S. State Dept Cover-up: "U.S. SALARIED AWAKENING MOVEMENT" LIBYAN TERRORIST MEMBERS OF AL QUEDA WHO MURDERED CHRISTOPHER STEVENS WERE PREVIOUSLY PHOTO-IDENTIFIED IN U.S. SATELLITE & DRONE DATA BASES OVER IRAQ AND LIBYA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    20 Oct 2009
    From: Kenneth MacKenzie, Plaintiff Pro Se, U.S. Supreme Ct. 08-9595, : SEE: kristianmenchaca.com/publisher.php ;or: christianmenchaca.com/publisher.php
    Ladies & Gentlemen:
    It bears repeating that it is most urgent and appropriate to cite that the identities of several Terrorists who murdered U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and several U.S. Defense Contractors and two U.S. Navy Seals were previously photo-identified in the U.S. Satellite and Drone data bases over Iraq and Libya, but concealed from the several U.S. Crime data bases by the U.S. Justice , US State, and US DoD, also concealed from Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
    The confused lack of security training and general lack of security experience by arrogant higher-up bureaucrats in the State Department ignoring the truth that Terrorists will attack at any opportunity, did criminally cost the lives of Ambassador Stevens and other U.S. Victims of the Terrorist attack on U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. These failures were likely caused by U.S. Bureaucrats and officials who have lived "sheltered lives" with no experience in U.S. Security or U.S. Military Service that would enable them to recognize the life threats that Ambassador Stevens reminded them of, time after time.
    It is evident that Deputy Secretary Charlene R. Lamb, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State was a key figure in the "Negligent Denial" of security protection and dynamics that cost the lives of too many worthy Americans. Deputy Secretary Charlene R. Lamb's "Incompetent Negligence" went beyond "Negligence" to "Henious Negligence" because her tragic security denial wrong doing did cost the lives of so many good people.
    PREFACE: it is of interest to note: Charlene R. Lamb, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Programs at the U.S. Department of State did not mention (therefore, concealed by “omission”) on October 10, 2012 in Washington, DC , that a U.S. Intelligence Satellite was taking photos of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens every five seconds while he was attacked by al Queda at U.S. Consulate, Benghazi, Libya, U.S. DoD, (Satellite photograph Grid coordinates 32 07 N 20 04 E.)
    U.S. Intelligence photo Satellites were recording a photo every five seconds, before, during, and after the murder of U.S. Ambassador Stevens in the same manner as U.S. Satellites and Drones recorded the torture murders of PFC Kristian Menchaca and PFC Thomas Tucker while they were slaughtered by al Queda member Double Agents s of the "U.S. SALARIED AWAKENING MOVEMENT" at Yosifiya, Iraq, Satellite Grid Coordinates :Latitude. 33.1505556°, Longitude. 44.0638889°, 16 to 19 June 2006. Said U.S. Executive Branch Secretaries and their "Henchmen" did not want it know how mispent U.S. money was criminally mis-spent to support atrocities against U.S. Soldiers. Such wrongdoing would be most certainly condemned by the American people if they knew.
    In the torture murders of PFC Kristian Menchaca & PFC Thomas Tucker, it is certain there were present U.S. salaried “Awakening Movement al Queda and al Shura Terrorists ,” comprised of "volunteer Libyans many from the Benghazi area of Libya, whose identities could be matched against the U.S. Sinjar photos held at U.S. MA, West Point, identifying terrorists who participated in said torture deaths of PFC Kristian Menchaca & PFC Thomas Tucker, as it was a well-known public fact that “Double Agent” al Queda and al Shura Terrorists were members of the U.S. salaried “Awakening Movement” posing as Sunni Muslim members of said “Awakening Movement" wide-spread throughout Iraq.
    Said U.S. Satellite & Drone Photos were manipulated by the U.S. State Department, U.S. Justice Department, and U.S. DoD, in such a manner as to be “not presented to the court,” and not recorded in the several Crime Information U.S. Data Bases at the (1) U.S. N C I C Crime data bases, (2) U.S. Department of State Terrorist Crime data bases; (3) U.S. Department of Justice Terrorist Crime data bases,” (4) U.S. Department of Defense (M.I.) Terrorist Crime data bases,” (5) U.K. Department of State Terrorist Crime data bases,” (6) France (NATO) Department of State Terrorist Crime data bases,” (7) EUROPOL Terrorist Crime data bases,” (8) INTERPOL Terrorist Crime data bases,” (9) Germany (NATO) Terrorist Crime data bases,” (10) Italy (NATO) Terrorist Crime data bases
    "Two former Navy SEALs who were among four Americans killed last week in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, died after rushing to the aid of their colleagues, according to sources familiar with the incident.
    Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were in Benghazi as part of a security contractor force.
    On September 11, they were ensconced in the safety of an annex location in another part of the city when they got word that the main consulate building was under fire and the diplomats there – with an armed force of only nine people – were overwhelmed by the deteriorating situation.
    Doherty and Woods, along with other security personnel, left the secure annex and made their way to the chaotic scene, rounding up the consulate staffs who were under attack and guiding them back to the second safe building." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19605322
    Deputy Secretary Charlene R. Lamb did not mention (therefore, …she “concealed by omission”) these easily recovered U.S. Intelligence Satellite photos that could be matched against the U.S. Sinjar photos held at U.S. MA, West Point and in the other KH 11 & KH 12 Satellite photo data bases over Iraq and Libya.
