The Five

This is a copy of the letter I sent to the Fox News program The Five following their special 11:00 PM program on 9/10.  They were mentioning once again that the terrorists that carried out the attack on our embassy in Benghazi on 9/11/12 were still not brought to justice.  I believe that whatever independent media we have, and not shills for the administration, should put the stress on making Secretary Clinton and President Obama explain why they put Ambassador Stevens, Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith and Navy Seals Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods in such a precarious position and refused to send help when Stevens called Secretary Clinton the night of the attack to plead for assistance.

   

To:  The Five

The real disgrace of what happened in Benghazi was not that the terrorists that carried out the attack were not apprehended.  It was that the one who was most responsible for putting Ambassador Stevens and his aides in such an untenable position was not called to account.  When someone is thrown into a shark infested sea and left to fend for himself we don’t look for the sharks that killed him.  We go after whoever it was that put him there.

One of the early reports sounded by Fox News after the attack was that Ambassador Stevens’ last desperate plea for assistance was when he spoke directly to Secretary of State Clinton shortly after the attack began.  Remember during the Democrat Campaign when they posed the question, “Who would you want to have answer the phone if you called in the wee hours of the morning asking for help?”  Based on what happened in Benghazi you surely wouldn’t want it to be Secretary Clinton.  Tripoli is 49 minutes flying time to Benghazi.  If preparations are what they should be there it shouldn’t have taken much time to get a force put together that could be of assistance.  The embassy never should have been allowed to deteriorate into the insecure state that it was in to begin with.   One of the reports by Fox News’ Investigative Reporter, Catherine Herridge, indicated that a dispatch was sent to the State Department in mid-August 2012 that ten hostile militia groups and an Al-Qaeda training camp were active in Benghazi and that the embassy could not withstand an organized attack. 
 

We know, of course, that Secretary Clinton will not be called to account by this administration for the travesty that occurred in Benghazi because it would shed light that her boss was complicit in what happened.  The one thing I would like to see is that whatever media are not in the camp of the Democrats harp more on keeping the fire lit under Secretary Clinton and her boss for what happened.   More than all the chatter that the terrorists have not been taken into custody, I would like to see the heat kept on (or even started) the “What difference does it Make?” Madam Secretary.