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Ben Ghazi: Who Is He?

Jan. 24, 2013 12:41pm

A New York native and graduate of Vassar College, Jay Severin is a veteran conservative campaign strategist. As a strategic advisor to Republican incumbents […]

A New York native and graduate of Vassar College, Jay Severin is a veteran conservative campaign strategist. As a strategic advisor to Republican incumbents and candidates for the Presidency, U.S. Senate and House, and Governorships, Severin produced and directed campaign media in races in 25 states. Jay Severin worked as a political analyst with NBC News, CNBC and MSNBC, and has been interviewed by Tom Brokaw on Dateline NBC, was a Clinton Impeachment analyst for Brian Williams, and has also appeared on Fox News, CBS, ABC, Nightline, The John McLaughlin Show, PBS, CNN, NPR, and media abroad (Iceland, Japan, Australia, Ireland, et. al.). Severin was a regular guest for ten years on the Imus in the Morning Show, and has also served as a guest correspondent for BBC Television. A prominent on-record source for national print/radio/television political news coverage for publications including NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Time, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Business Week, and Ad Age among others, Severin has authored Op-Ed articles for the New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Boston Globe. Severin has presented lectures for organizations including the United States Information Agency, US Naval Command War College at Harvard, Wellesley, and Vassar. Jay Severin has served as host of nationally syndicated and regional radio programs (in New York and Boston), for which he has been nominated for the Marconi Award for Top National Radio Major Market Personality, and named by NewsMax Magazine as one of America's Top 25 Radio Hosts.

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the September 11, 2012 attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya in the Rayburn House Office Building on January 23, 2013 in Washington, DC(Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

That this is not a ludicrous question for many – way too many – fellow Americans is significant.

What it signifies is that many of our fellow citizens are imbeciles.

Get used to it. Embrace it. Use it like jiujitsu to our advantage.

If you absorbed any of Clinton’s testilying Wednesday, you are asked to accept key – ad absurd – propositions:

(1) The Secretary of State “accepts responsibility” – but not any blame – for the evident, manifest criminal negligence that caused the rape/torture/murder (sorry: That IS what happened) of our patriots that horrid night.

(2) Every request, warning, pleading and notification of/to the Secretary State’s office, the Secretary of State was aware of – indeed saw – NONE of it. “What? News to me! Imagine that!”

(3) In the minds of Clinton foes, this was the big moment – confronting Clinton with irrefutable, damning facts that would expose and disarm Clinton. As if!

Clinton manipulated the impotent Q&A process as Clintons do: turning the tables, using “adversarial” “hearings” as a stage on which Clinton could transform plans for her undoing into a three-ring circus.

A few tepid Republican questions (don’t blame them – after all, all they had to go on was a demonstrable, compelling air-tight case of criminal negligence) were generally twisted expertly by Clinton into either:

(a) Weeping: “I am so sad for the dead” and/or

(b) Righteous Indgnation: ‘What does that matter?! We have dead Americans! We must move forward!’

In other words: who’s at fault doesn’t matter. All the counts is how I avoid blame and we move forward (i.e. skip over blame).

Allowed to get away with this when Republicans can control the hearings with effective questioning…this criminal strategy would be quite laughable and depressing enough if it were not for far worse: Mrs. Clinton – with a straight if absolutely frightening face – urged the investigators to “move on”…code for “forget what crimes I committed. That’s old news!” “Investigators” seemed suckered into buying it.

In a civilian court of law, there seems not a molecule of doubt that Hillary Clinton, guilty of Criminal Negligence at least, would be staring at well-deserved hard prison time.

Instead, given the structure of these clown hearings, rare insinuating questions were automatically alternated through every-other-questioner by Democrats trading investigation for a monolithically predictable series of lame, shameless, stupid questions – e.g. “Mrs. Clinton! You look marvelous! Where did you get that MuMu? Lovely haircut!”

So long as this “hearing” standard is such a mockery, so long will the “hearing” yield absolutely nothing.

We have a massive U.S. security failure. A torture/slaughter of an American ambassador and Navy SEALS. To some of us, that is not politics–it is United States national defense.

