Posted on 06/26/2016 3:51:08 PM PDT by PROCON
The White House and the House Select Committee on Benghazi are at a standoff over whether President Barack Obama should answer a series of questions about the 2012 terrorist attack in Libya that left four Americans dead.
Neil Eggleston, counsel to the president, blasted the committee for sending the president a list of questions about the attack — an inquiry the administration deemed inappropriate and a partisan attempt to frame the White House as uncooperative.
Eggleston has encouraged Obama not to answer the committee’s questions “because of the implications of his response on the constitutional separation of powers,” according to a letter sent Saturday to Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and obtained by POLITICO.
“If the president were to answer your questions, his response would suggest that Congress has the unilateral power to demand answers from the president about his official acts,” the letter reads.
Eggleston also accused the panel of asking questions it already knew the answer to — something the committee denies.
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Notice that most of these articles critical of 0bama come out on weekends?
>.....an inquiry the administration deemed inappropriate and a partisan attempt to frame the White House as uncooperative.
In other words it worked.
Like states to visit ...there are only 57 weekends in which to insult Obama.
Lawyers rarely ask questions on the record when they don’t know the answers.
The Obamanites remember one of the grounds for Willie’s disbarment and impeachment, and don’t want to go on record.
So now he cares about the separation of powers?
[ The most transparent administration EVER will again stonewall. ]
The most transparent administration EVER will again Stonewall Inn.
Since when does BO care about separation of powers???
What questions are there to ask? He didn’t give a damn, had a fundraiser in Vegas to attend, Oh, and the media didn’t care. Still doesn’t.
It happened because of a youtube video. Now stop being a racist and leave me alone. Besides, it is Trumps fault.
Like all pols, obama said one thing while running for office, then spoke out of the other side of his face after taking office.
Anyone else hearing the RumInt circulating out there that the total Benghazi KIA was NOT 4 but instead EIGHTEEN..?
I keep running into this, but have seen nothing really on the record.
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Nope, haven’t heard that one.
White House photo/Pete Souza
President Obama and Hillary Clinton likely made the decision to falsely tie an inflammatory anti-Islam Internet video to the fatal Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack that left four Americans dead in Benghazi, Libya, the chief of the conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch (JW) told Breitbart News.
The president and then-Secretary of State Clinton sought the assistance from domestic and foreign jihadists in spreading the online video lie, added JW President Tom Fitton.
Breitbart News spoke to Fitton about newly released Benghazi attack-related documents pried out of the U.S. State Department under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by JW last September. One of the document shows that the Pentagon received a request for military assets in response to the attack, but the Obama administration seemingly refused.
An email from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) to top White House and other administration officials states, “OSD has received queries asking if military assets are being sent to either location [Libya and Egypt]. Have responded ‘not to our knowledge.’”
The Obama administration’s initial response explaining the cause of the attack was “immediately determined by top Obama White House officials” contrary to the president’s claim that it was based on intelligence available at the time.
Obama officials and the president himself linked an anti-Islam Internet video to the attack, saying it incited the terrorists who carried out the assault. The president said the video link was gleaned from the “best understanding of the intelligence that had been provided.” However, Fitton told Breitbart News, “We haven’t found any records that the video...(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
ask Obama questions? To heck with that. Impeach the SOB!
Correct me if I'm wrong, from what I've been able to garner from that tragedy is that only the President of the U.S. has the authorization to send military air support into a sovereign country, violating their air space, and in this case it was Libya.
And from all accounts, Obama was not present in the situation room and thus unable to give that order nor does anyone know where he was at that time. What is known is that he had a fund raiser in Las Vegas the next day which he kept.
So it looks to me like the alleged "youtube video" claimed by Clinton and her staff was merely a coverup designed to deflect the blame away from Obama........
Am I wrong?
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