Democrats walk out of Benghazi hearing

[TSA]

Classy.



http://m.townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/09/19/spitting-on-their-graves-democrats-leave-benghazi-hearing-before-testimony-from-benghazi-families-n1704732


Darrell Issa ✔ darrellIssa

PHOTO: @OversightDems excuse themselves from testimony of #Benghazi heroes' family members #PJNet pic.twitter.com/NP9u2I2noC
12:23 PM - 19 Sep 2013

[m>s]

Disrespectful motherfuckers

[ChumpDumper]

I remember when Reagan was impeached for all those embassy attacks in Lebanon.

[m>s]

Yeah but nobody ever walked out in a show of disrespect to the victims families you intellectually dishonest son of a bitch

[ChumpDumper]

Yeah but nobody ever walked out in a show of disrespect to the victims families you intellectually dishonest son of a bitchEh, they're just Republican pawns now. Sorry for their loss and all and it was stupid of the Democrats to just walk (if that's what they actually did), but all the Republicans want to do is sling some mud at Hilary.

[boutons_deux]

Benghazi? That stupid fucker Issa still trying to ride that horse? It's dead, dead, dead. Just another Repug-fabricated scandal that NEVER went anywhere.

Benghazi? :lol

[DMX7]

What a waste of time.

[TSA]

Benghazi? That stupid fucker Issa still trying to ride that horse? It's dead, dead, dead. Just another Repug-fabricated scandal that NEVER went anywhere.

Benghazi? :lol

Laughing at dead Americans. Classy Dems.

[Clipper Nation]

Eh, they're just Republican pawns now. Sorry for their loss and all and it was stupid of the Democrats to just walk (if that's what they actually did), but all the Republicans want to do is sling some mud at Hilary.


Benghazi? That stupid fucker Issa still trying to ride that horse? It's dead, dead, dead. Just another Repug-fabricated scandal that NEVER went anywhere.

Benghazi? :lol


What a waste of time.

:cheer "Rah, rah... go Team Blue!" :cheer

[ChumpDumper]

:cheer "Rah, rah... go Team Blue!" :cheerWhat other reason is there for this hearing?

[ElNono]

Is that the same Issa from the Fast and Furious "investigation"? The one that was going to cost Barry his re-election and Holder his job?

[Wild Cobra]

I remember when Reagan was impeached for all those embassy attacks in Lebanon.

It wasn't because of the attacks, but how the attacks were handled.

[angrydude]

Benghazi? That stupid fucker Issa still trying to ride that horse? It's dead, dead, dead. Just another Repug-fabricated scandal that NEVER went anywhere.

Benghazi? :lol

Just wait until Hilary runs for president.

[Nbadan]

It wasn't because of the attacks, but how the attacks were handled.

:lol at thinking this is anything but a get Hillary witch-hunt


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYL3UBvKUxc

[ChumpDumper]

It wasn't because of the attacks, but how the attacks were handled.Explain.

[boutons_deux]

Twelfth Benghazi Hearing Reveals It’s Still The ‘Scandal That Never Was’Instead of focusing on funding the government, the debt ceiling deadline, implementing Obamacare, immigration reform, or Syria, Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) and House Republicans decided to beat the Benghazi conspiracy drum yet again (http://www.nationalmemo.com/watch-the-opening-of-fox-news-benghazi-week-spoiled-by-facts/) on Thursday.

This was the 12th hearing regarding the September 11, 2012 terror attack on the American diplomatic mission in Libya, Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI) pointed out — three in this committee, and three just this week.

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee prodded, chastised, and blamed the witnesses, including the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Benghazi Accountability Review Board (ARB), Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Admiral Michael Mullen. The Republican goal in the hearing seemed to be to suggest that the ARB guarded then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton and the administration from assuming any of the accountability for the attack (http://www.salon.com/2013/09/19/darrell_issas_pathetic_error_laden_obsession_conti nues/), despite the fact that Secretary Clinton took full responsibility for the security failings that led to the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

During a closed-door interview with Mullen and Pickering in June—which Issa chose to keep under wraps until the Obama administration referred to the text (http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/19/20578517-first-thoughts-boehners-lose-lose-situation?lite)—both witnesses reported that the administration and military did everything possible to reach Ambassador Stevens and the other Americans at the compound in Benghazi.

