Is Benghazi Getting Hot Again?

[Kathianne]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-...ers/?tag=socsh

House investigators talking to new Benghazi whistleblowers

CBS News has learned that multiple new whistleblowers are privately speaking to investigators with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee regarding the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on the U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya.


The nature of the communications with the whistleblowers and their identities are not being made public at this time. But in response, the Oversight Committee yesterday sent letters to the three federal agencies involved: the CIA, the Defense Department and the State Department.


The letters make the case for the whistleblowers to be able to share sensitive or classified information with their own attorneys, and ask for each agency's official description of the legal steps that process must follow. The letters also state that additional witnesses may be "compelled by subpoena to give testimony."


Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the Benghazi attacks seven months ago. No arrests have been made.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...f71_story.html

Kerry, lawmakers have testy exchanges on Benghazi

Secretary of State John F. Kerry showed little patience Wednesday with lawmakers who continue to demand a better accounting from the Obama administration for its statements and actions surrounding last September’s terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya.

“I do not want to spend the next year coming up here talking to you about Benghazi,” Kerry said in his first congressional appearance as secretary. “If there’s something that needs to be put on the table, I will work with you.”


“Let’s put this behind us,” Kerry told one of several Republican members of the House Foreign Relations Committee who pressed him to personally investigate why the administration initially described the attack that killed four U.S. officials as a “spontaneous demonstration” that got out of hand.


“We’ve got serious, important, big current developments that we need to be debating” on a range of other issues, Kerry said.



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[red states rule]

Only in the Obama administration can you have this:

4 US citizens are murdered

An Ambassador goes on TV and LIES to the American people on what happened

You have the President hiding behind the liberal media and trying to cover up what happened

No one at the State Dept is fired after the requests fro more security are denied

The Sec of State tells Congress "what difference does it make" why US citizens are murdered

The families of the people murdered are ignored and forgotten (while the New Town families are flown in on Air Force One and used as political props)

The suriviors of the terror attack are told not keep their mouths shut and kept from telling what they know

and the liberal media yawns and move along

[jafar00]

Only in the Obama administration can you have this:

4 US citizens are murdered

An Ambassador goes on TV and LIES to the American people on what happened

You have the President hiding behind the liberal media and trying to cover up what happened

No one at the State Dept is fired after the requests fro more security are denied

The Sec of State tells Congress "what difference does it make" why US citizens are murdered

The families of the people murdered are ignored and forgotten (while the New Town families are flown in on Air Force One and used as political props)

The suriviors of the terror attack are told not keep their mouths shut and kept from telling what they know

and the liberal media yawns and move along

Remind you of 9/11? Only that time the death toll was about 3000.

Egypt revolution, 800 dead, President lied

Syrian revolution 10's of thousands of dead, President lying on TV again and again

Iraq, Millions dead, President lied on TV

People die over politics and Presidents lie about it. It's the world we live in unfortunately.

[Marcus Aurelius]

...People die over politics and Presidents lie about it. It's the world we live in unfortunately.

And you lie about Islam, and everything else, then fly away or ignore the lie when pointed out by multiple posters.

[Kathianne]

Now, the OT:

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/29...arns-cia-staff

Lawyer up, Issa warns CIA staff

By Jordy Yager - 04/17/13 08:39 PM ET

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is pushing ahead with his investigation of last year’s fatal attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, by preparing federal agencies to allow employees to lawyer up.



In separate letters to the legal offices of the CIA, State Department and Defense Department, Issa said some witnesses on the issue might need lawyers, if their agencies decide to retaliate against them for their testimony.


“During the course of the investigation, numerous individuals have approached the committee with information related to the attack,” wrote Issa in the letters, which were obtained by The Hill.

He asked agencies to provide details on how to grant outside attorneys the security clearances necessary for them to adequately represent employees discussing classified matters with congressional investigators.

“Some witnesses may be required to retain personal counsel to represent them before the committee and in the event the agency subsequently retaliates against them for cooperating with the committee’s investigation,” he said.


“Additional witnesses may be compelled by subpoena to give testimony to the committee and can be reasonably expected to retain personal counsel at that time.”


The letters are the latest sign that Issa is ramping up his investigation of the Benghazi attack and potential security and managerial failures that led up to it. He initially launched the probe last year, about a month after the attack.


The move comes as more than 100 rank-and-file Republicans have increased their pressure on Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to create a 19-member select committee to look into the attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans on Sept. 11, 2012.


Since then, 106 lawmakers have signed on to a resolution from Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) calling for a select committee.


Boehner has argued that a select committee would be expensive and time-consuming to create, and has called for standing committees to investigate the matter.


Further involvement by Issa, who has subpoena power on Oversight, could bolster Boehner’s argument.


Issa also warned the agencies against taking negative action toward any employees that help his panel with its investigation.


“[I]t is important that the agency makes clear to its employees that they are free to furnish information to Congress in accordance with their statutory rights,” wrote Issa.

“Additionally, retaliation against a witness who communicates with the committee can be considered obstruction of a congressional investigation and is punishable by fine and imprisonment.”


In addition to Issa’s Oversight panel, the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, Armed Services and Judiciary committees have also probed the 2012 attack. An interim staff report is expected to be released next week in an attempt to allay concerns that the House is not acting quickly enough on the issue.


As Issa pushes forward with his investigation, it could threaten the bipartisan tone and relationship he has worked to build with the panel’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings (Md.), since the beginning of the year.


While Cummings is generally supportive of the probe, many Democrats have voiced concerns that it could carry a political bent. They point to Issa’s first hearing, which was held less than a month before the 2012 presidential election while the House was in pro-forma sessions. Democrats speculated that the special hearing was an attempt to undermine President Obama’s foreign policy credentials — an area that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney struggled to present a successful challenge to.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...f71_story.html

If it is not it should be!!!-Tyr

People died, obama lied!!!

[aboutime]

This guy Kerrystatebenghazi.jpg doesn't seem to think there is TIME to discuss Benghazi...Much like Hillary, and Obama said earlier.

Anything that might re-direct attention to the DEATHS of FOUR AMERICANS...isn't something Obama and his Gang want, or need.