Conservative ‘historian’ claims Benghazi an inside job designed to help ban free speech
Conservative author and self-declared historian David Barton told his radio audience on Friday that President Barack Obama purposefully allowed an attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi so that he can orchestrate his ultimate goal of banning free speech — and specifically, all criticism of Islam.
“We’ve seen all the stuff on Libya and it still comes out and I recently had some really interesting face-time with some members of Congress who have been briefed on all this stuff, as all the members of Congress have, and they were telling me stuff that I have not yet heard come out in the news,” he said before claiming that the Obama administration signed a pact with “57 Islamic governments” supporting “anti-blasphemy codes.”
He went on to describe a version of events in Libya that wildly contradicts the official story, including the debunked claim that the Obama administration ordered a stand-down. Published reports in The Wall Street Journal and ABC News said Friday that’s not true at all, noting that the Central Intelligence Agency did send a security team in but they were delayed by Libyan officials and were fired upon at the scene.
That didn’t faze Barton, though. “So we’re watching this thing develop, we watched four lives get lost and then what happens is we’re told ‘oh, it’s this video, we can’t be criticizing Islam, this video that criticized Islam, it cost four people.’ This is the perfect set-up for the anti-blasphemy resolution that we joined on to and said we’re going to be a part of. I think it backfired; I really think that’s where they were headed.”
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