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Commission Finds Benghazi Could Have Been Avoided if US Had Not Switched Sides in War on Terror
This story is a bombshell. Yet to hear about it, you might have to turn to the British press:
The Citizens Commission on Benghazi, a self-selected group of former top military officers, CIA insiders and think-tankers, declared Tuesday in Washington that a seven-month review of the deadly 2012 terrorist attack has determined that it could have been prevented – if the U.S. hadn’t been helping to arm al-Qaeda militias throughout Libya a year earlier.
“The United States switched sides in the war on terror with what we did in Libya, knowingly facilitating the provision of weapons to known al-Qaeda militias and figures,” Clare Lopez, a member of the commission and a former CIA officer, told MailOnline. …
“The White House and senior Congressional members,” the group wrote in an interim report released Tuesday, “deliberately and knowingly pursued a policy that provided material support to terrorist organizations in order to topple a ruler [Muammar Gaddafi] who had been working closely with the West actively to suppress al-Qaeda.”
“Some look at it as treason,” said Wayne Simmons, a former CIA officer who participated in the commission’s research.
Retired Rear Admiral Chuck Kubic, another commission member, told reporters Tuesday that those weapons are now “all in Syria.”
There they are being used by Obama’s insurgent allies to murder Christians.
The commission faults the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in Chief for refusing to make peace with Gaddafi, a reformed villain who was willing to step down. Obama apparently preferred that radical Islamists take control of the country, as they had done with his support in Egypt.
As for claims that there was nothing the White House could do except watch the attack go on for 7 hours on real-time video transmitted by a drone,
[Admiral (Ret.) James “Ace” Lyons] said U.S. claims that it lacked the resources to mount a counterattack in time to save lives is false.
“I’m going to tell you that’s not true,” he said. “We had a 130-man unit of forces at Sigonella [AFB in Italy]. They were ready to go.”
“The flight time from Sigonella to Benghazi is roughly an hour.”
No wonder Obama et al. panicked to such an extreme that they tried to sell the public on the absurd lie that an anti-Islam video out of California caused the entire bloodbath. If the Obama Regime were not effectively an extension of the leftwing media establishment that put it in power, the screams for impeachment if not trial for treason would be rattling windowpanes.
“We don’t claim to have all the answers here,” said Roger Aronoff, whose center-right group Accuracy in Media sponsored the group and its work.
“We hope you will, please, pursue this,” he told reporters. “Check it out. Challenge us.”
They would — if they could shoot the commission down. Since they can’t, they will just ignore it. In politics, if a tree falls in the forest and the “mainstream” media authorities don’t report it, it doesn’t make a sound. There never even was any tree, as far as the herd is concerned.
Patriots could do an end run around the establishment media. But can they get around Obama’s RINO enablers?
The group has called for a Select Congressional Committee to investigate the Benghazi episode. A total of 189 House members have signed on to a bill that would create the committee, which would be bipartisan and have sweeping powers to subpoena the executive branch.
But according to Lopez,
“[House Speaker John Boehner] blocked it. One has to wonder if he and Congress have had some sort of briefing on what happened.”
Boehner must be replaced as soon as possible with someone willing to get the truth out to the public. Our government allegedly represents us. We have every right to know what it has been up to, especially when it gets Americans killed.
On tips from Ben S and Dan.
Source: http://moonbattery.com/?p=44961
