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<description><![CDATA[<p>From Townhall.com: The Damning Dozen: Twelve Revelations from the Benghazi Hearings Guy Benson | May 09, 2013 (1) Murdered US Ambassador Chris Stevens’ second in command, Gregory Hicks, was instructed not to speak with a Congressional investigator by Sec. Hillary … <a href="http://bloviatingzeppelin.net/guy-p-benson-what-we-learned-from-the-hearings-on-benghazi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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<h1>The Damning Dozen: Twelve Revelations from the Benghazi Hearings</h1>
<p><a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/"><span>Guy Benson</span></a><span class="divider"> | </span><span>May 09, 2013</span></p>
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<p><strong>(1)</strong> Murdered US Ambassador Chris Stevens’ second in command, Gregory Hicks, was <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidMDrucker/status/332186373081690112">instructed</a> not to speak with a Congressional investigator by Sec. Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff, <a href="https://twitter.com/stephenfhayes/status/332187392926691329">Cheryl Mills</a>. Hicks said he’d “<a href="https://twitter.com/ElliePTweet/status/332186516610772994">never</a>” faced a similar demand at any point during his <a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/05/08/3_things_to_know_about_benghazis_star_witness">distinguished</a> 22-year diplomatic career. When he refused to comply with this request, the State Department dispatched an attorney to act as a “minder,” who insisted on sitting in on all of Hicks’ discussions with members of Congress (higher quality video is available <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/08/hicks-higher-ups-at-state-told-me-not-to-talk-to-gop-congressman-about-benghazi/">here</a>):</p>
<p><strong>(2)</strong> When Hicks began to voice strenuous objections to the administration’s inaccurate talking points with State Department higher-ups, the administration <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/347783/hicks-%E2%80%98shift%E2%80%99-treatment-state-dept-after-questioning-rices-video-explanation">turned hostile</a>. After being lavishly praised by the president and the Secretary of State for his performance under fire, Assistant Secretary of State Beth Jones instantly reversed course and launched into a “blistering critique” of Hicks’ leadership. He was subsequently “<a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/332214719953915905">effectively demoted</a>.” Hicks called Rice’s talking points “stunning” and “embarrassing.”</p>
<p><strong>(3)</strong> Secretaries Clinton and Rice (the president’s hand-selected messenger on Benghazi to the American people) repeatedly <a href="http://twitpic.com/cp7fu2">stated</a> that the attack arose from “spontaneous protests” over an obscure YouTube video. This was never true. Hicks called the YouTube a “<a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2013/05/08/video-the-youtube-video-was-a-nonevent-in-libya-n1591158">non-event</a>” in Libya. He and others on the ground — including Amb. Stevens — recognized the raid as a coordinated terrorist attack from the <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidMDrucker/status/332166574477832192">very beginning</a>. Hicks testified that he <i>personally </i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CHvZzFAQ18&feature=youtu.be">told Sec. Clinton</a> as much at 2 am on the night of the attack, along with her senior staff. [UPDATE – Rep. Trey Gowdy also revealed <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50146437n">an email sent on 9/12</a> in which Assistant Sec. Jones confirmed to a Libyan official that the attack had been carried out by terrorist organization Ansar al-Sharia]. Days later, Rice recited bogus talking points on five American television networks, and Clinton <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/05/08/hillary-clintons-big-benghazi-lie-n1591097">denounced</a> the video while standing next to the flag-draped coffins of the fallen. Hicks said there he never mentioned any “spontaneous demonstrations” related to a video in his phone call with Clinton.</p>
<p><strong>Questions</strong>: How, why, and by whom did the administration’s talking points get <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/benghazi-talking-points_720543.html">scrubbed and re-written</a>? Why did the president <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50134495n">refuse</a> to identify the attack as terrorism in an interview with CBS News on September 12, and why did he allow Sec. Rice to disseminate patently false information on his behalf?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>(4)</strong> A small, armed US force in Tripoli was told it <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/benghazi-witness-special-forces-were-told-not-to-go-to-bengh">did not have the authority</a> to deploy to Benghazi in the midst of the attack. <i>Twice</i>. Flight time between the two cities is less than an hour. Members of the would-be rescue contingent were “<a href="https://twitter.com/BrianFaughnan/status/332173308638420994">furious</a>” over this obstruction. The witnesses said they did not know who ultimately gave the “stand down” orders, <a href="https://twitter.com/mpoindc/status/332192667729526784">or why</a>. If it was not the Commander-in-Chief calling the shots, why not, and where was he? Whistle-blower Mark Thompson, a career counter-terrorism official at State, said he called the White House to request the immediate deployment of a Foreign Emergency Support Team (FEST) to Benghazi. He was told it was “<a href="https://twitter.com/HeatherChilders/status/332165010413453313">not the right time</a>” to do so, then was cut out of the communications loop.</p>
