Obama’s Benghazi cover-up -- By Paul E. Vallely, The Washington Times

Let's cut to the chase. Thirty-four Americans at the U.S. Special Mission and CIA Annex in Benghazi were attacked by Islamic terrorists in two waves, the first starting at 9:40 p.m. the evening of Sept. 11, 2012.
Murderous thugs carefully planned and executed this attack on American territory — which this space represents — on the 11th anniversary of Sept. 11.

First, U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and his aide, Sean Smith, were brutally killed. Then, long hours of official indecision or cowardice followed, culminating in the heroic rescue during the second attack on the annex.

But for retired Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty courageously fighting to defend the lives of those at the annex at the cost of their own, no one would have lived to tell the tale.

Woods, a CIA contractor stationed at the annex, initially led the delayed rescue effort at the mission, bringing four surviving Diplomatic Security Service officers and Smith's lifeless body, back to the annex.

Doherty, a CIA contractor stationed in Tripoli, arrived in Benghazi with his team at 1:35 a.m., but Libya Shield Brigade jihadis detained them some for three hours, giving the "final assault team," including a mortar squad, time to prepare for the attack on the annex.

The sobering reality now is, rather than praising the 31 survivors for their bravery, the Obama administration has muzzled them through extraordinary harassing measures, including nondisclosure agreements and repeated polygraphs vis-a-vis the Benghazi attacks.

Let's be clear: Terrorists ejected America from Libya that day, ushering in anarchic rule that persists to this day — the same America that gave Libya $1 billion in military assistance during the so-called "Arab Spring" to liberate its people from strongman Moammar Gadhafi, who was captured and killed on Oct. 20, 2011.

Nearly a year later, just after Labor Day as President Obama was bracing himself for the presidential contest that would determine whether he would retain power, this enormous catastrophe occurred in Benghazi.
That the administration sought initially to obfuscate with the patently false video story shows it takes Americans for fools. But, then, we were fools.

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