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 that’s 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 didn’t learn much that they hadn’t already suspected about the sacking of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, the murder of four Americans, and the administration’s 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
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Cannot be, cannot be.
The WaPo calls the testimony a “yarn”.
And everyone knows, when a journalism major (what we science types call someone getting an ‘F’ in elementary math) writes something, it MUST be true.
Well now...this is more like it! I was regretting getting out of bed this morning after glancing at the lack of Benghazi headlines.
Where are the calls to re-summon Hillary Clinton to the stand to get names and answers for her lies?
“I wasn’t involved in the talking points process.... As I understand it, as I’ve been told, it was a typical interagency process where staff, including from the State Department, all participated, to try to come up with whatever was going to be made publicly available, and it was an intelligence product.”
“With all due respect,the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?”—Hillary Clinton
Where was Hicks last fall when his testimony could have “made a difference”!
I fear the conspiracy runs deeper than anyone suspects.
I, for one, was surprised to learn that Amb. Rice knew it was a terrorist attack no later than 9/12, well before peddling the "video" nonsense on TV. I had always assumed she was the one stuck with the talking points precisely because she knew nothing, but would stick to the script. Turns out she was knowingly lying the whole time.
Roger that. Just some disgruntled employees who are just a bunch of black president hating white guys who can’t stand having king hussein in the WH. Besides, what difference does it make now since it happened a long time ago and far far away.
She looks mentally impaired.
She is slipping fast.
When can Chelsea run? At 35?
And I want to Highlight this bit:
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We did learn at least two new, relevant facts from yesterday's testimony. One is that Beth Jones, an official in the State Department, sent an email on September 12 bluntly acknowledging terrorists participated in the attacks (“The group that conducted the attacks, Ansar al-Sharia, is affiliated with Islamic terrorists.”) The other is that Hicks said his “jaw dropped” when he heard Rice make her claims about spontaneous protests. Hicks testified that he later confronted her about the comments, and shortly thereafter he was demoted.
And this is all still simple groundwork. The fact of a cover-up is patently obvious now, except to those who are exercising willful blindness. The admin was covering up their refusal to act.
The elephant in the room that hasn’t been mentioned yet: WHY did the admin refuse to act? We’ve talked about theories on this score, but it needs to be investigated and put on the record.
Right
Thank you so much, sweet Ernest!
When can Chelsea run? At 35?
“Requirements to Become President of the United States
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Only native-born U.S. citizens (or those born abroad, but only to parents who were both citizens of ... One must also be at least 35 years of age to be president.”
Thanks Ernest!
I watched the whole thing twice and cannot believe that the dems and media are getting away with saying nothing new was learned and that it is only political.
Limbaugh talking about it now.
BUMP!!
Posted on May 9, 2013-- Michelle Malkin vs. Juan Williams On Benghazi Hearings
I saw their exchange last night.
She told him off.
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