AFTER SPENDING MORE TIME AND TAXPAYER MONEY ON TRYING TO HANG HILLARY CLINTON THAN IT SPENT OF INVESTIGATING THE PEARL HARBOR ATTACK, THE JFK ASSASSINATION, WATERGATE OR THE 9/11 ATTACKS, CONGRESS ISSUED WHAT IT'S CALLING A "FINAL REPORT"....WHICH FINDS NO "NEW" WRONGDOING BY CLINTON OR THE STATE DEPARTMENT, BUT DOES BLAME THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND EVEN THE MILITARY FOR A FEW THINGS.
FROM CNN:
"The dossier paints a picture of bureaucratic ineptitude, a rapidly worsening security in Libya and inadequate resources in the months that led up to the killing of Stevens and his three colleagues.
"The dossier paints a picture of bureaucratic ineptitude, a rapidly worsening security in Libya and inadequate resources in the months that led up to the killing of Stevens and his three colleagues.
The
report details numerous requests the embassy made to bolster the
security presence in Benghazi but finds that those requests were either
ignored or rejected by officials in Washington.
The report does not lay the blame for these failures on Clinton but on lower-level officials.
It also highlights the military's inability to react quickly to the events on the ground, noting that it took over six hours for military assets to deploy after then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta had ordered a military response.
The report does not lay the blame for these failures on Clinton but on lower-level officials.
It also highlights the military's inability to react quickly to the events on the ground, noting that it took over six hours for military assets to deploy after then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta had ordered a military response.
However,
it appears that the infamous "stand down" order was never given, though
some of the CIA security contractors who were the first to respond to
the attacks said that their station chief had told them to wait while
additional resources could be marshaled.
The report provides testimony that State Department officials knew that the protests had been overly emphasized in administration messaging, but the responsibility for the talking points was placed with the CIA.
The report provides testimony that State Department officials knew that the protests had been overly emphasized in administration messaging, but the responsibility for the talking points was placed with the CIA.
The committee didn't drop any damaging new findings into the 2016 presidential election -- and that's good news for Clinton.
Republicans deny they launched the investigation with a focus on Hillary Clinton, but Democrats accuse them of using Benghazi as a political weapon, especially after this comment from Republican leadership:
“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?" Rep. Kevin McCarthy asked on Fox News. "But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today?”
If Democrats get their wishes, voters
will see House Republicans as having overstepped -- launching a two-year
investigation and spending more than $7 million, only to replicate the
findings of earlier investigations.
That
Jordan and Pompeo decided to release their own report to complement
Gowdy's suggests there was division within the GOP's ranks over just how
far to go in criticizing Clinton and Obama." As the New York Times summed up:
"Ending one of the longest, costliest and most bitterly partisan congressional investigations in history, the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued its final report on Tuesday, finding no new evidence of culpability or wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton in the 2012 attacks in Libya that left four Americans dead....The investigations generally concluded that after the attack, the Obama administration’s talking points – a matter of much dispute – were flawed but not deliberately misleading.FROM THAT 800+ PAGE "FINAL" REPORT:
[Nor did they find a single way Clinton could have saved any of the victims.]
The following facts are among the many new revelations in Part I:
- Despite President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s clear orders to deploy military assets, nothing was sent to Benghazi, and nothing was en route to Libya at the time the last two Americans were killed almost 8 hours after the attacks began. [pg. 141]
- With Ambassador Stevens missing, the White House convened a
roughly two-hour meeting at 7:30 PM, which resulted in action items
focused on a YouTube video, and others containing the phrases “[i]f any
deployment is made,” and “Libya must agree to any deployment,” and
“[w]ill not deploy until order comes to go to either Tripoli or
Benghazi.” [pg. 115]
[NOTE: THEY FAIL TO MENTION THAT LEON PANETTA MADE THAT CALL, NOT CLINTON, WHO WAS NEVER IN THE "CHAIN OF COMMAND" THAT MADE THOSE DECISIONS, THE CHAIN OF COMMAND WHICH, AS THE MILITARY WITNESSES LIKE CARTER HAM AND THE OTHERS REITERATED FOR THE BRAIN-DEAD CONGRESSMEN, STARTS WITH THE PRESIDENT, GOES TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, THEN THE PENTAGON, AND FROM THERE TO THE "BOOTS-ON-THE-GROUND".
HAM SAID IT WAS HIS CALL TO PREVENT THE TEAM FROM TRIPOLI FROM GOING TO BENGHAZI.
WHERE IS THAT IN THIS "FINAL REPORT"?
