GOP Rep Pleads To Benghazi Whistleblowers: 'We Will Protect You'

Breitbart ^ | 4/30/13 | fox

[butterdezillion]

How can 436 people hold all of America hostage? Only if we let them. Would you agree?

(Geez, my brain is fried; I hope I got that number right. Is Congress 435 people?)

[MHGinTN]

The enemy of We The People (read the media scum) worked as a deterrent during the Nixon exposures, by making it so very public that John Dean could not be attacked by Nixon’s thugs because it would have been too obvious and thus too suicidal. Sadly, that effect is not available with the current enemy bastards of media democrip worship.

[AuntB]

“The US Representative is TREY GOWDY, (for all of you not watching the video).”

I hope he keeps up the good work!

[MHGinTN]

I think the number needs to include the 100 of the Senate, too. We have two divisions of Congress, The House and the Senate, IIRC.

[silverleaf]

ya, just like they protected that Pakistani doctor who helped pin Bin Laden

and SEAL Team 6
and the Libya ambassador
and oh by the way, the entire AMERICAN PEOPLE

[Roccus]

One of the limitations of the Cold Case Posse is that they don’t have a witness protection program. The feds do.

Yes the feds do....under the auspices of the DoJ. Just how much cooperation do you think the CCP or Gowdy (returning to the original topic) will get there?

The media people need to work with Congress to get a special investigator appointed, so the witnesses can be given bodyguards and the story can come out and be dealt with.

I was born at night...but not last night. This will NOT HAPPEN in my lifetime.....but I am old.

[Toespi]

Let me tell you what I notice about Trey Gowdy, first of all his knowledge, secondly he is crafty and most importantly, notice his eyes, they are alive, they literally sparkle. I trust this in a person. Would love to see him as Speaker.

[vette6387]

“As to WHY he can’t.... as a Representative, he holds NO LEGAL POWER to hire, fire or retain employees of the CIA, DoD and/or the diplomatic corps. If I am wrong, kindly enlighten me.”

If it’s purely economic pressure on these people, the GOP can manage that. I am sure there are conservatives who would provide these people with employment or otherwise make sure that they don’t go to the poor house. If it’s threats to their physical person, that’s an entirely other matter. Loosing your job is one thing, loosing your life is another.

[Aqua225]

I agree. Unless Gowdy gets a iron-clad deal passed like “Benghazi Whistle Blowers Act” with full funding for protection services, both legal and physical, then the whistle blowers should stay hidden.

Not worth it to lose blood and money over what will be a failed attempt to impeach Obama.

[PowderMonkey]

"Fuggitaboudit, Jake. It's Chinatown." My story in a nutshell: it involved an administration and an agency I very much admired and trusted. It involved historic personages, presented to this very today, as shining paragons of virtue. Organizations and people I had known, worked with for years, and fully expected their unflagging support. Promises of protection from on high, by people much like the good Rep. Gowdy. People who simply had no idea of the immensity, the gravity of the situation at hand, and who inevitably decided not to go the distance. Guess who got left out front. Leading the parade, all by his lonesome.

The reality: you're a gas bubble. An irritant. You've interrupted the smooth ebb and flow of a federal bureaucrat's daily existence. You've forced supervisors to make a decision, go on record, engage in confrontational meetings. Produce reports. Do their job. No more leisurely lunch dates with the cognoscenti in the Senate cafeteria. You've cast a pall over their pleasant little golf outings. What evolves is an overwhelming desire to "make it all go away." There's a reason you're called a "whistleblower." It's a pejorative. Welcome to Chinatown.

[ScottinVA]

The media hated Nixon. Yes, they did..... History is repeating.

Problem is, this time around, the "media" don't hate Obama. They'd give some of their own body parts to keep him unscathed.

[Toespi]

Something else. Many complain about the RINOS who have controlled the Republican Party, the old guard. You want them gone, you complain about them unwilling to speak. Well here is your opportunity, get behind these new guys and let them know you appreciate their conservative voice. Let Gowdy know you will be behind him, because support strengthens them.

[Roccus]

How can 436 people hold all of America hostage?

They, along with the Senate and Admin. Have been and are doing it now.

Only if we let them.

We have and are letting them. THE WHOLE GAME IS RIGGED AGAINST THE CITIZENS!

The House is 435

[ScottinVA]

I have no doubt Trey Gowdy means this to the core of his being. Unfortunately, he may find himself overruled and overrun by the “get-along gang” that rules the GOP. If Gowdy called the shots, his statement would have weight. But I have NO trust in the GOP-e. None.

[Aqua225]

Yes, and we can power the grid with solar and unicorn flatulence.

This will not explode. The media is in the tank for Obama. And I don’t mean, like they kind of side with him, they hang on his every word. If Obama notes that he is innocent, the media will blast it till the fury dies down.

How can they get away with it? First, discredit the witnesses, secondly, refuse to investigate any of the witnesses’ claims, except how the witnesses must be liars, because they skipped school once in High School.

The only way Obama is leaving office is if he leaves in Jan 2017 like a president is supposed too.

[Aqua225]

...and don’t forget catastrophic failure of car, train, and air-plane safety systems. Or a special dispatch to the middle east, since these are supposedly operators, and the plane just happens to get shot down by the Taliban or al-Qaeda in a freak failure of our area of control.

[SamuraiScot]

I refuse to join the cynicism that seems to rule this board. I vividly remember Watergate. No one saw that coming until the bombs started exploding.

Yes, but Watergate was a Republican. Can't compare the two.

You can't "compare the two" of anything. Every opportunity is unique in some ways, and familiar in others. There are too many FReepers getting the vapors over the fact that, amazingly, we're in the civilizational war that we've known we were in since, oh, 1965. Or 1865. So they compete with each other in an exciting game of sitting in their rockers saying, "It'll never work." It's become a real downer to come on the site looking for news and ideas, and be confronted with 140 comments that sound like Eeyore.

It's a new battlefield, not the old one. That means using new ideas and strategies, as well as old classics—including some that "will never work." There are many here whose mind is stuck in the last war, who don't realize it. We have one task: Fight till we win. (And keep going.)

I'm told the Army has a saying, " 'Hope' is not a method." Neither is despair.

[Yaelle]

Was reading the thread, came to your post, was impressed that this person gets the full picture, then see: Butterdezillion. Of course!

[butterdezillion]

If there was a danger of the cognoscentis’ children being blown to bits if they didn’t step out of their comfort zone.... do you think the discomfort of grief would outweigh the discomfort of the gas bubble?

Things stay the same until it becomes unbearable.

Like Braveheart’s statement, “You know what happens if we don’t do anything.” When asked, “What?” he answered, “Nothing.”

Do you think the people in your instance thought not enough was at stake?

[butterdezillion]

This regime failed to protect all of those people.

Congress needs to realize that their own failure of oversight has allowed those deaths and there will be more - lots more - deaths unless they step up and do what’s right, regardless of the fallout for their own political ambitions.

The status quo is deadly. The pain of doing nothing is more than the pain of confronting this. They need to figure that out. Kerry’s talk about having to just accept that a few people will be killed here and there is an attempt to “normalize” terrorist attacks, to get all of us to think that actually dealing with the truth (about our own government and its complicity with our enemies) would be too painful to be justified by these few pieces of “collateral damage”.

We mustn’t buy it. Today, Boston. Tomorrow, Beslan.