Humpty Dumpty Diplomacy

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott

A long time ago I learned the reason why it is best not to lie. Besides being wrong on a moral basis, I’m sure most people know that lying forces you to have to remember what story you told what person. It’s much, so much easier just to tell the truth and let the chips hit the fan.

Especially in today’s age where the paper or digital trail, as t’were, is so easy to uncover. Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing that is put down on paper or in an email is “safe” from evidentiary discovery. Unfortunately for those practicing deceit these acts tend to come back and all of a sudden one is left trying to explain what to the layman is an obvious lie, or at best an obfuscation of the facts.

So now, due to the public’s friend, the Freedom of Information Act, and the watchdog group Judicial Watch, we have what some people are calling the Smoking E-mail. This probably comes as no surprise to anyone, but the Federal government lied. Now, don’t go crying, it’s not like we are heading to a divorce or anything like that, and it’s not like this hasn’t happened before. I mean, the Federal government is chock full of liars. Heck, the state government is chock full of liars, and guess what? Yes, that’s right, even local government is chock full of liars.

It may not be so surprising that the government would lie about what they put out about the Benghazi incident. Certainly, it would have been a poor political move to accept responsibility for what happened, but man isn’t that what we are paying them for? Why would they think we would want to be lied to about such a breach of trust?

Now it’s even more obvious that the whole affair was mishandled. The fact that the current administration felt that lying was the better move seems to indicate even more responsibility.

This isn’t just a mistake. This is ineptitude of the highest order. And now, so many months later, the President’s handlers are trying to down play the situation. One of their arguments is that the email wasn’t even discussing Benghazi. Yeah right! We believe that, too. According to one of the emails that turned up as a result of the FOIA lawsuit was this September 14 email from Ben Rhodes, an assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for strategic communications.  The email lists the following two goals, among others:

“To underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy."

“To reinforce the President and Administration's strength and steadiness in dealing with difficult challenges.”

The email goes on to state that the U.S. government rejected the message of the Internet video. "We find it disgusting and reprehensible. But there is absolutely no justification at all for responding to this movie with violence," the email stated.

And yet, and yet…the initial message was exactly that. The initial comment on the atrocity was that the whole thing stemmed from some stupid Internet video.

Bull!

Now it’s up to us citizens to make sure the real truth comes out. It’s up to us to hold our elected officials to the fire until this whole issue is investigated. It’s time to get to the bottom of this and hold those responsible up to the light of justice. If it should turn out that nothing illegal was done, then so be it. But the whole thing has an odor about it. It seems to me that there is more here than meets the eye. Time to get to the bottom of this tragedy.