The Benghazi hearings

Hat tip to Lucianne for all the research below.

Benghazi panel will have 7 Republicans and 5 Democrats  But Harry Reid will not be starting a Senate investigation.  No sir, ain't gonna do it.

What Obama Did on September 11, 2012   ... "On September 11, 2012, war was the last thing Obama wanted or needed as well. He had already bagged Osama bin Laden, pacified al Qaeda, and liberated Libya -- or so he repeated endlessly. Foreign policy was alleged to be his electoral strong suit. Given the political dynamics, Obama retreated, just as the Clintons had, to the family quarters. There he would spend the night translating national security data into electoral strategy. For the next two months he did what the Clintons did after the demise of TWA Flight 800: he just kicked the investigatory can down the road and hoped that the media would not call attention to the kicking. If the Clintons could get away with it, why not he?"   Jack Cashill

Poll: 72% want the truth about Benghazi   "Just over half the nation wants further investigation into the September 2012 terrorist killings of American diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, in part because an even larger percentage of the country does not believe that President Obama´s team has told the full story about the simmering scandal. Rasmussen Reports revealed in a new poll that 51 percent want the investigation to go forward. The House last week ordered up a special panel to investigate the killings of the U.S. ambassador and several others and how the administration handled the crisis."

Obama Admin Withholding 7 Page Email About Fox News’ Benghazi Report Citing Executive Branch Deliberations…   "Fox news learning new details of a seven page email — circulated at the highest levels of the white house – apparently to come up with a media strategy to deal with a Fox News report- is being withheld by the state department, citing executive branch deliberations."

One World of Nations

Meme watch  "The release of administration e-mails concerning the Benghazi scandal has reignited the debate over White House spin and deceit over the attacks and the blame game that followed. Here’s a look at some recent graphics making the rounds on social media."

Benghazi Made Simple; The White House’s political and ideological instincts overpowered everything else.  Jonah Goldberg.

Police investigate threats against Trey Gowdy

Politico 

"The U.S. Capitol Police are investigating threatening emails against Rep. Trey Gowdy, the South Carolina Republican recently tapped to lead a special panel probing the Benghazi terrorist attacks.

"The investigation comes after POLITICO reporters and journalists at other outlets received two emails on Tuesday warning that Gowdy would be harmed because of his role in investigating the 2012 attacks.  More...

Comedians Have Failed the American People in the Age of Obama

American Glob linked to the following post with this introduction:
"Saturday Night Live acts like Romney won in 2012, liberals continue to falsely attribute a Tina Fey quote to Sarah Palin, Funny or Die has become an arm of the Obama administration and the most liberal late night host in America is taking over for David Letterman. It wasn’t always this way.
"In fact, it has only been this way since Obama became president."

Court jester journalists   "Comedy gave us a respite from politization.  If you were powerful, you were eventually a target.  Rich, famous, scandalous, popular, unpopular – no matter.  Our comedians and comedy shows would always speak truth to power and serve as the great societal equalizer.
No longer.  Something deeply disturbing is happening in comedy. Not just here or there, but broadly. Comedians and those in comedy writing are choosing political sides. By force or by choice – they’re drawing political battle lines instead of writing punch lines."

How important is Steven Colbert to the left? I’ll put it to you this way. Bill Clinton follows exactly ten people/organizations in the world on Twitter. One of them is Steven Colbert.

"Comedian Patton Oswald tweeted his support of a column penned by conservative author and radio host Mark Steyn. Oswald’s liberal friends and fans have been blasting him on Twitter for daring to show support for anything Steyn has to say.

"Steyn’s column title, ironically?" “The Slow Death of Free Speech.”  

perezhilton.com

And never forget this guy from 2008: Russell Brand, MTV VMA Host, Begs America To Elect Obama, Rips Bush In Monologue   ..."Again and again, Brand _ a confessed former sex addict _ poked fun at young sex and abstinence. Speaking of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter's boyfriend and would-be father, Levi Johnston, Brand sympathized with him: "That is the safe sex message of all time. Use a condom or become a Republican!"

Sharyl Attkisson: Emails Reveal White House Hid Truths About Benghazi Attack but not about where Mr. Obama was that night

John Boehner will create a House Select Committee to investigate the White House cover-up of the al-Qaeda attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi. At the time the president knew nothing about the cover-up. He was too busy not knowing about the IRS targeting conservatives.   Argus Hamilton

Reason TV    " 'If we knew everything then that we know now, one week after it happened, I think that would have been really devastating to [Obama's reelection] campaign," says former CBS reporter, Sharyl Attkisson, referencing the 2012 Benghazi terrorists attacks. Recently revealed White House emails suggest that the Obama administration may have attempted to mislead the American public by placing the blame on an Internet video and not Islamic terrorists, which would have raised questions about Obama's foreign policy strategy."
 

