Townhall.com ^ | May 17, 2013 | Michelle Malkin
On Sept. 12, 2012, President Barack Obama vowed to "bring to justice" the
perpetrators of the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya. On Oct. 26, 2012, Obama
said his "biggest priority" was bringing the "folks" in Libya responsible for
murdering four Americans to "justice." Tick, tock, tick, tock.
While White House press secretary Jay Carney sneers at the GOP's "obsession"
with what went wrong at the besieged Libyan consulate, Obama continues to ply
his emptiest talking point. On May 13, 2013, more than eight months after the
bloody disaster, Obama snippily reminded reporters that he had told us all back
in September that "we would find out what happened, we would make sure that it
did not happen again, and we would make sure that we held accountable those who
had perpetrated this terrible crime."
Woulda, coulda, shoulda. Justice delayed is justice denied.
A little more "obsession" from this administration with hunting down the
jihadist killers would be a good thing. How about a little more anger directed
at the perpetrators and a little less rage aimed at the conservative press? Nah.
Team Obama seems more singularly focused on blaming its opponents, smearing
whistleblowers and deriding those who are trying to hold the president to his
words, words, words.
Perhaps with their newfound skepticism toward the lying liars of 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue, the former lapdogs of the White House press corps will
start asking questions like this: Where the hell is Sufyan Ben Qumu a.k.a. Abu
Sufian bin Qumu?
Qumu, a suspected Libyan Islamic Fighting Group militant with ties to the
financiers of the 9/11/01 attacks, was held at Guantanamo Bay for six years. The
Bush administration foolishly handed him over to the Gadhafi regime on the
promise that he would remain imprisoned. In 2010, Qumu was granted amnesty and
released.
Contrary to the delusions of the International Gitmo Bleeding Hearts Fan
Club, the supposedly poor and oppressed Qumu did not content himself with
writing poetry or farming potatoes. A week after the 9/11/12 attack, the Ansar
al-Sharia leader was named a possible chief plotter in the deadly terrorist
assault on our consulate personnel, staff and private security contractors in
Benghazi. In April, international media outlets reported widely that Qumu had
survived an assassination bid.
Two weeks ago, the FBI finally got around to publicizing photos of three
individuals at the Benghazi murder scene who are wanted for questioning.
Congressional and intelligence sources have said the probe has moved at a
snail's pace. There's been a "near total lack of progress," House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said in December.
It's all par for this administration's foot-dragging course. Remember: The
FBI conducted a drive-by investigation last fall, flying in and out of Libya
after a paltry 12 hours on the ground. What difference did the phony YouTube
narrative plied by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton and President
Obama make? As former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Tripoli,
Greg Hicks testified last week that the damage done was "immeasurable" because
it delayed the FBI probe. Classified documents were left unsecured at the
compound. Critical time and evidence were squandered.
As Hicks explained, the YouTube fable publicly contradicted Libyan President
Mohammed Magariaf, who had immediately reported after the 9/11/12 Benghazi
attack that "this was an attack by Islamic extremists." The nonsense YouTube
talking points "affected cooperation with the Libyans," Hicks said. "I firmly
believe that the reason it took us so long to get the FBI to Benghazi is because
of those Sunday talk shows." Meanwhile, the Washington Free Beacon's Bill Gertz
reports, Qumu's Ansar al-Sharia goons "continue to operate freely" in Benghazi
and spread jihadist ideology.
Instead of keeping as many terror operatives as possible off the streets and
out of commission, the Obama administration is once again vowing to shut down
Guantanamo Bay. Attorney General Eric Holder, whose former law firm Covington
and Burling represented 18 Gitmo detainees demanding freedom, announced "a
renewed effort to close Guantanamo" this week. This despite the chilling
disclosure by the office of the director of national intelligence that 27.9
percent of the 599 former detainees released from Guantanamo were either
confirmed or suspected of later engaging in jihadist attacks. That's a "2.9
percent rise over a 25 percent aggregate recidivism rate reported by the
intelligence czar's office in December 2010," according to Reuters.
Closing Gitmo, you should note, just happens to be the top policy goal of the
left-wing Center for Constitutional Rights. CCR is the U.S. group of
jihadi-sympathizing lawyers who helped spring none other than Benghazi terror
plotter Abu Sufian bin Qumu from Gitmo.
Social justice for Qumu and the Gitmo Goon Squad. No justice for the Benghazi
Four. When it comes to Obama's vow to hold the killers accountable, there is no
there there.
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