It looks a lot like the treasure trove of documents acquired in the Abbottabad raid on Osama bin Laden was suppressed by our intelligence agencies in order to protect President Obama’s re-election narrative. Evidence indicating that al Qaeda was robust and in contact with other terror groups, including the group that became ISIS, never saw the light of day, and may have even been kept from analysts. That is the gist of a long and complex article in the Weekly Standard by Stephen Hayes. There is still a lot we don’t know, because documents still classified are unavailable for analysis, but the evidence so far is very damning. And when considering an administration that was comfortable lying to the public about a video being responsible for the Benghazi raid, it is not beyond the pale to contemplate the worst: that voters were lied to about the state of AQ in order to secure the re-election of Obama. Here are a couple of highlights, but I urge you to read the entire Hayes...(Read Full Post)