Posted on 12/26/2012 4:10:34 PM PST by raptor22
Accountability: As with Fast and Furious, the designated scapegoats for the deaths of Americans at the hands of administration bungling will merely be switching desks. Only the maker of that irrelevant video is in jail.
Reports of the resignation of four State Department officials after the Accountability Review Board's (ARB) review of State Department actions before during and after the terrorist attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, may have been greatly exaggerated.
Eric Boswell, the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, has not resigned from the department, as a State Department spokeswoman indicated Dec. 19. Boswell is instead just "switching desks," according to a report in the New York Post.
Deputy Assistant Secretaries Charlene Lamb and Raymond Maxwell, and a third who has not been identified, were placed on administrative leave after the release of the report. However, according to the Post, they are expected to return.
They were found to have shown "performance inadequacies" but not "willful misconduct."
In other words, they were merely incompetent and didn't mean for Ambassador Chris Stephens and three other Americans to get murdered by Ansar al-Sharia, a terrorist group with al-Qaida links.
Last week, spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton "has accepted Eric Boswell's decision to resign as assistant secretary for diplomatic security, effective immediately."
It turns out Boswell gave up only his presidential appointment as assistant secretary, but not his job.
He has simply moved to another desk at the State Department and is still collecting his paycheck.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
There are still major questions to be answered.
1). Where was Obama?
2). Who gave the order to stand down?
3). We’re there resources available to assist had they been authorized?
4). Unbelievable Romney did not make this a campaign issue.
As always with liberals, no one is ever held responsible because they had good intentions, no matter how incompetent they are.
Just another chapter in MSM malfeasance.
Contrast with Abu Ghraib.
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We can add a new term for Obama-speak.
*Performance Inadequacies = Treason
Here are other linguistic contortions:
*Man made disasters = Islamic mass murder attack
*Overseas contingency operations = War on Terror
*Extremists = normal Americans
*War on Women = Campaign tactic
*Kinetic Military Operations = bombing Libya
*Mistake = baby
*Hope and Change = economic collapse and disgrace abroad
*Recovery = going form 8.6 to 8.2 unemployment
*Flexibility = selling out American interests to Russian mafia
*Shaking hands with a shorter man = bowing to Saudi King
*The rich = anyone making $100,000 or more
*Investments = government spending, corporate cronyism to get campaign kick backs
*Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act = massive federal entitlement that will double cost of premiums in order to drive everyone into crappy government health care cooperatives, granting Democrats control over every aspect of our lives
This buck doesn’t stop anywhere apparently...
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The Law of Effect shows us that if incompetence is not corrected, then more incompetence will follow. If you cannot be fired from your job because your incompetence resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including a United States Ambassador who represented all of us, then what does it take to get fired? 50 dead Americans? 500? 2 million? What if it had been a relative of the Clintons? Would somebody have been fired then? What happens if a member of our aristocrat class dies because of incompetence? Are there different standards?
That’s a powerful graphic! May I ask what would be required to get permission to post it to my Facebook page?
Regards,
Ben
Four Americans are dead because a few employees’ performance was just ‘inadequate’? Has Hillary come out of her bunker yet? Has her fear of even going outside over what she knows about Benghazi subsided yet?
Sure Ben, it’s ok with me so long as you leave my signature on the bottom right in place. Glad you like it.
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