Kenneth R. Timmerman:
Make it go away!
That was the message of the Obama administration and their friends in the media for the past two years, and now we know why: Benghazi is the scandal they always denied it was.
Thanks to a lawsuit by watchdog group Judicial Watch, the administration last weekreleased correspondence about the terrorist attack in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012 that left US ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others dead.
We brought the #Benghazi scandal back to the forefront this week. Get the Update: http://t.co/vcScLutq60 #tcot #tlot pic.twitter.com/8kIrFrPvOr
— Judicial Watch ⚖️ (@JudicialWatch) May 2, 2014
One memo, from Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security director for strategic communications, shows how the administration was trying to spin the attack as something other than their own strategic failures.
“Reinforce the president and administration’s strength and steadiness in dealing with difficult challenges,” he wrote to UN Ambassador Susan Rice. He instructed her to “underscore” that the events in Benghazi were “protests . . . rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.”
Beyond the callousness of this message, and the fact that officials already knew this was the work of terrorists, that this document is just coming out now shows the depth of the administration’s cover-up.
Despite numerous subpoenas from Congress, Obama’s people never handed over the e-mail. Make it go away means hiding evidence from the American people.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said in a hearing on Thursday that the whole situation reminded him of Richard Nixon.
“Why aren’t we talking about something else?” whined House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Because the Obama administration ignored legal requirements and a pursued a possibly criminal cover-up, they’ve just ensured Congress is going to talk about nothing but. House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Friday he’ll be forming a select committee to investigate Benghazi.
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He’ll find plenty.
The Rhodes memo is just the beginning. It and other e-mails were obviously selected from a much larger set of internal administration communications on the Benghazi cover-up that remains hidden from the public and from Congress.
Why is the deputy national security director for strategic communications concerning himself with the President’s image? Shouldn’t he be worrying more about strategic communications and not spin on communications failures?
Is there no part of this administration that is not completely and wholly partisan political?
What has already unraveled is the right’s Benghazi conspiracy theory, which republicans are making a heroic effort to resuscitate.
Greg
no they don”t have to make an effort to ressucitate,
it’s there since that day 1; the questions never been answered,
those who died an always reminder of why did they die alone,
in the most armed country in the world,
ONE SAID WE SEND A DRONE TO SEE, WHY NOT A DRONE TO KILL THE ATTACKERS,
YES THE TECHNOLOGY IS HERE, AND WHY DID HE HIDE IT FROM THE WORLD USING A POOR BUGGER WHO MADE A VIDEO TO EXPOSE MASSACRE FROM THE MUSLIMS, WHAT WAS WRONG WITH HIS VIDEO,
the PEOPLE want to know why, where did they hide while this was taking place ?