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Is Benghazi Becoming a Watergate, or Iran-Contra, or Both?
National Review ^ | 5-6-2013 | Victor Davis Hanson - Commentary

Posted on 05/06/2013 8:07:08 PM PDT by smoothsailing

Edited on 05/07/2013 6:47:33 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

Is Benghazi Becoming a Watergate, or Iran-Contra, or Both?

Benghazi cannot be dismissed with

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; vdh
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To: VideoDoctor

one question
who told hillary that it was over a bogus film?
just keep asking pointed questions


41 posted on 05/07/2013 1:06:25 AM PDT by genghis
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To: smoothsailing

Worse than all of the above.


42 posted on 05/07/2013 1:43:01 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: VideoDoctor
The outcome of Benghazi, and what happened, should totally tank Cankles Clinton’s hopes of a candidacy for President in 2016.

Should, but probably won't, considering what the Beast and her so-called husband have gotten away with in the past.

43 posted on 05/07/2013 2:47:37 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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Bump


44 posted on 05/07/2013 3:37:13 AM PDT by PogySailor
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To: RobbyS

I’m glad to see one pundit finally talk about the real reason for the Benghazi,running guns and vetting jihadists who had killed Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan to fight in Syria is the reason that no one wants to mention.


45 posted on 05/07/2013 3:43:03 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: smoothsailing

Watergate, Iran-Contra, and St. Valentine’s Day Massacre thrown in for good measure.


46 posted on 05/07/2013 3:47:18 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: arthurus
Not if a major MSM outlet doesn’t make it a big deal.

That is the very sad truth of it. Obama has the entire media (at least the one that dumb people watch) to surround him with a ring of protection. They are his defensive army, and they are not going to let anything significant happen to our first blackish president. The MSM is this administration's propaganda division, and it's treasonous.
47 posted on 05/07/2013 3:53:05 AM PDT by ZX12R (Never forget the heroes of Benghazi, who were abandoned to their deaths by Obama)
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To: smoothsailing

You guys don’t seriously believe anyone is getting impeached for this, do you? People in government office stopped being held accountable for dead americans a very long time ago. Waco, Ruby Ridge, Oklahoma City, 9/11...no one gets held accountable for being incompetent, evil or just plain asleep at the wheel. It’s the same reason why sharks won’t eat lawyers. It’s just a professional courtesy that one side of the club extends to the other.


48 posted on 05/07/2013 4:09:06 AM PDT by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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To: Spartan302

“...say goodbye Democratic party.”

The Democrat Party is the party of saints and is incapable of wrongdoing.

/sarc/

IMHO


49 posted on 05/07/2013 4:12:44 AM PDT by ripley
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To: genghis

You mean, who told Hillary to say that it was over a bogus film.

Hillary knew perfectly well that it wasn’t, and I think that’s why the high-level person that the WH sent out to talk it up was the UN Ambassador Susan Rice, who was unconnected with the events in any way and probably really didn’t have much first-hand knowledge of the actual attack. Thus, if people challenged her, she could always say she was just relying on what “sources” told her and get away without directly lying to the media or, ultimately, perjuring herself.

Even though minions in the State Dept had almost immediately sent out the video story to foreign missions, indicating that the story had been prepared even in advance of Benghazi as a cover story for any Islamic attacks on 9/11, Hillary had virtually no firm statements at first, because she knew too much about it. But once that narrative, including massaging of the CIA reports to reflect it, came out from the Muslim-loving WH and survived its trial run without being challenged, it became the official story and she felt perfectly free to proclaim it.

I think we’re going to find that this whole scheme was an effort on the part of the WH to build up what someone else called “plausible deniability.” The unusual thing, as Hanson points out, is that the WH got all the rest of the departments and agencies to fall in with the lie almost immediately. The WH was seeking not only deniability of Obama’s incompetence and lack of interest, but deniability of their real intention, whatever it was. (Arming AQ?)


50 posted on 05/07/2013 4:18:00 AM PDT by livius
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To: All

“No facts please, we’re Democrats.”


51 posted on 05/07/2013 5:05:56 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: MestaMachine

Thanks for putting me on the Benghazi list. I can’t get enough of this, and hope it brings Hil-liar-y down.


52 posted on 05/07/2013 5:24:46 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Hey Rush, you forgot to tell us when to panic.)
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To: smoothsailing

Comparing this to Watergate is like comparing hurricane Katrina to a dust devil in a farm field because they both have rotating winds. It is like comparing an Irish Wolfhound on steroids to a Chihuahua because they are both canines. If Watergate is in any way comparable to Benghazi then Joe Biden is the new Albert Einstein.
This administration could pull off the modern equivalent to Watergate and you would never even hear of it unless they decided to brag about it and then the media would rave about what a wonderful thing it was.


53 posted on 05/07/2013 6:22:46 AM PDT by RipSawyer (I was born on Earth, what planet is this?)
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

I agree. I keep blasting them on Facebook as that is the only way to get this info in front of low information voters. My facebook “friends” are dwindling but I don’t care.


54 posted on 05/07/2013 6:24:41 AM PDT by fatrat (extremely extreme right-wing radicalized veteran)
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To: fatrat

Mine too, and honestly, I believe at this point I’m better off! There are plenty of people who truly are willing to at least learn the facts. The others, not so much.

I just can’t wrap my mind around the resistance of so many to utilize this avenue as a way to spread the information.


55 posted on 05/07/2013 7:37:42 AM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: smoothsailing
The drivebys are so pathetic. Even CBS who is now begrudgingly covering the story probably wouldn't have given it the time of day if one of their own,Sharyl Attkisson not been brutally raped by Mideastern terror types and is now threatening to leave CBS.
Here is how excitable Chrissy handles the story.

http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/after-dismissing-benghazi-fox-newss-super-story-wash-posts-ignatius-begrudgingly-admits-i

56 posted on 05/07/2013 8:08:45 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: rodguy911

Wasn’t that Lara Logan?


57 posted on 05/07/2013 8:24:10 AM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply)
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To: sauropod

Hit me hard, yes it was,bad screw up.sorry


58 posted on 05/07/2013 8:44:09 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: eccentric

June 17, 1972 was the break in. Nixon didn’t resign until August 9, 1974. I remember it well, it was my birthday.

As you say, it takes time. In Nixon’s case, there was a full court press that hounded him all that time. Obama will face no such organized onslaught. On the contrary, far more effort will go in to protecting him than running him out of town.

It will take even longer to get rid of Obama than it did Nixon, if in fact we can get rid of him at all.

At this point I just hope this stirs things up to the point that we can defeat the Democrats in huge numbers in next year’s elections.


59 posted on 05/07/2013 8:57:51 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

>>Where they are unable to dictate the dialogue is social media and it would be helpful if other conservatives took to some of these tools available.
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Exactly. Every time I hear some conservative whining that “the media is not doing their job” I ask them “And what was your first clue? And what are YOU doing about it?”

Anyone who complains about the media without taking to social media or otherwise informing others is just that...a pathetic whiner.

Don’t just stand there whining, DO something!!!! lol


60 posted on 05/07/2013 10:52:43 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Hey Rush, you forgot to tell us when to panic.)
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