Posted on 05/05/2013 6:28:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard has a must read column regarding the Benghazi cover-up by White House officials CIA career officials clearly and repeatedly identified Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda-linked Islamic terrorists as the culprits behind the murder of four Americans.
Of course, this would cause embarrassment for the Obama team, especially in the few weeks before the election. They had been boasting for years that Al Qaeda had been decimated, the "tide of war" was receding; they had been on a mission to whitewash the prospect of Islamic terrorism as a threat to America (see Lauri Regan's superb column ("Can a President who has promised to stand with Muslims protect America? ). Obama's Cairo speech before an audience that included Muslim Brotherhood officials that he compelled Egypt to include, was a paean to Islam. It was also, to a great extent, a work of fiction that included grandiose and subsequently disproven claims about the positive contributions Islam has made to America and the world.
That speech was written by Obama's foreign policy speechwriter and now National Security Council team member, Ben Rhodes.
That is the man who Hayes "outs" as a key person behind the Benghazi cover-up.
He reportedly altered the CIA talking points to delete references to Islamic terrorists, "attacks" (they became "demonstrations") and other negative references to Islamism. Also, someone at the White House level apparently dreamt up the idea of blaming an inconsequential video for triggering a spontaneous protest, that in the frenzy of events, led to the murder of Americans. These CIA talking points were eviscerated to whitewash the role of Islamic terrorism.
There was a White House whitewash that should not be dismissed over events that occurred a 'long time ago;"
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Sheeeeyit. That description fits our flabby old Socialist Muslim president himself.
It's simple. He wrote/writes what John O. Brennan wanted/wants him to write.
He’ll make a great ‘fall guy’ .....
my thoughts exactly.
Crappy title. Ben Rhodes most likely is NOT the "man behind the cover-up". More likely he's the fall guy for the cover-up.
Ed Laskey should be more careful with his deceptive title. But then again Lasky is an NPR/Newsweek/NY Times favorite.
Cozy, isn’t it?
Is some Republican going to say that the lessons of Benghazi, however ‘long ago’ and however much it may or may not ‘matter now,’ is that it could happen again and again and again at any moment so long as our government’s decision makers - our President, Secretary of State, National Security Advisor and Central Intelligence Director - are more interested in protecting Islam than they are in protecting Americans.
Wrong. The man behind the coverup is OBAMA! Rhodes might be the mechanic but Zero is driving this pile of u no what.
More like the triumvirate of Obama, Jarret and Axelrod.
Not CAN he, but WILL he.
We all know the answer to that ...(Say that louder> ......... NO!!!
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