Posted on 10/23/2015 8:11:36 PM PDT by Utilizer
On September 11, 2012, by 6 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the attack by a terrorist group associated with al-Qaeda was still underway against our consulate and CIA compound in Benghazi, Libya. By this time the whereabouts of Ambassador Chris Stevens were unknown, but the State Department had been informed of the attack and that Sean Smith had been found dead.
The following is a verified timeline of what then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Obama, the White House and various administration agencies knew, when they knew it, and the now-verifiable lies told by all concerned for more than a week afterwards.
Thanks to new information uncovered by the Benghazi Select Committee, we now know for a fact that, at least in private, Clinton was telling the truth — telling others that an anti-Muslim YouTube video had absolutely nothing to do with what she immediately knew was an organized terror attack, and one that resulted in the murder of four Americans, including our ambassador.
Nevertheless, publicly, the White House, Obama, and Clinton spent more than a week afterwards covering up what they knew was the truth.
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Why hold hearings if they have no power? These criminals need to be jailed. We don’t need to have any more kabuki theater.
You guys really should read the Constitution.
Even if he had every law in the universe on his side, he wouldn’t. He is a blowhard of the greatest extreme, out to make a name for himself.
Hearings are for the purpose of making a report to Congress, establishing relevant facts, or lack thereof. Congressional hearings are not criminal or even civil prosecutions.
Dude, Congress does not execute the laws. You really should not be offering uninformed opinions about Gowdys work when you have no idea what powers he has or does not have. He is an investigator and lawmaker, not a prosecutor or a judge.
Dude. If what you say is true ... why the hell even have these hearings? Rather than down play my posts. Educate me.
Sadly, the only ones paying attention are the smart people....us!!
They have the hearings for several reasons. Ostensibly the primary reason is fact finding. Secondly, these facts are to be made public so that we theoretically have an educated electorate. And thirdly they us the facts to make new laws that they have no power to enforce. Only the second reason really matters in a republic with an educated citizenry. But we no longer have that because the MSM only tells the morons what they want them to hear. So there you have it.
TY. Gives me a better understanding. Sometimes educating responders makes more sense then arguing with them. Never assume that those you debate understand all that you do,
OK.
Add another talking point from this: not only did Clinton and Obama knowingly lie in blaming the sophomoric video for the attack, they launched a persecution of the film maker.
Admittedly he seems to have been a bit of a low-life, but he is also a Copt, whose ancestors were persecuted by Muslims since the Islamic conquest of Egypt in the seventh century. The First Amendment is supposed to guarantee that the American government will not persecute any of us for our religion, our religious views, or our expression of the same. If he wants to rejoice in our freedom by mocking the persecutors of his ancestors and coreligionists, that was his right. His treatment was an attack freedom of religion, knowingly undertaken for partisan political advantage to cover up the incompetence or worse of the Obama administration and the State Department under HRC.
Congress can appoint a special prosecutor.
But it will not happen because of what Freeper sundance has well-described as an effort by both parties to bury the illegal gun running for profit that would land many members in leadership on both sides in the crosshairs of a special prosecutor.
It could happen if the American people were as passionate about prosecuting Hillary as they are about securing the border. But it’s hard to get the electorate worked up about something that does not affect them directly or locally. It’s clearly wrong but it’s more a case of increasing the public’s distrust of the system rather than a direct passionate crusade. So it defaults to Congress to do something about it but they won’t. The result will be that Gowdy will be seen as a member of the establishment, all talk no action.
Democrats, like Muslims, believe it is their duty to lie to further their political agenda.
So, what happens to that report that was sent to Congress? What power do they have to do anything?
Say if Hillary admitted that she was running guns through the embassy and that Stevens was killed to cover it up, what can congress do? Do they forward the evidence to the DOJ for them to decide to prosecute? What if they are part of the cover up? I have always been unclear on the next step. We see lots of hearing but nothing ever seems to come of it.
We also need to cut off the head of the snake but there are so many
Congress can of course pass laws concerning situations like the one in question, they can impeach and remove an offending official, cut a budget as punishment, etc. They can also authorize themselves to appoint a special prosecutor and then turn one loose on offenders. What’s lacking is will, not ability.
If I understand correctly, a DOJ investigation and prosecution does not use info fom a Congressional hearing.
But they lack the will? Clinton will never be held responsible? It seems Hillary and those conducting the hearings are correct. Even when caught in obvious lies, government spending tax dollars on these hearings is a waste tax dollars. Corrupt to the core.
To be fair, information is being made available so Congress or voters COULD take action if they wanted to. That’s something. Meanwhile, Congresscritters worry about their careers and stealing other people’s money for their constituents.
Congress has no prosecutorial powers at all. The only punitive power they have is the power to impeach.
Congress can not appoint special prosecutors.
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