House GOP Report: Despite eyewitness accounts, Clinton, administration pushed video explanation for Benghazi

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/06/28/house-gop-report-despite-eyewitness-accounts-clinton-administration-pushed-video-explanation-for-benghazi.html/

EXCLUSIVE – The claim that the fatal 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks were sparked by an anti-Muslim video was crafted in Washington by Obama administration appointees and reflected neither eyewitness nor real-time reports from the Americans under siege, according to the final report of the GOP-led Benghazi Select Committee.

The GOP report, released Tuesday, followed by less than a day a report by the Democrats on the panel saying that security at the Benghazi, Libya facility was “woefully inadequate” but former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton never personally denied any requests from diplomats for additional protection.

According to portions of the Republican report reviewed by Fox News, one U.S. agent at the American outpost in Benghazi, whose name was withheld for security reasons, told the committee he first heard “some kind of chanting.”

Then that sound was immediately followed by “explosions” and “gunfire, then roughly 70 people rushing into the compound with an assortment of “AK-47s, grenades, RPG’s … a couple of different assault rifles,” the agent said.

In addition, a senior watch officer at the State Department's diplomatic security command described the Sept. 11, 2012, strikes as "a full on attack against our compound.”

When asked whether he saw or heard a protest prior to the attacks, the officer replied, "zip, nothing, nada," according to the Republican majority report.

“None of the information coming directly from the agents on the ground in Benghazi during the attacks mentioned anything about a video or a protest. The firsthand accounts made their way to the office of the Secretary through multiple channels quickly …,” the report concluded.

U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, foreign service officer Sean Smith and former Navy Seals Ty Woods and Glen Doherty, were killed in the attacks.

Five days later, then-United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice went on every national Sunday talk show. She told Fox News Sunday, “What sparked the recent violence was the airing on the Internet of a very hateful, very offensive video that has offended many people around the world.”

The GOP committee report also identified for the first time a White House meeting that was convened roughly three hours into the attack and included deputies to senior Cabinet members and Clinton.

Stevens was missing at the time. But the report found “much of the conversation focused on the video (which) is surprising given no direct link or solid evidence existed connecting the attacks in Benghazi and the video at the time ….”

The report found that “five of the 10 action items from the rough notes of the 7:30pm meeting reference the video.”

Unlike the Usama bin Laden raid in 2011, in which Clinton, President Obama and his national security team watched events unfold from the Situation Room, they never gathered for Benghazi.

Clinton issued the only statement that night from the administration, following the White House meeting. It read in part: “Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet.”

However, Clinton said something very different privately.

In an email provided to the Select Committee, Clinton told daughter Chelsea, “Two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an Al Queda-like [sic] group.”

Clinton also told Egypt’s prime minister the following day: “We know that the attacks in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack -- not a protest.”

Kansas GOP Rep. Mike Pompeo, a Benghazi committee member, told Fox News in advance of the report’s release that the report is new and significant because it’s the first to include interviews from “everybody on the ground” in Benghazi.

More than 30 people’s lives were at risk that night, and the majority worked at the secret CIA annex in Benghazi.

Pompeo also said the findings show “it’s unambiguous the administration knew immediately it was a terror attack. And the story of fog of war was known to be false immediately by everyone in the administration.”

Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has seen her campaign plagued by questions about whether she and the rest of the State Department provided adequate security for Americans before the attacks and about why the administration continued to tell Americans the attacks were inspired by the video.

Committee Republicans say the deputies’ meeting, in which Clinton was involved, on the night of the Benghazi attack shows she’s not ready for the so-called “3 a.m. call.”

The report interviewed more than 80 witnesses previously not called before Congress to testify.

Among them was Ben Rhodes, the president’s deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, who with political adviser David Plouffe prepped Rice for her national TV appearances claiming the video was responsible for the terrorist attack.

Rice said her statements were based on the best available information, but nobody from the intelligence community such as the CIA director or the Director of National Intelligence briefed Rice. That was done by the political appointees.

In fact, a Sept. 14, 2012 memo from Rhodes included the subject line: "RE: PREP Call with Susan: Saturday at 4:00 pm ET."