<p><strong>(5)</strong> The US’ security chief in Libya, Eric Nordstrom, averred that Sec. Clinton “<a href="http://americarising.tumblr.com/post/49954672708/nordstrum-clinton-absolutely-would-have-been-briefed">absolutely</a>” would have been briefed on his (and Stevens’) <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/10/02/whoa_obama_administration_denied_repeated_requests_for_increased_security_in_benghazi">repeated requests</a> for an increased security presence in Libya. This claim undercut committee Democrats’ nitpicking over whether Clinton’s signature appeared on the memo denying those requests:</p>
<p>Furthermore, the Benghazi compound was operating <a href="http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/24/u-s-post-in-benghazi-had-less-than-standard-security-before-attack/">below the bare minimum</a> global security standard for US diplomatic missions — despite being in an exceedingly dangerous place, and having been subjected to previous <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/02/u-s-consulate-in-benghazi-bombed-twice-in-run-up-to-9-11-anniversary.html">attempted attacks</a>. Only the <a href="https://twitter.com/gretawire/status/332183596339187712">Secretary of State</a> has the authority to grant exemptions for minimum security requirements.</p>
<p><strong>(6)</strong> Ambassador Stevens was stationed at the vulnerable Benghazi compound on a dangerous symbolic date at <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/oversight-hearing-clinton-asked-stevens-to-make-benghazi-a-permanent-post/">the behest</a> of Sec. Clinton, who wished to make that diplomatic mission a <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/332184473116495872">permanent outpost</a>. This detail should only intensify questions as to why the consulate was so poorly protected (see item #7).</p>
<p><strong>(7)</strong> Nordstrom stated that elements of the lightly-armed Libyan militia group tasked with protecting the consulate were <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBpMbDs50l4">“certainly” complicit</a> in the attacks. No US Marines <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/09/12/report_sacked_us_consulate_in_benghazi_had_no_protection_from_marines">were present</a> at the time. Hicks estimated that <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/332168585336201216">at least 60</a> terrorists swarmed into the compound during the attack. Eight months later, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57582207/benghazi-whistleblowers-still-waiting-to-tell-their-story/">zero arrests</a> have been made.</p>
<p><strong> (8)</strong> A mortally wounded Amb. Stevens was taken to a hospital <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/05/08/testimony-ambassador-stevens-taken-to-hospital-run-by-terrorists-who-attacked-benghazi-consulate-n1591031">controlled</a> by the Islamist extremist group (Ansar Al-Sharia) primarily responsible for the assault. Administration officials initially pointed to locals rushing Stevens to a local hospital as evidence of local goodwill from protesters who didn’t approve of the mob spinning out of control. Hicks said the American contingent did not go to retrieve Stevens from said hospital during the fight because they were fearful that <a href="http://freebeacon.com/hicks-ansar-al-sharia-claimed-attempted-to-bait-rescue-team-into-ambush/">it was a trap</a>.</p>
<p><strong>(9)</strong> The US government <a href="https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/332204880162873345">did not seek</a> permission from the Libyan government to fly any aircraft into Libyan airspace, aside from a drone. The witnesses testified that they believe the Libyan government would have complied with any such request. The fact that none was even made indicates that there was never a plan or intention to rush reinforcements to Benghazi. This renders the “would they have made it on time?” argument largely irrelevant — the facts in item #4 notwithstanding. Another <a href="https://twitter.com/RCDefense/status/332175691309268992">important point</a> about the “they wouldn’t have made it” defense: The assault lasted for eight hours and took place into two waves at two different compounds. How could anyone have known how long the fighting would last? How could they have anticipated that ex-Navy SEALs Woods and Doherty wouldn’t have been able to stave off the enemy for a few more hours? Help was not on the way. It was never sent.</p>
<p><strong>(10)</strong> Despite committee Democrats’ repeated claims and leading questions, reduced funding or “austerity” had absolutely nothing to do with the inadequate security presence on the ground. The State Department itself made this fact <a href="https://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/332188151755984897">crystal clear</a> at previous hearings, as did the administration’s internal “ARB” review. Why did multiple Democrats flog an obsolete, thoroughly-debunked explanation, if not to muddy the waters?</p>
