The long-awaited hearings at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the Benghazi terror attack of September 11, 2012,finally begin tomorrow. The mission of the Democrats will be to protect Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at all costs, because, at least for now, she is the front-runner to be their 2016 Presidential Candidate.
One of the witnesses is going to state that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide cut the department’s own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision-making.
That witness is Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for operations in the agency’s counterterrorism bureau.
… Thompson considers himself a whistle-blower whose account was suppressed by the official investigative panel that Clinton convened to review the episode, the Accountability Review Board (ARB). Thompson’s lawyer, Joseph diGenova, a former U.S. attorney, has further alleged that his client has been subjected to threats and intimidation by as-yet-unnamed superiors at State, in advance of his cooperation with Congress.
Another witness who will testify against Ms. Clinton is Gregory Hicks, the former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya.
According to Hicks…
I thought it was a terrorist attack from the get-go. I think everybody in the mission thought it was a terrorist attack from the beginning.
The Libyan military agreed to fly their C‑130 to Benghazi and carry additional personnel to Benghazi as reinforcements. Because we at that time — at that time, the third attack, the mortar attack at 5:15, had not yet occurred, if I remember correctly.
So Lieutenant Colonel Gibson, who is the SOCAFRICA commander, his team, you know, they were on their way to the vehicles to go to the airport to get on the C‑130 when he got a phone call from SOCAFRICA which said, you can’t go now, you don’t have authority to go now. And so they missed the flight.
They were told not to board the flight, so they missed it. So, anyway, and yeah. I still remember Colonel Gibson, he said, ‘I have never been so embarrassed in my life that a State Department officer has bigger balls than somebody in the military.’ A nice compliment.
Q: What was the rationale that you were given that they couldn’t go, ultimately?
Hicks: I guess they just didn’t have the right authority from the right level.”
Regarding Susan Rice’s lies, among them, blaming a Terrorist attack on an unwatched Youtube Video, when Obama and Hillary trotted her out on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows, Hicks remarked…
I’ve never been as embarrassed in my life, in my career, as on that day.
My jaw hit the floor as I watched this.
According to the man who was ultimately responsible for the safety of those 4 murdered Americans, President Barack Hussein Obama, who was interviewed by his fan club at Morning Joe on the seldom-watched cable News channel, MSNBC, on the morning of October 29, 2013:
Anytime a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans who were serving our country get killed, we have to figure out what happened and fix it. But I do take offense with some suggestion that in any way, we haven’t tried to make sure that the American people knew as the information was coming in what we believed.
Pamtelones en fumar!
Obama was all over the place that day, attempting to put out the fire of Benghazigate, that was threatening his re-election, as Foxnews.com summarizes for us:
President Obama declined to answer directly whether a CIA annex was denied urgent requests for military assistance during the deadly attacks last month on U.S. outposts in Libya.
The president did not give a yes-or-no answer Friday when asked pointedly whether the Americans under attack in Benghazi, Libya, were denied requests for help during the attack.
Fox News has also learned that a request from the CIA annex for backup was later denied.
“The election has nothing to do with the four brave Americans getting killed and us wanting to find out exactly what happened,” the president said in TV interview with an NBC affiliate in Colorado.
When asked again, Obama said, “The minute I found out what was going on, I gave three very clear directives — Number 1, make sure that we are securing our personnel and doing whatever we need to.”
According to Breitbart.com:
Lt. Col. Tony Schafer told Fox News that sources were telling him that the President was watching the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in real-time. Schafer told Fox that “only the President” could have ordered backup for the Americans who were under siege by terrorists so the President was most certainly informed of the situation as it was unfolding. “I hate to say this,” Schafer said, “according to my sources, yes, [the President] was one of those in the White House situation room in real-time watching this. And the question becomes, ‘What did the President do or not do in the moments he saw this unveiling?’ He — only he — could issue a directive to Secretary of Defense Panetta to do something.”
And, in a related story from abcnews.go.com:
In an unusual move, the Navy has replaced an admiral commanding an aircraft carrier strike group while it is deployed to the Middle East. The replacement was prompted by an Inspector General’s investigation of allegations of inappropriate leadership judgment.
Rear Adm. Charles M. Gaouette, the commander of the USS John C. Stennis strike group, is being returned to the United States for temporary reassignment.
In a statement the Navy said it had approved a request made by Vice Adm. John W. Miller, the Commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, to temporarily reassign Gaouette “pending the results of an investigation by the Navy Inspector General.”
The statement said Gaoutte would return to the carrier’s home port of Bremerton, Washington.
A Navy official familiar with the circumstances of the investigation said it involved allegations of “inappropriate leadership judgment” and stressed it was not related to personal conduct.
Uh huh.
Charles Woods, father of Tyrone Woods, one of those brave Americans killed on 9/11/12, said, during an interview on Fox News:
This news that he disobeyed his orders does not surprise me. My son was an American hero, and he had the moral strength to do what was right … even if it would have professionally cost him his job, even if it would have cost him his life.
…The reason I’m speaking out right now is that after the facts came out that the White House […] watched my son and denied his pleas for help, my son violated his orders to protect the lives of at least 30 people. He risked his life to be a hero; I wish the leadership in the White House had the same level of moral courage that my son displayed.
Indeed, Mr. Woods. Indeed.
This week, we will see whether the Leader of the Free World will throw his Former Secretary of State under his now world-famous bus, as he apparently did those 4 brave Americans on that horrible night of September 11, 2012.
It will not surprise anyone if he does.
Harry S. Truman had a plaque on his desk which read,
The Buck Stops Here.
President Barack Hussein Obama has one on his desk, which reads,
It’s Not My Fault.
excellent KJ
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President Barack Hussein Obama has one on his desk, which reads,
It’s Not My Fault.
I thought it said “If you’re reading this, you’re about to find out what the world looks like from under the wheels of my bus.”
Huh.
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I thought the plaque read ‘It’s Bush’s fault’? Of course, after Spokeskid Carney’s “Benghazi was a long time ago,” I would expect that plaque to be replaced … hahahahaha! Oh, I kill me. Like the Sun King would ever be intellectually honest or consistent! No, his motto is and always has been ‘Okay for me but not for thee.’
The funny thing, insofar as it goes, is that the absolute BEST interpretation of the evidence would demonstrate that Clinton and Obama are “merely” grotesquely incapable and incompetent. Which is pretty much how this Administration has been from Day One;
Holder: Had no idea Fast and Furious was going on underneath his nose. Apparently run by underlings, meaning Holder is either too stupid or too oblivious to handle his job.
Napolitano: Didn’t order the release of illegal aliens, that was her underlings, doing it “because of the sequester,” before the sequester even took effect. As stupid or unobservant as Holder.
And again, that’s the BEST interpretation, as opposed to treasonous.
I hope Obama DOES try to throw the Hildebeast under the bus. The war between Obama Democrats and Clinton ones would be most enjoyable to watch. Bill Clinton is many things, but he’s a far more shrewd politician than Obama, who has relied on Jarrett and a coddling media to make up for his numerous shortcomings. All Obama has is his skin color and his skill with reading a teleprompter.
Thanks for posting!
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The obamanation, Panetta, Hillary are lying sacks of bovine excrement and deserve to be treated as such…
As for any military personnel who refused assistance, I can only shake my head…
If Admiral Gaouette isn’t already on Issa’s list of witnesses, a subpoena should be issued forthwith…
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