Who Fed Susan the Benghazi Bullhockey?

Pat Buchanan

by Pat Buchanan on November 16, 2012 · 3 comments

Why would the administration hierarchy collaborate in putting out a phony story denying there had been a terrorist attack and attributing it to a spontaneous riot that never happened?

Two answers come to mind:

One, the “spontaneous protest” cover story would enable Obama to keep pushing his campaign line that he had gotten Osama bin Laden and that al-Qaida was “on the run” and “on the path to defeat.” A successful al-Qaida-type attack in Libya would have contradicted his best foreign policy claim.

Second, if it was a spontaneous attack, an attack no one could have foreseen, predicted or prevented, then that would absolve the administration of responsibility for failing to see it coming, failing to provide greater security, failing to have forces prepared to deal with it when our guys were being shot and killed for seven hours.

What was behind the cover-up is what Congress needs to find out.

 

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Pat Buchanan

By Pat Buchanan

Patrick Buchanan is a conservative political commentator and syndicated columnist and author of several books, including Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?.

  • kirk

    From my vantage point, which is very limited seeing as how I am a relative nobody living among nobodies living in a rain-swept town far west of the know everything east, this subject has a lot more to do about sniping polititions than anything else. That is not to say I think the lives of two of our very finest were unimportant – it’s the wording of the “message” that has your tail in a knot, and you cannot let the subject rest until you have spoken. You cannot rest until you find that scapegoat and send him/her off into the desert – foul odor and all.

    You, Mr. Buchanan, have said many ridiculous things in the past and you’re hoping all of us will forget those words even as we read your criticisms of another. Is it because of a compulsion to find and punish the culprit, or is it because you want to dig a deeper grave for your own mis-speaks?

    Or perhaps it’s simply a case of post-election blues – for we who favored another candidate, first comes shock, then depression, then anger. Well, it is what it is – so move on to acceptance will you, so current subjects can be pursued.

  • Peter Nyikos

    Are you old enough to remember Watergate? Or “Iran-Contragate?” Would you say that indignation over each of them was just post-election blues by Democrats whose candidate lost a lot more lopsided election than Romney did?

    Why do you suppose Nixon resigned? Would you say it was due to sniping politicians? After all, nobody died as a result of Watergate.

    I wonder whether a political animal like you can even see what I am getting at.

  • Peter Nyikos

    The one excuse I’ve seen for Rice’s and Obama’s behavior that holds any water is that the CIA wanted to be able to track down the Al-Qaida people behind the attack without any publicity about it. But that begs the question of just how high of a security clearance Susan Rice and the President have. I would imagine it is top secret for both, so they at least should have been well informed enough for Susan to avoid giving out the phony story and Obama to say something about Benghazi in the UN that didn’t have anything to do with the video.

    Maybe the CIA is to blame for excessive security, but one way or the other, we need to get to the bottom of this mess so that steps are taken for there never to be a repetition of Susan Rice’s and Obama’s charades.

    Kirk seemed oblivious to this issue, what with his use of “scapegoat” and all, and that is one reason why I used the words “political animal” in my reply to him yesterday.