The email was sent to a dozen members of the administration's inner circle, including key members of the White House communications team such as then-Press Secretary Jay Carney, who also pushed the video narrative in the days after the attacks.

In the email, Rhodes specifically draws attention to the anti-Islam Internet video, without distinguishing whether the Benghazi attack was different from protests elsewhere, including one day earlier in Cairo.

The Rhodes email, which was a catalyst for the Select Committee, was first obtained by Judicial Watch through a federal court lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act.

The email lists the following two goals, among others: "to underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video and not a broader failure of policy” and “to reinforce the President and Administration's strength and steadiness in dealing with difficult challenges."

Rhodes was the same official who signed off on Clinton’s statement the night of the attack linking the video to Benghazi.

The report found the post attack intelligence analysis had errors, contradicting the eyewitness accounts that night, and it alleges the administration latched onto the faulty analysis to defend and justify their misleading statements to the public.

There were in fact two sets of talking points – the White House version by Rhodes and the one by the CIA. When editing the CIA's version, Deputy Director Michael Morell knew his personnel on the ground disputed the protest analysis, but he gave the final say to his analysts in Washington, thousands of miles away.

Hillary needs to be hung for treason the Marines and the Ambassador that were killed in Benghazi were killed with our guns moved by Obama's administration that just happened to get intercepted leaving Syria the only reason this did not hit the news because the FBI even knew about it because the one shred of proof they had for the guns being traded was shot in the head

"The Men Who Knew Too Much"!
Witnesses have a way of dying around Hillary!

The short version? It happened on Sept 11, just months before a president election for a dumocratic incumbent with falling ratings whose election loss would muddy the waters and create difficulty for a promised Clinton coronation in the 2016 election cycle.

There could be video of Hillary putting a bullet in the back of Ambassador Steven's head while he was blind folded and kneeling and her supporters wouldn't care.

I'd really be surprised if she doesn't become Madam President.

BREAKING: Look What Clinton Did IMMEDIATELY After Gowdy Released Benghazi Report

Just moments after the House Benghazi committee released its final report of their investigation of the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton pulled a classic liberal tactic by attempting to change the subject.

She decided to attack the Second Amendment.

Clintoned posted a link on her Facebook account that purported to explain three actions America should take to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists.

(is that the same Louse who sold Weapons to terrorists?)


The post claimed that we have made it easy for terrorists to buy guns in America and attacked Republicans for standing in the way of arresting terrorists. The article also claimed that we need a president who will stand up to the gun lobby.

In actuality, we need a president who will stand up for Americans.

Clinton has proven time and time again that she puts herself and her agenda first, so don’t expect her to address the Benghazi Committee’s final report. After all, she already testified for 11 long, excruciating hours before the committee — isn’t that enough?

The report concluded that the administration made pathetic excuses for the attack and are still making excuses. Clinton doesn’t have enough character to address that or the fact that the government failed the Americans in Libya by putting politics first.

It’s pitiful, but unfortunately not surprising that Clinton, who is under investigation investigation by the FBI for irresponsibly using a private, email server from which she sent thousands of messages that contained classified information and put the nation’s security at risk, would deflect to taking a swipe at the Second Amendment.

It’s a standard liberal move, but it’s not going to work. Most people understand that she cannot be trusted.

Share this story if you agree that Clinton is pulling an old liberal trick by trying to distract the public instead of addressing the committee’s findings.

http://conservativetribune.com/clinton-after-benghazi-report/

it's not about who died and why, it's about obarry and hillary...

TEFLON-Hillary!

One of her Dem cucks was just doing a TV interview on Benghazi and tried to switch the convo to the 2nd amendment. Guess we know what the marching orders are.

Two GOP lawmakers issue more critical addendum to Benghazi report

Two Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee have released a supplement to the panel's final report because they felt that Chairman Trey Gowdy’s effort did not sufficiently criticize the Obama Administration's handling of the attacks.

Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mike Pompeo of Kansas have released an addendum that concludes Hillary Clinton “failed to lead” when she was Secretary of State and the administration “misled the public” about what happened in Benghazi because of the looming 2012 presidential election.

The "additional views" section does not appear to be signed by any other panel Republicans.

