by FRANK J. GAFFNEY, JR.
What is the truth about the horrific attack in Benghazi on September 11th, 2012 that killed our ambassador to Libya and three others? And why has it been so hard to get that truth out of the Obama administration?
We now know that these murders were not the result of some spontaneous demonstration run amok in response to a video critical of Islam’s founder, Mohammed. Rather, they were the result of a carefully planned and well-executed military operation conducted by jihadists associated with al Qaeda.
It turns out the Obama administration knew at least the broad outlines of that reality within hours of the attack.
So why did assorted administration officials tell us otherwise for days afterwards? For example, long after there was reason to believe a jihadist military attack killed the four Americans in Benghazi, UN Ambassador Susan Rice, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the President himself insisted that it was just unpremeditated, disorganized violence which was precipitated by an amateur filmmaker in California.
Fortunately, that preposterous party line has now become untenable, thanks to a series of statements - both on and off the record – by counterterrorism and intelligence officials and congressional sources disputing Team Obama’s original, dissembling accounts.
The administration is clearly furious that it is being exposed in the run-up to the President’s reelection as having deliberately and knowingly disinformed the American people, so it is now trying to shunt the blame onto the intelligence community….
….In practice, the administration’s insistence on avoiding offense to Muslims – and, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it, “old-fashioned shaming and peer-pressure” on those who do so – has had the inevitable effect: self-censorship is now being widely practiced in America.
Ironically, this appears to be the case, for example, with Hollywood filmmakers now fearful of releasing a flattering movie they had made with help from Team Obama about the President’s role in killing Osama bin Laden.
All other things being equal, further shariah-commanded erosions in our constitutional freedom of speech seem inevitable.
Third, the Obama administration’s Libya debacle and subsequent cover-up demand the sort of investigations that five Members of Congress – Representatives Michele Bachmann, Louie Gohmert, Trent Franks, Lynn Westmoreland and Tom Rooney – asked for back in June. They formally requested that five federal agencies’ inspectors general examine the extent to which individuals with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood who are, nonetheless, serving in various official capacities may be influencing U.S. government policies. Of particular concern is the extent to which those policies are coming ever more into alignment with the Islamists’ agenda.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s penetration of the Obama administration was put into even sharper relief after the Libya attacks when a prominent – and highly controversial – figure in the Islamist infrastructure in America, Salam al-Marayati president of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Muslim Public Affairs Council, was made an official U.S. representative at an international human rights conference in October in Warsaw. In response to well-founded criticism about Marayati’s long record of anti-semitism, support for terrorist groups and ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, the State Department spokeswoman actually defended him as “valued and highly credible.”
We need the truth – about what happened in Libya, about the subsequent cover-up, about the Obama administration’s acquiescence to shariah blasphemy laws and, not least, about the influence Islamists “inside the wire” are exercising in all these areas and more – to the grave detriment of our constitutional rights and security.
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