As the Benghazi Plot Thickens, Congress Must Not Get Sidetracked
It is no surprise that Obama is feeling his oats at the prospect of a show-down with McCain and Graham — the senators were even hotter for Obama’s Libya war than Obama was. But most conservatives were not. Congressional Republicans shrank from taking on McCain and mounting a meaningful opposition to Obama’s Libya war, but many of them rightly believed the policy was disastrous. The Mohammed-movie cover-up is a blatant attempt to avoid much-needed scrutiny of that policy.
Senators McCain and Graham are to be applauded for what they’ve done over the last two months. Maddeningly, the Republican Party’s most visible figure, its presidential nominee Mitt Romney, went silent on the Benghazi massacre in the campaign stretch-run despite the commander-in-chief’s shocking failure to defend Americans under attack (more on that in a moment). In my humble opinion, it cost him the election. Unlike Romney, the senators have demanded accountability for what happened on September 11, 2012. They’ve also been admirably strong in raising the issue of Ms. Rice’s lack of qualifications, and in not backing down when the president did his impassioned-defense-of-the-woman-scorned routine.
Nevertheless, the conditions that catalyzed the Benghazi massacre arose out of what my recent book calls “Spring Fever”: longstanding administration policies regarding the “Arab Spring” generally, and Libya in particular. The senators were and apparently remain ardent supporters of those policies. Conservatives and others opposed to the government’s “Islamic democracy” project — its knowing empowerment of Islamists hostile to the West — should not cede leadership on Benghazi to that project’s proponents. If you want to get to the bottom of why the massacre happened, you cannot rely on the people who supported the strategy of which the massacre is a foreseeable result.
2. The commander-in-chief’s dereliction of duty during a 7-hour siege.
The jihadist siege against the American installation in Benghazi lasted for over seven hours. The commander-in-chief knew the attack was underway while it was happening — which is obviously why he won’t answer questions about when and how he learned of it. He had military assets in proximity to Benghazi that could have come to the aid of the besieged Americans. Yet, Obama failed to take meaningful military action, an inexcusable dereliction of duty. Then, he told the American people he had done all he could do to protect those who were killed and wounded, an inexcusable betrayal of trust. Both counts of malfeasance are impeachable offenses. Rice’s false statements, Clapper’s purge, and Petraeus’s contradictory statements to Congress do not erase any of that. Obama has far more to answer for than anyone else in this debacle, and it is imperative that he be held accountable.
3. What on earth was the administration up to in Benghazi?
The U.S. installations in Benghazi were not a consulate. Consular functions in Libya are carried out in Tripoli. Petraeus described Benghazi’s ostensible State Department compound in Benghazi as a “consulate,” but that description has been retracted: the administration now calls it a “diplomatic facility.” There doesn’t appear to have been much diplomatic action there, though. The other relevant compound was a CIA facility for … well, we don’t know. No explanation has been forthcoming from the administration, and notwithstanding the media’s preternatural interest in CIA facilities during the Bush years, the American press (Fox News honorably excepted) does not seem especially curious this time around.
Both Fox News and Paula Broadwell (Petraeus’s mistress) have claimed that the CIA was detaining Libyan jihadists in Benghazi. The CIA appears to deny that allegation, but the denial seems awfully lawyerly.
There were no detainees, what there was, were “other than voluntary guests.”
I am wondering if all these foci on individual responsibility and foreign policy re Libya are not missing the boat: the video-flash mob story was part of a concerted liberal campaign of political correctness that began in response to urban riots in the mid-1960s. I documented that here: http://clarespark.com/2010/07/18/white-elite-enabling-of-black-power/.
I don’t know anyone with political awareness who does not know that we have been infiltrated by jihadists for years, taking advantage of “multiculturalism” (another progressive initiative) and the internationalism pushed by such presidents as Wilson and FDR. And then there is Obama’s campaign goal of proving that Al-Qaeda was beaten. What else is there to say?
What happened to the 30 American Benghazi “consulate” staff (CIA operatives?) that Obama was apparently willing to sacrifice if not for the bravery of the two Navy Seals who saved them? Where are they now & why can’t we interview them regarding the stand-down orders & the exact manner the 4 Americans were killed? Don’t expect Obama to answer any questions from a fawning press…besides it took Obama a full 8 months, AFTER his re-election, to appear at a press conference the last time
Rep. King should not be defending such a man as Petraeus. He is not a patriot and is part of this conspiracy.
Precisely so.
How true Louise. Michael Vlahous made a perceptive comparison on the John Bachelor show last Friday. He described Gen. Petraeus and others as operating as renaissance courtiers. In this mode, the most important things are to not make a mistake and, if you do, don’t get caught.
Thanks for the tip, glad to know others have their eyes wide open. I’m disgusted with Rep. King for calling Petraues a patriot. King had dinner with Petraeus which causes King to have his eyes wide shut to the failed COIN strategy that Diana West wrote about last week
Ahh…Benghazigate…working on some updates…but with missiles falling here and there…first things first.
But this is the last rendition -http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/11/13/covering-up-benghazigate-exquisite-political-timing-sacrificing-a-cia-director-to-boot-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
” and that a compromised General David Petraeus appears to have knowingly misled Congress (that’s a felony) in his initial briefing about Benghazi on September 14.”
Lietraeus would have said the same thing, blaming it on the video, it’s in his nature, even if he hadn’t been “compromised” (I “assume” you are referring to his “affair” by “compromised”). Of course, in his latest testimony Lietraeus claims he never said what he said (depends on what the meaning of is, is, or something). As you yourself said in a column of yours from many months ago, Lietraeus is a very Clintonesque man.
