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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.
Gregory Hicks opening testimony is striking.
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LOL! Thanks!
Ping to find my spot when I get home. Good heavens.
Lol! Great description of Hillary’s situation!
I too wonder about what she’s going to do. Unless she’s a total fool, she must realize that her chances of being the candidate are nil. So they’ve got nothing to offer her.
I also think she’s afraid of the legal ramifications of taking the hit for Obama, so the combination of lack of a carrot on the part of the Obama cabal and the threat of prosecution or lawsuits may be enough to make her reconsider her “stand by your man” devotion to Obama.
Also, Bill has been conspicuously silent about this whole thing.
McLame is a tool
Yes, he is a puppet. Both puppet and handlers need to face the music.
I predict she’ll run for president and win the nomination from her side of useful idiots.
Just sayin’......
That’s true, I’d forgotten about that. So she had nothing to lose by defending Obama, although she probably thought (at that time) that she was still going to get support for her candidacy.
I think Brennan authored a security review report in August right before Benghazi.
I hope Congress will do that. Rice, of course, was going to replace Hillary as SOS (probably as her thank you gift from the WH) until those meanies derailed it.
IMO 0bama and Hillary were trying to incite riots throughout the Muslim world. I have no evidence (yet) but I believe they had something to do with forwarding the finalized version of "Innocence of Muslims" to the cleric in Cairo for that purpose.
Clips from the film were first aired on Egyptian TV just 3-4 days before Sept. 11th by a hardline 'tele-Islamist.'
0bama, Hillary and Rice repeatedly made a point of saying that the U.S. gov had "nothing to do with the film." Something no one in the world would have ever thought. Why the repeated and pointed denial of U.S. government involvement in the "video?"
Nakoula, the maker of the original film, was not the one who uploaded the final version, Innocence of Muslims, to the internet. You can hear some interesting things about the timeline of all these iterations of "the movie" in the Youtube video linked below. Start at 9:30 and watch to 16:00 for the meat of that.
Distance as the plane flies, approx 1050 miles from Aviano to Benghazi. Approx a little over two hours for a commercial jet liner.
Those Air Force jets could scramble for a 4-5 hour roundtrip.
Thank you very much. John did a great job with that last server and software upgrade!! Now one more nagging glitch to work out.
Someone...anyone...
Please help get this question to the appropriate person who can respond. I know many of you have great contacts in the media and politics and it seems someone whould be asking this question. Thank you from all of us who want the truth about Benghazi.
What I can never understand about the Administration’s argument that “there was not enough time to send help,” IS...how did they know how long the attack was going to last? Did they think it would be over in 2 hours, 3, 4...what were they thinking when they made the decision not to send anyone? It lasted 7 hours...did they already know it was going to be a 7 hour attack and so they didn’t bother?
Really...if they knew it would take several hours to deploy military assistance...why didn’t they do so right away? They could always have called them back.
But to say there was not enough time indicates that somehow they already knew when the attack was going to end – and that it would end before any military assistance could arrive.
Of course, afterward it has been convenient for their agenda for them to say that there wasn’t enough time to get there. That sounds be realistic at first. But it did not happen that way, as they want us to believe.
Bottom line is: They had no way of knowing (or did they?) how long those terrorists were going to rage in the streets, or what they were going to do.
So to say that their decision not to send them was because - there wasn’t enough time to, at least, deploy them, is just a smokescreen because they had no intentions of sending help.
And that is a point that NO ONE seems to be taking apart. Everyone in the liberal media, every Democrat keeps repeating the “Not enough time” talking point – but no one is asking Obama, or Hillary, or anyone - “JUST HOW MUCH TIME DID YOU THINK THE TERRORISTS WERE GOING TO CONTINUE…HOW WOULD YOU KNOW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO STOP - HOW DID YOU KNOW HOW MUCH TIME WOULD BE NEEDED BEFORE IT ENDED?”
Please, please help to get someone to ask this question - it is the only logical one to stop the Democrats in their tracks - because they CANNOT answer it. Unless, of course, there was some “arrangement” that has not been revealed - and they don’t want to reveal...and because...they cannot be certain when it was going to end...then there was NO reason not to have sent help!!!
GOOD!
The only thing to understand is that was just a CYA for cowards.
"No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.
Thanks to Kristin for the thread and Jim Robinson and Free Republic for sch a great thread that was full of information and as the post rapidly were being posted, there was no issues.....
Affirmative action in elections!!
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