Justin Smith writes about the testimony of the Benghazigate Whistleblowers and I like his thoughts on the nefariousness of Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton.
JRH 5/17/13
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Obama: No Shame, No Honor
By Justin O. Smith
May 15, 2013 at 9:13pm
The statements coming out of the Congressional Oversight Committee's investigation into the events surrounding the attacks on the consulate and the CIA Annex at Benghazi on 9/11/2012 paint a picture of the Obama administration, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta and the "Yes men" of the Accountability Review Board, that illustrates they are more concerned with advancing the agenda of the Progressive Democratic Party than protecting American citizens. Their own words have shown them unwilling to take responsibility for their own failures regarding their duties in each of their respective positions, as they are also exposed as self-serving liars, incompetents and cowards!
On May 12, 2012, Senator Feinstein (D-CA) told David Gregory on Meet the Press that she "saw no malevolence" in the actions of the Obama administration during or after Benghazi. It certainly wasn't good will that had Obama go to bed without a care in the world and get up the next morning, as if nothing had happened, and go campaign in Nevada. It wasn't good will that kept Obama, Clinton and Panetta from immediately sending a Special Forces or Quick Response team to rescue survivors, and it wasn't good will that created twelve different revisions of the CIA's original Intelligence Report that left no doubt the attack on Benghazi was a terror attack and had nothing to do with an anti-Islamic video or a spontaneous protest!
Whose brainchild was the cover story of the anti-Islamic video? Who gave the order for the Special Forces team in Tripoli to stand down? We do need the answers to these questions and more, but in the end, all culpability and responsibility for the lies and the deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glenn Dogherty rests squarely with Obama and Clinton, along with Panetta and General David Petraeus who toed the line and joined the lie.
Obama and Clinton knew almost immediately that the U.S. "diplomatic facility" (whatever the administration is calling it today) was under a terrorist attack, because Gregory Hicks, the Deputy Chief of Missions and assistant to Ambassador Stevens spoke with Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State and his boss, at 2:00am the night of the attack, and he briefed her on the events on the ground. Clinton and Obama have been lying through their teeth the entire time, which explains the reason they have persistently stone-walled the Oversight Committee and obstructed the investigation into Benghazi.
Most Americans knew right away something was wrong with the Obama administration's account of the attack on Benghazi. Many of us heard foreign news services such as 'The Independent' from the U.K. detailing the attack as a terrorist attack; and, one would have thought that the account given by the Libyan President, which clearly stated Ansar al-Sharia was the perpetrator, would have precluded UN Ambassador Susan Rice from advancing Obama's and Clinton's lie.
"I was stunned. My jaw dropped, and I was embarrassed," stated Greg Hicks, when asked about his reaction to Susan Rice's explanation for the Benghazi attacks.
The State Department and spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, in particular, pushed for the removal of all references in the CIA Intelligence Report to Al Qaeda, previous warnings about potential terrorist attacks and Ansar al-Sharia. After meeting with the White House and intelligence agencies, they were worried that the information could be "abused" by members of Congress "to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings"... which was the truth..., as Nuland elaborated, "so why would we want to feed that either?"
Nuland just described the inception of a conspiracy, and one in which then CIA Director David Petraeus enjoined by saying what the administration wanted to hear, and Ambassador Pickering enjoined with a substandard ARB Report that was sorely lacking; Greg Hicks was not allowed to review classified ARB documents, and several individuals with firsthand knowledge of the Benghazi attack were never questioned by the ARB, although they were pressing to give their accounts and testimony.
On May 8, 2012, Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) asked, ”Isn't it true that just hours after the attack, the Libyan President called it a terrorist attack?" Hicks replied, "Yes." Then Gowdy focused on Ambassador Stevens' last words to Hicks..."we're under attack!" Gowdy asked, "If a protest was ongoing during some part of the day, wouldn't a professional career diplomat mention it?" Hicks answered, "Yes." Gowdy: "Did Ambassador Stevens mention such a protest?" Hicks: "No."
Between January and April 2013, some of the typical responses from the Obama administration have ranged from press secretary Jay Carney's "Benghazi was a long time ago" to John Kerry's (new Sec of State) "We have more important things to get on to" and Clinton's "What difference does it make." All of these statements show just what little regard they have for the sacrifice made by those four Americans and their deaths in general.
Elija Cummings (D-MD), in condescending fashion, relegated the deaths in Benghazi to insignificance by stating, "death is a part of life." This is a gross insult. However much death is a part of life, we do not require such an explanation, nor does it mean that we want to rush to greet Death or to be refused help to escape Death, especially when the help we ask for is standing nearby... willing and able!
The officials at Benghazi and Tripoli were desperate for a rescue mission, but as Lt Colonel Gibson's Special Forces team prepared to answer the call, they were told to "stand down." And during this same time frame, Gregory Hicks was having an intense conversation with a furious Mark Thompson, as Thompson and his four man Foreign Emergency Support team were being blocked from responding by their so-called "superiors"!... It's also unfathomable that a fighter jet could not be scrambled "in less than 22 hours", as the administration alleges!
Secretary of Defense Panetta essentially said, "There's bullets flying around over there. I'm not going to put my guys in there." Why do we even have a military or a Special Forces then, if not to walk in harm's way when American's come under attack and an imminent threat of death? Panetta, Clinton and Obama took the coward's way out. "A brave man dies but once...a coward dies a thousand deaths," except when a man such as Obama is full of hubris and has no sense of shame or honor.
The party agenda is the most important item for today's Progressive Democrats, even more than America's national security or American lives, and this is, in large part, the reason that Obama and Hillary Clinton fabricated the anti-Islamic video story, as part of a cover up and a conspiracy to hide the fact that the attack on the U.S. Consulate at Benghazi was in fact a terror attack initiated by Al Qaeda affiliate Ansar al-Sharia. Only days before the Benghazi attacks, Obama had stated that Al Qaeda was on the run and decimated and "Osama's dead", so he made a conscious decision to present this lie about an anti-Islamic video; he delivered the lie convincingly and with emotion any actor would envy, as a ploy to prevent any new wrinkles from undermining his presidential campaign and to avoid acknowledging that Islam and the world-wide Muslim community hated his administration, just as much as they had hated President Bush's administration. But when Obama and Clinton had clear signs and career professionals saying that they needed more security, and Obama and Clinton ignored them out of a misplaced need to make Libya appear to be "normalized", that in and of itself is criminal when it results in the deaths of four fine Americans... cut down in their prime!
By Justin O. Smith
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© Justin O. Smith
Editing John R. Houk
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