Elitism and self-preservation

Rep. Darrel Issa, it seems to me, has done a very good job keeping alive the issue of the Benghazi cover-up of an Islamist terror attack that killed four brave Americans. His committee hearings begin Wednesday with three whistle blowers scheduled to answer questions. Bob Schieffer interviewed him Sunday. Give Schieffer some credit for doing that, though he is boring. I think Schieffer realizes his program was used to promote a lie.

Roger L. Simon writes at PJ Media that

We seem, however, to have returned to the State Department of Alger Hiss’ day — but not, like Hiss’ time, in the form of direct Soviet subversion. What we have is a post-modern version — a subversion of elitism, self-regard, and, above all, self-preservation.

From what we know so far, the U. S. Department of State participated in the cover-up of an Islamist terror attack on the brink of a U. S. presidential election, implying the murders of our fellow citizens were inspired by an execrable video that nobody saw. I can’t think of anything more despicable and more disrespectful to all of us — and most especially to the families of the deceased.

As of now we don’t know to what degree these State Department officials worked at the behest of the White House in their censorship, but if they were taking orders in all this, they were indeed behaving in the manner of the minions of totalitarian states that have been prosecuted elsewhere as violators of international law.

Most recently, we have learned via John Rosenthal, writing in Newsmax, that the State Department hired the February 17th Martyrs Brigade to do their security in Libya, a group that celebrates al Qaeda on their Facebook page. (Yes, you read that correctly.) If true, this is like having the Gestapo act as security for the Nuremburg Trials.