Posted on 12/10/2014 7:01:23 AM PST by Whenifhow
Greg Starr, assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, and Steve Linick, inspector general with the State Department, testify before the House Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi.
Why are we spending 5 million of the taxpayer dollars on this? /sarc
This is Trey Gowdy’s Committee.
They a running late. Scheduled to start at 10am Eastern.
Trey Gowdy just walked in - starting soon
For those who do not have other access, here is another link.
Watch Live: Select Committee on Benghazi Holds Second Hearing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu_3kOZQtuc
Committee members are starting to slowly file in.
Thanks for this. Shouldn’t it be in Breaking News so people can quickly see it (just a suggestion).
For those that want to watch on TV and have access to it - on CSPAN 3 TV in my area.
Thanks for this. Shouldn’t it be in Breaking News so people can quickly see it (just a suggestion).
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Thanks for the suggestion.
Admin - please put this thread in breaking news
Thanks!
Thanks for the thread. I fear we are in for yet another bafflegabfest.
What is the purpose of this meetin
damfino
Putting me to sleep
According to the opening statement the purpose is to make sure the ARB suggestions are implemented. (which may sound like the hearing is not important, but read the text below the link)
It is important to note the change so far in the official narrative.
Gowdy must have some idea beyond the ARB suggestions (which may be one way to get to the truth) to have scheduled this hearing.
Gowdy Opening Statement at Benghazi Select Committee Hearing 2
I want to read something and ask my colleagues to listen not just to the words but to imagine having to live through, or die through, the experience:
On September 11, 2012, at 9:45 p.m., twenty or more armed men assembled outside the U.S. Mission in Benghazi and breached the Mission gate. Several Ansar Al Sharia members have been identified among this group. The initial attackers were armed with AK-47-type rifles, handguns, and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. During this initial attack, buildings within the Mission were set on fire. The fires set during the attack led to the deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and Sean Smith. The remaining State Department personnel escaped to a nearby U.S. facility, known as the Annex. It also came under attack, which continued throughout the early morning hours of September 12th, culminating in a mortar attack that killed Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
What I just read is the now official position of our government, filed in US District Court by the Department of Justice in a motion to detain the one defendant who has been captured and will stand trial.
20 or more men. The weapons of war. Arson. Sustained attacks. Precision mortars. Terrorist groups.
It is interesting to note the word – “terrorist” – so rarely used by those in positions of responsibility in the days and weeks after Benghazi is now the very word used in the very statute charging the very defendant accused of killing our four fellow Americans. “Conspiracy to Provide Material Support and Resources to Terrorists Resulting in Death”—that is the charge now. But in the days after the attack in Benghazi the word “terrorist” was edited out and changed. Now, the administration uses the word “attack”. But in the days after the attack in Benghazi the administration edited out and changed the word “attack”. Its one thing to get it wrong and then eventually get it right. It was right initially. It was right the first time. Then it was edited and changed to be wrong.
Jordan may draw some blood here.
Jim Jordan asks the important question - why were we in Benghazi?
Starr has identified that the facility in Benghazi had a special name that no other state dept facility has.
Starr evades and refers Jordan to ARB report stating he was not there at the time.
What was the name of the Libyan gov’t?
Transitional National Council
Undersecretary title is discussed in terms of having one for security
Jordan refers to other people who thought undersecretary of security should be created/ elevated in state dept
Jordan - why were we there?
Cummings up aka Intermission
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