To allow “hearings” to become a pre-Presidential record-cleansing for the Democrats’ next presidential candidate is pornography.

Jay Severin is a host on TheBlaze Radio Network. Listen to him weekdays 2-5pm.

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momofcharlie
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:46am
Seems I have heard that DC insiders get their children cushy jobs due to their connections…

With all the glowing confidence in the Hillary run State Dept by the Democrats who “questioned” her… seems the next step would be that we see their children serving on the Ambassador’s staff in Libya.

Hmmm… but maybe they should wait until those on “paid administative leave” return to their jobs to have full confidence about their safety…

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JeffMT
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 2:45pm
Jay is correct with the title to this article – who is Ben Ghazi? The percentage of imbeciles among us here in America is astounding – I never thought I would ever see anything like this in my lifetime. The vast majority of people in this country do not have the slightest clue about day to day events or issues. All they care about is where to score their next drug deal or which video game to play today.

The Democrat party has not only figured this out and cater to these people all day, every day but they have the media as willing participants. Since most people believe what they see and hear on the news (think ‘Wag the Dog’ -” if it’s on tv it must be true”), that is the formula that has worked. Liberal politicians promising people aka voters everything plus liberal media minions serving as willing message carriers equal the disaster we have in this country today.

Since I see nearly no hope that the general population is going to wise up any time soon, things are only going to get worse for those of us who aren’t part of the problem. Until we hit rock bottom in this country and stay there for a while, we are not going to see this whole thing turn around.

Who is Ben Ghazi? A great question …

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JimCS
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:43am
I robbed a gas station. The cops caught me two days later. I tell the judge, in my defense, “Why does it matter if I used a knife or a gun? Why does it matter if I was high or really jones-ing for a high? The store was robbed. The money is gone and has been spent on meth. There is nothing that can change that. Let’s move on!” The judge says, “Your right. Let’s move on….. to sentencing. Two years in jail.”

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judyaz
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 3:21pm
I wouldn’t expect less of a lawyer who was wife of the Arkansas Governor, the President of the U.S., an accomplished legal star on her own, almost President, and now Secretary of State. I would hope she’d have out-manuvering skills in dealing with foreign countries, diplomats, enemies, States that sponsor terrorism, and whatever happens in this world. We’d hope the U.S. has the best skills, and never comes up short. So if she saw her husband almost impeached for an affair, why would she want to be hung out to dry at the end of her public career? Besides, the “blame game” of finding a scapegoat is all too common in American business. Why not find out the problem, and do what is necessary to change that?
Nobody’s told us what went wrong or why. So I’ll make up something. We were in tricky negotiations with Al Qaeda affiliates who overthrew Gaddafi (with unknown aid we provided). We used some of those guns and his guns to covertly deliver through Turkey to some of the same rebels to fight in Syria. Were we trying to get control of the WMDs in both places to protect ourselves and our allies? Did we make a mistake of trusting Al Qaeda affiliates in Libya, not realizing that a tenet of jihad is to lie to an enemy (us). Al Qaeda has the goal of establishing a Caliphate imposing Sharia Law in the Middle East and N. Africa (and maybe worldwide). So some agreed to accept weapons and overthrow Syria. Others fight in N. Africa. It was a good deal for them. But they lied to us.

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- shorelineliz
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:47pm
  They always lie to us and we always lie to them. The game is all about telling the better lie and getting away with the biggest cash haul. “Diplomacy” is all about lying and stalling your enemy to get the money transferred into an untraceable account or get your shipment of weaponry to the group you hope will take down the very leader you are talking to. It’s all a smoke and mirrors dance. A shell game. It’s a never ending game of cat and mouse and one up man ship. Of “getting one over on your enemies.” Or in the case of HIllary Clinton, One up woman ship. Lord knows it has been a “boy’s club” for years and now the “ladies” like Clinton want in on the dirty game. Who ever truly believed in the first place that Hillary Clinton would tell the “truth, the whole truth, so help me God.” That is laughable. Truly Gullible. I expected her to do exactly like she did at these hearings. Vintage Hillary Clinton. Lawyer in chief. I mean “liar” in chief. She is after all a US politician. LYing is her modus Operandi.
  
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