I have exactly ZERO confidence in the GOP’s abilities as lawyers to really get to the bottom of this. I do not think in the end McCain or Lindsey have the stomach to go all the way through the impeachment process. Maybe some young guns will step up but, as of now I do not see any.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/51173
“OPbama’s War on the Military” –by Longstreet, who’d've won Gettysburg if only Lee has listened. No, kidding, not the same Longstreet, but i’d bet, a relative.
Someone should also write a book called “Our General’s War On Our Military”.
–it may have to be a novel.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/15/us-usa-generals-ethics-idUSBRE8AE14M20121115
Panetta, in the memo dated November 14, called on Dempsey to work with other military leaders to review existing ethics training programs “to determine if they are adequate to address the concerns I have identified.”
He said he would present President Barack Obama an interim report by December 1 with initial results of the review and any recommendations developed by that time.
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So, if i’m reading this right, this review of the entire high command began on November 14 and will be finished by December 01. Two weeks is all that’s needed for Obama’s picked ethics panel to determine the future of the careers of the US military high command.
The article closes with (emphasis mine):
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Panetta said in his memo that the Pentagon has strong rules in place setting standards for personal conduct “and prohibit misuse of taxpayer resources.” He said it is not enough to merely comply with rules, saying military leaders also need to exercise sound judgment.
“An action may be legally permissible but neither advisable nor wise,” he wrote.
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“An action may be legally permissible but neither advisable nor wise” –?!
IOW, Obama and team are announcing here that going forward, because of this (cough) strikingly sudden outbreak of allegations, Obama & team is no longer bound by the rule book. Obama & team will now simply turn thumbs up or thumbs down, depending on whether or not the officer under investigation strikes them as ‘wise’ and ‘advisable’.
“Hail Caesar!” they must shout, for Caesar to answer, “Hail Yes, you’re loyal!”
The military, recall, flips the coin on history’s dictator question ‘to be, or not to be?’
“Nevertheless, the conditions that catalyzed the Benghazi massacre arose out of what my recent book calls “Spring Fever”: longstanding administration policies regarding the “Arab Spring” generally, and Libya in particular. The senators [which would be Rubio as well as McCain and Graham) were and apparently remain ardent supporters of those policies. Conservatives and others opposed to the government’s “Islamic democracy” project — its knowing empowerment of Islamists hostile to the West — should not cede leadership on Benghazi to that project’s proponents. If you want to get to the bottom of why the massacre happened, you cannot rely on the people who supported the strategy of which the massacre is a foreseeable result.”
And it’s this very same insane and anti-American and anti-Western Civilization “Islamic democracy” project, that started under Bush and has been expanded under Obama, that has gotten a lot more than 4 Americans killed and limbless in the Trillion Dollar Bridge To Nowhere in Afcrapistan.
It is worth abandoning the GOP for their support of Islam alone.
Somehow, I doubt anything will come of this. Even with four dead Americans, the mainstream media is so concerned about carrying this liberal president’s water that they will never let anything stick to him. Hillary Clinton will probably get blamed for a lot of what happened in Benghazi simply because she’s leaving the administration. Rice and Clapper may (notice I said “may”) go down too, but they won’t have any charges pressed against them. The worst that will happen is that they will lose their jobs. Other than that, we will probably never know why the ambassador was in Benghazi in the first place, whether it was to ship weapons to the rebels in Syria or to buy back Russian made shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles from the local Islamic militias in the area. For my money, I think the “consulate” was attacked because we were shipping weapons to the rebels in Syria. Perhaps Iran got wind of this and used its influence to get al Qaeda militias in the area to kill the Americans. And they probably used the anniversary of 9/11 as an excuse to launch the attack. Either way, I doubt that Congress is going to do much of anything about this. After all, Eric Holder is already in Contempt of Congress, and what has happened to him? Oh, that’s right, a lot of nothing.
Amen.
Well said.
The MSM, as Mr. McCarthy pointed out in the article, loved to go after all of the CIA business being conducted under the Bush Administration. But they are scared to death to do any digging as far as Obama is concerned. Why? Oh that’s right, he’s their hero and he would never ever do anything illegal and dishonest because he told them so.
Case closed. Hey, how about that war in Gaza?
I’m not waiting for anything to come of this, either.
Andy notes Fox News’ reporting. Others have actually BLAMED Fox for the story being in the news – that they are essentially making a big deal over nothing.
Expect the tingle to beat the truth, as long as the president’s name is followed by a “D”.
You’re probably right. The film-maker is in jail on a parole violation. He could be interviewed but –will he want another criminal charge –possibly blue sky but no matter, he’s trapped behind bars at the order of a cabal nothing if not bold and shameless.
If the Doug Hagmann tracery is correct, and you could put, say, Brennan, the film-maker, and a still-alive Quarle Harris in a room together with the actual Obama passport records proving the Sheriff Joe Arpaio case, and the finished film meant to raise a riot throughout Islam in order to manufacture a crisis that only an emergency Exec Order breaking –quick! save lives! –the First Amendment in favor of Sharia and get the case rolling toward a Obama-the-Hugo controlled SCOTUS, and, oh yes, over in the corner of the room sloshed on Stoli a Maltese Papal Soldier from St. Petersburg with proof he’d honey-trapped enough flag rank to counter-coup the Petraeus set-up of the NSC’s Ambassador set-up –well you’d still have Eric Holder draped over the whole thing like the Bizzaro-world Plastic Man, ready with a speech about human rights itself having forced the spookery in order to change the atmosphere in the MENA in order to de-escalate the unprovoked Israeli attack on Allah, pbuh.
Look forward to the film.
Brennen seems a particularly complicit Obama sycophant.
(The pretext for jailing the Mohammed filmmaker is probation violation, doesn’t even rise to parole violation.)
