BENGHAZI TERRORIST ATTACK: WHAT WAS VALERIE JARRETT DOING IN THE SITUATION ROOM AND DID SHE ORDER THE STAND-DOWN FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES?
I guess that I am not the only one asking the hard questions …
OBAMA: SOMETHING STINKS IN BENGHAZI -- CIA DENIED HELP DURING 7-HOUR ATTACK? (October 26, 2012)
The Commander-in-Chief, Barack Obama is ultimately responsible for this nightmare. It is inconceivable that he did not receive an intelligence briefing on the death of an Ambassador and was complicit in the political cover-up as witnessed by his personal statements and those of his direct representative, the ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice.
Hillary Clinton, as the Secretary of State and Leon Panetta, Head of the CIA (sorry, force of habit) SecDef should also resign their offices. This tragedy occurred on their watch and, if reports are correct, responsible for the management of the safety and security of personnel and facilities under their command.
I have a hard time believing that Leon Panetta, known to be a straight-shooter, was involved, leading me to believe that he may have been acting on direct orders from the White House. Since much of what we have seen reported as to Valerie Jarrett interfering in the bin Laden affair – one should investigate whether or not this was a Jarrett-directed political response.
In any event, there needs to be accountability and someone needs to take responsibility for what has happened.
It appears that the well-respected Investor’s Business Daily is asking the same question …
Valerie Jarrett Gave Benghazi Stand-Down Order
Scandal: The omnipresent power behind the throne some have called the president's Rasputin had the power to call off three strikes against Osama bin Laden. She may have used that power again the night four Americans died in Benghazi.
The Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on our diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, came while America failed to mount a rescue mission despite sufficient time and assets. Included in that disaster were the unaccounted whereabouts of President Obama during eight critical hours, the lack of Situation Room photos, the failure by the president to follow up with subordinates before his trip to Las Vegas and the fabricated story that the whole thing was prompted by an Internet video.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer said recently on "The O'Reilly Factor" that the "biggest scandal of all" regarding that Benghazi slaughter has yet to emerge.
"I think there is a bigger story here ... that will in time come out," Krauthammer said. "The biggest scandal of all, the biggest question is: What was the president doing in those eight hours?"
The columnist noted: "He had a routine meeting at 5 o'clock. He never after, during the eight hours when our guys have their lives in danger, he never called the secretary of defense, he never calls the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he never calls the CIA director."
One of the people Obama always talks to is Valerie Jarrett. She emerged from the same Chicago cauldron of radicalism where Obama got his ideological baptism.
The Iranian-born Jarrett (her parents were American-born expatriates) is the only staff member who regularly follows the president home from the West Wing to the residence and one of the few people allowed to call the president by his first name.
Her influence is shown by an account in Richard Miniter's book "Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him." It relates that at the urging of Jarrett, Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden three times before approving the Navy SEAL mission in Pakistan on May 2, 2011. Seems she was concerned about political harm to Obama if the mission failed.
Miniter writes that the president canceled the kill mission in January 2011, again in February and a third time in March, in each instance at the urging of Jarrett. Miniter cites a source within the Joint Special Operations Command who had direct knowledge of the operation and its planning.
Edward Klein, author of "The Amateur," a best-selling book about Obama, asked Obama if he ran every decision by Jarrett, and the president responded, "Absolutely."
A former foreign editor of Newsweek and editor of the New York Times Magazine, Klein describes Jarrett as "ground zero in the Obama operation, the first couple's friend and consigliere."
Did Obama run the Benghazi decision not to send help past Jarrett that night?
We do know Obama had a face-to-face briefing from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, early in the evening.
After dinner in his living quarters, Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed Iran and other issues in a two-hour phone call.
Present as the call was made, reports blogger Chip Jones at Conservative Report Online, was Valerie Jarrett, who, as the call was ending, went from the living quarters to the White House Situation Room, where the attack in Benghazi was being monitored by Dempsey, Panetta and other top-ranking officials.
What she may have said and whether the president sent her is unknown. We do know the president retired for the night, and no rescue mission was launched.
Once before, Jarrett had called off the military for political purposes. She may have done it that night as well — an action that would answer many questions and may be what the White House is really hiding. Source: Valerie Jarrett Gave Order To Stand Down In Benghazi Terrorist Attack - Investors.com
Who is Valerie Jarrett according to the White House?
Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett
Valerie B. Jarrett is a Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama. She oversees the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and chairs the White House Council on Women and Girls.
Prior to joining the Obama Administration, she was the Chief Executive Officer of The Habitat Company. She also served as Co-Chair of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team, and Senior Advisor to Obama's presidential campaign.
Ms. Jarrett has held positions in both the public and private sector, including the Chairman of the Chicago Transit Board, the Commissioner of Planning and Development for the City of Chicago, and Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Richard M. Daley. She also practiced law with two private law firms.
Jarrett also served as a director of corporate and not for profit boards, including Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Stock Exchange, Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Chairman of the University of Chicago Medical Center Board of Trustees.
Jarrett received her B.A. from Stanford University in 1978 and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981.
<Source: The White House>
No foreign affairs experience, no military experience – and,her only area of expertise appears to be the political manipulation and protection of Barack and Michelle Obama using the radical and corrupt Chicago method learned from corrupt progressive socialist democrats like the Daleys.
Bottom line …
If it turns out that Valerie Jarrett interfered in the military mission and issued a stand-down order by herself or on behalf of the President, the President should be charged with dereliction of duty as well as other high crimes and misdemeanors and impeached by the House of Representatives, tried by the Senate, and if found guilty, removed from office.
-- steve
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