The Obama Administration is battling
on three fronts as Americans are asking more and more questions about what is
happening and why. The three issues include
the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, the IRS targeting conservative individuals
and groups, and the DOJ illegally tapping twenty telephone lines at the
Associated Press in an effort to identify a whistleblower. The Administration is trying to cover up all three
scandals with lies and more lies.
The terrorist attacks in
Benghazi jumped into the headlines last week during congressional
hearings. The testimonies of three
whistleblowers were at direct odds to the reports out of the Obama
Administration. It seems that the more
we learn about the attacks, the more lies we hear. The lies have come from a variety of people,
including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, Jay Carney, and others.
Thomas Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, wrote: “There can be honest differences of opinion
on many subjects. But there can also be
dishonest differences. Last week’s
testimony under oath about events in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, makes
painfully clear that what the Obama administration told the American people
about those events were lies out of whole cloth.”
Glenn Beck highlighted the lies that he considered to be the “most important and revealing
falsehoods” that were “fed to the American people” about what happened in
Benghazi. He noted that there were more lies,
but he chose only the “top” twenty and listed them in no particular order.
1. Susan
Rice, UN Ambassador: “Our current best
assessment based on the information we have at present is that in fact what
this began as was a spontaneous, not a premeditated, response to what had
transpired in Cairo.” (The testimonies
of whistleblowers prove that the Obama Administration knew in advance.)
2. Barack
Obama, US President: “What we do know is
that the natural protests that arose because of the outrage over the video were
used as an excuse by extremists to see if they can also directly harm U.S.
interests.” (Testimony proves that the
video was not the cause.)
3. Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s campaign
spokesperson: “But the entire reason
that this has become the, you know, political topic it is is because of Mitt
Romney and Paul Ryan.” (No, it is
because four Americans were killed and the Administration lied to Americans.)
4. President
Obama: “That is what we saw play out in
the last two weeks, as a crude and disgusting video, sparked outrage throughout
the Muslim world.” (He was still blaming
the video days or weeks later. This is
important because he is using the defense that “we corrected it” by calling it
an act of terror two days later.)
5. President
Obama to the UN: “I know there are some
who ask, why don’t we just ban such a video.
The answer is enshrined in our laws.
Our Constitution protects the right to practice free speech.” (He is still blaming the video and claiming that
“some” people were calling for freedom of speech to be limited.)
6. Hilary
Clinton, then Secretary of State: “Some
have sought to justify this vicious behavior along with the protest that took
place at our embassy in Cairo yesterday as a response to inflammatory material
posted on the Internet.” (She blamed the
video.)
7. Victoria
Nuland, State Department: “We can all
condemn this reprehensible video.” (She
blamed the video. This makes three
people from the State Department, one political operative, and the U.S.
President.)
8. Jay
Carney, White House spokesman: “Find the
video that has been so offensive to Muslims to be disgusting and reprehensible.”
9. Hillary
Clinton: “To address the video
circulating on the Internet that has led to these protests.” (She blamed the video – again.)
10.
Susan Rice: “Was a violent protest
outside of our embassy sparked by this hateful video.” (She blamed the video – again.)
11.
Jay Carney: “And it is in response, not
to United States policy, not to obviously the administration, not to the
American people. It is in response to a
video.” (He blamed the video – again.)
12.
Jay Carney: “Now we do not yet have
indication that it was preplanned or premeditated.” (“One of the people in Benghazi called the
State Department with concerns warning of the attack” days before the attack.)
13.
Joe Biden, U.S. Vice President: “Well,
we weren’t told they wanted more security and we did not know they wanted more
security again.” (Reporter: “And CBS has learned that the U.S. mission in
Libya reportedly – repeatedly asked for better security before last month’s
attack on the American consulate in Benghazi.
A State Department officer says there were 13 confirmed security threats
in the six months before the attack.
Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed three
weeks ago.”
14.
Jay Carney: “The White House and State
Department have made clear that the single adjustment that was made to those
talking points by either of those two – of these two institutions were changing
the word consulate to diplomatic facility because consulate was inaccurate.” (He continued the lies.)
15.
President Obama: “And make no
mistake: We will work with the Libyan
government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people.” (No terrorists have been arrested, but the
poor guy who made a video is still in prison.)
16.
President Obama: “You had a video that
was released by somebody who lives here, sort of a shadowy character who is
extremely offensive video directed at Mohammed and Islam. We had nothing to do with the video.” (He blames the video – again.)
17.
David Axelrod, President’s right-hand man:
“It’s not a matter of blaming, that’s just the facts. Sometimes intelligence has to catch up with
the reality on the ground. This was one
of those cases.” (Did he throw the CIA
under the bus? Good intelligence
normally comes from information on the ground.
The Administration knew within a few hours that it was a terrorist
attack but still blamed the video for more than two weeks.)