Really, this increasingly shameful country.
Ah but something will most assuredly come of this. The question is will the fools that believe these lies or simply do not care connect the dots.
It is clearly not a coincidence that once Obama was safely re-elected by these stupid people and/or voter fraud, the missiles started raining down on Israel. Many are so unimaginative that they cannot understand that when our Muslim Brotherhood sympathizing Dear Leader apologizes to Al Qaeda for killing our Ambassador, that it is a “green light” to attack Israel.
Obama did nothing and refused to even label Fort Hood or the attack on our Military Recruiters as terror. He hid from the American people the Iranian jets buzzing our drone until after the election. He apologized profusely to the UN dictators and Pakistan people. If you were an Islamist terrorist and your victims groveled every time you conducted a terrorist attack, would you refrain from terrorism? So next time NYC or one of our Military Installations is terrorized, the intelligent and informed people will know something came of this.
Remember the Boy Who Cried Wolf fable? This is the part where the wolf tears John McCain to shreds and nobody comes running to help because they’re sick and tired of the Fox-Rush-GOP perpetual outrage machine that cries “Gate!” everytime a fly lands in their drink. Pass the popcorn please.
Yea, there are only 4 bodies (oops, 5 bodies) to hide and all will be fine.
McCarthy is right on all counts. Unfortunately he is no match for the administration’s dis-information campaign, aided and abetted by a corrupt media, or the majority of an American public that has little interest in anything other than self-absorption. When it’s a choice between Benghazi and Honey Boo Boos, four dead Americans get shoved to the back seat.
Oh, McCarthy’s a match alright, especially when he’s standing next to a pile of Administration fuel. This guy’s integrity is all that’s needed to get attention.
Voices like this frighten the daylights out of dirty pols.
It does not take much for this congress to get sidetracked. Lets see, the administration is going to have an internal investigation. That has tied things up well pass the election. Where and how is Fast and Furious coming along? Another internal investigation sidetracked that one and more then 300 people died because of that bump in the road. Next week another bump in the road will emerge an Benghazi will become history. Politics has taken the place of justice, and to the victor goes the spoils.
Refreshing to read this analysis but, unfortunately, if the Obama cabal has anything down pat it is obfuscation and talking a thing to death, piling on the fabricated explanations, enlisting willing sycophants to do same.
Their “talent”, such as it is, wearing out the topic until the next fiasco comes along to replace it in the popular (and congressional) imagination.
Every time I read James Clapper’s name, I think of his deer-in-the-headlights look in Congressional committee questioning about a year ago when he was completely unaware of some rioting that had taken place in London just that day.
Director of National Ignorance seems a more apt title. I have no doubt that he would take the fall in offering up this latest explanation for this administration’s machinations surrounding Benghazi.
In an interview, about 2 years ago, Clapper unaware of terrorist arrests in Britain
“Clapper’s job is to brief the president each morning on intelligence developments.”
We already know Obama skips the vast majority of those, if not all of them.
The position Director of National Intelligence was created after 911 in order to co-ordinate the vast array of agencies.
I guess they’re not too “co-ordinated”.
“Every time I read James Clapper’s name, I think of his deer-in-the-headlights look in Congressional committee questioning about a year ago when he was completely unaware of some rioting that had taken place in London just that day.”
After witnessing that ‘Clapped out display’ of where our Intelligence was headed – two double Buffalo Trace Bourbons straight set me on my way to being able to handle whatever these Clowns toss up as fact!
Like a Consulate in Benghazi – or a Susan Rice spreading truth and wisdom
For those who haven’t seen this, here it is. Must be read fairly closely. The author has been on tv quite a bit up until a year or two ago –promoting his books. Tho his history indicates possible insincerity, that is not how he seems on tv. He shows many signs of being what he says he is.
http://shoebat.com/2012/09/27/innocence-of-muslims-film-was-made-by-terrorists-2/
Not implausible, given that a big part of jihad is riling up the foot soldiers, the useful idiots.
As in, imams (specifically a virulent Danish imam) intentionally carried the “Mohammed cartoons” around the middle/far east months after they’d been published in the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten. Along with some really vile Mohammed cartoons that hadn’t been published.
Before that, the cartoons hadn’t been a particularly big deal.
Taqiyya R Us
Clap-on. Clap-off. Clap-per (always off).
Even Caesar had to keep his supporters satisfied and safe;
If his Congress-critters feel they might be next, he is toast.
‘Mitt Romney, went silent on the Benghazi massacre …….’
‘In my humble opinion, it cost him the election.’
Benghazi may or may not be the main reason for Romney’s lose, but is one of the result of GOP’s denial and inability to expose Hussein O and the entire modern Democrat party for what they are. Self hating lefties/Marxist who are ashamed for their own country’s success.
…GOP’s denial and inability to expose Hussein O and the entire modern Democrat party for what they are.
Inability, especially.
Romney displayed cowardice in not following up on Benghazi when so much was already known. He could have asked Obama direct questions, framed so as not to leave ANY wiggle room.Romney lost the election because he let down Americans that craved the truth and strength, now there is not much chance we will ever get the truth from government again, it’s just too easy to lie and succeed without any consequences. Congress is worthless. We have become no better than a third world country with a despot in charge.
Re-write of history and the deification of otherwise evil people.
EXAMPLES:
1. Martin Luther King.
2. The Clinton duo.
3. Treyvone Martin.
4. O. J. Simpson (turning back the clock on even the acquittal to non guilt due to a serial killer)Folks just do not want their heroes charged even with a double murder.
5. John F. Kennedy.
6. Barack Hussein Obama These people want history to show the heroics of otherwise totally un heroic people just for the children of the future to be impressed by their ideology.
