Benghazi Select Committee [Official Thread]

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Rory Cooper ‏@rorycooper 14m14 minutes ago

Striking moment when Lynn Westmoreland asks Secretary Clinton if Chris Stevens had the ability to email her like Sid Blumenthal. Answer: No.
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Over 600 pleas for increases in security, yet Clinton claims she never saw a one.  There is virtually no emails available by her during the Benghazi attack period, and it all adds up to the fact this woman could not tell the truth to save her grandchild.

The cover-up here is criminal.  Her failure to present her documents is criminal.  Why is this bimbo left to walk the streets let alone run for the highest office of the land?

So far, Mr Pompeo is the only one asking questions that sting.  Her answers were weak to say the least.

yep

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Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 14s14 seconds ago

HRC says: Tried to make quick call to reach AmbStevens - that didn't work
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Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 36s36 seconds ago

RepLindaSanchez asks HRC to talk about exactly what happened night of #Benghazi attacks - HRC now laying out timeline
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Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 9m9 minutes ago

Pompeo says his 2nd chart shows # of security personnel at #Benghazi was no different at start of 2012 vs. 9/11/2012 despite 600+ requests

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I will say, the members of this panel going forth in the media and saying what they have, do none of these people have a brain?  Gowdy is supposed to be this brilliant former prosecutor, yet his committee is running around shooting their mouth off and undermining their efforts.

This should be a criminal investigation, not these political clowns running around town and making appearances on the networks.  Stupid j*ck*ss*es!!!!!!!!!

It's not bad enough that McCarthy said what he said, but the members of the committee shooting their mouth off is pure idiocy.  

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 Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 17m17 minutes ago

HRC response: Investigators said they didn't find a breach of duty. I followed the law.
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Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 17m17 minutes ago

Pompeo asks HRC: How come not a single person got fired over #Benghazi?
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Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 2h2 hours ago

HRC says: We shouldn't revert to a foreign policy that puts boots on the ground first - rather than as a last resort
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I will say, the members of this panel going forth in the media and saying what they have, do none of these people have a brain?  Gowdy is supposed to be this brilliant former prosecutor, yet his committee is running around shooting their mouth off and undermining their efforts.

This should be a criminal investigation, not these political clowns running around town and making appearances on the networks.  Stupid j*ck*ss*es!!!!!!!!!

It's not bad enough that McCarthy said what he said, but the members of the committee shooting their mouth off is pure idiocy.  

agree........who gave the stand down order is all I want to know.

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Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 48s48 seconds ago

Jordan to HRC: You just gave a long account of what happened that night in #Benghazi - but you never mentioned any video
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Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 1m1 minute ago

HRC says: The Defense Dept was doing everything it could #Benghazi
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Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 3m3 minutes ago

HRC says: It was a constant swirl and whirl of trying to figure out what we could do

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 Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 10s11 seconds ago

HRC says: The inflammatory video had been shown on Egyptian tv - great concern b/c that reaches far beyond Egypt
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Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 1m1 minute ago

Jordan says to HRC: If there was no protest, where did the false narrative start? "It started with you, Madame Secretary."
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Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 2m2 minutes ago

Jordan says: No one on the ground reported any demonstrations that night in #Benghazi, "because they didn't happen"
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 Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 1m1 minute ago

Jordan to HRC says: I think you knew the truth (now citing HRC emails to family)

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HRC says: There was lots of conflicting information. The situation was fluid. We were trying to make sense of things.
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Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 34s35 seconds ago

Jordan cites HRC 9/12 call w Egyptian PM "We know that the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack "

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Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 46s47 seconds ago

Jordan to HRC: There was not conflicting information day of the attack. "You're the ones who muddied it up."
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12: 35 PM: Jordan calls out Clinton for telling her family and world leaders one thing while falsely telling the American public another and insisting that the Benghazi attacks were a spontaneous response to a YouTube video.

