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Brian4Liberty
10-22-2012, 02:55 PM
Who is making the decisions?


Our Ambassador Is Dead, but Obama's Political Guru Is Safe
By Fred J. Eckert

You could see the pained expression on President Obama's face worsen as a 61-year-old undecided voter told the president during the second presidential debate that he and some co-workers "were sitting around talking about Libya, and we were reading and became aware of reports that the State Department refused extra security for our embassy in Benghazi, Libya, prior to the attacks that killed four Americans."

"Who was it that denied enhanced security -- and why?" he asked.

A very good question -- and one an honest news media would have so relentlessly hounded any president to answer five weeks after the Benghazi attack that no voter would need to ask it.

President Obama's answer did not include even so much as a hint about who denied the requested security or why.
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Our U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans who served us there are dead because of insufficient security while the assistant to the president for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs, a woman named Valerie Jarrett, has been given an entourage of well-armed, highly trained protectors as she goes to and from work in Washington, goes shopping or out to dinner, and travels to political events and vacations on Martha's Vineyard.

Why is Valerie Jarrett such a high priority when it comes to security, and why are our diplomats in Libya so much less of a priority? In their eagerness to serve and protect the political interests of Barack Obama, the news media do not bother to ask and then inform the American people about this administration's particularly peculiar priorities when it comes to security at a time when security is something very much in the news and of great interest to the public.
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The media are well aware of what is going on here -- and they know why.

A product of Chicago's Daley political machine, Jarrett has been a political guru to Barack and Michelle Obama for the past 20 years. It is to her that Michelle owed the job she was given with the Daley political machine. The Obamas seem to see themselves as dependent upon Jarrett. When a reporter once asked Obama if he ran every important decision by Valerie Jarrett, Obama without pause answered, "Yep. Absolutely."

One former White House colleague quoted in a New York Times feature article about her called Jarrett "the single most important person in the Obama White House." And yes, in the eyes of some, that does include the president. She has full rein at the White House, able to pop in and out of the Oval Office almost at will, free to drop in on any meetings in the White House whenever she wishes. She has no significant public policy background or expertise. Yet she has power over who gets to meet with the president or first lady. She regularly dines with the Obamas in their private quarters and even vacations with them.

That New York Times profile uses the word "imperious" to describe her and mentions her once mistaking a four-star general for a waiter and ordering a drink from him.

Valerie Jarrett has no official role in anything involving national security, intelligence, or counter-terrorism. She is nothing more than a political aide and friend of the Obamas, upon whom they seem overly dependent. Yet she is living high, surrounded by a full Secret Service detail, as if she were of extraordinary importance to the nation. Presidents and their families get such protection; serious presidential candidates do; foreign leaders visiting here do -- but not even cabinet members do, and never before has some White House staffer.
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Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/our_ambassador_is_dead_but_obamas_political_guru_i s_safe.html

Pericles
10-22-2012, 04:03 PM
It is a matter of priorities.