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Liberals Now Arguing for a Lesbian’s Right to Have Sex With a 14-Year-Old Girl

Posted on | May 22, 2013 | 81 Comments

But it’s consensual! And . . . equality!

Also, Kaitlyn Hunt — the lesbian charged with two counts of felony lewd and lascivious battery on a child — is a blonde who’s kinda cute, and who could object to cute blonde teenage lesbians? Here’s a local news video:

While some readers may be struggling to resist the temptation to Google “blonde + teen + lesbian,” let me remind you sick freaks that if you were to download photos or videos of what Kaitlyn Hunt is charged with doing to a 14-year-old girl, that would be a federal crime.

If the feds could send you disgusting perverts to prison for those photos, how do the enlightened minds at Think Progress manage to portray the perpetrator of these acts as a victim of bigotry?

Because it was “a consensual, same-sex relationship,” that’s why!

Also, Kaitlyn’s mom (who apparently can’t spell “zealot”) says that the parents of the 14-year-old who pressed charges are “out to destroy my daughter [because] they feel like my daughter ‘made’ their daughter gay,” and these “bigoted, religious” parents “see being gay as a sin and wrong, and they blame my daughter.”

See? You deviant weirdos thought Jailbait Lesbian School Girls was just a popular DVD title, but now it’s a civil right.

And the only people who disagree are bigoted religious zealots — including the authorities in Indian River County, Florida:

“If this was an 18-year-old male and that was a 14-year-old girl, it would have been prosecuted the same way,” Indian River County Sheriff Deryl Loar said during a Monday news conference. . . .
“The idea is to protect people in that vulnerable group from people who are older, 18 and above,” said Bruce Colton, state attorney for Florida’s 19th circuit, which includes Indian River County and other parts of the Treasure Coast. “…The statute specifically says that consent is not a defense.”
Colton said . . .  this case exemplifies the purpose of the current law and added he would not support any effort to make consensual relationships among peers legal.
“There’s a big maturity difference between them,” he said. “You’re talking the difference between a senior in high school and a freshman in high school. That’s what the law is designed to protect.”

But . . . consensual! equality!

These are the only arguments offered by the “Stop the Hate” crowd at Daily Kos, evidently willing to declare open season on Florida 14-year-olds in order to be consistent in their ideology. And if you disagree with them, you’re just a hater.

Left Defends Accused Sex Offender Because She’s Lesbian

Why so judgmental, Newsbusters? Don’t you understand the “emerging awareness” doctrine of the Lawrence v. Texas decision? And isn’t it only logical that this “emerging awareness” would eventually include the constitutional right to bang a ninth-grader?

So if the “Stop the Hate” petitioners get their way, Florida will be overrun by a stampede of perverts following around school-girls in hopes of getting some of that “consensual” action. And they’ll call it Progress.

UPDATE: The freaks have a hashtag (#FreeKate) with some of the usual suspects, including Chris Hayes of NAMBLA MSNBC:

“Lean Forward” — so your 14-year-old daughter can have her vagina penetrated with a vibrator, to cite the affidavit in the Kaitlyn Hunt case:

Kaitlyn Hunt Redacted Affidavit Redacted by Sergio Nahuel Candido

Chris Hayes and MSNBC want your ninth-grader to have that “right.”

 

 


Category: Crime, Gays, Kaitlyn Hunt, Sex

An Ode To Lois Lerner: “Blown Snow”

Posted on | May 22, 2013 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

But Sometimes
Bureaucrats Soar
Beyond Simple
Background Stories,
Brokering Supercilious
Bromides Stashed
Below Silver
Busses Staggered
By Squashed
Bodies Sacrificed,
Bravely Supporting
Beliefs Seemingly
Broken, Soviet-style

—
Losing her 1st Amendment rights?

Category: Instapundit, Scandal, Taxes

‘We Must Fight Them as They Fight Us,’ Says Terrorist Who Beheaded Soldier

Posted on | May 22, 2013 | 22 Comments

VIDEO: Bloody Terrorist Who Murdered Soldier
in London: ‘You People Will Never Be Safe!’

