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Mike Rogers: Expect More Benghazi Whistleblowers
Sunday, 12 May 2013
A top Republican on Sunday said he expected more witnesses to step
forward with information about last year's deadly attack on a U.S.
mission in Benghazi and how President Barack Obama's administration
responded to the unfolding events.
"I do think we're going to see more whistle blowers. I certainly know
my committee has been contacted," Representative Mike Rogers, chairman
of the House Intelligence Committee, said in an interview on "Fox News
Sunday".
Last week, Republican charges that White House covered up details of
the Sept. 11, 2012 attack gathered more steam after former U.S.
diplomat Greg Hicks told lawmakers he believed more could have been
done to stop the assault by suspected Islamist militants.
Hicks, the second in command at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time,
expressed his frustration in an emotionally charged congressional
hearing that a U.S. military jet and special forces were not sent to
help in Benghazi.
A report by ABC News provided additional momentum to the highly
partisan flap over whether the administration tried to avoid casting
the attack as terrorism at a time when the presidential election was
less than two months away.
ABC released 12 versions of the administration's "talking points" on
Benghazi that appeared to show how various agencies - particularly the
State Department and the CIA - shaped what became the Obama
administration's initial playbook for explaining how four Americans,
including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the
attack.
The report showed the final talking points went through a series of
revisions that scrubbed references to previous terror warnings,
including one regarding the potential threat from al Qaeda in Benghazi
and eastern Libya.
"I would call it a cover-up in the extent that there was willful
removal of information," Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican,
said on ABC's "This Week".
McCain called for a select congressional committee with a mandate to
interview "everybody," including former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, who has already testified before Congress on the matter and
accepted responsibility for the tragedy.
But McCain's call was brushed off by fellow Republican Representative
Darrell Issa, who chairs the House of Representatives Oversight and
Government committee that heard from Hicks last week.
"You know, let's not blow things out of proportion. This is a failure,
it needs to be investigated. Our committee can investigate," Issa
said.
Issa said he would be sending a request on Monday to privately depose
two former U.S. officials that headed the Accountability Review Board,
which investigated the Benghazi attacks and issued a scathing report
on Dec. 18 that criticized security at the mission and leadership
"deficiencies".
Issa said he wanted to hear from Thomas Pickering, a former U.S.
ambassador in the Middle East, Russia and India, and retired Admiral
Michael Mullen, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
privately "so we can get the facts in a nonpartisan way."
Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, told ABC News there was no
basis to Republican charges of a cover up.
The Obama administration has provided over 25,000 pieces of
documentation to Congress, which has already held 11 hearings on the
matter, Reed said.
Meanwhile, Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a Republican who
served in Obama's Democratic administration, told CBS' "Face the
Nation" it would have been "very difficult, if not impossible" to
rescue the U.S. embassy officials and said he would have not have
approved such an operation.
"To send some small number of special forces or other troops in
without knowing what the environment is, without knowing what the
threat is, without having any intelligence in terms of what is
actually going on the ground, I think would have been very dangerous,"
Gates said.
"It's sort of a cartoonish impression of military capabilities and
military forces" to think the United States could have mounted a
rescue, Gates said.
It would have been risky just to send in a military jet to try to
scare off the insurgents, "given the number of surface-to-air
missiles" on the loose in Libya, he said.
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Mike Rogers: Expect More Benghazi Whistleblowers
Sunday, 12 May 2013
A top Republican on Sunday said he expected more witnesses to step
forward with information about last year's deadly attack on a U.S.
mission in Benghazi and how President Barack Obama's administration
responded to the unfolding events.
"I do think we're going to see more whistle blowers. I certainly know
my committee has been contacted," Representative Mike Rogers, chairman
of the House Intelligence Committee, said in an interview on "Fox News
Sunday".
Last week, Republican charges that White House covered up details of
the Sept. 11, 2012 attack gathered more steam after former U.S.
diplomat Greg Hicks told lawmakers he believed more could have been
done to stop the assault by suspected Islamist militants.
Hicks, the second in command at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time,
expressed his frustration in an emotionally charged congressional
hearing that a U.S. military jet and special forces were not sent to
help in Benghazi.
A report by ABC News provided additional momentum to the highly
partisan flap over whether the administration tried to avoid casting
the attack as terrorism at a time when the presidential election was
less than two months away.
ABC released 12 versions of the administration's "talking points" on
Benghazi that appeared to show how various agencies - particularly the
State Department and the CIA - shaped what became the Obama
administration's initial playbook for explaining how four Americans,
including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the
attack.
The report showed the final talking points went through a series of
revisions that scrubbed references to previous terror warnings,
including one regarding the potential threat from al Qaeda in Benghazi
and eastern Libya.
"I would call it a cover-up in the extent that there was willful
removal of information," Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican,
said on ABC's "This Week".
McCain called for a select congressional committee with a mandate to
interview "everybody," including former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, who has already testified before Congress on the matter and
accepted responsibility for the tragedy.
But McCain's call was brushed off by fellow Republican Representative
Darrell Issa, who chairs the House of Representatives Oversight and
Government committee that heard from Hicks last week.
"You know, let's not blow things out of proportion. This is a failure,
it needs to be investigated. Our committee can investigate," Issa
said.
Issa said he would be sending a request on Monday to privately depose
two former U.S. officials that headed the Accountability Review Board,
which investigated the Benghazi attacks and issued a scathing report
on Dec. 18 that criticized security at the mission and leadership
"deficiencies".
Issa said he wanted to hear from Thomas Pickering, a former U.S.
ambassador in the Middle East, Russia and India, and retired Admiral
Michael Mullen, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
privately "so we can get the facts in a nonpartisan way."
Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, told ABC News there was no
basis to Republican charges of a cover up.
The Obama administration has provided over 25,000 pieces of
documentation to Congress, which has already held 11 hearings on the
matter, Reed said.
Meanwhile, Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a Republican who
served in Obama's Democratic administration, told CBS' "Face the
Nation" it would have been "very difficult, if not impossible" to
rescue the U.S. embassy officials and said he would have not have
approved such an operation.
"To send some small number of special forces or other troops in
without knowing what the environment is, without knowing what the
threat is, without having any intelligence in terms of what is
actually going on the ground, I think would have been very dangerous,"
Gates said.
"It's sort of a cartoonish impression of military capabilities and
military forces" to think the United States could have mounted a
rescue, Gates said.
It would have been risky just to send in a military jet to try to
scare off the insurgents, "given the number of surface-to-air
missiles" on the loose in Libya, he said.
--
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15,000+ Buckwheat & DemocRAT Pics!
Over 17 Million Hits Since 2/10!
4/17/13: Galleries Updated!
Nearly 500 New OBAMA & 'RAT Cartoons Added!
Learn the TRUTH about: Bradley K Sherman, Bret Cahill, Dakota, David Johnston,
Denny, Lee Curtis, LiberalHere, Lickin Ass' and Fakin' Military Service,
MI Wakefield, Mitchel Holman, Ramon Herrera, Roneal, Sid9, Sir Gay, Tom Sr,
Yoorghis.
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