    Was Deputy Assistant Secretary Lamb or her counterpart also likely involved in the concealment of Satellite & Drone photo evidence at Benghazi, Libya? Ambassador Stevens paid with his life as a result of said concealments.
    It is obvious that the U.S. State Department, that the U.S. Justice Department, and U.S. Defense Department do not want it known that Libyan Terrorist al Queda members of the "U.S. SALARIED AWAKENING MOVEMENT" had returned from Iraq to Benghazi, Libya where they resumed Terrorist operations and were Satellite photographed before, during, and after they killed Ambassador Stevens.
    It is also obvious that said U.S. Executive Branch departments want to silence information and suppress consideration that U.S. money was paid to the Libyan Terrorists in the "U.S. SALARIED AWAKENING MOVEMENT" of Iraq and that members of the "U.S. SALARIED AWAKENING MOVEMENT" murdered U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens while they were salaried with U.S. provided money in Libya .
    Said U.S. Executive Branch departments want to silence information and suppress consideration that U.S. money was paid to the Libyan Terrorists in the "U.S. SALARIED AWAKENING MOVEMENT" for essentially the same reasons why said U.S. Executive Branch departments wanted to silence information and suppress consideration that U.S. money was paid to the al Queda members of "U.S. SALARIED AWAKENING MOVEMENT" while U.S. Satellites and Drones recorded the torture murders of PFC Kristian Menchaca and PFC Thomas Tucker as they were slaughtered by al Queda member Double Agents s of the "U.S. SALARIED AWAKENING MOVEMENT" at Yosifiya, Iraq, Satellite Grid Coordinates :Latitude. 33.1505556°, Longitude. 44.0638889°, 16 to 19 June 2006.
    : SEE: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/state-department-official-refuses-to-classify-libya-attackers-as-terrorists/# ;;
    SEE:: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/10/what-we-know-about-the-libya-attack/?hpt=wo_c2
    REGARDING: TRIAL HEADED BY JUDGE MUNTHER RAOUF HAADI IN THE CENTRAL, CRIMINAL COURT OF IRAQ with guilty verdict issued against the Terrorist Insurgent , (1), Ibrahim Al-Qaraghuli, during 18 October 2008 for torture murders of PFC Kristian Menchaca & PFC Thomas Tucker.
    … U.S. Col. Rafael Lara and the U.S. Task Force Lara headed and U.S. ATTORNEY GNL. HOLDER & Secretary of State Clinton operated CRIMINAL “EVIDENCE COVER-UP” of (1) Satellite photographs and (2) CIA photos of CIA operated and paid enlistment of Sunni Muslims into the U.S. Created “Awakening” movement : : U.S. CIA AGENT PAID “IRAQI ‘AWAKENING’ AGENTS” TORTURE MURDERED CAPTURED US SOLDIERS, PFC KRISTIAN MENCHACA & PFC THOMAS TUCKER, 2006, IN SATELLITE PHOTOS. The identification of the U.S. paid “Iraqi ‘Awakening’ Agents” in said Satellite Photos can be made by comparing CIA photo Records of its own data base of CIA operated and CIA paid enlistment of Sunni Muslims into the U.S. Created “Awakening” movement." SEE:http://www.israelmilitary.net/showthread.php?t=16167
    …This astounding condition was concealed prior to and during trial of (1), Ibrahim Al-Qaraghuli & (2) Kazim Al-Zowba’i & (3) Walid Al-Kartani headed by Judge Munther Raouf Haadi in The Central, Criminal Court of Iraq with guilty verdict issued against the Terrorist Insurgent , (1), Ibrahim Al-Qaraghuli, during 18 October 2008. (2) Kazim Al-Zowba’i & (3) Walid Al-Kartani were released as Iraq had no science available to process DNA collected against (2) Kazim Al-Zowba’i & (3) Walid Al-Kartani.
    …The U.S. Task Force headed by U.S. Col Rafael Lara representing the United States and advised with oversight involvement by U.S. Attorney General Erik Holder did not make evidence available that would show that (1), Ibrahim Al-Qaraghuli & (2) Kazim Al-Zowba’i & (3) Walid Al-Kartani were members of “U.S.-CIA-paid-Iraqi-’Awakening’-Agent-Terrorists” of al Queda / al Shura . SEE:http://www.israelmilitary.net/showthread.php?t=16167
    ..SEE:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/world/middleeast/29iraq.html?pagewanted=print
    …Moreover,“U.S.-CIA-paid-Iraqi-’Awakening’ -Agent-Terrorists” of al Queda / al Shura were Satellite photographed as torturing to death U.S.A. PFC Kristian Menchaca & U.S.A. PFC Thomas Tucker “AND” this evidence, in a corrupt effort at concealment, was not presented by U.S. Col. Rafael Lara and the U.S. Task Force he headed and U.S. ATTORNEY GNL. HOLDER & Secretary of State Clinton to Judge Munther Raouf Haadi in The Central, Criminal Court of Iraq on or before 18 Oct 2008 when he issued what amounts to a “U.S.-GOVERNMENT-CONCEALED-EVIDENCE-’TAINTED’-VERDICT.”
    Charlene R. Lamb, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Programs at the U.S. Department of State, testifies on Capitol Hill as a diagram of the U.S. compound in Benghazi is displayed behind her on October 10, 2012 in Washington, DC. The hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee focused on the security situation in Benghazi leading up to the September 11 attack that resulted in the assassination of U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens. (Credit: Getty Images)
    During Wednesday’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) questioned Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Programs Charlene Lamb about her apparent refusal to call the people who attacked the U.S. Consulate in Libya and killed four Americans “terrorists.”
    “You Miss Lamb…have described these attackers in a number of ways but you don’t mention terrorist at all. Why is that? I mean the compound had been attacked once before and breached,” Burton said. “And these people had all these weapons; projectiles, grenades, all kinds of weapons. Why would you call this anything other than a terrorist attack? And why do you call them attackers?”
    “I have just presented the facts as they have come across. I am not making any judgements on my own and I am leaving that to others,” Lamb replied, completely avoiding the question.
    Sincerely,
    Kenneth MacKenzie