Remind me again how British soldiers run over people on city streets in broad daylight and then butcher them like cattle:

A British soldier was reportedly murdered near an Army barracks by two men who beheaded him while shouting “Allahu Akbar!”
Eyewitnesses told reporters they saw the victim — believed to be a soldier stationed at the Royal Artillery Barracks — being “hacked to bits” Wednesday on a street in the South London area of Woolwich by two men with large knives variously described as “meat cleavers” or “machetes.” One witness said the two attackers appeared to be attempting to record video of their butchery of the victim. . . .
The BBC confirms the British government is treating the incident as terrorism . . .
One witness, identified only as James, said two men had attacked another man, aged about 20, who was wearing a T-shirt of military charity Help for Heroes.
“These two guys were crazed. They were just animals. They dragged him from the pavement and dumped his body in the middle of the road and left his body there,” he told LBC radio.
He said after the “horrendous” attack, the two men, who were also in their 20s, stood around, waving knives and a gun, and asked people to take pictures of them “as if they wanted to be on TV or something”.
“They were oblivious to anything, they were more worried about having their photo taken, running up and down the road,” he said.

Ace of Spades headline:

Persons of Unknown Ethnic Extraction
Launch “Frenzied” Machete Attack in
Suspected Terrorist Case in London

It’s so mysterious. Probably radical Lutherans . . .

 

Category: Great Britain, Terrorism

Doug Shulman: IRS Fall Guy?

Posted on | May 22, 2013 | 15 Comments

Just a few thoughts while watching today’s House Oversight Committee hearings about the IRS scandal:

Schulman was caught in lie after lie after lie, saying he didn’t remember this or that, and then being reminded of his own previous testimony demonstrating either (a) he did know about what he denied remembering, or (b) his earlier denials were false.

And I think I wasn’t the only viewer whose head exploded when Shulman was asked why he made more than 100 visits to the White House in a single year and began his answer, “Easter Egg Rolls with my kids . . .”

This guy has refused to apologize for the IRS scandal. Exactly why the hell George W. Bush would appoint Shulman — a donor to the Democratic National Committee — to a five-year term as IRS Commissioner is one of the great mysteries of our age. Lois Lerner has pleaded the Fifth, and it’s basically impossible to fire anybody at the IRS, so if Democrats are looking for a scapegoat to throw under the bus, the “bipartisan” Shulman seems to be a likely fall guy.

On the other hand, Ezra Klein’s Juice Box Mafia seems prepared to throw Lois Lerner under the Obama bus, too.

 


Category: Barack Obama, Scandal, Taxes, Tea Party

Was Chechen Man Shot by FBI in Florida a Suspect in 2011 Waltham Triple Murder?

Posted on | May 22, 2013 | 5 Comments

The news that Ibragim Todashev was shot to death by an FBI agent in Orlando last night has gotten widespread attention because of the connection between Todashev, a Chechen immigrant, and Boston marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev:

The FBI spent three hours Tuesday interviewing both Todashev and a friend, Khusen Taramov, who told Orlando’s WESH-TV that agents had taken Todashev to be interviewed separately. Taramov said: “They were talking to us, both of us, right? And they said they need him for a little more, for a couple more hours, and I left, and they told me they’re going to bring him back. They never brought him back. . . . I told him, ‘Everything is going to be fine, don’t worry about it.’ He said, ‘I have a really bad feeling.’”
The shooting occurred in an apartment complex off Peregrine Avenue in Orlando, according to Central Florida News 13, which also interviewed Taramov, who said FBI agents “started following us, watching us” after Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother Dzhokar were identified as suspects in the April 15 bombing of the Boston Marathon, which killed three people and wounded more than 170 others.
Todashev had reportedly been planning Tuesday to fly back to Chechnya, Taramov said: “He cancelled the tickets because, the FBI had been like, I don’t know, they’ve been pushing him, you know what I’m saying. They’ve been pushing him they say ‘don’t leave, don’t leave’ so he decided to stay.”

You can read the rest at Viral Read, but what caught my eye was the report by NBC News that Todashev was being questioned by the FBI in connection with a 2011 triple homicide in Waltham, Massachusetts, in which Tamerlan Tsarnaev was reportedly also a suspect.

What do we know about that crime? And how was the possible involvement of Tsarnaev and Todashev significant?

On Sept. 12, 2011, police found the bodies of three men — Brendan Mess, 25, Erik Weissman, 31, and Raphael Teken, 37 —  in a second-floor apartment on a dead-end street in Waltham.

