Once more we are finding that the lack of transparency and accountability in the White House is generating tremendous amounts of spin – perhaps enough spin to deflect from Obama’s dismal economic record and to keep the media buzzing for the weeks leading up to the election.

The latest supposition is that American troops were not sent to aid the stricken Ambassador and others because it was a trap – an ambush around the compound just waiting for American rescuers to arrive to turn the entire rescue attempt into another “Blackhawk Down.”

Here is some of the latest media reporting which raises fundamental questions about Obama and his fellow traveler’s competence in foreign affairs and his ability to serve as the Commander-n-Chief … 

Gun-running to the contras …

The U.S. mission, when the mainstream media have discussed the Benghazi attacks at all, has been referred to as a consulate or embassy, but it’s become clear as more information comes out that it was anything but. It seems that it was part of a CIA operation to coordinate the funneling of heavy weapons and Islamist fighters, including al-Qaida-linked terrorists, to Syria through Turkey.

Arming our enemies …

The dirty, open secret of the Arab Spring is that the “democracy” movements across the Mideast were all instigated by the Obama Administration through proxies, relying heavily on jihadists, the very people our troops have been fighting in Afghanistan and elsewhere. The Arab Spring was nothing more than mass regime change in multiple countries by President Obama, who no doubt thought he was going to wind up being the big man in control at the end of all the violence.

Obama’s lack of leadership and competent advisors …

It hasn’t worked out that way. The Muslim Brotherhood took advantage of Obama’s fundamentally weak, narcissistic character to put its own people in charge. Obama thought he was using the Muslim Brotherhood, but it is actually the other way around.

If it wasn’t those who claimed responsibility, could it have been Iran?

Why would the Muslim Brotherhood kill the golden goose that was giving it arms, money and support in its quest to establish a regional caliphate?

The group that claimed responsibility for the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, the two SEALs and another American is called Ansar al-Sharia. Some Ansar al-Sharia’s soldiers are the same soldiers Stevens had helped organize and arm in the U.S.-led effort to overthrow Moammar Gadaffi.

As far back as April, Saudi Arabian officials had accused Iran of providing monetary and materiel support to Ansar al-Sharia in Yemen. Likewise in Libya, Iran pulled the strings of Ansar al-Sharia, which after the downfall of Gadaffi was essentially a mercenary group allowed free reign in the country.

When Ansar al-Sharia attacked the U.S. mission, it was Iran giving the orders, according to the Canada Free Press.

Is this a justification for the United States to justify aid and materiel support to Israel in order to attack Iran? Or is this simply another one of Obama’s misadventures guided by a Secretary of State whose husband has profited mightily from Saudi Arabia and other Arab entities? Let us not forget that both Clintons have become power players in an arena of big money and suspect politics.

Why would Iran care about what happened in Benghazi? Several reasons.

First, because the CIA weapons smuggling operation was destabilizing Iran’s ally Syria.

Second, Iran saw it as a chance to strike back at the U.S. with little chance of repercussions. The Iranians have Obama’s number. He wants them to give concessions on their nuclear program so he can look good for re-election, and he lacks the backbone for an open military confrontation, thus Benghazi was a low-risk operation for Iran’s leadership.

Third, and most important, Iran wanted to please its major international supporter and supplier of military and nuclear technology, Russia.

Last Thursday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich accused the U.S. of arming the Syrian rebels: “It is common knowledge that Washington is aware of the delivery of various types of illegal weapons to armed groups operating on Syrian territory,” Pravda reported the spokesman saying.

The Russians have been on to Obama’s games in the Mideast since the beginning, and Russian military sources have complained of the use of U.S. anti-aircraft missiles by the Syrian rebels.

It’s part of the reason Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t get along with Obama, and it may be a factor in Obama giving away our missile deterrents in Europe so readily, to try to buy favor and indulgence in the Mideast. If that’s the plan, it isn’t working. Lukashevich called on all countries “to cease aid to rebel groups in Syria and do everything possible to prevent portable antiaircraft missiles falling into the hands of uncontrolled people, especially after the rebels threatened to attack civilian aircraft.”

Would Obama sell out America and Americans to aid and abet an Islamic takeover of the Middle East? Something that is not so far-fetched when one considers all of his public pronouncements and lack of stronger support for Israel.

Russia’s interests …

Russia has good reason not to want Syria to fall into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood. For one thing, Putin has a better head on his shoulders than does Obama, and he realizes the Brotherhood cannot be trusted. If it came to power in Syria, the Brotherhood would be a force for chaos in the entire region. Russia needs the Mideast to remain stable because it butts up against former Soviet countries. It needs Syria specifically to provide it safe ports to the Mediterranean.

Ambush? Or just another spin to give Obama an “out” for not taking aggressive action to save American lives?

So when Panetta talks about not having enough information, despite having a live video feed of the events, there are other considerations going on. Why was a missile armed, then not deployed despite having the target laser-painted by a SEAL on the ground? The simplest answer is that Panetta and the rest of the situation room crowd, including Obama, must have seen something else on that video that made them hold off. What could it have been?

My guess: an ambush. My bet is that there were Ansar troops lying in wait around the U.S. mission in anticipation of a military counterstrike. A larger battle would have risked exposing what the U.S. has really been up to in Benghazi and revealing its proxy war in Syria.

Reveal what to whom? All of the regional players seem to know what was being done. So who did they need to convince? The clueless United Nations? Most of the players ignore their own people and do not need to prove anything to them, so who are they?

It all back Obama …

That’s why the missile wasn’t fired, and I’m guessing Obama was the one to cancel the order because he was afraid for his image among liberal peaceniks during his re-election campaign. Obama is now going around being “offended” and denying that he might have ordered anyone not to use the military in Benghazi. It smells like the sort of lie you get from a gangster who’s been caught holding a smoking gun while standing over a bleeding body.

The simplest and, I think, most likely explanation is that the Benghazi attack was a message to Obama from Putin, and it was a trap meant to embarrass the man who would be caliph. When the military response failed to materialize, after dragging out the fight for nine hours, the attackers killed the ambassador and went home.

And our government and media went into a news blackout to try to keep the truth from voters. <Source: Was Benghazi a Warning From Putin?>

Bottom line …

No matter how it shakes out, Obama and his surrogates have lied to the American public. American lives have been lost without explanation. “Sources and Methods” may have been compromised by a publicity-seeking White House for political advantage – and at least one man is now in prison for thirty-three years for helping the Americans to ferret out bin Laden. 

Whether Obama and his fellow travelers are corrupt, incompetent or pursuing an anti-America ideology, they must be removed from office on November 6, 2012. Congress must re-establish control over the budget and investigate potential administration wrong-doing.

As for Benghazi, if it was a foreign version of Operation Fast and Furious – arming the Mexican drug cartels with the intention of influencing American gun control laws for political purposes – someone needs to be held accountable for the loss of lives.

Obama’s foreign policy was simply to extend and double-down on the Bush foreign policy while changing its nomenclature, and then adding their own ideological twist. So, in the final analysis, we cannot trust Obama and his fellow travelers in the House and Senate to keep America safe or secure. People like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Diane Feinstein need to be investigated for corruption and sanctioned. No more phony-baloney “rules” which permit insider trading and exemptions for elected officials. It is time to reform that which has gone wrong in American government. And it all starts at the top – the head of the snake.

-- steve