This topic, which has been the subject of heated exchanges in several comment threads on this blog, warrants treatment in a stand-alone post.
It involves a concerted campaign in the conservative media to paint President Obama as a traitor for allegedly blocking any rescue mission when a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked in September.
The truth of the matter is something else. Jay Bookman of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, for example, writes THIS:
There is no indication — none — that U.S military officials advised the president or anyone in the administration that a rescue operation was possible, ...
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