No, Hillary. Benghazi Will Not Go Away

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PJMedia:

Off in Lima, Peru — at least it wasn’t Antarctica or the Aleutian Islands — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has fallen on the proverbial sword long distance, declaring the buck the stops with her on the Benghazi security debacle.

 

 

That’s all well and good, but where does the buck stop on all the lying and covering up that followed? Yes, I used the unvarnished “l-word” because that’s what it was. How else to characterize UN Ambassador Susan Rice running around telling everyone in earshot that the Benghazi events were caused by an idiotic and unwatched YouTube trailer when Occam’s Razor — not to mention rocket-propelled grenades, an ambassador dragged through the streets, and a safe house mysteriously under fire — pointed to a terror attack commemorating September 11?

 

And then the president, acting like an errant husband unwilling to confess his adultery (who do you believe – me or your lying eyes?), repeated the same swill on The View nearly a week later. Unconscionable.

 

Why did this happen? Why this bizarre need to obfuscate or push away such an obvious truth?

It’s a lot more significant than the usual election season blather. On the deepest level, Barack Obama did not want to be found out. He had something even bigger than Benghazi to cover up – his worldview.

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This was published on Nightwatch this morning:

 

"Readers need reassurance that the U.S. uses an inter-agency approach to crisis management all the time every time. All relevant resources are applied to evaluate the situation, limit damage, establish control and stability, and restore normality. That is the way national security crises always are managed in Washington. Information flows vertically first and then laterally.

 

In the four decades betweem 1970 and 2010, there never was a time when an American diplomat was injured by hostile action, an embassy or consulate attacked, an aircraft shot down, a ship attacked, an official attacked or kidnapped or many other lesser incidents, especially when they involved damage to U.S. official persons or property, in which the J3 and J2 in the Pentagon failed to set up a crisis action team or group. Similar teams or cells would be created in the responsible military commands and every agency involved in national security affairs.

 

During a crisis, all crisis action teams issue situation updates to the national command authority and each other, often hourly at first. All are in communications with each other. The White House Situation Room is always in the loop, if not the real time crisis management clearing house, for all reporting on the crisis, in support of the National Security Council staff and the inter-agency crisis management process.

 

An attack on an ambassador is an attack on the U.S., and the U.S. national security enterprise always takes that as its starting point for crisis management. Every agency is involved plus the military commands, not just State Dept., for example.

 

News coverage of the Benghazi attack does not reflect the basics of the U.S. national security crisis management practice nor the diligence and competence of the people who make it work and would have been on duty on 9-11-2012."

 

 

What I take from this is that the White House knew from the very beginning all that happened in Benghazi from beginning to end.