Posted on 12/16/2013 11:13:58 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
A congressional oversight committee will hold a hearing in January on a helicopter crash in Afghanistan that killed 30 Americans, including 22 members of the Navy's elite SEAL Team 6.
The House Oversight subcommittee on National Security, led by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), will hold the hearing sometime in January to probe the 2011 crash, a spokeswoman for Chaffetz said.
Witnesses for the hearing have not yet been determined, the spokeswoman said.
Chaffetz’s panel began investigating the deadly crash in the summer, after victims’ families said the Pentagon did not provide sufficient answers about the attack on Aug. 6, 2011, the deadliest single day of the 12-year Afghanistan war.
Chaffetz met with the families in what he told The Hill was an “emotional” gathering. He said at the time he planned to submit questions to the Pentagon and prepare for hearings.
The families of the SEAL members have said that the Pentagon provided incomplete and contradictory information about the mission, known as Extortion 17.
Documents provided to the families indicate that the Pentagon doesn’t believe the SEALs were targeted in the wake of the SEAL Team 6 Osama bin Laden operation on May 1, 2011.
In a transcript reviewed by The Hill, a Pentagon official says the attack was the result of a low-level fighter getting a “lucky shot,” and not an "established ambush."
But Charlie Strange, whose son Michael was among those killed, said insurgents were boasting on the Internet they had taken out Team 6 shortly after the crash.
Thirty-eight people, including eight Afghans, were killed on the CH-47 Chinook helicopter that was shot out of the sky by Afghan militants.
Chaffetz told Foreign Policy, which first reported the January hearing, that he wants to find a resolution to shed more light on what transpired, even if it doesn't alleviate all of the families’ concerns.
"I hope to be able to get answers that the families have been unable to secure," Chaffetz said. "I think they have raised some legitimate questions, and the Pentagon has been inadequate in their response.”
Oooo... I bet the Obama machine is scared now...
There I fixed the title.
That said these "hearings" will produce NOTHING but a waste of time & a pony show.
RIP our Brave Warriors.
When was the last time that congress held a hearing that went beyond the purpose of soundbites and photo ops? All they do, it seems, is strut and pander for the media then fold it up and go to dinner.
Obama’s Military findings? - Pilot error, no doubt.
Better late than never I guess.
Impeachment File for for the 2014 Impeachment of “B. Hussein Obama,” aka Barry Soetoro, a documented legal citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
I’ll get the whitewash, you bring the brushes.
Since you mentioned it, why don’t don’t you find that unheard of story.
All of this junk isn't worth the time to read. We know this is a total corrupted government owned & run by groups such as The Illuminati.
“Rep. Jason Chaffetz is a very impressive young man.”
We’ll see if he gets to keep this one. If it starts looking bad for the ‘rats, they’ll likely send it over to Issa’s committee for burial.
Get out the whitewash Tom Sawyer, it’s time to paint the fence.
Issa would not be wise to bury this investigation because young Jason isn't going to shut up and go away.
“Issa would not be wise to bury this investigation because young Jason isn’t going to shut up and go away.”
Rep Chaffetz would be wise to not let Issa have anything to do with it. Issa’s committee does nothing but run interference for the ‘rat faction of the uniparty.
I don’t know if the Bavarian Illuminati ever made it beyond Germany, or the 18th century for that matter, but I’d argue that the government isn’t “owned and run” as much as it is allowed to “run over” everyone in it’s path due to a low information and apathetic public.
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