This book by Ken Timmerman contains several blockbuster
claims that match Wag the Dog deception
in their audacity -- claims backed with evidence ranging from extremely solid
to highly plausible. In the former
category is the assertion that neither the Cairo
riots on September 11, 2012 ,
nor the Benghazi attacks that began
later that night were inspired by the infamous YouTube video produced by Nakoula
Basseley Nakoula, the shady Coptic Egyptian living in Southern
California .
By now informed observers concede the latter point, but most
are unaware of the evidence demonstrating that the earlier Cairo
riot had long been focused on demanding release of the Blind Sheikh. As Timmerman puts it, the one-minute, thirty
second “Arabic language trailer, which virtually nobody had actually seen, was
only tacked on at the last minute to attract additional bodies to a
demonstration in front of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo that had long been in the
works. It did not drive the crowds, or
the organizers. It was simply an
afterthought.” Indeed, on September 10,
in an interview with the Blind Sheikh’s son and the brother of al-Qaeda leader
Ayman al-Zawahri, CNN reporter Nic Robertson explained, “This is the protest
calling for the release of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman” -- an interview that all
but disappeared from CNN’s website after the media eagerly adopted Obama and
Clinton’s YouTube spin on both Cairo and Benghazi.
In Deception, Timmerman
provides an Afterword that focuses on the Iranian Quds Force commanders who
were actually behind the well-organized and long-planned Benghazi
raid. Anyone desiring more details on
that attack, however, should consult Timmerman’s previous work, Dark Forces: The Truth About Benghazi (2014).
Even when it became obvious (after the
Presidential election) that the White House YouTube explanation was deceptive, little information was provided
about the terrorists actually involved -- and none was disseminated about the central
role played by an Iranian regime the Administration was eager to portray as a
reasonable treaty partner.
Perhaps the most damning assertion in Deception is the claim, backed by substantial evidence, that the
Obama Administration intentionally promoted the YouTube video so that, in the
aftermath of Benghazi , it actually
became a cause celebre in the Muslim
world. Obviously the “promotion” of the
video was accomplished via denunciation, but the $70,000 spent for air time on
seven Pakistani television channels “only served to further inflame Muslims and
to spark more violent protests: 83 in all, by the time it died down a month
later.” Journalists facilitated this audacious project by gullibly repeating
the blame-the-video narrative that was “pre-cooked and spoon-fed” to them “by anonymous
sources at the State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Cairo .”
The shadowy internet vehicle for widespread dissemination of
the video was NewsPoliticsNow, whose NPN3 channel not only removed the video
after it went viral but also went off the air and “erased all trace of its
existence -- at least to ordinary users.” NewsPoliticsNow appears to be related to a
company called Stanley, Inc. which, according to its website “provides services
to the U.S.
federal, civilian, defense and intelligence agencies.” Stanley, Inc., in turn, has as its corporate
parent, CGI , the group that “won the initial
$678 million contract to build the Obamacare website” and whose Senior
Vice-President, Toni Townes-Whitley has “long-standing ties to First Lady
Michelle Obama.” Moreover, other top Stanley
and CGI execs “are big Democrat party
donors” and CGI Federal president, Donna A.
Ryan “enjoyed high-level access to top Obama administration officials.”
In short, Timmerman provides readers with numerous
indicators that the Obama administration helped the video go viral while
creating the impression that they had “absolutely nothing to do with it.” The immediate goal of this deception was to
deflect responsibility from the administration for the disaster in Benghazi ,
but another benefit was to create public pressure for what became (via
Nakoula’s dubious imprisonment) backdoor enforcement of blasphemy laws in the U.S. After all, Secretary Clinton not only
promised grieving relatives that the maker of the video would be punished, she
also “embraced news laws banning blasphemy as Secretary of State and instructed
the United States Ambassador to the United Nations to vote in favor of them,
reversing years of U.S.
opposition.” UN Resolution 16/18, which
includes serious restrictions on free speech, was apparently being utilized by
DOJ official, Tom Perez, when, instead of assuring Congressman Trent Franks
that the Department of Justice would “never entertain or advance a proposal
that criminalizes speech against a religion” instead responded by criticizing
“hate speech” and “racist speech” -- a detour consistent with Perez’s past
support for the idea that criticism of Islam constitutes racial discrimination.
Unfortunately, the preceding topics constitute less than
half of Timmerman’s book. The rest of
the work is largely devoted to the legal and personal woes of Cindy Lee Garcia,
the actress who, unwittingly, portrayed the mother of the young pre-pubescent
girl (Aisha) given to Muhammad as one of his many brides. While Cindy’s story merits inclusion on a
summary basis (especially in light of Google’s unusual unwillingness to remove
the offensive video promptly and that corporate giant’s close White House ties)
many readers will be distracted by the space devoted to Cindy’s thoughts and travails. Yes, Google and probably the White House were
putting Cindy through a legal and personal hell, but at the same time dozens of
folks were being killed abroad because of the Administration’s strategy of
deception. Meanwhile, the American
public was being bamboozled in the midst of a Presidential election. Finally, the video-maker wound up in prison
for several months, for what was, de
facto if not de jure, a blasphemy
charge. Anyone wishing to focus
primarily on the major issues outlined in the review above might want to employ
other Timmerman materials -- or read this book selectively.
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