Tuesday - October 16, 2012

There Goes The Base

“I take responsibility” says Clinton about the Benghazi scandal. “I didn’t tell the White House”. Which may be a total lie, but Hillary is NOT the only pipeline reporting there on our embassy situations; we have NIS and a whole alphabet soup of security agencies who brief Obama constantly.

And it all happens on the very eve of the second debate between Ojackass and Romney, the one on foreign policy? My goodness, what a coincidence.

BY THE WAY --- You have NOT heard SOS Clinton say “I resign”. You have not heard Teh Won asking for her scalp. This mea culpa isn’t one. You can’t fall on your sword if you miss. You can’t take one for the team if you don’t get hit. Until her and her pantsuit are underneath the old Bluebird and her husband is plotting revenge, it’s all just smoke being blown you-know-where. So be like ol’ Bill and don’t inhale.

“I take responsibility” for Benghazi: Clinton
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton assumed responsibility on Monday for last month’s deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, which has become an issue in the hard-fought U.S. presidential campaign.

“I take responsibility” for what happened on September 11, Clinton said in an interview with CNN during a visit to Peru, adding that President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden would not be responsible for specific security instructions for U.S. diplomatic facilities.

“I’m in charge of the State Department’s 60,000-plus people all over the world,” Clinton said.

“The president and the vice president wouldn’t be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals. They’re the ones who weigh all of the threats and the risks and the needs and make a considered decision.”

Clinton’s comments followed stepped-up criticism of the Obama administration over the Benghazi attack, which Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney has sought to use to dent Obama’s foreign policy credibility before the November 6 election.

Republicans in particular have focused on the Obama administration’s shifting explanations for the attack, which Clinton said in two separate television interviews on Monday were the result of “the fog of war.”

“Remember, this was an attack that went on for hours,” Clinton told Fox News. “There had to be a lot of sorting out. ... Everyone said, here’s what we know, subject to change.”

Wow, even when pretending to fess up, the lies keep coming at us. Sorting out? Nonsense. They had the entire affair on closed circuit TV in real time, and on spy satellite, and in live data link. Sort this. Oh, and an attack that went on for hours? Really? Then why wasn’t the Navy able to swoop in and drop a rescue team or some fast rope gunners? Surely we had one of our big expensive gray boats in the Med nearby friggin’ Libya, didn’t we? Libya, fer cryin’ out loud???

Clinton took care to shield the White House from the scandal, saying that diplomatic security was the exclusive role of the State Department. Coming on the eve of the second presidential debate, the admission follows a barrage of high-level administration surrogates shifting blame to the State Department, and Clinton no doubt felt tremendous pressure to concede in order to remove an important cudgel at Mitt Romney’s disposal. But while Clinton may very well bear much responsibility for the tragedy, the ultimate culprit is the Obama administration policy of voluntary weak positioning abroad, which the President’s State Department was executing in Benghazi.

No kidding.

Three Republican senators said Clinton’s claim was “a laudable gesture,” but they put the responsibility for the Benghazi attack and what they called “an escalating pattern of attacks this year in Benghazi” squarely on President Barack Obama and his national security team.

“If the president was truly not aware of this rising threat level in Benghazi, then we have lost confidence in his national security team, whose responsibility it is to keep the president informed. But if the President was aware of these earlier attacks in Benghazi prior to the events of September 11, 2012, then he bears full responsibility for any security failures that occurred,” Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire said in a statement released late Monday.

So until we hear the “R word” (resignation) and see the Help Wanted sign, this is just another Janet Reno/Waco situation. “I take full responsibility” now shut up and go away and I’ll continue doing whatever I damn well please and you’ll pay no more attention to those minor Bumps In The Road. 

Posted by Drew458     on 10/16/2012 at 08:03 AM   
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