Fair warning: This clip is pretty difficult to watch. Here we have the mother of Sean Smith — a State Department worker murdered by terrorists in Benghazi on 9/11 — pleading with the leaders of this country to tell her the truth about what happened to her son. Her anger is simmering, her anguish is palpable, and her frustration is visceral. Nearly five minutes of absolutely devastating and heart-wrenching television on CNN:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ldyGsZ1Io&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Here’s the worst portion of the transcript:
SMITH: Obama told me, Hillary promised me. Joe Biden was a treasure and a real sweetheart. But they all told me that — they promised me. I told them please, tell me what happened. Just tell me what happened.
COOPER: So you, are still waiting to find out what happened to your son what they know, or even what they don’t know?
SMITH: Right. Officially, yes. I told them don’t give me any bologna; you can keep your political stuff, just tell me the truth. And I still don’t know. In fact, today I heard that he died of smoke inhalation.
COOPER: You don’t know the cause of death?
SMITH: No, I don’t. I look at TV and I see bloody hand prints on walls thinking is that my son’s? I don’t know. They haven’t told me anything. They are still studying it. And the thing that is they are telling me are outright lies. That Susan Rice, she talked to me personally and she said this is the way it was. It was — it was because of this film that came out.
COOPER: So she told you personally that she thought it was a result of the video of the protest.
SMITH: Oh, absolutely. In fact all of them did. All of them did. Leon Panetta actually took my face in his hands like this and he said trust me. I will tell you what happened. and so far, he’s told me nothing. Nothing at all. And I want to know.
Tragically, and indefensibly, she may never know. It took federal agents several weeks to gain access to the unsecured bombed-out, picked-over consulate; by that point, all they could do was conduct a perfunctory “investigation,” then wrap it up in very short order. Useless. Meanwhile, the White House and State Department were busy covering their rear-ends politically, going so far as to rehash the YouTube video/protest lie right to this grieving mother’s face. Awful. Here’s Smith recounting her interaction with the president:
SMITH: At first I was so proud because they were treating me so nice. I cried on Obama’s shoulder, and then he kind of looked off into the distance, so that was worthless to me. I want to know for God’s sakes. Or for Allah’s sake, or for who ever’s sake is there.
COOPER: You deserve answers.
SMITH: I think so. I believe I do. I believe it. It is my son. I had him — I told obama personally, I said ‘look i had him for his first 17 years and then he went into the service and then you got him.’ And — I won’t say it the way I said it, but I said ‘you screwed up you didn’t do a good job, I lost my son.’ And they said ‘we’ll get back to you.’ I promise, I promise you. I will get back to you.
But they haven’t.
Moving! “Obama looked off into the distance” sounds like someone who is just going through the motions. My son came back from Afghanistan and left the military at his earliest opportunity. This administration does not care. He hashis marxist agenda and like those who have gone before him like Stalin, the end justifies the means. It does not matterif the fodder is the elderly who will not get adequate medical care and must take a pain pill instead the young black child who will not be able to get a school voucher to escape the getto and welfare or those going into harms way for their country with impossible rules of engagement. All of us and our traditional way of life are just stepping stones to the world Obama wants to create. I am surprised CNN even showed this womans grief. Maybe they needed the ratings.
Platitudes and lies, that is all she will get from this administration and that is all her son is worth to them. Indirectly he covered for them and died for them and their inept foreign policy, but to them he is a bump in the road to be traversed and forgotten. I feel for you Mrs Smith, but you and your son trusted in these corrupt and incompetent buffoons and he paid for that mistrust with his life. They sent security with Valerie Jarrett to Martha’s Vineyard, to face nothing, but left your son and others to face the wrath of illiterate Islamic Fundamentalists who were pissed off at Obama bragging about killing their leaders. You will be glad to know, Valerie made it home from her vacation in good shape.
State Dept. Confirms: Marines on 9/11/12 Were Protecting U.S. Embassy–in Barbados
Well, at least SOMEONE was safe!