Benghazi Select Committee [Official Thread]

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Could Congress be any more inept than they are?

Not inept if they want it. Traitors, not inept.

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State gives Benghazi panel 4,000 pages of new documents

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/240635-state-gives-benghazi-panel-4000-pages-of-new-documents

The chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Thursday announced that the State Department has handed over 4,000 pages of new documents to the panel.
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"The Benghazi Committee continues to build the most comprehensive and complete record on what happened before, during and after the Benghazi terrorist attacks," Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C) said in a statement.

"Contrary to those who said all had been asked and answered, the Benghazi Committee has shown there is more still for Congress to consider. The committee will provide the final, definitive accounting of what happened with regards to Benghazi, reaching conclusions based solely on facts," he added.

The documents come from the State Department?s Accountability Review Board (ARB) investigation into the deadly assault on the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya.

They include, among other things, emails and interview summaries, according to a congressional source.

This is the first time the State Department has turned over ARB documents to Congress, the agency told the select committee.

"Getting this production from State's Benghazi ARB is an important part of ensuring th

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Gowdy?s Benghazi Panel Wants Clinton?s Top Aides

http://www3.blogs.rollcall.com/218/benghazi-news-gowdy-huma-abedin/

The Republican chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Friday defended the pace of his panel?s year-old investigation into the 2012 terror attack and announced plans to interview three top aides to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., in a 15-page ?Interim Progress Update? released on the one-year-anniversary of the committee?s creation, blamed the Obama administration for delays in the panel?s probe.

?It is difficult to conduct a fact-centric congressional investigation when the Administration impedes the Committee?s progress by repeatedly failing to answer the Committee?s requests or to provide information in a timely manner,? wrote the South Carolina Republican.

?The largest impediment to being able to write the final, definitive accounting of what happened before, during and after the terrorist attacks in Benghazi is the Executive Branch itself.?

But Gowdy, who also has asked Clinton to appear before his panel, credits his committee with uncovering thousands of new emails and documents related to the administration?s handling of the attack that left four Americans dead.

Gowdy also said the panel wants to interview at least 60 more current and former officials, including Clinton, Susan Rice, Patrick Kennedy and three of Clinton?s top aides during her tenure as secretary of State: Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan and Huma Abedin.

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Trey Gowdy: Obama 'Greatest Impediment' to Benghazi Probe

http://www.newsmax.com/PrintTemplate.aspx/?nodeid=643573

The select House committee investigating the Benghazi attacks has made strides in learning the details of the assaults that killed four Americans 2012, Republican Chairman Trey Gowdy said Friday while slamming the Obama administration as "the greatest impediment to completing this investigation in a timely matter."

"We look forward to completing our work in a manner that is worthy of the sacrifice made by the four men who died and trust of our fellow Americans," Gowdy, who represents South Carolina, said in a report marking the panel's first anniversary.

But the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, blasted the investigation as a "political charade" that has so far cost American taxpayers $3 million and is being "dragged out in order to attack" former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is seeking her party's 2016 presidential nomination.

"At every turn, the select committee comes up with a new excuse to further delay its work," Cummings said. "Republicans are desperately trying to validate the $3 million in taxpayer funds they have spent over the past year, but they have nothing to show for it other than a partisan attack against

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Clinton email mess multiplies with allegations over 2nd email address

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/19/republicans-accuse-clinton-misleading-public-as-documents-show-2nd-email/

The Hillary Clinton email mystery took yet another confusing turn Tuesday with accusations from Republicans that the former secretary of state "misled" the public about her email practices, by using multiple "secret" addresses despite claims to the contrary.

However, a spokesman with the House committee probing the 2012 Benghazi attack, and Clinton's handling of it, would not go so far. Rather, he told FoxNews.com the confusion only further underscores the need to subject Clinton's private server to a third-party analysis, saying that's the only way to resolve this.

The questions over multiple Clinton addresses were raised after emails were published as part of a lengthy New York Times report on Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal's memos on Libya before and after the fall of Muammar Qaddafi. The emails show Clinton writing from the address, hrod17@clintonemail.com. This is distinct from the other address she has acknowledged using as secretary of state, hdr22@clintonemail.com.

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There is no mystery here.  Clinton committed treason for the sole purpose of financial gain.  She is 100 times worse than Anderson, the spy that was sent to prison for life.  Clinton has been blatant in her actions to trade favors for money, large sums of money adding up to hundreds of millions of dollar, under the guise of a foundation charity.

This is extreme treason!

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There is no mystery here.  Clinton committed treason for the sole purpose of financial gain.  She is 100 times worse than Anderson, the spy that was sent to prison for life.  Clinton has been blatant in her actions to trade favors for money, large sums of money adding up to hundreds of millions of dollar, under the guise of a foundation charity.

This is extreme treason!

Just think how much more she will be blatant and  corrupt if she wins the presidency.

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I just don't think they can take her with a bag over her head to the Democommie nomination, let alone the general election.  Eventually, she will be asked 500 times about the transgressions, repeated abuses of policy, the death of our men in Benghazi until she blows a gasket. And suffice to say enough entities successfully attacked her server, and they know everything.  That info will leak like a dripping faucet.

