Benghazi-gate

Posted by hpayne on May 9, 2013

After an eight-month cover-up – by both the White House and the Mainstream Media – Benghazi-gate exploded on Capitol Hill Wednesday as the Deputy Ambassador to Libya (and the late Ambassador Chris Stevens) publicly testified on the facts behind the terrorist attack.

State Department careerist Gregory Hicks testified that  ”my jaw dropped. I was embarrassed”  when Obama appointee and U.N. ambassador Susan Rice lied on national television that the attack was the result of a spontaneous rally protesting a YouTube video. Hicks and his staff knew otherwise.

Hicks revealed that Hillary Clinton’s sham “independent” State Dept. investigation of the incident was woefully incomplete – indeed, whistleblower Mark Thompson, deputy coordinator for operations at the State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau, was not even interviewed about details. (Thompson’s revelation, incidentally, came duringquestioning by Michigan Rep. Mark Walberg, R-Tipton. Michigan Democrats were typically mute on the disturbing whistleblower testimony, as they have been incurious about the killing of a Michigan border patrol agent during Fast & Furious).

And Hicks told of Clinton’s chief-of-staff (and longtime Hillary fixer) Cheryl Mills dressing him down for refusing to clam up to Congressman Jason Chaffetz  when he came to Libya on a fact-finding mission.

The administration didn’t want to know.

Having based his 2012 re-election on the slogan “General Motors is alive and Bin Laden is dead,” Obama’s admission of Al Qaida destroying a U.S. outpost on 9/11′s anniversary would have opened a significant front against the campaign narrative. So the administration coordinated a cover-up.

As Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard has reported, CIA talking points were altered to shade the truth, we watched Ambassador Rice’s nose grow on national TV – and two weeks after the attack, President Obama himself stubbornly stuck to the narrative, lying before a U.N. Assembly in New York that the video caused the deaths of four Americans.

Dead-enders in the MSM too continued the cover-up Tuesday with CBS Radio ignoring Hicks’ revelations and running a quote from a Democratic congressmen instead, questioning Hicks’ veracity on whether military forces should have been deployed. The Detroit Free Press ignored the hearing on its website. (Even The Daily Shill’s Jon Stewart played puppet to the Democrat ventriloquist.)

Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney  desperately tried to dismiss the Hicks testimony as “something that happened a long time ago.”

But to the families of the dead Sate Department employees the memories – and the cover-up – are still fresh. “When she told me that they would catch the maker of the video, I know she wasn’t telling the truth,” said Charles Woods when Hillary lied to him about the cause  of his son’s death.

Benghazi-gate. Another Nixonian political cover-up. And this time, abetted by journalists.

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