The more the truth of Benghazzi is learned, the more the behavior of obama looks like the behavior of someone who put his own self-interest above the lives of the four Americans, including our ambassador to Libya, who died a terrible terrible death while obama did nothing. What's worse for obama, it looks more and more that obama did nothing when there was plenty of life-saving steps at his disposal, plenty of military assets able to carry those steps out, and plenty of time to order action to save lives.
New information today shows that the attack that killed the four Americans lasted from five to seven hours and that at least two of the Americans were still alive well into the final hour of the well-orchestrated Al Qaada assault. Other information shows that Hilary Clinton, the Secretary of State, contacted LIbyan authorities to inform them that American Military assets might be brought to bear on the situation in Benghazzi in order to save American lives. What the response was of the LIbyan "authorities" is still unknown. A president acting to save lives wouldn't allow that response to hinder a decision to act.
With each passing day the administration takes steps to quash the budding controversy and, even as it appears they are succeeding, new revelations by sources within the State Department and Military add new details making the administration's coverup more difficult. Pundits such as Rush Limbaugh believe the revelations are coming from persons who are not willing to be part of the coverup, especially if obama loses the pending election. There is also growing evidence of fracturing among the so-called mainstream media, most of whom, until the Benghazzi incidents, were acting as virtual DNC assets working openly for obama's re-election. obama continues to be heartened that the people holding the top positions in the media - the publishers of the New York Times and the top authorities at the leading television networks - continue to strangle the story at the precipice of publication. Even while the dispatches of CBS reporters covering Benghazzi continue to poke holes in the administration's desperate coverup, top CBS officials prevented the network news from using a portion of a videotaped interview with obama broadcast on 60 minutes very early in the coverup from being used. But in the field, certain reporters, a growing number, apparently, are not willing to play a part in the coverup of actions which well may be illegal or of the sort the still prevents those thought to be "guilty" from holding positions of authority.
This is the story that is emerging from Benghazzi and other locations where people in authority are charged with dealing with such incidents. On the day of the incident, but before any attack started, the American ambassador and three others moving with him, were already greatly concerned about their ongoing safety. Intelligence told of planned actions against American-controlled locations such as the American Consulate in Benghazzi. Despite the intelligence, repeated requests for enhanced security; i.e., military protection, had been forcefully rejected by Washington. The three people with the ambassador included a computer expert and two Navy Seals who volunteered to accompany the ambassador when no other official security was available.
When the attack started, armed Libyan guards accompanied the ambassador and the other three Americans to a safe house. The guards then told Al Qaada where the Americans were holed up.
All sources, both identified and unidentified, assert that obama's story about the attack being something that morphed out of a spontaneous demonstration is completely false. All of these sources say that there was no demonstration for the attacks to morph out of.
Not long after Al Qaada redirected its attack to the location where the Americans were "hiding," requests went out for help. American military sources say a special operations unit was sent from bases in central Europe to another US facility in Italy, just one hour away from Benghazzi. Sources also say that among the military assets put on alert for immediate action were fighter jets and helicopter gun ships with crews trained to disperse gatherings of humans, such as Al Qaada fighters surrounding a US consulate.
The Secretary of State contacted the Libyan government in Tripoli to alert them that the USA was actively contemplating military action to save the pinned down Americans.
But with the American military poised to act, no one in a position to launch the life-saving action would give the go-ahead. Instead, obama's plans to fly off to Las Vegas for a fundraiser, and then for an appearance on David Letterman and at a party hosted by rap star JayZ, went ahead as planned. In fact, obama did fly off to Las Vegas, he did appear on Letterman and he did show up at the party hosted by JayZ.
He did not authorize the life-saving military mission, nor did he order a reprisal action. Instead, after returning from his social outings, he helped orchestrate the coverup which was built around the concocted story about a spontaneous demonstration sparked by supposed outrage over an old Amerian film. There never was a demonstration in Benghazzi. More and more it appears absolutely certain that obama and his top functionaries were aware in real time of the five to seven hour assault, but never seriously contemplated taking action to save the ambassador and his three associates.
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