Slowly but surely the truth is slow leaking out about the tragic events that took place at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi on September 11. And what we're finding out does not portray a pretty picture. We've been lied to pretty much from the very beginning by a man who, instead of running for re-election, should now be facing charges of impeachment. He allowed four Americans to be killed on foreign soil and then lied, repeatedly, about it in an attempt to prevent the American people from discovering just how egregious was his outright negligence that had as it's motivation nothing but pure politics. This is further proof that this man, Barack Hussein Obama, does not deserve the privilege of serving as our president. No man of such low moral character should ever be allowed to serve.
What we are now finding out is that are numerous official emails which show that officials at both the White House and the State Department were advised TWO HOURS after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 and that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack. The emails, obtained by Reuters from government sources not connected with U.S. spy agencies or the State Department and who requested anonymity, specifically mention that the Libyan group called Ansar al-Sharia had asserted responsibility for the attacks. And still our pathetically dishonest president went before the U.N. and continued to repeat the claim six times that it was all some spontaneous attack brought about by a stupid video. A claim that Barry attempted to disavow during the second presidential debate.
The brief emails also show how U.S. diplomats described the attack, even as it was still under way, to Washington. U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other patriotic Americans were murdered in cold blood by these Muslim savages who took part in the Benghazi assault, which Barry "Almighty" and other U.S. officials ultimately, after nearly two weeks, acknowledged was a "terrorist" attack which was carried out by religious militants with suspected links to al Qaeda affiliates or sympathizers. Administration spokesmen, including White House spokesmoron Jay "The Moron" Carney, citing an unclassified assessment prepared by the CIA, maintained for days that the attacks likely were a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim film. Something that they knew was false!
While administration officials did mention the 'possible' involvement of Muslim "extremists," apparently want to keep things as low key as politically possible, they did not seek to lay blame on any specific militant group(s) or possible links to al Qaeda or its affiliates until intelligence officials publicly alleged that fact two weeks later on September 28. There were indications that extremists with possible al Qaeda connections were involved, but also evidence that the attacks could have erupted spontaneously, they claimed, adding that government experts wanted to be cautious about pointing fingers prematurely. U.S. intelligence officials have emphasized since shortly after the attack that early intelligence reporting about the attack was mixed. By all means, we must be careful about pointing fingers at murderers.
I feel quite confident is saying that it should come as no surprise that spokesmen for both the White House and State Department had no immediate, or even not so immediate, response to requests for comments regarding these very revealing emails. I also think it safe to say that if the last four years have shown us anything it's that this team of rather sleazy characters, who are now in charge of things, feels that they have no responsibility, or obligation, to tell us the truth about anything that they don't want to. However, we now know, courtesy of the records obtained by Reuters, that there were at least three emails dispatched by the State Department's Operations Center to multiple government offices, including addresses at the White House, Pentagon, intelligence community and FBI, on the afternoon of September 11.
The first email, which was timed at 4:05 p.m. Washington time - or 10:05 p.m. Benghazi time, 20-30 minutes after the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission allegedly began - carried the subject line "U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi Under Attack" and the notation "SBU", meaning "Sensitive But Unclassified." The text said the State Department's regional security office had reported that the diplomatic mission in Benghazi was "under attack. Embassy in Tripoli reports approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well." The message continued: "Ambassador Stevens, who is currently in Benghazi, and four ... personnel are in the compound safe haven. The 17th of February militia is providing security support."
A second email, headed "Update 1: U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi" and timed 4:54 p.m. Washington time, said that the Embassy in Tripoli had reported that "the firing at the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi had stopped and the compound had been cleared." It said a "response team" was at the site attempting to locate missing personnel. And a third email, also marked SBU and sent at 6:07 p.m. Washington time, carried the subject line: "Update 2: Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack." The message reported: "Embassy Tripoli reports the group claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli."
While some of the information identifying recipients of this message was redacted from copies of the messages obtained by Reuters, a government source said that one of the addresses to which the message was sent was, in fact, the White House Situation Room, the president's secure command post, and one that the very obviously spends very little time in. Other addressees included intelligence and military units as well as one used by the FBI command center, the source said. By the morning of September 12, the day after the Benghazi attack, Reuters reported that there were indications that members of both Ansar al-Sharia, a militia based in the Benghazi area, and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the North African affiliate of al Qaeda, may have been involved in organizing the attacks.
Now as much as I hate to say this, I can't help but wonder if any of this will, in the end, matter to a majority of voters. Are there even enough of us who view such a thing as the allowing of our foreign diplomats to be slaughtered, and apparently for no other reason than political expediency, as being, for lack of better word, deplorable? Think about this, our president, the supposed leader of what's left of the free world, behaving like some third rate Chicago hoodlum, is that what we have come to expect. Has the bar now been lowered to such a point that such behavior is something to be tolerated from a president? Say what you want about George W. Bush, but this is not something the he would have allowed to happen. This is yet another disgraceful act by a man who has no business being our president.
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