Baracksauron says NO! Reidgollum does his bidding.
Posted on 05/15/2014 9:40:59 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Citing unanswered questions surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, three dozen Republican senators wrote a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Thursday asking him to reconsider his decision not to name a select committee to investigate the matter in the Senate.
“While we appreciate the recent bi-partisan review of the Benghazi terrorist attacks by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which included both majority and minority views, unfortunately, Congressional oversight committee action has been largely confined to jurisdictional bounds,” the senators wrote. “As a result, the committees only have a partial view of the facts.”
Mr. Reid, Nevada Democrat, has said he is comfortable with the 25,000 pages of documents that the State Department has turned over, the various reports completed and a State Department internal review that found several lower-level employees responsible for bad decision-making.
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Ya, but that’s just those “Little Greased Pigs”
Blame Koch brothers.
Is there a less qualified,more tragic pair than Pelousy and Reid?
I see a means of offsetting any damage done by the house committee.
In what universe is receiving a letter considered “taking heat?”
-PJ
Diversion ...
“But GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire said they want answers about National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s statements days after the attack associating it with a spontaneous demonstration resulting from an anti-Muslim video, among other things, such as President Obama’s exact whereabouts on Sept. 11, 2012.”
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FLASHBACK:
It was Prince Bandar’s intelligence agency that first alerted Western allies to the alleged use of sarin gas by the Syrian regime in February.
While a trip earlier this month to the Kremlin to try to cajole President Vladimir Putin into withdrawing his support for President Assad reportedly failed, Prince Bandar automatically has greater leverage in Western capitals, not least because of friendships forged during his time in Washington. His most recent travels, rarely advertised, have taken him to both London and Paris for discussions with senior officials.
As ambassador, Prince Bandar left an imprint that still has not quite faded. His voice was one of the loudest urging the United States to invade Iraq in 2003. In the 1980s, Prince Bandar became mired in the Iran-Contra scandal in Nicaragua.
Months of applying pressure on the White House and Congress over Syria have slowly born fruit. The CIA is believed to have been working with Prince Bandar directly since last year in training rebels at base in Jordan close to the Syrian border.
The Saudis are “indispensable partners on Syria” and have considerable influence on American thinking, a senior US official told The Wall Street Journal yesterday. He added: “No one wants to do anything alone”.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323423804579024452583045962.html
The Saudi ambassador, Mr. Jubeir, has long been courting members of Congress who could pressure the administration to get more involved in Syria. He found early support from Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
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Mr. Petraeus in mid-2012 won White House approval to provide intelligence and limited training to Syrian rebels at the base, including in the use of arms provided by others. Saudi and Jordanian agents began vetting the fighters to be trained, said Arab diplomats and a former U.S. military official.
Prince Bandar has largely stayed out of Washington but held meetings with U.S. officials in the region. One was in September 2012. Sens. McCain and Graham, who were in Istanbul, met him in an opulent hotel suite on the banks of the Bosporus.
Mr. McCain said he made the case to Prince Bandar that the rebels weren’t getting the kinds of weapons they needed, and the prince, in turn, described the kingdom’s plans. The senator said that in succeeding months he saw “a dramatic increase in Saudi involvement, hands-on, by Bandar.”
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That winter, the Saudis also started trying to convince Western governments that Mr. Assad had crossed what President Barack Obama a year ago called a “red line”: the use of chemical weapons. Arab diplomats say Saudi agents flew an injured Syrian to Britain, where tests showed sarin gas exposure. Prince Bandar’s spy service, which concluded in February that Mr. Assad was using chemical weapons, relayed evidence to the U.S., which reached a similar conclusion four months later. The Assad regime denies using such weapons.
After Mr. Petraeus’s November resignation over an affair, his job was handled by his deputy, Michael Morell, who privately voiced skepticism the agency could make sure any arms supplied by the U.S. wouldn’t end up with hard-line Islamists, said congressional officials.
Ultimately, the new CIA chief was John Brennan, whose closest Saudi confidant when he was White House counterterrorism adviser was also focused on the risk of inadvertently strengthening al Qaeda. Since moving to the CIA, Mr. Brennan has been in periodic contact by phone with Prince Bandar, officials said.
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Was Syrian weapons shipment factor in ambassador’s Benghazi visit?
By Catherine Herridge, Pamela Browne
Published October 25, 2012
A mysterious Libyan ship — reportedly carrying weapons and bound for Syrian rebels — may have some link to the Sept. 11 terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Fox News has learned.
Through shipping records, Fox News has confirmed that the Libyan-flagged vessel Al Entisar, which means “The Victory,” was received in the Turkish port of Iskenderun — 35 miles from the Syrian border — on Sept. 6, just five days before Ambassador Chris Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith and former Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed during an extended assault by more than 100 Islamist militants.
On the night of Sept. 11, in what would become his last known public meeting, Stevens met with the Turkish Consul General Ali Sait Akin, and escorted him out of the consulate front gate one hour before the assault began at approximately 9:35 p.m. local time.
Although what was discussed at the meeting is not public, a source told Fox News that Stevens was in Benghazi to negotiate a weapons transfer, an effort to get SA-7 missiles out of the hands of Libya-based extremists. And although the negotiation said to have taken place may have had nothing to do with the attack on the consulate later that night or the Libyan mystery ship, it could explain why Stevens was travelling in such a volatile region on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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What Republican Senators didn’t sign the letter?
Senator Harry Reid (D-Beijing) may be “comfortable” with the 25,000 or so pages of documents already provided, but in reality, either those were so heavily redacted as to make them virtually useless for uncovering any actual facts relating to Benghazi, or more likely, many of the pages were complete fabrications made with the intention of diverting attention from some very real incidents, as related to the repeated insistence that the attack was due to some obscure video that had not been seen by more than about six people in the entire WORLD as of 6 PM on September 11, 2012.
Harry Reid has a vested interest in never making any of this public.
Unfortunately Graham, McCain and a few others are just as responsible and only want to make sure the heat stays off of themselves.
The Koch brothers should publicly praise Reid for NOT starting a committee...
Has the Senate held any hearings at all on Benghazi?
Reid is scared to death a Senate select committee would be grilling Carl ‘Marx’ Lenin - D MI.
Oops, wrong scandal, that is IRS.
They should admit him to a care facility
Turn the heat up to digh on Reid.
Oooh. Ahhh. Gee, now there's some tough action now isn't it?
How about this: fillibuster the United States Senate 24x7 and let NO business get done until the Benghazi "select committee" is formed, does it's work, and concludes that Obama the POS and Hitlery Clinton both LIED to the American Public?
THAT type of action would mean something. Are ya up for it, Milquetoast McConnell?
Agree 100%.
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