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Why Benghazi Should Matter To Every American (VIDEO)

Friday, April 10, 2015 2:48

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By: Voice of Reason

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It is understandable why the Obama Administration and Democrats will try to use “Benghazi Exhaustion Syndrome” to its fullest extent during the November elections to try to keep people from following the story. Those of us who care about rule of law, the Constitution, and accountability can be thankful for a few things:

FIRST, whatever any Democrat says out on the campaign trail by calling the investigation “political” or a “witch hunt” will be easily muted by any audio or video of Trey Gowdy played to counter it. Far be it within the powers of any of the fools in the Senate running for re-election to match Trey’s wit, let alone the fact that he is MORALLY RIGHT! The best thing Democrats can do is shut up and not draw more attention to themselves over it. Americans are a good and MORAL people. When they learn the FULL TRUTH, which WILL come out, they are sure to be REPULSED by Obama and his ilk.

SECOND, there will FINALLY be SUBPOENA power. That is what Trey has been asking for all along. Until now, there has been very little he could do. He’s been a great foot soldier to Darrell Issa, and if Trey has done nothing else, his sound bites have kept the Benghazi issue from dying. Beyond that, he’s had his hands tied for the most part.

With subpoena power, Trey can call whoever he wants to testify, and frankly I hope they perjure themselves. For those who don’t know, subpoena power is the ability to DEMAND the paper trail, or to FORCE government workers to testify about what they knew and when they knew it, or face OBSTRUCTION and PRISON CHARGES!

THAT IS WHY THIS COMMITTEE IS SUCH A BIG DEAL!

THAT IS HOW YOU CAN BE SURE WE’LL GET ANSWERS!

Trey is WAY smarter than 99% of anyone involved he might call to testify, so I hope they commit perjury. TREY WILL CATCH THEM! How do I know that? Because if they had ANY brains at all, we’d never be in this situation in the first place. If they are caught perjuring themselves, they have a nice prison cell awaiting them, because I am SURE Trey will go after them!

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The mainstream media declared the Benghazi story insignificant long ago. To the extent it is covered, the focus is usually on the horrific and unnecessary deaths of four Americans. The Obama administration dismisses it as a lot of fuss about a few silly talking points.

But everybody is missing the big-picture story of the Benghazi affair and its cover-up. It’s about the White House using the intelligence community for its own political purposes, and lying to the American public in order to win an election. It’s about abuse of power, and that is a big deal.

That’s why the administration cannot be allowed to investigate itself. That’s why it is time for Congress to appoint a special committee to get to the bottom of the story.

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If it turns out that Benghazi and the cover-up were just a series of junior level mistakes, that is the end of it. But if it turns out the administration was using the military and intelligence communities for political purposes prior to the attack, during the attack and in a subsequent cover-up, it must be held accountable. Because once the precedent is set, future administrations will feel no reluctance to do the same.

America has the most powerful military and intelligence services in the world, probably in the history of the world. They have an infrastructure that endures separately and beyond any administration or politician.

At the same time, the military-intelligence complex takes its orders from the American people, through their elected/appointed representatives in the White House and Cabinet.

It’s a sacred trust at the heart of our Constitution, as set out in civilian control of the military. But it comes at a price – that our civilian leaders do not abuse that power and bend the military and intelligence communities to do their political dirty work.

The president doesn’t order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn’t order his intelligence community to lie about national security for political purposes. He uses the military or intelligence communities to protect the United States and our citizens, not to help him win elections.

That’s the heart of the Benghazi scandal and cover-up. The White House twisted intelligence to suit its political needs.

I was part of the Nixon administration during Watergate. I was a junior staffer on the National Security Council and helped keep the classified files. At the heart of the Watergate investigation was the president’s abuse of power – secretly using the intelligence community for political purposes and then using the intelligence community for cover when it became public.

It was a difficult time for the nation, and certainly for anyone in the White House. But it was necessary, especially in hindsight. It wasn’t just about a president lying to the American people. It was a check on the seemingly unlimited power of the president to use the military and civilian career government bureaucracy for his own political goals.

It is now incumbent on the congressional leadership to act. There have been countless hearings into Benghazi by numerous congressional committees, but none have had subpoena power to demand the paper trail, or to force government workers to testify about what they knew and when they knew it.

The questions at the heart of the Benghazi scandal and cover-up are specifically:

1. Did the White House fail to provide adequate security at the Benghazi consulate because it didn’t want to acknowledge that a terrorist threat remained, even though Bin Laden was dead?

2. Did the White House order the intelligence community to change its analysis so the president could claim his policy was a success, rather than a failure, just a few weeks before an election?

3. And, finally, what was the relationship between an overzealous White House staff and the president himself? What did the president know, and when did he know it?

This is no longer just a political issue. It’s not just a partisan witch hunt. It goes to the heart of what our system of government is all about. That’s why it’s time for Congress to act and create a bipartisan special committee to get to the bottom of this, once and for all.

That’s why Benghazi matters.

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