{"id":16348,"date":"2012-10-31T13:39:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T17:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16348"},"modified":"2012-10-31T13:39:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T17:39:37","slug":"mccain-slams-obama-on-benghazi-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16348\/mccain-slams-obama-on-benghazi-cover-up\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain Slams Obama on Benghazi Cover-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark my words: if Barack Obama is reelected, he will be thrust into scandal perhaps before he even takes the oath of office for a second time. Though the media &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/ricochet.com\/main-feed\/Where-There-s-Smoke-There-s-Absolutely-Nothing-to-See\" target=\"_blank\">with Fox as virtually the only exception<\/a> &#8212; is studiously avoiding the scandal of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/10\/26\/cia-operators-were-denied-request-for-help-during-benghazi-attack-sources-say\/#ixzz2AQb0q012\" target=\"_blank\">Americans being abandoned during the terrorist attack in Benghazi<\/a>, the implications are far too sweeping to be suppressed for long (particularly if, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/10\/31\/gingrich-rumor-says-networks-have-white-house-emails-telling-counterterrorism-group-to-stand-down-on-benghazi-rescue\/\" target=\"_blank\">as Newt Gingrich has suggested<\/a>, there is a damning paper trail floating around out there). The most concise reading of this development &#8212; and, in my judgment, the most accurate &#8212; is this one from John McCain:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This president is either engaged in a massive cover-up deceiving the American people or he is so grossly incompetent that he is not qualified to be the commander in chief of our armed forces. It&#8217;s either one of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark my words: if Barack Obama is reelected, he will be thrust into scandal perhaps before he even takes the oath of office for a second time. Though the media &#8212; with Fox as virtually the only exception &#8212; is studiously avoiding the scandal of\u00a0Americans being abandoned during the terrorist attack in Benghazi, the implications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,3862,216,721,2436,731,869,536],"class_list":["post-16348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-benghazi","tag-foreign-policy","tag-john-mccain","tag-libya","tag-national-security","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16350,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16348\/revisions\/16350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}