You cannot win when even a win is turned into a failure by the people who rewrite history to suit their world view and ideology.
I could not agree more. I am utterly convinced that I will be stuck explaining to my children what a POS Obama really was after their teachers try to feed them a line of propaganda on him being the reincarnation of MLK and the greatest president ever. No doubt if my children repeat my opinions of what he really was in class I’ll be summoned into a meeting and decried as a racist. It’s a meeting I’ll be happy to have, although I’ll probably have to pull my children out of that school; afterwords.
My 2 cents nothing will come of this because the msm is in love the hollwood president. However any mistake Obama makes will be on him. He and his cronies can no longer blame Bush. The world is in his hands. The middle east is ready to explode, Iran is ready to get the bomb, Russia is flexing its muscles, China is carrying our debt, more and more people are getting on food stamps, taxes will be higher. Have fun with this Obama.
Anything and everything that goes wrong under BHO will be “Bush’s fault”. Like a broken record, Obama will repeat ad nauseum the line about ‘the bad economy he inherited’.
This year we heard that four years wasn’t enough to repair the damage. In 2016 we’ll hear that eight years wasn’t enough and that another Dem needs to be elected to fix the bad economy brought on us by the GOP.
Even the chaos that arose from the Arab spring will be laid at Bush’s feet.
Sadly, it will not be another democrat running for president in 2016. It will be the same guy, our ruler, Obama. And he will win!
So educate me some more just when did the 22nd Amendment passed in 1947 and ratified by the States in 1951. It would seems to me that I would have at least heard of a repeal of the 22nd amendment and even the horrible Obamacare or ACA law could not have made it possible for any president to serve more than two terms!
Why entertain such silly thoughts, there will be an election and Obama will not be a candidate and even if he were written in he would not win even in a landslide (very doubtful)no it ain’t gonna happen!
Only thing we need to watch out for is EO’s!
The commenters here are the best informed. But I’m not surprised, after all this is Andrew McCarthy’s blog.
In addition to the excellent points raised in this article, we need to know why security was reduced in the facility prior to the attack, even though it had been attacked before and US personnel made repeated requests for better protection. Finding out why the administration would take such an action could uncover a lot.
Less people around to witness the arms smuggling?
… the REAL story about Comey and his hand in appointing Fitz, taking down Libbey to get to Cheney and Bush in his thrust to dismantle executive power for Bush and usher in Obama, coordinated by the traitor Colin Powell with his hand orchestrating same…outrageous interference coupled with the CIA’s agenda…and the Why of Lockheed’s CEO resigning the same day Petraeus did…for the exact same bogus reason …should create real interest in those not brain dead..
To connect the dots to the illegal missile running that took place out of Benghazi and our Arms Dealer Ambassador Stevens….the CIA Safehouse…the Seals retrieval mission…the rape for a rape proxy war with Russia.(Kaddaffi begets Stevens — both raped)
..the ” Arab Spring” fraud for the arsonists at work….all kabuki….while Obama sets America up…’
Seems Lockheed should be testifying before Congress…With Petraeus…and Cohens minions Senators Snowe and Collins would be an interesting addition…Weapons manufacturing should not and cannot be our stock and trade as carnage is an unacceptable currency…unacceptable to most Americans…All roads lead to Lockheed and Obama who is arming AlQaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood
The Ushering in of Obama…
From Illinoispaytoplay….
“Why would James B. Comey appoint Patrick Fitzgerald as Special Counsel on a case that was already solved?
Why would he even appoint a Special Counsel at all when Richard Armitage, the man responsible for exposing the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame to the media, had already confessed and had not even hired an attorney to represent him?
Who is James B. Comey?
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James B. Comey, Jr. (born December 14, 1960) was U.S.Deputy Attorney General in the George W. Bush’s administration. As Deputy A.G., Comey was the second-highest ranking official in the Department of Justice (DOJ). He ran the day-to-day operations of the DoJ, serving in that office from December 2003-August 2005.
Comey had been U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York before becoming Deputy A.G.
In December 2003, he appointed his close friend and former colleague, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, to be the Special Counsel leading the investigation into the Valerie Plame leak after Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself.
In August 2005, Comey left the DOJ and became General Counsel and Senior Vice President at Lockheed Martin. From there he went on to Bridgewater Associates in June 2010.
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In 2009, Comey’s total compensation package at Lockheed Martin was 6,113,797. Apparently, no one in the media cared that Lockheed worked closely with the Cohen Group where Marc Grossman was Vice Chairman.
Grossman was a key figure in Patrick Fitzgerald’s quest to find out who leaked that Valarie Plame worked for the CIA.
Before Fitzgerald’s investigation team even bought their office supplies, Comey and Fitz knew that Armitage had, innocently he claimed, leaked the knowledge about Valarie Plame to, now deceased, columnist Bob Novak.
Comey left Lockheed to work at Bridgewater Associates and then, after a short stay at Bridgewater, he became a partner with Attorney General Eric Holder’s former law firm, Covington & Burling.
What do Lockheed Martin and the Cohen Group have in common? Did they have any vested interests in Iraq or Afghanistan while Fitzgerald was chasing down the phantom leaker? Did the old media ever explore that possibility?
Has any reporter ever asked Fitzgerald or Comey why a phantom leaker was sought after the real leaker had already confessed? Did any Tribune or Sun Times reporter ever pose that question to Fitz?
Has anyone asked former New York Times writer Judith Miller how she feels about having spent nearly three months in jail after Fitz already knew that Armitage was the leaker? Does that make her a victim of wrongful imprisonment?
What does Scooter Libby say about all this?
And, lastly, did Fitzgerald or Comey violate any laws during this Kabuki dance?
