President Obama has promised to bring the perpetrators of the Benghazi terrorist attack to justice, but over two weeks after the attack the FBI still hasn’t made it to Benghazi. According to the New York Times, it’s because the security situation in Benghazi is too unstable:
Sixteen days after the death of four Americans in an attack on a United States diplomatic mission here, fears about the near-total lack of security have kept F.B.I. agents from visiting the scene of the killings and forced them to try to piece together the complicated crime from Tripoli, more than 400 miles away.
Investigators are so worried about the tenuous security, people involved in the investigation say, that they have been unwilling to risk taking some potential Libyan witnesses into the American Embassy in Tripoli. Instead, the investigators have resorted to the awkward solution of questioning some witnesses in cars outside the embassy, which is operating under emergency staffing and was evacuated of even more diplomats on Thursday because of a heightened security alert.
This is mind-boggling. We are talking about a terrorist attack, carried out on American soil, on the anniversary of 9/11. And yet the FBI can’t even carry out a full investigation. The Times reports that even if law enforcement officials are eventually able to make it to the consulate, the unsecured “crime scene” has been so badly trampled that it may be impossible to collect evidence to use against the terrorists.
Why has this failed to register as a major scandal with the political media? There is ample evidence that the Obama administration intentionally misled the public in the days after the attack — while it designated it as a terrorist attack almost immediately, the administration insisted for over a week that it was a spontaneous uprising. The White House vowed bring the perpetrators to justice, and yet they’re slow-walking an FBI investigation that’s hampered by security restrictions and a lack of access to physical evidence.
Then there’s this:
President Obama has said the United States will bring to justice those responsible for the attacks. But there is little appetite in the White House to launch drone strikes or a Special Operations raid, like the one that killed Osama bin Laden, in yet another Muslim country.
American officials would prefer that Libyan officials lead any military or paramilitary operation, or work alongside American investigators, to arrest any suspects. But the transitional Libyan government still does not command a meaningful national army or national police force.
In other words, there’s a good chance many of the perpetrators will walk free. Instead of sending the FBI to sit around in Tripoli and wait for the transitional Libyan government to get its act together, perhaps what is needed is to send in the drones to pick these guys off. By the time the Libyans act, any chance of pinpointing the terrorists (and any evidence that could be used to try them in court) will likely be long gone.
Why is the FBI even involved? n nIs this a crime scene or an act of war? n nDoes Holder plan to indict the culprits and bring them to trial in NY City? n nOn the other hand, it does explain why the FBI never made it to Beirut when the 380 Marines were killed. It's dangerous in these places! n n
How soon after the terrorist attack did CNN get a hold of Ambassador Steven's diary? Did they have security? If they could get in, why not investigators, FBI or otherwise? We are being lied to and MSM needs to tell the truth, quit being BHO's water carrier.
Obama wants the Libyan embassy murders to be ignored until after the election. He is well aware the scandal can destroy his presidential campaign. Hillary will soon be sacrificed to appease the gods. She will be enraged and seek revenge.
I see Clinton quietly announcing her retirement after the election should Obama win. Her replacement will obviously be someone with direct ties to either the Muslim Brotherhood or one of the lobbyists who are not lobbyists for Iran crawling around Washington nowadays. They already did the white woman thing so either it will be an Arab woman or a Persian man.
Just goes to show that fiction is more effective than reality. Obviously, the USA should send in NCIS Special Agent Gibbs and his team to Benghazi. They ALWAYS get the evidence and the terrorists, even when the FBI takes the credit. nGibbs Rule 16: if someone thinks they have the upper hand, break it.
I smell a big fat rat. The longer it takes the FBI to get access, the longer will the interval be during which the Administration and the media can agree that nothing can be done, nothing can be known, and nothing can be concluded. The FBI is the official "stall guy" for the White House. If there is so much as a cloud on the horizon in Libya, the FBI will stall. n nI tell you truly: nothing this bunch of reptiles says should be accepted except at the point of a gun. Nothing.
What's not being said here is just how good our spy satellites are — 30 years ago, when men openly carried packs of cigarettes in their front shirt pockets without fear of scorn, we reportedly could tell what BRAND of cigarettes they were. And that was 30 years ago when the satellite would literally drop a roll of photographic film which had to be "caught" by a F-15 and then developed — what we have now can only be vastly beyond our abilities in the dark ages pre-digital photography. n nForget the fact that someone in Langley ought to have been monitoring what is going on over there anyway, one would think that upon knowing that our ambassador had been killed (not something that happens all that often), someone would have at least "retasked' a minor satellite or two in order to try to figure out what the **** was going on over there. n nA Soviet-era mortar launcher weighs more than the engine of a Toyota Corolla. A 14.5 MM machine gun isn't light either, and stood on end, a rocket launcher is taller than most women. These are not things one slips into the waistband and wanders around nonchalantly with — these are things moved with trucks. Even if terrorists "just happened to be traveling through Libya at the time" — and we should have been following them from the sky — we know where their trucks went to after they left. n nAn attack like the one in Libya "comes with a return address" — from a drone's Hellfire missile to tons of iron bombs falling from a B-52, we could have done something. If we wanted to, if we were paying attention, if we had competent leadership at various levels of the government. If, if, if, if, if…. n nAs to the FBI, they have (or had) paramilitary units with the best known example being the unit they sent into Waco. They ought to be able to provide their own security and if they need tactical air support, so be it — that compound *is* sovereign US territory and Libya did promise to let us defend it as such, to help us do so, and if that means letting us fly in armored helicopters, so be it. n nBut to what end? It may be a "crime scene" but so what — is Obama really planning a civil trial? n nAnd didn't the city's own civilians — many of whom liked the late ambassador — raid the perp's camp on their own a while back — sending them running? This is embarrassing, the most powerful nation in the world can't respond to something, but unarmed civilians can???? n nAnd the ultimate bottom line — we ought to know all we need to know from our "eye in the sky."