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" 'As one whistleblower put it to me: things have never been worse for people who try to speak the truth inside the government about illegalities and wrong doing. In their view, and I tend to agree, every administration is more clamped down and closed than the one before it. And the next one starts at the finishing point. It's very hard to make it go backwards. There are rules being implemented now against journalists and the type of work that we do that I think will be very hard to unwind.' " 

 

Visitor Logs: Did Obama Have “Debate Prep” Meeting on September 11, 2012, the Day of the Benghazi Attack?

"Here is an interesting tidbit from the White House Visitor Logs for 9/11/12: Obama met with three people, at an unknown time, for “debate prep.” (BUT SEE the “MAJOR UPDATE” below: while it’s clear that Obama’s debate prep people visited, it’s not clear from official records whether they met with Obama.)

 

Hat tip to American Glob



The GOP just tapped the Democrats' worst nightmare to lead Benghazi investigation

INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW  "House Speaker John Boehner has officially chosen Rep. Trey Gowdy to lead the congressional hearings on the terror attacks that left four Americans dead in Benghazi, Libya.... (more)

Boehner taps Rep. Trey Gowdy to lead Benghazi select committee
" 'Trey Gowdy is as dogged, focused, and serious-minded as they come.  His background as a federal prosecutor and his zeal for the truth make him the ideal person to lead this panel," Boehner said in a statement on Monday afternoon.
" 'I know he shares my commitment to get to the bottom of this tragedy and will not tolerate any stonewalling from the Obama administration.  I plan to ensure he and his committee have the strongest authority possible to root out all the facts.  This is a big job, but Rep. Gowdy has the confidence of this conference, and I know his professionalism and grit will earn him the respect of the American people.' ”

WH And House Democrats Say Won't Cooperate with Benghazi Panel

Boko Haram: the real war on women

Legal Insurrection

 

... "And this sort of thing has been going on for quite some time. The group is composed of fundamentalist Islamist terrorists who are especially against the education of women, although education of the secular variety for any child or young person in Nigeria is their target as well, and they will murder or sell into sexual slavery (let’s not mince words here) anyone they can get their hands on, all in the name of their religion. Special targets are often Christians, but Muslims are hardly except from their violence." ...

Putin’s Anti-Fracking Campaign; He knows that European greens can help further his dreams of conquest.

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE 

 ... "The fact that Kremlin opposition to European fracking has nothing to do with environmental concerns should be clear even to the dullest among us, because Russia has massive fracking projects of its own underway in Siberia. The real goal is to keep Europe dependent upon Russia for its fuel supply. Natural-gas prices in Europe are quadruple those prevailing in the United States, and by maintaining a near-monopoly on overpriced European natural-gas imports, the Putin regime assures itself of a vast source of revenue. This allows it to rule and rearm Russia without permitting the freedom necessary to develop the country’s human potential. Furthermore, so long as Europe is kept critically dependent upon Russia for fuel, Moscow can paralyze and render ineffective any Western response to its plans for conquest, whose initial steps are currently being demonstrated in Ukraine. More, and much worse, is certain to follow so long as Europe remains helpless.
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"If Europe’s fuel supplies remain under Russian control, the continent is doomed to fall under Russian domination. America could help supply gas, but its exports are being bottled up by the Obama administration, which refuses to approve the necessary permits for constructing liquid-natural-gas export terminals."

 

 

Odessa Jewish community mulls emergency evacuation

WW2: the last pictures of the Jews in this Russian community. Europe's Jews have
seen this all before, sadly.

Jerusalem Post    " ‘Future looking very violent,’ fears local rabbi; Jewish community hunkers down, tries to ride out the storm."

 
"Odessa’s Jews are prepared to evacuate should the violence in the western Ukrainian city get significantly worse, several community leaders told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
"Odessa’s Jewish community numbers some 30,000, down from nearly 40 percent of the city’s population before the Holocaust." ...

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

Fox’s Brit Hume devastates Democrat guest over Benghazi

Respected news programs such as this must know that when they hire any political hack to be on a discussion panel that they will get political hackery in the conversation. (As they once did by putting Sally Kohn on the Bret Baier Special Report panel; she dropped the phrase "war on women" into a completely unrelated discussion.)

Human Events

 

"If we had a real media, every network would be ripping Benghazi apologists like former Rep. Jane Harman to shreds, the way Brit Hume (with a timely assist from Chris Wallace) did on Fox News over the weekend.

"After a laughably ineffective attempt to compare the serious questions about Benghazi to an Area 51 alien conspiracy theory – a slap in the face to the Americans who died in the attacks and their families – Harman actually tried claiming the Administration’s fraudulent “video protest” narrative was an intelligence failure.  When Hume calls her on it, she starts babbling talking points about how it was all just an honest mistake… without ever coming within a thousand miles of answering Hume’s questions.
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"Listen to Harman’s response after Hume asks her who, exactly, in the intelligence community gave the White House spin team the idea that Benghazi was a video protest.  She appears stunned for a moment, then ventures, “I think it came from people who weren’t sure about it,” and then utterly fails to name a single such individual." 

