Obama Administration's Lead #Benghazi Investigator Slams America and Islamophobes #StandDown

The Jawa Report ^ | 11/2/12

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Thanks Bronco Bamma! And Hillary, you must make Bill[wink wink remember 1998 Kenya/Tunisia?] and your mentor, Madeline Albright[1998 Albright also ignored pleas for more securityfrom US Ambassador to Kenya Ms Bushnell (h/t Anna)], proud with your determination to get to the bottom of this f'n screwup

America is a seething hotbed of “Islamophobia,” filled with ignorant racist rubes who irrationally fear the benign Muslim religion, according to the Obama administration’s lead investigator into the Benghazi atrocities.

So said former Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering in more polished, diplomatic language during an Oct. 23 panel discussion at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. The talk was on “what role the faith community can play in fighting Islamophobia,” a make-believe mental illness that Islamists would love to have listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Radical Islam’s stateside defenders frequently accuse anti-terrorism hawks of “McCarthyism,” hurling the epithet “Islamophobe” the same way American leftists use the word “racist” to shut down debate.

Pickering’s pontifications came two and a half weeks after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named him to head a State Department “Accountability Review Board” tasked with examining the circumstances surrounding the deaths on Sept. 11, 2012, the 11th anniversary of 9/11, of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith, and security personnel Glen Doherty, and Tyrone Woods at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.

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Update: Here's some more nuggets from Diana West: Pickerings Red Flags

Pickering is one of those Washington insiders whose public record is less a matter of what he’s done than what he’s been: U.S. ambassador to Russia, Israel, El Salvador, Jordan, India, Nigeria and the United Nations. What such postings may obscure, however, is that the man is a foreign policy establishment leftist. It’s not just that Pickering serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the International Crisis Group, a George Soros group that, for example, advocated engagement with the Shariah-supremacist Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Pickering has personally explored opening relations with Hamas; pushed peace talks with the Taliban; argued for getting rid of, or removing to the U.S., all tactical nuclear weapons in Europe (and moving Russia’s to east of the Urals); and promoted bilateral talks with Iran without preconditions. And speaking of Iran, Pickering sits on the boards of two pro-Tehran groups, the American Iranian Council and the National Iranian American Council. The Iranian connections are additionally disturbing since one Benghazi scenario to be explored is whether Iran was involved, possibly in retribution for U.S. support of anti-Assad forces (including jihadists) in Syria.[More...]

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Sources: Key Task Force Not Convened During Benghazi Attack
Oversight Queries Clinton on New Documents Indicating Involvement of Libyan Government Personnel in Benghazi Attacks
FP Exclusive: What We Found in Benghazi: The Troubling Documents The FBI Missed
Arab TV Exposes Lax Security At Benghazi Prior to Ambassador Stevens Arrival
Pat Caddell On FNC Discussing Benghazi & MSM Coverage
FNC Exclusive: A Month Prior to Attack a Classified Cable WARNED Benghazi Consulate Couldn't Withstand a Coordinated Attack
Terror in Benghazi: Emerging Facts
Fallen Former SEAL Ty Woods Family On Fox
Video: Benghazi Story and MSM
Rep McKeon Wants Answers on Benghazi
US Army Motto: See No (Islamist) Evil?
Obama Can't Bring Himself To Call Benghazi Attackers "Terrorists"
#Benghazi: Fallen SEAL's Father: Hillary Told Me 'We're Going to Arrest & Prosecute ... The Man That Made The Mo Video' At Funeral
Benghazi Terror Attack: Emails To WH Show There Were NO Mohammed Video Reference
'Within Hours' St Dept Emails Show Obama Administration Knew Benghazi Attack Was Claimed By Al Qaeda Terror Group
Report: Top Suspect In Benghazi Attack STILL Has Not Been Questioned
St Dept Confirms Marines on 9/11/2012 Were Protecting Embassy in Barbados
6/6/2012 Attack on US Consulate in Benghazi by the Brigades of the Imprisoned Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman (Blind Sheikh)
Rep Kelly: Benghazi Security Cut While Vienna Embassy Gained Chevy Volts
Rep Trey Kelly: Carney, Rice Gave 'Demonstrably False Statements' on Benghazi Attack
Today's Hearings on the Security Failures at Benghazi Compound
Email Shows Obama's St Dept Rejecting Security Teams Request to Retain DC-3 at US Embassy in Libya
White House 9/14/2012 Photo of the Day
UK Media: America Was Warned of Embassy Attack And Did Nothing
[Bumped]CIA DIA Denied Help For Consulate - Fallen SEALs Denied Requests For Security Backup
Rid The World 'Of Those Savages'
Third American Murdered in Benghazi Attack Identified As Former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty
Was SOFREP Contributor, Co-Wrote 21st Century Sniper w Brandon Webb
4th American Murdered Identified As
Former Navy SEAL Tyrone S. Woods
US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens Murdered in Benghazi Libya
Confirmed: FSO Sean Smith Also Killed
Report: Libyan Ansar al-Sharia Has Claimed Responsibility For Attack
US: Attack Was Planned
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I knew great patriotic and competent American Foreign Service Officers in So. Vietnam and Cambodia during the war, and had hoped that the rest of State would be like that.

However, years of research on State Dept. policies on internal security (The Otto Otepka case, Communist penetration, etc)., and the abject failures of the Clinton and Obama administrations, convince me that we need a top-to-bottom review of and house cleaning of that institution.

Too many liberals with rosy views of our enemies, influence and/or control our relations with friends and enemies alike, with the friends getting the shaft and our enemies getting the gold.

Madelaine Halfbright was the worst Secy of State, ever. Clinton isn’t doing much better (lost a Consulate and Ambassador, you did, Hillary). CHristopher Warren was just as bad (lost Iran, you did, Jimmeny Cricket) and Nicaragua.

Our diplomatics and retired retreads like Pickering sound like the British Foreign Service of the late 1930’s. At least Chamberlain later admitted that he was totally wrong about Hitler. Pickering seems to think that Achmed and Khamenei are rational, peace-loving flower children who can be dealth with as equals.

After Nov. 6th, let the purges begin. We owe it to the “Benghazi 4” to avenge their betrayals.

[Isabel C.]

Obama Administration's Lead #Benghazi Investigator Slams America and Islamophobes #StandDown

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