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Friday, September 9th, 2016
U.S. military woefully unprepared to aid Americans during Benghazi attack
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Thursday, September 8th, 2016
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
benghazi.house.gov/NewInfo – FULL BENGHAZI REPORT
Select Committee on Benghazi Releases Proposed Report
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.
The following facts are among the many new revelations in Part I:
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Monday, May 9th, 2016
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Saturday, April 9th, 2016
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
THE IRANIAN CONNECTION TO BENGHAZI
Questions about Iran’s involvement in the Benghazi attack persist
By Kenneth R. Timmerman Kenneth R. Timmerman is the author of”Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi” and president of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran
March 20, 2016
EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:
“Everyone knew the Iranians were in Benghazi,” former CIA security officer Kris “Tanto” Paranto said in an interview. “Especially once the Red Cross [Red Crescent] team from Iran was ‘kidnapped’ by Ansar al-Shariah, we knew about them and were tracking them.”
The “kidnapping” was reported in the Libyan press as the result of a feud between Sunni militiamen and an Iranian Shiite medical team, but in fact was a carefully staged deception operation to lead the CIA off the track.
“The kidnapping of the Red Crescent team in Benghazi was a false flag operation,” a U.S. Special Forces flag officer who was then providing intelligence support for overseas operations said.
“They were actually Quds Force operatives. The kidnapping was arranged to make it look like they were being taken hostages, when actually they were being taken off the street so they could covertly direct the attack on the U.S. compound. “We know from liaison relationships that Iranians did the training. They organized the militia and taught them how to zero in the mortars. They set up sophisticated surveillance of the consulate — and they did it all while they were ‘hostages,’” he said.
In the aftermath of the 2012
Benghazi attack that killed four Americans, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn tasked the intelligence community for information on
Iran’s involvement in the attack.
Until now, government officials have refused to acknowledge any Iranian involvement in
Benghazi. But the Flynn memo indicates that at least some in the
U.S. intelligence community suspected Tehran from the very beginning.
A top secret Sept. 21 memo responding to the director’s inquiry and disclosed as the result of a
Freedom of Information Act request from the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch includes fragmentary information on
al Qaeda affiliates. But
its conclusions regarding Iran’s notorious Quds Force, a deadly hybrid of intelligence and special operations, have been totally redacted.
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Friday, January 15th, 2016
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2015
DECEMBER 08, 2015
EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE“ The Obama administration and Clinton officials hid this compelling Benghazi email for years,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The email makes readily apparent that the military was prepared to launch immediate assistance that could have made a difference, at least at the CIA Annex. The fact that the Obama Administration withheld this email for so long only worsens the scandal of Benghazi.”
“They are spinning up as we speak.” U.S. Department of Defense Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 7:19 PM
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released a new Benghazi email from then-Department of Defense Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash to State Department leadership immediately offering “forces that could move to Benghazi” during the terrorist attack on the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. In an email sent to top Department of State officials, at 7:19 p.m. ET, only hours after the attack had begun, Bash says, “we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak.” The Obama administration redacted the details of the military forces available, oddly citing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemption that allows the withholding of “deliberative process” information.
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2015
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Islamic State Tightens Grip on Libya Base
Sirte is the first city the extremist group has taken control of outside Syria and Iraq
BY TAMER EL-GHOBASHY AND HASSAN MORAJEA
November 30, 2015
MISRATA, Libya—Even as foreign powers step up pressure against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the militant group has expanded in Libya and established a new base close to Europe where it can generate oil revenue and plot terror attacks.
Since announcing its presence in February in Sirte, the city on Libya’s Mediterranean coast has become the first that the militant group governs outside of Syria and Iraq. Its presence there has grown over the past year from 200 eager fighters to a roughly 5,000-strong contingent that includes administrators and financiers, according to estimates by Libyan intelligence officials, residents and activists in the area.
The group has exploited the deep divisions in Libya, which has two rival governments, to create this new stronghold of violent religious extremism just across the Mediterranean Sea from Italy. Along the way, they scored a string of victories— defeating one of the strongest fighting forces in the country and swiftly crushing a local popular revolt.
Libya’s neighbors have become increasingly alarmed. (more…)
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Monday, October 26th, 2015
State Department documents detail delays and lack of support in hours after attack
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released new State Department documents that raise more questions about the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. Special Mission at Benghazi, Libya. The documents show the White House contacted YouTube over an Internet video as one of its first moves after the initial attack.
The documents, from the agency’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, were provided to Judicial Watch in response to a court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on October 16, 2014, (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01733)). The lawsuit seeks “any and all logs, reports, or other records” the Washington-based Diplomatic Security Command Center produced between September 10, 2012, and September 13, 2012, relating to the terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya.”
The documents detail that only three hours after the initial attack on U.S. personnel in Benghazi, the White House contacted YouTube in an apparent effort to initially blame the assault on an obscure “Pastor John video,” rather than filmmaker Nakoula “Mark” Basseley Nakoula. The administration falsely claimed that Nakoula’s video, “Innocence of Muslims,” provoked the attack. The email also references the involvement of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (Judicial Watch, through separate litigation, previously uncovered documents that show Obama White House officials set Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi response):
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2015
Trey Gowdy Amazed 7 Congressional Committees Failed to get Amb Stevens Emails
Trey Gowdy expressed amazement that 7 congressional committees investigating Benghazi failed to request and read emails sent and received by the Late Ambassador Stevens. Considering the information contained in those emails, it was a major oversight not gaining possession of them. Almost to the day he took over in Libya, Stevens was requesting additional security for the compound in Benghazi.
“How did they miss Ambassador Stevens’ emails? None of the seven previous committees bothered to access the emails of our ambassador.”
One striking thing you see when inspecting the emails is that the ambassador and Hillary didn’t email each other. In June of 2012, Ambassador Stevens began requesting additional security at the compound, but the emails he was receiving from staffers at the State Department were requests on ways to spin the fact that Obama’s interference in Libya created a power vacuum that allowed terrorists to take control of large chunks of the country. So their priority was spin not security.
Gowdy has referenced the emails when democrats who lie like Elijah Cummings claim the investigation has not produced anything new and shoot off their mouths to their willing dupes in the press. These emails give us a much better understanding what was going on in the State Dept.
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the House Committee on Armed Services, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the House Committee on the Judiciary, and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform have all investigated the attack.
Gowdy explained the importance of these emails:
“If we want a window into Libya and what was happening in the weeks and months before these four were killed, why would you not look at the ambassador’s emails? He was a prolific emailer,”
Besides the Stevens’ emails, the committee has obtained an additional 50,000 pages of documents on Benghazi, including a large cache of emails from Hillary. Gowdy also pointed out that on the day of the attack, the State Department asked Stevens to confirm the information Blumenthal sent Hillary.
Reminds me of the old Ted Mack television show, “Amateur Hour.”
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