From Mike walker, Col. USMC (retired)
There is a serious problem in Washington D.C.
Sometime shortly before16 September 2012, a top-level official in the intelligence/national security/foreign policy community set up Ambassador Susan Rice for public failure and her career may well be ruined by it.
Here is what she said on 16 September to the American people on national television:
A news correspondent presented Ambassador Rice with a quote from a Libyan official that stated: “the attack was pre-planned.” She replied: “the best information and the best assessment we have today is that, in fact, this was not a pre-planned premeditated attack,”
That was a false statement.
The best information and the best assessment that the U.S. Government had before 16 September was, in fact, that it was a pre-planned premeditated attack.
Ambassador Rice then went on to add “that what happened initially was a spontaneously reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo as a consequence of the video.”
That was a false statement.
The best information and the best assessment that the U.S. Government had before 16 September was that there was no spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo as a consequence of the video.
The American people were deliberately deceived into believing that a false mythology was true and the truth was false.
Finding out how and why this happened is simple.
Investigator One starts with Susan Rice and asks the five-W’s regarding the false talking pointing she gave the American people. If she said she did it then you know the truth. If not, Investigator One moves on the person or persons who gave Rice the false talking points and asks them the five-W’s and so on.
Investigator Two starts with the CIA report that described the tragedy in Benghazi as a terrorist attack and mentioned al Qaeda and visits the people on the distribution list and asks the five-W’s regarding the false talking points presented by Ambassador Rice.
We are talking about a very small number of very senior government officials so in short order, Investigator One and Investigator Two meet at the source of the fabrication and the mystery is solved.
It does not take ten weeks or even ten days to get to the truth. I could be done in ten hours of walking the halls, knocking on doors, making phone calls and sending e-mails. If necessary, an investigator may have to drive to someone’s building to talk, but it should and could have been done very quickly.
The only possible reason why the truth is not known by now is if there is a COVER-UP going on.
Further, this particular cover-up can have only succeeded this long if it is being directed from very high up in the food chain.
As the CIA has been cleared and the Pentagon and NSA played no substantial role, there are really only three places left: the National Security Advisor or his most senior deputies, the Secretary of State or her most senior deputies, the Director of National Intelligence or his senior deputies.
Ambassador Rice really only faces one remote but devastating risk: She knows who gave her the false information that was used to mislead the American people but she is an active participant in the cover-up and will not divulge the truth. If that is the case then her career is over.
If it is not the case then a good American had been set up for failure by a very senior government official or officials. That person or persons need to be identified as quickly as possible and held accountable for their actions. It is time to send out the folks with the badges and those "here are your rights" cards and get to the bottom of this debacle.
The cover-up is always worse than the initial mistake.
