Not unexpectedly, Hillary Clinton, who should have resigned in disgrace a month ago, is on the defensive, downplaying messages sent by the terror group Ansar al Sharia claiming responsibility for the Benghazi attack.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/24/clinton-downplays-emails-implicating-al-qaeda-tied-group-within-hours-libya/
Here is Clinton speaking today (hat tip PJ Media).
Very funny. Every time, she starts off by saying, "You know...." and those eyes start shifting around, I know she is making it up.
Now we know that not only State was monitoring the attack in real time, but was also sending alerts to the White House Situation Room, DOD, and the intelligence agencies in real time.
In addition, it appears that there are serious questions to be asked as to our rescue response or lack thereof. The last two victims of the attack were apparently killed at the CIA safe house some seven hours after the consulate was hit. That means the violence continued some seven hours at two locations. Reportedly, troops were moved from a base in Spain to Tripoli and from Aviano Air Base in northern Italy to Sigonella Naval Air Base in Sicily, but who was sent to Benghazi and exactly when? One military source has told Fox News that the US would have needed Libyan permission to enter the country. I think we don't know enough about that now, so we should hold off judgment, but it needs to be examined.
Meanwhile, the suspected leader of the attack is reportedly sitting in a cafe in Benghazi telling news reporters that no one has contacted him yet for questioning.
If this were a responsible administration, heads would be rolling starting with Hillary Clinton. The problem is when the negligence goes all the way to the top, they all protect each other, just as we have seen in Fast and Furious.
This whole thing stinks starting with Washington ignoring pleas for additional security from Ambassador Stevens, the regional security officer, and the military people at the scene. Result? Four dead Americans and a cover-up of the administration's sheer negligence, in which they tried to blame it on a protest over a video that got out of control. There was no protest in Benghazi. They knew that. They even ignore a claim of responsibility from the terrorists themselves preferring to blame it on a video maker who is languishing in jail as we speak.
In the end, these scoundrels in the administration will do just as they are doing in Fast and Furious; they will let that DOS Accountability Review Board find a few low level scapegoats to take the fall-like DOS security official Charlene Lamb, for example, who denied the requests for more security. The Libyans will round up some of the usual suspects and Obama will claim case solved-justice done. Perhaps, the American people will give him another 4 years in office.
And Hillary Clinton? She will be running for president in 2016 using her do-nothing term in the Senate and her "great" job as Secretary of State as her resume. It is beyond sickening.
The one thing we know for sure is that the "Investigation" will be released after the election... if at all.
ReplyDeleteThis is what happens when you elect a rank amateur to the most important job in the world and have the second most important job go to someone who was married to a former president.
This wretched state of the economy, this incoherent foreign policy, is what happens when the left governs.
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