Posted on 05/09/2013 10:36:36 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks to House Republicans, Americans finally got to hear from the State Department officials the Obama administration never wanted to testify. They are now called whistleblowers, but thats only because their accounts of what really happened in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, were buried by the administration, apparently in the furtherance of Democrats election-year imperatives.
Soon after the testimony, Democratic office-holders took to the airwaves and the internet to assure liberal loyalists that there was nothing really new here. Republicans, by contrast, trumpeted the accounts of Gregory Hicks, Eric Nordstrom, and Mark Thompson before the House Oversight Committee as proof that the administration never told the truth about Libya.
Interestingly, both sides are mostly right. Americans who have followed this incident closely didnt learn much that they hadnt already suspected about the sacking of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, the murder of four Americans, and the administrations extraordinary efforts to deflect any accountability for the tragedy by stonewalling, stalling, and issuing a series of misleading assertions about the sequence of events. Yet in hearing directly from Hicks, who was the deputy to slain ambassador Christopher Stevens, Americans can now put a face to that coverup.
Hicks, the second highest ranking State Department official in Libya when the consulate was attacked on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, confirmed the following facts under oath: There were no protests outside the U.S. compound; the anti-Islamic YouTube video denounced by the administration was a non-event in Libya and had nothing whatsoever to do with the assault that night; Hicks team knew almost immediately that the attack was carried out by terrorists; and all of this information was relayed to Washington in the hours and days afterward.
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Thanks for the post.
Closer to reality than most of the MSM coverage.
It’s very possible the clown will get away with his crime. Half the country has its head up their a$$es, and the media are pushing it in farther.
But what about the supposed coverup of the purported secret purpose of the consulate to coordinate shipment of arms to Syrian rebels? Nobody on the committee even asked a question about it while I watched most of the hearing. Not saying I have any knowledge of that “secret purpose” other than the rumors I’ve read.
Rubio On Benghazi Talking Points: Someone In Admin. Should Have Said "This Is Wrong"
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) discusses the House hearing on the Benghazi attack on "FOX & Friends."
They didnt want to admit that it was a terrorist attack because to admit it was a terrorist attack was to admit that terrorism was still out there and reaching us. And so thats the reason why they sent the order in my opinion. In some way, shape or form, they sent the order that these talking points should not be allowed to include any reference to terrorism per say or at least it acting as a terrorist attack, but rather they need to be told that this was something that was a result of a YouTube video. So, I think that was the political motivation behind it. What I think is sad is how many people are around the administration, including the former Secretary of State, Secretary Clinton, knew this to be the case and allowed this to move forward anyway. You would have hoped the people would have stood up and said this is wrong, the American people deserve the truth. That didnt happen.
She is a little fireball....I deeply admire her.
Sounds like Must See TV! Time for more folks to display some righteous anger!!
Gregory Hicks, Eric Nordstrom, and Mark Thompson are much more than whistleblowers, they are very competent and credible witnesses that have testified under oath.... they are also PATRIOTS.
Did the Libyans know about it?
And how many people we had there?
Michelle Malkin is seen by me as beautiful, intelligent, patriotic, fearless and she is most attractive when she is p!ssed.
I watched this last night, but it was fun to watch it again.
We knew from the very beginning that it would be this way.
I wonder if the all of the libtards realize, not just some of the librards realize; if Hillary and Obama will do what they did to those 4 men; they will do it to them? Get the trains ready, the libtards are going with the rest of us. They may believe they aren’t with some sweet cushy lives and others freebies; but to people if you can call them that; don’t care. You are just another number.
Dropping another video link here:
O'Reilly: Reactions To The Benghazi Hearings
Bill O'Reilly explains his view that the Benghazi incident was the result of gross incompetence on the part of the Obama Administration.
Anyone who listened to that testimony and wasn’t a rabid Democrat partisan would know the US government lied about what happened for political expediency and those lies were concocted by the White House. The testimony also revealed that the State Department had made no real plans for increased security and ignored warnings from their own staff about the danger in the region. The big unanswered question was what was the Ambassador doing in Benghazi especially when it was known to be a hot bed for terrorists and the compound was not very secure. Was the Ambassador supervising the transfer of Libyan arms to Syrian rebels in a covert operation???
Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes.
Foxnews Panel: Doug Schoen: "I Don't Think All Benghazi Questions Have Been Answered"
More questions today than before the hearing.
Had to count the number of yes answers....seems about right to me.
I’d rather be fighting off enemies with Michelle than with Juan any day. Any day. How can Juan look into his own eyes?
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