Posted on 10/03/2012 1:04:28 PM PDT by rustyweiss74
On Monday, leaders from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (Darrell Idea and Jason Chaffetz) sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, asking why requests for protection were denied to the consulate in Libya despite repeated attacks against U.S. personnel.
The letter outlined 13 specific security threats over a six-month timeframe prior to the deadly attack on September 11th, which claimed the lives of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other diplomats.
The committee also indicated that they would be holding a hearing on the security lapses next week.
Clinton's response was to urge the committee not to be so hasty in trying to find answers as to what killed our fellow Americans.
The Cable reports (h/t Powerline Blog):
Clinton said that the State Department's Accountability Review Board will begin work this week and the letter revealed the names of all five board members. In addition to former Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Pickering, who will lead the board, the other members will be former Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen (ret.), Catherine Bertini, Hugh Turner, and Richard Shinnick.
Clinton asked Issa to withhold any final conclusions about the Benghazi attack until the review board finishes its work and reports to Congress, which could come as early as November or as late as early next year. She pledged to work with Issa's committee and asked him to submit any requests for information or witnesses at hearings to the State Department's Office of Legislative Affairs.
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Bush’s fault. Don’t you know that by now?
So voters can’t use the information to help them decide how to vote.
Democrats don’t want voters to have information, at least when it hurts Democrats.
Democrats want “low information voters.”
My ears are ringing....like I hear a shredder or something.
Stove Pipe legs tells ISSA to Hold off until their own PHONY INVESTIGATION can cover all the bases as to WHY THEY WERE ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH and let these 4 people die needlessly. Britain withdrew their ambassador earlier. That should give you a big hint something was going down. Same tactic WITHHOLDER used to try and divert the ISSA’S FAST & FURIOUS INVESTIGATION.
Man, she reall is kissing 2016 goodbye. Thank goodness...the Clinton’s could finally be going away.
If this isn't yet another reason to massively CUT the federal bureaucracy, we are doomed.
Who is Darrell Idea?
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