Stand Down Obama & Biden, Stand Down

Normally, I have no difficulty writing this column. I see it as a way to provide busy readers a coherent narrative of the best of the week’s most important news — largely as reported by the alternative media and ignored by its richer, fatter and lazier media opposition.

This week is sadly different. The latest news coming out about the murder of our ambassador and three other brave Americans in Ben Ghazi is so horrifying and shocking I can take no pleasure in writing about it. It’s still largely unreported by the legacy media. Fox News has been a leader and there’s been some coverage at CNN by Anderson Cooper, but PBS and the alphabets have been doing their best to keep from you the incompetence, treachery and outrageous behavior of the President, Vice President, Secretaries of State and Defense.

Luckily, their “firewall” — blaming the tragedy on a hapless producer of a video trailer, the CIA, and lower level State Department officials — seem (as one might have predicted, and I did), to result in numerous leaks to the press, undercutting that pack of lies.

In summary fashion, here’s what we learned last week:

1. The security situation in Ben Ghazi had been growing steadily worse.
2. Ambassador Stevens had requested additional security and had indicated he feared for his life.
3. The request for additional security was rejected and, in fact, a significant portion of the existing U.S. guard force was removed before 9/11 when any reasonable person would have anticipated they’d be most needed.

Along with those facts here’s what we learned this week from Jennifer Griffin at Fox News

[A]n urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. Consulate and subsequent attack several hours later was denied by U.S. officials — who also told the CIA operators twice to “stand down” rather than help the ambassador’s team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11. [snip