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Showing posts with label Benghazi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benghazi. Show all posts

Oct 25, 2015

Liberals' Contempt for Truth, Law and Responsibility

This week Liberals demonstrated their total contempt for truth and the rule of law.  Liberals also demonstrated domestic politics and personal convenience are much more important to them than national security.  The only thing Liberals are really good at is avoiding responsibility for any of their decisions and getting their supporters in the press to justify whatever the outcomes are as brilliant, unavoidable or Bush’s fault.

First, on the facts leading up to the Benghazi attack, it’s clear that Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, was responsible for the protection of State Department personnel in Benghazi.

The 16 member Army Special Forces team assigned to protect State Department personnel in Libya plus a six-member State Department elite force called a Mobile Security Deployment team followed orders and left Libya in August, 2012. This was about a month before the attack. The embassy in Tripoli, Libya, asked repeatedly to retain them, and asked repeatedly for more security after they left, but the State Department denied all of the requests.  The nobody in the Obama Administration has ever explained who ordered the extra security teams home and why the order was given.  However, it’s clear from a military point of view that the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was responsible.

Military commanders who fatally weaken their defenses before a successful enemy attack do not get promoted. Hillary is asking to be promoted to Commander in Chief.
The House Committee’s political motives for investigating the Benghazi attacks don't change these facts.  Here are the links on the security teams’ withdrawal:


Hillary Clinton’s 11 hours of testimony before the Benghazi Committee is very easy to summarize.  “I lied, so what.”  All of the nit picking excuses in the world, and Hillary and her defenders have tried to come up with all of them, don’t change the fact that the entire Obama Administration knowingly said that the Benghazi attack was tied to an internet video when they knew that it was a planned terrorist attack by Ansar Al Sharia, an Al Qaeda affiliate.  Getting all emotional about all those Republican men verbally beating up on a poor little old grandmother is a smoke screen.  People died, then Hillary lied.

At this point Liberals start talking about attacks on American Embassies during Republican presidential terms.   The difference between previous attacks on American Embassies and the Benghazi attack is that the Republican Administrations didn't try to cover up who made the attacks and why they were made. Just like in Watergate, the cover up is the big problem here.

Moving on to Hillary’s email server, the talking points here are that none of the information on the server was marked as classified.  The information is classified whether it has the secret stamp on it or not. The law does not say it has to be stamped to be classified. Information that describes intelligence sources and methods, for example, is something that everyone except the completely clueless knows is classified at least secret and more likely top secret. Everyone also knows that ignorance is not a defense, and I don't think any Hillary supporter would want to claim she was ignorant of the law anyway, or would they? 

The server did not meet federal standards for handling classified material. The server was not even set up to meet commercial standards of preserving privacy and preventing hacking. A subcontractor was backing up the data both on site and in a cloud.  Hillary's folks didn't even know it was happening. We are talking extreme, perhaps criminal, negligence here. 

Taking or receiving classified material at home and putting it on your own private email server is a slam dunk prosecution for mishandling classified material, a felony with a potential 10 year prison sentence. As someone with over 40 years in IT, it's my professional opinion that any foreign intelligence service that wanted the information could have stolen it from Hillary's private email server easily, leaving very little trace of their intrusion. If a Republican federal office holder at any elected or appointed level did this, they would be indicted and awaiting trial right now. The Pravda Press would be screaming for their blood. Since it's Hillary, the whole investigation is politically motivated and there's nothing worth investigating. The corruption of the mainstream media is monumentally disgusting. They are willing to tolerate a candidate for president who put her personal convenience above national security.

Finally we get to the veto of the National Defense Authorization Act.  This veto is another example of how Liberals put partisan politics ahead of national security.  President Obama is holding the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force as hostages so he can extort more domestic spending from Congress.  President Obama doesn't care how many people ISIS kills in Syria, as long as he can spend as much as he wants domestically to buy votes for Democrats.  Just so you know, the bill Obama vetoed did not spend any money.  It did prohibit closing Guantanamo prison where 116 Jihadist killers are still being held.  It also changed some other regulations and increased pay scales if the money was authorized to fund it.








May 17, 2015

Hillary Defenders' Very Poor Case on Benghazi



The Congressional Benghazi Investigation made news this week because committee chairman Trey Goudy released a report saying that while the committee is making progress, it is still facing “obstacles” from the Obama administration.  This brought the usual chorus of defenders for Hillary the Inevitable to the forefront. The defenders claim the terrorist attacks in Benghazi that killed four Americans, including our ambassador to Libya, have nothing to do with Ms. Clinton’s qualifications for the presidency.  I strongly disagree.

I'm sure everyone would want to serve under a commander who reacts to your requests for beefed up security by cutting security. You also would like a commander who sleeps through your call for support while the enemy is not only on the wire, but inside the compound. I'm sure you really want a commander who instead of taking responsibility for her bad decisions, lies about it in order to win an election. But as Hillary the Inevitable said about the 4 dead Americans and her contribution of negligence and malfeasance in office, "What difference, at this point, does it make?" That attitude says it all when it comes to how much she values their sacrifice and how much she will value our military if she wins election.

The Secretary of State is in charge of the State Department. Hillary the Inevitable had the responsibility to know about the security situation in Libya, since it was arguably the most dangerous US diplomatic post in the world. When the Secretary of State uses the excuse that she did not personally know about the security cuts in Libya, she admits dereliction of duty.

Politifact's posting that she’s blameless because she didn’t personally know what was going on in Libya fails the Bush test. If someone named Bush stated that he was not responsible for some disaster, like lack of aid to the New Orleans victims of Hurricane Katrina, because he didn't know about it, how would Liberals feel about his excuse? Would Politifact or any other outlet of the Pravda Press rate charges that Bush was responsible as Mostly False? I really don't think so. Politifact and liberals in general are both giving Hillary the Inevitable a pass because she's destined to be the Democrat's standard bearer in 2016. Liberals are setting a higher burden of proof than they would for any Republican. 

The other argument is that Republicans cut the State Department security budget and the budget cuts made Benghazi vulnerable to attack.  The budget cuts are irrelevant. The allocation of State Department security personnel did not reflect the relative risk of the posts. I will believe that the budget cuts in the Diplomatic Security Service had an effect on the Benghazi attack when you prove to me that the State Department had more security agents in Benghazi, Libya, than they did in Paris, France. There were 5 agents in Benghazi. If I remember the 2012 coverage correctly, there were over 100 in Paris at the time. Unless you are going to argue that Paris was more at risk than Tripoli or Benghazi, this was criminal negligence.

The 16 member Army Special Forces team assigned to protect State Department personnel in Libya plus a six-member State Department elite force called a Mobile Security Deployment team left Libya in August, 2012. This was about a month before the attack. The embassy in Tripoli, Libya, asked repeatedly to retain them, but their requests were denied. Here's the link:


Libya Security Cuts:

Politifact on Clinton’s direct knowledge of Libya:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/may/16/fact-checking-benghazi-our-most-recent-round-/
Original article:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trey-gowdy-obama-administration-obstructing-benghazi-probe/article/2564329bama-administration-obstructing-benghazi-probe/article/2564329