Thread: The Benghazi Hearings

Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-04) released the following statement regarding these findings:

“Obama Administration officials, including the Secretary of State, learned almost in real time that the attack in Benghazi was a terrorist attack. Rather than tell the American people the truth, the administration told one story privately and a different story publicly.”

Rep. Peter Roskam (IL-06) released the following statement regarding these findings:

“In the days and weeks after the attacks, the White House worked to pin all of the blame for their misleading and incorrect statements on officials within the intelligence community, but in reality, political operatives like Ben Rhodes and David Plouffe were spinning the false narrative and prepping Susan Rice for her interviews.”

The following facts are among the many new revelations in Part III:

•During deliberations within the State Department about whether and how to intervene in Libya in March 2011, Jake Sullivan listed the first goal as “avoid[ing] a failed state, particularly one in which al-Qaeda and other extremists might take safe haven.” [pg. 9]

•The administration’s policy of no boots on the ground shaped the type of military assistance provided to State Department personnel in Libya. The Executive Secretariats for both the Defense Department and State Department exchanged communications outlining the diplomatic capacity in which the Defense Department SST security team members would serve, which included wearing civilian clothes so as not to offend the Libyans. [pg. 60]

•When the State Department’s presence in Benghazi was extended in December 2012, senior officials from the Bureau of Diplomatic Security were excluded from the discussion. [pg. 74]

•In February 2012, the lead Diplomatic Security Agent at Embassy Tripoli informed his counterpart in Benghazi that more DS agents would not be provided by decision makers, because “substantive reporting” was not Benghazi’s purpose. [pg. 77]

•Emails indicate senior State Department officials, including Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan, and Huma Abedin were preparing for a trip by the Secretary of State to Libya in October 2012. According to testimony, Chris Stevens wanted to have a “deliverable” for the Secretary for her trip to Libya, and that “deliverable” would be making the Mission in Benghazi a permanent Consulate. [pg. 96]

•In August 2012—roughly a month before the Benghazi attacks—security on the ground worsened significantly. Ambassador Stevens initially planned to travel to Benghazi in early August, but cancelled the trip “primarily for Ramadan/security reasons.” [pg. 99]

•Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta bluntly told the committee “an intelligence failure” occurred with respect to Benghazi. Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell also acknowledged multiple times an intelligence failure did in fact occur prior to the Benghazi attacks. [pg. 129]

Rep. Susan Brooks (IN-05) released the following statement regarding these findings:

“President Obama has said his worst mistake was ‘failing to plan for the day after … intervening in Libya.’ As a result of this ‘lead from behind’ foreign policy, the Libyan people were forced to make the dismal trade of the tyranny of Qadhafi for the terror of ISIS, Al-Qaeda and others. Although the State Department considered Libya a grave risk to American diplomats in 2011 and 2012, our people remained in a largely unprotected, unofficial facility that one diplomatic security agent the committee interviewed characterized as ‘a suicide mission.’”

Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (GA-03) released the following statement regarding these findings:

“One of the most concerning parts of the State Department’s policy in Libya was its reliance upon the militias of an unstable nation to protect our men and women in Benghazi. These were by no means forces that could adequately protect Americans on the ground, and the State Department knew it. But the appearance of no boots on the ground was more important to the administration.”

Part IV of the report reveals new information about the Select Committee’s requests and subpoenas seeking documents and witnesses regarding Benghazi and Libya, and details what the Obama administration provided to Congress, what it is still withholding, and how its serial delays hindered the committee’s efforts to uncover the truth.

Part V proposes 25 recommendations for the Pentagon, State Department, Intelligence Community and Congress aimed at strengthening security for American personnel serving abroad and doing everything possible to ensure something like Benghazi never happens again, and if it does, that we are better prepared to respond, the majority make a series of recommendations.

The Select Committee intends to convene a bipartisan markup to discuss and vote on the proposed report on July 8, 2016. All members of the committee will have the opportunity to offer changes in a manner consistent with the rules of the House.

The Benghazi Committee's Investigation - By the Numbers

Below is the full report with links to PDF files of each section.

http://benghazi.house.gov/NewInfo

Here's the KEY MOMENT in Benghazi hearings - Rep. Jordan nails Hillary on LIES



It's been painful to watch Hillary Clinton's testimony during the Benghazi hearings. She skirts, deflects and blames others -- and the Democrat committee members are in full mop up mode. If only the Dem members were as concerned with saving American lives as they are with saving Hillary.

6/28/16
Clinton makes statement on Benghazi report

Hillary Clinton makes an official comment about the Benghazi report that was released by the House Republicans and the other investigations that have been conducted. Duration: 2:25

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watc...t-714486851649

Trump wasn't my choice in the primaries, but here we are. Watching that news conference yesterday really tickled the crap out of me. He took the whole news cycle away from the Dumbacrat convention and all day long try talked about him. Genius. You can see the Clinton News Network, and all the other Dumbacrat party propaganda news networks don't know what to do when it come to Trump. This is going to be a fun next few months.

