If Benghazi is a "Side Show" Harry Reid and Jay Carney are the Clowns

Bing West at National Review has a very compelling piece on Benghazi in response to former secretary of defense Bob Gates who on Sunday launched a defense of the Obama administration's lack of response to Benghazi.

The administration is sticking with its "Benghazi is just a circus put on by the Republicans" line, right down to Sen. Harry Reid who today continued to claim that the Republicans are only interested in giving Obama a black eye and taking shots at Hillary Clinton which is why they are trying to find out why four Americans were killed and nobody has been brought to justice.  Reid also continued to blame the Republicans for refusing to fund embassy security, a lie which has been totally debunked by Charlotte Lamb and also here in this Heritage Foundation report.

If Benghaz is a side show, Harry Reid and Jay Carney are the clowns.

On Sunday, Mr. Gates claimed that sending the military in "without having any intelligence in terms of what is actually going on on the ground would have been very dangerous."

From Mr. West's post:

Let’s do a quick review: The CIA did send in seven fighters; four special-forces soldiers in Tripoli were ordered not to pitch in; the Marines on Sigonella wanted to help; and there was nothing more to face than a mob inspired by a video (accoridng [sic] to the administration). But for the Pentagon, the risk was just too great. 

Message to those who were already fighting on the ground in Benghazi: You are on your own. SecDef believes it’s “very dangerous” to go into combat.

I'm not sure what more intelligence was necessary besides the real-time video they had at the Defense Department combined with Greg Hicks on the phone with Hillary Clinton at 2:00 reporting that Ambassador Stevens said they were "under attack."

Are we to assume that our military is no more flexible than that?

What signal does that send to the world?  Go ahead and attack wherever you like because the military needs time to prepare a response, so you can attack freely, or as Jay Carney might say, in an "unfettered" manner.

Any military veterans out there care to respond?

Pathetic.

Read the whole thing.

The Benghazi Dam is About to Break

I watched the Benghazi whistle-blowers testimony this week.  Greg Hicks testified that when he heard Susan Rice blame the terrorist attack on a YouTube video his "jaw dropped."  He couldn't believe it.  My jaw dropped when I listened to Mr. Hicks recount, minute by minute, what happened on September 11, 2012 in Benghazi.  I couldn't believe it.

It was emotional and moving testimony.  He fought back tears and emotion several times.  Reading the transcript of his words doesn't seem to convey the raw wounds Mr. Hicks still carries:



When I heard this testimony, what I heard was a career diplomat deliver an honest account of what he saw and heard that night.  I didn't hear a "bitter" man trying to even a score.  He was there.  

Between the whistle-blower's testimony, and ABC News finally following Stephen Hayes's lead in exposing the revision process of the talking points, Jay Carney was spinning like a top at today's press briefing.

In typical Carney fashion, he blames Mitt Romney for "politicizing" Benghazi while at the same time taking a swipe at George Bush.  Laughable.

What has always interested me, more than the cover-up of a terrorist attack two months before the presidential election, has been the lack of security at the post in Benghazi in the first place.  Why would you entrust security to forces associated with the opposition?  Why was security reduced and why was Stevens's request for more security denied?

Perhaps Mark Steyn sums it up best, his outrage palpable, in talking about Ambassador Stevens:

 I cannot conceive of how empty and dead you have to be inside to put Ambassador Stevens through that, then leave him to die, and all the nonsense we heard about oh, they couldn’t have got there in time? Oh, really? You had, it’s like a football match, is it? It’s like a football game, you’ve got an end time, you know they’re all going to pack up and go home at 5:00 in the morning or whatever? They didn’t know how long it was going to last. They left him to die. 

How empty and dead indeed.  The value of human life doesn't seem to mean much to them.

In all the political spin it is important to remember the human cost.

Word is that more whistle-blowers may be coming forward.  It seems like this story is about to blow wide open.   Let's hope the answers are revealed and the truth comes out in this tragic, shameful event.

This is NOT a Campaign Bus!

This...

... is NOT a campaign bus!

It's just Obama "out here doing his job and meeting with the American people.”


And when Obama jabs at Mitt Romney saying things like:

“You got a governor who is running for president. … It’s like [he’s] got amnesia.” He even mimicked Romney: “Oh, this is terrible! This is going to take away freedoms!”

He's not on the campaign stump!  He's going...

"...out in the country and engage with the American people, have discussions about the economy and other policy issues.”

So says Jay Carney, anway. 

What say you?