Notes on three scandals

摘要

Just a few days ago Barack Obama's administration was being followed around by one substantial scandal, involving the September 2012 terrorist attacks in the Libyan town of Benghazi, which left America's ambassador and three aides dead. The allegations are both grave and convoluted, but the central Republican charge is that there was a monstrous cover-up: Team Obama put officials on television to claim that Americans were killed by spontaneous protests that turned deadly, rather than in attacks by terrorists that could have been foreseen.