Sharyl Atkisson’s take:
Obama administration officials have insisted they were acting on “the best intelligence available at the time” and that they clarified the story as they got more information.
But taken as a whole, the documents and testimony revealed since the attacks support the idea that the administration’s avoidance of the word “terrorism” was a strategy rather than an accident or mistake.
You don’t say.
Hey, I agree with Ralph Nader on something.
Only in that he must love poor people, because he has made so many of them.
Some thoughts on the Left’s cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy.
I’d like to see a poll of how many people who voted for Obama wouldn’t have if they’d known he was lying about Benghazi. As he repeatedly lied about ObamaCare.
Obama won’t be impeached and removed (at least not before the election), for the reasons Glenn writes. But in a sane world, he would be. Of course, in a sane world, he’d have never been president.
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Here’s the story. That’s being ignored because of an octogenarian racist team owner in the NBA.
Rogozin is threatening to cut off US access to the ISS, on the same day that the House space subcommittee marks up a bill declaring that “safety is the highest priority.”
Idiots.
The White House joins it.
I wouldn’t send my son to public schools, and I’d think twice about paying for a college education, at this point.
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And then there’s all the politically correct absurdity.
“How I know they will win.”
If they’re finally turning on him, it’s six years too late:
A king is no king without a court, and Obama has not lacked for lackeys. The system of checks and balances is written into the Constitution, but it is the everyday behavior of Americans of good will that makes the system work.
That system broke down under Obama, and the blame starts with the media. By giving the president the benefit of the doubt at every turn, by making excuses to explain away fiascos, by ignoring corruption, by buying the White House line that his critics were motivated by pure politics or racism, the Times and other organizations played the role of bartender to a man on a bender.
Even worse, they joined the party, forgetting the lessons of history as well as their own responsibilities to put a check on power. A purpose of a free press is to hold government accountable, but there is no fallback when the watchdog voluntarily chooses to be a lapdog.
Apparently, as we saw in the nineties, the only way to get the press to do its job is to put a Republican in the White House.