She just does not make the finish line for the Democommies.  In 2008, she was a US Senator and former First Lady.  Now she is a politician aligned with Obama with many unethical actions that she thinks she does not need to answer for, and her husband, is a man that flew off with his billionaire buddy to sexually assault minor girls.  Does anyone really think that horror show has been put to bed?

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I just don't think they can take her with a bag over her head to the Democommie nomination, let alone the general election.  Eventually, she will be asked 500 times about the transgressions, repeated abuses of policy, the death of our men in Benghazi until she blows a gasket. And suffice to say enough entities successfully attacked her server, and they know everything.  That info will leak like a dripping faucet.

She just does not make the finish line for the Democommies.  In 2008, she was a US Senator and former First Lady.  Now she is a politician aligned with Obama with many unethical actions that she thinks she does not need to answer for, and her husband, is a man that flew off with his billionaire buddy to sexually assault minor girls.  Does anyone really think that horror show has been put to bed?

Time will tell. If she has team Obama approval....the media will not ask her anything.  Rumor is the FCC is supposed to start the new rules for the net around the 12 of june. June will also be the time the SC rules on gay marriage and obamalaw. It wouldn't surprise me they release the rules and the rulings on the same day.By the end of the year they are giving the internet away from US hands.  With the FCC and the giving away of the internet that will totally stop the real news we get and have to only have TV news....which will still be controlled by WH/left.  So yes she does have a chance if team obama has given it to her.

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State Department says it will turn over 5,000 pages of documents to Benghazi committee

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/07/28/state-department-says-it-will-turn-over-5000-pages-documents-to-benghazi/?intcmp=hplnws

The House select committee investigating the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya has said that the State Department pledged to turn over 5,000 documents related to the attack on Tuesday.

In a statement late Monday, committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., described the document production as "second largest production the Committee has received and the largest since last summer." In return for the documents, Gowdy said he had accepted a request from Secretary of State John Kerry's chief of staff, Jon Finer, to postpone a scheduled Wednesday hearing at which Finer was due to testify.

However, Gowdy warned that a hearing on State Department compliance with the committee's requests would be scheduled if, "the State Department does not fulfill this production, or if production continues to be anemic and underwhelming."

[jafo2010]

Nearly three years later, and the Congress is still trying to get the information it wants.  If the Obama Administration has not completely rendered Congress useless, then what other explanation is there?

He even publicly questioned the possibility of running for a third term.  With the Republicans being as weak as they are, he could probably push for the elimination of the two term limit, and the idiot Republicans would probably support him.  They have supported him on a number of critical issues they campaign just the opposite of.  Makes you wonder what is really going on in our government, who really holds the strings.

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  Makes you wonder what is really going on in our government, who really holds the strings.

yes it does make one wonder. I saw that today he mentioned he would win a 3rd term.  He probably would?

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Well, with Soros owning the companies that tally the vote [electronically] throughout the western world nations, it does not take much for a tweak here or there to have his desired candidate win.  Obama was re-elected, and Soros was rewarded with a $12 billion reward from Obama to develop oil off the coast of Brazil.

Anyone that thinks Soros would not manipulate an election simply does not know the man.

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Ex-Clinton aide grilled for 9 hours in Benghazi panel

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/252740-ex-clinton-aide-grilled-for-9-hours-in-benghazi-panel

Former State Department official Cheryl Mills sat through nine hours of extended questions from the House committee investigating the September 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, on Thursday.

The closed-door, daylong deposition of the longtime Hillary Clinton aide was marked by ?professionalism and respect,? Mills told reporters in brief remarks after the discussion had concluded.

?Ms. Mills answered all of the committee?s questions,? Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said. ?The dialogue was professional and fact-centric.?

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Yet despite requests from both Mills and top committee Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings (Md.) to release a transcript of the deposition, the contents of the briefing won?t be made available for the public ? at least for now.

?The members of the Benghazi committee on our side are going to treat the conservation as if it were classified,? Gowdy said.

Like transcripts of other interviews conducted by the panel, he added, intelligence and national security officials need to review the record of what was said, to make sure that nothing secret gets out.

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Clinton aide saw early draft of Benghazi report

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/252788-clinton-aide-saw-early-draft-of-benghazi-report

The former ambassador who spearheaded a review of the 2012 attack on at U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, reaffirmed Friday that one of Hillary Clinton?s top aides had seen the report before it was issued to the public.

Some of the comments from Cheryl Mills, who served as Clinton?s chief of staff during her tenure as secretary of State, were later included in the report, Thomas Pickering told The New York Times.

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?Some of the comments we accepted, and some we did not because they were not consistent with our findings and the way we chose to convey those,? he said.

?My judgment was that this did not constitute an inappropriate intervention or an attempt to change the basic report which we were not going to accept.?

Republicans have lambasted the Accountability Review Board?s report, which they say lacked independence and was set up to protect Clinton ahead of her run for the White House.

On Thursday, Mills was grilled for nine hours in the House?s Select Committee on Benghazi, during which time she reportedly confirmed that she offered some input about an initial draft of the report.