Freewill
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Kirsten Powers: Why Can't The Obama Administration Tell The Truth About Benghazi? - Katie Pavlich
She's been pretty good about staying on target.
She's much better than Milquetoast Colmes.
BAIER: Kirsten, a lot of people push back and say to use a phrase, what difference does it make now? What about that thinking and the reporting on this?
KIRSTEN POWERS: Well, I think the reporting is important. And I don't understand why the administration can't just tell the truth about this, and that they keep saying things, as George just pointed out, we know aren't true. And we know aren't true from sort of unbiased sources. I mean the Senate intelligence report is not Fox News. He wants to blame Fox News for everything. It's not Fox News.
Please show us evidence of a cover up.
Please don't give us the FOX News interpretation of the Senate Report. Give us proof that there was a cover up. [I'm asking you for the standard Bush supporters asked for when the Bush administration was accused of intelligence shenanigans RE WMDs]
Give us actionable proof of a cover up, because all you have is the speculation of Senate Republicans and the endless lying of Rightwing media.
Here is why I don't think you should get your interpretation of the Senate Report from a partisan source like FOX News. Read the following report below, which is another interpretation. It suggests that the intelligence agencies were not working together, and that the government didn't do enough - but it doesn't suggest a cover up. Interpretations are fun.
The committee determined that the U.S. military command in Africa didnt know about the CIA annex and that the Pentagon didnt have the resources in place to defend the State Department compound in an emergency.
The report found no evidence of the kind of political coverup that Republicans have long alleged. Much of it recounted now-familiar facts about deteriorating security conditions in Benghazi in 2012, a year after the fall of longtime dictator Moammar Gaddafi. It filled in new details about the relationship between the State Department compound and the CIA annex about a mile away, and described the concern among many intelligence specialists about the growing potency of Islamist militants in the city.
In spite of the deteriorating security situation in Benghazi and ample strategic warnings, the United States government simply did not do enough to prevent these attacks and ensure the safety of those serving in Benghazi, said Sen. Saxby Chambliss (Ga.), the ranking Republican on the panel.
We should have appointed an independent prosecutor to interrogate the Bush administration on why the August 2001 Memo (which predicted an attack involving planes and skyscrapers) was ignored. We should have asked Bush under oath why he failed to defend the eastern seaboard, and why the most basic protocol of having planes "scramble ready" was turned off that day. We allowed 3,000 Americans to be slaughtered by negligence, and nobody from the Bush administration had to testify under oath. This set a terrible precedent. At some point we have to hold both sides accountable, not just the other party. If you'd be willing to make your side testify under oath, than I'd be more than willing to advocate for the same on the Left. Problem is: you only care about government corruption when it happen on the other side. The OP enters this debate purely as a partisan.
It still goes back to the OP. It is a democrat operative that is asking why they can't tell the truth. Yes, you folks keep trying to bring it back to the right but that is not the truth in this case.