Benghazi Select Committee [Official Thread]

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Benghazi cover up tied to U.S. gun-smuggling operation: Documents

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The Obama administration officials ? with the awareness of the Secretary of State ? were involved in violating a ban on arming rebels in Syria in an operation that mirrors the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan Administration. But while the news media initiated a feeding-frenzy on Iran-Contra, they?re either yawning or helping the Obama administration in covering up the Benghazi-to-Syria arms transfers.

During Thursday?s House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing, the news media and the Democratic Party information machine appeared to be creating their desired narrative: the GOP is on a witch hunt to stop Hillary Clinton?s inauguration as President. But the hearings did manage to force the release of documents that were being hidden by the alleged conspirators.

Some of the many documents released by a watchdog group that investigates and exposes corruption and criminal activity by government officials and agencies provides evidence that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other senior officials, as well as President Barack Obama, deceived the American people regarding the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi U.S. consulate massacre. The pages released show that top administration officials were handed intelligence reports within hours of the attack that stated the Islamic terrorists? actions had been planned up to 10 days before the attack and the goal was simply to assassinate as many Americans as possible.

The documents also confirm the suspicions that U.S. government officials were well aware of weapons being shipped from Benghazi to Syria for use by rebel forces against the Al-Assad regime, according to Judicial Watch. In addition, the document-release contains an August 2012 analysis of intelligence that predicted the meteoric rise of al-Qaida in Iraq terrorists who morphed into the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. It also the predicted failure of Obama?s foreign policy aimed at regime change in Syria.

In an overly redacted copy of a memorandum dated Sept. 12, 2012 ? the day after the Bengahzi slaughter of four Americans including a U.S. ambassador ? the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reported to Hillary Clinton, then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, the White House National Security Council and the U.S. military?s Joint Chiefs of Staff that the Islamic terrorists planned their attack about 10 or more days prior to the slaughter that occurred on the day the U.S. acknowledged the 11th Anniversary of the attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania that killed about 3,000 people.

The terrorists intended to attack the sparsely protected U.S. diplomatic mission and to assassinate as many American officials as possible. The motive for the attack appeared to be revenge for the U.S. killing of Abu Yahya al-Libi, a high-level Al Qaida terrorist killed by U.S. drone strikes in North Waziristan.

According to Judicial Watch?s analysis of the documents, the Benghazi attack ?was planned and perpetrated by members of the Brigades of the Captive Omar Abdul Rahman (BCOAR). BCOAR is also responsible for past attacks

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Gowdy: Benghazi Interviews Will Be in Private After Grandstanding Over Clinton

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The upcoming interviews by the Benghazi Select Committee will be held in private following the daylong televised testimony by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the committee's chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy, said Sunday.

"I can just tell you of the 50-some-odd interviews we have done thus far, the vast majority have been private and you don't see the bickering among the members of congress in private interviews," Gowdy told "Meet the Press"  host Chuck Todd. "The private ones produce better results."

Clinton herself requested the public interview, Gowdy said, which was her right.

"I can just tell you in the private interviews there is never any of what you saw Thursday," he said. "It is one hour on the Republican side, one hour on the Democrat side which is why you're going to see the next two dozen interviews done privately."

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Benghazi Commission: Obama Admin Gun-Running Scheme Armed Islamic State

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/30/benghazi-commission-obama-admin-gun-running-scheme-armed-islamic-state/

The Obama administration pursued a policy in Libya back in 2011 that ultimately allowed guns to walk into the hands of jihadists linked to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda (AQ) in Syria, according to a former CIA officer who co-authored a report on behalf of the Citizen?s Commission on Benghazi (CCB), detailing the gun running scheme.

In Congress, the then-bipartisan group known as the ?Gang of Eight,? at a minimum, knew of the operation to aid and abet America?s jihadist enemies by providing them with material support. So says Clare Lopez, a former CIA officer and the primary author of CCB?s interim report, titled How America Switched Sides in the War on Terror, speaking with Breitbart News.

