Opinion

The post-Benghazi probe: Skirting key questions

The Issue: The latest testimony on the 2012 Benghazi attack, which🐷 killed US Ambassador Chris Stevens.

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The full Benghazi story will never be known absent a first-person account by someone who was in the chain of command at the time, someone in the Situation Room at the White House or on call at the State Department or CIA when the tragedy was unfolding (“Benghazi: Trut🐼h and Consequences,” PostOpinion, Joꦆnah Goldberg, Sept 21).

Pr🦂esident Obama and his Praetorian Guard in the Democratic Party and progressive media have no interest in the truth, because it would reveal incompetence and immorality on a scale rarely, if ever, seen before in an American administration.

Immoral because the ℱreelection of a president lauded by the progressive med𝐆ia was given precedence over the defense of four American public servants.

That this tragedy was preventable is becoming kn𒉰own despite the administration’s and Hillary Clinton’s lies.

What is as damni🎶ng as the administration foul-up itself is that so much of the media has allied itself with the immoral and incompetent party, fouling itself in this Faustian bargain.

Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati, Ohio

Goldberg states the obvious surface realities of the scandal, but apparently💦, there was a much more 🍸egregious “plot behind the plot” that has largely been ignored by the mainstream media and virtually all politicians on both sides of the aisle.

Many intelligence and foreign-policy experts in America and abroad strongly believe there i💎s credible evidence Benghazi was a covert CIA black op that was𒀰 illegally running guns to Syrian rebels, many of which were al Qaeda offshoots, in an operation that rises to the magnitude of Iran- Contra.

Sen. Rand Paul is the only pol to have brought up this👍 subject in the hearings.

There needs to be a serious hearing on this aspect of the affair so the truth can be exposed and to finꦺd out if Obama and Clinton knew about it o🦩r were involved in any way.

Herb Eichen
Bayside

I could understand someone ordering back- up to our c𒁃onsulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, without presidential approval, but who would give a stand-down order without Obama’s appro♚val?

Harvey Bower
Pittsburgh, PA