Posted on 08/03/2016 7:38:59 AM PDT by Perseverando
Looking ahead to the next installment of e-mails from WikiLeaks
As U.S. armed forces attack ISIS in Libya, WikiLeaks is poised to remind us that ISIS is in Libya indeed, that ISIS is ISIS thanks to disastrous policies championed by Hillary Clinton as President Obamas secretary of state. Also raised, yet again, is the specter of Mrs. Clintons lying to Congress and the American people this time regarding a matter some of us have been trying for years to get answers about: What mission was so important the United States kept personnel in the jihadist hellhole of Benghazi in 2012?
Specifically, did that mission involve arming the Syrian rebels including al-Qaeda and forces that became ISIS just as, at Mrs. Clintons urging, our government had armed Libyan rebels (again, jihadists) to catastrophic effect?
It has been less than two weeks since WikiLeaks rocked the Clinton campaign on the eve of the Democratic convention by leaking hacked e-mails illuminating DNC efforts to rig the nomination chase in Clintons favor. Now the organizations founder, Julian Assange, has announced that WikiLeaks is soon to publish highly sensitive government e-mails that demonstrate Hillary Clintons key participation in efforts to arm jihadists in Syria. Just as in Libya, where Mrs. Clinton championed the strategy of arming Islamist rebels, the Syrian rebels who ultimately received weapons included the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, and ISIS.
The Daily Wire and other outlets are reporting on Assanges comments, published by Democracy Now. Clearly, we should not take Assanges word for what is to be gleaned from the hacked records, which he says include some 17,000 e-mails about Libya alone. Lets see if he has what he says he has. But it is worth setting the stage, because
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Agree completely.
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