Friday, October 26, 2012

Boehner Steps Up

Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner has written a letter to President Obama about the Benghazi situation: what he knew and when he knew it. Concerned that the letter would otherwise receive no response, Boehner released the letter to the press. Here are portions of that letter reported by Fox News' Catherine Herridge:
The American public is increasingly reading information contradicting early accounts by your administration of the causes of the events of the day. In the absence of your direct engagement to clarify these concerns, the public's frustration and confusion is likely to discredit efforts to achieve our shared goals of justice and accountability for the direct assault on American interests and the deaths of four public servants.

It is clear that information now in the public domain contradicts how you and senior administration officials consistently described the cause and nature of the terrorist attack in the days and weeks immediately following.  Why did the administration fail to account for facts that were known at the time?
The whole article is worth your time, and contains much more detail.