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Questions about
scandals 'irrelevant,' 'offensive'
By Joseph Farah
On “Fox News Sunday,” White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer was asked by
Chris Wallace where in the White House President Obama was during the
Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans.
Wallace: “Question, what did the president do the rest of that night to
pursue Benghazi?”
Pfeiffer: “Look, the president was kept up to date on this as it was
happening the entire night, from the moment it started until the very
end. … I recognize that there’s a series of conspiracy theories
Republicans have been spinning about it since the time it happened. The
question here is not what happened that night. What we do is we want to
go out and speak to the problems as they happen. And what’s important
here is that when problems happen, the president takes responsibility
for them and tries to fix them. That’s what we’re talking about in
Benghazi. It’s an absolute tragedy what happened. The question isn’t,
‘Who edited what talking points?’ That’s largely irrelevant.” (Emphasis
added.)
In other words: Don’t ask, don’t tell.
The facts are “irrelevant.”
But there’s more.
Wallace: “With due respect, you didn’t answer my question: What did the
president do that night?”
Pfeiffer said that Obama was in touch with his national security team,
but as Wallace pointed out, he didn’t talk to the secretary of state
except for one time after the attack was over, didn’t talk to the
secretary of defense, didn’t talk with the joint chiefs of staff as it
developed.
Wallace then asked if Obama was in the Situation Room.
Pfeiffer: “I don’t remember what room the president was in on that
night, and that’s a largely irrelevant fact.” (Emphasis added.)
In other words: Obama was asleep at the switch.
The facts, once again, are “irrelevant.”
Here’s Pfeiffer, the designated stonewaller, on CBS’ “Face the Nation”:
Pfeiffer once again reiterated that it was “largely irrelevant” who
edited the talking points the Obama administration offered up in the
aftermath of the terrorist attack.
Bob Schieffer asked: “That was just a PR plan, to send out somebody who
didn’t know anything about what had happened. Why did you do that? Why
didn’t the secretary of state come and tell us what they knew, and if
they knew nothing, say ‘We don’t know yet’? … Why are you here today?
Why isn’t the White House chief of staff here to tell us what happened?”
Pfeiffer said it was “offensive” for anyone to question whether the
White House could have done more to save the lives of Ambassador
Christopher Stevens and other Americans killed in the attack. He also
characterized any suggestion that Obama failed to act appropriately as
“conspiracy theories...
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