Posted on 05/04/2013 11:09:12 AM PDT by jazusamo
On October 27th, 2012, only days before the presidential election, I wrote:
If Barack Obama is reelected, will he face impeachment over Benghazi — a yet more unpleasant and far more wrenching result than to lose an election?
It could happen — and in my estimation should happen — the way revelations are playing out over the bloody terror attack that took four American lives and has led to weeks of prevarication and obfuscation.
The scandal thus far has at least tarnished and quite possibly implicated everyone from the CIA director, to the secretaries of State and Defense, to the UN ambassador and, of course, the president himself — with no end in sight, because Obama, normally loath to expose himself and even less so in an election season, refuses to answer questions on the subject.
It’s not the crime, but the cover-up, we learned in an earlier impeachment, only in this case the crime may be just as bad or worse.”
That post was a follow-up to my item from the previous week saying thatObama should resign over Benghazi, which was linked to by Drudge, and created a minor brouhaha. Between those two posts, a number of people accused me of being overheated. I even started to feel that way myself. (Hey, I’m a screenwriter. Dramatic license comes with the job description.)
No longer. Reading Stephen F. Hayes’ new article in The Weekly Standard — “The Benghazi Talking Points” — I am beginning to feel like Nostradamus. I’m not ready to make any predictions, but let’s put it this way…
Barack Obama is bloody lucky he’s a Democrat, because if he were a Republican, he’d be in deep trouble right now, close to the brink of extinction. Only his increasingly pathetic loyal media claque can save him. It will be interesting to see if they do so at the expense of their own reputations.
Of course the reputations of the State Department need to be considered as well, that same State Dept that, according to Hayes (and this is corroborated by emails he publishes), bowdlerized and censored all references to al-Qaeda involvement in the Benghazi events before they could reach the fragile American public in an election year, almost even as they were happening. This was before Susan Rice made her dog-and-pony performance on the Sunday shows, asserting it was all caused by a video nobody watched, and long before the oleaginous Candy Crowley famously covered up for Obama on Benghazi at the presidential foreign-policy debate.
Hayes names the names of some of the State Department miscreants involved in this repellent anti-democratic censorship. Among them is one Victoria Nuland, who makes Pinocchio seem like Diogenes. (You can find a video of her as well as some droll tweets from the blogger Ace of Spades demanding an explanation for all this prevarication, and even a tweet from me, here.)
But it’s not just State. According to Hayes, on the CIA side, a fellow named Mike Morell, their deputy director, “cut all or parts of four paragraphs of the six-paragraph talking points — 148 of its 248 words. Gone were the reference to ‘Islamic extremists,’ the reminders of agency warnings about al Qaeda in Libya, the reference to ‘jihadists’ in Cairo, the mention of possible surveillance of the facility in Benghazi, and the report of five previous attacks on foreign interests.”
So why did this all happen? Who were they covering up for, hiding Islamic terror involvement? Post-Boston, it seems particularly despicable, even if it was already bad enough with all the death and injury to U.S. service personnel who risk life and limb to defend our freedom.
But never mind. We are in a fascinating period of unraveling. Whistleblowers in the defense community are appearing. I’m sure at State, some are looking over their shoulders, waiting for the “Night of the Long Knives” to begin. It probably has already.
How far will it go? We will soon, no doubt, be in the period of “limited hangouts.” (The attempt by Jay Carney, Obama’s press secretary, to play the “Benghazi happened a long time ago” dodge on Wednesday arguably fits this definition.) Who will be the John Dean, the Erlichman, and Haldeman? Is “Deep Benghazi Throat” talking at this moment?
While we are making Watergate analogies, it’s worth noting this is far worse than that noxious moment in American history or the other recent impeachment episode — Clinton. In the former, some dumb zealots broke into the campaign headquarters of the opposition party in an election that wasn’t remotely close. Nevertheless, the paranoid Nixon destroyed himself by trying to cover up the idiocy. Clinton wagged his finger at us and lied about sex under oath, while his wife — an important figure in Benghazi where she has already been caught dissimulating — similarly lied by publicly blaming her husband’s philandering on the “great right-wing conspiracy.” (What power!)
