Benghazi is starting to worry the Democrats. Liberals were out on the Sunday talk shows spewing their “it’s a conspiracy to call this a conspiracy” nonsense:
While the liberal media writes the same kind of nonsense.
And if the media isn’t spewing that crap they are just ignoring it.
But rest assured, this is not going anywhere. We’ve been saying for some time now that the fact that this administration chose to cover-up the real reason Benghazi happened is worse than Watergate, and it is. No one died during Watergate.
And now we know who will lead the House investigation:
South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, a former federal prosecutor known for his aggressive style of questioning at congressional hearings, has been tapped to lead a select committee tasked with investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks.
The Democrats can run and hide all they want (as Nixon tried to do) as the noose gets tighter, but this isn’t going anywhere.
At the same time the White House was putting the [anti-Muslim] video at the center of the Benghazi story, intelligence professionals and U.S. officials on the ground in Libya were describing a precise attack carried out by al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists. The Weekly Standard has learned that an analysis from the Defense Intelligence Agency produced a day before [Obama deputy national security adviser Ben] Rhodes sent his email assigned blame for the attacks to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Ansar al Sharia Libya. [As Hayes explains, the Rhodes email uncovered by Judicial Watch “rooted” the “protests” in the “internet video.”] The DIA analysis did not mention a video. It adds to the still-growing body of memos and warnings from top U.S. officials. The top U.S. intelligence official on the ground in Libya repeatedly told officials in Washington that the Benghazi attacks were part of a planned assault by al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists. The top diplomat in the country said the same thing. Last week, a top intelligence official for AFRICOM told Congress that he shared that view.
We are left with this reality: Top diplomats and intelligence officers in Libya offered assessments of the Benghazi attacks that were true when they made them and remain true today. But top Obama administration officials ignored those assessments. Six weeks before the 2012 presidential election, those officials—at the direction of White House communications and political strategists desperate to maintain the fiction that al Qaeda was “on the run”—lied to the public about how four Americans were killed in a sophisticated attack carried out, on the anniversary of 9/11, by terrorists affiliated with al Qaeda.
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May we assume, our bureaucrats and operatives in the Middle East are expendable when their safety means compromising the president’s reputation and political allusions?
Just how valuable is our president’s personal feelings concerning his boasts and reputation? It’s obviously worth more than four lives.
The Left consistently makes the mistake of believing that, if we are nice enough to Muslims, they won’t be angry at us and kill us.
But George Santayana taught us that, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Modern variations include:
What did the leader of the so-called, ”on the run,” al Qaeda say was the CAUSE of his and al Qaeda’s members’ anger?
Not something we could do a thing about!
Not something being nice could ever erase!
Osama bin Ladin blamed Spain taking back ”the Andalusa” (Spain) from Muslims after their biggest land grab of all.
Today, Spain is STILL NOT in the hands of Islam!
And there is the heart of the anger.
Obama refuses to learn from the past (even the recent past of Osama’s own writings and video taped speeches.)
So Obama’s policies are self-defeating.
Putting our people in at risk positions to show we are being nice is just giving al Qaeda a weak horse* to attack.
* When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse…..Osama bin Ladin
Gowdy is a GREAT choice (but he needs a better haircut).
I really hope the right continues with their bogus Benghazi witch hunt. They’ll be sure to lose in 2014 and 2016.
Gowdy should make for an interesting lead. Notice the MSM (non)response to his questions. It’s been months since he posed his questions and the MSM through their actions have proved him correct.
@This one:
Witch hunt? Four men DIED. Are you that callous? I wonder what you would say if one of the four men were your father, brother, uncle, cousin or other family member.
Rep Pelosi just made a fool of herself.
Again.
This time she is insisting on the soon-to-be-formed House Select Committee to investigate Benghazi be made up of a 50-50 split between Dems and Republicans!
She is claiming that this is the only way this will be ”fair,” and ”bi-partisan.”
BUT…..
What did she call fair and bi-partisan when she was speaker and in charge of setting up committees?
Committees with nine Democrats and six Republicans!
Ben Rhodes’s brother, the day after Benghazi:
I still want to know precisely who’s ultimate decision it was, ‘to give’ or in this case ‘not to give,’ our military standing by waiting to send support/rescue missions the “go ahead” order.
@Ditto: According to recent polling a majority of Americans want the answer to your question…it’s mostly the DNC and the media (but I repeat myself) who are not interested.