Posted on 09/29/2012 7:47:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the days following the assassination attack in Benghazi, Libya on September 11 that left Ambassador Chris Stevens and three aides dead it was appalling to watch the Obama Administration's painstaking efforts to deny any connection to radical Islamic terror. A week later, the White House was forced to admit a connection to al Qaeda after the Director of the National Counterterrrorism Center, Matthew Olsen, testified to a Senate Committee that Benghazi was indeed a "terrorist attack on our embassy" with likely "connections to al Qaeda."
The week long contortions and denials by the Administration became even more befuddling when Eli Lake at the Daily Beast raised the stakes with this bombshell disclosure on September 26:
"Within 24 hours of the 9-11 anniversary attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi, U.S. intelligence agencies had strong indications al Qaeda–affiliated operatives were behind the attack, and had even pinpointed the location of one of those attackers. Three separate U.S. intelligence officials who spoke to The Daily Beast said the early information was enough to show that the attack was planned and the work of al Qaeda affiliates operating in Eastern Libya." Read more
Anderson Cooper at CNN disclosed on September 23 that Ambassador Steven's journal indicated he believed he was targeted by al Qaeda, yet apparently the State Department took no steps to protect his safety. That added to the questions….why?
Instead of coming clean, the State Department attacked CNN calling the disclosure "disgusting" and "not a proud moment in CNN's history." Again, raising more questions.
High ranking House and Senate Republicans fired off letters and issued public statements directed to the President demanding more information. What did the President know, and when did he know it?
Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) was the first to mention the "c" word - cover up. "There has to be something they're trying to hide or cover up," he said. "We just want answers."
Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) gave the growing scandal a name; Benghazi-gate.
Lake's newest revelation raises the stakes yet again. Jennifer Rubin in her "Right Turn" column in the Washington Post today asks the newest most obvious question – "Did Obama lie?"
"Obviously the report (Eli Lake's in the Daily Beast), if true, suggests that the White House lied to the American people by insisting for over a week that this was a spontaneous attack. It is one thing for the president to be so benighted as to think a video sets off multiple attacks on Sept. 11. It is quite another to send out his advisers, including his own spokesman, to mislead voters." Read more
Rubin also raises three other important questions that logically follow:
The answers to Rubin's first and second question are going to be highly dependent on the outcome of the third. Coming days will tell, but Rubin rightfully prods the mainstream media; "…now is the time when we see if reporters and pundits are more than shills for the president."
However, Rubin doesn't see much "evidence that an epidemic of fairness is breaking out in the mainstream media."
And, then the biggest question; will the American people continue to let Obama get away with it? "Certainly, we shouldn't have a president in office who would lie to the American people about a critical national security issue for the sake of his own reelection, right?" Rubin asks rhetorically. We'll find out soon enough.
I see the WH has found a fall guy to throw under the bus
But itis a lame weak effort.
The quesion is whether the MSM will line up and rush to give 0dumbo a pass
will MSM be only too glad to have someone else to blame so they don’t hvae to do their job?
Oblamer can’t really blame the National Security Agency because he wasn’t taking security briefings before the attack, not even right after the attack. Oblamer didn’t start taking the security briefings until after he was criticized for not taking them.
Even that doesn’t explain the endless vacillation on the cause of the Libyan attack and whether or not it was planned.
Nixon actually did something besides play golf, and they ran him out of office for much less. It’s the old media double standard.
No matter how hard he tries, this is NOT going to go away, and the harder he tries, the more WE will dig in to make damn sure it stays on the front burner. He can’t escape this one.
Ah well You are being logical
which has no part in 0dumbo’s world
and I guarantee before the day is over most of MSM will yse the excuse provided and say it is not 0dumbo’s fault
Don’t forget that no one died in Watergate
Not incompetence. Setup.
Both Hussein and Horrible Hillary have blood on their hands, the blood of four murdered Americans, who could have been saved if the warnings of impending attacks had been heeded.
was appalling to watch the Obama Administration’s painstaking efforts to deny any connection to radical Islamic terror.
This has got to change.
It is ISLAMIC TERRORISM not “radical” islamic terrorism
The sacking of our Embassy and slaughter of our Ambassador and 3 other Americans was celebrated all over the muslim world. Few if any muslims condemned the attacks islam exists to enslave or destroy all non muslims...
You suspect? I am certain without a doubt that it was. You are giving him way to much credit then he deserves
Not that Obama knew - but that before and after the fact, the meme was that “the crowd was rioting because of the short trailer of a film not yet released that was on YouTube.” Until the uproar went out about this short video, nobody, but NOBODY (well, maybe twelve people in all) had actually seen the video until about a day AFTER the twin assaults on the embassies in Egypt and Libya.
It was the lie, repeated and repeated, that the uprising and assault of the embassies was due to and solely caused by the dissemination of the video in question. For sure, once attention was called to it, lots of people DID watch the video, and were greatly incensed (not at all a difficult proposition to GET a militant jihadist Muslim incensed).
The al Qaeda-led assault on the embassy at Benghazi was planned far in advance, well-coordinated and carried out with dispatch, on what was essentially an undefended post. An oversight, not to have adequate self-defense of an embassy in a recent war zone, but one that COULD be overlooked in the fog of hasty activity.
But like Watergate, the attempts to divert blame and cover up errors and misjudgments turned out to be far worse than the original lapse of good sense. And that is what we have here: All the worst of Nixon’s errors, piled on top of all of Jimmy Carter’s poor diplomatic skills, and belated action.
The world must wait no longer to be rid of this defect of nature who is the Current Resident of the Oval Office.
“Likable” just doesn’t cut it any more. Try “competent”.
...the problem is that the Clintons play for keeps and are not keen to take the fall for Oblamer.
Pass the popcorn...
I believe Obama’s trying to set up a situation where he can call for martial law.
ever notice old media uses ‘OLD’ photo’s of Hillary...
if they would use current pic’s she would go down the tube faster...
she did to herself what Clint Eastwood said he couldn’t do!!!
“Rubin also raises three other important questions that logically follow:
Can Obama squirm out of this scandal unscathed as he has so many others, or
Will Mitt Romney effectively make this a campaign changing moment, and
Will the media live up to their responsibilities and hold the Administration accountable?”
This election will measure the intelligence of the voting public. The lame-stream will NOT hold this administration accountable and is banking on the ‘sheeple’ believing their propaganda.
“I believe Obama’s trying to set up a situation where he can call for martial law.”
Then he has until Wednesday to do so to stay out of the debate with Romney.
Obama lied after an ambassador died.
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