Valerie Jarrett Gave Order To Stand Down In
Benghazi Terrorist Attack
Scandal: The omnipresent power
behind the throne some have called the president's Rasputin had the power to
call off three strikes against Osama bin Laden. She may have used that power
again the night four Americans died in Benghazi.
The Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on our
diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, came while America failed to mount a
rescue mission despite sufficient time and assets. Included in that disaster
were the unaccounted whereabouts of President Obama during eight critical hours,
the lack of Situation Room photos, the failure by the president to follow up
with subordinates before his trip to Las Vegas and the fabricated story that the
whole thing was prompted by an Internet video.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer said recently on
"The O'Reilly Factor" that the "biggest scandal of all" regarding that Benghazi
slaughter has yet to emerge.
"I think there is a bigger story here ... that
will in time come out," Krauthammer said. "The biggest scandal of all, the
biggest question is: What was the president doing in those eight
hours?"
The columnist noted: "He had a routine meeting at
5 o'clock. He never after, during the eight hours when our guys have their lives
in danger, he never called the secretary of defense, he never calls the chairman
of the Joint Chiefs, he never calls the CIA director."
One of the people Obama always talks to is Valerie
Jarrett. She emerged from the same Chicago cauldron of radicalism where Obama
got his ideological baptism.
The Iranian-born Jarrett (her parents were
American-born expatriates) is the only staff member who regularly follows the
president home from the West Wing to the residence and one of the few people
allowed to call the president by his first name.
Her influence is shown by an account in Richard
Miniter's book "Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors
Who Decide for Him."
It relates that at the urging of Jarrett, Obama
canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden three times before approving the
Navy SEAL mission in Pakistan on May 2, 2011. Seems she was concerned about
political harm to Obama if the mission failed.
Miniter writes that the president canceled the
kill mission in January 2011, again in February and a third time in March, in
each instance at the urging of Jarrett. Miniter cites a source within the Joint
Special Operations Command who had direct knowledge of the operation and its
planning.
Edward Klein, author of "The Amateur," a
best-selling book about Obama, asked Obama if he ran every decision by Jarrett,
and the president responded, "Absolutely."
A former foreign editor of Newsweek and editor of
the New York Times Magazine, Klein describes Jarrett as "ground zero in the
Obama operation, the first couple's friend and consigliere."
Did Obama run the Benghazi decision not to send
help past Jarrett that night?
We do know Obama had a face-to-face briefing from
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, early in the evening.
After dinner in his living quarters, Obama and
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed Iran and other issues in a
two-hour phone call.
Present as the call was made, reports blogger Chip
Jones at Conservative Report Online, was Valerie Jarrett, who, as the call was
ending, went from the living quarters to the White House Situation Room, where
the attack in Benghazi was being monitored by Dempsey, Panetta and other
top-ranking officials.
What she may have said and whether the president
sent her is unknown. We do know the president retired for the night, and no
rescue mission was launched.
Once before, Jarrett had called off the military
for political purposes. She may have done it that night as well — an action that
would answer many questions and may be what the White House is really
hiding.
An election for President and Commander in Chief of the Military must strive to be above reproach. Our public institutions must give the public confidence that a presidential candidate has complied with the election process that is prescribed by our Constitution and laws. It is only after a presidential candidate satisfies the rules of such a process that he/she can expect members of the public, regardless of their party affiliations, to give him/her the respect that the Office of President so much deserves.
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