Glenn Reynolds seems the think it may be.
Because what it’s looking like is that Nakoula was targeted and jailed so as to provide a scapegoat/villain in a politically motivated cover story that the White House knew was false. If that’s the case, it’s extremely serious indeed, and in some ways more significant than whatever lapses and screwups took place in Benghazi. ...If there’s an impeachable offense anywhere in the Benghazi affair — and at this point, I’m not saying there is — it’s more likely in what happened with Nakoula than in the problems abroad, which by all appearances are simple incompetence, rather than something culpable. Railroading someone in to jail to support a political story, on the other hand, is an abuse of power and a breach of trust.
That may be true from a legal perspective, but leaving four Americans to die instead of sending help because that will help your re-election - and then lying about it - is what the American people will see as the greater crime.
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I think your point is a good one, though the average citizen may more readily identify with being falsely accused and imprisoned by a corrupt government than with being murdered in the Middle East because that same government abandoned you there. It is mind-boggling that the might of the U.S. military in the region languished because of risk-adverse bureaucrats and "leaders."
Traditionally, we do not leave Americans behind, and certainly to do so to one's ambassador seems unfathomable. Tragically, this may now be the "new normal," another coup for the Obama administration.
It's all of a piece. The Nakoula jailing gets to the cover up after ... and also demonstrates a callous disregard for the constitution, specifically the First Amendment. The Before and During Benghazi failures + the Nakoula jailing need to join Fast and Furious in the Impeachment articles.
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