Many questions – no media interest – hence, no answers. Nothing to see here folks, move along. It’s the Chicago Way.
Next….. Where did Dick Armitage eventually land?”
Please check into the YouTube video ProofPositive and examine what this man is suggesting and check out his screen captures. If what he says is true, it would appear that a planned kidnapping and the use of the Mohammed video was set up months before the 9/11 attack. If it can be shown that there is indeed a connection to Stanley Inc., it would look to me like a CIA black op gone wrong. When the SEALS ruined everything by fighting off the terrorists, Obama and friends merely doubled down on the video as the reason for everything. Obama needed the video for the kidnapping scenario to trade Stevens for the Blind Sheik because it couldn’t look like actual terrorists aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood (Morsi) or Al Qaeda associates took Stevens, it had to be portrayed as an an angry mob of sensitive religious people upset over a video, did the deed. Obama thought he would look like he was a diplomate of the first order getting Stevens back in time for the election, would look like he was being respectful of the sensibilities of Muslims in advocating the first tenet of Sharia, not to speak ill of or insult Islam, and give Morsi what he declared was his first objective upon taking office, to get back the Blind Sheik. Do not have faith in Congress to ferret out the truth. If the truth EVER comes out, it will come from insiders and real investigators that are able thwart the will of government to tell the truth.
If this happened, it could be that Morsi was supposed to provide the demonstrators in Benghazi that never materialized, and the the demonstrations in Cairo were also cooked up for the overall cover for the operation of getting the Blind Sheik back.
Looks like it. Particularly in light of the fact that “demonstrations” stopped immediately after Obama’s call to Morsi few days after Benhazi.
NO ONE WAS LISTENING “I just want to spread the wealth around”, NO ONE WAS LISTENING, “you didn’t Build That”, 03/24/09 Michelle Bachmann to Tim Geithner , What provision in the constitution could you point to to give authority to the actions taken by the treasury since March of 08″? — YOU ARE STILL NOT LISTENING– “I can can tell you that immediately upon finding out that our folks were in danger, that my orders to my national security team were do whatever we need to do to make sure they’re safe. And that’s the same order I would give any time that I see Americans are in danger — whether they’re civilian or military — because that’s our number one priority.”
AND YOU ARE STILL NOT LISTENING: DID YOU SIGNE THE EXECUTE ORDER TO GO TO THE AID OF THE AMERICANS UNDER FIRE ON THAT NIGHT, YES OR NO? !
AND THERE ARE TOO MANY MORE OF YOU ARTE STILL NOT LISTENING!
EE “U” IN THE STREET!
I skimmed this article so If I am repeating sorry. But it is being reported that Israeli’s were the attackers in a beknighted effort to do a favor for Romney, ordered by Netanyahu.
Sure lots of US officers being fired or facing charges that will lose their posts. I would like to see more about that.
I believe that I’ve read all of Mr. McCarthy’s books and articles. He is more than an author. He is a profoundly astute manager of prosecutions within the federal system of law. His articles on this matter are neither, in my study of him and his work, intended to advance his writing career, nor one of professional punditcy.
Rather, he is instead talking to the legal minds in Congress who have the responsibility for addressing this matter. Regardless of the politics, and despite his apparent lack of political strength-support, I believe he will prevail in directing this prosecution in uncovering all variables and then facilitating it to also hold all accountable for the illegal conduct related to this case. Moreover, eventually enough people within the government and the gladiators from within the polity who, if only a few, still believe the country is a nation ruled by law and that must be abided by all persons, even those from Chicago, Hawaii, and other places.
As part of that polity from within this public, I think that rather than interpreting the challenges as overwhelming, that we could be more helpful by reading carefully the legal issues-strategies presented in Mr. McCarthy’s articles regarding this subject, and demand to our own constituents, which include our reps, that these laws, in particular, be enforced.
Although it was a different society, the trope that finally brought Nixon down, which simultaneously occurred as conscience got the better of otherwise loyal republicans – they then pulled their support from the sitting president – was “NO ONE is above the law.”
This place still believes in that concept, albeit some have gone rummy from being in states of shock at the Constitution’s flagrant violation by this Executive. But Nixon was unseated by the perseverance and dedication of a few people. They kept their focus, as the title of this article admonishes this readership to do. Similarly, this battle for national integrity can be won with just a few who are comprised of the same kinds of character.
Use the best that you have Mr. McCarthy. If you succeed, it’ll prevent another American Civil War.
Is it plausible the cold civil war manufactured by the compassionate Left minions for a half century is merely tactic in their strategy of “fundamental transformation” before their ultimate symbol of success in Obama?
What else but tactic their “Great Society”, “political correctness”, redundant sex and race amendments given the Constitution protects the same rights for ALL Americans, and needs only enforcement? Their “political correctness” abrogating the First Amendment. Their “affirmative action” which whatever the putative intention makes groups/individuals special in law in this country based on equality of each and all in/under Law? Their entitlement programs, which entitlements exponentially escalating in definition of need and benefits provided.
Tactics together with how many unknowns e.g ACORN pitting citizen against citizen. To ultimate social, civic, moral, fiscal and economic ruin.
At which time enters the “white knight” essentially unknown in particulars material in “A Country of Law NOT of Men”.
Under whose administration many of her citizens are deliberately and increasingly challenged in their identity as American. Fearful their property -their rights in their Constitution of We The People NOT of Congress or any government office/officer except as they are of We The People – is systematically stolen from them by members of Congress, Judiciary and Executive enjoined with their oath of office to guard those rights.
Desperate people are driven to desperate means to protect themselves and what is theirs, et voila cold civil war escalates to Hot civil war, martial law and triumph of their Hope to fundamentally Change the nation.
