There are three additional bits of news today about the ongoing scandals engulfing president Obama and his administration.
First, it is now commonly reported that the White House Chief of Staff knew about the IRS targeting conservative and Tea Party groups weeks before the story broke in the press. Nothing was done in response to this illegal conduct by the IRS until the story actually made it into the media. This surely means that president Obama himself must have known about the IRS scandal and that his claim to have heard about it from the TV news is bogus. (By the way, Obama told us some years ago that he never watches TV news, a fact which further reinforces the only logical conclusion.)
The White House is still clinging to the story that Obama himself did not know ahead of time. The mainstream media also is dutifully reporting this. CBS News reported that the Chief of Staff learned of the IRS misconduct weeks before the story broke, "but he did not tell the president". Imagine how that would have been reported during the Bush years. At a minimum the report would have said that "the White House claims that he did not tell the president." It is amazing that anyone, particularly a national reporter could believe that the White House staff would learn of such an explosive and potentially damaging bit of information and WITHHOLD it from the president. C'mon, let's be real.
The second bit of news comes from a report in PJ Media which cites unnamed whistle blowers as saying that ambassador Chris Stevens was in Benghazi to buy back Stinger anti-aircraft missiles from forces affiliated with al Qaeda. Supposedly, these missiles were supplied by the State Department over the objection of the CIA during the last days of Gaddafi.
This story seems false to me. Once NATO established a no fly zone, it would have been crazy to furnish anti-aircraft missiles to the rebel forces. Only NATO planes were in the air. My guess is that this story will turn out to be wrong.
The third bit of news also comes from the same report, but it is attributed to other sources. These sources claim that the commander of military forces responsible for the Libyan area actually had special forces who could have responded to the embassy attack. He was ordered not to send them and the order came directly from Washington. If true, this means that there was not confusion in Washington. No, it would mean that there was an intentional move to leave the people on the ground try to handle this themselves.
There is a hearing today in the Senate regarding the IRS scandal. We will have to wait to see what comes out of it.
First, it is now commonly reported that the White House Chief of Staff knew about the IRS targeting conservative and Tea Party groups weeks before the story broke in the press. Nothing was done in response to this illegal conduct by the IRS until the story actually made it into the media. This surely means that president Obama himself must have known about the IRS scandal and that his claim to have heard about it from the TV news is bogus. (By the way, Obama told us some years ago that he never watches TV news, a fact which further reinforces the only logical conclusion.)
The White House is still clinging to the story that Obama himself did not know ahead of time. The mainstream media also is dutifully reporting this. CBS News reported that the Chief of Staff learned of the IRS misconduct weeks before the story broke, "but he did not tell the president". Imagine how that would have been reported during the Bush years. At a minimum the report would have said that "the White House claims that he did not tell the president." It is amazing that anyone, particularly a national reporter could believe that the White House staff would learn of such an explosive and potentially damaging bit of information and WITHHOLD it from the president. C'mon, let's be real.
The second bit of news comes from a report in PJ Media which cites unnamed whistle blowers as saying that ambassador Chris Stevens was in Benghazi to buy back Stinger anti-aircraft missiles from forces affiliated with al Qaeda. Supposedly, these missiles were supplied by the State Department over the objection of the CIA during the last days of Gaddafi.
This story seems false to me. Once NATO established a no fly zone, it would have been crazy to furnish anti-aircraft missiles to the rebel forces. Only NATO planes were in the air. My guess is that this story will turn out to be wrong.
The third bit of news also comes from the same report, but it is attributed to other sources. These sources claim that the commander of military forces responsible for the Libyan area actually had special forces who could have responded to the embassy attack. He was ordered not to send them and the order came directly from Washington. If true, this means that there was not confusion in Washington. No, it would mean that there was an intentional move to leave the people on the ground try to handle this themselves.
There is a hearing today in the Senate regarding the IRS scandal. We will have to wait to see what comes out of it.
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