The ripple effects of the illegal policy to arm America?s enemies continue to be felt as the U.S. military is currently leading a war against ISIS and AQ terrorists in Iraq and Syria, according to Lopez.

In late October, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said that the U.S. would begin ?direct action on the ground? against ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria who may have reaped the benefits from the gun-running scheme that started in Libya.

?The Obama administration effectively switched sides in what used to be called the Global War on Terror [GWOT] when it decided to overthrow the sovereign government of our Libyan ally, Muammar Qaddafi, who?d been helping in the fight against al-Qaeda, by actually teaming up with and facilitating gun-running to Libyan al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood [MB] elements there in 2011,? explained Lopez. ?This U.S. gun-running policy in 2011 during the Libyan revolution was directed by [then] Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and [the late Libya Ambassador] Christopher Stevens, who was her official envoy to the Libyan AQ rebels.?

To avoid having the funds tracked back to the Obama administration, the arms flow to Libya was financed thru the United Arab Emirates, while Qatar served as the logistical and shipping hub, she noted.

?In 2012, the gun-running into Libya turned around and began to flow outward, from Benghazi to the AQ-and-MB-dominated rebels in Syria,? Lopez added. ?This time, it was the CIA Base of Operations that was in charge of collecting up and shipping out [surface-to-air missiles] SAMs from Libya on Libyan ships to Turkey for overland delivery to a variety of jihadist militias, some of whose members later coalesced into groups like Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS [also known as IS].?

Jabhat al-Nusra is al-Qaeda?s Syrian affiliate.

?The downstream consequences of Obama White House decisions in the Syrian conflict are still playing out, but certainly the U.S. ? and particularly CIA ? support of identifiable jihadist groups associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, Jabhat al-Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham, the Islamic State and other [jihadists] has only exacerbated what was already a devastating situation,? declared Lopez.

Some of the other weapons that eventually ended up in Syria included thousands of MAN-Portable-Air-Defense-System (MANPADS) missile units, such as shoulder-launched SAMs, from late dictator Muammar Qaddafi?s extensive arms stockpiles that pose a threat to low-flying aircraft, especially helicopters.

?It?s been reported that President Obama signed an Executive Order on Syria in early 2012 [just as he had done for Libya in early 2011], that legally covered the CIA and other U.S. agencies that otherwise would have been in violation of aiding and abetting the enemy in time of war and providing material support to terrorism,? notes Lopez. ?Still, such blatant disregard for U.S. national security can only be described as deeply corrosive of core American principles.?

Libya Amb. Stevens was killed by jihadists in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, along with three other Americans.

Echoing a Benghazi resident who provided a first-hand account of the incident, retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Dennis Haney, a CCB member, suggested to Breitbart News that Hillary Clinton?s State Department armed some of the al-Qaeda linked jihadists who may have killed the four Americans in Benghazi.

?The reason the U.S. government was operating in Libya is absolutely critical to this debacle because it reflects where America went off the tracks and literally switched sides in the GWOT,? points out Lopez. ?This is about who we are as a country, as a people ? where we are going with this Republic of ours.?

?There can be no greater treason than aiding and abetting the jihadist enemy in time of war ? or providing material ? weapons, funding, intel, NATO bombing ? support to terrorism,? she continued. ?The reason Benghazi is not the burning issue it ought to be is because so many at top levels of U.S. government were implicated in wrong-doing: White House, Pentagon, Intel Community-CIA, Gang of Eight, at a minimum, in Congress, the Department of State, etc.?

The State Department and the CIA did not respond to Breitbart News? requests for comment.

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Running guns to enemies of the USA by the Obama Administration.  Hmmm!  Got away with it on one occasion, and God knows how many others?

Again, this is impeachable, but the dead from the neck up Congress will do nothing.  My unborn grandchildren will have grandchildren by the time Congress does anything.