While former Navy SEALS Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were trying to evacuate personnel at the Annex in Benghazi and fight off a planned Jihadist assault, the whereabouts of Barack Hussein Obama are pretty much, with two brief exceptions, unknown.
Over at The American Spectator, they’ve published a report on this story by Stacy McCain that lays out quite well why knowing where the President was and what actions he took matter so much.
A few highlights:
Anyone who saw that memorable interview [between Chris Wallace of Fox News and the President’s Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer]…knows what a reaction Wallace’s persistence provoked from the White House aide. Pfeiffer blustered with indignation at what he called an “offensive” suggestion “that the president didn’t take action” and huffed that “there’s no evidence to support” such a suggestion. Wallace remained calm and reiterated: “I’m simply asking a question. Where was he? What did he do?” Whatever the facts of the matter may be, Pfeiffer refused to answer specifically, and so the question lingers: Where was the president?
No suggestion is implicit in that question, but the refusal of the administration to provide a detailed answer — and its readiness to accuse anyone who asks such a question of being a conspiracy theorist — quite clearly suggests that the White House doesn’t want full knowledge of Obama’s actions on the night of the Benghazi attack ever to become public….
Where was Barack Hussein Obama that night and what was he doing?
It’s a simple question that should, in a sane world, be easy enough to directly answer.
Why is the Administration refusing to answer these two questions?
What are they hiding and why?
Another snippet from Stacy’s report:
…Both of them [Tyrone
Woods and Glen Doherty] were part of a security detail that tried to save Stevens and Smith at the consulate, and were tasked with evacuating other Americans after the initial attack. Woods and Doherty were killed in a subsequent assault on the CIA annex in Benghazi. More than six hours elapsed between the first alarm from the consulate — “We’re under attack, we need help, please send help now” — and the attack on the annex in which mortar shells killed Woods and Doherty. By 4:30 p.m. Eastern time, Secretary Panetta was told of the desperate crisis in Benghazi and, about an hour later, Secretary Clinton called CIA Director David Petraeus to coordinate a response. Exactly why that response was insufficient to save the lives of Woods and Doherty remains hotly disputed. CBS News reported that the Counterterrorism Security Group was not convened the day of the Benghazi attack and that State Department officials ruled out deploying the Foreign Emergency Support Team.
What the Hell was the State Department doing interfering it what clearly was a matter to be dealt with at this point by the Secretary Of Defense, by the military commanders in the theater of operations, and, ultimately, by the Commander-In-Chief Of The United States? At best, the Secretary Of State should have been at The White House conferencing with the President, but she should not have had any say in this matter.
Who was is charge?
Who was making the ultimate decisions?
Where was Barack Hussein Obama? —related: where was Valerie Jarrett?
Please do take the time to click here and read the whole of Stacy’s report.
All in all this is just another brick in the wall.
