The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said the most one could call President Obama’s statement on the Benghazi attack was “ambiguous,” but said the commander in chief’s behavior through the incident has been “shameful.”
“As far as it being an act of terror, the president was almost four minutes into his statement on September 12th before he mentioned an act of terror. It followed a paragraph in which he was talking after September 11th,” Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said on CNN.
“When he — earlier in his statement, when he was talking about the attack in Benghazi, he didn’t say anything about terrorism at all — nothing about an act of terror. It wasn’t until he was well into the remarks and anyone looking at it will be confuse, is he talking about Benghazi or is he talking about September 11th or all acts of terror? So, at the very least, the most you could say for him is ambiguous,” he said.
“But then follow in the next week, when no one in the administration used the words the terrorism at all. Susan Rice — Jay Carney was going out of his way to say it was not a terrorist attack. The president himself even he went to the U.N. several weeks later was still talking about the tape. They were talking about a demonstration which was never held. They never even acknowledged terrorism.”
King said he didn’t expect the president to say conclusively, the day after, that it was a terrorist attack.
“But to deny the fact, to ignore the fact that al Qaeda affiliates from that region, there had been terrorist attacks before, to me, this was politics at its worst, because you’re talking about the loss of American life,” he said.
“I’m not saying this is a criminal cover-up. This is a political cover-up because it went against the president’s narrative,” King added. “…Who sat down with Susan Rice? Who gave her talking points? Was David Axelrod involved? Were these White House political people?”
The key takeaway to remember, the chairman said, is “this is going to be a long twilight struggle, the same as John Kennedy described the struggle against the Soviets.”
“Al-Qaeda has morphed, it’s metastasized, it’s gone to several different organizations. It changes tactics and procedures.”
“Al-Qaeda has morphed, it’s metastasized, it’s gone to several different organizations. It changes tactics and procedures.”
That may be true for al Qaeda and other terrorist groups who come and go. But it will always be the same islam that foments them. Grave filling continues unabated until western adults recognize the true enemy here. Lying about about it like this administration is clearly doing only can continue with an electorate who fails her civic duties to enforce the truth in her government.
We really need to stop being disingenuous.
The comment in the rose garden had NOTHING to do with Obama calling this a terrorist attack.
It is incongruous to suggest that he meant to call it a terrorist attack, when EVERY subsequent mention of the incident revealed an intent to NOT call it a terrorist attack.
You can’t look at the rose garden comment in a vacuum. It spoke of generic “terrorist attacks”, but it did NOT label Benghazi as one. Each day for two weeks, under this President’s command, every effort was made to imply, suggest and OUTRIGHT DECLARE…that this incident was the result of a spontaneous outbreak of rage against a movie trailer.
To suggest ANY other interpretation of two solid weeks of outright lies and distortion…is not merely myopic, it’s inane.
And, why are WE watering down the intent to lie, dissemble, coverup, distort, and demolish the truth? Let’s tell it like it is. Stop pussyfooting around about it. The subsequent acts put the lie to the rose garden generic statement’s now intended whitewash of the coverup. Only a fool or a liar would accept such a ridiculous explanation.
My impression is that for some reason this issue does not have a lot of legs with the voters. Romney did flub the remark, he should have phrased it differently and now it sounds like just semantics. Irrespective people just dont seem to know or care much about the issue.
And your comment is based on your highly scientific poll of adults? Or is it just an anecdote?
US consulate in Benghazi was a hub for recruiting jihadis to fight for al Qaeda in Syria
Just sayin’.
Syria’s Islamist Rebels Now Armed With Shoulder-Fired Anti-Aircraft Missiles…
We hear ya.
So, we have Fast and Furious I, II and III – no wonder the FBI was not allowed to go there for 3 weeks, the scene has to be cleaned up, assuring that all the docs were gone to avoid traces of Fast and Furious among other dubious issues?