The wheels of Benghazi justice…
Slowly. Very slowly. And Sharyl Attkisson, who’s been dogged in pursuit from the start, is still on the case:
As the House Select Committee on Benghazi prepares for its first hearing this week, a former State Department diplomat is coming forward with a startling allegation: Hillary Clinton confidants were part of an operation to “separate” damaging documents before they were turned over to the Accountability Review Board investigating security lapses surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.
According to former Deputy Assistant Secretary Raymond Maxwell, the after-hours session took place over a weekend in a basement operations-type center at State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. This is the first time Maxwell has publicly come forward with the story.
At the time, Maxwell was a leader in the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, which was charged with collecting emails and documents relevant to the Benghazi probe.
“I was not invited to that after-hours endeavor, but I heard about it and decided to check it out on a Sunday afternoon,” Maxwell says.
He didn’t know it then, but Maxwell would ultimately become one of four State Department officials singled out for discipline””he says scapegoated””then later cleared for devastating security lapses leading up to the attacks…
…When he arrived, Maxwell says he observed boxes and stacks of documents. He says a State Department office director, whom Maxwell described as close to Clinton’s top advisers, was there. Though the office director technically worked for him, Maxwell says he wasn’t consulted about her weekend assignment.
“She told me, ”˜Ray, we are to go through these stacks and pull out anything that might put anybody in the [Near Eastern Affairs] front office or the seventh floor in a bad light,’” says Maxwell. He says “seventh floor” was State Department shorthand for then-Secretary of State Clinton and her principal advisers.
“I asked her, ”˜But isn’t that unethical?’ She responded, ”˜Ray, those are our orders.’ ”
They used to say “it’s not the crime, it’s the coverup.” In this case I’d say both crime and coverup are pretty reprehensible. And yet so far they’ve only gotten traction with the right. Will that ever change? I hope so, but I have strong doubts, and it’s for a strange reason: too many other dreadful things have happened at the hands of this administration for people to focus on any one thing. And that’s by design.
The other reason isn’t so strange. It’s that the MSM is still doing its level best to participate in the coverup, because this outrage was committed by the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton rather than Republicans. Ask Sharyl Attkisson; she knows all about it:
On March 10, 2014, Attkisson resigned from CBS News, reportedly due to frustration over what she perceived to be the network’s liberal bias and lack of dedication to investigative reporting, as well as issues she had with the network’s corporate partners. She is working on a book tentatively called Stonewalled: One Reporter’s Fight for Truth in Obama’s Washington regarding the difficulties of reporting critically about the administration.
Attkisson’s book is due for release on November 4, and the title appears to have been changed to the longer Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington.
Strangely enough, that publication date is Election Day, 2014. I wonder who’s plan that was? Seems to me it would have been better to bring it out prior to that.
“Strangely enough, that publication date is Election Day, 2014. I wonder who’s plan that was? Seems to me it would have been better to bring it out prior to that.”
But to bring it out on Election Day, inoculates Sharyl Attkisson from the charge of publishing a tome designed to influence an election. I well imagine Attkisson is writing more for the longer term, and not for any partisan advantage, describing pitfalls faced by *serious* journalists (are there any left, other than Attkisson and maybe a handful more?).
A journalist with integrity? Now that is newsworthy!
It’s not just a cover-up to obstruct justice. It’s a criminal conspiracy to transform America into a Marxist/socialist State by any means necessary. As insurance against failure, the left is simultaneously creating and facilitating conditions that are designed to result in the destruction of America.
The American left is as much an enemy of America as is ISIS.
Waiting for Trey Gowdy to question Cheryl Mills under oath.
Berghdahl. Benghazi. The Border. My god, there’s so many, you can alliterate them.
And just of the three above, which one is the worst?
waitforit:
IMHO, the border.
But they are all dreadful.
Hussein O’s election isn’t in 2014. That’s what people don’t get about the Left. It’s not a political party like the Democrats. It’s more like a military alliance, an axis of evil.
Justice has no meaning when the innocent is the one ground up and grinded down, and the guilty are given more or less than they deserve.
Waitforit,
The one you left out of your alliteration trail. Barack.
They used to say “it’s not the crime, it’s the coverup.” In this case I’d say both crime and coverup are pretty reprehensible.
We still don’t know the size and shape of the underlying crime. I have a strong hunch it’s enormous. I’m looking at Obama’s complete misunderstanding of the nature of the threat in the ME, specifically ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and his stubborn insistence on remaining in a state of ideologically-fueled ignorance of the true state of things, as confirmation of my hunch.
There was no spontaneous “Arab Spring.” It was a long planned Muslim Brotherhood operation. The MB has been usurped in a lot of places since then by even more extreme Islamic supremacists. They miscalculated their level of control. But more importantly, Obama misjudged things on an even more massive scale.
In one of the emails the WH was forced to release concerning the talking points, one of the goals they hoped to achieve with those talking points was to spin this “To underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.”
Naturally we can state with confidence that assault on our embassy was just one of the earlier visible, bloody consequences of the broader policy failure. ISIS being one of the more recent. This policy wasn’t just a failure, it was a betrayal of this country. And I predict with a high degree of confidence that Obama and his minions committed serious felonies in pursuit of that traitorous policy failure.
There are reports Rodham pulled the Blackwater guards of the ambass. and then commissioned the video itself.
Which is why they were able to immediately blame the video later, they had planned on it.
Given how dumb the Regime is on most things, talking about “I didn’t know”, the fact that they knew immediately about the video was telling.
I’ve read pretty credible accounts that the maladministration had been linked to the video producer and yet others — going quite a ways back.
In sum: he and his buddies were deniable assets that were trying to establish street cred within the fanatic community.
If so, this would be entirely consistent with a clandestine op.
One must imagine that the CIA has been trying to penetrate the fanatic crowd with any number of players — turned or otherwise.
As for the CIA, like other intelligence services, many of their successful ops look like Hogans Heroes scripts. And they actually do work.
The wheel has completed its spin. http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/Benghazi%20Report.pdf
Foobar:
Not in the least complete.
See this.