MISSING IN ACTION!
THE "SUMMARY" FROM CONGRESS ALSO FAILS TO MENTION THAT ALL 5 SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE CIA-PAID SECURITY TEAM THAT FLEW FROM TRIPOLI CLEARLY STATED THAT IT WAS THE CIA STATION CHIEF WHO ISSUED STAND-DOWN ORDERS WHICH THEY EVENTUALLY DISREGARDED.
WHY LEAVE ALL THAT OUT?
BECAUSE THAT WOULD SHOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHAT A WASTE THIS CRAP-SHOOT HAS BEEN.
IT MIGHT ENDANGER THEIR OWN REELECTIONS IF AMERICANS KNEW JUST HOW LUDICROUS ALL THE ACCUSATIONS HAVE BEEN THAT HILLARY CLINTON WAS TO BLAME FOR BENGHAZI.
IT MIGHT HURT THE GOP CHANCES OF INSTALLING "TRUMP, THE CLOWN" INTO THE OVAL OFFICE INSTEAD OF "CLINTON, THE PATHOLOGICAL LIAR".
THAT SAD EVENT IN BENGHAZI WAS THE RESULT OF MULTIPLE FAILURES BY EVERY STEP IN THE CHAIN OF COMMAND, AND OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT FOR NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO SECURITY FAILURES IN BENGHAZI AND NOT QUESTIONING WHY THE CIA FOUGHT BOTH STEVENS' AND OTHERS' EFFORTS TO REPLACE LOCAL LIBYAN SECURITY WITH MILITARY SECURITY UP TO THE TIME STEVENS TURNED DOWN CARTER HAM'S TWO OFFERS DAYS BEFORE THAT ATTACK TO SEND IN U.S. MILITARY SECURITY.
HAM STATED HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHY STEVENS REFUSED THOSE OFFERS WHEN HE HAD REQUESTED EXTRA MILITARY SECURITY BEFORE.
IS CONGRESS "INVESTIGATING" THAT?
HELL NO!]
- The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff typically would have participated in the White House meeting, but did not attend because he went home to host a dinner party for foreign dignitaries. [pg. 107]
- A Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team (FAST) sat on a plane in Rota, Spain, for three hours, and changed in and out of their uniforms four times. [pg. 154]
- None of the relevant military forces met their required deployment timelines. [pg. 150]
- The Libyan forces that evacuated Americans from the CIA
Annex to the Benghazi airport was not affiliated with any of the
militias the CIA or State Department had developed a relationship with
during the prior 18 months. Instead, it was comprised of former Qadhafi
loyalists who the U.S. had helped remove from power during the Libyan
revolution.
[pg. 144]Rep. Martha Roby (AL-02) released the following statement regarding these findings:
“Our committee’s insistence on additional information about the military’s response to the Benghazi attacks was met with strong opposition from the Defense Department, and now we know why.
Instead of attempting to hide deficiencies in our posture and performance, it’s my hope our report will help ensure we fix what went wrong so that a tragedy like this never happens again.”
- The CIA’s September 13, 2012, intelligence assessment was rife with errors. On the first page, there is a single mention of “the early stages of the protest” buried in one of the bullet points. The article cited to support the mention of a protest in this instance was actually from September 4. In other words, the analysts used an article from a full week before the attacks to support the premise that a protest had occurred just prior to the attack on September 11. [pg. 47]
- A headline on the following page of the CIA’s September 13 intelligence assessment stated “Extremists Capitalized on Benghazi Protests,” but nothing in the actual text box supports that title. As it turns out, the title of the text box was supposed to be “Extremists Capitalized on Cairo Protests.” That small but vital difference—from Cairo to Benghazi—had major implications in how people in the administration were able to message the attacks. [pg. 52]
- In August 2012—roughly a month before the Benghazi attacks—security on the ground worsened significantly. Ambassador Stevens initially planned to travel to Benghazi in early August, but cancelled the trip “primarily for Ramadan/security reasons.” [pg. 99]
- Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta bluntly told the committee “an intelligence failure” occurred with respect to Benghazi. Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell also acknowledged multiple times an intelligence failure did in fact occur prior to the Benghazi attacks. [pg. 129]
Part V proposes 25 recommendations for the Pentagon, State Department, Intelligence Community and Congress aimed at strengthening security for American personnel serving abroad and doing everything possible to ensure something like Benghazi never happens again, and if it does, that we are better prepared to respond, the majority make a series of recommendations.