All three men had been stabbed in the neck, and their bodies were reportedly “covered in marijuana.” Neighbors reported that one of the victims drove a Mercedes and there were frequent comings and goings from the apartment, which would lead to the obvious suspicion that the murders were drug-related. And police said from the start that they believed the victims knew their killer or killers. Two weeks ago, Michele McPhee of ABC News reported:

Massachusetts investigators have developed what they call “mounting evidence,” bolstered by “forensic hits,” that point to the possible involvement of both Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar in a gruesome, unsolved triple homicide in 2011 . . .
In the wake of the Marathon bombings, Middlesex County began to probe a link between the elder Tsarnaev and Brendan Mess, one of the three men killed in the gruesome slaying on Sept. 11, 2011.  . . . Tamerlan and Mess were once roommates and did boxing and martial arts training together. . . .
Now law enforcement officials tell ABC News that some crime scene forensic evidence provided a match to the two Tsarnaev brothers. The officials also said records of cell phones used by the Tsarnaevs appears to put them in the area of the murders on that date. . . .
Roughly seven pounds of marijuana was dumped on the bodies and $5,000 in cash was left behind. Neighbors said they did not hear any signs of trouble – even with open windows – and there was no forced entry. In a 2011 interview, Leone said investigators theorized there had been more than one person at the scene of the murders based on “many factors,” but no suspects were identified.
From there the case went cold, until photos of the Boston Marathon suspects were released and family and friends of the Waltham victims recognized them and remembered Tamerlan’s strange behavior after the murders. He did not attend his friend’s funeral and vanished from the martial arts gyms where the men had sparred together.

If the killers left behind seven pounds of marijuana and $5,000, obviously the motive for the crime was not robbery.

So the question quite naturally arises, what inspired this triple murder on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks?

We have reports of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s “strange behavior” after the Waltham murders, we have his involvement in the Boston Marathon bombings, we have reports of forensic evidence connecting the Tsarnaev brothers to the murders, and now we have the report of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Chechen buddy who had bought a ticket on a flight out of the country and who was shot after attacking an FBI agent during an interrogation.

Yeah, the 2011 Waltham murder case now looks very significant.

“Keep an eye on this one,” says Michelle Malkin.

UPDATE: Ed Morrissey catches something I missed:

The officials say Todashev had some connections with radical Chechen rebels, but they say it’s not clear whether he had any role in radicalizing Tsarnaev.

A month ago, Michael Rezendes of the Boston Globe reported:

Previously, investigators had said that Brendan Mess, 25, along with Erik Weissman, 25, and Raphael Teken, 37, were killed on Sept. 12, 2011 . . .
But the relative interviewed by the Globe said the murders took place the evening before, on Sept. 11, the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The relative said he knew this because he was texting one of the victims about a Sunday night football game between the New York Jets and Dallas Cowboys when communication with the victims suddenly stopped at about 8:15 that evening.
“The three of them were definitely killed on Sept. 11,” the relative said. “They all stopped using their cellphones at about eight o’clock that night.”

The puzzle pieces seem to be forming a pattern. But if phone records of the victims showed they were killed on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, why did investigators tell the public otherwise?

 

Category: Crime, Terrorism

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.22.13

Posted on | May 22, 2013 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Senate Panel Approves Sweeping Immigration Bill

An immigrant recites the Pledge of Allegiance at a naturalization ceremony.

An immigrant recites the Pledge of Allegiance at a naturalization ceremony.

Leahy’s same-sex marriage amendment defeated; Hatch’s increase in tech visas approved


Government Drops One Charge Against Wikileaker
Charge of leaking State Department cable dropped


Top Figures Barred From Iran’s June Ballot
Former president Rafsanjani, aide to Ahamdinejad among many booted from ballot



POLITICS
Lois Lerner Takes The Fifth, Won’t Answer Questions At Congressional Hearing

Mmmm...smells like RICO.

Mmmm…smells like RICO.

Former head of IRS tax-exempt unit lawyers up

Ft. Jackson Commander Suspended Over Adultery Allegations

Sources Challenge Administration Claim Of “All Hands On Deck” Pursuit Of Benghazi Suspects


FEMA Uses “Waffle House Index” To Take Stock Of Oklahoma Disaster

Harrisburg Mayor Who Ran City Into Bankruptcy Loses Bid For Re-Election In Democrat Primary

Prosecutors Seek Retrial In Bell, California Corruption Case

Gay Florida Teen Indicted For Underage Girlfriend



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Falls On Rising US Gasoline Stocks
Apple Defends Tax Shelters, Gets Assist From Rand Paul
Victory For Dimon As JP Morgan Chase Shareholders Reject Chairman/CEO Split
Japan Trade Deficit Shows Weaker Yen No Panacea
Fannie Mae To Sell $2 Billion In Boom-Era CMBS To Cut Holdings
Home Depot 1Q Earnings Exceed Expectations
Sony Stock Jumps As Board Considers Entertainment Spinoff
Merck Signs $5 Billion Share Buyback Agreement With Goldman Sachs
Ferrero Fail: World Nutella Day Saved As Makers Cave
Cautious Optimism Greets XBox One
Yahoo Offers Flickr Revamp With 1TB Of Storage
Jive Tries Out Freemium Model With Producteev Task Manager
Sony Unveils PS4 Teaser Video Ahead Of XBox Launch
Powermat Marries PowerKiss, Vows To Use Same Wireless Charging Standard
Opera Comes To Android
Google+ Rolls Out Redesign For Mobile Web Similar To Desktop
AGENT Smartwatch Kickstarter Reaches Backers’ Goal
“Call Of Duty: Ghosts” To Launch On XBox One With Exclusive Content



SPORTS
Bruins Rally Past Rangers, Take 3-0 Series Lead

Brad Richards falls in front of Daniel Paille during the second period.

Brad Richards falls in front of Daniel Paille during the second period.

Paille scores tie-breaking goal with 3:31 left in the third period


Spurs Blow Late Lead, Beat Grizzlies Anyway 93-89 In OT


Sharks Hold Off Kings, Even Series At Two Apiece

O’s Beat Yankees 3-2 On Sayonara Homer

Victim Of Expectations? Clippers Let Coach Del Negro Go

San Francisco, Houston Win Bids For Super Bowls 50, 51

Cabrera Homers, Scherzer Rolls As Tigers Maul Tribe 5-1

Royals Rally Late, Thump Astros 7-3

Wright’s Early Error Dooms Mets, Reds Win 4-0

Darvish Coughs Up Just One Run To A’s, But It’s Too Many: Rangers Lose 1-0

Ryan Mattheus Breaks Hand Trying To Punch Out Locker



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Sharon Stone Flashes Cleavage At Cannes

Hard to believe she's 55

Hard to believe she’s 55

In town for premiere of Behind The Candelabra

It’s Official: Kelly Rowland, Paulina Rubio Joining “X Factor”

Lindsay Lohan Sued By Manufacturer Of Her 6126 Clothing Line

Scrape Me Up Before You Go Slow

Lindsey Vonn And Tiger Woods Take His Kids To School


Jesse James Accidentally Cuts Off His Finger

Bon Jovi Slams Bieber: “You’re An A**hole”

Barbara Walters’ Daughter Drunk And Abusive During DUI Arrest

A Life So Large – Brad Pitt’s Esquire Interview

Kristen Stewart Visits Taylor Swift’s House After Breakup With Rob Pattinson



FOREIGNERS
Norks Send Top Kim Jong Un Aide To Beijing
Abe: Norks Must Return All Those Abducted
Israeli Military Chief Issues Stark Warning To Syria After Exchange Of Fire On Golan Heights
Russia Outraged At Azerbaijan’s Eurovision Vote Snub
Former OAS Member Commits Suicide In Notre Dame In Protest Of Gay Marriage
Vatican Denies News Reports Of Pope Francis Performing Exorcism
Clashes With Rebels Resume In Democratic Republic Of The Congo
Kenya “Fine” With Obama Snub
Philippines Protests Chicom Warship’s Presence In Spratly Islands
Gay Marriage Bill Passes UK House Of Commons In Divisive Vote
Nigeria To Free Female Islamist Suspects



BLOGS & STUFF
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Breaking! Soulless Union Drone Elected Mayor Of Los Angeles
Power Line: A Crack In The IRS Dam
NRO Corner: Rand Paul Calls For Independent Investigation Of IRS Scandal, Says Obama “Passive” And “Detached”
Andrew Stiles: No Apology From The IRS
Questions And Observations: IRS commissioner Knew About Illegal Targeting Of Conservative Groups A Year Ago
Right Scoop: Bill Kristol Tells Marco Rubio To Walk Away From The Immigration Bill
Gateway Pundit: Holder’s DOJ Even Targeted Fox Reporter’s Parents’ Home Phone
Legal Insurrection: How Much Has The Justice Department Overreached? Other News Organizations May Have To Defend Fox
Riehl World News: An Obama Administration Feature, Not A Bug – Sharyl Attkisson’s Computers Compromised
John Podhoretz: Leaks Turn To Deluge For Reeling White House
Weasel Zippers: Biden Cracks TOTUS Joke
Daniel Foster: Next Against The Wall – White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler?
Weekly Standard Blog: Liberal Pundits Gather In The West Wing
Protein Wisdom: Leftist Shitboxes Who Once Upon A Time Politicized A Hurricane Rush To Politicize A Tornado
Ramesh Ponnuru: “Obama Scandals” Could Actually Hurt Republicans
AmSpecBlog: Did The Virginia GOP Just Hand Terry McAuliffe The Election By Nominating E.W. Jackson For Lieutenant Governor?


Category: Live at Five

‘Take That Hill’

Posted on | May 21, 2013 | 6 Comments

My 14-year-old son stayed home from school today sick, and put the TV on the Military Channel where, among other shows, we watched a documentary about the Battle of Hill 875 in Vietnam.

To call this a battle is something of a misnomer: It was a horrible blunder, a senseless slaughter caused by poor strategy and bad tactics.

Hill 875 was the concluding action of a larger campaign known generally as the Battle of Dak To, named for a village in the Central Highlands near the Cambodian border that was the forward base of operations for U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engaged in efforts to interdict North Vietnamese traffic along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

After more than two weeks of combat in November 1967, in what was known by the Americans as “Operation MacArthur,” a U.S. Special Forces patrol encountered North Vietnamese troops on Hill 875. This was a full regiment (the 174th), that had occupied the hill less than 15 miles from the border to cover the withdrawal of two other NVA regiments from the vicinity of Dak To. The 174th NVA regiment was dug into the hill in a series of camouflaged bunker positions. Brig. Gen. Leo Schweiter of the 173rd Airborne Brigade ordered the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Regiment to take the hill.

From the moment the three companies of 2/503 moved forward at 9:43 a.m. until the moment they came under fire was barely 45 minutes, and they were basically doomed from the start.

The U.S. paratroopers were outnumbered by the NVA regiment, whose concealed positions on the heavily forested hillside were part of what proved to be a deadly ambush.

As the 2/503 moved up the hill, some of the U.S. troops sensed that they were in a bad situation. They got the creepy feeling that they were being observed. A sergeant in one of the lead platoons twice radioed back to Capt. Harold Kaufman, who was in tactical command, and asked for permission to conduct “reconnaisance by fire,” i.e., to open fire into the jungle and see if the enemy would fire back, thus revealing their positions. Twice the sergeant asked, and twice permission was refused.

Capt. Kaufman evidently thought he was sneaking up on Charlie.

Yeah. Guess again, Captain.

The NVA bunkers and trenches on Hill 875 had been dug months earlier, and were heavily covered with logs and earth. These positions were all but impervious to U.S. artillery or air strikes. So once the NVA opened fire, the two American companies in the advance were pinned down, and none of their supporting fire they called in against the enemy did much to solve the problem.

Meanwhile, downhill . . .

The battalion’s reserve company (A) was guarding the rear and trying to carve out a landing zone in the jungle so that helicopters could bring supplies and reinforcements and evacuate the growing number of wounded. While Company A was doing this, they deployed a four-man team as an observation outpost, just in case. Around 2:30 p.m., when the battle uphill had already been under way for about three hours, this outpost opened fire on advancing NVA troops — an entire company of them making a flank attack.

Needless to say, a four-man team could do little to stop a company of NVA regulars, but one of these four paratroopers — PFC Carlos Lozado — earned the Medal of Honor (posthumously) for his efforts to hold back the enemy onslaught with an M-60 machine gun.

This NVA flank attack quickly rendered Company A’s position untenable. The unfinished landing zone was abandoned and Company A, to avoid being cut off, moved uphill to make contact with the two advance companies, which were themselves nearly surrounded. Re-supplying the troops by helicopter drops was nearly impossible. The situation was very bad, and it was about to get much worse.

About 7 p.m., as the paratroopers were desperately fighting to maintain their position, they called in another air strike — and the pilot inadvertently dropped two bombs inside the battalion’s perimeter, killing 42 U.S. troops and wounding another 45 in what is believed to have been the worst friendly-fire incident of the entire Vietnam War.

Among those killed in that incident was Capt. Kaufman, who had twice refused the sergeant’s request for a “reconnaissance by fire,” perhaps the only chance to avoid the ambush that devastated his battalion. It took another two days, reinforcement by another battalion and repeated bombardments before the 173rd Brigade finally captured Hill 875.