<p><strong>(11)</strong> Oversight Democrats tried to cast doubt on Mark Thompson’s credibility, suggesting that he’d declined to participate in the administration’s ARB probe. Thompson corrected the record, noting that he “<a href="https://twitter.com/DavidMDrucker/status/332184986239258625">offered his services</a>” to those investigators, who in turn did not invite him to testify. Democrats also claimed that the House hearings were slanted because the leaders of the ARB investigation were not invited to participate. In fact, Chairman Issa explicitly did invite them, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/347741/first-administration-spin-benghazi-crumbles">as confirmed</a> by letters obtained by ABC News. They chose not to participate. Democrats were dead wrong on both counts.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>(12)</strong> During her Congressional testimony on Benghazi, Secretary Clinton memorably asked, “<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/23/hillary-what-difference-does-it-make-if-there-were-no-protests-in-benghazi/">what difference does it make</a>?” in regards to the provenance of the administration’s incorrect talking points. Gregory Hicks and Eric Nordstrom both attempted to answer that question. Hicks did so in <a href="http://americarising.tumblr.com/post/49952661054/hicks-responds-to-clinton-what-difference-did-it-make">granular detail</a> (the false explanation opened a nasty rift between the US and Libyan governments, impeding the FBI’s investigation for weeks). An <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/benghazi-whistleblower-breaks-down-while-describing-his-lost-friends-during-testimony/">emotional Nordstrom</a> was more general (we lost friends; the truth matters):</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">One of the few points of <a href="http://inagist.com/all/332201612066058240/">bipartisan agreement</a> was that the number of unresolved issues merit additional hearings on Benghazi.</p>
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<p>This is an absolute abrogation, ladies and gentlemen, and <strong>POLITICIANS</strong> need to go to <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>PRISON</strong></span></em> behind this event.</p>
<p>I would <em>begin</em> with Hillary Rodham Clinton.</p>
<p><strong>BZ</strong></p>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>From BuzzFeed: Deputy chief of mission for the U.S. in Libya Gregory Hicks testified Wednesday that he was told not to meet with a congressman sent to investigate the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. Hicks said a State … <a href="http://bloviatingzeppelin.net/benghazi-witness-says-state-dept-told-him-not-to-meet-with-congressional-investigators/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
<p>The post <a href="http://bloviatingzeppelin.net/benghazi-witness-says-state-dept-told-him-not-to-meet-with-congressional-investigators/" target="_blank">Benghazi witness says State Dept told him not to meet with Congressional investigators</a> first appeared on <a href="http://bloviatingzeppelin.net/" target="_blank">Bloviating Zeppelin</a>.</p>]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://bloviatingzeppelin.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Gregory-Hicks.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8214" alt="Gregory Hicks" src="http://bloviatingzeppelin.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Gregory-Hicks.jpg" width="634" height="412" srcset="http://bloviatingzeppelin.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Gregory-Hicks.jpg 634w, http://bloviatingzeppelin.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Gregory-Hicks-300x194.jpg 300w, http://bloviatingzeppelin.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Gregory-Hicks-461x300.jpg 461w" sizes="(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px" /></a>From <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/benghazi-hearing-witness-says-state-dept-told-him-not-to-mee">BuzzFeed</a>:</p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;"><em><b>Deputy chief of mission for the U.S. in Libya Gregory Hicks testified Wednesday that he was told not to meet with a congressman sent to investigate the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi.</b> Hicks said a State Department lawyer accompanied the delegation and attempted to be in every single meeting he was involved in.</em></span></p>
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<p>Amazing testimony but — guess what? Whilst these vitally important hearings occurred on Wednesday, would it shock you to know that CNN was conspicuously <em>absent</em>? Instead, CNN was camped out on a minor crime scene in Cleveland.</p>
<p>Mr Hicks further testified regarding US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice and her talking points post-Benghazi:</p>
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<p>Furthermore, Mr Hicks goes on to say the Benghazi scene was unsecured for 18 days:</p>
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<p>If not bad enough, clear evidence indicated a poorly-produced video had nothing to do with the events of Benghazi:</p>
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<p>Further damning, from the <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/email-senior-state-dept-officials-knew-terrorists-had-attacked-benghazi-before-rice-interviews/article/2529170">Washington Examiner</a>:</p>
<h1 class="hd-font entry-title"><span style="color: #008000;"><em>Email: Senior State Dept. officials knew terrorists had attacked Benghazi before Rice interviews</em></span></h1>
<p>From the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2321470/Secret-email-reveals-official-told-Libyas-U-S-Abmassador-terrorists-Benghazi-attack--days-BEFORE-U-S-Ambassador-UN-said-spontaneous-attack.html">UKDailyMailOnline</a>:</p>
<h1><span style="color: #008000;"><em>Secret email reveals top official told Libya’s U.S. Ambassador that terrorists were behind Benghazi attack – four days BEFORE U.S. Ambassador to UN said it was a spontaneous attack</em></span></h1>
