Ralph Peters
To get to the truth, connect the lies. Do what intel analysts and detectives do: Build a scenario from the facts and watch the lies blink red. And when anyone tells as many lies as this administration has told about its Benghazi debacle, you get a Christmas tree.
A three-act drama emerges from the facts that have leaked out. It starts ugly and turns hideous.
Act One: Our personnel in Libya worried for months about security, repeatedly petitioning the State Department for enhanced protection, especially for Benghazi. Requests denied.
Why? In Iraq, the State Department played tough guy, hiring mercenaries who gunned down innocent locals to "protect their packages" (our diplomats were the least diplomatic people we had in Baghdad). When Secretary Hillary Clinton took over, she moved, to her credit, to dump the psychos.
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The misleading began at the start: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with President Obama speaking on Benghazi in the Rose Garden on Sept. 12.
But the pendulum swung to the other extreme. Security issues became the preserve of soft-power lefties who despise our military. Putting more trust in local gunmen than in the US Marines, they got Ambassador Chris Stevens killed. "Small footprint," indeed.
The White House bears no blame for this stage. Security for diplomatic posts doesn't make any president's briefing calendar. Blame State and Mrs. Clinton.
Act Two: We now know, almost minute by minute, what happened in Benghazi. We know (as the White House knew immediately) that there was no riot. The attack had nothing to do with that goofball video.
What matters isn't just what happened in Benghazi, tragic though it was. What matters to our country is what happened in the White House this Sept. 11: All the president's men panicked.
Instead of asking themselves what they could do in Benghazi, their priority was what they could say in Washington.
Obama had campaigned as the great bin Laden-slayer. Now he faced a major terror attack on the 11th anniversary of 9/11. The "tough-on-terror" president had let down the nation's guard on the one day of every year when an Islamist terror attack is most likely.
His "White House plumbers" didn't think about the danger over there, but about the election over here. They flailed about for a way to blame the security lapse on anything but their policies. And somebody said, Hey, that Cairo demonstration was about, like, this video thing. Just say the Benghazi stuff was, like, the same and it got out of hand.
The words may not be exact, but I'd bet you a falafel sandwich they nail the essence. And the coverup began, focused not on strategic needs, but on political expediency.
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