One of the Republican senators holding the Obama administration’s feet to the fire over Benghazi said he “just cannot believe the lack of inquiry about how the consulate in Libya became a death trap.”
“I know this, that if it happened on President Bush’s watch, it would be a totally different response by the mainstream networks, and it’s really disappointing and our hearts do go out to the people who are suffering from this storm, but a week from today, we’re going to pick a commander in chief,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Fox this morning.
“They promised us transparency and are covering up, they’re delaying, they’re denying, and they’re in denial about the rise of Al-Qaeda, and this is a big issue. Unanswered.”
Graham noted that he and Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), as well as others, have asked questions for weeks about the attack to no avail.
“I can’t believe on September 11 there were no assets that could get there within nine hours. We don’t need an investigation for the president to tell us, did he know of a request for assistance? Did he order this compound to be reinforced, and tell us why it was never reinforced. It was attacked in June,” he said.
“There was a statement by the State Department that ‘we will do an investigation on the June attack to find out how we were attacked in June so severely,’” Graham added. “Where is that investigation? Did the president know about the April and June attack? I can’t believe he did not. I can’t imagine any White House would let the president go out and in the public and not know about an attack. So how did it become a death trap after the attack?”
Been wondering the same thing. I think the media are at the point they believe Obama ‘isn’t winning anyway’, but they don’t want to lose any more seats in Congress. Benghazi will damage the D brand for decades if the details are ever uncovered. It wasn’t just Obama – it was also his chain of command – Panetta, Clinton, Rice, Patraeus…
Fascinating how much “moral authority” Cindy Sheehan had, but Charles Woods whose son really was abandoned in the most unAmerican act I can recall is ignored.
Appalling.
As long as the “Ministry of Truth”—the MSM—runs interference for their Dear Leader, we will never know the wholt truth. In the end, our only salvation will be to purge ourselves of the Left-wing Fourth Estate as well as their messiah.
If W was still President we would be glad for the tropical storm to give us a break from the 24/7 coverage of the Benghazi attack scandal…
Senator, just like the movie “Field of Dreams”…this is the “Scandal of Dreams”. If you (and other ‘leaders’) would schedule a press conference/protest/demonstration on the Capitol Building steps 72 hours ahead of time – and we’re running out of time – I bet you could draw 1,000,000 Americans to DC. This is that big of a deal. FORCE the networks to cover it and then all of America would know the truth!!!
This is not rocket science dammit…just somebody please damn step up and do something besides just talking that the msm can ignore. I have been blowing up my senator’s phone lines to try and get him to do it.
MSM scoffing aside (talking to you, Bookman)–this is a real issue.
There was a plan to get guys out. There was a plan for security on the ground. Four people died. Obviously, the plans were inadequate.
It is not beyond the pale to ask “well, why?”. We might want to prevent this again, you know. Nor it is the usual standard media practice to just “wait for the report”.
If the office holder is Republican, at least.