Benghazi: The Washington Post takes down the New York Times

These Dirtbags are trying to Bury this for Hillary to Run in 2016....Pathetic!  Hillary Lied...Period!

The Times published an investigative piece on Benghazi last week that was worthy of Walter Duranty. We took it apart in our post The NYT tries to pull Hillary’s Benghazi acorns out of the fire, they get burned.

Earlier this week the Washington Post waded in and piled on. Yesterday, James Kirkpatrick, the author of the original Times waffle, showed up to defend himself. It’s a lot like us defending ourselves from a battalion of Marines. To rehash the original Times piece, Kirkpatrick said there was no indication that alQaeda was involved at all and that it was the “YouTube video” that really caused all the problems. Kirkpatrick and the Times are standing by their man lie.

Here’s the nuts and bolts of the spitting matchbetween the WaPo and the NYT.

The Times piece specifically ruled out any meaningful involvement of an ex-Guantanamo detainee named Sufian Ben Qumu, who has longstanding ties to al Qaeda and is currently the leader of Ansar al Sharia in Derna, Libya.

According to the Times on Dec. 28, “neither Mr. Qumu nor anyone else in Derna appears to have played a significant role in the attack in the American Mission, officials briefed on the investigation and the intelligence said.”

But on January 7, Adam Goldman of the Washington Post first reported that the U.S. State Department will formally designate Ansar al Sharia Derna as a terrorist entity, a designation that includes Sufian Ben Qumu. The designation will specifically mention Ansar al Sharia Derna’s involvement in the attack, as some of Ben Qumu’s men participated in the assault.

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Kirkpatrick wrote that no one from Derna “played a significant role” in the Benghazi attack. The State Department disagrees.

The Times insists that Derna and alQaeda were not involved. The State Department says they were. Keep in mind that’s the same State Department that was run by Hillary Clinton when Benghazi was attacked and Americans on scene were left undefended during the eight hour attack that left four dead Americans including the US Ambassador.

Keep in mind that’s the same State Department that’s now run by John Kerry who is doing everything possible to bury everything related to Benghazi as deep as possible. This is perhaps the ONLY subject that they’d not like to have replace ObamaCare on the front pages.

Kirkpatrick does a little misdirection walk back in his latest convoluted effort to get Hillary’s chestnuts out of the fire.

Kirkpatrick now reports that the upcoming designation was “expected to apply to Ansar al-Shariah of Derna, Libya” and “is expected to assert that its fighters were also involved in the attack.”

Beyond this concession, however, the Times seeks to disconnect the dots, thereby limiting any further re-writes to its preferred narrative.

It is exceedingly difficult to ignore the connections between Sufian Ben Qumu, who leads Ansar al Sharia Derna, and al Qaeda.

Kirkpatrick tries to get around this red flag by reporting the following (emphasis added):

The designation was also expected to apply to Sufian bin Qumu, a former driver for a company controlled by Osama bin Laden and a former inmate at the United States military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. He is identified as a leader of Ansar al-Shariah in Derna, but officials briefed on the designations and the intelligence reports said that there was no evidence linking him to the attack.

Let’s compare Kirkpatrick’s reporting with the Washington Post’s article. They both deal with the upcoming designation and cite officials familiar with the investigation into Benghazi.

Kirkpatrick’s sources say there is “no evidence” linking Ben Qumu himself to the attack – presumably beyond the involvement of his fighters. This is not what the Post reported.

The title of the Post’s article is “Former Guantanamo detainee implicated in Benghazi attack.”

The opening line of the Post’s article reads (emphasis added):

U.S. officials suspect that a former Guantanamo Bay detainee played a role in the attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and are planning to designate the group he leads as a foreign terrorist organization, according to officials familiar with the plans.

The take away here is that the New York Times is in full Lewinsky mode with Mrs. Clinton. They are truly living up to the standards of investigative journalism set for them by the (happily) late Walter Duranty.

Shameful, shameful, shameful. And fully in character.

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