ALL RHODES LEAD TO WHITE HOUSE

The recent disclosure from the release of more White House e-mails about Benghazi, reveal that the Rice was cooked before she went out and lied to the American people, that it was a protest caused by a video.

Interestingly enough the deputy national security advisor to the White House, Ben Rhodes, was the person that prepared Secretary Rice's risotto of lies, turns out to be the same man that came out months later on the Sunday talks shows, to defend his President against allegations that he was absent during the crises. Remember that Rhodes said that the President was engaged during the Benghazi crises yet he could not recall what room the President was in during the attack?  

Yes this is also the same Ben Rhodes, who happens to be the brother of CBS President David Rhodes, who just by coincidence  gave Mike Morell (ex-CIA deputy director) a job as a contributor to that broadcast station. You remember Mike Morell, he  recently testified to Congress that he changed the Benghazi talking points but there was no political influence involved in that decision?   

CBS President David Rhodes is the man that shut down the good reporting of Benghazi by Sharyl Attkissson, who was trying to uncover the identity of the person who had changed the talking points. Sharyl never had the support from CBS and as a result quit the network that never gave her excellent reporting air time.

The recent revelations about Ben Rhodes prepping Susan Rice uncovers the sewer cap long hidden amid the bogus finger pointing between the White House, Department of State and the CIA, that all claimed a lack of responsibility for the Benghazi video lie.

Yes, there was a White House connection. Yes, there was a planned and staged scheme to falsify the facts to make the President not be seen before the election as a failure in foreign policy and a fool claiming "Al-Qaida was decimated". Yes, we are finally approaching the  uncovered sewer cap now, but there is far more to learn as to what is crawling around under the Benghazi scandal tunnels.

Ben Rhodes doesn't have the authority or the pay grade to have been the one that ordered the Benghazi lie. He is merely a excrement dredger asked to help Susan Rice tiptoe around the noxious lies this ultra-political White House uses instead of the truth. No, there are bigger swamp gators here that are still hiding in the underground network of underhandedness in this Benghazi scourge of betrayal.

Americans died, our government lied and the truth has been cast aside by a conspiratorial political avarice to win an election. Now we are beginning to smell the rancid fumes left behind by the elites in power that orchestrated this heartless fraud and cowardly abandonment of our fighting men in Benghazi.   

How campish and corrupt this administration is, as it continues to cover-up the Benghazi scandal and the collusion with liberal mainstream media to promote the President by overt lies and disinformation. Shame on any government official in any of the many departments involved, who continue to keep silent rather than be full throat-ed and expose the persons responsible for the Benghazi cover-up.  

 

This was a conspiracy folks, and one doesn't need to wear a tin foil hat to see the smoke rising from the hot gun. The only question Americans need to ask Congress is, when will they appoint a special prosecutor to expose and aggressively uncover all the players responsible for this deadly political fraud.

Americans will not accept that this was just a tri-department (State Dept. CIA, White House) bureaucratic comedy of errors, for otherwise, it would suggest a deeper unfathomable corruption. No, we know it was a carefully executed public relations stunt for Obama's re-election and that is abhorrent enough. 

 

Benghazi will continue to be a an ugly act of political expediency over the lives of brave men. We will continue to prod and haunt our representatives until the shame is exposed, completely!

CUMMINGS'S OUT PARTY

The recent revelations that the vice chairman of the House Oversight Committee Elijah Cummings Democrat from Maryland, used the power of his office to unleash the IRS attack dogs on True the Vote is astounding.  Especially given the fact that this Democrat Representative wanted to shut down the investigation of IRS targeting by the committee back in June of 2013.

Cummings said on CNN in an interview with Candy Crowley “Based upon everything I’ve seen, the case is solved. If it were me, I’d wrap this case up and move on.” Now we know why the Congressman was so eager to move on. Not only was he and his staff up to their eyeballs in soliciting the IRS to scrutinize True the Vote and its founder Catherine Engelbrecht but apparently Lois Lerner provided his staff with confidential tax information. 

In fact when True the Vote's lawyer, Cleta Mitchell raised the issue of Cumming's involvement in the targeting during a February 2014 testimony before the committee. Cummings flatly denied her assertions that three separate letters from Cumming's office requested the same information of True the Vote as did the IRS. This raised obvious collusion suspicions between the IRS and Cummings that now have been exposed by recent e-mails between Lois Lerner and Cummings's staffers. 