Patience, perseverance of the “compassionate liberals” who are anything but liberal. together achieve the goal.
Why waste your time writing about something that will fade away in a few weeks..? Like the USA, fading away. Common sense – gone, decency, – ridiculed. NOTHING will come of this incident, zero. It’s OVER. The only path to recovery is one which most people can’t stomach or have the stomach to implement.
Re. #In my humble opinion, it cost him the election.”
It is exactly what I’ve said to my wife right when he, instead of putting “moderator” in her place allowed her to flip from “moderating” to advocating. And then failed to go after the president who has a blood on his hands.
Re. “The cover-up here is not worse than the crime. Congress must not allow itself to get sidetracked. What matters most is what the administration is hiding — not the fact that the administration is hiding it.”
Respectfully disagree. The cover-up was (and still continue) to be sly attempt on the 1-st amendment and as such it is a crime the gravity of which will become better know in the future.
P.S. The poor slob is still sitting in jail.
McCarthy is right on 2 counts, not 3. Point 1, the idea that the “Benghazi attack was the natural result of Obama’s Libya policy” is problematic as stated. Because it blurs the legitimate debate between the realist and idealist school within the Republican camp. The thesis of the book “Spring Fever” and other commentators decrying the “failed COIN strategy” undermines just about any active strategy in the Middle East, and that divides Republicans. You can’t attack the administration by a method that divides your own side without destroying your critique altogether. And you shouldn’t because reasonable people can differ as they always have. Recall the “America First” movement before our entry into WWII and its ebb and flow.
I opposed Obama’s Libyan adventure, but not because of any of the reasons given here. I opposed it because it was a cynical ploy by the French and British with American airpower. Do you think either of them really care that much about what happens to Libyans? I don’t. Removing Gaddafi had its own benefits for them, and we’d be the loser for it not that they’d care. But I would NOT have opposed arming the opposition. What people seem to miss is that Gaddafi could only live so long, the supposed peace we’d made with him was mostly a sham, and we had no obligation not to support his foes. He’s killed Americans. But let’s not be stupid and plan for his eventual demise. Tyrannical regimes are always unstable, and the problem of how to transition to a non-Islamicist successor can’t be avoided forever as McCarthy wants to believe.
So yes, Obama is incompetent, and the attack were a natural result of Obama’s Libya policy in many ways we should point out, but let’s not let the current crop of America Firsters opportunistically run us over the isolationist cliff who can’t or aren’t willing to distinguish Obama’s foreign policy methods from the Bush administration. If so, we’re on the way to being England in more ways than we already are. McCarthy is being a pied piper here. Republicans need to have this foreign debate every few years as we always have. If we don’t we might as well just limit ourselves to squabbling with the Dems over social security. That’s all there will be left.
This pathetic admin would like nothing better than to have the focus remain on this lame talking point forever. I give a rats rear about that portion. I want to know why are people were abandoned like rats.
Rep. Trey Gowdy Explodes At Libya Hearing: ‘I Want To Know Why
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I4Za4KXo5Ao
Trey Gowdey is a great one. It’s a good thing for DC that it won that war back in the 1860s –
“Maddeningly, the Republican Party’s most visible figure, its presidential nominee Mitt Romney, went silent on the Benghazi massacre in the campaign stretch-run despite the commander-in-chief’s shocking failure to defend Americans under attack (more on that in a moment). In my humble opinion, it cost him the election.”
Mitt must have assumed the New Media had it covered. He could have gone for the jugular, but was too high-minded. Even so, I just can’t believe not enough people knew about this, or didn’t mind Obamacare, or Obama’s Flexibility with Russia that was actually shown on CBS News (I saw the clip in D’Souza’s movie). I’ll admit it, I still can’t shake the feeling that the party of Tammany Hall, “Landslide” Lyndon Johnson, the Daley Machine, and Al Franken worked its mojo.
Guys relax, this is a dead issue. Obama could come out on TV and say:
“Yeah sure I lied to get reelected. It worked suckers. I watched those people die and went to bed for my fundraiser because my reelection was so much more important for the world than a few worthless bumps in the road. You mad bro?”
And nothing would happen. His supporters on the street, in congress, and in the media would clap and cheer for “sticking it to the Republicans” and congratulate him on his “Brilliant campaign strategy”. No matter what he says or does the media will never abandon him and you will never find 67 votes for conviction in the senate. He could publicly behead the film maker with a scimitar in the name of Allah and groupies like Chris Matthews would congratulate him on his “bold outreach to Muslims”.
Ahh! the Constitution and the Rule of Law can anyone remember so far back when they were America’s guiding principles. Now you have unelected USURPER appointed Czars and rule by dictat and lies and diversion all ignored by and protected by an ‘in the tank’ Lame stream EneMedia.
I have to disagree, the cover up is most certainly worse than the crime, as it is in direct conflict with our Constitution. This is tantamount to treason, and failing to perform the duties and obligations of Obamas oath of office. When you promise to uphold and defend the constitution and then take direct action to defame and infringe upon a persons Constitutional rights…this is as bad or worse than the crime. No one died, yet, in this cover up. But a man is in jail. Because our so called president said he broke the law for speaking out against Islam.
–no no no, it’s a thousand times worse than we’re thinking. Go back to the Doug Hagmann link and (preferably re-read all of it but) scroll down a bit to the header,
“A Chronology of the Video”
…did our intrepid earth-hammering White House and State Dept Fabians produce the damn thing? That especially Hillary would soon enough be sneering to reporters as that ‘vile, disgusting, America-produced, horrible, terrible, America-produced’ video? Whose ‘producer’ (the poor sap behind bars) she early-on vowed and swore and promised to the bereaved families “We’re gonna get him” -?
