Breitbart Hacks Still Doing the Benghazi Boogaloo - Now Hyping Discredited Group Run by Birther
breitbart.com, the site dedicated to unrelentingly dishonest right wing attacks on President Obama, today has a hit piece by former Washington Times writer Kerry Picket, who just can’t stop doing that ol’ Benghazi Boogaloo: 700 Retired Military Special Ops Tell Congress to Form Select Committee on Benghazi.
And being breitbart.com, they’re not above exploiting the dead.
Seven hundred retired Military Special Operations professionals from the organization “Special Operations Speaks” sent a letter to the House of Representatives urging members to support H.Res 36, which will create a House Select Committee to investigate last September’s deadly terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.
“It appears that many of the facts and details surrounding the terrorist attack which resulted in four American deaths and an undetermined number of American casualties have not yet been ascertained by previous hearings and inquiries,” the letter states. It continues further, “Additional information is now slowly surfacing in the media, which makes a comprehensive bipartisan inquiry an imperative. Many questions have not been answered thus far.” The letter puts forth over twenty unanswered questions the select committee should address.
Whoa! Seven hundred former military? That sounds impressive, does it not? Surely there must be something to this Benghazi stuff, if seven hundred Special Ops members are this upset about it, right?
Well, actually no.
“Special Operations Speaks” claims to be non-partisan, but in fact has extensive ties to the Republican Party. They’ve been launching one deranged attack after another on Obama — and their leader is a Birther.
Earlier this week, a different group of former Navy SEALS calling themselves the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund rolled out its campaign to criticize Obama for leaking national security information and taking what it believes as undue credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden. That group claims to be non-political.
But the founder of SOS, a similar group with the same mission and the same tactics, says he has no problem admitting that he is against Obama’s politics, personality, and believes that America’s current president is lying about his origins.
“I have to admit that I’m a Birther,” said SOS founder Larry Bailey, a retired 27-year veteran of the Navy SEALs, in an interview. “If there were a jury of 12 good men and women and the evidence were placed before them, there would be absolutely no question Barack Obama was not born where he said he was and is not who he says he is.”