The White House Photo Office has declined CBS News requests to release images taken of US officials during the Sept. 11 Benghazi attacks.
CBS News first requested the images on Oct. 31. In the past, the White House has released photos showing US officials during national security incidents. A half dozen images related to the mission that captured and killed Osama bin Laden were given to the public last year. One depicts President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and members of the national security team gathered in the Situation Room on May 1, 2011.
A White House official referred our request regarding the Benghazi attacks to the White House Photo Office. On Nov. 1, an official there indicated she would process our request quickly, but then did not respond further. Finally, this week, the White House Photo Office told CBS News it would not release any images without approval of Josh Earnest in the White House Press Office. Earnest did not respond to our telephone calls and emails.
At a press conference on Nov. 14, 2012 President Obama stated that his Administration has provided all information regarding “what happened in Benghazi.”
Clearly, it has not.
The deflection of responsibility here is hilariously dishonest. Suddenly, someone no one has ever heard of is so powerful that he can keep photos from the night of the attack away from the press and the people. If the photos presented the president in a flattering light — if there are even any photos at all — Josh Earnest would not be allowed to stand in the way.
Still up at El Jefe’s Ministry of Truth website…
“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”
“Government should be transparent. Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing. Information maintained by the Federal Government is a national asset. My Administration will take appropriate action, consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use…”
Hardy har har.
Nobody wants to see a picture of Obama in his nightgown, clutching his Karl Marx teddy bear.
Oh dear, you really made me laugh ! That would be something to behold. He would probably look as lost as he did in that picture in the Situation Room.
Well, I dunno…I’d pay a buck to see that…
Nor his Mohammad teddy bear.
For pictures I’m thinking more along the lines of a panama hat wearing marxist sitting on a couch sucking on a big fat joint. Choom choom, Che rocks.
CBS asked for pics on Oct. 31?
Why didn’t Steve Kroft go public with the request for pics a long time ago when he figured out the tale he was told on Sep. 12th?
Disgusting.
Great point. Steve Kroft (although not alone in his delayed MSM journalistic curiousity) should be made to publicly account for this much belated request.
You may rest assured that if there were no pictures, they would be happy to say so.
what a great persident. he is so open and truthful. makes me glad i voted for him so many times, like everybody else.
what he doesn’t want anybody to know was that he was tired from all the traveling and just went to bed and let our people get slaughtered. begged for help and died fighting, waiting on an American hating foreign commie turd to come to the rescue. well, if it didn’t happen that way, prove it halfwit! not having a real father growing up made this little rat basturd hate men. i’ve seen it before, lots.
this p.o.s. is a walking disiater area. couldn’t even sell guns to the mexican drug cartels w/o screwing it up and getting hundreds killed, not that he cared there either. he proved that by destroying evidence, refusing testimony (again) and obstructing justice.
forged documents, and poorly forged at that. and that bunch of incompetent affirmative action lifer clowns he surrounds himself with, well, you couldn’t hold a stupidity lottery and find more qualified idiots.
all he gets ito office all for the love of other people’s stuff. yep, winners for sure.
There ARE pictures… Lots of pictures… But this Benghazi “bump in the road” is not as important as hiding behind Ambassador Rice’s skirts, installing John Kerry as Secretary of State, raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans (i.e., all of you who have either a 401(k) or a job), and reminding Americans that al Qaeda is as dead as Ambassador Stevens but GM is doing fine in China…
So stop your racist attacks and hand over your wallets…