If President Obama is elected president this November, there is a good chance he will be even more of a failure in his second term than his first.
This is one reason why, From the Hill: Senate Republicans are furious the Obama administration rebuffed their
attempts to learn details of the Benghazi attack, only to give the
coveted information to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Senators say they were rebuffed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
when they pressed for more information about the attack that killed U.S.
envoy Christopher Stephens in Libya.
“That is the most useless, worthless briefing I have attended in a long
time,” Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) told reporters after the closed-door
session.
GOP lawmakers were incensed to find many of the details they tried to
learn Thursday were in a front-page article in The Times the following
morning.
“I was very disappointed in the briefing yesterday, too. The bottom line
is, we asked questions like, ‘How many people were at the Benghazi
consulate?’ You pick up The New York Times and you get a blow-by-blow
description of what supposedly went on,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham
(R-S.C.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The Times published a timeline of the attacks chronicling militants
gaining access to the U.S. compound after 9:35 pm on Sept. 11, American
security forces attempting to retake it at 10:45 pm and American and
Libyan forces regaining control of the main compound around 11:20 pm,
before evacuating.
According to the timeline, Libyans found Stevens in the compound after
midnight and took him to a hospital, and 20 embassy staff members were
hit by mortar rounds around 2 am, an attack that killed two former Navy
SEALs.
The official Senate briefing was less informative.
“It was like pulling teeth to get information yesterday,” Graham said of
the meeting with Clinton and other administration officials. “A lot of
senators were frustrated. And you pick up major newspapers in the
country and you find details not shared with you.”
The Wall Street Journal published a similarly detailed account of the attack.
“We were told nothing. We were told absolutely nothing,” said Sen. John
McCain (R-Ariz.), ranking Republican on the Armed Services Panel.
McCain said the details lawmakers sought were in The Times and The Journal. http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/251109-senate-republicans-upset-obama-administration-passed-them-over-for-the-new-york-times
Obama, if re-elected is going to have to work with Congress and if he keeps playing these childish and/or immature games, they won't work with him, especially if the senate is taken over by the GOP.
Obama probably will try and dictate by executive order but that will probably result in him getting impeached and not having any money to play with. And if that happens, he will be even more of a failure than he is now.
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