Posted on 10/15/2012 11:47:46 AM PDT by servo1969
Forbes contributor, Larry Bell, released an article late last night entitled, “Pants On Fire: Obama Administration Scrambles for Cover as Benghazi Lie Explodes.”
The article, drawing on reports from CNN, reveals a picture the Obama administration is desperately trying to sweep under the rug.
President Obama’s foreign policy is an absolute disaster.
Moreover, the things the Obama administration has told the American people in the days since September 11th reveal either gross incompetence, or willful deception. Perhaps, even, a combination of the two. [Emphasis added]
For more than a week after the Benghazi attack, the Obama administration which pledged to be the “most transparent administration in history”, continued to maintain a ruse that the outbreak of violence was nothing more than a spur-of-the-moment protest in response to the offensive video. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton repeated the fiction, and White House press spokesman Jay Carney told us all that there was “no evidence” that this was a “preplanned or premeditated attack.”
An October 2nd CNN report disagreed. It revealed that the administration repeatedly sent out talking points that contradicted top intelligence officials and sources for the network on the details of what caused the attack. It also said that: “CNN has learned tonight that the White House chose to leave out key intelligence from the attacks on Americans in Libya. There are three things U.S. intelligence has now confirmed to be true: the attacks were preplanned, terrorist attacks, and the work of Al-Qaeda- linked groups. None of these three points were in talking points distributed to congress and other government officials. U.S. intelligence knew of the al-Qaeda link within 24 hours of the attacks. And the now infamous comments by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice that the attacks were not preplanned and not the work of terror came four days after that. This doesn’t add up.”
In addition to absolutely no evidence that the attack was connected to any objectionable video, information released in a letter from Representative Darrell Issa to Secretary of State Clinton shows that the situation in Libya had been deteriorating for months. It reads: “Based on information provided to the committee by individuals with direct knowledge of events in Libya, the attack that claimed the ambassador’s life was the latest in a long line of attacks on Western diplomats and officials in Libya in the months leading up to September 11, 2012.”
This is unacceptable behavior from a sitting administration. By any objective viewing of the facts, the Obama administration has deliberately misled the American people in an attempt to shield their claims of foreign policy superiority from scrutiny in the months leading up to the election.
What’s more, as Bell points out, this is no isolated incident. The shooting at Fort Hood, the 2009 Christmas Day bomber, and the assassination attempt on the Saudi Ambassador in D.C. all have links the al-Qaeda network.
Yet this reality contradicts the narrative President Obama has been pushing about his foreign policy experience, so the acts were said to have been singular and uncoordinated incidents of violence.
Bell notes this connection.
Finally, carefully contemplate what Obama said in his speech before the Democratic National Convention: “My opponent and his running mate are new to foreign policy. But from all that we’ve seen and heard they want to take us back to an era of blustering and blundering that cost America so deeply.”
Is it possible that the past blustering and blundering he referred to is really his own, and that we might truly be ready for new foreign policy leadership after all?
The American people don’t deserve to be jerked around by the Obama administration just so it can save face.
We deserve better.
You are correct. The bra burning Gloria Steinhams of the past have aged out of the discussion
BINGO!!!
Romney totally ignoring whatever chocolate-dipped piece of crap Candy serves up, and start off with ‘excuse me Candy, I realize this is not the question or topic you brought up, but we have a much more critical issue at hand that the American people deserve answers to...
THEN MITT JUST LAYS INTO OBAMA....
It requires a huge sack and I’m not sure Mitt is willing to take the chance. My biggest fear is Mitt sits on his lead....
I would totally say whatever I wanted regardless of the question asked and if she challenged me would say “I answered the question I meant to answer. Let the people decide.”
I hope one person asks a question that he wasn’t supposed to asked. We’ll know by the looks on Candy’s and obama’s faces.
Hillary has now stated that she 'takes responsibility' for the Bengazi attack (which is just so much hot air out of any Democrat's mouth). But wouldn't it be the sweetest irony of all, if Hillary chose to step down as SoS just before the election?
Can you say, buh-bye, Barky? Talk about the ultimate pay-back.
It also needs to be pointed out the the POS obama went to bed because he had a fund raiser the next day.
"Just bumps in the road" should be his epitaph.
Candy would signal the control room and the questioner would be cut off. Her type doesn't like it when conservatives express themselves honestly. It'll be a stacked deck. No one expects CNN or the 'commission' to be fair - face it - they chose four liberals to moderate four debates. If that's not giving conservative Americans the finger, nothing is...
The New York Times doesn't care about this story. They don't care about the brave Americans who died. They care about Obama. They care about Hilary. They will do everything they can to kill the story...
Biden was the cranky know-it-all drunk uncle who ruins Christmas dinners. We'll let dems have that slot... it's who they are after all... It wasn't Bidens first time to be a bully either. About 20+ years ago he was pushing around a young mother with children in a train station or airport. When I saw it I was so sickened that to this day I remember his arrogance and cruelty. His office at the time put out some crap about how he was grieving or some such lie. IMHO if that's him and I'm 99% sure - he's NOT a nice person. I hope someone can find the film - it was a network news item...
The Ambassador to the USUN is now cabinet level???? Wow...I did not know that. When?
Is that sick or what?
They've done it every 'debate' and this will be no exception. I'm sure Candy of CNN will milk abortion for all the horror she can... killing the unborn has been legal for almost half a century - but the issue stirs up the passions and blood lust of democrats so it'll be front and center.
If one question out of five hundred submitted is about abortion - it WILL be asked. Same with scaring the old people about Social Security. If Candy can do it, she will. She's a liberal who has made no secret about her contempt for conservatives.
There won't be any questions about second amendment rights or gun control - dems discovered a few years back that those issues work FOR conservatives .. and questions about gun control were dropped from all debates... odd how that happens /s
The good thing is Candy's more professional than Martha - probably won't step in and interrupt as much...
Any JERK who politicizes the death of his wife on a regular basis has to just to be a REAL slimeball.
I see behind this man’s facade. He’s the typical useless slimeball who has hung out in congress for the past 40 years. Fightin’ Joe, my ass — he’s a low class a-hole who will say anything, do anything, screw anyone over to remain in his sweet spot.
THESE type of guys are the PROBLEM with our political situation!!
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