Earlier this week, we heard from Fox News that the Obama administration was threatening career employees at the State Department and CIA with the destruction of their careers if these employees testify before Congress about their knowledge of the Benghazi attacks. We also heard from a special forces operator that it was well within the abilities of the forces in the area to rescue those under attack in Benghazi on September 11th. Then president Obama said at his news conference that he had never heard of any claims that government employees were being threatened and muzzled.
All this was bad enough. Tonight, however, things got a whole lot worse. Once again, the source of the reporting was Fox News which deserves great credit for some really good journalism. We heard tonight that the Independent Review Board at the State Department that investigated the handling of the Benghazi attack, refused to hear from certain witnesses with knowledge of events on the ground in Libya. We also learned that the Inspector General of the State Department has been conducting an investigation of that IRB for the last month.
I do not remember ever watching the government's position unravel so rapidly on any issue of this sort during the last thirty years. It is true that much of the media is not even bothering to cover these stories, but that does not matter. FNC has a large enough audience to break through the cone of silence that the Obama Administration and its allies want to place over Benghazi. Someone is going to have to explain why American forces were held back from a rescue attempt in Libya. Someone is going to have to identify just who actually made that decision. Someone is going to have to tell us just where president Obama was when all this was happening. This is larger than just the phony story about the youtube video causing the attack that Obama tried to foist onto the American people right after September 11th. The video lies were just an attempt to make things look better in retrospect. Now, the question is whether or not Washington left brave Americans to die in an onslaught from the jihadists when we had assets in the region that could have stopped the attackers in their tracks.
We have not gotten to a tipping point yet, but if more stuff like this comes out, we may witness the effective end of the Obama presidency.
All this was bad enough. Tonight, however, things got a whole lot worse. Once again, the source of the reporting was Fox News which deserves great credit for some really good journalism. We heard tonight that the Independent Review Board at the State Department that investigated the handling of the Benghazi attack, refused to hear from certain witnesses with knowledge of events on the ground in Libya. We also learned that the Inspector General of the State Department has been conducting an investigation of that IRB for the last month.
I do not remember ever watching the government's position unravel so rapidly on any issue of this sort during the last thirty years. It is true that much of the media is not even bothering to cover these stories, but that does not matter. FNC has a large enough audience to break through the cone of silence that the Obama Administration and its allies want to place over Benghazi. Someone is going to have to explain why American forces were held back from a rescue attempt in Libya. Someone is going to have to identify just who actually made that decision. Someone is going to have to tell us just where president Obama was when all this was happening. This is larger than just the phony story about the youtube video causing the attack that Obama tried to foist onto the American people right after September 11th. The video lies were just an attempt to make things look better in retrospect. Now, the question is whether or not Washington left brave Americans to die in an onslaught from the jihadists when we had assets in the region that could have stopped the attackers in their tracks.
We have not gotten to a tipping point yet, but if more stuff like this comes out, we may witness the effective end of the Obama presidency.
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