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<li><span style="color: #008000;"><em><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Sept. 11: Terrorists attack the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya</span></em></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #008000;"><em><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Sept. 12: State Dept. Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs tells Libya’s President that Ansar al-Sharia was responsible</span></em></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #008000;"><em><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Sept. 13: CIA writes candid talking points for members of Congress<br />
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<li><span style="color: #008000;"><em><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Sept. 15: White House deputies edit the talking points, removing all references to Islamic terrorism</span></em></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #008000;"><em><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Sept. 16: UN Ambassador Susan Rice, in five television interviews, blames the attack on a spontaneous mob angered by an anti-Islam YouTube video</span></em></span></li>
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<p><span style="color: #008000;"><em><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A top State Department appointee told Libya’s ambassador to the United States one day after the military-style assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that the terror group Ansar al-Shariah was responsible.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;"><em><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But four days later, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations said on television that it was the product of a spontaneous protest.<br />
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<p><span style="color: #008000;"><em><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">During a fiery and emotional congressional hearing on the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Rep. Trey Gowdy read aloud from an email dated Sept. 12, 2012 to senior State Department officers, from Elizabeth Jones, the acting Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.</span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;"><em><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Describing a conversation she had with then-Libyan ambassador Ali Aujali, Jones wrote in the previously undisclosed email that ‘I told him that the group that conducted the attacks, Ansar al-Sharia, is affiliated with Islamic terrorists.’</span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;"><em><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Let me say that again,’ Gowdy emphasized during the hearing: ‘She told him.’</span></em></span></p>
<div style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Which means the five different TV shows visited by Susan Rice that immediate Sunday following the Benghazi Murders were nothing more than FALSE “talking points” conjured up by the Demorat DC regime of Barack Hussein Obama in concert with Hillary Rodham Clinton.</div>
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<p>And here’s another tidbit: there had been 230 attacks against US and allied installments in Libya and 48 of those in Benghazi in the year prior to the 9/11/12 attack. CIA developed intelligence which indicated there was a massive likelihood that a major terror event would be staged on 9/11/12.</p>
<p>The motivation for all the Benghazi lies is this base and venal: a presidential election hinged on and was based upon a fraud perpetrated by those who purposely lied about the events of Benghazi in order to keep Demorat presidential power in DC. No more, no less. The fragile election could brook no scandal. And the American Media Maggots, complicit, <em>did</em> and <strong>are</strong> doing their level best to quash Benghazi wholesale. Witness CNN.</p>
<p>The AMM could not have Mr Obama countered, as he had recently sworn to the American public that he had alQaeda “on the run.” And Hillary? As the <strong>N</strong>ext <strong>O</strong>rdained <strong>O</strong>ne, she absolutely cannot have her star tarnished by such a rudimentary and stupid thing as a few petty Americans getting wiped out in some piss-ant country full of sand that would offend her ankles. Pah!</p>
<p>What does it say about our Secretary and State and our Secretary of Defense, who do not get back on the line to talk to the Number One remaining administrator in Benghazi following the attack? Were they otherwise occupied? Were there other murders occurring in consulates around the world which would divert their attention? Was American Idol on TV? Did they need to clean their office fish tanks? Buff their nails?</p>
<p>Let me make this abundantly clear for the possible PC amongst us: I couldn’t care less, not one molecule, about some women held captive in Ohio or some female convicted of killing her husband. The Benghazi Murders are <em>infinitely more important</em> in terms of the position of our country and our regime in DC. CNN has made its bed and made its continuous and current fellating of DC Demorats more than abundantly clear. Satisfying blow jobs that, obviously, shall not stop until an opposite regime is installed.</p>
<p>There are <em><strong>crimes</strong></em> here, ladies and gentlemen. Intimidating witnesses. Obstruction. Perhaps even the suborning of perjury.</p>
<p>Are you listening?</p>
<p><strong>BZ</strong></p>
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