Select Committee on Benghazi Releases Proposed Report

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The Select Committee On Benghazi:

June 28 2016

81 New Witnesses, 75,000 New Pages of Documents Reveal Significant New Information,

 

Fundamentally Changes the Public’s Understanding of the 2012 Terrorist Attacks that Killed Four Americans

 

Washington, D.C. – Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy (SC-04) released the following statement after the committee’s Majority released a mark of its investigative report:

 

“Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were heroes who gave their lives in service to our country. Their bravery and the courageous actions of so many others on the ground that night should be honored.

 

“When the Select Committee was formed, I promised to conduct this investigation in a manner worthy of the American people’s respect, and worthy of the memory of those who died. That is exactly what my colleagues and I have done.

 

“Now, I simply ask the American people to read this report for themselves, look at the evidence we have collected, and reach their own conclusions. You can read this report in less time than our fellow citizens were taking fire and fighting for their lives on the rooftops and in the streets of Benghazi.”

 

The committee’s proposed report is just over 800 pages long and is comprised of five primary sections and 12 appendices. It details relevant events in 2011 and 2012.

 

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This will be my evening read tonight. Wonder how many actually will, especially those who will comment ad nauseum without even knowing what in it.

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BENGHAZI COMMITTEE RELEASES FINAL REPORT: 22 BIGGEST REVELATIONS…

 

The U.S. House Select Committee on Benghazi released its final report on Tuesday morning, comprising some 800 pages of investigations and conclusions that suggest former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration were derelict in their duty to protect American diplomats from the most significant terror attack on the U.S. since Sep. 11, 2001.

The report also details how the Obama administration contrived to misinform the public about the cause of the attack.

The committee had already slammed a separate report Monday by its Democratic members, who had long maintained that the investigation was politically motivated. “Benghazi Committee Democrats’ obsession with the former Secretary of State is on full display. For over two years they refused to participate in the Majority’s serious, fact-centered investigation. The dishonest Democrats on this committee falsely claimed everything had been ‘asked and answered.’ They said the committee had found ‘absolutely nothing new.’ If that’s changed, they should come clean and admit it. If not, everyone can ignore their rehashed, partisan talking points defending their endorsed candidate for president,” an official statement by the committee declared.

For its own part, the committee published a list of facts that it said were new insights revealed by the investigation:

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 “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]

 

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/06/28/benghazi-committee-releases-final-report-slams-clinton/

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12 hours to launch 2 fighters and a tanker. Give me a break.

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Benghazi Report Includes 15 Questions Not Answered by President Obama

 

(CNSNews.com) - When did President Obama first hear about the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, and when did he learn it was a terrorist attack? Did he issue any orders to his Defense Secretary? Did he know what military assets were available to respond to the attack and was he aware of State Department concerns that a U.S. military rescue might look like an invasion to the Libyans?

 

Appendix C of the Republicans' Benghazi report includes 15 questions for President Obama, which the White House has declined to answer.

 

According to Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, "the President is uniquely situated to answer these questions. In fact, he is the only person who can answer some of these questions."

 

The committee's 15 questions for the president are set out as follows, vebatim:

 

1. The White House issued a readout of your meeting with senior administration officials on September 10, 2012, indicating “specific measures” had been taken to “prevent 9/11 related attacks.” What were these specific measures, and how did these specific measures differ from specific measures taken on prior anniversaries of September 11?

 

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/gop-benghazi-report-includes-15-unanswered-questions-president-obama

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5 Big Takeaways From The House Benghazi Report

 

A congressional committee responsible for investigating the 2012 terrorist attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, has issued its final report.

 

Here are the five big takeaways from the U.S. House Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi, Libya, gleaned from a summary report by Reps. Jim Jordan, R-OH, and Mike Pompeo, R-KS.

 

1. Administration Misled Public Immediately and Continually

Even though U.S. officials — including Hillary Clinton — knew immediately that the siege in Benghazi was a highly coordinated terror attack, they chose to mislead the public with statements about spontaneous protests caused by a YouTube video.

 

The report indicates that political considerations were on the minds of State Department officials learning about the attack. Before the Benghazi attack even ended, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland sent an email to two other, high-level Clinton aides, Jacob Sullivan and Phillipe Reines, that noted top Obama aide Ben Rhodes was worried or upset about Mitt Romney’s comments on the attack. As Jordan and Pompeo put it:

 

And so on this highly charged political stage — just 56 days before the presidential election — events forced the administration to make a choice about what to tell the American people: Tell the truth that heavily armed terrorists had killed one American and possibly kidnapped a second — and increase the risk of losing the election. Say we do not know what happened. Or blame a video-inspired protest by tying Benghazi to what had occurred earlier in the day in Cairo. The administration chose the third, a statement with the least factual support but that would help the most politically.

Obama’s reelection campaign was a prominent consideration, but Hillary Clinton’s signature policy achievement was her push to invade Libya, so the political ramifications were serious for her as well. As her Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of Policy Jacob Sullivan characterized it in 2011, Clinton had “leadership/ownership/stewardship of this country’s Libya policy from start to finish.” Buddy Sidney Blumenthal, who had business interests in Libya, praised Clinton for following his advice on invading Libya and encouraged her to take full credit for the invasion.

 

http://thefederalist.com/2016/06/28/5-big-takeaways-from-the-house-benghazi-report/

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Special Ops Veteran Analyses Full #Benghazi Report

Posted by Leslie Eastman Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 10:30am

Barry C. Jacobsen, former Green Beret and military history expert, digs into and explains what happened.

 

Mary recently covered the damning Benghazi report that indicates Hillary Clinton and the rest of the Obama administration focused on managing public relations instead of military assets in response to the 2012 attack in Libya.

 

However, the mainstream media asserts the 800-page evaluation shows no new evidence of wrongdoing by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Furthermore, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell praised Clinton as intelligent and capable the day after that report.

 

One of our best known San Diego bloggers, Barry C. Jacobsen, is a former Green Beret and amilitary history expert.

He is taking the time to read the full document and analyze various sections through the prism of his Special Ops experience and insight into military tactics.

 

In other words, a blogger is doing the job the mainstream American press won’t do. Again.

Jacobsen’s first analysis covers the question: Why did the Marine Corps Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team (F.A.S.T.) take so long to launch from its base in Rota, Spain to Benghazi?

http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/07/special-ops-veteran-analyses-full-benghazi-report/

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Special Ops Veteran Analyses Full #Benghazi Report

Posted by Leslie Eastman Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 10:30am

Barry C. Jacobsen, former Green Beret and military history expert, digs into and explains what happened.

 

Mary recently covered the damning Benghazi report that indicates Hillary Clinton and the rest of the Obama administration focused on managing public relations instead of military assets in response to the 2012 attack in Libya.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Excellent. I am still waiting to hear why it was going to take 10-12 hours to launch 2 fighter and a tanker and get them to Benghazi.

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you are not going to get that answer for years or ever