How is it that so many know that Obama is a dismal failure as a president, if not an outright traitor, and he remains in office?
Are we a country of wimps? Do we remember Hitler’s rise to power?
Are we afraid of the Muslim Brotherhood? Why do we continue to talk about it but do nothing? Is it time to clean house? Yes, the White House. Or will we go down cringing? I think it’s time to
stop talking and get mean. I think I heard them laughing at us.
Perhaps it’s time to check the ammo.
–precisely why Comrade Leon Panetta is leading the frantic military purge –when they finally stop we’ll know they found the flag ranks they’re confident will defend them.
HELP! TELL US THE TRUTH
Many who have looked into the Incident at Benghazi are disappointed in the congressional investigation so far. The most important question that needs to be asked and answered is, “Who gave the order to ‘stand down’ at Benghazi?” Once that question is answered, the rest of what went on there will fall into place. “According to a Fox News report by Jennifer Griffin, former Navy Seals Ty Woods and Glen Doherty…were ordered to stand down three times following calls during the attack. The first two times occurred soon after they heard initial shots fired…and (they) requested permission to go to the consulate to help out…(Forbes).” The Examiner.com claims “…former House speaker Newt Gingrich…was informed by a U.S. senator that at least two media networks have recently been given…evidence about the Sept. 11 Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans…The networks obtained email evidence from…the office of National Security Advisor James Jones…ordering a counterterrorism team to cancel a rescue mission at the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in Libya. According to Gingrich…they were told explicitly by the White House ‘stand down and do nothing. This is not a terrorist action.’ If this is true, why haven’t those emails been made public or asked for by those investigating the Incident at Benghazi? A newspaper like the Chicago Tribune or the Washington Post has resources they can use to seek out an answer and obtain those emails. What if there were a robbery at a local bank in Des Plaines? Would a reporter investigate the robbery by first flying off to New York and interviewing a senior bank manager, only to discover an adulterous relationship and then spend time reporting that? It would be better to interview the bank tellers, customers and witnesses to the robbery at the local branch first. Why hasn’t something similar been done about the Incident at Benghazi? The FBI was at Benghazi, but for only three hours. How many witnesses did they interview? What did they find out? The man who led the attack on our “mission” at Benghazi is reported giving interviews on Arabic TV! Why has no US reporter contacted him and asked him what happened? The Incident at Benghazi should not disappear off the front page of our newspapers until the stand down question is answered. We are asking the media and our elected representative for help. Tell us the truth. Who gave the order to stand down at Benghazi? Will the media and Congress turn their backs on us like at Benghazi? If for no other reason, answer the question to set the minds of our men and women in the military service at ease. They want to be assured someone has their back.
Susan Rice from Wikipedia: At the time of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Rice reportedly said, “If we use the word ‘genocide’ and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November [congressional] election?” Rice subsequently acknowledged the mistakes made at the time ….
PJMedia ought to appoint a Moderator of these appropriate and provocative mentions here of the perfidy of this “administration”, and when summarized, present them to Conservative Members Of Congress, both Houses, Democrats most decidedly included.
We’re spinning our wheels here if these good comments are not broadcast to Congress.
This sentence of McCarthy’s, in particular, is worth repeating widely, although it is self evident and probably widely believed, but obviously not widely enough.
“Besides, the Rice fiasco reminds us of the Obama administration penchant for having forceful statements issued by people who have no idea what they’re talking about.”
No need to add that we’ve [this Nation] a real problem on our hands, emphasized by the fact of Obama’s claque engineering his re-election in spite of his faux record.
What’s happening to us?
So, the major hurdle remains, why doesn’t our Republican Party get their act together and press for Impeachment……surely we’ve got enough word-game-wise lawyers among the Republicans?
Why this seeming Congressional passivity? What’s holding up the charges for Impeachment? Aren’t there enough facts…facts…to merit impeachment? The comparison with Billy Clinton’s Impeachment seems to be laughable, at least to this layman.
Permit me to add hastily that the mere launching the Impeachment proceedings ought to be shocking enough to Obama’s massive arriviste-ego that he’d be damaged enough psychologically to straighten up. “What ME being questioned?”….. You get the idea.
These Impeachment proceedings don’t actually have to result in Obama’s removal from office….I realize that Reid/Pelosi are a formidable stone wall.
Billy Clinton survived. Just look at him now, so smugly preening all over the place…worth so much money….on and on.
Again, all of this is sickening.
First off, An IMPOSTER/usurper cannot be Impeached because that would only confirm him as an eligible office Holder. Another form of removal is necessary but there is no will to “REMOVE THE USURPER” because too many people are complicit in his taking the Office and Holding it. All of the Congress and Many of the other Branches and Departments are so Complicit as to have to surrender their 5th ammendment rights inorder to Prosecute any action against the Muslim-in-Chief. SOOOOOOOO!!! Nothings gonna get done unless and untill the American People rise up and REPLACE our Current Governmant, TOP to BOTTOM.
I’ll not be holding my Breath!!!!
I have always had the greatest admiration for the US, and had faith that its constitution would be followed. I have always had admiration for the Right Wing, too, and am a paid up ‘member’ of PJMedia.
S, yes, I know that there are dead people because of Benghazi. HOWEVER, there is ALSO a citizen of the US now in JAIL for a trumped up charge, but really because he said the wrong thing at the wrong time.
I know that most of the guys at PJ live in California. WHERE IS THE MARCH WITH PLACARDS CITING THE BROKEN AND BLEEDING FIRST AMENDMENT? Where are the stories interviewing this guy at whatever lubyanka he lives in right now??? Hmmm??
This is the real shame of the Benghazi hit, and the crazy reaction to 9/11/01: bureaucracies upon bureaucracies, groping ‘freeborn’ citizens at the borders, and casually throwing aside everything fought for back in the 1770s. This is disgusting.
