Nothing "phony" about Obama administration scandals

I don't think Victor Davis Hanson ever misses a significant fact in American life. That is why I always read anything he writes. And, he doesn't forget.

This week he writes about "frightening" actions of the Obama administration with regard to the I.R.S., the "creepy" monitoring of the AP and Fox News' James Rosen, the unparalleled leaking of classified data in order to shore up Obama's prospects for re-election, the NSA mess and Obama's promises to address the abuses that the supposed traitor Snowden outlined, and the Benghazi scandal in which our ambassador, Chris Stevens, was brutalized, four brave Americans were slaughtered, and witnesses have either gone silent or disappeared while a filmmaker remains in jail because of Obama and Clinton's cynical lies.

In Benghazi,

“Leading From Behind” has led to “Leaving Them Behind.”

The military was ordered to stand down in order to preserve the fantasy

some official surmised that the reelection campaign did not want a Mogadishu-style shoot-out less than two months before the election, or a messy Libya, or the risk of beefing up security. The reelection mantra was instead that Osama bin Laden was dead; al Qaeda was nearly defunct; and that the “lead from behind” removal of Moammar Gaddafi had helped to energize the Arab Spring and lead to a new age of reform.

Nearly a year after the murders, what happened to Obama’s reelection boast that he would bring the perpetrators to justice?

How did it happen that just nine months after the attack, most all of the relevant decision-makers — Clinton, Ham, Panetta, Petraeus, Rice — have vanished from their jobs?

And in reaction to all this, we jail a petty video maker, who makes the perfect scapegoat as a supposedly right-wing Islamophobic hate monger whose take-down advances our president’s politically correct narrative of Muslim outreach. That yarn required a president, secretary of state, and UN ambassador to lie repeatedly. When we ask questions, witnesses are browbeaten, the knowledgeable fade into the Washington woodwork, the luminaries have all left their offices, and we are left with “phony” scandal and “what difference does it make.”

All in all — the mother of all scandals.