It’s Even Worse Than We Thought

     First we were told it was merely a “demonstration” over a YouTube video that got out of hand. Then we were told that there was no one to send to the rescue of the beleaguered Americans in Benghazi. Then we were told that in the “fog of war,” the order to go to their aid simply came too late. But none of that is true, and the evidence has just become irrefutable:

     The evidence is overwhelming that the United States had several rescue teams ready to go during the 2012 Benghazi attacks, but someone -- possibly the president himself -- prevented them from acting. So said Emmy Award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson to talk show host Steve Malzberg in an interview on Wednesday.

     This week on her show, "Full Measure," Attkisson looked into the aborted rescue mission in an in-depth two-part report, "Rescue Interrupted," which you can watch here and here. She spoke with a Green Beret commander who told her that there were actually Special Forces on their way to Benghazi who were turned back.

     Col. Andrew Wood had once commanded a Special Forces anti-terrorism team protecting Ambassador Chris Stevens and other diplomats in Libya. In October of 2012, Woods told Congress that one month before the attacks in Benghazi, his team had been removed from Libya by the Obama administration, despite the numerous warnings of impending terrorist attacks. Wood told Attkisson that Special Forces (the ones mentioned in the "spinning up" email from Jeremy Bash) were on their way to Benghazi, but were ordered to turn back.

     Please read the whole thing. Then go to Sharyl Attkisson’s site for her meticulous reports.

     Apparently, for American forces to cross a border into another country requires presidential authorization – and Obama was asleep. No one thought to wake him. Why not? Surely Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would have grasped the necessity. Was she asleep too? Or was she too concerned with preserving the Administration’s fiction that all was well in post-Qaddafi Libya to have him awakened?

     Sharyl Attkisson, a reporter’s reporter, can delve into the objective events of that terrible time, but she cannot read minds. Concerning the motives of those in Washington who collaborated, actively or passively, in condemning Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty to death by abandonment, we can only speculate.

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     Americans are generally disgusted with our political class, the game has been cleverly rigged to impede the removal of those persons by electoral processes, and there’s still no planetoid in sight. Meanwhile, not only does the Washington tumor on our body politic continue to grow and absorb our rights and property, decent, patriotic Americans are being abandoned to die merely to prevent its beautiful theories from being killed by nasty, ugly facts.

     We lost quite a few of our best and bravest in Afghanistan and Iraq. In fact, we’re still losing them. There appears to be no defensible aim behind their deployment. Why are they where they are? To be used as target practice by those who hate us? If not, why has the Administration refused to reinforce them or, failing that, to bring them home?

     Likewise Benghazi. Embassies and consulates are issued security detachments as a matter of course. Why, if not to protect the persons and information within them? That being the case, why would the Administration deny them additional aid when besieged? Is an explanation even possible, if not to cover up the failure of Obamunist foreign policy?

     Many Americans have argued against the wars in the Middle East undertaken by the Bush II Administration. There are arguments on both sides, though recently it’s begun to look as if the opponents of those wars have the better case, if only for reasons of political discontinuity and the concomitant changes in policy. But whatever one’s stance on the wars, one cannot help regretting the loss of so many brave Americans’ lives. If those losses are ultimately revealed as sacrifices to the vanity of Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama, no degree of outrage will be sufficient. It will be impossible to mete out an appropriate comeuppance to those villains. Indeed, drawing and quartering them on national television would hardly suffice.

     This horror demands the minutest possible scrutiny from Congress and the press. Sad to say, it isn’t getting it from Congress. Apart from the irreplaceable Attkisson, who demonstrates to us day after day what a treasure she is, it isn’t getting it from the press, either.