Thanks to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information suit, we
now may definitively answer the question “Who knew what and when did they know
it?” concerning the attack on the American Embassy compound in Benghazi, Libya.
American Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other heroic Americans died in the terrorist assault on the U.S. consulate in
Benghazi on September 11, 2012.
Almost immediately after the 9/11 assault on the compound,
the attack was attributed by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President
Barrack Obama and, most conspicuously, UN Ambassador Susan Rice to an obscure,
poorly produced video that had insulted Mohammed, Islam’s warrior prophet,
peace be upon him.
These assertions were not only false; they were politically
expedient. At the time of the 9/11 attack on the American compound -- a date of
great significance to the enemies of the Great Satan, Iran most voluble among them – the Obama administration was in the midst of
a re-election campaign, which had advanced the notion that al-Qaida had been
dealt a crippling blow following the assassination of Sheikh Osama bin Laden.
Subsequent events have shown this intentional misreading of events to be highly
fanciful.
The documents uncovered by Judicial Watch demonstrate:
The attack on the compound, well-organized 10 days before
the assault, was not even remotely related to the video that loomed so large in
the Obama administrations’ multiple renderings of the deadly assault. And, more
importantly, the documents show that U.S. Intelligence agencies were fully
aware that weapons were moving from the terrorist stronghold in Libya to Syria
before the attack. While acknowledging that the CIA was monitoring the movement
of weapons,
To put the inconvenient truth in precise terms: An October
12, 2012 memo that surfaced during Judicial Watch’s FOI suit shows that the CIA was monitoring a Benghazi to Syria
gun-running operation ten or more days BEFORE the attack on the U.S. consulate
in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 that killed Ambassador Stevens and 3
other Americans. In an interview with Fox’s Bret Baier, former acting CIA
Director Mike Morell acknowledged that the CIA, while not directly involved in
the shipments, had been monitoring the transfer of arms and missiles. He
refrained from identifying the gun-runners.
It is becoming plain that Libya is the Democrat’s Iraq.
The usual Democratic line on Iraq is that President George Bush should not have
ousted the insufferable Saddam Hussein and, by so doing, he opened a terrorist
Pandora’s Box in the Middle East. The overthrow of Muammar
Gaddafi in Libya, the Clinton-Obama project, presents the same
scenario. Moreover, before Gaddafi was offed by the Clinton-Obama hit squad, he
had shown signs of mending his eccentric ways; for instance, Gaddafi had
voluntarily destroyed all his chemical weapons. The Middle East now is a mess
of major proportions because the Obama administration and its twinkling foreign
policy star, Hillary Clinton, had decided to transfer the military might of the
United States from Iraq, George Bush’s “war of choice,” to Afghanistan, Barack
Obama’s “war of necessity” – all this to fulfill Mr. Obama’s campaign promises.
Shortly after Mrs. Clinton surrendered her Middle East
portfolio to present Secretary of State John Kerry, Vietnam’s Winter Soldier, Mr. Obama surrendered his Middle East portfolio to President Vladimir
Putin, the butcher of Ukraine. This means that the future of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East will be determined by Mr. Putin and his clients, among them Iran and Bashir Assad's Syria.
It is said that Mr. Malloy, weary of the mess in his own
state, is angling for a position in the new Clinton administration, perhaps
Secretary of Gun Control. Mr. Murphy – who, along with U.S. Senator Dick
Blumenthal, Connecticut’s first consumer protection Congressman, energetically
supported Mr. Obama’s unsigned and unverifiable anti-Israeli pact with Iran –
appears to be happy where he is. The Iran-Obama pact suspended a viable economic embargo against Iran, one of Mr. Putin's new Middle East satellite states, and opened the tap to billions of Western dollars, some of which doubtless will be used to purchase more offensive missile capabilities from both Mr. Putin and Communist China.
Mr. Obama's Middle East foreign policy is beginning to take on the appearance of a Keystone Cops intervention. Mr. Obama will hand over his mess to the next president, possibly Mrs. Clinton, whose campaign in Iowa last week received two new recruits, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy and Governor of Connecticut Dannel Malloy.
On past occasions, whenever Democratic presidential
nominees have carried Connecticut, the party’s U.S Senate nominees also have
been swept into office, a pattern unbroken since 1940. That pattern has held
firm in 16 out of 19 contests, 84 percent of the time—reason enough for Mr. Malloy and Mr. Murphy to support
a candidate for President hobbled by several Achilles Heels.
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