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This from Peggy Noonan:
“The Obama White House sees every event as a political event . 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.”
To rephrase Sen. Howard Baker famous questions from an earlier congressional investigation of a presidential cover-up called Watergate: What did Ms. Jarrett do, and when did she do it?"
good to knowJon Stewart annihilates Peggy Noonan
Seriously, folks, this might be Stewart's best clip of the year.
The best they have to offer is a joker on Comedy Central, the new name for the DNC.
I notice there was a 3-week gap in posts in this thread. Apparently "CIA waters down talking points to mask extent of its own operations in Benghazi" is less titillating than "Obama orders assassination of ambassador, staff."
Apparently, State knew almost instantly it was terrorism.
But, with an election looming and trying to suggest killing bin Laden had tamped down terrorism, the W House decided to spin a fable about a video.
Somehow it's inconceivable that the US President wouldn't know immediately and exactly what was happening on the other side of the world.
9:40 p.m. (3:40 p.m. ET): Gunfire and an explosion are heard. A TOC agent sees dozens of armed people over security camera flowing through a pedestrian gate at the compound's main entrance. It is not clear how the gate was opened.
The agent hits the alarm and alerts the CIA security team in the nearby annex and the Libyan 17th of February Brigade, one of several powerful militias serving as a de facto security presence in Benghazi. The embassy in Tripoli and the State Dept. command center were also alerted.
State Dept. Diplomatic Security follows events in real time on a listen-only, audio-only feed, according to testimony of Charlene Lamb, the deputy assistant director for international programs, given before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Oct 10.
10:05 p.m. (4:05 p.m. ET): An alert from the State Department Operations Center is issued to a number of government and intelligence agencies, including the White House Situation Room, the office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the FBI. "US Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi Under Attack" -- "approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well.
Without knowing the actual number, I'm going to guess that 97% of Americans have no fucking idea what the "Benghazi" thing is actually about, (s)...
Without knowing the actual number, I'm going to guess that 97% of Americans have no fucking idea what the "Benghazi" thing is actually about, have some vague sense that the Republicans think the President got something wrong, and wouldn't care if it went away tomorrow.
He's a lame-duck president. Republicans forgot to shift tactics after the last election. They're closing in on costing themselves the next one(s)...