What are the right questions to be asked about Benghazi?
BENGHAZI UNCOVERED:
OF MISSILES, MAYHEM, &
‘THEATRICAL MAGIC’
By
Norvell Rose
Published:
May 13, 2013
“Make no mistake, this “theatrical magic” is serious
business indeed, and the consequences of failure potentially catastrophic for
those in power.”
When you look up the
meaning of the term “misdirection” in Wikipedia, you find the following:
Misdirection is a form of deception in which the
attention of an audience is focused on one thing in order to distract its
attention from another. Managing the audience’s attention is the aim of all Theater;
it is the foremost requirement of Theatrical Magic.
In searching for the
truth about 2012′s deadly attack in Benghazi and the subsequent chaos,
confusion and cover-up, one must understand how misdirection plays into
Washington’s attempt at strategic “stagecraft”. You have to be aware of how you
are being distracted; how your attention is being shifted; how the writers,
directors and producers of the Benghazi “drama” are trying to manage your
awareness to magical effect. The magical effect of making the real travesty
disappear.
In other words,
they’re trying to trick you – to fool you into watching what the right hand of
government is doing while the left hand is really where the “truth” is being
manipulated, sometimes manufactured. And if we – We the People – fall for this
adept trickery, those responsible for what appears to be a covert gun-running
scheme, multiple deaths in the line of duty, and the massive cover-up that’s
still underway – those high government officials and media operatives involved
will not be held to account.
Since the latest
congressional hearing in which the dramatic testimony of three “whistleblowers”
has brought Benghazi back up to a full boil, the main focus of the great
majority of media outlets – establishment as well as alternative media,
left-leaning as well as right – has been on the “talking points”. Those talking
points that fed the “untruths” repeatedly spewed in the week following the
Benghazi attack.
Originating in the
U.S. intelligence community – primarily in the CIA – the talking points
reportedly went through a dozen rapid rewrites before being widely (and
falsely) used to describe and explain the assault and the resulting deaths. The
current fuss and furor over the talking points centers on several questions:
1. Who changed them
and why?
2. Was it really
“style” and “semantics”, not substance, at the heart of the changes?
3. Why was the CIA’s
assessment that it was a purposeful terror attack changed to indicate the
assault arose from a spontaneous street demonstration against an obscure
anti-Muslim video on YouTube?
Don’t
fall for the misdirection. Don’t let your attention be diverted. Our LibertyNEWS.com investigation leads us to believe
those are the wrong questions – the wrong ones if we want to get to the bottom
of this spreading scandal. The talking points issue is a distraction, albeit a
clever and useful one. Plus, we contend that the basic premise of the CIA’s
original version of the talking points is false – that premise, that the
Benghazi assault was a terrorist attack. That appears to be part of the overall
attempt to turn our attention from far more critical questions, leading to far
more embarrassing answers.
Among these critical
questions are ten that deserve serious examination and which we at LibertyNEWS.com
are pursuing:
1. Why did an
organized, heavily armed band of attackers conduct a prolonged, military-style
assault on a compound housing both CIA and State Department facilities and
personnel?
2. What, or who,
were the attackers after; and did they obtain, compromise or destroy the target
of their attack?
3. How was this
attack related to the joint CIA-State Department effort to locate and acquire
anti-aircraft missiles (MANPADS) and other heavy weapons stolen from ransacked
Libyan government arsenals after the fall of the dictator Muammar Gaddafi?
4. Were those
weapons, once recovered by U.S. forces (including thew two CIA operatives
killed in the Benghazi attack), secretly shipped to Syrian rebels and possibly
other extremist Muslim factions in the Middle East?
5. Was the U.S.
mission in Benghazi, under the leadership of Ambassador Chris Stevens,
organizing and coordinating those shipments?
6. Were disputes
among those extremist factions over the distribution of the Libyan weapons what
led, at least in part, to the assault on the Benghazi facilities?
7. Who issued the
alleged “stand down” order to U.S. military assets that may well have been
available to help repel the attack on the Benghazi compound and save the lives
of the four murdered Americans?
8. Was the
reluctance to mount a defensive and/or rescue effort in Benghazi, as well as
the subsequent attempt by the Obama Administration to spin up a clumsy
cover-up, related to Obama’s re-election campaign and his perceived strength in
managing foreign affairs?
9. Were some of
those recovered Libyan weapons, including sophisticated surface-to-air
missiles, making their way to anti-Israel forces in Lebanon, including
Hezbollah guerillas?
10. Were the
reported Israeli air strikes on targets inside Syria in February and May aimed
at stopping such weapons shipments?
When you consider
the significance of the above questions, and the potential explosiveness of
their answers, you can see how the controversy over the talking points is a
classic case of misdirection attempted by managers of the political theater in
Washington who want our attention to be diverted. Make no mistake, this
“theatrical magic” is serious business indeed, and the consequences of failure
potentially catastrophic for those in power.
In future reports,
LibertyNEWS.com will tie together important events, activities, organizations
and individuals; and we will connect significant dots in order to help paint
the picture of what we believe could be one of, if not THE most outrageous government
cover-up scandal in American history. We will draw from numerous published
reports in a wide variety of media, from government documents, insider
interviews and witness testimonies to help make sure the spinmeisters at the
highest levels of our government are not successful in their attempts at
deceiving the American people.
And we trust that
you will refuse to fall prey to a pack of would-be “magicians” in government
and the complicit, compliant media with their ongoing trickery of misdirection.
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