The sickening mismanagement of the Libyan tragedy and the assassination of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, has erased any shred of faith women voters could have in President Obama. There is a stark coolness in the way the President has been able to distance himself from the casualties in this terrorist attack.

WHERE WAS THE PRESIDENT WHEN THIS HAPPENED?

WHERE WAS SECRETARY CLINTON WHEN SECURITY WAS WITHHELD FROM HER OWN AMBASSADOR?

 

White House schedules indicate that President Obama was in the Oval Office behind his desk when the 4:00pm Eastern time e-mails begging for attention arrived in the computers of national security and state department officials. “Embassy Tripoli reports approximately 20 armed people fired shots, explosions have been heard as well.  Ambassador Stevens, who is currently in Benghazi, and four COM personnel are in the compound safe haven.  The 17th of February militia is providing security support.”

Just to be clear, the 17th of February militia is NOT comprised of U.S Seals, or Marines, or Army Rangers.  There were only locals to help, so unprotected was our Ambassador.  Because the Benghazi Consulate detail had apparently been infiltrated, even the Ambassador’s safe house was known to the terrorists.  In short order, the Ambassador was also under attack.

The White House was able to track this danger, and actually watch events unfold in real time thanks to airborne drones, but no effort was made to support or save the Consulate or the Ambassador and staff.

“At 4:54 p.m. ET, another e-mail reported “firing at the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi has stopped and the compound has been cleared.” It said a search was underway for consulate personnel.

The final e-mail, at 6:07 p.m., noted the claim of responsibility for the attack. The subject line said: “Update 2: Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack.”

“Embassy Tripoli reports the group claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli,” the e-mail said.”

Investigations are on parade now in the Obama administration, but the key question here?  Why was security or air cover not brought in at once to protect American personnel the moment of attack?  U.S. Navy Seals TJ Woods and Glen Dougherty did not die until SEVEN hours later.

Where was the President?

1-Was he in command but timid about responding to a 9-11 attack in the Middle East?

2-Did campaign advisers urge a non-combat posture because of the possible consequences to the campaign?

3-Was the President actually even present?  While he was  scheduled to be in the Oval Office, was HE?  Or is it possible he was relying on security staff and wasn’t even CONNECTED TO EVENTS?

4-With an Ambassador reported dead and so many questions to answer, how could the President depart the next day for FUNDRAISING EVENTS?

These are questions that the House Foreign Affairs Committee will be required to answer for the American people.  Earlier this week, Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, speaking to national and state women’s leaders in The Kitchen Cabinet about the apparent administration cover-up, offered that “Watergate does not even compare to this.”

No one died in Watergate, but America’s trust in The White House was fractured forever.  Today, the highest officials in the land have engaged in an even more horrific cover-up, yet noticeably without the media scrutiny of 40 years ago.

Citizen journalists are the truth-tellers in this age. President Obama bears total responsibility, and his administration should be held accountable by Congress.

And what about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton?  She “took responsibility” while comfortably thousands of miles away from the Washington press corps and safely visiting PERU.  One day before Barack Obama faced Mitt Romney in debate, Clinton spoke.  But she was careful not to say the phrase “full responsibility.”  Her respectable career as Secretary of State is now tarnished forever by a lack of oversight and responsiveness to her own foreign servicemen in the most dangerous region of the world.

This era of Democrat leadership and drama ends just as it began in 2008.  With Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama…center-stage, and neither, truly up to the challenge.

 

 

 

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Filed under: Featured, Highlighted Posts, Inside The KC, Uncategorized by Sonja Eddings Brown, Oct 25, 2012