 

She would have been patted on the back and cheered on MSNBC.

Today is Israel Independence Day, and I’m going to Vassar

By William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection
"It wasn’t planned this way. It’s just a coincidence. Really.

"By the time you read this, I’ll probably be in the car driving to Poughkeepsie, NY, where I will appear tonight at 7 p.m. to give a speech in support Israel and academic freedom.

"And against the Open Letter signed by 39 Vassar faculty members — none of whom took up my debate challenge — who support of the American Studies Association boycott of Israel.

"Maybe I’ll play this recording of David Ben-Gurion reading the Israeli Declaration of Independence: 

 

"Things have been tense lately at Vassar when it comes to Israel.

"While I’m not expecting “trouble,” I thought you like to see what trouble for pro-Israel speakers on campuses looks like, in the video below taken at UC Davis in February 2012:
 

 

More demagoguery from the left, whose tyranny wants to shut off all speech by those who want to resist socialist, pro-Islamist doctrines. The armchair demagogues usually sit at home responding to conservative articles such as this (that they have not read) with remarks like "moronic post", "delusional", and the like. They respond to reasoned argument with little more than shallow invective.

There are Muslims in Israel whom I feel are more decent than the anti-Israel leftists we see too much of on America's streets and campuses. To wit:

 

Arab, Jewish youth combat ‘price tag’ with paint

Young residents of Shfaram repair the town's ancient synagogue,

 in what residents say is a response to the 'price tag' attacks
 of Jewish extremists in the region.

“ 'Price tag” is a term used to describe acts of vandalism and violence associated with extremist elements of the Jewish settler movement in retaliation for Palestinian attacks and to protest what they perceive as the Israeli government’s “pro-Palestinian” policies. Mosques, churches, dovish Israeli groups and even Israeli military bases have been targeted in such assaults."

High-ranking Iranian cleric visits Shiraz synagogue, confirms Biblical version of Jewish homeland

Hold on just a minute; before that article leaves you with a warm, fuzziness, read this one, understand it, then go on to the main column. Read that one with new-found wisdom.

Understanding Taqiyya ― Islamic Principle of Lying for the Sake of Allah

The word "Taqiyya" literally means: "Concealing, precaution, guarding.” It is employed in disguising one's beliefs, intentions, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions or strategies. In practical terms it is manifested as dissimulation, lying, deceiving, vexing and confounding with the intention of deflecting attention, foiling or pre-emptive blocking. It is currently employed in fending off and neutralising any criticism of Islam or Muslims.  More...

Now, on to the main article:
DEBKAfile

 

... " But most remarkably, he admitted that historical research and archeological excavations in the last 150 years had corroborated the Biblical account of the deeds of the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great (550-530 BCE).
(The Bible recounts that Cyrus issued a fabled decree for the emancipation of slaves, including the Jewish people, from Babylonian captivity, and allowed them to return to their homeland in Judah and rebuild their Temple in Jerusalem.)

 

"That reference alone will undoubtedly be enough to bring Iran’s radical elements down on Yunessi’s head for his temerity in gainsaying precepts laid down by the founder of its Islamic Revolution.  Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared the Jewish Bible a forgery because of its many contradictions of the Koran text and denounced all Persian rulers prior to his revolution as symbols of despotism and repression.

 

"Yanessi did, however, take the precaution of pointing out that it would be a mistake to equate Judaism and Zionism because, he said, some Jews are anti-Zionist." ...More...

Condi Rice declines Rutgers commencement address; The Stupid hounding of Ms. Rice.

Hot Air   "You’d probably imagine that it would come as quite the feather in your cap for any university to land a commencement speaker who was both a former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor.


Rice in concert.

Such was the enviable position that Rutgers found itself in after booking Condoleezza Rice as their guest of honor this year. Or at least it was until a number of their students – and professors! – protested the decision. After not much time at all, Rice put an end to the debate by cancelling the gig.
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"Adding to the implausible nature of the story was the reason given by the editorial board at Rutgers newspaper.

The largest student newspaper, The Daily Targum, also urged the school to reconsider in a strong editorial that said that none of their commencement speakers should have “questionable politics.”

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"One other question comes from this story. How is it that Condi Rice only gets $35K for a speaking appearance? Have you seen what Bill Clinton pulls in? Surely this is the War on Women."  Emphasis added.

Libs prefer him to Condi Rice 

 

Politico: The Stupid Hounding of Condi Rice   "If Condoleezza Rice were as self-pitying and politically crass as Attorney General Eric Holder, she would be wondering aloud what it is about her race and gender that accounts for the hostility of her enemies."   Read more: