Benghazi Continues to Metastasize

Sandy may distract the mainstream meda from Benghazi-gate long enough to ensure Obama's re-election, but it can't keep him from being impeached if he is re-elected.   The lid is starting to come off.   Retired Admiral William Lyons, former Commander of the Pacific Fleet (in other words, a real guy who undoubtedly has real sources within the military), writes today in the Washington Times:

Having been in a number of similar situations, I know you have to have the courage to do what’s right and take immediate action. Obviously, that courage was lacking for Benghazi. The safety of your personnel always remains paramount. With all the technology and military capability we had in theater, for our leadership to have deliberately ignored the pleas for assistance is not only in incomprehensible, it is un-American.

Somebody high up in the administration made the decision that no assistance (outside our Tripoli embassy) would be provided, and let our people be killed. The person who made that callous decision needs to be brought to light and held accountable. According to a CIA spokesperson, “No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need.” We also need to know whether the director of CIA and the director of National Intelligence were facilitators in the fabricated video lie and the overall cover-up. Their creditability is on the line. A congressional committee should be immediately formed to get the facts out to the American people. Nothing less is acceptable.

Tough words from a career military man whose stature should make him difficult to ignore.
Admiral Lyons also goes on the record with what have been subterranean rumblings about the real purpose for Stevens being in Benghazi, and why the ongoing cover-up ensued:

We now know why Ambassador Christopher Stevens had to be in Benghazi the night of 9/11 to meet a Turkish representative, even though he feared for his safety.  According to various reports, one of Stevens’ main missions in Libya was to facilitate the transfer of much of Gadhafi’s military equipment, including the deadly SA-7 – portable SAMs – to Islamists and other al Qaeda-affiliated groups fighting the Assad Regime in Syria. In an excellent article, Aaron Klein states that Stevens routinely used our Benghazi consulate (mission) to coordinate the Turkish, Saudi Arabian and Qatari governments’ support for insurgencies throughout the Middle East. Further, according to Egyptian security sources, Stevens played a “central role in recruiting Islamic jihadists to fight the Assad Regime in Syria.”

In another excellent article, Clare Lopez at RadicalIslam.org noted that there were two large warehouse-type buildings associated with our Benghazi mission. During the terrorist attack, the warehouses were probably looted. We do not know what was there and if it was being administrated by our two former Navy SEALs and the CIA operatives who were in Benghazi.  Nonetheless, the equipment was going to hardline jihadis.

Benghazi as Fast and Furious on a global scale?   You can see why the Obama Administration didn't want that coming out in the weeks before the election.

When will the mainstream media start covering this huge and burgeoning scandal?   There are Pulitzers lying around, just waiting to be snatched up.