Ed Morrissey: In this case, it’s hard to argue that the cover-up is worse than the “crime”
of incompetence that led up to it. After all, four people died in that attack,
and perhaps even a higher level of security might not have prevented it. It has
become clear, though, that the State Department didn’t recognize that Benghazi
and its environs had become a nest of the very terrorists we now fight in places
like Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, and other hot spots, and that this was no
ordinary case for consular security. Instead of listening to people on the
ground and acting to provide some kind of extraordinary security, the Benghazi
mission was left to just “hope that everything would get better.”
On top of that, the administration at the very least allowed a false
narrative to unfold about the nature of the attack – a narrative that had
specific political benefits for President Obama. That might be coincidence, but
that’s difficult to believe. At the very least, it shows a remarkable level of
incompetence to send the UN Ambassador to five Sunday talk shows five days later
to push the false “spontaneous protest” narrative when the White House itself
had designated it a terrorist attack within the first 24 hours.
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