What a Tangled Web We Weave…

There was a bit of humor in the way Fox news presented the story of the Petraeus -Broadwell affair.  They said that “Broadwell was embedded in Petraeus unit”.  I would say that they had that backwards.

But the idea of this compromising relationship is not funny.  It opens two possible threats to national security.  First, the head of the CIA made himself more vulnerable to blackmail.  Second, secrets may be shared with the mistress that the mistress inadvertently shares.

There is breaking news tonight that the second threat happened in this case; state secrets were shared.  In this case it is partly a threat to national security but mostly a threat to the pack of lies promulgated by the administration.. Broadwell spoke at a University of Denver alumni Symposium last month and said,

“Now I don’t know if a lot of you heard this, but the CIA annex had actually had taken a couple of Libya militia members prisoner. And they think that the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back.”

This is stunning information.  Do Hillary and Obama have a secret prison there?  Do you mean the attack wasn’t about a YouTube video? Golly.  Who knew.

About That Investigation…

The President has said that he has ordered a “very thorough” investigation of our Benghazi response.  He said that no one wants to get to the bottom of this more than he does.

Yesterday, the President’s press secretary, Jay Carney, was asked if the President was involved at all in the investigation.

 

 

Carney said:

“He has not participated in the investigation. He is anticipating results that show us exactly what happened and who is responsible and what lessons we can learn from it and ensure it never happens again. He expects the investigation to be rigorous.”

What did the President do on the night of September 11?  In the evening meeting in the situation room, what orders did he give?  What requests for help did he deny? Were heroes Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty still fighting for their lives when he went to bed?  Who invented the “demonstration that got out of hand” story?  Who asked Susan Rice, Jay Carney and others to repeat that absurd lie?  Who is managing the cover-up at this point?  Who is orchestrating the lies and deception?

Be honest, Jay.  The President does not need an investigation to know what he did.  He already knows “exactly what happened and who is responsible”.   And despite all the attempts by you and the other media lackeys to hide the truth, many Americans have a pretty good idea of who is responsible for this disaster.

It’s just one more thing that will motivate us to get to the polls on Tuesday. Just wait and see.

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Greta talks to an angry ex-Marine -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gXb_QL-I1kw

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Karin McQuillan has a good summary of some of the more blatant Benghazi lies.  The following excerpt begins with a damning quote from Obama:

… the minute I found out what was happening, I gave three very clear directives. Number one, make sure that we are securing our personnel and doing whatever we need to. … I guarantee you that everyone in the state department, our military, the CIA, you name it, had number-one priority making sure that people were safe.

This is the blatant lie that condemns the liar.  The president says here that immediately, “the minute I found out what was happening,” he gave the order to the military, the CIA, to everyone, to secure our personnel in Benghazi and do “whatever we need to.”

Yet the undeniable fact is that nothing was done.  We know that the CIA security agent in Benghazi, Tyrone Woods, asked for permission to rescue Ambassador Stevens when Stevens was still alive and in the safe room.  Woods was told twice by the CIA to stand down.  He then disobeyed direct orders and rescued the survivors at the consulate, but it was too late for Stevens and Sean Smith.

Secretary of Defense Panetta tells us the military had gunships and Special Forces less than two hours away in Sicily but felt it was too “risky” to send in reinforcements or air cover.  It would have been normal military procedure to pre-position air cover and assets from Sicily to Benghazi, but Panetta says this was not done.  The air support and FAST platoons, we are told, were left in Sicily.  All the U.S. military did was send two unarmed drones to observe the battle.

So if President Obama is not lying about his directives, he is saying that the CIA and the Defense Department and our military chain of command disobeyed the direct order of our commander in chief to do everything in their power to rescue our people under attack in Benghazi.  And that as commander in chief, Obama did nothing in response to their dereliction of duty.

That doesn’t happen.  No one believes that; the president is lying.  He did not issue directives to the CIA, our military, and State to “secure our personnel” and “do whatever we need to do.”

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Note:  The image at the top was created by a military special ops group.  They posted it to Facebook and Facebook took it down.  They posted it again, and Facebook took it down again.  After a huge number of complaints, Facebook reversed their censorship.

Twitter also intervened to censor political speech.  Several hashtags about Benghazi and the cover-up were blocked.  It is very disturbing to see information managers like Facebook and Twitter intervening to censor political opinions.

Hurricane Sandy: Obama’s Blessing in Disguise

Until the past 48h., things were not looking too good for the President’s reelection hopes. The swing-state momentum was firmly behind Romney, who saw polls putting him even with Obama in Democratic strongholds like Pennsylvania and Michigan.  Not only was Romney riding off of strong debate performances, but a few incredibly negative news stories were starting to develop…

On the domestic front, a story about Chrysler, one of Obama’s marquee bailout achievements, was starting to develop about Fiat’s new decision to move manufacturing of the Jeep to Italy from the US.  One could not ask for a more stark and convincing example of poor government management of private industry resulting in the off-shoring of American jobs.

Obama’s bigger worries, however, were coming from a story that cast doubt on his leadership in foreign affairs.  The story of what happened in Benghazi gets worse by the day, and revelations over the weekend depict a White House that willfully hung our SEALs and Libya ambassador out to dry when action meant tough political decisions.  The story makes Bush’s 11th hour DUI revelation look like a formal letter of recommendation from the UN, but all media outlets not owned by Newscorp refuse to cover it.  Just when the Benghazi story took a turn for the worse, Hurricane Sandy came to the rescue.

Rather than watching President Obama struggle to answer this:

The press got to show Obama act Presidential:

I’ll let Mr. Krauthammer take it from here…