John Hinderaker
PowerLine
9/29/2012
It is a common tactic among politicians and others who are in trouble to plead guilty to a lesser offense in order to distract attention from their real transgression. That is, I think, what the Obama administration has done in admitting belatedly that the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was an act of terrorism, not, as Mark Steyn put it, a movie review that got out of hand. Scott detailed that sorry history earlier this morning. The administration hopes, I think, that acknowledging the obvious with respect to the nature of the attack will allow the press to put the whole issue aside until after the election.
But an important question remains–a question that is not only important, but is far more explosive, politically, than how the genesis of the event is classified. That question is, what happened to Ambassador Stevens? In particular, when and how did he die? Who killed him? And what lapses on the part of the Obama/Clinton State Department made his murder sickeningly easy?
The administration first put out the story that Stevens, who fled to a supposedly safe house along with several others during the first wave of the attack, was overcome by smoke inhalation and, apparently, abandoned by whoever had been with him. He was then found by a group of friendly Libyans who rushed him to the nearest hospital, where he was pronounced dead from smoke inhalation by a physician who added that there were no signs of any other injury. There you have it: Stevens’ death was virtually accidental.
But the facts never aligned with this narrative. Stevens’ whereabouts were unknown for a long time; the estimates I have seen range between four and ten hours…the videos and photographs that have emerged on the internet do not support the administration’s narrative…
…An account in one Arabic-language newspaper is so horrifying that I will not describe it here…
Read the entire article at PowerLine.
Also at the site, Ishmael Jones: After Benghazi
