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CBS News is reporting that it was the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence that purged references
to “al Qaeda” and “terrorism” from talking points given to Susan Rice,
the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Rice used those talking
points to promote the lie that the Benghazi massacre resulted from a
spontaneous mob protest rather than a planned terrorist attack. CBS adds
that the CIA and FBI signed off on this false version of events.
This is all farce, of course. There being
no more honor among con-men than among thieves, there comes a time in
all busted conspiracies when the conspirators start pointing fingers at
each other. With their guy safely reelected, this spectacle has finally
drawn the Obamedia’s attention to the president’s Benghazi travesty.
Let’s not get lost here. It is critical to step back and bear two things
in mind:
(a) All of the players here, including Obama and Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton (both of whom the CBS report purports to absolve), are
guilty of conspiracy — in this case, to mislead Americans about the
cause of the attack and to aid the administration’s Islamist allies,
whose objective is to impose sharia blasphemy standards on our country
(a project on which the Obama administration has been colluding with the
Organization of Islamic Cooperation since 2009). It was not for their
own benefit that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and
Rice were, respectively, doctoring talking points and using them to
create a false impression. Obama was the intended beneficiary. Patently the White House
— which pitched Rice to the Sunday shows because Obama wanted to get
the Mohammed-movie talking points publicly aired — was in the loop.
(b) Given that the conspiracy is a
cover-up, there is the more salient matter of what is being covered up?
The brain-dead mantra in Washington is always — all together now — “The
cover-up is worse than the crime.” That is not true here. To be sure, it
is very serious that Rice was sent out to trumpet the false narrative;
that Clapper apparently orchestrated the purge of information about
al-Qaeda’s complicity; and that a compromised General David Petraeus
appears to have knowingly misled Congress (that’s a felony) in his
initial briefing about Benghazi on September 14. They and others
involved in the cover-up should have a day of reckoning. But vastly more
significant is what the administration was and is so desperate to
obscure by the cover-up.
There are three areas of great concern:
1. The Benghazi attack was the natural result of Obama’s Libya policy.
Four Americans were killed in Benghazi as a
direct result of President Obama’s unprovoked and, I believe,
unconstitutional war in Libya. This foolish gambit had the easily
foreseeable result of empowering Islamists, very much including violent
jihadists who now have access to much of the Qaddafi arsenal, in
addition to other arms and training they received from the U.S. and NATO
in the mission to overthrow Qaddafi (then, an American ally).
Read More at PJ Media . By Andrew C. McCarthy.
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