[SURELY DO WISH THE GOP MEMBERS, ALL MEMBERS, HAD DECIDED TO "STRENGTHEN SECURITY" AFTER THE HUNDREDS OF AMERICAN DEATHS AT EMBASSIES AND OVERSEAS COMPOUNDS DURING THE REAGAN AND THE TWO BUSHES' ADMINISTRATIONS!
WONDER WHY THEY DIDN'T INVESTIGATE THEN?]
The Select Committee intends to convene a bipartisan markup to discuss and vote on the proposed report on July 8, 2016.
All members of the committee will have the opportunity to offer changes in a manner consistent with the rules of the House."
UNDER "WITNESS INTERVIEW SUMMARIES", APPENDIX I:
Morell, Michael—September 28, 2015:Joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1980 and
was its Deputy Director from May 2010 to August 2013.At the time of the attacks, the CIA had personnel in Benghazi andTripoli.
The CIA’s Annex facility in Benghazi was attacked on September 11-12, 2012, following the attack on the State Department facility.
Deputy Director Morell edited the highly criticized talking points thatwere developed after the attacks.
AS YOU CAN SEE, THE TERM "SUMMARIES" IS MISLEADING.
NOTHING MUCH AT ALL IS "SUMMARIZED" AS WITNESS TESTIMONY, VERBATIM, IS COMPLETELY VOID IN THIS "APPENDIX"..
WRONG!THE "SUMMARY" IS MERELY OF THE POSITIONS HELD BY THESE "WITNESSES".
LOOK AT THE VAST DIFFERENCES IN HOW CONGRESS INVESTIGATED BENGHAZI AS OPPOSED TO THE OTHER "INVESTIGATIONS".
Nearly 3,000 American citizens were killed on that day.It took the 9-11 commission just 19 months to investigate the worst terrorist attack to ever take place in the history of our country.
During that period of time, the commission interviewed more than 1,200 people in 10 different countries.
They reviewed more than 2.5 million pages of documents.Eleven years later, on September 11, 2012, another terrorist attack struck, this time at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Four Americans died.The Benghazi attack was one of hundreds of attacks waged on U.S. diplomatic headquarters throughout the middle east.Between 2002 and 2007, under Republican President George W. Bush, a total of 12 U.S. embassies were attacked, in Pakistan, Syria, Arabia, Greece, and elsewhere.
Republicans did not furiously investigate any of those attacks, although U.S. citizens were killed during attacks on the embassies in Karachi, Pakistan and Sana’a, Yemen.But when four Americans were killed in the attack on Benghazi, Libya, Republicans in Congress insisted on establishing a Select Commission on Benghazi, supposedly to investigate the circumstances surrounding the attack.
While the 9-11 commission was able to interview more than 1,200 people in nearly the same amount of time that Republicans have been investigating Benghazi, as of June of this year, the Select Commission on Benghazi had interviewed just 29 people.
The overwhelming majority of them were people who had absolutely nothing to do with Benghazi.There’s little doubt in anyone’s mind that the Benghazi investigation is politically motivated.
The only reason it is taking such an obscene amount of time for Republicans to wrap up this charade is that they haven’t been able to find anything to use against former Secretary of State, and possible future president, Hillary Clinton.
Republican Kevin McCarthy flat-out told the American public that Benghazi is nothing but a failed attempt to bring down Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers.
Right after that, a second Republican congressman, Richard Hanna, confirmed it.
And then the CIA called out the chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi, Republican Trey Gowdy, in a long letter, publicly exposing the committee’s shameless bullshit.
As of June, Republicans had spent more than $3,500,000 of taxpayer money trying to damage Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the White House.
They have wasted hundreds and hundreds of hours of congressional time, which the American public is paying for.
We’re not just talking about their time, or that of their staffers, who are paid an average of $128,750 a year. It’s also not just time of the 29 witnesses they’ve called, many whom were also on the taxpayer clock when testifying.
They’ve wasted the time of other people who are also on the public clock, the CIA, the State Department and a list of people in the Obama administration, including the Joint Chief of Staff and Press Secretary Jay Carney.
As the Observer reported in June, 2014:
In March 2014, the Defense Department informed Democratic Rep. Adam Smith, they had spent “millions of dollars” and “thousands of man-hours to respond to numerous and often repetitive Congressional requests regarding Benghazi.”
The State Department now has 12 full-time staff members, whom are paid between $63,700 and $150,000, entirely dedicated to the job of reviewing Hillary Clinton’s emails. According to the National Journal, the dozen “Hillary Clinton e-mail readers” alone “could cost more than $1 million.” The full cost of just the document queries will likely run well over eight figures.
