Bryan Jacoutot @ Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion:
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.
The latest Democrat ploy in this lie is to stall. Listen to the line, we are investigating what happened thoroughly and will get to the bottom of what happened. This means we will stall with this line of crap until past the election, our voting base will buy it because we say it. It’s just another lie!! The real news would be if they told the truth!!
There have been quite a few ”timelines” about the Benghazi attack and what led up to it.
Seems a few things were missed…..
April 5, 2011: Special envoy Christopher Stevens arrives in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi to forge ties with the forces battling Moammar Gadhafi. a month later Obama appoints him Ambassador.
March, 2012: State Department Regional Security Officer Eric Nordstrom sends a cable to Washington asking for additional diplomatic security agents for Benghazi, later says he received no response. He does so again in July, with the same result. (We recently saw Nordstrom call people IN the State Dept the Taliban under oath.)
April 6: Two fired Libyan security guards throw an IED over the consulate fence. (Gee. I wonder why we fired them?)
May 22: An Islamist attack on the Red Cross office in Benghazi is followed by a Facebook post that warns “now we are preparing a message for the Americans.”
Another Facebook posting a month later highlights Stevens’ daily runs in Tripoli in an apparent threat. (So, terrorists were posting the Ambassador’s daily schedule, but no worries, mate.)
June 6: Unknown assailants blow a hole in the consulate’s north gate described by a witness as “big enough for 40 men to go through.” Four days later, the British ambassador’s car is ambushed by militants with a rocket-propelled grenade. (Yet Obama had no “actionable intelligence” regarding a pending attack?)
July: Anti-Islam video “Innocence of Muslims” posted on You Tube.
(Hmmmmm, weren’t they mad at us before this, or why did they attack us before this?)
Aug. 14: SST (Site Security Team) team leaves Libya. Team leader Lt. Col. Andy Wood has testified that Stevens wanted them to stay on.
September 8th: Libyan militia tasked with protecting the consulate warns U.S. diplomats that the security situation is “frightening.” (48 plus hours to DO SOMETHING but Stevens flies into Benghazi anyway.)
Sept. 10: Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri calls on Libyans to avenge the death of his Libyan deputy, Abu Yahya al Libi.
Sept. 14: Carney says the administration had “no actionable intelligence” about a pending attack.
Insiders are wondering just what the White House is covering up with the lies that came out after this attack.
Is it something BIG?
@Nan G: But it was the video that started the riot. Ask Greg!!
Maybe some of the MSN are concerned about their ratings when confronted with unmistakable truth!
yes this is big, bloody and dirty,