First Syria explodes……then Ukraine becomes an international mind screw…..now Iraq is a roaring inferno fanned by the hot winds of sectarianism…..but in all that time there has always been Benghazi…….that scandal that is not so much a scandal but rather a fantastic fundraising tactic……..now recent events have made it clear exactly what the Right is really doing……..

There has been a wealth of the Right beating their chest that the President is NOT trying to capture and punish those who attacked our people….here are just a few of them and what they had to say……..

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): In November, Cruz criticized the Obama administration for failing to use a State Department program that offers rewards to people with information about terrorists in order to track down the Benghazi attacker: “The State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program exists to help the US identify and apprehend its enemies, but the Obama administration has not used it to pursue the terrorists who attacked our personnel in Benghazi,” he said.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.): In August, Issa, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which has held numerous hearings on the Benghazi attack, harped on the administration’s “delay” in apprehending Abu Khattala: “If our government knows who perpetrated the attack that killed four Americans, it is critical that they be questioned and placed in custody of US officials without delay,” he said.  “Delays in apprehending the suspected Benghazi killers will only put American lives at further and needless risk.”

Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), and John McCain (R-Ariz.): In a February letter to Obama, the three GOP senators wrote, “In almost 17 months, none of the terrorists have been brought to justice. The families of the murdered Americans deserve to see the terrorists brought to justice. Moreover, terrorists around the world need to know that if they kill Americans, we will hunt them down and bring them to justice. Allowing terrorists apparently involved in the attack to sit and give interviews in cafés sends a dangerous message that there are no consequences for killing Americans.”

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah): “[L]et’s not forget the Benghazi terrorist attackers,” Chaffetz told USA Today in October. “There’s been no visibility on whether or not we’re pursuing that.”

Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.): In August, when the Justice Department filed charges against Abu Khattala, Wolf suggested the administration wouldn’t have acted without Republican pressure. “I think they’re feeling pressure to do something, to show they’re making progress,” he told the Washington Times, adding that charges against suspects have likely been delayed by “confusion” among US law enforcement authorities.

But what do they have to say now?………there has been a capture…….

US Special Forces captured Ahmed Abu Khattala, the man long suspected of leading the 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, over the weekend in a secret raid, official sources tell the Washington Post. American troops, working with the FBI, apprehended Khattala near Benghazi, and are currently holding him in “a secure location outside Libya,” the sources say.

Khattala has in the past admitted involvement in the attack, but denied leading it—all while mocking Libyan authorities as too “chicken” to arrest him. Federal prosecutors filed charges against him and a dozen others last year, and the State Department in January designated him as a “senior leader” of the Benghazi branch of the terrorist group Ansar al-Sharia. “When the United States says it’s going to hold someone accountable and he will face justice, this is what we mean,” one official boasts.

You would think that they would be silent for awhile………..NOT these guys and gals………….Now with the suspect in custody the Right is screaming for the man to be sent to Gitmo for trial…..why is that important?

Easy!  At Gitmo he would get a military trial where all info and evidence would not be on public record…….is that a bad idea?

You betcha……if he is tried in a Federal court all evidence and info will be on public record…….and while on public record may shoot all the holes in the spurious scandal BS.  And if it turns out not in the GOP’s favor then all that cash raised off of this fake scandal will dry up and will NO longer be anything but a memory.

Then the country will see that Benghazi was always about money….NEVER about the truth or the 4 dead Americans……Americans will see the GOP for what it has always been…..and opportunistic sham!