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Tea party-type lawmakers take mysterious, off-books trip to Mideast (King, Bachmann, Gohmert)
Washington Times ^ | December 20, 2013 | Cheryl Chumley

Posted on 12/21/2013 8:14:53 PM PST by Red Steel

Reps. Michele Bachmann, Steve King — from Iowa, not New York — and Louie Gohmert made a hush-hush trip to the Middle East this week, flying commercial into high-profile danger zones like Beirut, Cairo and Tripli, attending embassy briefings but declining to release information.

The Washington Post reported the travels, and said the lawmakers’ offices refused to divulge details. ...

In Tripoli, the trio met with embassy officials to receive updates on the Benghazi attack and on the general situation in Libya, The Post said.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; US: Iowa; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: benghazi
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1 posted on 12/21/2013 8:14:54 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

What is important to note is that they didn’t rely on the State Department in Washington, D.C., for their briefings.

Sometimes you just have to go to the source.


2 posted on 12/21/2013 8:17:19 PM PST by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF USA CITIZEN PARENTS)
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To: Red Steel

Odd Bodkins


3 posted on 12/21/2013 8:19:30 PM PST by onona (The Earth is the insane asylum for the universe (yup, I belong))
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To: Red Steel

Not much information there, but it sounds promising.

They met with a “hard-line Lebanese Christian militia leader,” as the Muslim loving ComPost calls him, and met with the guys who overthrew the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

Maybe trying to get a little inside information into Obama’s efforts to install Muslim terrorists wherever he can? The editors of the ComPost obviously suspect that that’s what they may be up to, and severely disapprove.


4 posted on 12/21/2013 8:21:24 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Red Steel
Who could blame them. Issa's trip to Libya was leaked Rep. Elijah Cummings.


5 posted on 12/21/2013 8:22:05 PM PST by darkwing104 (Forgive but don't forget)
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To: Red Steel

couldn’t be that hush hush since it is being reported


6 posted on 12/21/2013 8:23:44 PM PST by Nifster
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To: Red Steel

Bump for later read


7 posted on 12/21/2013 8:23:50 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Red Steel
The White House and Clinton campaign have issued a joint statement: "Oh Crap!!"
8 posted on 12/21/2013 8:25:03 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
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To: onona

Lou Costello....


9 posted on 12/21/2013 8:25:27 PM PST by Walkingfeather
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To: The Cajun

Yeah, this might be the beginning of the end.


10 posted on 12/21/2013 8:30:59 PM PST by struggle
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To: Red Steel

Someone is going to figure out a way to build a Jewish Temple on that hill. Maybe these guys or someone else but it’ll happen.


11 posted on 12/21/2013 8:35:35 PM PST by DManA
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To: Walkingfeather

The time of their Lives, one of Abbott & Costello’s better ones, lots of fun even though they weren’t speaking to each other at the time. Odds bodkins indeed!


12 posted on 12/21/2013 8:38:00 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Red Steel

Bttt


13 posted on 12/21/2013 8:42:44 PM PST by Guenevere
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To: Red Steel

Bttt


14 posted on 12/21/2013 8:42:45 PM PST by Guenevere
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To: Red Steel

Hopefully, foreign intelligence services are giving them info for impeachment of obama.


15 posted on 12/21/2013 8:43:02 PM PST by matt1234 (Hitler blamed the Jews. Obama blames the Tea Party.)
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To: Cicero

.....I read a few days ago on FR that Mrs Morsi was going to spill the beans on Hillary.


16 posted on 12/21/2013 8:44:31 PM PST by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: Red Steel
Hmmmm.

Did they spend 7 million in taxpayer money to go there and vacation?

17 posted on 12/21/2013 8:47:19 PM PST by Washi
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To: matt1234
Hopefully, foreign intelligence services are giving them info for impeachment of obama.

I hope your prognostication is correct.

5.56mm

18 posted on 12/21/2013 8:48:13 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: M Kehoe

May the Truth of Benghazi come “out of Egypt” during the Mursi trial.

Have been saying that for many weeks. Pray it is revealed to the Congressmen.


19 posted on 12/21/2013 9:22:48 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Red Steel

On their own dime?

So what’s the problem?


20 posted on 12/21/2013 9:38:04 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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