18. Stephanie Cutter, mastermind of Obama’s
re-election team: “First I pretty the
faux outrage from the RNC and the Republican Party.” (Did she actually blame Republicans for
trying to get to the truth about what happened in Benghazi?)
19.
Hillary Clinton: “Was it because of a
protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they
would go kill some Americans?” (It does
make a difference to many Americans, including the friends and families of the
men who were killed.)
20. Jay Carney:
“Let’s be clear: These protests
were in reaction to a video that had spread to the region.”
The second scandal, the one at
the IRS, may have been broken just to take heat from the Administration about
Benghazi, but the President and his administration are being caught in lies
about this issue also. The President
said yesterday that he heard about the problem the same time that all of us
did, but Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, admitted the administration
knew about the scandal since April 22.
Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, told Glenn Beck on
his TV show that the White House Counsel’s office was notified of the IRS issue
three weeks ago.
David Limbaugh, writer,
author, attorney, and brother of Rush Limbaugh, wrote: “It’s disgraceful that government bureaucrats,
whether on their own initiative or at the direction of superiors, singled out
anyone for special scrutiny, but what their selection criteria were makes it
even worse. Reportedly, the IRS field
office in charge of evaluating applications for tax-exempt status decided to
focus on groups making statements that [criticize the administration and what
they are doing.]
“Surely, we all understand the
awesome and, frankly, horrifying power the IRS has come to have in our system,
which originally didn’t even contemplate an income tax, much less oversight of
it by such a monstrous bureaucratic leviathan.
What could be more chilling and destructive to our liberties than a
government targeting – that’s its word, not mine – private citizens and
organizations based on their political and ideological views?
“If the First Amendment means
anything, it is that the full force of the federal government will be used to
safeguard, not suppress, the liberties of American citizens to utter political
speech, especially speech critical of the government. But instead, this IRS sought [to] abuse
groups that criticized the administration and groups that wanted to teach
people that under our Constitution, such government officials have no right to
do this type of thing.
The third scandal for the
Administration comes from the discovery that the Department of Justice (DOJ)
illegally tapped twenty telephone lines at the Associated Press (AP) in order
to track down the identity of a whistleblower.
This is not the first time that this Administration has gone after
whistleblowers, a practice that “sends a clear warning message to anyone
thinking about ratting on the government.”
The Blaze reported: “The records obtained by the
Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls and the duration of each
call, for the work and home phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP
office numbers in New York, Washington and Harford, Conn., and the main number
for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to
attorneys for the AP.
“In all, the government seized
those records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its
journalists in April and May of 2012.
The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that
period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices whose phone
records were targeted on a wide array of stories about government and other
matters….”
Buck Sexton, formerly an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (assigned to the
Counterterrorism Center and Office of Iraq Analysis) and currently national
security editor at The Blaze, wrote: “In just one week, President Barack Obama’s
political machine has switched from endless campaign to survival mode. And for the first time in Obama’s presidency,
the damage to his regime may be permanent.
“Three revelations have come
together like an avalanche. First, there
was a Benghazi hearing that proved beyond any reasonable doubt that this administration
is feckless, dishonest, and cravenly politicized. But in its aftermath on Friday, an executive
branch information dump dropped another bombshell: the IRS does indeed target and intimidate
conservative groups….
“As the country was still
reeling from the gut-wrenching testimony of three Benghazi whistleblowers and
the IRS mea culpa, yet another log was thrown onto the bonfire of the Obama
administration’s credibility. Yesterday
the Associated Press broke a news story that Obama’s Justice Department
collected phone data on dozens of AP reporters as part of a national security
leak investigation….”
I am stunned that so much is
happening at such a rapid rate, and I am curious as to the end result. Many people think that this avalanche of
investigations will bring down the Obama Administration, and some are calling
for impeachment of the President. Others
think the scandals will be “swept under the rug” after a few questions are
asked. Still others think that employees
at the lower levels will take the blows and the leaders will go free.
Barack
Obama has tried very hard to stand clear of anything that might stick to him
and has effectively avoided doing any governing – just campaigning. The fact that the scandals are coming from four
different Departments – State, Justice, Finance (IRS), and Defense - with Secretaries
supposedly answering directly to him indicates to me that he is responsible in
one of at least two cases: He knew about
the issues and authorized them or he was not doing the work we pay him to
do. In either case, he keeps lying to us
to cover up the scandals.
We
pay our Presidents $400,000 each year to administer the federal government, to
supervise the federal employees, to oversee law enforcement officers and the
military to keep us safe from foreign and domestic enemies, and to uphold our
laws. Those are his basic
responsibilities, and he failed. He is
either intentionally doing wrong as part of his “fundamental transformation” of
America or he is inept and cannot do the job.
I believe that we are way past the point where we should hold him
accountable for his willing destruction of our nation or his inability to do
the job. I think it is time to put him
under oath and start asking him some direct questions.
