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Benghazi fallout- the dam is breaking
13 May 2013
(LPAC)—The dam is clearly breaking on Benghazi, as the major media and even Democrats have been forced to deal with the Obama coverup. On Fox News Sunday, Doug Shoen and Pat Caddell, who both attempted to launch a write-in campaign for Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire last year, stressed that the issue is the Obama White House. Cadell pointed specifically to Tom Donilon, Obama’s National Security Advisory, as a person whose role in the affair is deserving of investagation. What follows are a number of statements made on Sunday: ABC This Week host Martha Raddatz: "Congressman Steven King, Republican from Iowa, said it was bigger than Watergate. And this is what Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe said..." Inhofe : "We may be starting to use the `I’ word before too long." Humphries: "The `I’ word, meaning impeachment?" Inhofe: "Yeah. Of all of the great cover-ups in history, we’re talking about the Pentagon Papers, the Iran Contra, Watergate, and all of the rest of them. This is going to go down as the most serious, most egregious cover-up in American history." Kirsten Powers (FOX News) : "If it was President Bill Clinton. I’m sorry, like I worked in the Clinton administration. I have never seen anything like this. Bill Clinton would not have gotten away with this." Senator Susan Collins (CNN State of the Union) : "We had a career CIA agent who was the woman who first drafted the very first talking points tell us [the Senate Homeland Security Committee] that there was no national security reason for the line about the links to al Qaeda to have been dropped from the talking points. "And indeed, there was a plane from Tripoli of very brave security officers who are coming to Benghazi who were held up by the Libyans for three hours at the airport. And we still don’t have a good answer as to why." Kucinich (Fox News): "Well, I didn’t need those memos to know that it was wrong for us to intervene in Libya. This is one liberal Democrat who said the intervention was wrong." AP: "California’s Rep. Darrell Issa, head of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Sunday said he would like to interview under oath former Ambassador Thomas Pickering and retired Adm. Mike Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff." ABC’s Jonathan Karl , who broke the news on the multiple revisions to the Obama administration’s Benghazi talking points, revealed on Sunday that then-CIA director David Petraeus thought the final product was essentially useless. An e-mail from Petraeus says of the final sanitized version of the talking points: "I would just as soon not use them, but it’s their [the White House’s] call." Greg Hicks, the former deputy chief of mission in Libya, according to his lawyer, Victoria Toensing, is a registered Democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primary, and for then-Illinois Sen. Obama in the 2008 general election. He again voted for Obama in 2012. (wfw) |