    October 20, 2012 at 2:47 pm | Report abuse | Reply
  2. Fred Hofer

    With banks paying astounding interest rates of less than 2%, a person would have to be a billionaire to save enough to buy a soft drink! Great plan Mitt!

    October 19, 2012 at 11:08 am | Report abuse | Reply
  3. jeannie

    Why ANYONE, particularly Soledad would give this senile crumudgeon a platform – I don't understand it. It simply does not make sense. He is a bitter old fool who stuck in the 50's. DON'T give him the platform to spit out his nonsense. It is that simple. I for one, simply changed my channel this last time. I want serious news NOT hatred and nonsense.

    October 19, 2012 at 6:19 am | Report abuse | Reply
  4. Tim Z

    CNN junkie, watch your program everyday, but disappointed in your coverage of binders of women today. Could you please look into the binders of women comment that Mitt Romney made during the last debate. I saw a segment of Anderson360 that states he and his competitor were given the same binders before the election, and he did not search or ask for it... Also that although he started the term with over 40% women in his cabinet, he ended with only around 20%. His comments ranged from extremely misleading to outright lies. Thank you very much for looking into this.

    October 18, 2012 at 8:59 am | Report abuse | Reply
  5. Mark

    Soledad, you two need counseling. Can you elaborate on what he said about an interview AFTER the debate when he claims Candy admitted Romney was correct? What interview was he referring to?

    October 17, 2012 at 8:56 am | Report abuse | Reply

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