Bogart on Benghazi

Almost nothing the current regime has done struck me, personally, as so being as low as the Benghazi fiasco. They send Christopher Stevens and others out there in some very dangerous outpost amongst people who want nothing more than to kill the American Satan, and then refuse to defend him. The British had pulled out, for God's sake, and not much scares the British.

I've always found it rather touching, and incredibly honorable that the Marines have this thing about not leaving their dead and wounded behind.

But that's exactly what happened to Chris Stevens and those three other guys.

Worse -- to lie about it. Lie about it. "It Wasn't me. I know nothing. I did nothing. I heard nothing."

Honestly, what kind of scum are occupying this federal administration?

They weigh four human lives against their political fantasies and ambitions, and their ambitions are regarded as more important. Like, what? Hillary down in Chile going, "Hey let the sonsabitches die quickly. Just cover it up so it doesn't stand as a black mark against me."

Though I wouldn't have voted for Hillary Clinton two years ago because she is also a disciple of Saul Alinsky, now I'd rather see her at forced service in Benghazi. Despite Pazzo Pelosi's lobbying for Hillary for president. I mean, she's not "Pazzo" for nothing.

At any rate, with a new set of whistleblowers coming out about Benghazi -- and I've already read part of one guy's testimony from CBS -- he's Hicks, who was second in command in the State Dept. contingent in Libya, and was completely in charge after Chris Stevens was killed. He says he was on the phone that night to Washington and elsehwere, trying to drum up aid. So Washington knew all along what was going on. They just refused to help. To even try to help.

God forbid, perhaps they would have offended some bloodyy-minded muslim terrorist. 
And Leon Panetta once claimed this refusal for back-up and support was because he couldn't send the military into dangerous territory. Making me wonder if Panetta hasn't also dropped a few marbles over the course of his federal career. Perhaps he believes the military are just nice to trot out for parades on the 4th of July, like little wind-up toys?

At any rate, I've seen few things more offensive than Hillary Clinton's testimony in congressional hearings on Benghazi. This is her most outrageous statement, in aswer to Wisc. Senator Ron Johnson:

With all due respect, the fact is we have four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest? Or because of guys out for a walk one might who decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It’s our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from happening again.

And how, you stupid bitch, how do you "figure out what happened" when you only lie about it to cover your sorry, incompetent ass?

So, anyway, this reminded me of a point Humphrey Bogart made to Mary Astor in The Maltese Falcon. See, Mary was responsible for his partner's death. Bogart was, maybe, in love with her. She was counting on that -- assuming he would let her go scot-free. He called the cops instead. He explained:

I won’t play the sap for you… You’ll never understand me, but I’ll try once and give it up. When a man’s partner is killed, he’s supposed to do something about it. It doesn’t make any difference what you might think of me, you’re supposed to do something about it. It just so happens we’re in the detective business. When one of your organization gets killed, it’s bad business to let the killer get away with it. Bad all around. Bad for every detective everywhere.

And that's about the best thing I've heard so far as to why the investigation into all the other "ass-clowns" in this administration should proceed. They're an embarrassment -- and a danger -- to the nation.