Benghazi: Who Cares?

Benghazi: Who Cares?
Posted By Ivan Eland On May 14, 2013

Now that Republicans have legitimate and troubling scandals on which to criticize the Obama administration—the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups and the Justice Department’s broad seizure of the Associated Press’s phone records—hopefully they will forget their inane focus on the “cover up” involving the attack on the Benghazi diplomatic compound in Libya. But because the Benghazi kerfuffle really is an attempt to undermine then-Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, don’t bet on it.
Strangely, the “liberal media,” perhaps desperate for sensational news to cover in the political and foreign policy fields, have teamed with conservatives to hype the Benghazi story. The Washington Post recently devoted its entire fact-checking column to parsing whether President Obama, the day after the Benghazi attacks, called them an “act of terror” instead of an “act of terrorism.”

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