Sunday, November 18, 2012

Bam’s Benghazi blues

We don’t have all the details of former CIA Director David Petraeus’ testimony to congressional Intelligence Committees yesterday, but it looks like the American people were grossly misled about the Benghazi attack.
Is anyone surprised? You shouldn’t be.
The last thing the Obama administration wanted to tell the American public during a tight presidential campaign was that al Qaeda had attacked a US consulate on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, killing four brave Americans.
That sort of revelation flew directly in the face of the narrative being spooned out by Team Obama during the fall campaign, laden with phrases like “Osama bin Laden is dead” and al Qaeda is “on the run” or “on the path to defeat.”
It also messed up the administration’s narrative on Libya and the Arab Spring generally, where we were supposed to be on the verge of a new and improved Middle East and North Africa, the result of Team Obama’s deft diplomacy.
Now news reports tell us that Petraeus told the Intelligence Committees yesterday behind closed doors that the CIA knew Benghazi “was a terrorist attack and there were terrorists involved from the start.”

Read more:  http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/bam_benghazi_blues_5VhenIYyP7toatTM976oUP

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