Hillary's Breathtaking Mendacity<\/a>. By Andrew McCarthy. Excerpts:<\/span><\/p>\n To repeat, Clinton and Obama knew it was a terrorist attack but tried to con the country, very much including the families of our dead, into believing our heroes had been killed by a spontaneous response to a video.<\/span><\/p>\n [. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n The lies about \u201can awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with\u201d were dictated by the bipartisan Beltway policy of Islamist empowerment that Obama and Clinton championed. Indeed, at the time it occurred, the terrorist attack was just the latest in a series of jihadist threats and strikes in Benghazi. The policy of strategically and materially supporting Islamists made such attacks inevitable.<\/span><\/p>\n But it was election season. Obama and Clinton needed camouflage for the catastrophic failure of their policy. Thus: Clinton\u2019s fustian<\/a> about \u201can awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In point of fact, Clinton and Obama had everything to do with the anti-Islamic video trailer, Innocence of Muslims. Virtually no one would have known of it had they not tirelessly publicized it in the international media and in official American government statements that were studiously linked to the Benghazi massacre.<\/span><\/p>\n In reality, though, it was the video that had nothing to do with the rage and violence directed at Americans, first in Egypt, then Libya, then beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n The violence at the U.S. embassy in Cairo had been threatened for months by al-Qaeda operatives and was clearly planned to erupt on the eleventh anniversary of the terror network\u2019s 9\/11 atrocities. The jihadists had been empowered by both the overthrow of the Qaddafi regime in Libya, orchestrated by Obama and Clinton, and the Muslim Brotherhood takeover in Egypt, championed by Obama and Clinton.<\/span><\/p>\n In the weeks before September 11, 2012, al-Qaeda saber-rattled about a potential Tehran 1979\u2013style attack on the U.S. embassy in Cairo \u2014 perhaps they\u2019d burn it to the ground, perhaps they\u2019d take hostages to trade for American concessions like release of the Blind Sheikh (imprisoned for terrorism convictions in the U.S.).<\/span><\/p>\n Administration officials knew there would be trouble on the eleventh anniversary of 9\/11. They also knew that, if the trouble was perceived as the foreseeable fallout of their Islamist empowerment policy, it could mortally damage Obama\u2019s 2012 reelection bid and Clinton\u2019s 2016 election ambitions.<\/span><\/p>\n So the administration swung into action. The obscure video trailer had been condemned by a fiery mufti in Egypt. Word of it began to circulate, but almost no one had seen it. Though in some small circles it was added to the endless list of Islamist grievances against America, those grievances are ideologically driven \u2014 and Islamist ideology is incorrigibly anti-American, regardless of what pretexts are cited for acting on it.<\/span><\/p>\n So Clinton\u2019s opportunistic underlings pounced, seeing the video as their chance to shape a fraudulent narrative. As Muslims \u2014 including al-Qaeda operatives \u2014 began menacing the Cairo embassy, the State Department put out a series of tweets, a transparent effort to spin the inevitable rioting as incited by the video, not enabled by the administration\u2019s own promotion of Islamic supremacists.<\/span><\/p>\n The Benghazi siege began a few hours later.<\/span><\/p>\n In the aftermath, of course, the administration edited intelligence-community talking points in order to promote the video fraud and conceal the terrorist victory \u2014 even as Obama touted al-Qaeda\u2019s purported demise in campaign speeches. Susan Rice, an Obama confidant and a top official in Clinton\u2019s State Department, was dispatched to lie to the public on the Sunday shows. Obama and Clinton indignantly condemned the video in public-address announcements for Pakistani television, paid for by American tax dollars. Obama took to the podium at the United Nations to proclaim to the world that \u201cthe future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The administration then put the criminal-justice system in service of the fraud. Making good on Clinton\u2019s deceitful vow, police raided the home of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the video\u2019s producer \u2014 arresting him in the dead of night, as if he were a violent criminal, even though he had been cooperating with law enforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n Why was he cooperating with law enforcement? Far from a crime, the making of the video was constitutionally protected activity \u2014 the kind of activity the executive branch is duty-bound to protect. But Nakoula went to law enforcement because Obama and Clinton\u2019s smear had put his life in danger.<\/span><\/p>\n They did that, willfully, because they needed a scapegoat: Nakoula could serve the dual purposes of deceiving Americans into linking Benghazi\u2019s dead to the video while convincing Muslims of Obama and Clinton\u2019s longstanding commitment to subordinate constitutional free-speech rights to sharia\u2019s blasphemy standards. Nakoula, a small-time con man whose prior conviction made him susceptible to revocation of parole, was the perfect foil.<\/span><\/p>\n He spent nearly a year in prison while Obama celebrated his reelection, Clinton plotted her campaign to replace him, and the Democrat-media complex helped them bury Benghazi as \u201cold news.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Just as she looked Charles Wood in the eye three years ago, while his son\u2019s remains and those of three other Americans killed by jihadists lay nearby, so did Hillary Clinton look America in the eye during Thursday\u2019s testimony. Both times, she seemed earnest, composed and determined as only a pathological liar can in the execution of a high-stakes fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hillary's Breathtaking Mendacity. By Andrew McCarthy. 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