The idea that President Obama would have all the information to accurately describe what was unfolding in Benghazi as it happened was preposterous.
As someone once wryly remarked, George W. Bush spent years telling the American public that Iraq was responsible for 9/11, President Obama spent a few hours saying “we don’t know” what happened in Benghazi.
Hardly an impeachable offense.
[NOTE: THAT IS JUST NOT TRUE! IT'S THE PRESIDENT'S BUSINESS TO KNOW, TO MAKE SURE INFORMATION IS VALID, TO LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED WHEN IT COMES TO SAFEGUARDING AMERICAN LIVES!
THE PRESIDENT IS AT THE TOP OF THAT 'CHAIN OF COMMAND'.
HE MUST BE CERTAIN OF THE INFORMATION HE RECEIVES, AT WHATEVER EXPENSE NEEDS TO BE PAID TO ASCERTAIN CREDIBLE INFORMATION.]
Enough is enough.
There are at least 18 members of Congress who need to be impeached, if not imprisoned, for their actions while serving on the Select Committee On Benghazi."
EVEN LEAVING BENGHAZI OUT OF THE MIX, EVERY MEMBER OF CONGRESS, AS WELL AS THE SUPREME COURT AND THE OCCUPANT OF THE OVAL OFFICE, NEEDS TO BE IMPEACHED AND TRIED FOR TREASON FOR NOT KEEPING THEIR OATHS OF OFFICE.
NOT ONE OF THOSE HAVE DONE AS THEY SWORE TO DO.
OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM IS A BAD JOKE, OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE ALL ON THE TAKE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER AND THE APPOINTED JUDGES ARE JUST AS GUILTY AS ANY THEY EVER FOUND GUILTY, BECAUSE THEY HAVE FAILED TO EXECUTE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, HAVE CHANGED AND "INTERPRETED" THE CONSTITUTION TO DEATH, AND HAVE OVERSTEPPED THEIR CONSTITUTIONALLY APPOINTED AUTHORITY FOR DECADES NOW.
THAT CONGRESS USED THE DEATHS OF FOUR AMERICANS AS A POLITICAL TOOL TO TRY TO INTERFERE IN OUR ELECTION PROCESS, USED IT TO TRY TO SWAY PUBLIC OPINION FOR THE UPCOMING "ELECTION" IS HIGH TREASON, IS A CRIMINAL ACT, AND SHOULD BE PUNISHED.
THE CIA, INDEPENDENTLY AND NOT ANSWERING TO ANY POLITICAL POWER UNLESS IT CHOOSES TO, SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE TARGET OF THIS "INVESTIGATION".
THE CIA IS, IN THE OPINION OF MANY, THE MAIN REASON FOR THE DEATHS OF THOSE FOUR AMERICANS.
THE CIA CALLED THE SHOTS, ISSUED "SECURITY REPORTS" THAT WE NOW KNOW WERE SEVERELY "EDITED" AND PREVENTED THEIR OWN HIRED FORCES FROM RESCUING STEVENS WHEN THEY FIRST ARRIVED FROM TRIPOLI.
WE NEED TO FIND OUT WHY!
CONGRESSMEN, LIKELY AFRAID OF THE "DIRT" THE CIA HAS ON FILE FOR EVERY ONE OF THEM, WILL NEVER RISK ANGERING THE CIA AND SO WILL NEVER DISCOVER WHETHER OR NOT STEVENS WAS "FRAGGED", OR WHY THE CIA OVERSTEPPED ITS BOUNDS AND WAS INTERROGATING LIBYAN PRISONERS INSIDE A U.S. EMBASSY COMPLEX, OR IF THAT VERY THING IS WHAT CAUSED THE ATTACK ON THAT SHILL EMBASSY WHERE WE NOW KNOW FROM WHICH GUN DEALS WERE BEING MADE WITH SYRIANS AS WELL.
THE U.S. CONGRESS JUST PLACED A HIGHER VALUE ON PARTY POLITICS THAN AMERICAN LIVES.
IF THAT DOESN'T ANGER YOU TO ACTION, IF THAT DOESN'T MAKE YOU SCREAM FOR JUSTICE AND FIRE ALL INVOLVED IN THIS FIASCO, I HAVE TO WONDER WHY YOU CALL YOURSELF AN AMERICAN.
IT'S PAST TIME WE ALL REALIZE WE ARE AMERICANS FIRST AND FOREMOST AND THAT THIS NATION AND THE LIVES OF ALL HER PEOPLE MEAN A HELL OF A LOT MORE THAN WHO WINS ELECTIONS, OR WHICH PARTY IS IN POWER.
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