MEDIA DISTORTS INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE BENGHAZI REPORT

The right-wing media has twisted the report of the Senate Special Committee on Intelligence to put blame on the Secretary of State “for the attack on its embassy” in Benghazi and not “for failure to provide adequate defense” of that embassy. That is not what the report says but is the sense projected by the reporters. The report says Ambassador Stevens underestimated the danger and screwed up trying to do the right thing; the report is available for reading in its entirety on the internet along with a list of the 15 members of the committee. Ambassador Stevens did not want CIA activities associated with that embassy revealed for fear of local retaliation; thus, he failed to understand why religious radicals targeted the Benghazi facility for attacked, which in turn caused him to underestimate the magnitude of the attack. Of course, hindsight 20/20 vision clearly demonstrated the Ambassador made bad judgment about the size of the protective forces needed that cost him and three others their lives.

The Democrats on the committee are from a wing of the liberal party that has an anti government bias. The numbers of members representing purple states when added to the naive Ron Wyden of Oregon show an inherent bias: Senators from West Virginia, Virginia, Colorado, New Mexico can hardly be termed raving liberals. The membership collectively support the standard Republican sentiment of hate for anything to do with the government and especially intelligence gathering when to comes to Wyden, but also includes hate for President Obama and hate for Hilary Clinton. In spite of this bias, the report its self is actually quite revealing. What actually says is, as it says on the Forest Gump “T” shirt; “Stuff happens.”

The only thing wrong is the way media is mining the “factual” information and taking it out of context; they have picked out, sensationalized, and stitched together the negatives making the report seem to be something it is not. Their target for slander is Hilary Clinton, a potential presidential candidate; therefore, is of high media interest; her name taken in a negative context sells newspapers.

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