Mullen’s remarks in that interview (http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Pickering-transcript.pdf) answer the accusation from Republicans that F-16s could have been sent into Benghazi.

“We walked through the force posture in Europe, notionally, and looked at every single U.S. military asset that was there, and what it possibly could have done, whether it could have moved or not,” Mullen said. “And it was in that interaction that I concluded, after a detailed understanding of what had happened that night, that from outside Libya, that we’d done everything possible that we could.”

During the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday, Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) called Benghazi “the scandal that never was” and asked Under Secretary Patrick Kennedy a series of questions (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09/18/watch-the-benghazi-testimony-the-conservative-m/195950) aimed to deflate the conservative narrative.

Grayson: Who decided that Ambassador Stevens go to Benghazi on September 11, 2012?

Kennedy: It was the Ambassador’s decision, sir.

Grayson: Now, was Secretary Clinton responsible in any way for reviewing and approving the in-country movements of U.S. ambassadors, either Ambassador Stevens or anyone else?

Kennedy: No, sir.

Grayson: Did the White House ever ignore any reports regarding this attack?

Kennedy: No, sir, not that I’m aware of.

Grayson: Did Secretary Clinton ever ignore any reports regarding this attack?

Kennedy: No, sir, I personally spoke to Secretary Clinton that evening and Secretary Clinton was being constantly briefed by our operation center all evening.
This is why Issa waited so long to hold a public hearing with Mullen and Pickering. Like Kennedy’s testimony on Wednesday, everything they’ve testified to privately discredits every conspiracy theory Republicans have suggested about Hillary Clinton and the administration since the attack took place.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/twelfth-benghazi-hearing-reveals-its-still-the-scandal-that-never-was/

Repug "governance"! :lol

[George Gervin's Afro]

I keep hearing about the truth... specifically what do the republicans want to know.

[George Gervin's Afro]

Disrespectful motherfuckers


REP. ELIJAH CUMMINGS: Admiral Mullen, in your review, did you have access to all military information, data, and people necessary to evaluate the military's response?

MULLEN: I did.

CUMMINGS: And I understand from your interview transcript that you conducted this examination not once but twice. Is that correct?

MULLEN: The first time Mr. Cummings was to -- with actually, with all members of the ARB, we went to the Pentagon to review it in detail. And then the second time I went back by myself when this became an issue that there were certainly questions being raised about it. I went back again to verify and validate what I had done before and I found nothing different in that, the military response. The military did everything they possibly could that night. They just couldn't get there in time.

[...]

MULLEN: It goes to our core, when people are in trouble, to do everything we possibly can to help them out. And there were many forces that moved that night, including a special operation force in Europe that ended up in a base in southern Europe, a large special operations force from the United States which moved under direction as soon as -- as soon as they were given orders. A group of Marines that essentially were sent in from Spain into Tripoli the next day. It literally became -- this is not something you can just wish to happen instantly. There's a lot of planning, preparation, as rapidly -- to do it as rapidly as one can do it.

[...]

CUMMINGS: So admiral, what do you say in response to those members who continue to this day to imply that the military somehow fell down on the job?

MULLEN: They didn't fall down on the job and I just completely disagree with that view.



hey dumb fucker.. how disrespectful is it too the families to contniue to imply to them things that aren't true? How many fucking times do the same people have to answer the same questions over and over and over again? How many times dumbass?

Republcians are expoiting this scandal for political gain and that is the disgusting ..

