Panetta is a foggy bottom todie from way back, in addition to being a very “useful idiot” for some very well known California Marxists his whole “public service” career.
A few days ago he was promoting the line (FOR the White House) that they lacked sufficient Intel to act.
Now that claim has been morphed into a claim of too much risk to act.
The former can be held to be a cause of the latter, but most likely, from the evidence so far, only if the risk of ANY casualities by the rescuers was too much risk on the basis of a ton of second guessing about what was not known, in addition to what was known.
If zero casualties by the rescuers was the risk that was too high, then that as much as said the lives of the victims of the attack were not worth ANY rescue effort, or even any aid in their defense, because THAT, AID IN THEIR DEFENSE, NOT “rescue” necessarily was what they were asking for. In fact some of the best available assistance that was not brought to their aid was assistance from the air, to blast the nests of the attackers around our victims, so that they might even have a chance of pulling themselves away from the area.
Someone said no.
Who EXACTLY said NO and WHO had the final approval of that and who even later accepted that call as O.K.
Those are the questions every American should expect answers to.
What cannot be argued any more now that Panetta has claimed that the risk was too great to act, is the following:
- The administration lied beginning THREE DAYS LATER when they said this was a spontaneous demonstration caused by a youtube video.
- It was not only a lie, it was a deliberate lie.
- It was not only a deliberate lie, it was a persistent, deliberate lie.
- It was not only a persistent, deliberate lie, the lie was told multiple times by multiple people - including the President himself - for weeks.
- It was not only a persistent, deliberate lie told for weeks by multiple people, but it was told directly to the American people and to the world after numerous other sources across the spectrum were saying the opposite.
- Not only was it all that, but they also found a scapegoat - an American citizen exercising his first Amendment rights - and jailed him for it.
- Then, with malice and forethought, released an ad paid for with taxpayer dollars to the entire world scapegoating the helpless US citizen they knowingly jailed for cynical and nefarious reasons.
There is no cover for this. The President and his Administration, for whatever reason, lied deliberately and persistently for two weeks, scapegoated a US citizen to the world, and now want to run out the clock due to this nonsense about "let's wait until we have all the facts." BALONEY! You did not mind yourself to wait for all the facts before you jailed and scapegoated this US citizen!!! These guys should be IMPEACHED, NOW!!!!