Katy Kieffer's thousand-word piece quotes both Senators Graham and Paul, but provides no more documented evidence. Her piece was re-published verbatim on other websites such as Free Republic, Town Hall, and Bear Witness.
In contrast to Paul's saying saying he had no evidence, Kieffer states:
"We now know that President Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-CIA Director David Petraeus were likely behind a mishandled gun-trafficking program that ended up arming the radical jihadist rebels who stormed the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya on that fateful day."
Rhetorically, If
Obama's Not a Murderer, Then Who Is?
In other words, the new meme in Washington is that: Obama gave weapons to jihadis -- the jihadis killed Americans in Banghazi -- therefore Obama is a murderer. Or as Kieffer put it:
" Obama's gun-running program failed to properly vet the rebels. Clinton most likely launched the gun program, expected Stevens to oversee it and then her weapons likely landed in the hands of al-Qaida affiliates who killed Stevens and three other Americans. Benghazi is a tragic failure of foreign policy and diplomacy under Obama's watch ."
If this was a serious argument, at least some of its proponents would offer some evidence that any weapons went from American hands to Libyan jihadists in eastern Libya, which has been awash in weapons and jihadis for a decade or more. This region provided more foreign fighters against the American invasion of Iraq than any other comparable part of the world.
And if this was a serious argument, it might explain how weapons for the Syrian rebels managed to remain in Libya, especially since they were on a boat in Benghazi bound for Turkey.
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