Also noteworthy, is that Rep Cummings's sent a letter to House Majority leader Boehner prepared by lawyers claiming that Lois Lerner did not waive her Fifth Amendment rights because Chairman Issa did not utilize a procedural process in order to hold Lerner in contempt. This behind the scenes advocacy begged people to ask why Cummings was acting like Lois Lerner's lawyer?    

Why did Cummings try and make a circus out of the IRS corruption hearing in March? The Committee had recalled Lois Lerner believing she might be willing to testify, but she instead re-invoked her Fifth Amendment, and after Issa adjourned the Committee, Cummings  had a typical Democrat grandstanding temper tantrum;

" I am a member of the Congress of the United States of America. I am tired of this. We have members over here each who represent between them 700,000 people. You cannot just have a one-sided investigation. There is absolutely something wrong with that. That is absolutely un-American."

Now that a recent e-mail has surfaced from Lois Lerner to Cummings's staff intrusively seeking information on True the Vote perhaps it is becoming more filthy clear that this Congressman is all up in it to his elbows. 

Funny, that the letters from Cummings office to Catherine Engelbrecht group were mirror images of the inquiries being made of the group by the IRS. Funnier still is that the Vice Chairman of the Committee Cummings has kept this correspondence secret from the Committee and its members investigating the illegal targeting of non-profit conservative groups. Funny or tragic that these recent revelations have not caused Cummings to be removed from the Committee, criminally investigated and defamed by the media for his deception.

The stench of the Democrats party corruption is powerful strong and blowing downwind toward voters and one should expect even loyalists to gag and wretch. Instead Cummings is invited to go on FACE THE NATION to make idiotic statements about Democrats needing to speak about Obamacare being a moral issue. Moral?

 

The corruption and bullying of American citizens by progressive Democrats and their use of government unions, have corralled most all of the federal bureaucratic  agencies to ask "how high" when they are told to jump. The use or should I say abuse by lawmakers that have used federal agencies as their own private attack dogs against their political enemies is what the IRS investigation is all about isn't it? Now we find the vice Chairman of the Committee Elijah Cummings with his fingerprints are all over the IRS canine collar with the Democratic party and the sycophantic media holding the leash.

Meanwhile Obama's Attorney General "smidgeon" hunter, Eric Holder has been given the Lois Lerner contempt charges to prosecute amid the public's cynical awareness that our chief justice officer is himself contemptuous of Congress and a race baiting immoral party loyalist.

Americans are not dumb enough to believe that justice will be served while this party and administration  replete with corruption remains in the seat of power. Even the most politically unaware understands that "crap runs downhill" and low rung civil servants are just the mere shovel wielders for those elites that are in denial that their outflow doesn't stink.

Representative Cummings tirade that was plastered in the media and caused Representative Issa to apologize is endemic of the surreal world in America today. Who will be held accountable for the many unconstitutional breaches by this administration? Who will be charged and sent to jail for abuse of power, election fraud, intimidation of their office, withholding evidence, obstruction of justice?  Who will apologize to the American people for the corruption oozing out of Washington and causing a malaise of federal tyranny in America?

HIDING UNDER FIRE

The House Intelligence Committee heard testimony from ex-CIA director Michael Morell on the Benghazi "talking points"  as to why the public was mislead over the Libyan terror attack. When Morell was asked why he drafted a fictional narrative of the Benghazi attack as a protest caused by a video, instead of the truth that it was a planned terror attack, he denied it involved political collusion with the White House.

He explained with the same smarminess of IRS Douglas Shulman's Easter egg roll comment, that he ignored the information that it was a planned attack from Chief of Station in Libya and instead changed the "talking points" to comport with Washington analysts speculating from afar, that it was a protest not a terror attack. He claims that the Washington CIA analysts (not him or White House) decided that the attack was a protest caused by a video even after he requested they re-analyze that finding in light of the information on the ground. 

In a clever but morally vacant argument he told House members that the White House and the State Department contributed only small minor changes in editing the "talking points" (such as changing Consulate to diplomatic post). Yet, what he failed to mention, (fortunately House members understood)  that by the time White House and State looked at the briefing it had already been fixed, doctored, ghostwritten and made to read as fiction for the administration. Fiction I might add that fit the Obama administration's narrative and excuse for inaction.

