Benghazi Revisited

What difference does it make?

The answer to that question would depend on whether political goals were still in play by the person answering the question.

News reports have surfaced that a group called Judicial Watch sued under the Freedom of Information Act to get the unredacted emails from the White House to Susan Rice explaining the talking points she was to use in the round of Sunday talk shows after the September 11, 2012, attacks on the Benghazi.  The emails were generated by Ben Rhodes, a national security official, to then-Ambassador Susan Rice, trying to skew the focus of the questioning from a terrorist attack to a spontaneous demonstration regarding a tasteless video made by some whack-job in Los Angeles.

Here's the link to the Judicial Watch story:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-benghazi-documents-point-white-house-misleading-talking-points/

There are several interesting angles on this new information.  First, of course, the MSM is only haltingly addressing these emails.  The reasons for this hesitation are unknown, but they may range from sheepishness for swallowing the White House's version of events to fear that there may be no story that the American public is interested in revisiting.  If the latter's the case, the administration successfully kicked the can down the road to let the steam go out of the potential devastating news that the administration knew the real reason behind the attacks.  If it's the former reason, the MSM should be ashamed for not standing up and admitting that it blew it.

A truly interesting angle involves the connection between CBS and Ben Rhodes.  Apparently, the head of the CBS News division is none other than David Rhodes, the brother of Ben Rhodes.  When the recent story about the unredacted emails broke, the CBS Morning Show had a segment on the story, but the CBS
Evening News didn't mention it at all.  Granted, airing anything at all qualifies as news reporting, but by putting the news on the much less watched morning program instead of the much more watched evening program is the functional equivalent of burying a story in the classified ads; it's still in the paper, but not in a section that's read much.

Jonathan Karl of ABC and Sharyl Attkisson, formerly of CBS, have been the lead reporters on this email chain.  They are being vilified by the left wing media who claim that nothing new has surfaced in the emails. This despite the fact there is language in the emails showing that Ben Rhodes clearly wanted former Ambassador Rice to steer the discussion to the video and away from the failed foreign policies of President Obama.

Perhaps the funniest yet saddest occurrence in this new round of investigation has been the performance of Jay Carney, the White House press secretary.  His job is a thankless one, no doubt, but to watch Mr. Carney contort himself as if he were on a vertical Twister mat trying to answer questions and at the same time defend the President while denying the emails say what they say takes cognitive dissonance to new lows.  I can't remember seeing anyone lie so baldly as Mr. Carney is lying.  Besides denying the essential meaning of the emails, he's condescending to his inquisitors and shameless in his attempts at manipulation. The horrible truth is that there are still some people out there that believe him.

And where is Cankles in all this?  She's been as silent as can be on the subject.  Why are no news outlets seeking her out for questioning?  Isn't it also telling that the President was out of the country when this story broke?  Doubtless, he'll have to face questions eventually, and it'll be very interesting to see how he handles them.

What will these revelations do to Cankle's presidential aspirations?  What will they do to the mid-term elections, since Democrats have marched in locked step with the President?  Will the American people finally wake up and realize that this administration will do or say anything that will allow it to keep power?

The next six months ought to be interesting.

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