Obama did not provide arms to Al Qaeda. Relying on surrogates did it! Obama had little leverage at times over the surrogates. And you cannot prove that it's Obama's fault. Blame American arms dealer[s] hounding the surrogates to buy weapons.
“The president made the point to the [surrogates] that we needed transparency about what Qatar was doing in Libya.” See! Obama cares.
Even Mahmoud Jibril, then the prime minister of the Libyan transitional government complained about those darn surrogates arm[ing] extremist groups opposed to the new leadership.
The surrogates wanted to ship American weapons in their possession.. The administration rejected that request, but instead urged the [surrogates] to ship weapons to Libya that could not be traced to the United States. “The [surrogate] was asking for clearance to send U.S. weapons,” said one former official. “We told them it’s O.K. to ship other weapons.” D'oh! How did that direct connection to Obama get left in the article.. Editor!
The [surrogates], the official added, are “supposedly good allies, but the Islamists they support are not in our interest.” Golly we were flabbergasted Administration officials said.
And that evil American arms dealer, darn him.. he sold weapons to one of the surrogates and “They just handed them out like candy.”
So in conclusion it is the Nytimese unbiased, nonpartisan opinion that it is not PRESIDENT! Obama's fault and you can't prove it is.
If the FBI had stayed more than 3 hours on site, and had done their job, they could have collected schrappenel and had metalurgical studies on the fragments and determined where the weapons originated. If they were ours, then we can conclude that obama armed the branch of al Quadea who used our arms to kill our people. Thanks obama. We will never be told the truth.