NEWSPAPER IN KUWAIT PRINTS A CLUE

"What has become of the Benghazi investigation?" asked Politico July 17. "After months of fiery hearings and vows to get to the bottom of Benghazi, House Republicans are now barely making a peep when it comes to an issue they once couldn’t stop talking about."

Politico’s question was answered partly that same day.  Lawmakers wanted to ask Marine Col. George Bristol, who commanded Joint Special Operations Task Force-Trans Sahara on 9/11/2012, if military help could have been sent. Pentagon officials told them Col. Bristol had retired, and thus couldn’t be compelled to testify.

Col Bristol is on active duty through the end of July, the Marine Corps Times reported.

More than two dozen Americans survived the attacks, but not one has testified publicly.  They’ve been forced to sign non-disclosure agreements, said Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va.

"The bottom line is, they feel that they cannot come forward," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, told Fox News in March. "They’ve been told to be quiet."

Two hearings have been cancelled because potential witnesses were intimidated, Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Tex, said Wednesday (7/24).

Within hours of the attack Ansar al Sharia (Partisans of Islamic Law), an umbrella organization of several Islamist groups, claimed credit for it. 

"It became apparent to all of us quickly that this was not a demonstration, this was a violent attack," Gen. Carter Ham, who commanded AFRICOM on 9/11/2012, said last weekend.

We’ve known something is being covered up ever since the lie about a Youtube video was exposed. There was a clue about what is being hidden in a Kuwaiti newspaper last month.

Six Egyptian members of Ansar al Sharia captured at the scene told their interrogators Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi helped plan and finance the attack, according to a report Mahmoud Ibrahim Sharif, Libya’s Director of National Security, wrote to the Ministry of Interior.  It was leaked to the newspaper Al Ra’i, which published it June 26.

Mr. Morsi is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, which gained prominence through its alliance with Adolf Hitler.

The goal of the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) is to establish a world-wide "caliphate" ruled by Islamic law, Mr. Morsi said last year.  Most Egyptians don’t share it, the massive protests against Mr. Morsi’s regime June 13 indicated. 

"Dear World, pay attention," tweeted one protester.  "Muslims protesting in the millions against Islamism.  This is historic."

Even after his ouster, the administration has continued to support Mr. Morsi and the Ikhwan. Why back an anti-American would be dictator when it’s clear his own people don’t? 

Six Ikhwan hold policymaking positions in the Obama administration, the Egyptian magazine Rose El-Youssef reported in December.  They are Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development; Mohammed Elibiary, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council; Rashad Hussain, the U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference; Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC); Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA); and Eboo Patel, a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.  More background on them is here.

The list doesn’t include Hillary Clinton confidante Huma Abedin, better known these days as the long suffering wife of serial sleazeball Anthony Weiner.  Ms. Abedin also has Muslim Brotherhood ties.

Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed by a lethal injection after plans to kidnap him went awry, an al Qaida weapons expert claimed in March. 

"The plan was based on abduction and exchange of high-level prisoners," Abdallah Dhu-al-Bajadin wrote on an al Qaida linked web site. 

Mr. Sharif’s report is causing some who dismissed it as propaganda to reevaluate that claim.

Ambassador Stevens was pronounced dead at a Libyan hospital, presumably from smoke inhalation.  No autopsy findings have been made public.

Mr. Morsi sought release of Omar Abdel-Rahman, who is serving a life sentence for plotting the first World Trade Center bombing.

The Obama administration contemplated releasing the "Blind Sheikh" as a gesture of goodwill, but feared criticism during an election year, the New York Post reported.

If there’d been a deal to permit Ambassador Stevens to be kidnapped so he could be exchanged for the Blind Sheikh, that could explain why security at the consulate was kept lax despite repeated protests; why Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered Mr. Stevens to be in Benghazi on 9/11/2012; why no effort was made to send military help, and why those who survived the attack have been told not to tell what they saw and heard.

Even with all of the administration’s disturbing ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, it’s hard to believe any president would make such a deal. We shouldn’t assume this without a lot more evidence.  But, contra Politico, the fact we haven’t learned the truth is the fault of those who are stonewalling, not those who are being stonewalled.

More must be done to uncover what’s being concealed.  Rep. Wolf has a bill, with 156 cosponsors, to create a Select Committee like the one that investigated Watergate to investigate Benghazi.  More than 1,000 Special Ops vets headed by former Navy SEAL and TTPer Larry Bailey  think it’s the only way to get to learn the truth about one of the most severe attacks ever on a U.S. diplomatic facility.  They’re right.