Creepy behavior all around and certainly nothing remotely presidential, but, compared to Benghazi, no one died or was even injured. As far as I know, no one even stubbed a toe.
Benghazi, on the contrary, was an important battle in the Global War on Terror, which has now reached our shores more than once. It will undoubtedly do so again. Those who take this casually in the slightest are conscious or unconscious traitors or fools — or so self-interested as to be beneath contempt.
The Congress must be unstinting in pursuing the truth of Benghazi wherever it leads and however high it goes. If they do not, our country will be weakened, probably beyond recognition.
I don’t know about you, but I will be watching closely on May 8, when Rep. Issa begins his public inquiry. These may be the beginnings of the most important hearings of our lifetime.
In the meantime, for some comic relief, let’s do the “Mashed Potato,” BHO-style, and dedicate it to Jay Carney: “Benghazi started long time ago / With a guy name Gaddafi / No one knew how to spell his name / Come on baby, gonna teach it to you…”
Video at link: "It's Mashed Potato Time"
The GOP is Obama’s biggest supporter and I am tired of constantly receiving their “Surveys” through the mail as if our answers to it really matter to them.
Conviction in the Senate is another story.
Boehner had better go for impeachment if things play out the way I expect them too.
If not, the Republicans and Boehner are finished and deserve to be finished.
So, Obama: “Boehner made me do it!”
The Weekly Standard piece just went on my facebook (which I really try to keep free of the political. However, this rises above the political and must not be neglected.
And to all the keyboard defeatists
The Dear Leader surely must thank you for providing needed demoralization of this crusade against hope and change.
No chance in hell of impeachment as the federal government has fully abandoned the notion they they derive their limited powers from us.
We have a ruling elite in both parties who do not pay any attention to the restrictions the Constitution places on the Federal government so much they even exempted themselves once again from insider trading laws. They made a big show about rescinding that exemption but a few months later, when we were not looking they once again allowed this dishonest practice to become part and parcel of what every person in congress and the WH expects to be their entitlement.
When do we take it back? My guess is never.
The maker of the video was an fbi asset. The whole thing was preplanned and initiated BY US to start riots and blame Israel. Remember that the FIRST story about the video was that it was made by a billionaire ISRAELI JEW.
If Walid Shoebat had not exposed that lie, all the Americans murdered at Benghazi would have been blamed on Israel.
On my knees!! Prayers up!!
Like you, I’m hoping for the public pressure angle to work. I’m also hoping months of accusations, investigations, and recriminations, regardless of outcome, will effectively halt his 2nd term agenda.
House strengthens, and Senate swings our way and it is untenable for any Dem. to support a traitor. Now what's the likelihood ? Much better wouldn't you say ?
Dems would still balk at alienating their black base forever, so I'd still put it at a long shot.
Could they quietly force him to resign ?
The Rats have something big time bad on Boehner, don't know what it is, corruption or other stuff, but that's the only explanation for his backstabbing so far.
Of course they will. Obama could bring Boehner and McConnell to the Rose garden and behead them on live TV while screaming Allahu Akbar and the media would report that he had saved us from Republican terrorists.
Yea -sure. How did that "Fast & Furious" go for ya, Darrell? How naive can some people be. The corrupt/elite structure is greater than the Constitution. The country is owned & run by powerful thugs
I will make a special point to write Senator Cornyn before Monday and remind him again of where were are and what is riding on this exposure.
His last response to my contact concerning Weapons to the Syrian rebels indicated he still does not have a clue, or he is bought. Either way this will come to haunt him if he does not act accordingly.
I don’t have to contact Cruz, he is on the right page and I expect him to be leading the charge on Wednesday.
Agree. There has to be something. The way he defends 0/this worthless admin is incomprehensible.
I’m not afraid of riots, let them bring it upon themselves. It seems that is all liberals are good for.
Yes, it does.
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