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Report: Pentagon Official Said to Be Helping Dems Block Benghazi Revelations
newsmax ^ | 6/23/16 | Cathy Burke

Posted on 06/23/2016 9:47:24 PM PDT by Nachum

A drone operator's classified testimony reportedly gives credence to allegations that Democrats and a Pentagon political appointee tried to stonewall efforts of the GOP-led House Benghazi Select Committee to question witnesses.

Lawnews.com writer Chris White on Thursday posted a summary from Benghazi committee head Rep. Trey Gowdy on the June testimony from "John from Iowa," who called into Sean Hannity’s radio program in 2013 and said he'd been a drone sensor operator the night of the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost. "This drone sensor operator confirmed details the committee learned at the same time [the Department of Defense] was claiming it was 'expend[ing] significant resources to locate' him," the summary from the South Carolina GOP lawmaker states.

"The Air Force knew exactly who had called into the talk radio show in 2013. In other words, John’s testimony raises serious questions with respect to the representations made by a Pentagon political appointee."

Gowdy added:

"It now appears DOD had knowledge well in advance of who and where John was, but claimed he could not be located anyway. They claimed 'significant resources' had been spent attempting to find him, but given the facts, it’s hard to imagine just how much incompetence would be required for that to be true."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012; 201209; 20120911; 2013; benghazi; clinton; devinnunes; drone; droneoperator; drones; hannity; johnfromiowa; libya; michaelellis; nunes
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1 posted on 06/23/2016 9:47:24 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


2 posted on 06/23/2016 9:48:37 PM PDT by Nachum (ISIS is alive... and Chris Stevens is dead)
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To: Nachum

Put this damn wench in jail!


3 posted on 06/23/2016 9:55:18 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Nachum

Sec def or one Of his assistants.


4 posted on 06/23/2016 10:03:15 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nachum

Careers and livelihoods and families are being threatened everywhere.

This is why we need to clean out this government in its entirety, we need a people’s revolution...like Brexit showed us.


5 posted on 06/23/2016 10:12:44 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Nachum

This person will be pushed aside too. The impending destruction of this administration is looming fast.


6 posted on 06/23/2016 10:16:16 PM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: Nachum

...guess when Gowdy met with Odungo the other day
Odungo must of flipped his Kufi


7 posted on 06/23/2016 10:36:32 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle
When did Gowdy meet with Obama? Do you have a source?

In the end, if Gowdy really has the goods, Obama will throw Hillary under the bus. The buck never got to him.

8 posted on 06/24/2016 5:22:15 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and silver are real money, everything else is a derivative)
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To: Nachum
"It now appears DOD had knowledge well in advance of who and where John was, but claimed he could not be located anyway. They claimed 'significant resources' had been spent attempting to find him, but given the facts, it’s hard to imagine just how much incompetence would be required for that to be true."

Something strange is going on...

9 posted on 06/24/2016 7:09:13 AM PDT by GOPJ (When a Muslim terrorist shoots up a gay bar, it's not gun violence.It's Islamic terrorism.Greenfield)
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To: Nachum
"It now appears DOD had knowledge well in advance of who and where John was, but claimed he could not be located anyway. They claimed 'significant resources' had been spent attempting to find him, but given the facts, it’s hard to imagine just how much incompetence would be required for that to be true."

Something strange is happening here ...bad people strategically placed in top positions...

10 posted on 06/24/2016 7:10:56 AM PDT by GOPJ (When a Muslim terrorist shoots up a gay bar, it's not gun violence.It's Islamic terrorism.Greenfield)
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Benghazi ping, thanks to Nachum.

Let Republicanprofessor know if you want on or off this ping list.


11 posted on 06/24/2016 8:56:13 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor
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To: Former Proud Canadian
There was a thread in the past few days regarding negotiations between Gowdy and the WH regarding how much of the final Beghazi report to classify.

My hunch is:
WH: Classify all.
Gowdy: Hell no, but maybe some.

I can't find the link. Sorry.

12 posted on 06/24/2016 9:09:04 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Former Proud Canadian

I must have read it in a post.....just did a yahoo news search and got nothing....did a search here too...*scratching head*...but nothing, but I thought the same as you....this meeting must mean he’s got Hilda cold....I’ll watch for it


13 posted on 06/24/2016 9:27:00 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Former Proud Canadian

..msheeesshh...thought I was losing it..msee post # 12


14 posted on 06/24/2016 9:29:41 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
Thanks:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3443077/posts

15 posted on 06/24/2016 9:30:10 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and silver are real money, everything else is a derivative)
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To: Doogle

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3443077/posts


16 posted on 06/24/2016 9:30:50 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and silver are real money, everything else is a derivative)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

whew!


17 posted on 06/24/2016 9:32:47 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: pocat

ping


18 posted on 06/24/2016 9:35:09 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Thank you!


19 posted on 06/24/2016 10:08:25 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: GOPJ

....Speaking of unsubstantiated allegations that turn out to be false, a few years ago the New York Times published another error-riddled piece involving Nunes and Ellis, by Jason Zengerle:

Zengerle claims Nunes pushed Rogers to pursue leads that didn’t check out. He claims Nunes ‘had heard that a drone operator at an American air base in Germany said a drone had been flying over the Benghazi compound during the raid and captured video of the incident. According to a source familiar with the investigation, Rogers sent a committee staff member, Michael Ellis, to Germany to find and interview the American drone operator—who, it turned out, wasn’t even in the drone unit that covered Libya and had been telling tales to his parents, which had somehow made their way to Nunes.’
Apparently none of this is true. Ellis never went to Germany, according to multiple sources on the House Intelligence Committee familiar with his travels. And Nunes said the first time he even heard this story was with Zengerle telling it: ‘I don’t know anything about a drone operator and I have no idea what they’re talking about there.’...


20 posted on 06/19/2024 1:30:30 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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