WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner declared Friday that he would create a select committee to investigate the Benghazi attack, providing Republicans with a high-profile forum to target the Obama administration’s credibility ahead of crucial midterm elections.
Boehner said US officials misled the American people after the Sept. 11, 2012, assault on the US diplomatic outpost in Libya that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
Not only about that one, either.
He said e-mails released this week showed the White House has withheld documents from congressional investigators and asked, ‘‘What else about Benghazi is the Obama administration still hiding from the American people?’’
‘‘Americans learned this week that the Obama administration is so intent on obstructing the truth about Benghazi that it is even willing to defy subpoenas issued by the standing committees of the people’s House,’’ Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said in a statement. ‘‘These revelations compel the House to take every possible action to ensure the American people have the truth about the terrorist attack on our consulate that killed four of our countrymen.’’
Looks impeachable to me.
Separately, the Republican chairman of the House oversight committee, one of several investigating the violence, said Friday he would subpoena Secretary of State John Kerry to testify about the administration’s response to the attack.
Republicans have accused President Obama and his top aides of seeking to deceive the public about the true circumstances of a major, Al Qaeda-linked terrorist attack during the final months of the 2012 presidential campaign — charges that the president and other US officials reject. But administration officials didn’t mention intelligence suggesting the Benghazi attack was distinct from simultaneous, anti-American protests elsewhere in the Arab world.
Yeah, what we have here is one side saying Obummer didn't protect us from terrorists while Obummer covers up the false flag nature of the event, it being by Al-CIA-Duh and all. So we get nowhere near truth and the political swirl churns.
The State Department, which ordered an independent review days after the assault, called the notion that it has stonewalled multiple, ongoing congressional investigations ‘‘just false.’’
‘‘We’ve produced tens of thousands of documents. We’ve done nine hearings, 46 briefings,’’ State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters Friday. She called a select committee unnecessary: ‘‘How many more taxpayer dollars are we going to spend trying to prove a political point that in 18 months they haven’t been able to prove?’’
How long can they stonewall?
The White House did not immediately respond to Boehner’s comments.
For Boehner, a select committee raises the profile of one of the Republicans’ main points of attack against Obama ahead of November’s elections, which could swing the Senate to GOP control.
That's pretty much a given (book was closed by Globe soon after) at this point no matter what happens the next six months.
Benghazi is a rallying cry for the conservative GOP base and will be critical for fund-raising and getting voters to the polls in typically low-turnout midterm contests.
With the millennials making matters worse.
A long-term investigation by a select committee could also provide a vehicle for Republican attacks on former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ahead of another potential presidential run in 2016. And it could unify the Republican approach, which showed fissures Thursday as two powerful GOP committee chairmen sparred over whether the military was prevented from responding to the attack.
See: GOP panel chairman dismisses general’s criticism of Benghazi response
That makes me believe the general.
Boehner could schedule a vote as early as next week, a senior Republican aide said, which is a formality given the GOP’s control of the House. Democrats controlling the Senate have shown no interest in a similar probe. Boehner has been under intense pressure from rank-and-file conservatives and outside groups for a year to make the move.
Related: Boehner jabs GOP on immigration
Looks like they jabbed right back.
Republicans have pointed at one particular passage from the 40 or so e-mails obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request. Three days after the attack, Ben Rhodes, then the deputy national security adviser for strategic communications at the White House, stressed the goal of underscoring ‘‘that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader policy failure.’’
The e-mail was written the Friday before then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice appeared on the Sunday news programs and explained the Benghazi attack as a protest over a YouTube video that mocked the Islamic prophet Mohammed that was hijacked by extremists.
You know, I never saw the video but I know that is not what made Libyans mad.
Administration officials later changed their description of the attack and said references to a protest were inaccurate.
We call them lies 'roun' h're.
Earlier this week, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Rhodes’ reminder was explicitly not about Benghazi but about the overall situation across the Arab world, where American embassies and consulates in several countries faced angry and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Why would anyone angrily and violently demonstrate against AmeriKa?
The oversight committee chairman, Representative Darrell Issa, Republican of California, said he wanted Kerry to appear before the panel May 21 to explain why the latest e-mails were omitted from previous administration submissions.
The State Department said Kerry plans to travel to Mexico around that time.
Well, he will just have to change his greenhouse-gassing travel plans then.
Issa has been the GOP’s most prominent investigator of the Benghazi attack.
Just the man to put the Issaing on the cover-up.
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Did I mention I'm tired of the lies, the cover story, and the excuses regarding the cause and any version coming from this government, and did I fail to mention we have lost Libya?
Eat up those $how hearings as whatever happened that night is obfuscated and obscured.
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
Meet the new U.S. puppet:
"Libya swears in new prime minister" Associated Press May 05, 2014
TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s Parliament swore in a new prime minister supported by Islamists despite a disputed vote Sunday and walkouts from a largely secular bloc, the latest political turmoil in a country where powerful militias hold sway years after its civil war.
Uh-oh.
Despite the protest from a number of non-Islamist parliamentarians, the interim Parliament swore in 42-year-old businessman Ahmed Matiq in a rushed televised session headed by the second deputy of Parliament, Saleh al-Makhzoum.
Oh. Worrying over nothing.
Makhzoum asked Matiq to form the new government within two weeks or sooner.
‘‘The country can’t bear any more delays,’’ Makhzoum said. ‘‘We need a government to handle the budget.’’
Initially, only 113 lawmakers voted for Matiq, falling short of the 120 votes necessary to secure his win.
After the session was adjourned, Libyan TV station Al-Ahrar reported that voting resumed and Matiq secured eight new votes.
Opponents charged that some of the secured votes came from lawmakers who were not there.
There was vote fraud in a AmeriKan-liberated Libya?
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