Benghazi: Greg Hicks was ordered by the State Department to not talk to Congressional investigators, and has since been demoted
I had to work today so I didn’t see the Benghazi hearing but I have been perusing the internet reading about what went on today. For the most part is seems as if what we already knew about the attack was confirmed by people on the ground during the attack and most of the new information had leaked out over the last week and I have already written about it so I won’t delve into it again.
However there are a couple of issues I will address in tonight’s post.
It is interesting to note that the Democrats are not denying the American people were misled by the Obama regime anymore, because they cannot, but rather they are simply now accusing the Republicans of playing politics with the issue. I find that to be an interesting position to take after we saw the way Barack Obama and the Democrats used the Sandy Hook families to push the gun control legislation which ultimately failed.
The Democrats are also still trying to blame budget cuts for the lack of security in Benghazi although in the first hearing on this issue a State Department official, Charlene Lamb, admitted it was not a factor. She has since resigned. (Or was forced to resign.)
We also know that Greg Hicks was ordered by the State Department to not speak to congressional investigators about the attack and since the attack this man with 22 years in the service of his country has been demoted from the number two position in Libya to a desk job where he remains today, while a fourth whistleblower was unable to testify today because the Obama regime has not granted his attorney the proper security clearance to hear the testimony. Once can only wonder what this man knows that Barack Obama does not want revealed to the American people.
In my opinion no questions were really answered today and in fact we now may have more unanswered questions than we did before the hearing. I would expect more hearings in the future complete with high level military figures because we need to know who ordered the stand down order and who ordered the talking points to be changed.
If anyone was playing politics with this issue it was Barack Obama and the Democrats before the 2012 election as they purposely lied about the reason behind the attack in order minimize the damage before the election.
The cover up continues…..
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The other point we found out was that Hillary was on the phone with them 8 pm our time. One can pick up the hearing over at the c- span website. But it was a long day with the dems acting petulant.
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I hadn’t heard that about Hillary and we still do not know where Obama was. From what I have read petulant is a great way to describe the Dems.
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She clearly knew it was no YouTube video nor walk bys that started this, but an organized attack.
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Even the Dems are not denying they knew the truth from the beginning at this point, that is why they are trying to portray the hearing as a political witchhunt.
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I had it up on the laptop today, went about the same as the F&F hearings. You could see the pain these men were in even having to talk about this. You had some good question from the right and then the left was, as expected, downplaying it, to some extent. Elijah Cummings was in fine form and Ms. Maloney, who always appears to look like a drunken bag lady tried to act offended by what they were saying….yep, it went about as I expected it to go. I hope it goes better than it did today, because one of the questioners stated it was no smoking gun and I believe not even a luke warm slingshot, or something to that effect. They, bottom line, want to say that there was nothing new here and to move along. Ya, as I expected.
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I didn’t see any smoking gun here either, it really did go as I expected with the Democrats trying to protect their own and the Republicans not really getting anything we didn’t know. It is very reminiscent of Fast and Furious and unless something changes this scandal will go the same way as Fast and Furious.
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It is only we conservatives that give a damn, Steve. I read somewhere that in a survey, when people were asked what their opinion was on Beghanzi, 40% didn’t know what Benghazi is. It could have been a food dish for all they knew. Very sad!
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Doesn’t affect them, Jim, that is all most people worry about!
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That is the bottom line Lou. Too many people don’t care about this because it didn’t affect them and it is sad to think that an administration could stand down during this attack and it doesn’t draw the ire of the people.
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Very sad indeed Jim! Perhaps if more people cared about this and were demanding answers we might get to the bottom of this. But most people don’t seem to care about it and in the end I am afraid nothing will come of this.
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Reblogged this on Freedom Is Just Another Word….
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Thank you again!
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The Watergate mess was on a 24 hour news cycle 20 years before there was a 24 hour news cycle. It got more airplay than a top ten record on a top forty radio station. Regardless of the low esteem in which we hold the print and electronic media they are still the conduit for delivering current news and events to the great unwashed so Benghazi is barely on their radar. And don’t expect the republicans to run with this, after all these guys couldn’t get laid in a whore house never mind do the job entrusted to them by we the people. This is the party running that ridiculous Marco Rubio immigration ad. They still don’t know that Obama and friends have dropped this and moved on to job creation? Soon Benghazi will in potters field with the other unpaid for democrat scandals.
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Unfortunately you are right, without the MSM covering this it is very unlikely to go anywhere and I do not trust the Republicans to push this either because when the MSM goes after them they will back down.
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Obama and his people thought – like F&F – that they could just stonewall, play for time, let things die out. Their allies in the press would help, of course, and nobody would believe anyone who came out against them. The press is playing along and with F&F – as you well know – nothing came of it.
I see no reason for there to be a different outcome now. I hope I am wrong.
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I hope you are wrong also, but I have a funny feeling you are right.
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The Obama Klan made sure Stevens got whacked to cover up the gun running operation to arm the Syrian rebels, whom we know as Al-Queda. Those involved in F&F were lucky enough to stay alive and in doing so know enough to clam up. Both scandals will fade away like the 8 track tape.
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There is no doubt in my mind that there was a gun running operation there and I fear you are right about this scandal fading away. I do not have confidence in the Republicans taking this all the way.
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