But then, as more details of the attack became known, the types of heavy weapons used and other conflicting features, inconsistent with the YouTube video narrative, the story changed. Had the YouTube Video been on VHS, instead of the internet, I could say they "shelved it".
By then, the reelection of Obama had been secured, and, more of the truth of what happened, could safely be aired, without the fear of 'embarrassing' the outgoing "what difference does it make" Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
For a long while, we have waited and waited, for the capture, president Obama promised to "bring to justice the killers that attacked our people".
And then, out of the blue, last month, the NY Times, in a long article, revived the YouTube video narrative, leaving a lot of commentators puzzled, not only as to it's timing, but also it's content. The length of the article, I supposed, was designed to impress upon the reader, some form of authoritative, last word on the subject. If it indeed the NY Times hoped Benghazi would go away, clearing Hillary's path in the process, their attempt seems to have failed. If anything, I believe it revived interest on a subject that should have been cleared up by now.
Like out of some poltergeist script, Benghazi is back on the news again. This time, however, the YouTube video, Hillary helping convenient narrative, is notably absent.
U.S. officials suspect that a former Guantanamo Bay detainee played a role in the attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and are planning to designate the group he leads as a foreign terrorist organization, according to officials familiar with the plans.For the continuing rest of the story click Washington Post.
Militiamen under the command of Abu Sufian bin Qumu, the leader of Ansar al-Sharia in the Libyan city of Darnah, participated in the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, U.S. officials said.
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The NYTimes will do whatever it takes to run opinion as news, fake news as news...whatever it takes for Hillary, the queen of hype.
Benghazi is not going away; those men want justice and they will have it.
As for the vid, that's as dead as the Gray Lady's rap about Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia
You mean to tell us Obama and Hillary are political frauds who only care about their selfish lust for power?
NO! Way!
Joe Biden is an embarrassment.
Come on America. We can do better.
Apparently we can't.
I have to delete that last comment.
You are welcome to rewrite it w/o the "shot".
I don't think that we can do better. I'm of the opinion that we have far more stupid people in this country than smart people.
"With Obama, however, I joined a new, inexperienced president determined to change course—and equally determined from day one to win re-election. Domestic political considerations would therefore be a factor, though I believe never a decisive one, in virtually every major national security problem we tackled. The White House staff—including Chiefs of Staff Rahm Emanuel and then Bill Daley as well as such core political advisers as Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs —would have a role in national security decision making that I had not previously experienced" Robert Gates
I am shocked -- SHOCKED -- to learn that domestic political considerations were a major factor in execution of our warfighting effort.
I share that opinion, Allen, but I find it odd how so many are resigned and hypnotized to the politics of familiarity.
Hillary. Really? I'll take a different stupid person over the same old tired versions we keep mindlessly recycling.
Now Iraq is falling down again - to al Qaeda, and Joe Biden is out there heaping all credit and praise for Iraq onto his king. He's such a good court jester.
Gee, Lem, I was trolling for you-know-who--now you've spoiled all the fun! Would it be better phrased if I said it was time to consider re-locating the Duck Blind oppo 1600 Penn Ave? :)
Walker/Gates 2016
Something like that.
If erring i rather do it cautiously. Or, erring is not cautious until it is ;)
@Lem/
But your deletion does raise an important point; namely the extent to which we have become overly "gun-shy" about delineating between actual advocacy/open threats and what used to be commonly used turn-of-phrases used to express moral outrage. The phrase "If I had my druthers" and all that followed can only be read/regarded as a "threat" ( as opposed to being used as a dramatic devise to record total disgust) by totally distorting the English language and the history of its common usage. Of course I was educated in the day when education in the English language meant something, so I guess it's a bit much to expect people below a certain age to discern the difference..
And of course Govt/Govt agents have never been known to overreact or act in a ham-fisted manner, have they Lem? :)
Sorry about the delay in responding. I'm working today. Weather related problems are adding to my usually bussy day. Im also on the phone, thatexplains the misspellings.
Lem ... I gather that periodic dropping of a name or two ... like in the old LGF days when Reaganite, and his wife Ann, would monitor the intarveb for any and all comments about them...is not approved? :-))
I mean, back then a number of blogs were stared to offset nutty Charles and some of us childish types took to placing the term "reaganite" all over the Internet to keep good ole "Ann" busy.
Some of the screaching responses to just using the word outside of any commentary was hilarious. Sad in a way, as I kind of liked Reaganite until his wife decided to become the uber-Internet Cop.
That "reaganite thing" was entirely separate from "Iron Fist's" karate, gunfire, knife weilding, "I be bad" crap that Charles tolerated. About then I knew CJ was as nuts as his friends.
You know -- this also will not turn out well.
If nothing else conservatives, libbertarians, heck, blue dogs need to yell loudly about the lying liars that are at the top of this "party."
I am no Democrat but there have been Dems of integrity in the past ...
What the hell happened to this party?
Gates Domestic political considerations would therefore be a factor, though I believe never a decisive one, in virtually every major national security problem we tackled.
Still on the Kool Aid®
Diluted a bit, but Kool Aid®
Didn't he forget Michelle in the lineup?
The ONLY thin this creep knows how to do is to campoaugn about how terrific he is and how awful everyone else is
Speaking of which -- whatever happened to the nascent MRO for prez rumblings?
"With Obama, however, I joined a new, inexperienced president determined to change course—and equally determined from day one to win re-election. Domestic political considerations would therefore be a factor, though I believe never a decisive one, in virtually every major national security problem we tackled."
Here's Samantha Power in Bystanders to Genoicide writing about the Clinton administration and Rwanda:
"At an interagency teleconference in late April, Susan Rice, a rising star on the NSC who worked under Richard Clarke, stunned a few of the officials present when she asked, "If we use the word 'genocide' and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November [congressional] election?" Lieutenant Colonel Tony Marley remembers the incredulity of his colleagues at the State Department. "We could believe that people would wonder that," he says, "but not that they would actually voice it."
That was 20 years ago. Now it seems the only stunned person in the meetings Gates attended was himself.
The length of the article, I supposed, was designed to impress upon the reader, some form of authoritative, last word on the subject.
Sure, if you think the NYTimes is no smarter than an 8th grader.
If erring i rather do it cautiously. Or, erring is not cautious until it is ;)
--Lem
If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
--Shakespeare
Well, this is sure to illuminate a lot! Finally!
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