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Townhall
Will Boston Probe
Falter Like Benghazi?
Debra J. Saunders
Apr 28, 2013
Hours after the Boston Marathon bombings but before authorities
identified suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, President Barack
Obama purposefully addressed the nation. "We will find out who did
this. We'll find out why they did this," the president pledged. "Any
responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full
weight of justice."
Days later, there's reason to wonder how zealously the administration
will work to uncover everything that needs to be known.
The day after the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi, Libya, attacks, which left
four Americans -- Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone
Woods and Glen Doherty -- dead, Obama made a similar statement. "Make
no mistake," the president said. "We will work with the Libyan
government to bring justice to the killers who attacked our people."
More than seven months later, there have been no indictments and no
arrests. According to a House Republican Conference report on the
Benghazi attacks released Tuesday, the FBI investigation into the
attacks has yielded "very little progress." The GOP leaders questioned
why the administration chose to put the FBI in charge of the
investigation when the FBI team did not have access to the Benghazi
crime scene for three weeks. You might think that the administration
didn't want quick answers.
Washington ordered criminal investigations after the 1998 U.S. Embassy
bombings in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the 2000
attack on the Navy destroyer Cole. The GOP leaders observed at the time
that those probes did not deliver the full weight of justice.
The Obama administration is one that clings to the fiction that the
2009 Fort Hood, Texas, shootings, which left 13 dead, were not a
terrorist attack but "workplace violence."
After Benghazi, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice went on the Sunday TV talk
shows to blame the violence on an anti-Islam video, which allegedly
spurred a protest that then was "hijacked" by armed extremists, when
the administration clearly knew better.
I'm not blaming the Obama administration for the attack in Boston or
the one in Benghazi. Terrorists are responsible for the carnage. I
blame the administration for not acting decisively after Benghazi, as I
hope for a better response after Boston.
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