Benghazi Scandal: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised “unfettered access” to the Benghazi Accountability Review Board. But it turns out that promise may be as much a lie as the inflammatory video story.
We were not impressed by the methods or findings of the Accountability Review Board (ARB) after the terrorist attack on our Benghazi diplomatic mission on Sept. 11, 2012, starting with not interviewing the person where the buck was supposed to stop, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Shamefully, the ARB report failed to single out any individuals for violating procedures and did not recommend any disciplinary action. Some lower-level State Department officials were blamed for “performance inadequacies” but not “willful misconduct.”
Yes, a great disappointment because logical, thinking human beings know there is much more that was ignored. The lies. The betrayal.
Clinton herself escaped any real accountability for Benghazi in the ARB report, despite Amb. Stevens and others warning her office repeatedly that the consulate in Benghazi, surrounded by terrorist training camps, was a terrorist attack waiting to happen.
But Hillary had an advantage. She was kept informed, step-by-step, of the ARB’s progress or lack thereof. And more.
As we’ve noted, former Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen and ARB co-chair Thomas Pickering, authors of this “independent” investigation, admitted in Congressional testimony that they regularly briefed Clinton and her advisers on their probe.
Mullen at one point had called Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, to give her a heads up after ARB interviewed a potential congressional witness.
“She told me,” Maxwell told Attkisson, ‘Ray, we are to go through these stacks (of documents) and pull out anything that might put anybody in the (Near Eastern Affairs) front office on the seventh floor in a bad light.’”
The “seventh floor,” Attkisson notes, was State Department “shorthand” for then Secretary of State Clinton and her staff.
“Sanitizing” the documents. Picking and choosing what was and was not seen. Please read the rest of the article.
The Michael Bay film, “13 Hours,” based on the book “13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi” by Mitchell Zuckoff, opened last month on January 15th and, unfortunately, I hadn’t been able to see the movie because I am not yet sufficiently mobile from my surgery.
I was able to see it late last night, Saturday, at the very final showing at a local theatre. With the assistance of my Wifely Wife and her sister, the knee scooter was loaded into the Kraut Kar and off we went.
Essentially, the film and the book make liars and fools out of Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The team’s CIA station chief told the Washington Post the stand-down order “is fiction and the film is flat-out wrong.” Further, the CIA says that the film is “shameful and a distortion of the events and people who served in Benghazi that night.”
What is sad is that American journalists yuck it up over the deaths of four Americans in Libya. Somehow Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Officer Sean Smith and former SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods get forgotten. [Watergate brought down a presidency where no one was killed. Contrast and compare this to Benghazi, and its lies then and now.]
When I wrote this post initially a few weeks ago, three of the actual operators who responded to the Benghazi call for assistance, Kristian “Tanto” Paronto, John “Tig” Tiegen, and Mark “Oz” Geist were interviewed on the Megyn Kelly show. They unequivocally stated that they were told to stand down by CIA representatives.
These GRS (Global Response Services) employees, former soldiers and private security contractors hired as security elements, provided protection in austere and high-threat environments for the Central Intelligence Agency.
“This is the true story you were never told.”
Part of what you didn’t know is that the six GRS contractors were at the CIA annex, less than a mile from the Benghazi consulate. You saw that clearly illustrated in the film “13 Hours.” They could hear the distress calls over the radio. The CIA station chief at that annex told the GRS contractors repeatedly to “stand down.”
All three operators interviewed on The Kelly File specifically remembered the CIA station chief pointedly telling them, to their faces, to “stand down.” A deputy chief, chief of base and a team leader saying “stand down.”
“If you guys don’t get over here, we’re all gonna fucking die,” radioed the State Department people at the Benghazi, Libya consulate to anyone who was listening.
The contractors decided to “buck orders and we left.”
All the operators testified to this in DC.
Do the operators believe the men who died would be alive today if the US had responded appropriately from the beginning? They expected assistance from the US government that never came. Why do they think four Americans paid the ultimate price?
First, they were looking for air support. Instead, an unmanned drone was sent. And the drone footage was useless because it was 30 seconds behind what was occurring in real time on the ground. Do you remember the issue regarding staffers watching the drone over Benghazi as the assault occurred?
ALL of the operators believe everyone would be alive today had they been allowed to respond when they were asked. Unequivocally. They all said it in front of Megyn Kelly.
When told the CIA response was they were never told to stand down, the operators said “that’s just silly.” “Somehow they don’t want to believe that we were told to stand down. They believe everything else.”
Megyn Kelly asked: “Do you have a political motive?”
They said the politics is what prompted them to go public. The lies and the disinformation and the obfuscation.
Was it about a video? And who is lying? Hillary Clinton says “it’s not me.” Meaning the operators were lying and the surviving family members are lying.
Hillary Clinton is denying once again that she told family members of Benghazi attack victims that a video was to blame for the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks — leaving only the possibility that the families are either lying or grossly mistaken about what the then-secretary of state told them in private.
The family members have publicly disputed Clinton’s claims, saying that the then-secretary of state explicitly blamed the film that day and said that she would go after the maker of the film, which many Muslims considered offensive.
