This morning's Washington Post carried something it hadn't had in recent memory. No, I don't mean not that wrapped-around ad covering the first page that you have to rip off to read anything, although in fact it did have one of those today.
No, it was a piece of actual investigative reporting done by a couple of actual investigative reporters, negating any thought that the Post had laid all of them off. In point of fact, the reporting was that in 2012, during the Secret Service prostitution scandal, a White House staffer was involved as well and his involvement covered up prior to the presidential election.
You remember the story. The advance team for a presidential visit to Cartagena, Colombia, had engaged local prostitutes and were busted for their actions; a dozen or so were summarily fired and the White House managed to turn it into a Secret Service scandal over which they had no control, as usual, and managed to insulate themselves from any blame, also as usual.
Well, according to today's report two years later, well, not so fast. Apparently a 25-year-old Yale Law student, on the White House staff as some kind of intern because his father had given the Obama campaign $20,000, was part of that advance team and had hired a prostitute himself. Worse -- far worse, at least by Watergate standards -- there was a nicely organized cover-up including Janet Napolitano, the DHS Secretary, and Kathryn Ruemmler, the White House counsel. This included the lead DHS investigator being told to back off any investigation of the White House staffer's involvement in prostitution in Cartagena, at least until after Election Day. "Being told" means through the Inspector General's office, and given the definitional independence of IGs, it had to come from an office at least as high as Napolitano.
The humor in this, if it can be funny to some, is that the former law student who engaged a foreign national as a prostitute while preparing in-country for a visit by the president of the United States, has been since hired by that president and is now, hilariously, working at the Office of Global Women's Issues. You can't make this stuff up.
Corruption piles on top of incompetence in this White House, according to the lemmingly left-leaning Post, which actually supported and endorsed Obama in 2012. For the past year or two, the paper which told us to vote for him has been detailing failures of competence, lack of confidence, incapability, indecision and other negative words on a regular basis. Now its own investigative reporters have shown not only that the Administration is incompetent, but worse, corrupt.
It is time for something I suppose we have never seen. Here's my letter to WaPo:
Dear Washington Post,
Please say you are sorry. In 2012, you advised the voters in the USA to vote for Barack Obama to be president again, despite your chronicling, before and since, the incompetence, the scandals and the other failures that screamed for a competent administrator like, well, the guy running against him.
While it is not that likely that your endorsement tipped the election, it is also true that, had the Washington Post, a leading light amongst the left, actually based its endorsement on what it had been reporting, and suggested that we not reelect the president, that would have gotten people's attention. It might even had started a real discussion that might have gotten real people thinking, perhaps even voting.
If all you are reporting is true, then you are complicit in the disaster that the government of the USA has become, and you need to be accountable.
Take some responsibility. Man up. Say you're sorry.
Copyright 2014 by Robert Sutton
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