[boutons_deux]

The Benghazi Report Darrell Issa Would Rather You Not See -- And The Media Is Helping Him

On Wednesday, the State Department Office of the Inspector General (IG) issued the results of its investigation of the Benghazi Accountability Review Board that was chaired by Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Admiral Mike Mullen, as well as the State Department's implementation of its recommendations. The first finding of the report states (http://oig.state.gov/documents/organization/214907.pdf) [emphasis added]:


The Accountability Review Board process operates as intended--independently and without bias--to identify vulnerabilities in the Department of State's security programs.


That flies directly in the face of mistruths and exaggerations (http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/324515-watchdog-no-bias-in-benghazi-audit) that were released by Darrell Issa and the focus of a hearing before his House Oversight Committee last week (http://oversight.house.gov/hearing/reviews-of-the-benghazi-attacks-and-unanswered-questions/).

After being given advance copies of a Republican report attacking the credibility of the Benghazi review (http://oversight.house.gov/report/benghazi-attacks-investigative-update-interim-report-on-the-accountability-review-board/) that was released on September 16, publications rushed to inform their readers of its flawed findings. There is no similar urgency on the part of the media to cover this new report which should lay to rest the notion that the Accountability Review Board was anything but an independent investigation into the tragedy that occurred in Benghazi on September 11, 2012.

CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson led her September 15 story by stating (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57603023/benghazi-accountability-review-board-comes-under-renewed-criticism/?tag=socsh): "Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are questioning the findings, independence and integrity of the Accountability Review Board (ARB) investigation surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attacks."

Attkisson in fact filed five stories (http://www.cbsnews.com/sharylattkisson) based on the Republican investigation, but did not file a single report about the Inspector General's contradictory findings.

Politico reported on Republican "criticism" that the ARB (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/democrats-push-back-on-benghazi-97036.html#ixzz2g2YuED75) "findings were watered down and protected Clinton" in multiple (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/darrell-issa-benghazi-97022.html#ixzz2g0rsfg7B) articles (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/darrell-issa-hillary-clinton-benghazi-96974.html), yet only saw fit to mention the new Inspector General report inthe in the middle of (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/darrell-issa-libya-trip-97404.html) a story that primarily focused on Darrell Issa's partisan trip (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/darrell-issa-libya-benghazi-97146.html) to Libya [emphasis added]:


Last week, Issa held a hearing to try to discredit a report by the Accountability Review Board that cited a lack of needed security at embassies but drew the criticism of Republicans for failing to criticize high-ranking State

Department employees, particularly former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. A report by the inspector general released this week affirmed the independence of the ARB report.

"The Accountability Review Board process operates as intended -- independently and without bias -- to identify vulnerabilities in the Department of State's security programs," the inspector general found.


The Daily Beast's (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/15/congress-hillary-s-benghazi-investigation-let-top-officials-escape-blame.html) headline inaccurately read, "Congress: Hillary's Benghazi Investigation Let Top Officials Escape Blame." (It wasn't Congress, it was the Republican staff of a congressional committee releasing a report without input from Democrats.)

The article went on to state (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/15/congress-hillary-s-benghazi-investigation-let-top-officials-escape-blame.html): "The State Department's investigation into the September 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, was not independent and failed to hold senior State Department officials accountable for the failures that led to the deaths of four Americans, according to a new investigative report compiled by the House oversight committee."

The Daily Beast has published no similar article on the IG's report debunking the very premise of its article's lede.

It goes without saying that Fox hyped (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09/17/fox-helping-gop-hype-and-lie-about-its-benghazi/195910) the Issa hearing and report, but has provided no similar coverage to the new findings that directly contradict its narrative; instead, Fox selectively quoted (http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/09/26/right-wing-media-falsely-claim-state-department/196099) from the report to falsely accuse the State Department of not implementing the ARB's recommendations.

And that's just what Darrell Issa would like.


http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09/27/the-benghazi-report-darrell-issa-would-rather-y/196119

Mr CarAlarm still sounding FALSE ALARM on Benghazi

[Spurtacular]

What other reason is there for this hearing?

What difference does it make, amirite?