◼ Facts emerging about Benghazi may not tell us anything new, but they remind us of two important truths: - Timothy P. Carney/Washington Examiner @TPCarney
First, the upper levels of the Obama administration are peppered with partisans who play fast and loose with the truth for political gain.
Second, regime change and military interventions, especially in the Muslim world, are messy, destabilizing and deadly.
The White House and the State Department have consistently misled the public about the terrorist attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, White House press secretary Jay Carney, and President Obama all tried last September to convince Americans that the attacks were spontaneous mob violence arising from protests over an anti-Islamic video on YouTube. Ambassador Susan Rice famously made this claim on Sept. 16 on five Sunday morning talk shows.
This was false...
◼ Across U.S., Editorial Boards Press For More Answers on Benghazi - speaker.gov
◼ Shine a light on events in and after Benghazi - Long Island’s Newsday
Emotional testimony from a top diplomat who was in Tripoli, Libya, during the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi made it clear Wednesday that the White House misled the public by not immediately calling it what it was -- an organized act of terrorism.◼ Republicans are also right that the administration should release e-mails around the attack and make key personnel available to testify if needed - The Denver Post
Obscuring the truth for partisan political advantage during a re-election campaign is atrocious behavior unbefitting any American president....
◼ Obama officials, past and present, should step up with the information Americans deserve. - Dallas Morning News
◼ We’re left with consequences of Benghazi decisions that … need to be explained to Americans – the families of Doherty, Woods, Smith and Stevens included. - Chicago Tribune
◼ Even after explosive congressional testimony … the nation is left with a growing list of unanswered questions. - Augusta Chronicle
◼ There are a lot of questions still about Benghazi. And Hicks and his dead colleagues deserve to have them answered. - Arizona Republic
◼ Benghazi deserves real review. Four Americans … were killed by terrorists who have not been brought to justice. A congressional investigation is warranted… - Baltimore Sun
◼ That is something that deserves tough, strong, independent scrutiny … to answer critical nagging questions and set the historical record straight. - New York Daily News
◼ As many Americans … remain in harm’s way overseas, a serious, public look at what happened on that day was too long in coming. More details are likely to come out. The American public deserves to know more. - Casa Grande Dispatch
◼ Obama knee-deep in Nixon-esque scandal - Joe Battenfeld/Boston Herald (image source)
President Obama’s second-term campaign slogan was “Forward,” but instead we’ve got cover-ups, congressional investigations and the government persecution of political opponents and reporters.◼ Dems vow: ‘Hell to pay’ if IRS allegations ring true - Hillary Chabot , O’Ryan Johnson/Boston Herald
That sounds like “backward” to me. All the way to, say, 1972.
Who would have guessed that just a few months into his second term, President Obama would be compared to Tricky Dick. And by a liberal Massachusetts Democrat — U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano.
Outraged Bay State Democrats are blasting President Obama for exhibiting a Nixonian abuse of power after the stunning news that the Department of Justice secretly obtained Associated Press phone records and the IRS targeted conservative groups — new scandals emerging against the backdrop of heightened Benghazi criticism.◼ Critics draw comparisons to Watergate - Hillary Chabot /Boston Herald
“There’s no way in the world I’m going to defend that. Hell, I spent my youth vilifying the Nixon administration for doing the same thing. If they did that, there should be hell to pay,” U.S. Rep. Michael E. Capuano (D-Somerville) said about the IRS scandal. “Not only is it bad government and bad to society, it is horrendous politics. The worst thing you can do is give your opponent an easy hammer with which to hit you.”
“It doesn’t seem to be a couple rogue employees. This appeared to be a systemic issue,” said U.S. Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-South Boston), who wants to investigate the matter as a member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The committee already has scheduled a hearing on the issue for this week, Lynch said, adding, “No American should find themselves the target of the IRS or any other federal organization because of their political beliefs.”
Both U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Malden) and the GOP’s Gabriel Gomez, rivals in the Senate special election, slammed the administration’s actions, as new reports emerged yesterday that the Department of Justice seized two months’ worth of phone records from Associated Press reporters and editors.
◼ Abuses of power - Boston Herald
The press, Republicans and even Democrats are turning on the Obama administration as it faces three scandals that critics say show Nixonian levels of abuse◼ THE BOSTON HERALD GOES ALL IN ON THE OBAMA SCANDALS: - Instapundit