Michael Morell is a career civil servant and some might say one doesn't advance a long career in government without learning how to expertly dance the sycophantic salsa. One may or may not believe in outlandish conspiracies, and we are all quite familiar with fortuitous coincidences yet, this ex-CIA Chief (currently a CBS analyst) bends credulity like a clown making balloon animals. 

      

His revelations leave Americans to only two conclusions, either the CIA is corrupt and should be referred to as the Central Indoctrination Agency, or the CIA is incompetent and filled with civil servants that have their socks lettered left versus right, making them the Central Idiocy Agency. 

     

There is no question that Michael Morell thinks that both Congress and the American people would have to have a head full of rocks to believe his protestations that there was no political expediency playing out over Benghazi during Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. 

The reason for the Benghazi lie was not only to match the Obama narrative on the campaign trail that al-Qaida was defeated and on the run, but also to provide an excuse for dereliction of duty. The public disinformation by the CIA that Benghazi was a protest also gave cover and excuse to why the President did not send military help to our embattled men. For a sitting President to know America is under attack and do nothing is shameful cowardly dodge of duty. However, no one expects that the president should militarily react to every spontaneous Muslim protest around the world, right? 

Unfortunately for the President and former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton the childish tactic of blaming a group of unknown Washington CIA analysts for providing bad misinformation doesn't pass the RPG (Rocket propelled grenades)smoking smell test. The administration had a drone watching the attack, they had both State and CIA operatives reporting real time that it was planned aggression and the attacks were multiple.

Equally contrary to the Obama administration and his former Secretary of Defense, that claimed we had no assets available to assist our embattled men, Americans are revolted that this administration did not even try to send rescue. To this day the question of where the President was during this crises remains a mystery.

 

Intelligent Americans know that military operations covert or not are never surgically precise and antiseptic. Many things can go wrong and do. Yet, being a Commander in Chief means that a President's political fallout is secondary to his duty as leader of our national interests. Has this President been leading America or handled by his party's operatives?

We know that before the Osama Bin Laden raid there were many earlier operational opportunities to catch him that were nixed by Valerie Jarrett. Indeed, many Presidents have had their covert military blunders that hurt them politically such the failed Carter hostage rescue and Clinton's Mogadishu raid in Somalia to capture Aidid.

Therefore during the height of Obama's re-election campaign, after he had involved us in a UN led war in Libya, after he had proclaimed that al-Qaida was decimated and on the run and after he took almost personal credit for getting Osama, does anyone believe he wanted to test his political fate by sending military rescue to Benghazi, especially during a close re-election race?

Did Valerie Jarrett advise her dear leader that he should stand down? Did Hillary Clinton worry that her part of the Benghazi political mess would only be more messy if the military got involved? What difference does it make? Well, brave men's lives were sacrifice for political careers and that is the difference between honor and respect versus sniveling snakes of evil expedient callousness.  

 The "talking points" are revealing a greater virus present in our government that should alarm all Americans regardless of political party. That trust is truth and truth is trust and that they are inseparable. We know our government holds back secrets in our national interest but we don't expect our government to lie to us about straightforward events. We don't expect our government to lie to us when we are attacked. We should never expect or ever allow, our government to lie over the graves of brave fighting men. 

 

No Benghazi is not a phony scandal Mr. President and Yes, the American people will continue to demand answers as to where you were hiding when America was under fire!   

FLYING UNDER THE RADAR

The news media outlets enjoy increased ratings when compelling events such as the missing Malaysian passenger jet disappears from the sky without a trace. They know that the public is drawn into the mystery by a combination of compassion for the missing passengers along with sympathy for their families and the fascination that in today’s fish bowl of technological voyeurism momentous events can still avoid detection.

What happens when major news events strike at the same time? When like today, there is another arguably bigger and more historic story happening, Russia’s invasion of Crimea, why does the media gives it second coverage billing?

The debate over what to cover and how much time to devote to one story over another invokes the age old enigmatic question “which came first, the chicken or the egg”, or in this case, which comes first, viewer driven ratings or significant news that could lead to a world war? 

Some in the news business will tell you that the public always controls the coverage, while others will argue that real news reporting should not be concerned with ratings and instead be governed by simply reporting significant news stories. They claim to not write or make-up the news but merely report it. However, media exercises sole control over whether a story is the lead or buried in the news, along with the amount of time devoted to a story and how comprehensive the coverage is on any news story.  

