The Real Reason Behind Benghazigate?

[SrWoodchuck]

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Center for Security Policy | Oct 22, 2012

 

By Frank Gaffney, Jr.

 

President Obama's once-seemingly-unstoppable march towards reelection hit what he might call "bumps in the road" in Benghazi, Libya late on September 11, 2012. It might be more accurate to describe the effect of the well-planned and -executed, military-style attack on a diplomatic facility there as the political equivalent of a devastating improvised explosive device on the myth of the unassailability of the Obama record as Commander-in-Chief.

Thanks to intrepid investigative reporting - notably by Bret Baier and Catherine Herridge at Fox News, Aaron Klein at WND.com and Claire Lopez at RadicalIslam.org - and information developed by congressional investigators, the mystery is beginning to unravel with regard to what happened that night and the reason for the subsequent, clumsy official cover-up now known as "Benghazigate."

 

The evidence suggests that the Obama administration has not simply been engaging, legitimating, enriching and emboldening Islamists who have now taken over or are ascendant in much of the Middle East. Starting in March 2011, when American diplomat Christopher Stevens was designated the liaison to the "opposition" in Libya, the Obama administration has been arming them, including jihadists like Abdelhakim Belhadj, the leader of the al Qaeda franchise known as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.

One of the places in Libya most awash with such weapons in the most dangerous of hands is Benghazi. It now appears that Amb. Stevens was there - on a particularly risky day, with no security to speak of and despite now-copiously-documented concerns about his own safety and that of his subordinates - for another priority mission: sending arms recovered from the former regime's stocks to the "opposition" in Syria. As in Libya, the insurgents are known to include al Qaeda and other shariah-supremacist groups, including none other than Abdelhakim Belhadj.

 

Fast & Furious Redux?

[RidesAPaleHorse]

[saveliberty]

Wow

[NCTexan]

More amazing than that is CNN's Jack Caffety's view and statements from the CNN site today.

 

CNN

 

Why didn't President Obama tell the truth about what happened in Benghazi?

 

FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty:

The truth about what happened in Benghazi – and when President Obama knew it – could have a huge impact on the closing days of this campaign.

Turns out the White House, the State Department and the FBI were all told two hours after the September 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that an Islamic militant group had claimed responsibility. Two hours.

One government e-mail from the State Department shows a Libyan group – called Ansar al-Sharia – claimed responsibility for the attack on Facebook and Twitter. The group denied responsibility the next day.

This is big. It suggests that the president had reports that very day that the attacks that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans weren't because of some film clip.

And yet – we heard just the opposite.

It took the administration nine days to refer to the attack as the work of terrorists.

Instead, top officials insisted there was no evidence suggesting the attack was "planned or imminent."

They continued to suggest that it was that anti-Muslim video produced in the United States that fueled a spontaneous protest in Benghazi. This includes folks at the very top like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice and the State Department spokeswoman.

Why did the president and his top lieutenants obfuscate and hem and haw for so long before telling us what really happened? Try politics.

As for this latest report, the White House says that these e-mails were part of a public flow of information in the aftermath of the attack and that it's the job of the intelligence community to sort through this stuff. They still refuse to accept responsibility for misleading the American people.

However, the more information that comes out about the Benghazi attack, the more questions there are about how the administration handled this. And that's not good for Obama just 13 days before the election.

Here’s my question to you: Why didn't President Obama tell the truth about what happened in Benghazi?

 

[righteousmomma]

Gun running and supporting the head of al Qaeda - the Muslim Brotherhood. Ummmmmmmmm

[SrWoodchuck]

Here’s my question to you: Why didn't President Obama tell the truth about what happened in Benghazi?

 

It's been suggested that since Morsi & the MB wanted the Blind Shiek repatriated out of US Prison & into Egypt.....that a trade would be made, i.e.-he would blame the turmoil in Libya & throughout the Mideast on the film [some say the ambassador's death was a mistake, and was instead, supposed to be a kidnapping, but became a killing when the two SEAL's began their defense] and "grease the skids" for an exchange, in return for peace. If executed properly, Obama gets a boost in prestige, Morsi & the MB get the Shiek, and a byproduct would be appeasement of Muslims world-wide [esp. in US] with a new move towards "modifying" free speech.

 

The liberal mind works in a narrow [blindered] set of twisted thought process.....the ends justify the means....if they get away with it, and if they don't the downside doesn't touch the principal players......although someone has to go under the bus. Non-optimal bumps in the road.

