Why Truth About Benghazi Is Important

In the nearly eight months since the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, GOP lawmakers have been trying to get to the bottom of not only what exactly happened, but why our response as a nation was so poor and why it seemed the Obama administration was withholding information and/or outright lying about it.  Recently some so called “whistleblower” witnesses have surfaced who seem to be finally blowing the lid off of the can of secrecy.  It’s about time.  But what will they reveal?

Mark I. Thompson, the acting deputy assistant for operations in the State Department's counterterrorism bureau, will testify on Wednesday that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton willfully blocked out his department's involvement on the night of the September 11 Benghazi attacks — and that he has been threatened and intimidated by unnamed State Department officials about saying as much in public, and that al-Qaeda was involved all along.

As CBS News reports, the Obama administration "did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource, the Counterterrorism Security Group."  So why have them if they’re not going to be utilized in a terrorism emergency?

Of course, the Obama administration has already stated they know nothing about witnesses possibly being threatened and they will categorically deny that State Department officials, including the next Democrat Presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, knew anything about bypassing the CSG.  But witnesses in the last week have said that not only could something have been done by the military to help stop the attack but that the administration, particularly Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton and President Obama himself, lied about the video and the involvement of Al Qaeda in the attack.  So why isn’t anyone reporting this information beside right-leaning news outlets?

A search of the headlines on the web pages of ABC, CBS and NBC reveal that only CBS has anything in their headline pages about Benghazi.  There is no mention of Benghazi on the home page of ABC News or NBC News.  Not that it’s a surprise – NBC particularly.  After all – it was NBC who announced their bias toward President Obama in the 2008 elections.  There is no reason to believe that has changed.  ABC isn’t reporting anything either.

So why is it important?  I read some comments earlier following an article about this very topic.  There were many comments from people who not only believe the “whistleblowers” are a GOP led conspiracy but that regardless of what Hillary does, it’s OK.  They believe Hillary Clinton can do no wrong and that the Obama administration, regardless of the blatant evidence, is honest and above board and completely trustworthy.  I guess there were those who believed the same about Richard Nixon but since there was no internet back then, it did not get communicated appropriately.

The truth about what happened in Benghazi, and the truth about what happened afterward are important  for several reasons.  1.)  The Obama administration is lied to the American people about what happened because of the upcoming election.  If he’d have told the truth – that Al Qaeda wasn’t quite as “dead” as he stated, he may have lost the election.   2.)  The excuse that the attack was a spontaneous one following a protest of a video was given to deliberately lead the American people away from the obvious conclusion that Al Qaeda was not dead and that the President was lying – and for the same reason as #1.   And 3.)  Suzan Rice’s statements on the Sunday talk shows were also deliberate lies but not necessarily fabricated by her.  I believe she simply regurgitated the information she was given without properly vetting it.  Thereby, she was telling the truth as she knew it even though she probably knew it wasn’t really the truth.  What better deniability can one have than to give out information you were given, without proper vetting, and then saying “I told you everything they gave me.”  I believe she was a scapegoat – deliberately set up to take the fall if and when the truth came out. 

Those of us who did not believe the attack was a spontaneous result of a video were labeled as racists and haters of women and both together.  Now, it seems we’ve been vindicated as the truth comes out.  Except those who only get their news from the main stream media may never know the truth because only one mainstream outlet is reporting on it. 

Unless the Benghazi hearings destroy her chances, Hillary Clinton will undoubtedly be the next Democrat Presidential candidate.  Whoever runs against her from the GOP better have more cojones than John McCain or Mitt Romney and confront her on the issue of Benghazi.  Otherwise the American people are going to elect her – caring not how she lied to the country about Benghazi and God knows what else.  They just don’t seem to care about honesty in their own candidate.  Honesty is something that can only be demanded of the Republicans – probably because Democrats don’t really know the meaning of the word.

Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal.  One can only hope Obama will be uncovered for the liar he is and that he’ll take his cue from Nixon.  The truth will eventually be revealed – even if the President’s own media outlets won’t report it.  Of course – people probably won’t believe it anyway…