Since the Wednesday, July 29 release of the LaRouchePAC statement: “To Stop World War III, Hillary Must Oppose Obama’s Benghazi Lies,” the issue of Hillary Clinton, Obama, and Benghazi has begun to gain significant traction in the media, and in the Presidential campaign.

The climate is stirring, and there are several articles which appeared at the end of the week that make the point that Obama is making Clinton the scapegoat for the Benghazi travesty.

As Lyndon LaRouche has advised and warned, and as the LPAC press release states, with Congress out in recess, Obama must be reined in to prevent World War III.

Friday it was bluntly reported in the Washington Times that, because of Obama betrayal of her on Benghazi, “Hillary Clinton is not going to be the Democratic nominee for president.”  The author, Monica Crowley, is the online opinion editor of the publication, and the article is titled, “Is Obama Taking Hillary out?”  Crowley recounts the “bad blood” between the Clintons and the Obamas going back to the 2008 primary race. When Obama made Clinton the Secretary of State, it was to abide by the maxim, “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”  Obama and Hillary do not trust each other, and Obama “wants the investigation [of Hillary for the email scandal], wants her nailed, wants her out.  And he’s doing it, slowly, steadily…. Hillary is being given the Judas kiss by her former boss, a man loyal to no one but himself.”  The article suggests that a Justice Department investigation, a long drawn-out special prosecutor investigation, or even an indictment could hit Clinton.

Hillary Clinton has no choice; she has to move pre-emptively against Obama using the truth about Benghazi, where Ambassador Chris Smith and three other Americans were murdered in a pre-meditated terrorist attack.

Key developments in the last 48 hours have exposed details of the crisis that Clinton faces and confirm more than ever that she must act now to stop Obama.

The Daily Caller reported on Thursday, July 30, that Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO, told supporters in a Thursday call that the Benghazi “punch” could have brought down Obama in 2012, but it “didn’t get thrown.”

Fiorina spoke the truth, saying, “We thought in 2012 that Benghazi was Obama’s Achilles heel … But the punch didn’t get thrown. We can’t count on the media to do this … And so the only way to make sure these questions are asked and answered is to have a nominee who will demand an answer.”

Now, Fiorina stressed, that same Benghazi can bring down Hillary Clinton, and she said that she won’t shy away from a “damaging issue … like the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks, while debating Hillary Clinton,” the Caller reported.

[It should be noted that Fiorina also stated at a public town hall meeting that she supports the release of the redacted 28 pages of the Congressional report on the 9/11 attack in 2001.]

The situation got even hotter on Thursday, when the Obama administration marked some of Clinton’s emails from her private account as classified.  These are a new batch of emails from the 30,000 that Clinton turned over to the State Department months ago, and were released according to a deadline in an FOIA case.

“The Obama Administration slapped a secret designation Friday on a number of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s emails … raising more questions about whether her controversial email arrangement led to classified information being left unsecured,” reported the Washington Times July 31.  The Washington Times specified that the classification did not necessarily exist when Clinton exchanged the emails while she was Secretary of State, but that fact is not blunting the damage that the issue is doing to her.

The well-respected McClatchy news service provided further details about the latest batch of emails, noting that information from five separate intelligence agencies, the NSA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (responsible for mapping), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the CIA are contained in the emails. The McClatchy article says, “Revelations put Clinton in crosshairs of broadening inquiry into whether she mishandled classified information,” and that “State Department officials warned there could be hundreds of classified emails.” 

Members of the Italian Parliament and professors of economics in Italy sent messages of support today to the U.S. Senators who have sponsored the Glass-Steagall bill.

The following mail message was sent by Antonio Maria Rinaldi (President, Riscossa Italiana, and Professor of Business Administration at Pescara University); Stefano Fassina (Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and former Deputy Finance Minister in the Renzi government); Antonino Galloni (Economist, Auditor at Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale); Claudio Celani (Vice President, Movimento Internazionale per i Diritti Civili—Solidarietà [movisol]):

Another message was sent by Sen. Giuseppe Vacciano, independent, author of one of the several Glass-Steagall bills currently filed in the Italian Senate:

In addition to Friday’s letters to the U.S. Senate, other messages of support for Glass Steagall, from Italy and elsewhere in Europe, have come into the U.S. Congress in July.

On July 15, Sen. Stefano Candiani, Member of the Italian Senate, wrote to Sen. Maria Cantwell, “The Italian Senate is following with great interest the debate initiated in the United States by your bill….Greece cannot defeat the speculative bubble and this unjust economic system all alone. The European conference on debt held in London in 1953, which cut the German debt by half, took place while Glass-Steagall was still law. Only by reinstating it, will it be possible to cancel the speculative debt of Greece, mainly the derivatives exposure of Deutsche Bank, which cannot be repaid and should not be repaid.

“We therefore thank you for your courage in challenging Wall Street…”

On July 15, a support letter was sent to Rep. Marcie Kaptur, by two signators in Italy: Liliana Gorinia, Chairwoman of MoviSol, from Milan; and Alfonso Gianni, Director of Cercare Ancora Foundation in Rome, former Undersecretary to the Development Ministry. They said that, “Your bill inspired similar bills introduced to the Italian Parliament last year, but are yet to be discussed….The Greek referendum shows that 61% of the population wants to put an end to the austerity policy of the Troika, and go for a new credit system, which will only be possible with Glass-Steagall…” They ended their message, we “trust that your debate will bring hope also to Europe, which is otherwise betraying its own values and its culture in denying debt relief for Greece. Knock on wood!”