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Posted on 05/09/2013 6:54:21 AM PDT by raptor22
The Scandal In Libya: Testimony by the Benghazi whistle-blowers presents clear evidence of shameful political manipulation of the truth seven weeks before an election and a willingness to let four Americans die to maintain a campaign narrative.
What difference at this point does the truth about Benghazi make? In an emotional opening statement at Wednesday's hearing of the House Oversight Committee, Eric Nordstrom, a regional security officer of the U.S. Mission to Libya from September 2011 to July 2012, answered that question with voice cracking and a simple declarative sentence:
"It matters to the friends and family of Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, who were murdered on September 11th, 2012."
The truth about Benghazi, as Wednesday's testimony by Nordstrom, Mark Thompson and Gregory Hicks proved, is that the administration, President Obama and former Secretary of State Clinton were aware in the first hour that it was a terrorist attack, knew it was no spontaneous protest caused by a video, refused to send what help they could and then deliberately lied about it.
Mark Thompson, a former Marine and official with the State Department's Counterterrorism Bureau, who said he was not interviewed by the department's Accountability Review Board, testified that he was rebuffed by the White House when he asked for a Foreign Emergency Support Team (FEST) that's been activated in past threats to diplomats. This is a unit made of special operations personnel, diplomatic security, intelligence and other officers.
Hicks, U.S. deputy chief of mission in Libya on that fateful night, who also was near tears at times, recounted how a Special Forces team, including one member hobbling with a cast on his leg and a heavy machine gun on his shoulder, was ready to deploy on a Libyan C-130 to Benghazi...
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Let me be the frist to demand Hillary Clinton resign as secretary of state!
Big Media really believes all of America is too brain-dead fixated on DWTS and in love with the president to care.
Are they right?
McCain and Grahamnesty’s interest in this cover-up makes me skeptical that any of it will hurt Obama or Hillary.
If it had hope of doing that they would be against it.
..simply...there was no way of telling WHEN IT WAS GOING TO END. HELP SHOULD HAVE BEEN SENT. HILDA LIED,PEOPLE DIED!
Let me be the first to demand Hillary Clinton resign as secretary of state!
I repeat p/spell check.
“Nobody was told to stand down” a lie.
“This was a spontaneous demonstration” a lie.
Moreover if I were six hours into what would be an eight hour firefight - I would be SURE that American forces were on their way. We owe our diplomats, and the men protecting them, at least that much - that when we know they are in trouble we send forces - to avenge them and secure the site even if we think it will be too late to save them.
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Obama went to bed, Americans ended up dead.
You might be the "frist", but Hildabeast is no longer Sec of State; John Kerry (who served in Vietnam, by the way) is, however.
Sadly..I thought that maybe...just maybe the media would cover this story today. But once again they prove beyond a shadow of a doubt just how corrupt they have become.
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What I don’t understand is why the committee did not follow the chain of orders that told the marines that were coming to help to stand down. Who told told the marines to stand down? I am assuming it came from a military officer. But who told that military officer? I do not understand why these whistleblowers were not asked who told them to stand down. And then follow that chain upward.
Kerry, John Kerry, SOS? Seriously?
We are in more trouble than I thought!
Not only that but, the site needed to be secured for national security reasons.
Whatever was going on there is now open to the terrorists.
Or did O,C,P, as is rumored, have some assurance from Ansar Al-sharia (part of the Al Qaeda-linked February 17th Martyrs Brigade, treasonously paid by Clinton's State Dept. to provide consulate security!) that our personnel would not be killed? Surely such could only have been a totally empty promise, as Americans' culture of honor and self-protection against Islamic terrorism still runs very deep, if not with the likes of O,C,P!
HF
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