What’s interesting in the news today?
First up today, the Obama admin refuses to do anything about those responsible for Benghazi. Even when begged by the team he sent to investigate and track the attackers.
From FoxNews “Two weeks after the Obama administration announced charges against suspects in the Benghazi attack, a large portion of the U.S. team that hunted the suspects and trained Libyans to help capture or kill them is leaving Libya permanently.
Special operators in the region tell Fox News that while Benghazi targets have been identified for months, officials in Washington could “never pull the trigger.” In fact, one source insists that much of the information on Benghazi suspects had been passed along to the White House after being vetted by the Department of Defense and the State Department — and at least one recommendation for direct action on a Benghazi suspect was given to President Obama as recently as Aug. 7.”
“We put American special operations in harm’s way to develop a picture of these suspects and to seek justice and instead of acting, we stalled. We just let it slip and pass us by and now it’s going to be much more difficult,” one source said, citing 1,200 prisoners escaping two weeks ago. “It’s already blowing up. Daily assassinations, bi-weekly prison escapes, we waited way too long.”
The special operators are starting to get frustrated at the lack of action, and Fox News has been told by multiple sources that one special forces leader “literally yelled” at former Libyan Chief of Mission William Roebuck “and told him, ‘so you’re willing to let these guys get away with murder?'” The outburst was “met with crickets,” the sources said.”
Just pathetic.
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A military jury has convicted the Ft. Hood terrorist on all counts.
From TheAP ” military jury on Friday convicted Maj. Nidal Hasan in the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, making the Army psychiatrist eligible for the death penalty in the shocking assault against American troops by one of their own on home soil.
There was never any doubt that Hasan was the gunman. He acknowledged to the jury that he was the one who pulled the trigger on fellow soldiers as they prepared to deploy overseas to Iraq and Afghanistan. And he barely defended himself during a three-week trial.
The unanimous decision on all 13 counts of premeditated murder made Hasan eligible for execution in the sentencing phase that begins Monday.”
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The DA in Christopher Lane’s murder investigation has decided it was not a hate crime. Can’t say I agree.
From NBCNews “Three juveniles allegedly involved with the Aug. 16 shooting death of Australian college athlete Christopher Lane will not be charged with a hate crime, the Duncan, Okla., district attorney said Friday.
“At this point, the evidence does not support the theory that Christopher Lane was targeted based upon his race or nationality,” said District Attorney Jason Hicks. “The evidence is insufficient to establish that race was the primary motive in the murder of Christopher Lane.”
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Both sides in the Paula Deen fiasco have agreed to drop the suit. It will be interesting to see if those who fired her will now do the right thing.
From MSNTV “Lawyers signed a deal Friday to drop a discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit against celebrity cook Paula Deen, who was dumped by the Food Network and other business partners after she said under oath that she had used racial slurs in the past.
A document filed in U.S. District Court in Savannah said both sides agreed to drop the lawsuit “without any award of costs or fees to any party.” No other details of the agreement were released. The judge in the case had not signed an order to finalize the dismissal.”
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And these last two go together. The liberal posters over at Buzzfeed are up in arms over an anti-abortion/Planned Parenthood piece they ran. Buzzfeed is defending themselves by saying it was on a community post, not an official one from them. Some liberal commenters are talking of wanting such talk censored. Liberals don’t like the truth about abortion being exposed. You decide for yourself. Does this need censoring?
From BuzzFeed “8 Outrageous Things Planned Parenthood Was Caught Doing
The nation’s largest abortion provider has been caught doing some incredibly offensive, appalling, and illegal things. Find out what they’ve been covering up…”
It then goes on to present it’s case, with the help of the work done by LiveAction.org. You’ll recognize some of them, we’ve covered them here. Like I said, they don’t like truth coming out.
From Observer.com “BuzzFeed came under fire today after the viral site ran a post slamming Planned Parenthood.
“8 Outrageous Things Planned Parenthood Was Caught Doing,” submitted by a community contributor, the anti-abortion group PersonhoodUSA, has unsurprisingly not been a hit with BuzzFeed’s core readership.
BuzzFeed editor in chief Ben Smith said that the site is still figuring out aspects of opening up BuzzFeed’s platform to community contributors. “We’ve been adjusting the labeling, and we’re in the process of figuring out where and whether we should draw lines about what’s appropriate on what we conceived as an open platform, like Facebook and Twitter. It’s an interesting, and complicated, question but we’re inclined to leave the platform as open as possible,” Mr. Smith told us in an email.”
Censorship isn’t necessary. Allowing differing opinions let’s folks decide for themselves. What do they have to fear? If it’s no true, rebut it.
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Wandering Views 
I’ve always found it curious that liberals — who tout “diversity” and “tolerance” — are typically the ones trying to put restraints on free speech at every turn.
Diversity of thought or ideas are alien concepts to many of these people.
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Reading Jerry Scahill’s Dirty Wars right now. A retired special ops is quotes as describing Obama’s covert operations against al queda and other groups as Bush on steroids. The use of predator drones and targeted assassinations increased dramatically under Obama and surprisingly he is far less likely to worry about infringing on national sovereignty than Bush. In Pakistan, Yemen, and other places he’s given JSOC and CIA operatives the green light to go where they need to no questions asked. Hence I have little doubt that if given the right circumstances any terror suspects in Libya would be taken care of.
Reading the comments section of the Buzzfeed post is more interesting than the actual post. The post repeats old claims that pro-choice groups say have been refuted while some pro-life groups claim the opposite.
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The beauty of free speech is to just let it rip — truth will win.
But I’m sure the demand will continue to silence everything deemed (by some) as “hate” speech. 🙄
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Economic blues. On it goes …
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/08/if-this-is-recovery-god-save-us-from-a-slowdown.php
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And it looks like that NM ruling against the wedding photographer will be appealed (as it should be):
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/08/23/lawyer-for-new-mexico-photographer-forcing-her-to-work-at-a-gay-wedding-violates-her-right-of-free-expression/
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