Dear Fellow Americans:
When Defense Secretary Panetta and CJCS General Dempsey took the stand yesterday about Benghazi, we expected them to continue the Administration's bunk lines and obfuscation. But we did actually learn one new and very telling piece of information:
The President was completely and inexplicably AWOL on the night of the Benghazi attack.
He answered their original, pre-planned call at roughly 5 PM, but the President never called to check back in.
That means that while one of our ambassadors was being murdered by Islamist terrorists – in what they knew to be a planned attack – neither the President nor Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called to check on the situationwith DoD or try to coordinate any type of response.
President Obama simply waved his hand and told them to do as they thought best, and ostensibly went on his way that night – and to a Vegas fundraiser the next morning.
They can talk about how that is some kind of standard procedure all they want, but it is completely absurd to say that the President should be expected to staydetached from such a critical situation and let his staff run the show without any input or care as an American Ambassador and three others are killed by an Islamist mob.
Beyond that disgusting admission, the Panetta story either left numerous other questions virtually unanswered or opened up their actions and inactions to deeper scrutiny.
Less than an hour into the attack, the CIA identified the attack as a coordinated terrorist effort of al-Qaeda sympathizers. Why did the Administration continue to lie to the American people for weeks about the true nature of our Ambassador's murder?
8 Key Questions that MUST be answered by President Obama
