White House struggles to respond to new Benghazi revelations

Washington Times ^ | 5-9-13

[JohnHuang2]

The White House on Wednesday stood by its story that the Obama administration remained unsure exactly who was responsible for the attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi nearly five days after it occurred even though new revelations show Ansar al-Sharia’s direct involvement.

Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya and a self-described whistleblower, testified before a Congressional committee Wednesday that the body of Ambassador J. Christpher Stevens was missing for hours during the attack after being dragged out of the diplomatic post in Benghazi.

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The Benghazi hearing today provided vivid evidence that the only way Obama would've seriously considered military intervention is if one of the people at the consulate was named "Jason Collins".

According to Democrats, there was nothing the most powerful military in the world could have done to stop a bunch of heavily armed movie critics in Benghazi.

Democrats were all over the airwaves complaining hysterically that today's hearing was a waste of time because there were no new revelations. They did this not long after the hearing began.

Democrat Rep. Matt Cartwright insisted "there was nothing new today. There was nothing today that we didn't already know about."

Democrat Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger claimed "Most of the information I've heard so far is not new."

At the hearing, Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings defended Obama's lack of a response to the Benghazi attacks. He insisted Obama had to allow Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans to get killed because U.S. forces were too far away to intervene in time -- a claim already thoroughly discredited since military assets were close enough to repel the second wave of terrorist attacks (or, as Obama insisted at the time, premeditated movie protests).

(Cummings's stance is a variation on the theme, "What difference does it make?" -- which will be Hillary's exciting 2016 campaign message.)

In fact, among the 'no new revelations' revealed at the hearing, whistleblower Gregory Hicks said that special forces were "furious" when ordered to stand down in response to the Benghazi attacks. Hicks was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya.

Another new non-revelation revelation was an email sent the day after the attacks from State Dept. honcho Beth Jones, indicating the hail of bullets, grenade attacks and the burning down of the consulate was not an organized film protest.

According to Jones, "The group that conducted the attacks, Ansar al-Sharia, is affiliated with Islamic terrorists."

More:

-- Hicks testified that the administration's false claim that a non-existent movie caused movie-goers to go bananas with grenades hampered the FBI's probe of the attack.

-- Whistleblower Mark Thompson, acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Counterterrorism, told the committee that no one from the Accountability Review Board, most of whose members were appointed by Hillary to investigate Hillary & co., had interviewed him.

-- During the course of the FBI's exhaustive investigation of the attack, Gregory Hicks wasn't interviewed either.

-- Hicks also said that Hillary's chief of staff was furious at Hicks for cooperating in the investigation with a Republican Congressman, primarily on the grounds that the Congressman was a Republican.

At the time the media first installed Obama into office four-plus years ago, no one would have thought it a good bet that the crusading anti-Watergate set would happily don their clean-up crew uniforms, but here it is: "Benghazi: Incompetence but no cover-up". The National Journal article title serves as a proxy for the broader media response to Benghazi. Biden's 2016 slogan: "We're not criminals, we're just incompetent!" And if that doesn't work, there's always the pithy, "Death is a part of life: So what difference does it make?"

Good luck selling either of those.

Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"

[1010RD]

Obama and Co. aren’t stupid. They’re master manipulators, so the truth must be so bad that dumb lies and looking utterly inept is better. We need to keep digging on this.