The Terrorism Surge After Benghazi! That Didn’t Happen
May 01, 2014 5:53 PM
The Terrorism Surge After Benghazi! That Didnt Happen
While digging through the latest smoking gun claims of Republicans about an email from White House advisor Ben Rhodes suggesting the Benghazi protests were based on protests over the Innocence of Muslims video rather than al Qaeda activity, Slates Dave Weigel gets to a question that, unbelievably, has been rarely asked:
The entire argument is about Rhodes mentioning, hours after the CIA had suggested the Benghazi attack grew out of demonstrations in several countries, that the immediate inspiration for the demonstrations was a video. Thats the scandalthat by giving the video all this credit, the administration was distracting people from the real story that terrorism was surging again. Even though the subsequent 19 months have seen no more attacks on embassies. Even though reporting at the time said the excuse for the protests was said video.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/04/30/the_umpteenth_guide_to_the_impenetrable_benghazi_outrage.html
Republicans seem to have forgotten why Benghazi! was supposed to be a big deal in the first place: it showed a feckless, America-hating, Muslim-loving administration so soft on jihadist terrorism that they couldnt admit it had just happened.
So where did the global conflagration Benghazi! truly signaled go?
The perpetrators of this madness dont even seem to care.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_05/the_terrorism_surge_after_beng050165.php