IMPEACH OBAMA FOR TREASON
Tom Tancredo,
Nov. 5, 2012
By Tom Tancredo, the founder of the Rocky Mountain Foundation and founder
and co-chairman of Team America PAC. He is also a former five-term
congressman and presidential candidate.
and actions by President Obama that undermine the national-security
interests of the United States. Those deaths may well be only a
foretaste of the catastrophe awaiting the United States if Barack Hussein
Obama remains in office four more years.
As we all know, Obama may be removed by a vote of the people Nov. 6.
But if not, if the lapdog media succeed in hiding his malfeasance and
incompetence well enough for Obama to win a narrow victory at the polls,
then Congress may summon the courage to exercise its constitutional duty
to impeach and remove him.
Obama's foreign-policy disasters have not been a major focus of the
presidential race, and that is unfortunate. The grave national-security
issues raised in the Benghazi fiasco cannot be easily or intelligently
addressed in a 30-second television spot, but they are nonetheless
critical to our future safety and well-being. Obama's pro-Islamist
policies are more than mere blips on the political radar screen.
In the view of many, Obama had earned impeachment even before the
Benghazi tragedy of Sept. 11. His open abuse of power in making recess
appointments when the Senate was not in recess, his open defiance of
Congress in his administrative amnesty for 2 million illegal aliens, his
misuse of "executive privilege" in withholding documents pertaining to
the illegal Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal -- those actions alone
qualify as impeachable offenses under the Constitution.
However, if treason is added to the mix, Congress will find it hard
to shirk its duty to impeach him. The many people who think those other
offenses do not rise to the constitutional standard of "high crimes and
misdemeanors" will not be so charitable with regard to the crime of
treason.
But when does a foreign policy "blunder" cross the line into treason?
Well, maybe when it is not a blunder at all but the entirely predictable
consequence of a deliberate policy that invites attack on our embassies
and indeed our homeland.
The word treason means a betraying, treachery, or breach of
allegiance. Article III of the U.S. Constitution defines treason against
the United States to consist only in levying war against them, or in
adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort. If radical Islam
is a self-declared enemy of the United States, as can be easily
demonstrated, Obama has certainly given them aid and comfort Most
Americans will think that welcoming the Muslim Brotherhood into the White
House and appointing Muslim Brotherhood members to important posts does
in fact constitute "aid and comfort."
If the Muslim Brotherhood is not an avowed enemy of the United
States, what else should we call an organization that openly and
officially calls for the replacement of the U.S. Constitution by Shariah
law? Apparently, an Islamist armed to the teeth must carry an al-Qaida
membership card to qualify for Obama's distrust.
Here is the brute fact of the matter. The attack on the United
States consulate in Benghazi was a terrorist act. Obama's foreign
policies and decisions not only left the consulate vulnerable to attack
but in fact invited the attack -- and then he blamed an unknown American
film for the attack and turned a blind eye on the al-Qaida allied
terrorists who were responsible.
Despite the establishment media's best efforts to protect Obama from
any fallout from the Benghazi deaths, we now know that Obama and his team
lied about those events.
Obama lied when he said the attack on the consulate was a spontaneous
act in response to an obscure film no one in Libya had yet seen. He knew
differently. He lied when he said the Libyan embassy staff had not
requested additional security for its Benghazi consulate. He lied in the
weeks leading up to the Benghazi attack when he said al-Qaida had been
"knocked back on its heels" and is no longer a threat to the United
States.
Obama's lies about the Benghazi attack and the four American deaths
are lies told to cover up not State Department "incompetence" but the
predictable consequences of policies of denial, neglect and stupidity
toward our nation's enemy, radical Islam.
But here is the most damning aspect Obama's behavior. Obama is
unwilling even today to name the enemy that has declared war on the
United States and to deal forthrightly with that imminent threat. Our
pro-Islamist president will not name Islamism, the Muslim Brotherhood and
the government of Iran as enemies of the United States even though they
have declared war on us and are engaged in numerous plots to bring death
and destruction to the American homeland.
Why are we so reluctant to call this by its right name -- treason?
The failure in Benghazi was more than a State Department failure to
provide needed security for the embassy personnel in our Libyan outpost.
That failure is bad enough, but it is only part of a larger betrayal.
Additional security was denied to Benghazi consulate because doing so
would have been an admission that eastern Libya was under the effective
control of armed militias allied with al-Qaida. Making that admission
would have undermined one of the pillars of Obama's re-election.
When the attack was under way, military assistance that was only two
hours away was denied. Today's revelation by the CIA that it sent a
four-person support team from the capital, Tripoli, does not answer the
question of why military backup was denied and who denied it. Sending
additional CIA support to the post was admirable but was too little and
too late. Why was military support at AFRICOM -- less than two hours
distant -- denied when it was available and ready to deploy? Did
Secretary of Defense Panetta consult Obama in making that decision?
The many unanswered questions about Benghazi are unanswered for only
one reason: Truthful answers would embarrass Obama and jeopardize his
re-election. This is election fraud conducted not from Chicago but
straight from the West Wing of the White House.
Thanks to a compliant media, the American people will not have those
answers in time to make an informed choice on Tuesday. It will fall to
the people's representatives in Congress to find those answers. And when
the full truth is known, Congress must consider removing Barack Obama for
giving aid and comfort to America's enemies -- and that is treason
against the United States.