Was Benghazi a coverup of a failure of leadership... or was the terrorist acts part of the coverup of a larger deeper scandal?
Obama has often used personnel information for political gain... and this time it looks as if he used it to hold off the facts.. until after the election..
had this blown up before the election.. the liberals may have lost hope with him.. and not resorted to extreme cheating to win this for him..
Rendition Under Obama
Apart from these Republican pressures, President Obama's own aggressive views on national security have contributed to an undeniable continuity with many of his predecessor's most controversial policies. Not only has he preserved the controversial military commissions at Guantanamo and fought the courts to block civil suits against torture perpetrators, he has, above all, authorized continuing CIA rendition flights.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama went beyond any other candidate in offering unqualified opposition to both direct and indirect US involvement in torture. "We have to be clear and unequivocal. We do not torture, period," he said, adding, "That will be my position as president. That includes, by the way, renditions."
Only days after his January 2009 inauguration, Obama issued a dramatic executive order ending the CIA's coercive techniques, but it turned out to include a large loophole that preserved the agency's role in extraordinary renditions. Amid his order's ringing rhetoric about compliance with the Geneva conventions and assuring "humane treatment of individuals in United States custody," the president issued a clear and unequivocal order that "the CIA shall close as expeditiously as possible any detention facilities that it currently operates and shall not operate any such detention facility in the future." But Obama added a footnote with a small but significant qualification: "The terms 'detention facilities' and 'detention facility' in... this order do not refer to facilities used only to hold people on a short-term, transitory basis." Through the slippery legalese of this definition, Obama thus allowed the CIA continue its rendition flights of terror suspects to allied nations for possible torture.
After a decade of intense public debate over torture, in the last two years the United States has arrived at a questionable default political compromise: impunity at home, rendition abroad.
This resolution does not bode well for future US leadership of an international community determined to end the scourge of torture.
In an eerie parallel, Washington has reacted to the torture scandals of the Bush era by generally forgoing arrests and opting for no-fuss aerial assassinations. From 2005 to 2012, US drone killings inside Pakistan rose from zero to a total of 2,400 (and still going up)—a figure disturbingly close to those 3,000 French assassinations in Algeria.
Absent any searching inquiry or binding reforms, assassination is now the everyday American way of war while extraordinary renditions remain a tool of state. Make no mistake: some future torture scandal is sure to arise from another iconic dungeon in the dismal, ever-lengthening historical procession leading from the "tiger cages" of South Vietnam to "the salt pit" in Afghanistan and "The Hole" in Somalia. Next time, the world might not be so forgiving. Next time, with those images from Abu Ghraib prison etched in human memory, the damage to America's moral authority as world leader could prove even more deep and lasting.
U.S. Was Holding Prisoners At Benghazi Annex
Well it looks like this whole Benghazi scandal is about to get really interesting. It had now been confirmed that the U.S. Was holding prisoners at the Benghazi Annex and that was likely a motive for the attack.
This development raises a whole host of uncomfortable questions for the Obama Administration.
Why are they doing things they swore ‘hurt our image abroad’ and said they would no longer do?
Obama has often used personnel information for political gain... and this time it looks as if he used it to hold off the facts.. until after the election..
had this blown up before the election.. the liberals may have lost hope with him.. and not resorted to extreme cheating to win this for him..