NoTeaPartyPleez
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The Democrat's zeal for congressional investigations? LOL.The new Democratic majority's zeal for congressional investigations
BENGHAZI!!! BENGHAZI!!!
Talk about a witch hunt. 7 congressional investigations, and counting...
Benghazi By The Numbers – Benghazi Research Center
$22 Million: Minimum total cost to the taxpayers of congressional investigations into Benghazi.
10: Number of congressional committees that have participated in Benghazi investigations.
33: Number of congressional hearings, public or private, held on the Benghazi tragedy according to publicly available hearing transcripts, congressional reports, and committee websites and fact sheets.
1335: Number of days since the beginning of the ongoing investigations into the tragedy in Benghazi, and there is no end yet in sight. [As of 5/8/16]
AND ON, AND ON, IT GOES
4 Americans needlessly died due to incompetence, inaction, and politically motivated refusal to act. The investigations uncovered:
- The Administration KNEW there was a call for Middle East-wide attacks on US installations and yet they still were woefully unprepared: 22 US Embassies were attacked, 2 were completely overrun, and 4 Americans needlessly died.
- Despite knowing and the other nations with personnel in Benghazi removing their people from harm's way, Hillary / the State Department refused to order him out, instead blaming their employee for not making that decision. (Leaders lead and take care of their people - FAIL)
- The Administration was warned well in advance that an Al Qaeida senior member had called for the assassination of Ambassador Stevens for the death of an Al Qaeida leader as a result of a US drone strike the month earlier - the administration / State dept did nothing (except deny additional security and strip members of Ambassador's security detail from his staff)
- Hillary's own e-mails revealed Stephens begged for additional security HUNDREDS of times yet was denied every time - during her questioning she laughed about it and said she thought the hundreds of requests were part of a 'joke' - part of Stephens' 'sense of humor'
- Hillary's own e-mails also revealed she not only denied additional security but also stripped Stephenson, despite the threats, of 14 members of his security detail...after 2 previous terrorist attacks in the weeks leading up to the attack on 9/11/01 that resulted n his death. (WHY did they not pull him out, as the other nations had done with their people, after these 2 attacks? why did they deny him extra security after these attacks? Stephens warned he would die if a 3rd attack happened and he did not have additional security! Why did they take away security after these 2 attacks?)
- Hillary's own e-mails show she KNEW it was a terrorist attack almost immediately. An Ambassador from Tripoli testified that he reported directly to Hillary within an hour of the attack declaring it was a terrorist attack. Her own e-mails show she knew, that she told a foreign Ambassador 'we KNOW the video had nothing to do with it, and it was a terrorist attack'. They show she told her daughter the same thing before lying to the American people.
- It was proven that the CIA's report sent directly to the WH War Room and State Department (within the 1st 2 hours of the attack) calling it a terrorist attack was modified 13 times - stripping it of every reference to 'terrorism' - before releasing it to the public.
This is just a small part of what came out of the investigations, and all of this is what Liberals call 'nothing' that resulted from the investigations.
It has taken too long? Within the LAST SEVERAL MONTHS the State Department was forced to admit they had not turned over all documents related to Benghazi, AND files that had been subpoenaed by the committees were HIDDEN in another office in the State Department AFTER they had been subpoenaed. It has been found that Hillary herself hid many documents - and all of these e-mails, some the State department had to admit she never turned over to them. The obstruction of justice and continued cover-up is what has taken so long.
The flagrant, obvious criminal acts that have been undertaken during this whole scandal is shameful and has been part of the proof that this administration is one of the most scandalous in history -- 70% criminal non-compliance with the FOIA! Obama's entire Presidency has been one embroiled in scandal after scandal, dragged out as long as possible, and fraught with criminal acts that went unpunished, like Holder's multiple counts of Perjury while under oath.
You make fun of Benghazi as a political tactic designed to minimize the impact of the scandal, of the incompetence, ineptitude, and intentional acts of deceit perpetrated to save the political careers of two absolutely worthless politicians who let 4 brave Americans needlessly die. For continuously doing that you are a POS!
Lost your lithium, sparky?