Posted on 01/12/2013 2:25:56 PM PST by upchuck
It’s even worse than we previously thought. A retired four-star admiral is now claiming that Barack Obama intentionally conspired with America’s enemies to stage a bogus attack and the kidnapping of an American ambassador so he could “negotiate” the release of a “hostage” and bolster his mediocre approval ratings just prior to the election!
The Washington Examiner, quoting retired Four-Star Admiral James Lyons, writes: “the attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi… was the result of a bungled abduction attempt…. the first stage of an international prisoner exchange… that would have ensured the release of Omar Abdel Rahman, the ‘Blind Sheik’…”
But something went horribly wrong with Obama’s “October Surprise.” Although the Obama Administration intentionally gutted security at the consulate prior to the staged kidnapping, former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty disobeyed direct orders to stand down, saved American lives, single-handedly killed scores of attackers…and the attackers, believing that Obama had betrayed them, tortured Ambassador Chris Stevens and dragged his body through the streets.
Some will say that Admiral Lyons’ accusation is not a smoking gun. We agree; that’s exactly why Congress must investigate Benghazi-gate.
Moreover, we firmly believe the problem with Admiral Lyons’ assertion is that he is only scratching the surface; the full and complete truth may be much, much worse.
Benghazi-gate is not about a bogus YouTube video series of lies. It’s not about the Obama Administration’s foreign policy ineptitude. We are dealing with something much more sinister… something potentially treasonous… and the following questions, posed in an article in The New American, go to the heart of the matter:
1. ”What was the Obama administration’s full role in helping violent Jihadists, self-styled al Qaeda terrorists, and Western-backed “revolutionaries” take over Libya in the first place?
2. Did that half-baked scheme to arm Jihadist leaders, who… had previously fought U.S. troops in Iraq, contribute to the attack, as countless experts and officials have suggested?
3. What was actually going on at the compound in Benghazi, which, as the report states, was never a “consulate” despite establishment media claims?
4. Was Ambassador Stevens recruiting and arming Jihadists and terrorists to wage war on the Syrian regime after what Obama called the “success” in Libya, as a growing body of credible evidence suggests?
5. Why did the administration claim for so long that the attack was just a “protest” over a YouTube video gone awry, even when it knew definitively that was not the case?
6. Was the lack of security at the compound a political ploy to conceal the extent of the lawlessness and utter chaos left in the wake of Obama’s unconstitutional “regime change” war on Libya, as even members of Congress have alleged?”
It’s clear. Benghazi-Gate is only a small piece of a much larger operation, an attempt to conceal what The New American calls “the Obama administration’s full role in helping violent Jihadists and self-styled al Qaeda terrorists.”
Prior to the election Barack Obama continually told us that “Osama bin-Laden is dead and GM is alive”; but the sad truth is that Osama bin-Laden’s organization is alive and well, and the Obama Regime may be giving aid and comfort to this terrorist network.
And prior to the election, Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera pontificated that Republicans shouldn’t “politicize” Benghazi-gate. Swaggering onto the set of Fox and Friends, Rivera bloviated: “I think we have to stop this politicizing.” And Rivera issued the following veiled warning to Republicans: “Do we want to try and influence the election with a tragedy that happened in North Africa?”
Ironic, isn’t it? Barack Obama played politics with the lives of Americans; like Rivera, the media covered Obama’s rear and threatened to accuse anyone and everyone who mentioned it of “playing politics.”
Weak-willed Republicans apparently took Rivera’s threat to heart as Rivera also said that Republican Senators John Barrasso, James Inhofe, and Bob Corker, who all sit on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “all agree that the supercharged atmosphere around the story — prudence dictates that these hearings be postponed until” after the election.
Well, the election has come and gone. Congress now has no excuse. The American people needed the truth before the election; but now that Obama is back in the White House, real conservatives must demand answers.
The American people deserve to have those questions answered; and moreover, the American people deserve justice.
I think this may be a bogus report that Lyons said any such thing. I wanted to find a reputable source for it so I could quote it on my Facebook page for all my Huffpo fan friends, but I can’t find the money quote at all. I went to the Washington Examiner website and looked for Lyons, James Lyons, James A. Lyons, etc., and also looked at search results for Benghazi, and I can’t find this supposed article that this blogger took the Lyons “quotes” from. I did find a very good op-ed by Lyons at this URL: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/11/the-key-benghazi-questions-still-unanswered/ — but it doesn’t say what the article here says that he said. Has anyone else tried to validate this report? Thanks!
Steve King
We need to take responsibility as card carrying members of the New Media get off our asses and do shit.
Also, conservatism IS civilization. Liberalism is chaos, violence and intimidation. If you imitate the enemy you are no better than he. The path to winning is by taking away the MSM’s money. Brilliant stuff here. We need an overall plan to take down the msm/DBM/ dnc and the socialists dems. Shooting at our own guys is not the plan.
Pinging, but at this point, I am not sure why.
Thanks for your service.
Keep the faith, Mesta.
It must be frustrating to keep an eye out for all the info, and see how many in our elected .gov prefer to be blind, dumb, and deaf.
All we can do is pray for justice, and keep track of the truth, so far as we can find it.
Now in his last “legal” term of office, I don’t think Obama has anything to lose by starting a war in our country.I also believe he thinks his side would win.
I think there might be more the story then this.
I truly believe the only way to remove Obama and his thugs is our military. Our politicians, justices are not doing their job.
Rita, see my second post on this, #41. I don’t think Lyons said any such thing (though he did say some other stuff worth repeating, at the link I cite). I think this report is bogus.
This might give you some of the answers to what was being discussed in Benghazi. It is my guess that the final dispositions of the Saudi weapons were being discussed in Benghazi and that is the reason that the meeting was not held at the embassy.
The Reagan and Bush administrations have Obama Administration has denied the allegations.
In announcing the probe, House Speaker Thomas Foley, D-Wash. John Boehner (R-Ohio) . . . said that committees . . . will review the case based on `persistent and disturbing' reports.
`We have no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, but the seriousness of these allegations, and the weight of circumstantial information, compel an effort to establish the facts,' read a joint statement from Foley Boehner . . .
The president raised the specter of political motives, but said that he did not think the . . . Democratic Republican leaders intended to conduct such a proceeding.
`If they're got some evidence, and it's hard evidence and not just based on outrageously flimsy sources, fine,' said Bush Obama, adding that he hoped the affair would not develop into a `wild goose chase.'
"I agree with the President," said Speaker Boehner. "The case is closed."
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