WICKED WEB

What's that "mother always said"?  It's a wicked web we weave when we practice to deceive.

PARTISAN.
Some alphabet coverage yesterday slammed the Benghazi hearings on the basis that they were a witch hunt out to destroy Hillary.

So let's see now...a terror attack on America results in multiple deaths...and getting to the bottom of it is another conspiracy in the list of conspiracies against Hil.  How many of those conspiracy passes do you get in a lifetime?

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INTEGRITY.
The three whistleblowers (with a total of 70+ years of service to the country) were not sitting there as Republicans.  It took considerable courage to step forward after the repercussions they have already faced.

This administration is squarely against bullying in third grade, but they bullied, berated, intimidated, threatened, and demoted career employees who bravely spoke in defense of their comrades.  LINK

Is Hillary so important we should sacrifice our country's safety and airbrush the wrong-headed foreign policy that is waiting to bite us again?


DITHER.
A dithering president LINK is dangerous.

Remember how the president dithered about pulling the trigger on Osama until Panetta all but pulled it for him?  Remember how he has stewed about a red line in Syria (which is a big thing)...but also stewed over three pirate thugs bobbing off the coast of Somalia with American hostages for ransom?  The sharpshooters held a bead on them for several days while the command finally came down.  That indecisiveness brings up a fair question.

Was the president dithering the long night of Benghazi?  He got a report the embassy was under fire and that's all we heard from him.  Panetta says he never called back...nor did Hillary.  For all we know the president went to bed.  We know he got up the next morning and flew out for a campaign stop in Vegas.

What Commander-in-Chief does that?  It's not unreasonable to want to know where the president was that night.


HANDICAP.
After the Benghazi attack, the Prime Minister of Libya put himself in personal danger to travel to the burning Embassy, and then went on television and called it a terrorist attack.  Later the whole world heard the UN Ambassador Susan Rice cut his legs out from under him by giving an alternate explanation.

Not surprisingly after that gaffe, we had no access to the "crime scene" for weeks.




ARB (Accountability Review Board).
The ARB filed a vanilla report card on the State Department's handling of Benghazi; it reported problems, but no one was responsible.  That's the State Department writing their own report card WITHOUT interviewing either the Big Cheese (Hil)...or Glen Hicks, the second-in-command under Ambassador Chris Stevens.  Glen Hicks was the one on the ground and would presumably have been able to tell them what happened.

Doesn't that strain incredulity?

GAPOSIS.

There is white space between what we've been told and common sense.

We were told they couldn't send help because the fight was over.  Wouldn't "over" only be able to be determined in hindsight?  We were told they couldn't send help because help was too far away.  Glen Hicks was in Tripoli and he got there.  And the operators on the ground in Tripoli were told to stand down TWICE.

Because of sworn testimony at the hearings, we know now that the first intelligence report was correct. Then there were twelve revisions.  So everyone knew right away it was a terror attack and NOT the bogus video.  Yet the President and Hillary both stood by caskets and looked the mother of Sean Smith in the eye and told her it was the video and they were going to get whoever killed her son.

The President said he got his info from the talking points.  But someone adverse to calling terrorism "terrorism" scrubbed those talking points.  LINK

Here are some direct quotes after Benghazi:

Hillary's words:  "It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again."

The President's words:  "We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act.  And make no mistake, justice will be done."

The question is not..."are they saying the right words"?  Of course they are the right words.  They just are not connected to truth.  There has not been a whiff of justice.  How COULD they begin an investigation into what they did wrong?

Did the faux video commotion cause the perps to get away with murder?  It sure was much ado about nothing.  Think we can let that guy who made the video out of jail now?  Maybe he's been punished enough.

America was attacked and the world knows it can be done without reprisal.  Americans have been lied to by their leadership.

But if we reach for the salacious over the substantive (by reaching for Juicy JodiArias coverage to the exclusion of Benghazi hearings) we can be wrapped in the wicked web without even knowing it.