Posted on 05/01/2014 9:37:37 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
Has the Benghazi "smoking gun" been found? Some White House critics believe that new documents wrestled from the White House by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, prove that the Obama administration concocted a cover-up: Political advisers pushed a false story that the murder of four Americans grew out of a protest against an anti-Islamic video in order to hide a policy failure that might hurt the president in an election year. The documents clearly show that the White House pushed the video story, but there's also proof that the White House believed the story they were pushing.
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It may now be laughable for anyone to suggest that the Libyan attack was spontaneous, but that's a question for the CIA, which made spontaneity its first and most durable claim that weekend. An intelligence failure is a different thing than a lie, and it should lead to a different set of questions about the underlying policy and skills of administration officials to accurately understand the world. You could also ask whether it's possible to make good policy when engaged in one-foot-in and one-foot-out operations like the U.S. attack on Libya. But those are policy questions, not cover-up questions.
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Why? So they can take turns rotating on it?
Heard that just once before -- here, of course, on FR.
Da Boyz are doing a really good job of keeping it out of the paper. General Agayants would be proud of them.
Ummmm, because he's got the President of CBS News looking down his throat, to protect the latter's brother from going to Leavenworth?
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