Wreckage of Flight 103 Blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland
There is a growing call for President Obama to answer some questions about what the Obama Administration knew about the Lockerbie Bomber’s release from a life sentence in prison after just 8 years. (FYI, That’s less than two weeks behind bars for each innocent person he slaughtered. Shoplifters get more harsh punishments!)
I don’t think that it’s very plausible that the Scottish and British governments would conspire to release such a terrorist without at least letting the President of the United States know.
So what did Obama know, and when did he know it?
Lockerbie Families Deserve Answers
What did U.S. officials, including President Obama, know, and when did they know it? If the president of the United States did not know in advance of a trusted ally’s plan to release a man who had murdered 180 Americans, who is responsible for his not knowing it? If Barack Obama did know about the plan, what, if anything, did he do to try to stop it? If a president who only weeks earlier had insinuated himself into a local dispute over the disorderly-conduct arrest of a professor in Cambridge, Mass., did not take the trouble to call Prime Minister Brown to insist that Megrahi not be released, the American people deserve to know why.There is something fishy about the Obama administration’s refusal to provide a full factual account of its conduct in this case. Clearly, some State Department officials knew what the British were thinking about doing. P. J. Crowley, chief spokesman for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has stated that “our fundamental point to the Libyans, Scots, and Brits was the same: [Megrahi] should not be released.”
If all the Obama administration did to try to prevent Megrahi from being released was have someone somewhere in the State Department communicate to the British and Libyans the view that “he should not be,” plainly that is insufficient — and scandalously so. It smacks of mere tail-covering.
The U.S. interest in this matter was profound, and everybody involved knew it. The British people and their government care a great deal about the “special relationship” between the U.S. and Britain and would not be likely to place it in jeopardy — even for potentially lucrative oil deals with North African potentates. That makes it difficult to credit the idea that there was a forceful protest from the U.S. or that President Obama took the steps he was honor bound to the American people, and especially to the families of the Lockerbie victims, to take in order to prevent this moral atrocity.
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