Benghazi: It’s worse than an injustice, it’s a humiliation
While the Obama administration has not publicly drawn a connection between the terrorist groups that assaulted the U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi and Tunis, others have. In early January, for instance, Al-Hayat (an Arabic paper in London) reported that members of Ansar al Sharia Tunisia travel to Libya to receive extensive terrorist training in camps “under the supervision of” Ansar al Sharia Libya. Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has seen enough evidence to conclude that the two Ansar al Sharias are effectively the “same organization.”
We are left, then, with an uncomfortable set of facts. Despite its many promises, after four months of a criminal investigation, the U.S. government has made little progress on bringing the Benghazi attackers to justice. The Obama administration, which came to office trumpeting “smart power,” has shown itself unable to produce cooperation even from governments receiving vast sums of aid from the United States without congressional threats. And now, the same terrorist organizations that supplied the attackers for the assaults on American facilities in Benghazi and Tunis are openly threatening FBI investigators and celebrating the release of one of the few suspects in the 9/11/12 attacks.
That’s not justice, it’s humiliation.
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All the premises are wrong.
Obama owns the Arab’Spring’.
He and his brothers love it.
Schadenfreude on January 19, 2013 at 4:01 PM
I wish the republicans would hold a presser on Benghazi with Ambassador Steven’s gravestone as the backdrop.
Oh my, the media would go ballistic.
fogw on January 19, 2013 at 4:04 PM
Treason, high crimes and misdemeanors.
Flange on January 19, 2013 at 4:10 PM
It’s not possible to humiliate people who are as shameless (and clueless) as Obama, Hillary Clinton, Valerie Jarrett, Susan Rice, Susan Power, etc.
AZCoyote on January 19, 2013 at 4:22 PM
No it is simple stupidity. Did you go hunting down names of every German that took a shot at you in WW2? No it was more expedient to destroy the ideology that made them shoot at you. There is a message there but not for the retarded obviously.
BL@KBIRD on January 19, 2013 at 4:32 PM
His leftard family would sue them.
Schadenfreude on January 19, 2013 at 4:35 PM
Decency: http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/bizarre&id=8959941
davidk on January 19, 2013 at 5:10 PM
Where are the survivors?
davidk on January 19, 2013 at 5:11 PM
yeah they’re working super hard to investigate i’m sure./
that’s what i was going to say too. more people need to ask this question. there were 30 or so survivors, right? isn’t it creepy that we haven’t heard from a single one? and almost no one’s asking about it?
they know what happened that night.
are these people being paid to keep quiet? are they threatened? is there some other reason that none of them want to come forward and give a detailed account of what happened?
Sachiko on January 19, 2013 at 5:32 PM
And yet idiots are trumpeting Hillary Clinton as presidential caliber.
She may be re-inventing herself via plastic surgery and haircuts, more than likely disguised as blood clots caused by a fall, but her tenure as shaped by Obysmal policy is a failure all around. Not only are Islamists emboldened, but so is Putin.
A woman on Hannity’s radio program, Brigitte (sp?) Somebody or Other, an expert on Islam and terrorism, said that on September 11, while attacks on the Benghazi “consulate” and the Egyptian embassy were taking place, there were assorted attacks on American embassies and interest going on worldwide. The media did not do much to make the public aware of these affronts and atrocities, so busy were they in protecting Obysmal prior to the election.
onlineanalyst on January 19, 2013 at 5:51 PM
My guess is that the survivors work for the CIA or other intelligence assets and that their identity should be protected. (That factor has not prevented the slippery Obysmal administration from leaking information nor the treasonous media from reporting such information in the past.)
onlineanalyst on January 19, 2013 at 5:56 PM
The cynic in me wonders ‘are there any?’
Four dead is a speed bump; thirty-four can’t be covered up, even by our excuse for a media…
affenhauer on January 19, 2013 at 6:00 PM
yeah that’s true. i was thinking it might be “classified information” or something. but, this is one time where so-called “classified information” really should be exposed to the public.
i hope there are survivors! if not then i wonder where the reports came from that there were so many survivors.
Sachiko on January 19, 2013 at 6:55 PM