Covering Up the Cover Up

Now that ABC news is reporting on the cover-up, the Kool aid drinkers might start waking up.  This is much worse than Watergate.  Here's a video that will help you see the context.  Even before Susan Rice made her rounds of all the talk shows -- gee, I wonder who asked her to do it -- and spread her disinformation, many of us already connected the dots on Benghazi.  It was very clear to any discerning observer of the facts that this attack on the consulate was not a spontaneous event.  Susan Rice lied about the "best intelligence we have to date" pointing towards a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muslim video.

See my previous posts from last September when this thing first broke:
"Whistling Past the Graveyard" and "Amateur Hour".

The White House needs to be held to account.  They are now covering up the cover up.  The problem with lying, however, is that you have to remember the lies you previously told.  The truth is easy to remember.  But sometimes lies have to be supported by other lies until you have a very fragile web of lies.  That's where we are on Benghazi right now.  On Monday the president lied again about his previous lies.  He said again, like he did in the debates, that he acknowledged that the Benghazi attack was a terrorist attack the day after the attack.  If you look at the transcript of his remarks you can see that he said no such thing on Sept. 12.  Moreover, if he thought it was a terror attack -- i.e., what he thought the best intelligence has indicated -- then why did he send Susan Rice to make the rounds of the Sunday talks shows almost a week later?  He is getting tangled in his own web of lies.  My guess is that Valerie Jarrett is behind all of this.

Benghazi -- Politically Motivated?

Is the Benghazi investigation politically motivated.  The short answer is yes.  But it is no more politically motivated than was the Watergate investigation.  And yet with Watergate nobody died, while in Benghazi four people died, including the US Ambassador.  And the Obama administration clearly went out of their way to sweep it under the rug as quickly as possible because it didn't fit their pre-election narrative about the receding nature of Al Qaeda in the world.

Is it a crime to lie to the American people?  In legalistic terms, perhaps not, sadly.  But it is a serious matter all the same.   Bill Clinton lied under oath.  That indeed is a crime (although it was never pursued because some judges concluded that it would lead to a "constitutional crisis."   Perhaps Susan Rice didn't lie, but whoever gave her the lying talking points certainly did.  It is the job of the Congressional investigation to find out who did the lying.  Was it President Obama, or perhaps Valerie Jarrett?  I'm putting my money on Valerie Jarrett.

But then there is also the issue of dereliction of duty.  Was the president derelict?  Or was it Leon Pannetta? Or Hillary Clinton?  Or somebody else in the chain of command?

Hopefully, the investigation will get to the bottom of this.  Today, the whistle blowers are going to testify on Capitol Hill.