Jordan says he is troubled because he thinks Clinton knew the truth about the attacks (cites an email Clinton sent to her family about officers being killed by an Al Qaeda-like group and a phone call with the Libyan president claiming that that Ansar al-Sharia was claiming responsibility, and a call with the Egyptian Prime Minister in which Clinton claimed that she knew that it was a terrorist attack.

12: 32:
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)
94%
: The False Narrative ?Started with You, Madam Secretary.?

He eviscerates Clinton for starting the false narrative that the Benghazi attacks were a spontaneous response to a YouTube video. He asks why the official narrative of the State Department blamed a video while Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty was still on the roof of the annex fighting for his life?

12: 25:
Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA)
17%
tries to rehabilitate Clinton and allow her to claim that she did not rely on Blumenthal for intelligence. Mainstream media go nuts over an Andrea Mitchell clip that Sanchez used.

12: 21 PM: Pompeo finds it ?deeply disturbing? that Clinton was unaware that State Department officials were wittingly or unwittingly meeting with some Al Qaeda members on the ground in Libya days before the attack.

12:12 PM:
Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS)
79%
asks how so many of Sidney Blumenthal?s emails got to Clinton but not the hundreds of security requests. Clinton tries to claim that Bluemental was not an adviser and Pompeo points out that his emails were filled with sensitive intelligence information. He notes that Clinton said Stevens and the best knowledge of anyone of Libya but did not receive extra security when he requested it. Pompeo continues to point out that there was no additional security provided to Stevens even though there was an increase in the number of security incidents and requests.

From Breitbart?s Patrick Howley:

WASHINGTON ? Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a remark about how Southerners talk slow at Thursday?s House Benghazi Committee hearing.

    ?I talk a little slower? than other congressmen, said Georgia
    Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA)
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    when he started asking Clinton questions at the hearing, asking Clinton to bear with him.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/22/live-updates-hillary-testifies-before-benghazi-committee/

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Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 2m2 minutes ago

HRC says: I wrote a whole chapter about this in my book "Hard Choices" and I'd be happy to send it to you
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Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 3m3 minutes ago

Jordan to HRC: You told your family and the Egyptian PM it was a terrorist attack, but no truth for the American people

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 Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 2m2 minutes ago

HRC to Jordan: I'm sorry that the facts don't fit your narrative.
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Shannon Bream ‏@ShannonBream 2m2 minutes ago

Jordan to HRC: You say I'm "insinuating" things. I reading your words.

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2: 42: Clinton says she wrote a whole chapter about Benghazi in her book and would gladly send Jordan a copy. She says Jordan?s insinuation do a great disservice to the work that the Obama administration did and says that ?there is no doubt in my mind that we did the best we could with the information we had at the time.? Jordan tells her he is ?not insinuating anything? and simply reading what Clinton said. He asks why she did not just speak plainly to the American people?

12: 40 PM: Jordan points out that 27 minutes after Clinton falsely blamed the Benghazi attacks on a YouTube video, her advisers were already talking politics. He says Clinton ?picked the video narrative? because Libya ?was supposed to be a great success story for the Obama White House and the Clinton State Department.? Jordan says that the Obama was running on slogan that GM is alive while Osama bin Laden is dead and Al Qaeda is on the run and a terrorist attack in Benghazi would have undercut one of Obama?s central re-eleciton themes.

He says ?Americans can live with the fact that good people sometimes give their lives for their country? but ?what they can?t take, what they can?t live with is when their government is not square with them.?

12: 35 PM: Jordan calls out Clinton for telling her family and world leaders one thing while falsely telling the American public another and insisting that the Benghazi attacks were a spontaneous response to a YouTube video.

Jordan says he is troubled because he thinks Clinton knew the truth about the attacks (cites an email Clinton sent to her family about officers being killed by an Al Qaeda-like group and a phone call with the Libyan president claiming that that Ansar al-Sharia was claiming responsibility along with a call with the Egyptian Prime Minister in which Clinton claimed that she knew that it was a terrorist attack and had nothing to do with a video.