Team Obama desperate to distract Americans from Benghazi truth

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

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ABC New�s Jonathan Karl and Stephen Hayes of The Weekly Standard have both
produced some excellent new reporting on the Benghazi scandal.

Mr. Karl has uncovered emails showing how talking points used by U.N.
Ambassador Susan Rice during her appearances on five Sunday morning talk
shows were profoundly misleading.

And in an upcoming Weekly Standard piece, Mr. Hayes reports on the concern
inside the CIA, starting with Director David Petraeus, over the efforts to
weaken the Agency�s proposed language.

These journalists have done much to advance our understanding of what
happened during and after the attack on the American diplomatic outpost in
Benghazi, but there still remain critical, unanswered questions.

For example, on whose behalf were State Department Spokeswoman Victoria
Nuland and deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications
Ben Rhodes � both of whom played key roles in altering the Benghazi
talking points � acting when they objected to the CIA�s language
characterizing Benghazi as a terrorist incident?

It�s unlikely that the decision to gut the CIA-draft by expunging any
reference to terrorism or possible Al Qaeda links was done by Ms. Nuland
or Mr. Rhodes, both communications people. It�s far more likely that they
were doing the bidding of people further up the chain of command at the
State Department and the White House.

Was Ms. Nuland getting orders from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
either directly or through her chief of staff, Cheryl Mills? Was Mr.
Rhodes being told by White House Senior Advisors David Plouffe or Valerie
Jarrett to strike any embarrassing reference to Islamic extremists?

For the record, according to Mr. Hayes� earlier reporting, here�s what the
participants of that Saturday morning White House meeting agreed upon:
The currently available information suggests that the demonstrations in
Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy
in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault against the U.S. diplomatic
post and subsequently its annex. There are indications that extremists
participated in the violent demonstrations.

This assessment may change as additional information is collected and
analyzed and currently available information continues to be evaluated.

The investigation is ongoing, and the U.S. government is working with
Libyan authorities to help bring to justice those responsible for the
deaths of U.S. citizens.

Note what�s missing: Any reference to the anti-Muslim YouTube video. Yet
Susan Rice, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, repeatedly blamed
the YouTube video during her Sunday morning talk show appearances.

So who � after the White House meeting on Saturday, September 15 occurred
� insisted on this further revision to the talking points and directed Ms.
Rice to scapegoat the video? It�s reasonable to assume that people higher-
up in the State Department and White House did so. Then the question is,
why?

Ms. Nuland has publicly distanced herself from the final talking points
and Ms. Rice�s appearances, making clear she wasn�t at the Saturday
morning meeting and didn�t prepare Ms. Rice for the Sunday talk programs,
according to Mr. Karl.

Jake Sullivan, then deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton and the State Department�s director of policy planning, has
similarly been distanced from any preparation work with Ms. Rice. His
name appears in emails Mr. Hayes reports on.

That still leaves lots of people in the West Wing and the Secretary�s
suite at State to be heard from.

We get a hint of the Administration�s mindset from a new tweet from one of
President Obama�s closest confidants, David Axelrod, who tweets:

�@DavidAxelrod: Can't help but feeling that If Ken Salazar were the front
runner for '16, the House GOP be holding hearings on the BP oil spill.�

Team Obama wants to make this all about partisan politics. The hope is to
distract Americans from what really matters: who in the Obama
administration is responsible for presenting the American people an
utterly false account of what happened in Benghazi despite having known
the truth within hours after the attacks?

What did Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton know, when did they know it, and did
they direct Ms. Rice directly or indirectly to mislead the American public
two months before a presidential election rather than admit Benghazi was a
terrorist attack?

Members of Congress have plenty of time to discover the truth. They
should use their subpoena power to do just that. Because this story
matters.


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Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest voters in the history of the United
States of America.

Eric Holder, racist black murdering United States Attorney General, still
has his job.

Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.

Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptness.

Obama continues his goal of disarming America while ObamaCare increases
insurance premiums 200% and leaves millions without health care.

Obama helped bankrupt Illinois. Democrat run Chicago closes 54 public
schools.

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