Posted on 05/08/2013 6:00:25 AM PDT by kristinn
Hearing details:
WASHINGTON – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa today announced three witnesses who will appear at a full committee hearing, “Benghazi: Exposing Failure and Recognizing Courage,” on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at 11:30 AM in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building.
“I applaud these individuals for answering our call to testify in front of the Committee. They have critical information about what occurred before, during, and after the Benghazi terrorist attacks that differs on key points from what Administration officials – including those on the Accountability Review Board – have portrayed,” said Issa. “Our committee has been contacted by numerous other individuals who have direct knowledge of the Benghazi terrorist attack, but are not yet prepared to testify. In many cases their principal reticence of appearing in public is their concern of retaliation at the hands of their respective employers. While we may yet add additional witnesses, this panel will certainly answer some questions and leave us with many new ones.”
Witnesses: Mr. Mark Thompson
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism
US Department of State
Mr. Gregory Hicks
Foreign Service Officer and former Deputy Chief of Mission/Chargé d’Affairs in Libya
US Department of State
Mr. Eric Nordstrom
Diplomatic Security Officer and former Regional Security Officer in Libya
US Department of State
In October 2012, the Oversight Committee held the first hearing on the Benghazi attacks, which exposed denials of security requests and forced the Administration to acknowledge that the attacks were not sparked by a protest of a YouTube video, contrary to claims made by Obama Administration officials.
*** NOTE: Press seating will be reserved, but limited. Please arrive early (hearing room will open to press at 10:30 AM) to guarantee a seat. An overflow area will be available. ***
Hearing Details:
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
“Benghazi: Exposing Failure and Recognizing Courage”
Full Committee, Chairman Darrell Issa, (R-CA) 11:30 a.m. in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building and streaming live at oversight.house.gov.
The hearing is also scheduled to be shown live on C-SPAN 3 and Fox News.
Live stream at C-SPAN.
Also check Fox News live stream.
For people willing to wade into the pit that is Twitter, it is a powerful tool. It pushed people to the Rand Paul filibuster and finally pushed the Gosnell incident to the MSM. It will do the same for Benghazi.
Who’s their audience?
Sick Libtards.
In Demspeak, that is the equivalent of waving a white flag.
Finally Turner asking a pertinent question regarding the stand down order....
LOL.
He’s beyond disgusting.
Turner (R) going after the stand-down order issue.
Yep.
Drudge headlines (and huge photo of Hilly with headline “What difference does it make?”)
Shock testimony from Benghazi witnesses...
Moment-by-moment account of attack...
Emotional recollection of murders...
CONGRESSMAN: ‘Death is part of life’...
DEM BLAMES BUDGET CUTS!!!!
Another vows to ‘protect’ others at State Department...
Fourth whistleblower blocked from testifying...
White House claims ‘attempts to politicize’...
‘Operation Smear’ already underway...
Bolton: Could bring down admin...
Cheney rips ‘leadership’...
Hillary in spotlight...
MOTHER: ‘I BLAME HER’...
PATRICK KENNEDY! Slimeball who thought he could be a walking drunk in Congress! Glad he was the man reporting directly under Hillary Clinton.
OH BOY!! MY REP ON THE STAND DOWN ORDER!!!!!!
Ohhhhhhhhh! Now that was the ONLY proper response!
“who will fall hillary or obama?”
Big Media’s racism trumps their sexism.
They’ll jettison Hillary first to save their god.
No
Col. Gibson and his special forces team ordered to stand down in Tripoli!!
2 members of that team had been attacked/carjacking in Aug. in Tripoli
team reduced to 4 after that, Col. Gibson and 3 others
Which is funny considering the State Department considered the multimillion dollar relandscaping of the embassy in Switzerland at the time to be more important than the security of our facilities in Libya.
So far some big disclosures from my perspective:
Beth Jones the day after the attack met with the Libyan ambassador and said it was a terrorist attack by Ansar.
The Secretary of State must sign the wavier to occupy facilities that don't meet security standards.
Hicks was ordered by State lawyers to not meet with Chafetz and State sent a lawyer with the CODEL to find out what was being disclosed. The lawyer did not have the appropriate security clearance and was kept out of one meeting. Subsequently, Hicks received a call from Sherill Mills (sic: Cheryl Mills), Hillary's primary deputy who dressed down Hicks for excluding the State lawyer.
BUMP!
My take is that the R's have done a skillful job on organizing their questioning
Don’t know why Stand Down Given.... BAM!
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