Benghazi? 9/11? I thought PC was talking about THIS one that got a pass even though the Repub admin was warned to be vigilant:
That was basically something else.
The worst intelligence failure in American History that resulted in the deaths of close to 3000 Americans, gets one investigation, nearly a year after 9/11, is done behind closed doors and blames no one. In fact a good amount of it that implicated the Saudis is redacted.
Benghazi?
What are we on the 9th "investigation"?
"The worst intelligence failure in American History...."
Absolutely!
And the provenance was the Liberals/Democrats in Congress.
Here...let me show you:
"The real aberration occurred in the mid-1970s when the United States granted its legislative branch the greatest
control over intelligence matters of any Western nation, and overturned the system which had prevailed in the United States since the Founding.
The damage done to the CIA by this congressional oversight regime (Democrat-controlled Pike and Church Committees) is quite extensive. The committees increased the number of CIA officials subject to Senate confirmation, condemned the agency for its
contacts with unscrupulous characters, prohibited any further contact with these bad characters, insisted that the United States not engage or assist in any coup which may harm a foreign leader, and overwhelmed the agency with interminable requests for briefings (some 600 alone in 1996).
[A]s Henry Kissinger once observed about the [Democrat] Church Committee, that it is an illusion that “tranquility can be achieved by an abstract purity of motive for which history offers no example.” It is precisely this illusion which has prevailed in congressional circles since the heyday of
[Democrat] Frank Church and Otis Pike. As Church himself once argued, the United States should not “fight fire with fire . . . evil with evil.”
[Democrat] Senator Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, who led the charge in the mid-1990s to prevent the CIA from hiring unsavory characters. Torricelli rallied to the defense of State Department employee Robert Nuccio, who leaked classified material dealing with CIA operations in Guatemala to Torricelli, who in turn held a press conference and revealed the information to the media. It was these revelations that led to congressional
restrictions on the ability of agents in the field to deal with “bad people.”
[C]hairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Joseph Biden,…[t]he Delaware Democrat was one of seventeen Senators who
voted in 1974 to ban all covert operations, and proudly noted during his 1988 campaign for president that he had threatened to “go public” with covert action plans by the Reagan administration, causing them to cancel the operations."
History News Network Congressional Oversight and the Crippling of the CIA
And 3000 of our brothers and sisters paid with their live.
