It has been quite an afternoon for team Obama. Two major lies that they have clung to fiercely have now completely fallen apart. Here they are:
1. The Inspector General of the Department of Justice issued his report on Operation Fast and Furious, the DOJ gun running operation that resulted in DOJ sending 2000 assault weapons to Mexican drug cartels, supposedly to track them. Of course, the tracking failed and scores of people ended up being murdered with these weapons including a US border guard. When the operation was first uncovered, the Department of Justice claimed that it was just run by ATF and that no one in the upper reaches of DOJ had been told about it. Attorney General Eric Holder even testified to Congress that he had never heard of Fast and Furious until just a week or two before his testimony in May of 2011. As memoranda were uncovered that show Holder being notified about events in Fast and Furious, he just said that he had not read them. Even when his weekly summary of important events mentioned Fast and Furious, Holder still claimed not to have read the memo. Holder's position was that he essentially never reads memoranda directed to him. (One does wonder what Holder spends his time doing.) DOJ also repeatedly told Congress that no one in the Department was told about Fast and Furious. When Congress began an investigation, Holder refused to turn over the relevant documents and that confrontation ended with Congress voting to hold the attorney general in contempt.
Well, now the internal DOJ probe by the Inspector General of the Department has been made public. The inspector general is an Obama supporter who, I assume, was expected by Obama and Holder to whitewash the situation. But he told the truth. First, the IG explains that Holder was told about the flaws in Fast and Furious in early February of 2011. That means that Holder lied to Congress when he claimed to have just heard of the program for the first time in May of 2011. Then, the IG notes that people like Lanny Breuer, the head of the Criminal Division of DOJ acted improperly and should be subjected to disciplinary proceedings. Other high DOJ officials were also cited by the IG for acting improperly, and one, Jason Weinstein, the deputy assistant attorney general has resigned after being accused by the IG of illegal behavior. In short, the inspector general made clear that the entire Obama administration story about Fast and Furious has been nothing but a pack of lies.
2. This morning the director of the National Counterterroism Center testified in Congress that the attack in Benghazi on 9-11 that resulted in the death of four Americans including the ambassador was a premeditated attack by terrorists. This puts the lie to the claims by the Obamacrats that the Benghazi incident was just an offshoot of spontaneous protests in Libya about that video. Just three days ago, Obama sent UN ambassador Susan Rice onto four news shows to tell America that there was "no indication" that Beghazi was a terror attack. Suddenly, they are now admitting what was painfully obvious all along. This was a terror attack by al Qaeda.
It is interesting to note that team Obama has not mentioned any new information discovered in the last two days that changed their opinions. All that happened was that it became impossible to continue with a blatant lie. Indeed, my guess is that the polling and focus groups told the Obamacrats that the country just was not buying the lie.
The testimony is damning to Obama since we now know that two days prior to the attack, Obama himself supposedly went over the security arrangements for US installations in North Africa. Of course, the Benghazi embassy was left essentially defenseless. Obama failed in his obligation to keep American personnel safe. What this means is that America was warned of the danger, Obama was told of the danger, Obama considered security and basically ignored the warnings even though the anniversary of 9-11 is a favorite date for terror groups to attack and the premeditated terror attack was launched with the result that four Americans died. Simply put, Obama just did not do his job.
It is disgusting that rather than dealing honestly with this tragedy, Obama decided to launch yet another campaign of lies and distortion. With today's testimony those lies have been destroyed. Obama is a failure even when he tries to spread lies.
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