If anyone
ever thought Barack Obama has a conscience, last week’s Congressional hearings on the September 11,
2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya should remove all doubt.
The Obama
Administration, from the President on down, spent weeks proclaiming the raid on
the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya was the result of a spontaneous riot
caused by an anti-Muslim video no one ever saw.
The original CIA
talking points memo was blunt: The assault in Benghazi was a terrorist attack
by Islamic extremists, including some with ties to al Qaeda.
The CIA is known to
qualify assessments in its analysis when providing policymakers conclusions
with “high confidence,” “moderate confidence,” or “low confidence.” The first
draft had no such qualified assessments and essentially offered certainty
language. “We do know that Islamic extremists with ties to al Qaeda
participated in the attack.”
Why the certainty?
Within 24 hours of the attack, intercepted communications between al
Qaeda-linked terrorists discussed the attacks.
The CIA station chief in Libya sent a memo to Washington reporting that eyewitnesses knew there were
known jihadists with ties to al Qaeda participating in the attacks.
. U.N. Ambassador
Susan Rice went on five Sunday talk shows six days after the attack to
emphasize the claim that the video was the proximate cause of the attack.
During this
week’s Congressional hearings it became clear that no one on the ground in
Benghazi thought the video was the culprit in the attack.
The talking
points Rice relied upon have been shown to have been modified at least 12 times
before being used.
ABC News'
Jonathan Karl revealed he uncovered the revised talking points script relating
to the terrorist attack.
While White
House chief liar, Jay Carney, and other administration prevaricators repeatedly proclaimed the talking points were
crafted by the CIA and the intelligence community, it is clear that the State
Department did, in fact, play a key role in the changes.
When
confronted with the changing talking points, Carney insisted that only one word
was changed and it was only stylistic.
The first
memo, dated September 14 at 11:15 a.m., bluntly stated that Islamic extremists
with ties to al Qaeda participated in the attack and referenced five other
attacks against foreign interests in Benghazi, including an attack against the
British Ambassador’s convoy in June.
By the time
the final talking points were fashioned 24 hours later, al Qaeda is not mentioned nor are the other five other
attacks, nor the attack on the Brithish Ambassador’s convoy. Even though the claim was almost immediately recognized to be false, Administration officials clung onto the fiction.
In a time
for courage, Obama and the boys demonstrated they had none.
When
decisive action was required, Obama went to sleep in anticipation of his trip
to Las Vegas for a fund-raiser.
Sean Smith,
Ambassador Chris Stevens, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty were killed during the attack.
During
today’s press conference Obama was asked
about the changes in the memo and how the administration misled the public
about the attack.
In typical
Obama fashion, he bristled at any questioning of anything occurring in his
administration. “There’s no there there.” According to today’s version, all of
the information offered during last week’s Congressional hearings was revealed
within three days of the attack.
A real
journalist would have followed up with the question: “You just said within
three days your administration told the country that the attack was by al Qaeda
but six days after the attack your
spokesman Jay Carney, your UN Ambassador Susan Rice, and your Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, and you were blaming the attack on a movie.
“Which
version is the truthful one?"
Since there
are no real journalists covering this administration, such an observation was not made and such a question was not asked.
Obama has
demonstrated once again that he has as much compassion as a hungry barracuda.
To the
whistleblowers who testified last week, Obama essentially called them a
political circus.
It is
abundantly clear that the bomb shell testimony by the whistleblowers has caused
panic in the Administration.
It is also
abundantly clear that the admission by the IRS that conservative and Tea Party
organizations were targeted for harassment being released two days after the Congressional hearings was
calculated to get the Benghazi debacle out of the media rotation.
Perhaps
Obama’s lies and his fawning paparazzi media protection of them is finally
being recognized by others who traditionally engage in no critical thinking
when it comes to politics, i.e., no information voters and unengaged Democrat
voters.
It can’t
happen soon enough.