No reply needed, i’ll just assume that you’re the similar-voiced Heather McDonald from National Review i just watched Lou Dobbs interview on FoxNews. That would mean that such as the Hagmann report is migrating from the excellent but blogospheric Canada Free Press, to the bright lights big city eastern seaboard media and the Buckley stalwarts managing –in the maw of this totalitarian psychological storm –to defend its real estate there. Being that the media names assembled at PJM mean to fire in the opposite direction, from world to blogosphere, if the detailia in that Hagmann report would prove to have been a baby elephant born in the living room on Thanksgiving, well, that’d be a sign & portent of an ebb in this DC dismal tide –
Nope, I am not Heather MacDonald.
–oops –sorry for prying –it was that same (same-ish, anyway) name, and same sentiments, and same dynamic voice, that set up me gaffe –anyhoo the more of y’all the better –to help win the fight, of course, but also to get out from under that movie “Heathers” —
Plus ca change.
The wisdom of a dead white male, ” There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress”, Mark Twain..
So the Ship of State sails on with its elected officers under “guidance” from the Admiral on the bridge. The enlisted crew continuously monitoring the depth of the waters. Watching – waiting for the soundings that indicate she is being steered into waters that shall engulf her before she sinks to the bottom.
And the passengers? In the stupor of self-indulgence in whatever ways available, neither knowing nor caring where the ship is taking them?
It’s a small thing among the many fantasies you all entertain, but thinking that the Benghazi attack is going to be a major political issue in the coming year is just wishful thinking on your part. Most of the people who don’t already know much about it, could care less; and most of those who do know about it, don’t think the administration did anything wrong. Absent your paranoid theories about Obama the Muslim and the menace of the creeping Caliphate, your stories don’t make a lick of sense. And there worse than false; they’re unmarketable outside of your closed world.
–thank you, Jim, for the solid endorsement.
I said all along that Clapper/Obama was involved. I’m sad to think that Petraeus could possibly be involved. Obama is a progressive, socialist muslim liar who will do anything to promote the fall of America and her allies. As we’ve witnessed in Egypt and Libya. Neither country threatened us or Israel. Obama was there giving his blessings to this thing calling itself democracy. Muslims do not view democracy the same as we do. They see a government using their version of democracy who IS a threat to us, Israel and the rest of the free world. For his actions alone in these two events; he should be impeached.
Clapper is an empty suit…the dispensable man held for just this occasion ….John Brennan calls the shots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley,_Inc
(sorry, posted wrong link above)
General Petraeus was spotless till he retired from the military and hooked up with Obama as CIA director. Don’t know how Broadwell fits in but maybe an Obama plant to trap Gen Petraeus and get him to do O’s dirty work. There’s a conspiracy theory. They come out when the government lies.
When will the PRESS and Reporters, in General, learn to begin at the Beginning when telling a story. To understand Libya/Syria any writer needs to understand that this mess has been in the making since before Bush?Cheny. READ “PROJECT FOR A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY” PNAC REPORT) and get VERY familiar with the Writings from the Brookings Institution, specifically; “Which Path to Persia”. Understanding just those two will shed much light on HOW AND WHY we got to this point. To see this as just mistakes by a Bumbling neyophyte Puppet POTUS is to view it with one’s head up one’s own Anal Orifice.
All the ACTORS in this fiasco knew exactly what was going down, maybe not the why, but they were all privvy and aware of the goings on on 9/11/2012, and tehy all agreed on what was to be sain in the initial cover-up/disinfo campaign. RICE WAS NOT left out of anything and knows full well she was/is lying to cover up OBUMMERS Murder of 4 Americans.
Neither should the Writer of this article be fooled by McCain & Graham, they are simply providing Cover for the Congress in it’s complicity in allowing all this to take place.
Remember, OBAMA is NOT an eligible POTUS based on his Father’s Nationality. All his actions, as president, are fraud and the Congress, Defense Department, Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Supreme Court, FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, ATF, DEA, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, and MANY others are WELL AWARE AND supportive of this FRAUD. The MSM and most Journalists in America are also complicit in the “Obama DECEPTION” and all his CRIMINAL cover-ups.
BENGHAZI is Murder and Cover-up FOR MURDER by the PRESS and many Politicians. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
I no longer trust Rubio, McCain Mini-Me, at all, zip, zero, nada. Rubio was big on the Arab Spring and probably still is. He, along with his new dad John McCain, and his new mom Lindsey Graham, pushed at Obama to get even more involved in Libya, so Benghazi is blood on his hands too. Rubio, like McCain [who incidentally, for anyone who somehow hasn't yet noticed, calls everything he advocates, bipartisan], seems absolutely incapable of learning anything – ever. That’s ‘assuming’ that he is the least bit sincere which is quite unlikely. Be it about Muslims, who will never be for liberty, or illegal Mexicans, who if made legal will overwhelmingly vote democrat to the point of obliterating what’s left of the Republican party and much of America. When I look at Rubio, now all I see is the face of Juan McCain staring back at me and can almost hear, “My friends”coming from his mouth. It has become very clear that Rubio is The Man Who Never Was. He’s just an actor, with, comparatively, an ego the size of a whale and an intellect the size of a plankter, and I think more and more people are starting to see through his little act. On the subject of acting, Rubio would make a good actor for the next Batman movie. He could play a composite of the Joker and Two-Face.
let me re-phrase the Harris/passport records sentence, from ‘altered’ to ‘accessed, and may have altered, apparently there’s no way to be sure’ –here, take a look:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=passport+office+scandal+leiutenant+harris+&form=IE8SRC&src=IE-SearchBox