BENGHAZI-GATE:  This Is Going To Get MUCH Worse

Last night Vice-President Biden was asked about denying security to Ambassador Stevens which ultimately led to his death and the death of three other Americans.   We knew last night as soon as Vice President Joe Biden uttered the words: “We were not told, …  We were not informed”, that a strategic Chicagoesque decision had just been made to leave Hillary Clinton outside the wall fending for herself.

Today when Jay Carney held a press conference he defined the “We” as President Obama, Joe Biden and the White House – that’s it.   From those words we know that President Obama had just given strategic instructions to pull up the drawbridge, bolt the door, and leave Hillary alone against all opposition to take the heat.   She is abandoned.  (more…)

Weapons of Misdirection

Virtually everyone is twisting into pretzel like contortions trying to figure out what caused the apparent confusion, chaos, misinformation and mistakes between the White House and the State Department in the Benghazi attack that led to the death of Libyan Ambassador Stevens, aide Sean Smith, and former SEAL’s Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.

Jennifer Ruben does a great job recently outlining the machinations HERE.

[…] Moreover, the State Department now confesses there was no protest at all outside the Libyan installation before the attack.

That’s awfully problematic, given that Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice went on five talk shows suggesting in fact that the movie did provoke the attack. Mitt Romney’s top foreign policy adviser, Richard Williamson, told Right Turn, “Last time I checked, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was part of the U.S. State Department.”    (article)

However, we think possibly we have been able to piece it all together will a little research and dot connecting from the archives.   When you step back you realize the big picture is not what it seems at all.

Benghazi was not an assassination attempt, it was a botched kidnapping. (more…)

Remember, this is the same mindset that argued “it depends on what your definition of “is” is.”

The congressional hearing on the Benghazi, Libya Consulate attack is schedule for today at Noon Eastern.

The hearing will be broadcast on CSPAN and also Live Streamed HERE

HEARING ENDED 4:10PM EASTERN – if you missed it you can catch the entire hearing again on CSPAN rebroadcast at 9:00pm EST

Witnesses: (more…)

This is unreal.   Seriously, unreal.   Everytime I think the Obama administration cannot go any lower on the intellectually honest scale they find new ways to lower the bar.   There is no longer daylight visible between the bar and the dirt.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Tuesday it never concluded that the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam, raising further questions about why the Obama administration used that explanation for more than a week after assailants killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.  (it goes on)

Stop – Wait… wha?    The State Dept never concluded the attack was from protests?   Huh?

How friggin stupid do they think we are?

Meanwhile The Obama Campaign is focused on Big Bird….

The State Department is coming under more scrutiny ahead of anticipated hearings scheduled for tomorrow.  Request for additional security fell on deaf ears, and despite State Dept claims there were no protests in front of the consulate in Benghazi.   The Democrats are petrified of the impact on the election, desperate to protect President Obama, and are attempting rabid obfuscation:

The Congressional Hearing will be streamed live tomorrow at noon on the web – AVAILABLE HERE 

(Reuters) – A U.S. security officer formerly stationed in Libya has told lawmakers he sent two cables to the State Department requesting more security agents for the American mission in Benghazi but received no response.

The officer, Eric Nordstrom, also said that a State Department official, Charlene Lamb, wanted to keep the number of U.S. security personnel in Benghazi “artificially low,” according to a memo summarizing his comments that was obtained by Reuters. (more…)

Drip…. Drip…. Drip…..  The Truth comes forth.   Turning that spigot to brutally honest mode is the job of Congress now.   Jason Chaffetz went to Libya over the weekend to gather information prior to the Congressional hearings scheduled for Wed, this week.

(Daily Beast) Just two days before the 9/11 anniversary attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, two leaders of the Libyan militias responsible for keeping order in the city threatened to withdraw their men.

The brinksmanship is detailed in a cable approved by Ambassador Chris Stevens and sent on the day he died in the attack, the worst assault on a U.S. diplomatic mission since the 1979 hostage crisis in Iran. The dispatch, which was marked “sensitive” but not “classified,” contained a number of other updates on the chaotic situation on the ground in post-Gaddafi Libya.  […] (more…)

(Blaze) United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice has denied she tried to mislead Congress about the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya in calling it a “spontaneous” protest, saying she was acting on the best information she had.

In a letter to Republican senators released Friday, Rice said she “consistently qualified, in some instances twice, the information I provided as preliminary” when she went on television and said the attack on the consulate was the result of an anti-Muslim film. U.S. officials subsequently labeled the Sept. 11 assault that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans an act of terrorism linked to Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups. (more…)

Some explosive updates – Jason Chaffetz reveals the State Department intentionally withdrew security personell prior to Benghazi consulate attack.   Investigators finally reach scene three weeks post attack, and early reports say two Tunisian nationals have been arrested:

The Security Withdrawl – In the six months leading up to the assault on the United States consulate in Benghazi, the State Department reduced the number of trained Americans guarding U.S. facilities in Libya, according to a leading House Republican investigating the Sept. 11 anniversary attacks. The reduction in U.S. security personnel increased America’s reliance on local Libyan guards for the protection of its diplomats. (more…)