While Byron York fluffs his pompadour as the Middle East burns, the president is overseeing stuff like this:
U.S. Special Operations forces captured one of the suspected ringleaders of the terrorist attacks in Benghazi in a secret raid in Libya over the weekend, the first time one of the accused perpetrators of the 2012 assault has been apprehended, according to U.S. officials.
The officials said Ahmed Abu Khattala was captured Sunday near Benghazi by American troops, working alongside the FBI, following months of planning, and was now in U.S. custody “in a secure location outside Libya.” The officials said there were no casualties in the operation, and that all U.S. personnel involved have safely left Libya.
Khattala’s apprehension is a major victory for the Obama administration, which has been criticized for having failed so far to bring those responsible for the Benghazi attacks to justice.
One jubilant official called Khattala’s capture “a reminder that when the United States says it’s going to hold someone accountable and he will face justice, this is what we mean.”
Time for a terrorist fist jab.
When is this Benghazi kangaroo court thing getting started?
Can we try this guy in Louie Gohmert’s district?
So I’m wondering how they will contort this into an argument that he is only doing this to divert the nation’s attention away from the REAL MALFEASANCE that occurred at Bengahzi?
I’m sure they will adjust their tin-foil until they can find a way to argue that the timing of this is veeeeery specious. He is, after all, one of those conniving Chicago politicians.
Oh my God, Fox News is such a pleasure to watch right now. They’re trying realllllllly hard to identify how Obama is destroying America right now. They finally struggled to get to “they should have caught this murderer earlier” and “we’re at war so why are we putting a war criminal on trial Senator Ayotte sez No Miranda Rights TORTURE IN GUANTANAMO!!!” Also too, ISIS IRS GM bad Obama enabling.
Also, Obama chooses to catch this guy while Hillary is on her book tour. VERRRY suspicious….trying to change the subject from the Administration’s failures on BENGHAZI! by capturing a ringleader of the Benghazi attack- it’s the cover-up, not the crime. IMPEACH!
h/t Daily Kos post
Joe Walsh (serial deadbeat Dad from IL) made this exact statement
I thought about making a game out of how many ridiculous and crazy claims I could up with that the right wing would proffer on this event. I bet most of us could score pretty well on that. It’s like predicting the sunrise.
right, definitely not a challenge with this group
I can’t decide if it’s funny or a little sad.
Daaaaaaamn!!! This shit is just TOO f@$%ing EASY!!!!!!!
When she was an MTV VJ, I thought Kennedy was just acting like a nut. No, she’s a real nut, all right, a rather nasty one at that.
From my diary …
… while Barack Obama Visited Jon Stewart on the Daily Show.
○ FBI ‘Waterboards’ Lone Suspect in Deadly Benghazi Raid
○ If CNN can interview suspect in Benghazi attack, why can’t FBI?
○ Bloggers Call BS on NYT Kirkpatrick Benghazi Articleand U.S. State provides evidence, accuses Ansar al-Sharia in Darnah.
A decoy?
No drama, just results. The Obama Way.
Statements like this:
should be reserved for after a conviction at a fair trial.
It’s not as if there weren’t plenty of others that were identified as having been at the melee. Unclear that there was a “mastermind” or even if there was a primary instigator.
iirc this name popped up in some of the early reports but can’t recall what was specifically said.
But it appears that Khattala might actually face a criminal trial, which is what I usually mean when I say the suspect will face justice. However, it seems that in the United States of recent vintage, “justice” means just about anything, up to and including sending out trained assassins to murder someone and dump the body at sea.
So my eye takes on a certain jaundiced hue whenever I hear a government official exult about “justice.” I hope I’m proven wrong in this case.
As to how the knuckleheads on the right will spin this, my sources inform me that the Obama administration apprehended Khattala only to boost Hillary Clinton’s book tour and sales. Once again, the unparalleled genius of the right wingers is able to suss out a motivation for action that has escaped public notice.
The knuckleheads get so obsessed about nothing-burgers that they miss the forests and the trees.
Team Obama doesn’t give a crap about Hillary’s book tour. But sucking some air out of the Iraq debacle right now is helpful to them.
Khattala sounds more like a dumb jihadi than any sort of leader beyond a handful of even dumber jihadis. Could be the guy a few leaders of local militias decided was expendable to satisfy the USians. He was at the Benghazi mission during the attack (he’s admitted that); so, he’ll be convicted of something.
Oh dear, dear, dear. Looks like the GOP is going to have to stop just making things up about who the attackers were and what they were thinking.
Rush is sprinting for cover, telling his dittoheads this morning “I predict the prosecutors will tell us that this guy said they did it because of the blasphemous video. Remember when it happens, I called it.” So funny!
Don’t know if Rush is again blowing smoke out if ass (high probability) or he read the early reports on this and the interview with Khattala who said the attack was most definitely a response to the video along with denying that he was ringleader.
Not that it should ever have mattered if the attack spontaneously and a directly related to the video or was preplanned and the video became the cover for saying “let’s go.” The degree of destruction and length of the attack always looked more opportunistic and lucky than advance planning to me.
The later second attack on “the Annex” wasn’t spontaneous but unclear if it had been organized in the period between the two attacks or had been a planned target waiting for the right moment. The problem could have been that while targeting the known CIA presence in Benghazi, the actual location may have been unknown.
Yeah, Rush might want to stay away from all the complaining that “reporters could find Khattala, why couldn’t Obama?”
As Marie2 cites:
Nah.
They won’t believe a word that comes out of the administration or the suspect, unless they get to personally get to torture him themselves.
Or, they’ll say he’s being kept in a secluded location, so that he won’t spill the beans on the REAL story.
Probably in a cell next to Bowe Bergdahl, so that they can coordinate their stories.
Don’t forget Lois Lerner and Susan Rice. They need to be in that cell as well under questioning by Eric Holder so everyone can coordinate the perfect talking points meant to Destroy America.
No Real Americans can read this thread, right? We need to keep our evil plans hidden from the Preservers of Liberty.
Wtf?
Hyperbolic satire on my part, c u n d. Not the most skillfully executed, apparently.
I thought it was satire.
But – imo – you had a bit too much real ‘Essence-de-Wingnut” in there! 😉
Really, when the RW Noise Machine has it turned up to eleventy111!!1, you have to jack it up to at least 15 to stand out from the pack.
So I strongly suggest making use of Hitlery’s communications channel via Obummer to the Muslin Brudderhood to AQ that Amb. Stevens had to be SILENCED PDQ, because he found out the TRUTH about Vince Foster.
Then Obummer used his Time Machine to go back and plant the video and gin up riots just to make Romney look like an idiot in the debates. You don’t get much more devious than that, amirite?
Good thing that Issa is on the case, him being an expert in ARSON and all that stuff.
Love the factually informed Issa snark.
You missed something. What was the truth about Vince Foster?
Hillary strangled him.
More recently, she personally briefed Abu Khattalah on the blasphemous video talking point AND LET HIM GO so that we could arrest him later when we needed a distraction from BENGHAZI!!! When she got on the plane from Libya to the U.S., Hillary wrung her hands together and cackled with evil glee. “I’m destroying America!”