Michael Goodwin has written the below opinion piece in the New York Post, which I am happy to link here. He makes the case that the administration has been lying to the American public about the massacre at Benghazi.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/11/19/ugly-truth-about-benghazi-and-team-obama/
Curiously, this morning, Fox News made a reference to an administration line that the reason for the false narrative about the protest over a video gone wild was that the administration did not want Al Qaeda to know that we knew they were involved. Unfortunately, after the break, the segment made no further mention of it. Two days ago, I mentioned here that such a story was floating around the Internet.
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2012/11/white-house-only-corrected-mention-of.html
"As of today, there are rumors going around the Internet that the administration put out the video/protest line to conceal the fact they already knew al Qaeda was involved. Conceal from whom? Al Qaeda. Seems stupid given that they had taken credit for it anyway. We will have to see if there is anything to that report."
All I can is that if that turns out to be their line, it's pretty weak.
The New York Post was a great read before Rupert Murdoch bought it... factual news and thoughtful commentary for those who didn't have time to wade through the New York Times, and needed a tabloid format to read conveniently on the subway. I remember buying one on my way home the evening Roe v. Wade was announced.
ReplyDeleteNow, its in competition with the Daily News for which one most closely resembles the National Enquirer, and which will be first to be caught hacking dead people's cell phones.
The Economist is a bit too liberal for my taste, in the same sense that Miggie is a liberal, but this is a sober assessment of available facts:
"Conspiracy theorists see a connection between the resignation of the nation's most famous solider on November 9th over an extramarital affair... and congressional investigations that were ongoing this week into the deaths in Benghazi last September of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. But while the CIA over-relied on the security supposedly provided by Libyan militias, there is no evidence that rescue attempts were deliberately delayed by the agency's leadership or the White House."
Incidentally, while there was likely no reason to hide that we knew al Qaeda's affiliate was involved, there is the little matter that the CIA people involved weren't in Libya... remember the final line of every assignment tape at the beginning of every episode of Mission: Impossible?
Let's just say what is in the Post is all the news critical of Obama that the Times finds not fit to print.
ReplyDelete"But while the CIA over-relied on the security supposedly provided by Libyan militias, there is no evidence that rescue attempts were deliberately delayed by the agency's leadership or the White House."
ReplyDeleteRescue attempts? Aside from the CIA contractors at the annex and those who came from Tripoli, what rescue attempts are you referring to that were or were not delayed? No DOD force ever went to Benghazi.
This has an eerie parallel to Fast and Furious. The administration lackeys have an ideology they want to promote so they do what they have to so that it favors the administration.
ReplyDeleteIn Fast and Furious, they were ideologically opposed to gun ownership so they set up an operation to "prove" so many guns were flowing across the border that something had to be done about the subsequent violence. In other words, create a cause so you can present your solution.
In Benghazi, they had to hide the fact that our affirmative action president had a foreign policy was a demonstrable failure. All the apologizing speeches and bowing and Arab ass-kissing was all for naught.
In the one case, they stonewalled and refused to release any information and in the second one they attempted to sell a false narrative.
This is like the disastrous Dinkens period in NY. It will take someone like Gulliani to finally fix it all in the end.
Then again, there is all the "free stuff" from the Obama stash so who cares?
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Your first response is not far from the mark, Gary, but the word "news" is misplaced.
ReplyDeleteThere is an eery parallel to everything Miggie says... its the eery sense that his mind is not in the same universe as his body. I'd prefer to find something to engage in rational debate about, but all I can say is... what an imagination!