Dear All,
Below, is an article just published in the Washington Times that confirms the Obama Administrations intentionally covered up the truth in regards to the tragic Benghazi Affair where US Ambassador Stevens and three others were killed.
Sadly, my thoughts go to the families of Ambassador Chris Stevens and the three men who died in Benghazi on 9/11/2012 and how they must feel tonight; knowing that their President and Secretary of State, instead of telling the American people the truth, had the audacity to lie to them and cowardly deciding to not provide them the full facts; just so the they could protect the president’s political rear-end for re-election.
Just for the record, here is what then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had to say to a congressman only two days after the attack:
Ill. Rep.:
Clinton yelled at congressman for calling Benghazi a terrorist attack
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/16/illinois-lawmaker-hillary-clinton-screamed-closed-/And then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton angrily had this to say during testimony before a congressional hearing on the Benghazi tragedy:
Hillary
Clinton/Ron Johnson Engage in Heated Exchange at Benghazi Hearing (Video)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/hillary-clinton-ron-johnson_n_2533819.htmlExcerpt: "With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans," Clinton responded, raising her voice at Johnson, who continued to interrupt her. "Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk last night who decided to kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator."
“NEVER FORGET” – The families of the dead deserved much better.......as did the Citizens of the United States.
Ron Kirkish
Email ensuring ‘Obama looked good’ was post-Benghazi priority
By Cheryl K. Chumley – The Washington Times, Tuesday, April
29, 2014
Key communication chiefs at the White House
waged an all-out strategy to rally behind President Obama and help him push the
mantra that the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on the U.S. facility in
Benghazi were due to an Internet video — and not policy failure, a watchdog
revealed.
Key to the messaging: Making sure the
president appeared strong in the face of adversity, the nonprofit Judicial
Watch found, in a recently received FOIA request.
Judicial Watch found — after sifting
through documents that were requested from the Department of State on June 21,
2013 — an email from Ben Rhodes,
then-White House
deputy strategic communications adviser, that showed he joined with others to
devise a public relations campaign to “reinforce” Mr. Obama’s statements that
an anti-Islam video spurred the attacks.
The main point of the White House
team’s strategy was to paint the terrorist attack as being “rooted in an
Internet video and not a failure of policy,” Judicial Watch said in an emailed
release. Meanwhile, the State Department — at the same time that message was
being shaped — initially considered the incident simply an “attack,” and
perhaps even a kidnap try, the watchdog said.
The email from Mr. Rhodes,
dated Sept. 14, 2012, read in part: “Goal: … To underscore that these protests
are rooted in [an] Internet video and not a broader failure or policy.”
Mr.
Rhodes also went on, Judicial Watch reported:
“[W]e’ve made our views on this video crystal clear. The United States government
had nothing to do with it. We reject its message and its contents. We find it
disgusting and reprehensible. But there is absolutely no justification at all
for responding to this movie with violence. And we are working to make sure
that people around the globe hear that message.”
In the email, Mr. Rhodes
also advises key White House
and administration officials to make sure they presented Mr. Obama as “steady
and statesmanlike” whenever speaking of the crisis. Another “goal,” he said, in
his email, was to “reinforce the president and administration’s strength and
steadiness in dealing with difficult challenges,” Judicial Watch reported.
The recipients of the email included White House
press secretary Jay Carney and then-White House
Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, along with several others, Judicial Watch
said.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said
the latest email only proves that the White House’s
main concern in the wake of the Benghazi attack that left four Americans dead
was image — more than truth.
“Now we know that Obama White House’s
chief concern about the Benghazi attack was making sure that President Obama
looked good,” he said in a statement.
Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador
J. Christopher Stevens, died in the terror attack.
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