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Parents and Washington are to stay on this story let's get a little bit more analysis right now with reaction Fox News senior judicial analyst judge and -- -- -- Hannah.
What I am well unfortunately the governments allowed to lie to us in the government is allowed to.
Commit sins of commission has -- so nicely articulated by actively.
Withholding the truth from us Supreme Court has said that they can second line -- can -- can hold.
Information back from us they remedy is a moral one between the liar -- -- at the cheater and the thief and his or her maker.
And a political one between the voters and the president is very unfortunate for the present -- this is coming out two weeks before Election Day.
Because it shows that the president and his folks were more faithful to the Democratic Party line articulated sense.
The Democratic Convention in Charlotte.
That al-Qaeda is on the run rather than to the truth we now know -- Katherine has has articulated in some of our fox colleagues.
And on the spade work and and gotten these -- emails.
That the administration knew of the involvement of hardcore terrorists from the very day it was happening or perhaps from the next day.
That is still -- before someone in the White House somewhere between -- chatter and the president somebody in there -- -- Susan Rice the UN ambassador.
The US ambassador to the land to tell the country on five of the most watched television shows of the week on the Sunday morning TV shows including our own.
With Chris Wallace.
But this was a reaction by ordinary Libyans.
To this fifteen minute very cheap a movie I'd rather than being what we now know it isn't what we now know the administration note was so what is the remedy.
For an administration that knowingly holds back the truth.
And misleads the public two weeks before Election Day old Mitt Romney didn't -- -- makes it all the more.
-- -- -- the right word but from a political point of view.
The more we know about this the -- -- -- wonder why Mitt Romney didn't press the set the debate the other night especially if as you say politics is the only recourse not.
Any kind of legal culpability I don't necessarily want to defend Mitt -- because I was hoping and wishing.
He would take the golden opportunity.
To attack the president on this particular issue but let me suggest this to you cut Mitt Romney has -- -- -- been receiving.
High level sophisticated intelligence briefings.
Not from the same human beings -- from the same people that brief the president each day so we don't know what Mitt Romney new.
And we don't know what the president knew they obviously know more than we know however.
This is such a glaring failure.
On the part of the president who has said his first job is to protect Americans but I -- American properties -- -- -- currently failed to do so.
And then have his people mislead us about it in and strike -- -- -- -- -- right in the abstract.
Why would you do that if you -- -- the information was there some days later why would you like I I'm I'm going to guess again.
That the political team has suggested it would cause more failed more -- for them to walk away from their Monterrey which they've articulate of the Democrats.
Since Charlotte.
That Osama bin Laden is dead and al-Qaeda is on its way out.
That they would have to walk back that statement that have to walk back two and a half months of that statement that -- wanna do it again.
They're more faithful to their political needs than they are to the truth not judge judge Andrew Pollack had a great singers on.
