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2014-01-08 Home Front: Politix

LTC(R) Allen West: Could there be a Pub cover-up of Benghazi ?

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Keep the politics away from it a while longer and get more facts into the open.

I respectfully disagree [but I do hope you are correct]. You cannot keep politics out of it. Gates outing yesterday, of Hildebeast's admission of 'election politics' being her justification for her stance regarding the "Afghan surge" being the most recent example.

"Politics, the crooked timber of our communal lives, dominates everything because, in the end, everything - high and low and, most especially, high - lives or dies by politics." Charles Krauthammer, Things That Matter, 2-4, (Crown Forum 2012).

A good 'single malt' requires proper aging to fully "ripen." Bad news, not so much.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-08 04:34|| 2014-01-08 04:34|| Front Page Top

#2 It is possible that the full and true story is such that ALL those who know it, regardless of party, agree it needs to stay covered up.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-01-08 10:12|| 2014-01-08 10:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Beginning to look that way Glenmore, but since it's our blood and treasure, I believe we have a right to know the truth.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-08 10:28|| 2014-01-08 10:28|| Front Page Top

#4 "Yet Speaker of the House John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor refuse to bring it to the House floor for a vote. You have to wonder, is there something they know that they prefer not come to light?"

I'm going to be a lot less diplomatic about it and say the good colonel either has his tin-foil beret on a bit too tight or (more charitably) he's decided that his political star needed a bit of burnishing.

You cannot keep politics out of it.

No, you can't. Which is why I question West's motives. As for Mr. Gates, perhaps his book is the first crack in the dam. Then again, given D.C., perhaps all it is, is a crack. My question is, where the hell were Mr. Gates' public statements of misgivings three or four years ago?

Posted by Pappy 2014-01-08 10:28|| 2014-01-08 10:28|| Front Page Top

#5 West definitely has political aspirations, but I don't believe we should discount his analysis because of those aspirations. I definitely agree with your assessment regarding the timing of the Gates book.

Ralph Peters just remarked on Fox that "Gates is obviously conflicted" with his role under the Champ, and that none of the administration's attitudes [as revealed by Gates] toward the military, or the AFG conflict should come as any surprise.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-08 10:44|| 2014-01-08 10:44|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't believe we should discount his analysis because of those aspirations.

I agree, though I don't he's fully thought everything through. I'm not sure that it's wise to bring a vote for a select committee nine months prior to election season, essentially handing ammo to the WH. It may be more advisable to wait until one has a majority (and perhaps replace the Speaker in process.) Or, if one loses, then scorched-earth would be the way to go.

Posted by Pappy 2014-01-08 12:29|| 2014-01-08 12:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Obama's administration is very adept at manipulating the media cycle, even more so with a sympathetic MSM. "Ripening" would not help this situation as this story has been ripening for a while now and, sadly, Benghazi is not a Giant Killer for the average voter. It seems more logical that the inept house leadership does not want to pile on or give O's admin a chance to muddle the disaster that is AHA. I would expect that if AHA damages Democrat positioning adequatly in 2014, then look for movement to Benghazi, but that is doubtful, any attempt to seriously hang this treasonous and despicable abdication of office and duty on O or Hillary falls flat with a complicit media.

Posted by jefe101 2014-01-08 19:25|| 2014-01-08 19:25|| Front Page Top

#8 The problem isn't ripening, it's breaking thru the Big Media shell that is shielding the public from any coverage of this story, and the severe lack of investigative journalism dedicated to this issue. Plenty of ink for another Obamacare website story, nothing for this.

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