So is Donald Trump “unfit to serve” because he says mean things or is Hillary Clinton “unfit to serve” because she compromises the security of our nation potentially leading to a man’s execution? Hmm.

Today, Iran announced it had executed Shahram Amiri, a nuclear scientist who was believed to be spying for the U.S. but returned to Iran in 2010. He initially received a hero’s welcome but was later imprisoned after being accused of cooperating with the U.S. His body was returned to his family with rope marks on his neck, presumably from hanging in the past week.

Politico says http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...-for-us-226763

The tale of Shahram Amiri was one of the stranger sagas to emerge from Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, testing her diplomatic skills in highly sensitive circumstances. His death comes just over a year after Iran and the U.S. struck a deal aimed at reining in Iran’s nuclear program, an agreement Clinton was instrumental in launching.

Amiri went missing in Saudi Arabia in May or June 2009 while on religious pilgrimage to Mecca. In the following months, Iranian officials accused the U.S. of abducting him. The State Department claimed for months that it “had no information” on Amiri.

But in 2010 he surfaced in the U.S. and then-Secretary of State Clinton admitted he had been present in the country. Now here’s where it gets iffy.

As you may have heard by now, Hillary Clinton had an unsecure private email server through which she conducted state business and transmitted classified information.

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton pointed out on “Face The Nation” this morning that there were email conversations with her senior advisers about Amiri on that very same server.

As reported by the Washington Examiner

I’m not going to comment on what he may or may not have done for the United States government, but in the emails that were on Hillary Clinton’s private server, there were conversations among her senior advisors about this gentleman. The senator said this lapse proves she is not capable of keeping the country safe.

“That goes to show just how reckless and careless her decision was to put that kind of highly classified information on a private server. And I think her judgment is not suited to keep this country safe,” he said.

While Amiri told reporters that he was held against his will by both the Saudis and the Americans, U.S. officials said he was receiving millions of dollars for information he provided about Iran’s nuclear program.

The scientist shows up in Clinton’s emails back in 2010, just nine days before he returned to Iran.

“We have a diplomatic, ‘psychological’ issue, not a legal one. Our friend has to be given a way out,” the email by Richard Morningstar, a former State Department special envoy for Eurasian energy, read, according to the Associated Press. “Our person won’t be able to do anything anyway. If he has to leave so be it.”

Well gee, if this is what happens to our “friends” under Hillary Clinton, just imagine what life will be like for us American citizens.

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http://www.allenbwest.com/michele/ir...ng-tie-hillary

Tyrone Woods’ Widow Has a Sharp Response for Hillary About ‘What Difference Does It Make?’
By Virginia Kruta - 1 day ago

She lost her husband – Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods – in Benghazi in 2012, but for the last four years Dr. Dorothy Woods has stayed away from the media spotlight.

However, Woods has stepped out of the shadows in recent weeks to speak out against Hillary Clinton and lend her support to Donald Trump:


Woods spent an hour on Friday speaking to WMAL’s “Drive at Five” host Larry O’Connor discussing her late husband, Hillary Clinton, and her decision to support Republican nominee Donald Trump. She minced no words.

On Clinton’s now-famous “What difference, at this point, does it make?” sound-bite, Woods had this to say:

“Hillary Clinton talked about protesters and people who were just out for a walk, but the intent makes a difference. There’s a difference if they were premeditating and killing them. The intent of the person who killed them DOES make a difference.

The people who died in Benghazi, and the people who survived – they were there for a purpose. They weren’t on

vacation. She can’t say ‘what difference does it make?’ those were her people, and that’s her job to answer those questions.”

Woods — a veteran herself — also explained why she believes Hillary Clinton never tried to push the narrative of the video and protest on her individually:

“I don’t think Hillary fed me the story about the video because I was surrounded by SEALs and other military friends who maybe would have known better. She knew I wasn’t a…civilian…so she wasn’t going to go there, perhaps.”

Woods was also dismayed at President Obama’s response to the loss of American lives, saying that it called into question where his true allegiances were:

“When I heard our president say, ‘The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam,’ it made me wonder whose side he’s on. He doesn’t defend us – he doesn’t say ‘Americans are great, Christians are great’ – I never hear him say those things, so I wonder what side he’s on.”

But despite the fact that Woods does not claim that Hillary Clinton lied directly to her, she does hold the former Secretary of State responsible for her husband’s death. And for that reason, she says she cannot vote for Clinton:

“I will not be voting for Hillary Clinton. She has demonstrated her decision-making and lack of decision-making skills, and the outcome was death.”

Instead, Woods says she will be supporting Trump because “he deserves a chance to prove himself.”

http://ijr.com/2016/08/667435-tyrone...-does-it-make/