Therefore when Americans complain that our newsrooms are corrupt, and in the tank for either (mostly both) entertainment ratings or the Obama Administration the proof is in the coverage of the Malaysian jetliner versus the Russian takeover of a sovereign’s state’s land. One story seems to be fueled with more speculation than facts as it flies all around the airwaves constantly focused on the mystery of the Malaysian plane. However, the other major story (Russia annexing Crimea) which is a clear act of unbridled territorial aggression, that has the real possibility of escalating to a world war in the near future is in a holding pattern at the media airport of landing coverage priorities. 

The point is this; if newsrooms want to be taken seriously, claiming they are not info-entertainment like supermarket tabloids and the John Stewart Daily show then why is the Malaysian jetliner story topping the news coverage? If the argument is that we are covering the stories people want to hear then, why not cover the Benghazi and the IRS corruption scandals that somehow have gone media dark and silent?  If the argument is that there is nothing more to report on those stories, then that fails to explain hours of news reporting on speculation as to the whereabouts of a plane when no new information has been discovered. 

Where is the news coverage speculating that the Obama administration covered up Benghazi to win election? Similar to using retired airline pilots to wax about possible theories about the missing plane, why then has media not used ex-diplomats and ex-CIA agents to fill a panel to speculate on what happened in Benghazi?

 

Where is the speculative reporting that the IRS was used by the Obama administration to silence the growing Tea Party groups to organize educated voters to the polls in 2012? 

The news media cannot have it both ways. They can’t argue that they don’t control the news and merely report it and then filter it through their elitist’s lens of priority. They may not make up the news stories (ahem I guess) but by controlling the air time, front page space and the extent of both coverage and investigative follow-up, they do set the news table. They do determine what news is important. They do influence what news Americans are informed about and what news is not noteworthy for Americans. Media does control the information agenda and they have not acted responsibly or fairly to a simple standard of unbiased honesty.

To argue that the repeated lies told by this administration over a terrorist attack in Benghazi during the 2012 election is not at least (we think much more) as egregious as Watergate is not credible. Equally, to have no follow-up investigations and no questions to the White House amid the many still unanswered questions about Benghazi shows more than political bias, it bespeaks a media cover-up.

The IRS scandal is a huge criminal-political corruption yet it has been ignored by our so-called professional journalists. For the majority of media outlets to just take the President’s word that there is not a “smidgeon” of corruption done by one of the most intimidating of government agencies is an appalling indictment of media collusion not just bias.

Congress has low polling numbers because it ignores the will of the American people and seems only responsive to inside the beltway lobbyists. Media is a close second in those low polling numbers because it enjoys a platform to bring important information to Americans but it squanders that for ratings revenue and whines that it is the viewers fault.

Those in media that argue that Justin Bierber latest folly is more popular to the viewers than the NSA spying scandal are using excuses, allowing their network-needs to continue feeding Americans “Bierber celebrity-Pablum” to distract us from their media malfeasance. We might agree that too many Americans are obsessed with celebrity news and might be bored to change the channel but then so aren’t school children easily bored. Do we then teach children only information they deem popular and throw away vital curriculum?

Responsible journalism requires reporting important news stories period. Otherwise they are misusing the freedom of the press to pander for ratings, pick political sides, hide unflattering revelations about our government and making all Americans more vulnerable to tyranny.

There is a reason that freedom of speech is the first Amendment in our Bill of Rights. There is equally a reason that Obama’s promise of an open and transparent government was and is a fairy tale.

There is a reason why Americans have anger and distrust for our government when both Congress and the Press owned by corporations tell us to look up at the sky, “Da plane Boss, da plane” in order to distract us from their manipulation of our constitutional rights.

More than ever Americans believe that our government is flying under the radar and increasing its covert corruption under our noses with the oligarchic Press turning off the transponder of truth and burying the black box of facts in the propaganda waters off the coast of Fantasy Island. We are rightfully worried that instead of America living out her dreams those elitist power brokers are creating America’s nightmare.

“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” (George Orwell)

 Claudia Roazen is a writer from Maine. Her book “ARE WE THE SHEEPLE OR THE PEOPLE? AN AMERICAN WOMAN ON FIRE!” can be purchased at AMAZON.COM or on her website http://claudiawrites-rights.blogspot.com/