Hillary Clinton blamed the non-existent “protests” and consulate attack on a ridiculous internet video. This was wrong but Hillary Clinton went there anyway, in her official statement.
Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet.
Susan Rice carried the absurdist video meme to all the Sunday news shows following the Tuesday 9-11-2012 attack. Judicial Watch discovered:
A newly released email collected by Judicial Watch in response to a FOIA request shows the White House pushed Ambassador Susan Rice to promote the idea that an internet video mocking Islam, not President Obama’s foreign policy, was responsible for attacks in the Middle East, including the one in Benghazi.
Despite the fact that Hillary Clinton already knew the attack had nothing to do with a video.
“I believe to this day the video played a role.”
Obama and Jay Carney blamed the Benghazi attack on a poorly-produced video. Obama knew this was false.
Clinton’s official statement was belied by an email she sent to her daughter the night of September 11th and a phone call she made to the Egyptian prime minister, where she said the attack was perpetrated by al Qaeda.
Diane Reynolds, by the way, is an alias for daughter Chelsea.
This was a naked attempt by the administration to make Americans feel guilty about their concerns involving Muslims. A distraction built upon American guilt.
Hillary Clinton made her first statements already knowing there were no protests and that the video had nothing to do with the assault.
That filmmaker was Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, creator of “The Innocence of Muslims.” He spent time in prison because of Obama and Clinton’s false accusations, on a parole violation.
“Someone is lying here, Mrs Clinton; who is it?”
Hillary Clinton: “not me.”
Further, she was fully on board with hanging the blame for the shabby video “The Innocence of Muslims”
Megyn Kelly: “How true to life is the film?”
Paronto: “It brought home a lot of the truths that we went through. I’d go back there in a heartbeat.”
We think that perhaps someone like an Ed Gein or a John Wayne Gacy or a Richard Daumer or a Hannibal Lecter is a sociopath?
I submit that Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama are both damaging, violent psychopaths. Sociopaths. They both have American blood on their hands.
And why? This?
And this?
The American Media Maggots have done their level best to minimize and denigrate the validity of this movie which means, by extension, the AMM mean to minimize and denigrate the sacrifices of our Sheepdogs. In order to protect their Leftist Masters.
All for political ends.
Meaning: in the true end, those four men who died in Benghazi were nothing more than little chess pieces moved about the ObamaLand board during his eight year attempt to kick America in the slats.
I am so glad I was able to see the film before it left theaters.
Every American should see the film if for no other reason than to realize that, yes, American is truly exceptional and, yes, there is true domestic evil in the world.
BZ
P.S.
Finally: would you like to help our special operators like SEALs, Delta, Green Berets and the like? Go to ShadowWarriorsProject.org, started by “Oz” and please donate.
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 Department lawyer accompanied the delegation and attempted to be in every single meeting he was involved in.
Amazing testimony but — guess what? Whilst these vitally important hearings occurred on Wednesday, would it shock you to know that CNN was conspicuously absent? Instead, CNN was camped out on a minor crime scene in Cleveland.
Mr Hicks further testified regarding US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice and her talking points post-Benghazi:
Furthermore, Mr Hicks goes on to say the Benghazi scene was unsecured for 18 days:
If not bad enough, clear evidence indicated a poorly-produced video had nothing to do with the events of Benghazi:
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
Sept. 11: Terrorists attack the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya
Sept. 12: State Dept. Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs tells Libya’s President that Ansar al-Sharia was responsible
Sept. 13: CIA writes candid talking points for members of Congress
Sept. 15: White House deputies edit the talking points, removing all references to Islamic terrorism
Sept. 16: UN Ambassador Susan Rice, in five television interviews, blames the attack on a spontaneous mob angered by an anti-Islam YouTube video
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.
But four days later, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations said on television that it was the product of a spontaneous protest.
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.
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.’
‘Let me say that again,’ Gowdy emphasized during the hearing: ‘She told him.’
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.
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.
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, did and are doing their level best to quash Benghazi wholesale. Witness CNN.
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 Next Ordained One, 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!
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?
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 infinitely more important 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.
There are crimes here, ladies and gentlemen. Intimidating witnesses. Obstruction. Perhaps even the suborning of perjury.
From InvestorsBusinessDaily.com:
Even the Hillary Clinton lies about the lies — to the faces of the survivors of the Benghazi victims. The lies about her server.
The Michael Bay film, “13 Hours,” based on the book “
When I wrote this post initially a few weeks ago, three of the actual operators who responded to the Benghazi call for assistance, Kristian “Tanto” Paronto, John “Tig” Tiegen, and Mark “Oz” Geist were 
All three operators interviewed on The Kelly File specifically remembered the CIA station chief pointedly telling them, to their faces, to “stand down.” A deputy chief, chief of base and a team leader saying “stand down.”
ALL of the operators believe everyone would be alive today had they been allowed to respond when they were asked. Unequivocally. They all said it in front of Megyn Kelly.
Diane Reynolds, by the way, is an alias for daughter Chelsea.
