THE SMOKING GUNS

 

Benghazi has been and continues to be a scandal trifecta. 

 

There is the scandal of why the Consulate in Benghazi was not reinforced with adequate security despite a rapidly deteriorating security situation and despite repeated requests from military, diplomatic and security officials inside and outside the State Department.  Those questions have been largely answered due to the callous indifference and incompetence of the State Department and Hillary Clinton. 

 

 

The second scandal is why there was no attempt to come to the aid of both diplomatic and CIA personnel once the attack began.

 

 

The third scandal is what various elements of the US government did and said, subsequent to the attack, to explain to the American people what happened, why it happened and who was responsible.

 

 

On April 30, the release to Judicial Watch, via a FOIA related Federal law suit,  of  e-mails from Ben Rhodes, White House Deputy National Security Adviser for Communications, provides proof that the story of a YouTube video as the cause of the Benghazi attack was bogus and was an attempt to give cover to the President seven weeks before the November 2012 election.

 

 

 In an email he sent to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice the evening before her five Sunday news show appearances,  Rhodes states the "goal" of the cover story is "to underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy."  Additionally Rhodes wrote that the video narrative was intended "to reinforce the President and Administration's strength and steadiness in dealing with difficult challenges."

 

 

These e-mails implicate both the President, his immediate staff and Hillary Clinton who in the aftermath of the attack was persistent in reiterating that the US had no part in  the production of this video and went so far to promise the father of one of the victims, that the US would punish those responsible for the video.  Shortly after, when violence in the Middle East was raging,Obama and Clinton spent $70,000 in taxpayer money on a commercial that aired on Pakistani television apologizing for the "video".

 

 

On May 1,  Retired Brig. Gen. Robert Lovell, who at the time of the attacks was the intelligence director at AFRICOM, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that "The point is we should have tried," to aid those under attack in Benghazi and,  "As another saying goes -- always move to the sound of the guns." 


He later testified that the military "could have made a response of some sort." and made clear repeatedly that the military was waiting for clearance to intervene, which never came, from the State Department and Hillary Clinton .  He also declared that at 3:15 AM on September 12, 2012,  AFRICOM knew it was an attack and not a demonstration and that the video had nothing to do with it.  Despite this Obama, Clinton, Rice, Carney and others maintained this fiction publicly, for another two weeks.


The e-mails now show the duplicity and possible criminal actions of both  the Obama White House and Hillary Clinton.  It is also inconceivable that the President himself did not know or even approve this cover up, coming so close to Election day.  Moreover where was he while the attack was going on?

 

The Obama 2012 campaign was built on a foundation of lies, first about ObamaCare and now about Benghazi.  Why should the American public give this disingenuous President the benefit of the doubt on the IRS scandal, Fast and Furious, the AP/James Rosen scandal, the economy and the NSA.  The only question left to answer is the motives of this President who persistently hurts and lies to the nation.

 

Hillary Clinton is simply, once and for all, unfit to be elected to any office... much less the Presidency.

 

ERLANDSSON