Truth Wins: The Benghazi Cover Up is Finally Collapsing
The Obama administration’s massive web of lies is finally starting to collapse under its own weight as we’re seeing more and more evidence that directly contradicts their version of the facts surrounding the events in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 and the following days.
In a hard-hitting op-ed for Breitbart, Pamela Geller, President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), details how documents recently released are exposing the Obama administration’s massive coverup of what they knew and when regarding the Benghazi attacks.
We’ve reported that an email released to Judicial Watch via a FOIA lawsuit is the “smoking gun” of the entire coverup, showing how the White House directed Susan Rice to claim that the attack was over a video and not an act of terrorism.
But Geller notes that this is just the beginning, as the documents reveal numerous other lies that the Obama administration perpetuated to create a narrative that would be favorable to the President during his campaign for reelection.
In a memo from former Deputy Spokesman at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations Payton Knopf to Susan Rice and others, Knopf provides “Guidance on Events in Libya 9/12/12. (Today’s initial guidance from NSS and State).” In it, he gives a timeline (“the tick tock”) of events on that day and quotes the State Department’s Victoria Nuland as saying that “it was clearly a complex attack.”
In the same memo, Knopf discusses Obama’s “tick tock” during Benghazi. The president was made aware of the attack on the afternoon of September 11, 2012 “as he started his weekly meeting with the Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.” [...]
But what’s salient here is that according to Benghazi transcripts of defense testimony, just minutes after the American consulate in Benghazi was attacked, senior defense officials, both civilian and military, were told that it was a “terrorist attack.” So why did the Obama White House promote a false narrative, and why didn’t defense officials speak out about this false claim?
Obviously, if the testimony given by Deputy CIA Director Michael Morrell and others is true, the intelligence community knew very soon that Benghazi was a terrorist attack, and (you’d think) Obama would’ve been informed of that at his briefing with defense personnel.
These documents also indicate that administration officials knew on the night of September 11 that Ambassador Stevens had been killed, yet Obama apparently wasn’t informed of this fact until the next morning.
After being notified that it was a terrorist attack on the afternoon of September 11, 2012, Obama was “updated several times throughout the evening and the next morning.” When asked when he had heard of Ambassador Steven’s murder, Nuland said, “The president was notified last night that Ambassador Stevens was unaccounted for and then notified again this morning of about his tragic death.”
At 11:53 PM on September 11, senior adviser Eric Pelofsky told Rice that a Libyan government official had called him to “extend his condolences” over Ambassador Stevens’ death. Pelofsky said that they had not recovered the Ambassador’s body, but referred to “a photo on twitter of someone carrying a body of someone who resembles Chris over their shoulder.” Pelofsky had previously written that it looked as if the death of Stevens was a kidnapping gone bad. “Yes – I’m very worried. In particular, that he is either dead or this was a concerted effort to kidnap him,” wrote Pelofsky at 9:06 PM Eastern the night of the attack. This, too, contradicts the State Department version of events.
If an American ambassador had been killed during an attack overseas, you’d expect our President to be informed of this fact immediately so he can respond, not told about it when it was convenient the next morning. Being President means being on duty 24/7.
But if you’ll remember, Obama was suspiciously missing during the attack, and attended a campaign event the next day. Obviously, his priorities didn’t involve the safety of our personnel who were under attack.
As if we needed more evidence to show that Obama knew very soon that it was a terrorist attack, another email shows that the Administration was informed that Ansar al-Sharia, an al-Qaeda affiliate and confirmed terrorist organization, was claiming credit for the attack on the very day it happened.
And yet we’re still supposed to believe that the “best intelligence available” at the time Rice appeared on the Sunday talk shows was that this was a protest over some video?
In an email on September 11, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Alex McPhillips, Press Officer at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, advised Rice that Ansar Al-Sharia was attacking the consulate. The first reports came into the White House between 4:00 and 5:00 PM that day.
In the same email from Knopf concerning “Guidance on Events in Libya 9/12/12,” he asked Nuland what State knew about the group taking credit, Ansar al-Sharia. Nuland would only say, “It’s very early and I’m not going to be able to offer an assessment of this group.” The point is – it was known that Ansar al-Sharia was taking credit for the attack in a widely distributed State Department email on September 12, 2012. Everybody knew that the al-Qaeda-linked group was behind the attack.
Yet the White House statement of September 12, 2012 did not call it a terror attack. Obama called it “an outrageous attack.”
Perhaps the most egregious lie of them all was the statement by Susan Rice that the security at Benghazi was “strong and significant.”
The Libyan forces meant to protect the embassy actually consisted of known terrorists from the al-Qaeda affiliated February 17 Brigade, a jihadist militia that is accused of committing many atrocities during the Libyan Civil War.
In an email at 4:49 PM on September 11th– 49 minutes after the attack began, according to the State Department’s own timeline – State’s Dan Fogarty advised several officials, including Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, Victoria Nuland, and others that the February 17 Brigade were responding to the attack on the mission [consulate] “engaging the attackers, taking fire, and working its way to the compound to get to the villa…”
The February 17 Revolution Brigade is a jihadist militia that is tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. It was repeatedly accused of engaging in atrocities during and after the Libyan Civil War. Yes, with the world’s largest, most technologically advanced, and best-armed military, the Obama administration and State Department outsourced their response to a jihadist group.
Back in September 2012, according to the Daily Beast, “the intelligence community had an intercept between a Libyan politician whose sympathies are with al Qaeda and the Libyan militia known as the February 17 Brigade – which had been charged with providing local security to the consulate. In the intercept, the Libyan politician apparently asks an officer in the brigade to have his men stand down for a pending attack – another piece of evidence implying the violence was planned in advance.” In other words, it wasn’t a spontaneous reaction to a video about Muhammad.
In other words, the people we hired to protect our embassy literally coordinated with a Libyan politician who was in the know about the attack to stand down and let the terrorists right into the embassy. Absolutely disgusting.
Geller says that these are not only impeachable offenses but acts of treason against the United States. We have more than enough evidence to show that every one of these claims is true, and that Obama is actively keeping these documents from Congress to save his own skin. Sickening.
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