{"id":17995,"date":"2013-05-22T11:17:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T15:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17995"},"modified":"2013-05-22T11:17:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T15:17:43","slug":"benghazi-in-short-form-and-in-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17995\/benghazi-in-short-form-and-in-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Benghazi, in Short Form and in Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Heritage Foundation has<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ENq_y6JVZj4&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\"> a strong 2-minute video<\/a> about the Benghazi affair, well worth watching. And I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2013\/05\/21\/despite-the-wapost-benghazi-is\" target=\"_blank\">2,000-word piece<\/a> that explains, in detail, why it really is a scandal, and why the media is, as usual, focusing on the wrong things. An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: normal;\">In both Fast and Furious and in Benghazi, the result of the administration\u2019s incompetence (or worse) was that people died. (<em><a style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: black;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/jul\/10\/mexican-victims-of-fast-and-furious\/?page=all\" target=\"_blank\">Lots of people<\/a><\/em>.) When an administration tries to cover up the real reasons people died, that alone usually makes it a scandal by the usual\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\/establishment media standards. When the administration threatens or punishes those who try to correct the record, it\u2019s more than a scandal; it\u2019s almost always criminal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: normal;\">What the\u00a0<em>Post<\/em> calls conservatives \u201cobsess[ing]\u201d over Benghazi is actually, by all prior standards, an eminently reasonable insistence that corruption be outed and reversed. The State Department\u2019s mendacious, 12-step emasculation of the Benghazi talking points, for political purposes related to maintaining an already ongoing lie about an Internet video, is just one part of a long series of Libya-related actions that together amount to a serious corruption of our political system.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If there was nothing to hide, why was Mr. Hicks so maltreated?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heritage Foundation has a strong 2-minute video about the Benghazi affair, well worth watching. And I have a 2,000-word piece that explains, in detail, why it really is a scandal, and why the media is, as usual, focusing on the wrong things. An excerpt: In both Fast and Furious and in Benghazi, the result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3862,4148,3944],"class_list":["post-17995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-benghazi","tag-gregory-hicks","tag-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17996,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995\/revisions\/17996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}