My post last week about Benghazi is looking
downright prophetic already, and not in a Lefty “social justice” sort of way. Over the weekend came word that
whistleblowers will give damning testimony, including that on the night of the
Benghazi attack Hillary cut the State Department’s counter-terrorism unit out
of the loop for some reason.
And even some in the noos media are paying
attention now.
But I want to focus on something I read this
morning that is a blinding flash of the obvious, but which even I have
overlooked. Now that it is that
much more clear that the Obama regime knew very well that the attack was
planned and prepared by terrorists and had nothing to do with a dumb YouTube
video, the full outrage of the jailing of the maker of said video is that much
more evident.
Corrupted law agencies allowing themselves to become brownshirts jailed the man as a scapegoat. To what extent did the Obama regime direct and/or encourage this? This is the sort of
thing regimes do (and is among the reasons I address the Obama regime as just
that).
And, as Glenn Reynolds points out, it cries out
for investigation:
But
here are some further lines of investigation. Some Obama-defenders will note
that Nakoula was jailed for probation violations, of which he may have even
been guilty. But, as I note in my Due Process When Everything Is A Crime
piece — to be published next month, in substantially revised and updated form,
by the Columbia Law Review —
prosecutors can always find a reason to put someone away if they really want
to. The question is, why, exactly, were they so eager to put Nakoula away?
The
fast-tracking of Nakoula’s jailing was highly irregular. Among other things,
I’d like to see the Congressional investigators get Nakoula’s prosecutor,
Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Dugdale — and perhaps his boss, U.S. Attorney AndrĂ©
Birotte Jr. — under oath about communications from the White House or
the Justice Department regarding this case.
Because
what it’s looking like is that Nakoula was targeted and jailed so as to provide
a scapegoat/villain in a politically
motivated cover story that the White House knew was false. If that’s
the case, it’s extremely serious indeed, and in some ways more significant than
whatever lapses and screwups took place in Benghazi. I’d also be interested in
hearing from Nakoula’s attorney, Steven Seiden, about any threats made by the
government to secure a plea deal.
If
there’s an impeachable offense anywhere in the Benghazi affair — and at this
point, I’m not saying there is — it’s more likely in what happened with Nakoula
than in the problems abroad, which by all appearances are simple incompetence,
rather than something culpable. Railroading someone in to jail to support a
political story, on the other hand, is an abuse of power and a breach of
trust.
And, to his credit, Reynolds was on this early.
It’s past time Congress or a Special Prosecutor
get on this.
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