The Second Battalion suffered 87 killed and 130 wounded in the three-day battle. The 4th Battalion, which came to their relief, lost 28 men killed and 123 wounded.

And having shed so much blood to capture Hill 875, of course, the Army immediately abandoned it.

There was no tactical advantage gained. The NVA, which had been retreating toward Cambodia, completed their retreat, minus whatever casualties they suffered — which became a matter of some dispute in the “body count” politics that defined Vietnam. The U.S. commander, Gen. William Westmoreland, called the three-week Battle of Dak To a victory, a claim that caused a Marine general to ask, “Is it a victory when you lose 362 friendlies in three weeks and by your own spurious body count you only get 1,200 [enemy killed]?”

Strategically, the Dak To campaign was also worthless. The North Vietnamese commander had successfully maneuvered U.S. forces away from the target he intended to attack next. About two months after the Battle of Hill 875, the NVA launched their assault on Khe Sanh, the opening move of the Tet Offensive.

 

Category: History, Military

Ruh-Roh: Ambassador Killed by Secret State Department Weapons Program?

Posted on | May 21, 2013 | 37 Comments

Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers
with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama
— Roger L. Simon, PJ Media

Benghazi witness points finger at Clinton
on lapses in consulate security
— Julian Pecquet, The Hill

New whistleblowers coming forward on Benghazi?
— Ed Morrissey, Hot Air

Lawmakers dig into life-and-death issues of Benghazi
— Byron York, Washington Examiner

Breaking: New Crop of Benghazi Whistle-Blowers
Will Testify on Obama’s Missiles to Al-Qaeda Program
— Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit

Pretty serious stuff here, eh? If the latest reports are true, this is much more serious than who edited the talking points:

Ambassador Chris Stevens, killed along with three other Americans in the September terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, was reportedly attempting to buy back arms sold to Libyan rebels. Roger L. Simon of PJ Media reports that whistleblowers are prepared to testify that a State Department program of arming insurgents who overthrew Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi was the secret the Obama administration sought to conceal . . .
Such testimony, if verified, might help explain why Obama administration officials spent several days after the deadly Libyan attack — which occurred on the 11th anniversary of the 2001 9/11 attacks — promoting the falsehood that the four Americans killed in Benghazi died as a result of “demonstrations” inspired by a YouTube video.

You can read the rest at Viral Read and while, of course, I cannot vouch for information from Roger Simon’s sources, common sense actually argues on behalf of the story they’re telling, because this has been the Benghazi mystery all along: Why all the lies?

Was the State Department’s blame-the-video story just about protecting President Obama’s re-election chances? Maybe, but the intensity of the pushback seems a bit too much to be so easily explained by “politics as usual.” And this may be the Big Secret:

Stevens’ mission in Benghazi, [new whistleblower witnesses] will say, was to buy back Stinger missiles from al-Qaeda groups issued to them by the State Department, not by the CIA. Such a mission would usually be a CIA effort, but the intelligence agency had opposed the idea because of the high risk involved in arming “insurgents” with powerful weapons that endanger civilian aircraft.
Hillary Clinton still wanted to proceed because, in part, as one of the diplomats said, she wanted “to overthrow Gaddafi on the cheap.”
This left Stevens in the position of having to clean up the scandalous enterprise when it became clear that the “insurgents” actually were al-Qaeda – indeed, in the view of one of the diplomats, the same group that attacked the consulate and ended up killing Stevens.
The former diplomat who spoke with PJ Media regarded the whole enterprise as totally amateurish and likened it to the Mike Nichols film Charlie Wilson’s War about a clueless congressman who supplies Stingers to the Afghan guerrillas. “It’s as if Hillary and the others just watched that movie and said ‘Hey, let’s do that!’” the diplomat said.
He added that he and his colleagues think the leaking of General David Petraeus’ affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell was timed to silence the former CIA chief on these matters.

Oooh! Hillary and her staff ignored the CIA’s advice and decided — with presidential authorization, of course — to provide arms to these shadowy “insurgents” anyway? And also, maybe, the takedown on Petraeus was part of an elaborate effort to cover their tracks?

Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. Nobody’s verified this stuff yet, but exactly what has Joe Curl been hinting at lately?

Care to guess where this stuff is leaking from? I could, but I won’t.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Libya, Scandal, Terrorism
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