{"id":16851,"date":"2012-12-26T08:59:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T13:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16851"},"modified":"2012-12-26T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T14:00:03","slug":"an-insult-to-those-who-died-at-benghazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16851","title":{"rendered":"What Has America Become ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/international\/benghazi_penalties_are_bogus_ncP7RZx5uTIgDPbTp5WtoN\">New York Post<\/a> is reporting that the four <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Department of State\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8941666667,-77.0483333333&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8941666667,-77.0483333333 (United%20States%20Department%20of%20State)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">State Department<\/a> officials who resigned in the wake of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benghazi\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=32.1166666667,20.0666666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=32.1166666667,20.0666666667 (Benghazi)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Benghazi<\/a> attacks really didn&#8217;t resign&#8211;one has a new job and the other three took a short leave of absence.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Spokeswoman <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Victoria Nuland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victoria_Nuland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Victoria Nuland<\/a> said that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Secretary of State\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Secretary_of_State\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Secretary of State<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hillary Clinton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/hillary-clinton-9251306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"biographycom\">Hillary Rodham Clinton<\/a> \u201chas accepted Eric Boswell\u2019s decision to resign as assistant secretary for diplomatic security, effective immediately.\u201d What Nuland omitted was that Boswell gave up only the presidential appointment as assistant secretary, not his other portfolios.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The other officials \u2014 Deputy <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Assistant Secretary of the Navy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assistant_Secretary_of_the_Navy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Assistant Secretaries<\/a> Charlene Lamb and Raymond Maxwell, and a third who has not been identified \u2014 were found to have shown \u201cperformance inadequacies\u201d but not \u201cwillful misconduct,\u201d Pickering said, so they would not face discipline.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is so sad to see what has happened to America. The political class now rules at the expense of the people, at the expense of the concept of responsibility, and at the expense of honor.<a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=88028313-1544-427d-bd74-78bfc226e200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s New York Post is reporting that the four State Department officials who resigned in the wake of the Benghazi attacks really didn&#8217;t resign&#8211;one has a new job and the other three took a short leave of absence. The article &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16851\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3947,4614,4613,875,657,2861,1178,2867],"class_list":["post-16851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-benghazi","tag-boswell","tag-eric-boswell","tag-hillary-rodham-clinton","tag-new-york-post","tag-state-department","tag-united-states-department-of-state","tag-victoria-nuland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16851"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16855,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16851\/revisions\/16855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}