May 10,
2013
Why discovering the truth about Benghazi matters—and
it has to do with 9/11
by Guy Rodgers Executive
Director
Dear Nelson,
There’s a
lesson from 9/11 that MUST be applied to the Benghazi terror attack—and very few
people are talking about it. Please take a few minutes to read this very
important letter.
We know that terrorist attacks against America
pre-9/11, such as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the attack on the USS
Cole, emboldened Osama bin Laden.
He watched the weak and confused
responses by our government to those terrorist attacks and concluded the United
States government and its people didn’t have the will to fight back against a
larger attack.
He even alluded to this in one of his videos in the late
90’s, when he made reference to the world watching to see who is “the strong
horse.”
Fast forward to Benghazi.
It should be abundantly clear by
now to any reasonable observer that there were government decisions made prior
to the attack that compromised security in Benghazi; there were decisions made
during the attack that compromised the ability to rescue those under attack; and
there were decisions made after the attack to alter the narrative to make it
look like a video prompted the attack.
Even the “establishment media” has
finally, finally, finally begun to take a closer look at this.
For
instance, this
short, must-see ABC News report, provides powerful evidence that it was
people inside the Obama administration who changed the talking points about what
happened in Benghazi—not the intelligence community as White House Press
Secretary Jay Carney claimed on November 28, 2012.
Here’s one excerpt
from that ABC News report:
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In an email to officials at the
White House and the intelligence agencies, State Department spokesman Victoria
Nuland took issue with including that information because it “could be abused by
members [of Congress] to beat up the State Department for not paying attention
to warnings, so why would we want to feed that
either?” |
Nuland was referring to
information from the CIA that was originally included in the talking points. The
CIA clearly had concerns about previous al Qaida-related activity and how it
could not “rule out” that al-Qaida related Islamists were involved in the
attack.
In other words, Nuland was more concerned about the State
Department getting a black eye for ignoring security warnings than it was about
putting out the truth as to why those four men died.
In spite of all of
these new revelations, there are those who still ask, “Why does it matter?” Even
some ACT! for America members have emailed us asking why we keep focusing on
this.
Here’s why we won’t let this go. It’s because of the lesson America
should have learned from 9/11.
9/11 happened in large part because
American leadership displayed weakness, confusion, and a lack of resolve in
responding to the terrorist attacks that occurred prior to 9/11.
Now,
today, consider what jihadists around the world are watching:
- An administration blaming a video for the Benghazi attack.
- An administration desperately trying to keep the American people in the dark
about what really happened—both before the attack and after the attack.
- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in testimony before Congress, blurting
out “what difference does it make” regarding what really happened.
- A compliant “establishment media” that failed to doggedly investigate this
attack prior to last year’s election, capped off by CNN’s Candy Crowley, the
debate moderator, jumping to Obama’s side during his debate with Mitt Romney.
- Secretary of State John Kerry recently saying “we need to move on to more
important matters.”
- State Department career officials, such as Gregory Hicks, getting punished
for trying to get the truth out.
- Democrats in Congress attacking these whistleblowers from the State
Department, and describing the investigation as a “witch
hunt.”
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What message is being sent,
loud and clear, to our jihadist enemies in America and around the
world?
The same message of weakness, confusion and a lack of resolve that
was sent prior to 9/11.
But this time it’s worse, because not only has
the response by this administration been weak and confusing, it has compounded
that failure by attempting to cover up what really
happened. |
Are there Republicans in
Washington who want to use this debacle for partisan, political purposes? Of
course—just as there would be Democrats trying to do so if this happened on the
watch of a Republican president.
But that’s not why ACT! for America
continues to press for the full truth to be brought to light.
Our reason
is this:
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THE JIHADISTS OF THE WORLD NEED
TO KNOW, WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT, THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES
WHO WILL NOT CAPITULATE IN THE FACE OF TERRORISM AND WHO ARE NOT CONFUSED ABOUT
WHO THE ENEMY IS AND WHY THE ENEMY IS ATTACKING US.
THEY NEED TO KNOW
THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE IN AMERICA WHO WILL NOT REST UNTIL WE HAVE A FULL
ACCOUNTING OF WHY THESE MEN DIED, SO THAT AMERICA CAN TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION TO
ENSURE SOMETHING LIKE THIS NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN.
THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT
THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES WHO WILL CONTINUE TO DEMAND THAT OUR
GOVERNMENT POLICIES RELATED TO JIHAD BE CHANGED TO ACCURATELY DEFINE WHO OUR
ENEMY IS AND WHY THEY ARE ATTACKING
US. |
We cannot, as a nation, afford
once again to send signs of weakness and confusion to the jihadist world, as we
did before 9/11.
If we do, we are giving the jihadists of the world every
encouragement to attack us again in a major way.
The “easy button” would
be for ACT! for America to, as John Kerry said, move on to other
matters.
But our mission to protect our national security—our very reason
for being—and our responsibility to our fellow Americans, will not allow us to
do that.
This is why, on Monday, we will issue a national ACTION ALERT to
pressure House Speaker John Boehner to appoint a special select committee to
finally and completely ferret out the truth—and issue recommendations regarding
what must be done so that this does not happen again.
Rest assured, we
will continue to fight for you, for your families, and for the well-being of
this country we love.
Yours for a safe and free America,
Guy
Rodgers |
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