By Gary Bauer
The more we learn about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed our ambassador and three other Americans, the worse it gets for the Obama Administration.
Rep. Peter King (R-NY), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, is calling on U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to resign. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said on Fox News, "Benghazi-gate is the right term for this. This is very, very serious, probably more serious than Watergate."
Yesterday, Eli Lake of The Daily Beast noted that the CIA had intercepted calls between a local militia and Al Qaeda, "which, taken together, suggest the assault was in fact a premeditated terrorist attack." Lake adds that the intelligence was "cherry picked" in order to "support a preferred thesis" -- that the violence was the result of an anti-Islamic film, the product of Western bigotry.
In a new report this morning, Lake notes that the U.S. consulate was attacked twice in the five months prior to the deadly 9/11 assault, and that "the terrorists made their threats openly on Facebook." He also reveals that the violence in Benghazi had gotten so bad that the British consulate was closed and the Red Cross shut down its operations in the city back in June!
Far from being a success story, Obama's intervention in Libya has created a power vacuum and the jihadists are filling it. Referring to the terrorists who attacked our consulate, a spokesman for the Libyan government admitted, "We don't have enough power to catch them."
The more we learn about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed our ambassador and three other Americans, the worse it gets for the Obama Administration.
Rep. Peter King (R-NY), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, is calling on U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to resign. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said on Fox News, "Benghazi-gate is the right term for this. This is very, very serious, probably more serious than Watergate."
Yesterday, Eli Lake of The Daily Beast noted that the CIA had intercepted calls between a local militia and Al Qaeda, "which, taken together, suggest the assault was in fact a premeditated terrorist attack." Lake adds that the intelligence was "cherry picked" in order to "support a preferred thesis" -- that the violence was the result of an anti-Islamic film, the product of Western bigotry.
In a new report this morning, Lake notes that the U.S. consulate was attacked twice in the five months prior to the deadly 9/11 assault, and that "the terrorists made their threats openly on Facebook." He also reveals that the violence in Benghazi had gotten so bad that the British consulate was closed and the Red Cross shut down its operations in the city back in June!
Far from being a success story, Obama's intervention in Libya has created a power vacuum and the jihadists are filling it. Referring to the terrorists who attacked our consulate, a spokesman for the Libyan government admitted, "We don't have enough power to catch them."
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