Ken Berwitz
The media has beenwaiting to be shown a smoking gun in the Benghazi hearings and, not having seenany, declares the sessions a victory for Clinton. But Benghazi isn\’t about ascandal per se.
Yes, it\’s scandalousthat the Obama administration lied about the motivation for the attacks being aYouTube video, but that is old news and anyway Hillary wasn\’t central to itbecause she, unlike then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice, didn\’t go on the Sunday talkshows to issue bald-faced lies.
But here\’s what theSherlocks who declare they can\’t find a smoking gun miss: There doesn\’t have tobe corruption or mendacity involved in Benghazi to show poor leadership.
“I didn\’t get thememo” is not an answer a chief executive of most organizations could expect toget away with.
Attacks on ourdiplomatic posts overseas are nothing new – bombings and other kinds of attacksare fairly routine – but Benghazi was unusual in that it happened so slowly,over a period of eight hours, that Washington actually could have helped.
Benghazi tells us alot about how Hillary would govern as president: with little accountability.