The Jordan-Pompeo addition concludes that the White House, State and other agencies hid the facts from the public when they tried to blame the attack on a protest sparked by an anti-Islam video rather than calling it a terrorist attack. The election, their report notes, was just 56 days away, and “rather than tell the American people the truth and increase the risk of losing an election, the administration told one story privately and a different story publicly.”

When Clinton testified before the Benghazi panel last October, Jordan slammed the Democratic frontrunner for telling her daughter in an email it was a terrorist attack — and then telling the families of the victims that they’d get to the bottom of the video issue.

The additional report is also more sharply critical of State's handling of security issues.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/benghazi-report-findings-2016/2016/06/benghazi-report-ciritical-addendum-224871

Hillary Clinton, The Butcher of Benghazi!

I also saw on the news today that they had FAST teams and Special Forces (Delta) on the tarmac ready to rock and roll but were give then stand down order partly because they didn't want what they are wearing to offend them!

Daniel Bongino, the former Supervisory Secret Service Agent in charge of both protecting President Bush, President Obama, the Pope and other dignitaries went on TV now that the documents were released that they have an emergency plan in case something like this happens and then an emergency plan for the emergency plan. We military assets and private contractors (who were former Special Forces) in the area as well as the teams on stand by.

This is an Agent who resigned in disgust and what he observed with Obama and his administration. He said it was hell.

When Donald Trump get's elected and he assigns Rudy Giuliani as the Attorney General and Trey Gowdy As the Deputy Attorney General. The gloves will be off. I say Rudy, because he has handled nasty politically corrected mob prosecutions who also took down the Mafia Commission. He's a damn good prosecutor and attorney. Giuliani would be a good basically Mentor to Gowdy to help her take down Clinton and Huma. Then he can retire like he wants and let Gowdy become Attorney General.

Problem is that by then she will have been pardoned by Obama for every Crime she has committed,therefore be immune to any prosecution!

Nothing will happen to Madam President.

She can record herself on a good day & send it out to all the alphabet networks.

"Good Morning Citizens Of North America. As a wife, mother & grandmother with a multi-cultural staff of 1,000, I understand the hardships... Blah blah blah.. "

If that slag gets elected,
get ready for the bizarro-world fun camps.

getting even better!

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/29/politics/bill-clinton-loretta-lynch/index.html

(CNN)Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton met privately on Monday in Phoenix, Arizona, after the two realized they were on the same tarmac, an aide to Clinton said.
The meeting took place at an Arizona airport ahead of the public release Tuesday morning of the House Benghazi committee's report on the September 11, 2012, attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya.
Speaking at a news conference in Phoenix on Tuesday, Lynch confirmed the meeting and denied the two spoke about any matter pending before the Justice Department or the Benghazi probe. She also said the former president "did not raise anything" about an ongoing case or anything of that nature.
"I did see President Clinton at the Phoenix airport as he was leaving and spoke to myself and my husband on the plane," Lynch said according to CNN affiliate KNXV/ABC15. "Our conversation was a great deal about grandchildren, it was primarily social about our travels and he mentioned golf he played in Phoenix."
The private moment in Arizona drew particular attention because Lynch's Justice Department has an ongoing investigation into the email practices of Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, when she was secretary of state. It also came before Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama, who appointed Lynch to attorney general, publicly announced on Wednesday they would campaign together, marking the President's first official foray onto the 2016 campaign trail.

The former president's aide said nothing beyond Lynch's characterization of the account was discussed, and that Clinton "always" extends this courtesy when he is around cabinet secretaries, members of Congress and other dignitaries, pointing to the former president's unplanned meeting with Sen. Ted Cruz at an Alabama airport in May.
Asked in Los Angeles on Wednesday whether the meeting risked the department's impartiality in its investigation, Lynch said the email probe is "being handled by career investigators and career agents who always follow the facts and the law."
The email investigation has continued to simmer in the background of the 2016 election contest, becoming a particular focus of a recently concluded Republican investigation in Congress and a nonstop target of her presumed general election opponent Donald Trump.
The steady flow of details and ongoing speculation around the email investigation have helped to fuel Clinton's perceived trustworthiness issues among voters, a problem the former secretary of state herself recently acknowledged.

You think that will stop Trump? Nothing stops Trump!