NOTICE: The following
article is written by the author itself and not by me, I am not trying to
violate their copyright. I will give some information on them. I chose this as
the article on the death penalty of the week, because The American diplomatic
mission at Benghazi, in Libya, was attacked on September 11, 2012 by a heavily
armed group. The attack began at night in a compound meant to protect the main
diplomatic building. A second assault in the early morning the next day
targeted a nearby CIA annex in a different compound. Four people were killed,
including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. Ten others were injured. The
attack was strongly condemned by the governments of Libya, the United States,
and many other countries throughout the world.
Many Libyans praised the late ambassador and
staged public demonstrations against the militias that had formed during the
civil war to oppose leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
The Libyan government also began attempts to disband many of the groups.
The United States increased security worldwide at various diplomatic and
military facilities and began investigating the attack.
At various times between September 11 and 17,
eight other diplomatic missions in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe were
subject to protests and violent attacks in response to an inflammatory video, Innocence
of Muslims. Initially, it was suggested that the Benghazi attack emerged
from a similar spontaneous protest. Subsequent investigations by the U.S. State
Department and by the House of Representatives committees on Armed Services,
Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, the Judiciary, and Oversight and Government
Reform determined that there was no such protest and that the attack was
premeditated and was launched without warning by Islamist militants.
The debate over the events before, during,
and after the attack featured heavily in the 2012 US Presidential election. In
the following months, several Republican members of Congress launched their own
independent investigations, which are currently ongoing, and the topic remains
a matter of great controversy in the American political sphere.
On August 6, 2013, it was reported that the
U.S. had filed criminal charges against several individuals, including militia
leader Ahmed Abu Khattala, for alleged involvement in the attacks. To date, a
few arrests have been made (none by the FBI); no one has been prosecuted.
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http://www.glennbeck.com/
ARTICLE
TITLE:
Glenn Beck: The President of the United States is
telling callous, cold, and calculated lies.
DATE: Thursday, October
25, 2012
AUTHOR: Glenn Beck
AUTHOR
INFORMATION: Glenn Edward Lee Beck (born February 10, 1964) is a
politically conservative American television and radio host, political
commentator, author, television network producer, media personality, and
entrepreneur. He hosts the Glenn Beck Radio Program, a nationally
syndicated talk-radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere
Radio Networks. He formerly hosted the Glenn Beck television program,
which ran from January 2006 to October 2008 on HLN and from January 2009 to
June 2011 on the Fox News Channel. Beck has authored six New York Times–bestselling
books. Beck is the founder and CEO of Mercury Radio Arts, a multimedia
production company through which he produces content for radio, television,
publishing, the stage, and the Internet. It was announced on April 6, 2011,
that Beck would "transition off of his daily program" on Fox News
later in the year but would team with Fox to "produce a slate of projects
for Fox News Channel and Fox News' digital properties". Beck's last daily
show on the network was June 30, 2011. In 2012, The Hollywood Reporter
named Beck on its Digital Power Fifty list.
Beck's supporters praise him as a
constitutional stalwart defending traditional American values, while his
critics contend he promotes conspiracy theories and employs incendiary rhetoric
for ratings.
Part 1 of
Glenn’s monologue is above. Part 2 is at the bottom of this page.
Tonight
on his TV show, Glenn examined all
the evidence that has emerged from the attacks on the Libyan embassy in
Benghazi that left four Americans dead. While some in the media are happy to
report the pieces as they emerge, no one is stepping back to take a look at the
big picture to see what it all means: The President and his administration knew
what was going on during the attacks, they knew who was responsible, they
didn’t send in the aid or take the security measures needed to stop
it. Glenn believes it has also become clear that the White House is
covering up the real reason that Stevens was in Libya. And worst of all:
President Barack Obama and his team are lying to the American people about all
of it.
In recent
history, there have been three major scandals from sitting Presidents:
Nixon/Watergate, Reagan/Iran-Contra, and Clinton/Lewinsky. In most of those
cases, especially Nixon and Clinton, the argument could be made that critics
were simply playing politics. And while no one was killed as a result, they
undeniably broke the trust of the American people.
Glenn
believes that a similar scandal is unfolding today. President Barack Obama is
lying to the American people on several issues. Some of them may appear small,
like on Romney’s record on the
auto-bailout, but others are far, far worse. In fact, Glenn believes that
President Obama and his administration is covering the truth behind the murder
of Libyan Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans by radical jihadists.
“The Romney Op-Ed claim demonstrates
his unrepentant ability to lie,” Glenn said. “The President has lied about the
attack that killed a U.S. Ambassador and three other Americans. And if we can’t
get him to tell us the simple truth at the very beginning then there is
something wrong, and at the very best it is just a very deep callousness that I
don’t think I’ve ever seen before from a sitting President. This man is putting
American lives in danger and he doesn’t even seem to care about the consequence
of his own actions. He doesn’t care about the lies that he’s telling,” Glenn
said.
While
Glenn has never believed the official story from the White House on the Libya
story, things keep getting worse. Last night, a series of e-mail reveal that
the White House was told that the embassy in Benghazi was attacked by al
Qaeda-linked radicals two hours after the attack began. The information
conflicts with the instances when senior White House officials placed the blame
for the attacks and the deaths on an anti-Islamic YouTube video.
White
House and State Department officials were informed just two hours after the
terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11 began
that a radical Islamic militant group had claimed responsibility, according to
official emails obtained by Reuters.
The
emails, reportedly put out by the State Department, specifically mention that
the Libyan militant group Ansar al-Sharia had taken credit for the attack
almost immediately and called for additional terrorist acts.
The
correspondence provides a glimpse into how U.S. diplomats described the fiery
assault, as it was happening, to officials in Washington, D.C.
Glenn
could not understand why the White House stuck to the YoutTube
excuse for the attacks, nor did he know why a Quick
Response Force was not deployed from our base in Sicily to help the
attacked Americans. He also didn’t understand why Stevens was in Libya to begin
with if it was so volatile.
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Glenn
also reviewed the timeline
for the attacks, showing the ample time the military had to not only help once
the attack began but to know better than to send the ambassador over there to
begin with.
Glenn
said that mounting evidence supports a theory
he presented on September 17th: That the United States and Ambassador
Stevens were providing weaponry to the Libyan rebels to overthrow Ghadaffi.
Those guns then fell into the hands of the same radicals who launched the
attack on the American embassy in Benghazi.
Glenn
said there are too many unanswered questions emerging as we get further and
further away from the attacks in Libya. Why was Stevens in Libya? Why was he
not helped by American troops? Where was President Obama when the attacks were
happening? Was he given the e-mails reporting on the attacks? If not, why? Why
did the administration continue to push the YouTube story? Why was
Hillary the one to take the fall for the attacks? Why has an Islamist
sympathizer tied to Iran and CAIR appointed to investigate the Libyan
situation? And where is the press holding President Obama accountable?
“I
started the show today from the Oval Office because you have to know if you’re
President is a crook. You have to know what our President is up to,” Glenn
said.
“Obama is
not telling you the truth on these terrorist attacks yet he continues to look
you in the eye and say ‘Trust me. I’m your president. Trust me’ and he does it
in the same cold calculating way Bill Clinton did it and Nixon did it. I’m
sorry America but your President is a liar and this time it is different. It is
not about politics, it is not about a personal relationship. This is about your
children’s security. No way around this one. Whether you think its important
about him lying on the campaign trail or when it ends with four Americans dead
and a nightmare to follow there is no way around it. The President of the
United States is telling callous, cold, and calculated lies.”
Please
see this video to hear Glenn Beck speak:
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