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Congress Interviewing "Dozens" of Benghazi Witnesses
CBS News ^ | Tuesday, July 30, 2013 | Sharyl Attkisson

Posted on 07/30/2013 10:12:03 AM PDT by kristinn

In recent weeks, members of the House and Senate and their staffers have held two classified hearings on the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya; conducted more than 25 hours of formal, transcribed interviews with witnesses; and spoken informally with several dozen additional witnesses, including some who are being called "whistleblowers."

Among those who have recently spoken to Congress is Marine Corps Col. George Bristol who was in the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) chain of command on Sept. 11. Earlier this month, CBS News reported that the Pentagon declined Republican congressional requests to produce Bristol for interviews. At the time, the Pentagon said Bristol had retired and that they "cannot compel retired members to testify before Congress."

However, after that report about Congress' search for Bristol, the Pentagon contacted CBS News to say their original assessment was in error and that Bristol is not retired, after all. Instead, he's on "terminal leave." The Pentagon added: "In response to a request from [South Carolina Republican] Senator [Lindsey] Graham's office earlier this month, Colonel George Bristol (USMC) will be available to meet with House and Senate members and their staffs."

Bristol has since met with Graham and is set to testify Tuesday behind closed doors in front of the House Armed Services Committee.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banghazicoverup; benghazi; benghazisurvivors; benghaziwitnesses; libya
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1 posted on 07/30/2013 10:12:03 AM PDT by kristinn
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I wonder where they found them? They’ve been under wraps for months.


2 posted on 07/30/2013 10:13:49 AM PDT by llevrok (The Constitution is not written in cursive)
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To: kristinn

All classified and unavailable to the public? And Lindsay Graham is handling it? Oh, great.


3 posted on 07/30/2013 10:14:43 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: kristinn
Congress Interviewing "Dozens" of Benghazi Witnesses

Must be why the Hag and the Fag had lunch together yesterday.

4 posted on 07/30/2013 10:15:28 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (A Quiet Rage is Building All Across America!)
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To: kristinn
This is the real bombshell:

Graham tells CBS News that his office is now hearing from frustrated officials within military special forces and intelligence communities who say they have good leads on the whereabouts of suspects in the attacks but can't get approval to take action.

Do you think someone is afraid that the perpetrators will talk about what really happened, what they really planned to do, and who organized it?

5 posted on 07/30/2013 10:15:29 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: llevrok

One of the scandals within a phony scandal, the regime hiding witnesses away from Congressional oversight until the key actors have left government (Clinton, Panetta).


6 posted on 07/30/2013 10:16:12 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: justlurking

The Obama Morsi connection deserves much further scrutiny...where there’s smoke there’s fire.


7 posted on 07/30/2013 10:17:42 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Cicero

Pansey Graham was a JAG before his political life.


8 posted on 07/30/2013 10:18:20 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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I think Obama/Hillary and other folks are really made Sharyl Attkisson.

Probably was not a wise thing to do -- to hack into her computers -- among other things.

FoxNews will probably always have an opening for a reporter like her...

9 posted on 07/30/2013 10:22:22 AM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: Cicero

Linsey and closed door sessions I trust less than a rattle snake in my lunch box.


10 posted on 07/30/2013 10:23:02 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: llevrok
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11 posted on 07/30/2013 10:23:19 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (Hitler would have LOVED obozo!)
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To: llevrok

Enlarging their own hit list


12 posted on 07/30/2013 10:26:49 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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To: justlurking
Do you think someone is afraid that the perpetrators will talk about what really happened, what they really planned to do, and who organized it?

I do. Because what we have been fed by the usual suspects is all lies.

13 posted on 07/30/2013 10:27:53 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (So Obama "inherited" a mess? Firemen "inherit" messes too. Ever see one put gasoline on it?)
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14 posted on 07/30/2013 10:27:57 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Hotlanta Mike
The Obama Morsi connection deserves much further scrutiny...

Yep, and Huma Abedin would be a great place to start.

15 posted on 07/30/2013 10:34:53 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Rats vs. GOPe = Same train, different speed.)
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To: llevrok
I wonder where they found them? They’ve been under wraps for months.

The way I read it, they're not interviewing the survivors -- instead, it's other people, like Col. Bristol, who were involved in the decision chain.

Presumably, the survivors are still "unavailable".

16 posted on 07/30/2013 10:36:40 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: MHGinTN

He’s still a Colonel in tha USAF reserves.


17 posted on 07/30/2013 10:38:19 AM PDT by jagusafr (the American Trinity (Liberty, In G0D We Trust, E Pluribus Unum))
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To: kristinn

At what point do these “phony scandals” merit prosecutions and arrests?


18 posted on 07/30/2013 10:40:54 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: kristinn

Video and more at the source link from reporter Sharyl Attkisson.

It is a damn miracle her car hasn’t exploded before hitting a tree or something yet....


19 posted on 07/30/2013 10:45:06 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: jagusafr

I don’t know what pansy’s personal problems are (he seems to be being blackmailed into lapdogging for McCain) but he has a sharp legal mind, as revealed during the Clinton impeachment debacle.


20 posted on 07/30/2013 10:45:51 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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