What happened to the three big stories of spring; remember Benghazi, the IRS, and Syria.

The death of the ambassador wasn’t complicated after all.  He had set up a meeting with one of the warring sects (tribes) in Benghazi and the other tribe thought we would support their ancient enemies against them.  The meeting wasn’t a well-kept secret.  Buy why wasn’t he better protected.  He took a chance and lost.

The theater military commander offered to increase his security people twice and he turned them down.  The CIA’s paramilitary troops have their barracks inside the Embassy’s compound in Tripoli.  The station chief told him the meeting wasn’t a secret and wanted to send additional people.   The ambassador didn’t want to intimidate the man he was meeting.

There was one back-story that may explain why he turned down the offers. The Republicans in the house had quietly cut the security budget for the state department at the same time as they talked about increasing embassy protection.   The state department wanted to increase their own security personnel instead of relying on others.  Was this the reason he turned down the offers?  The public may never know.

The IRS examination of several right wing groups was obviously necessary.  Why would they single these groups out?  For one thing, left wing groups were also given some scrutiny if they applied for the non-profit status that was for non-political groups and could keep their contributors a secret.

Why was Tea Party groups denied the status?  The name automatically indicates it is a political organization.  Most of those who applied for this status changed their request to the political and reported their contributors.  The ones with nothing to hide simply applied for the correct one, in the first request.  Thousands of those were quickly granted so why were the others so adamant?  The reason is simple.  Maybe they were really weren’t’ the grass roots organizations they claimed to be.  We know hundreds of millions were being circulated through the Koch brothers’ front groups like Cross Roads of America to the smaller political action groups.  When their role was about to be exposed and be in public’s eye big time, the so called scandal died out quickly and quietly.  The Koch brothers and their billionaire friends (total wealth of over 150 billion) want to be kept in the shadows and pulling the strings of Congress.

Syria is an on-going problem but it isn’t a scandal.  The proponents of a scandal want us to get involved like we did in Libya.  The front man for this is Senator John McCain.

Oddly enough, McCain criticized O’Bama for getting involved in Libya until it was almost over.  He then thought it was wise not to remind people of his initial rejection of O’Bama’s policy.  Now he and others have decided the U.S. should put CIA troops and Air Force pilots at risk of being killed or being captured.

During one of his many, many interviews John McCain said “It’s a tough call on what to do, but”. He still wants people to think America would be better if they had elected him five years ago.  I know it would have been thirteen years ago but not five years ago.  He can’t continue to be on both sides of every issue and maintain any integrity or principles.  thirteen years ago I respected him.  Five years and I didn’t.

Another scandal that bit the dust is the Associated Press Investigation.  It turns out the classified information The Associated Press released was gotten because of the manipulation by one of its own reporters.  They had crossed the ethical line of the A.P.’s policies and perhaps laws when the Feds were unable to find who had given them the material. They stated back tracking from A.P. The Feds went to court to find whom the reporter had talked to on the list of possible traitors.  As more information came out, even reporters, who had been critical went quiet because they saw a line had been crossed.  Not even reporters can cause espionage under the 1st amendment.

This tells me one thing.  Some people will do anything to erode the prestige of a bi-racial president.  They have tried the outright big lie with little success so now they are trying to make mountains out of molehills without much more success.