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#Benghazi whistle-blower names revealed

Posted by: Phineas on May 4, 2013 at 12:01 pm » 8 Comments

**Posted by Phineas And these are people in position to know what happened: Appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will be three career State Department officials: Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time of the Benghazi terrorist attacks and, upon the killing of [...]

 

State Dept. Inspector General investigating State Dept. Board that investigated #Benghazi

Posted by: Phineas on May 3, 2013 at 1:01 pm » 7 Comments

**Posted by Phineas But, don’t worry. According to a State Department spokesman, this is just part of a standard review of “the process.” Yeah, sure it is. The State Department’s Office of Inspector General is investigating the special internal panel that probed the Benghazi terror attack for the State Department, Fox News has confirmed. The IG’s [...]

 

#Benghazi: Obama denied aid to attacked consulate – confirmed?

Posted by: Phineas on May 2, 2013 at 1:58 pm » 8 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Last November, in a post about the Benghazi consulate massacre and the question of military relief, I wrote about the question of “cross-border authority” – that is, who has the power to order our military to enter another country without their permission, per force an act of war. Quoting an article at PJM by Matt [...]

 

Are State Dept and CIA officials being threatened over upcoming #Benghazi testimony?

Posted by: ST on April 29, 2013 at 7:58 pm » 7 Comments

Disturbing – via  Fox News’ James Rosen: At least four career officials at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency have retained lawyers or are in the process of doing so, as they prepare to provide sensitive information about the Benghazi attacks to Congress, Fox News has learned. Victoria Toensing, a former Justice Department [...]

 

#Benghazi: the President couldn’t be bothered to pick up the phone

Posted by: Phineas on February 16, 2013 at 5:03 pm » 6 Comments

**Posted by Phineas One of your embassies is under attack, your ambassador and other Americans  are in grave danger, and forces you’ve sent to their aid are held up at the local airport in a turf dispute. So, what do you do? Do you pick up the phone and call the leader of the host [...]

 

Babs Boxer “infuriated” over Rand Paul’s “attack” on Hillary Clinton at #Benghazi hearing

Posted by: ST on January 24, 2013 at 1:06 pm » 10 Comments

Oh, what ridiculous pearl-clutching! Via Politico: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) didn’t like Sen. Rand Paul’s comments about firing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at all. “When I heard him say those words, I walked out of the hearing room and listened to him from behind the stage because I was so infuriated at what that [...]

 

(Video) #Benghazi: Sen. Rand Paul to Hillary – “I would have relieved you.”

Posted by: Phineas on January 23, 2013 at 11:47 am » 6 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Yes! Exactly! It’s the eternal way in Washington: “We are all responsible” means “No one is responsible” means “Don’t hold me responsible.” Especially when the person saying it really is one of those responsible. I’m liking Rand Paul a lot right now. via the Washington Free Beacon (Crossposted at Public Secrets)

 

#Benghazi — There are still a few genuine reporters left

Posted by: Phineas on January 23, 2013 at 10:31 am » 3 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Some of you may recall that I’ve in the past praised Sharyl Attkisson of CBS for her work on the Fast and Furious scandal. For a long time, she was almost the only MSM reporter asking serious questions about what happened in that “felony stupid” fiasco Sharyl’s also been digging into the [...]

 

Benghazi Consulate Massacre: the deaths are real, the punishments were fake.

Posted by: Phineas on December 27, 2012 at 8:01 pm » 4 Comments

**Posted by Phineas This is just outrageous. Four Americans died in Benghazi and the people held accountable for it in the official review whitewash, who supposedly were forced to resign, were instead just given a timeout: The four officials supposedly out of jobs because of their blunders in the run-up to the deadly Benghazi terror attack [...]

 

Benghazi Consulate Massacre: they were unarmed

Posted by: Phineas on December 11, 2012 at 1:28 pm » 8 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Imagine you’ve just helped overthrow a “repressive, but no threat to you” government in a far-off country, but it turns out that many of the residents –your erstwhile allies– are themselves sympathetic your deadly enemies, who’ve proven themselves to be very much a threat.  And now imagine you’re going to establish a [...]