During the Congressional hearings on the Benghazi attack
yesterday it became clear to anyone who watched with an open mind that the goal
of the Democrats was not to uncover the truth about what happened. Their goal appeared to be protecting Hillary
Clinton and President Obama at any cost – even at the risk of sounding absurd.
Rep. Darrell Issa, (R), opened the hearing noting the many
ways in which the Obama administration has stonewalled Benghazi investigations,
and how the Democratic minority in the House has aided the stonewalling. The President has yet to explain what he did
once he was notified of the attack. All
we really know is that no one seems to have spoken with him about it during the
night and the next day he flew to Las Vegas for a fund raiser.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, (D), used his opening statement to
attack Issa and assail the whistleblowers’ testimony (that he hadn’t even heard
yet.) Cummings basically filibustered
their testimony by wasting time, while he claimed to be a champion of
whistleblowers.
During the testimony, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D), questioned
why they (Democrats) had not had access to witness Mark Thompson and why they
didn’t know what he was going to say except to read about it in the press
(which just happens to be their best friend.)
“I agree with Mr. [Jason] Chaffetz complete that there
should be equal exchange of information – that we should have access to all
information – but the Democratic minority was denied access to a witness,”
asserted Maloney. “The only way we knew anything about what Mr. [Mark I.]
Thompson was going to say was what we read in the press.”
She then went on to say she was appalled that when Americans
get attacked in another country what happens is that Americans here at home
(i.e., the President, Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, etc.) get attacked for
it. She apparently sees no good reason
for this quest for truth other than to politicize the event and damage the
President and Hillary. And she’s not the
only Democrat who feels that way.
Cummings told the witnesses that “Death is
a part of life”, then went on to say “We feel your pain.” Congressman, with all due respect, if you
really felt their pain you’d be trying hard to find the answers along with
Congressman Issa, not criticizing the hearings and the witnesses.
In a statement the other day, our illustrious new Secretary
of State, John Kerry, said every question had been asked and every question had
been answered concerning Benghazi and that it was time for the State Department
to “move on” and stop being slowed down by continuous questions. Really?
Four Americans died, including an American ambassador. We, the American public, as well as the
victims’ families have gotten no answers about what actually happened and why,
and you’re tired of endless questions?
What are you going to tell the families of those victims – that you got
the guy who made the video? At least
Hillary made good on that rather flippant and ridiculous promise.
Last, but not least, the ever clever White House Press Secretary,
Jay Carney, said it is the opinion of the White House that the Republicans are merely
trying to politicize the Benghazi incident.
It’s apparent that President Obama, Carney, Hillary, et al, don’t want
the truth uncovered because the deeper this probe goes the worse it looks for
Obama and Hillary. From all evidence
that’s been presented so far, it is obvious that everyone involved knew the
attack on the US consulate in Libya was a deliberate terrorist attack from the
beginning. The President was informed
and disappeared. The Secretary of State
(Clinton) and Defense Secretary Panetta did nothing and Panetta told the
military to stand down. CIA agents were
also told to stand down. Four Americans
died, including two CIA agents who disobeyed that stand down order and went to
help anyway.
The administration tried, unsuccessfully, to sweep the
incident under the rug because of the upcoming election. After all – President Obama had already
informed the American people that Bin Laden was dead and Al Qaeda was mostly
disbanded and ineffective. Then, in the
weeks leading up to the election, they stalled and avoided questions and kept
people from testifying before Congress which, sadly, did lead to Obama being
re-elected by an uninformed public.
In previous testimony weeks before, Defense Secretary Leon
Panetta said he did not send in a rapid response team because he “wasn’t going
to send a team into harm’s way without knowing what’s actually going on.” Mr. Secretary – my question to you would be “Why
do we have rapid response teams if not for situations like this? Would this not be similar to one of the
situations they train for?”
It disgusts me that Democrats are more interested in
partisan politics than in finding the truth in this incident. Sure, there are Republicans who are using it
for political purposes. That’s the life
of a politician. But finding the truth
should be first and foremost for both sides, regardless of the outcome. The American people deserve honest
answers. The victims’ families deserve
honest answers. And the victims
themselves deserve the respect and honor of a government that owes them for
their service and sacrifice to tell the truth about what happened to them and
to hold people accountable if they did the wrong thing.
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