[Pepper]

@SrWoodchuck

What a tragic loss of lives for the schemes of the smallest minded man on the planet.

[SrWoodchuck]

@SrWoodchuck

What a tragic loss of lives for the schemes of the smallest minded man on the planet.

 

Unfortunately they weren't Saved by Zero.......

 

[Pepper]

@SrWoodchuck

Yes. That's what I mean. Obama has blood on his hands.

[SrWoodchuck]

@SrWoodchuck

Yes. That's what I mean. Obama has blood on his hands.

@Pepper! Their close advisor's have blood on their hands as well.......VJJ & Axelrod. If it accomplished their end game, there'd be much more........

 

 

H/T:TheoSpark

 

 

Hitlery, too.

Edited October 25, 2012 by SrWoodchuck

[SrWoodchuck]

Found this online:

 

Orwell said it better than I ever could: "Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectful, and give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

[SrWoodchuck]

Benghazi killers among terrorists poised to strike US targets, Israel and Egypt

 

 

http://www.debka.com/article/22465/Benghazi-killers-among-terrorists-poised-to-strike-US-targets-Israel-and-Egypt

 

The counterterrorism forces of Israel, the US, Egypt and Jordan have gone on elevated terror alert ahead of the three-day Muslim festival of Eid al Adha starting Thursday night, Oct. 25, debkafile reports.

They are acting on word received in the last ten days of preparations by Salafi and al Qaeda cells in Egyptian Sinai to unleash coordinated terrorist attacks on US and Egyptian targets in Sinai and across the border in Israel.

The Majlis Shura Al-Mujahideen is a roof organization of some 6,000 Egyptian, local Bedouin, Palestinian, Jordanian, Saudi, Yemeni and Libyan terrorists who subscribe to Al Qaeda’s jihadist philosophy. From their strongholds in central and southern Sinai, they have carried out most of the most recent spate of attacks on Israel and on Egyptian military targets in the peninsula.

After their combined assault of July 18 on Egyptian and Israeli military targets, in the course of which they massacred 18 Egyptian troops, Cairo announced the launch of a major offensive to root the terrorists out of their Sinai lairs. But four months on, the jihadis remain in control of large tracts of the rugged Sinai desert. And last week, they received a large increment from Libya. The Libyan reinforcements were discovered on their arrival in Sinai Oct. 15 with a large quantity of weapons including missiles, ready for the forthcoming Eid offensive.

Among them were some of the perpetrators of the murderous attack in Benghazi on Sept. 11which killed four Americans at the US consulate.

[pollyannaish]

Gasp!

[saveliberty]

I am back, thinking about this article.Because if this is true, the most apparent reason for this strategy would be what? Revolution? New term in Office? Additional funding to US government officials? All three?

 

Then I started thinking about the similarity to Fast and Furious; the Mexican government wasn't contacted, wasn't coordinated. Yes, it's likely that the program was part of a plan to curtail gun sales in the US, but what if it also was motivated by additional funding to US government officials?

 

I have no information.

 

I am just asking speculative questions because it was only by Frank Gaffney's article that the money angle dawned on me.

 

Yes, I am slower than most on the uptake.

[Draggingtree]

Benghazi: Symbol of Obama's Leadership

 

By Mona Charen · October 30, 2012

The first statements from the Obama administration about what happened in Benghazi seemed plausible. There were, after all, protests throughout the Muslim world on the anniversary of 9/11 -- some incited by Islamists using an obscure video to arouse anti-American fervor in the mobs, and some, no doubt, just pelting U.S. embassies on general principles. When the administration explained that one of those protests had spun out of control and led to the murder of our ambassador and three other Americans in Libya, there seemed no reason to doubt it.

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta may have answered the question -- and exposed Obama's claim of directing that our personnel be secured as false. Panetta explained,"[The] basic principle is that you don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on, without having some real-time information about what's taking place. And as a result of not having that kind of information, the commander who was on the ground in that area, Gen. Ham, Gen. Dempsey and I felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation."

Really? Is the Secretary of Defense really saying that we can't put forces at risk when Americans are already at risk and are being shot at? Why do we have a military again? Tyrone Woods certainly didn't http://patriotpost.us/opinion/15223

[saveliberty]

Does Rep. Darrell Issa have financial forensics for Fast and Furious? We don't have very much on Benghazi, but I would wonder about that as well.