Peeling The Onion

Or is it garlic.  Whatever...it still stinks.  The whole Benghazi mess continues.  Of course, some media are ignoring it or giving it back page play.  You know who they are.  I've had quite a few posts on this issue.  You can get tot the links here if you're interested.  One of the best takes I've seen was Peggy Noonan's piece in the WSJ.  You can read it here.  I think her points are spot on.  Especially this...

"The Obama White House sees every event as a political event. Really, every event, even an attack on a consulate and the killing of an ambassador."

"Because of that, it could not tolerate the idea that the armed assault on the Benghazi consulate was a premeditated act of Islamist terrorism. That would carry a whole world of unhappy political implications, and demand certain actions. And the American presidential election was only eight weeks away. They wanted this problem to go away, or at least to bleed the meaning from it.   Because the White House could not tolerate the idea of Benghazi as a planned and deliberate terrorist assault, it had to be made into something else. So they said it was a spontaneous street demonstration over an anti-Muhammad YouTube video made by a nutty California con man. After all, that had happened earlier in the day, in Cairo. It sounded plausible. And maybe they believed it at first. Maybe they wanted to believe it. But the message was out: Provocative video plus primitive street Arabs equals sparky explosion. Not our fault. Blame the producer! Who was promptly jailed." 

"From the day of the attack until this week, the White House spin was too clever by half. In the weeks and months after the attack White House spokesmen said they were investigating the story, an internal review was under way. When the story blew open again, last week, they said it was too far in the past: "Benghazi happened a long time ago." Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, really said that.  Think of that. They can't give answers when the story's fresh because it just happened, they're looking into it. Eight months later they don't have anything to say because it all happened so long ago.  Think of how low your opinion of the American people has to be to think you can get away, forever, with that." 

This isn't going away.  The worst thing is the contempt that this crowd has for the rest of us.  Hillary knew this was an act of terrorism.  She knew our guys were left out to dry.  She knew we didn't do a thing to save their lives.  And then...and then she went and welcomed the caskets home.  She went out and decried the video that was supposedly to blame.  She strongly pushed back when testifying before Congress on cause and effect..."what does it matter".  And she wants to be President.