For over a week, the Obama administration has tried to dodge questions on the Benghazi attack by saying it’s waiting for information to come in from the FBI. But apparently the FBI still hasn’t made it to Benghazi — at least not as of last night. Instead, CNN reports that the bureau just arrived in Tripoli, and hasn’t been to the scene of the attack that happened over two weeks ago:
More than two weeks after four Americans — including the U.S. ambassador to Libya — were killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, FBI agents have not yet been granted access to investigate in the eastern Libyan city, and the crime scene has not been secured, sources said.
“They’ve gotten as far as Tripoli now, but they’ve never gotten to Benghazi,” CNN National Security Analyst Fran Townsend said Wednesday, citing senior law enforcement officials.
Last Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters that an FBI team had reached Libya earlier in the week.
Just as shocking, CNN reports that the State Department apparently hasn’t secured the consulate since the attack, despite requests from the FBI. That means any investigation might be meaningless at this point, since evidence could have been removed or tampered with or compromised over the past two weeks. The more that comes out about the attack, the more it sounds like the administration has been stringing along reporters and the public since day one.
Then there is the next piece of the puzzle, one which the Obama administration may not want answered until after the election. Did the U.S. embassy riots in Egypt and Yemen coincidentally erupt on the same day as the terrorist attack at our Benghazi consulate, or were they coordinated in advance? As the Weekly Standard noted recently, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri’s little brother, fresh out of prison in Egypt, has claimed credit as an organizer of the Cairo protest. The timing is certainly suspect — that anti-Islam film was available on YouTube months before the riots, and yet it didn’t become an issue until days before the attack.
Keep in mind that what we call the “Arab Spring,” the jihadists call the “Islamic awakening.” Unfortunately for al-Qaeda, there’s been no evidence that the public in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, etc. have embraced their twisted ideology. Hence, the need to manufacture some.
Perhaps the FBI was busy until now with its investigation of the crimes committed by the Japanese leadership during Pearl Harbor. n n
Anything the FBI could find would possibly be damaging to Obama's campaign, which we should all know by now is his #1 priority.
And why hasn't anyone thought of threatening Khamenei and Achmadinejad with indictment by Eric Holder's Justice Department?
Get a calendar. Put it on your wall. Circle election day. The day after that the FBI will announce they're done and everyone did the right thing if indeed they bother to make any report or statement at all. I hate to have to remind everyone but Holder isn't smart enough to get a spoon to his own mouth w/o spilling. Obama hath decreed no waves shall be made until after coronation day. And if there is any blame to be made Obama will hang Hillary Clinton in order to replace her with a more radical noise machine.
In his incompetence, he actually has prevented a coverup. With CNN having the notebook, Obama/Clinton can't deny what is in it. Congress is now demanding to see the cables sent from that embassy, and while it might be the same as Eric Holder's emails, they do have the right to see them. n nMichelle Bachmann is not stupid — I have met her — and she was definitely onto something last July with her concerns about the State Department and Obama Admin briefing the Moslem Brotherhood folk. My sense at the time was that she was talking about what she could mention (e.g. Spitzers Wife) and that there were far more serious things that she couldn't. My understanding is that she and others got the State Department's Inspector General to investigate stuff — not all of which we may even know about. n nThis will get interesting…
Notice that the [“most transparent”] administration has been telling us that they cannot say much about the raid in Benghazi because they are awaiting the FBI’s investigation. n nWe can now assume that the [“most transparent”] administration will tell us essentially nothing, except possibly lies, without being served subpoenas. n
We haven't heard a thing about the Marines that were to be sent in supposedly to secure the sight. For that matter not a wounded or dead Marine in the attack, no mention of resistance or "foreign fighter" body count. nThe truth is self evident. nNo built up security, in fact reduced security replaced by an obviously not so secret plan to hide diplomats and staff in the face of intelligence strongly suggesting preparations for a well planned attack. Aftermath of disinformation and security failures and a less then genuine effort to investigate so as not to follow up on near instantaneous confirmed intelligence that would have allowed a surgical strike against the attackers and their leadership. The actions are a well planned politically motivated coverup, it is not timely to get too messy in the middle east, and a overt act of dereliction of duty. nA boot camp graduate could make this battlefield assessment. It is self evident.