Gowdy concedes military couldn’t have reached Benghazi in time
Benghazi Select Committee head Trey Gowdy has finally admitted that the U.S. military could not have gotten to Benghazi in time to save four American lives.
Click here for reuse options!In the most outlandish version of this story, President Obama or Hillary Clinton ordered the military to “stand down” rather than come to the aid of the Americans who were under attack.
Earlier this week, a letter from two House Democrats to Rep. Trey Gowdy, the South Carolina Republican who is chairing the select committee investigating the Benghazi attack, revealed that the GOP’s own chief investigator acknowledged during the investigation that nothing “could have been done differently to affect the outcome in Benghazi.”
…In an interview on Fox News today, Gowdy responded to this newly released information by acknowledging, “Whether or not they could have gotten there in time, I don’t think there is any issue with respect to that — they couldn’t.” – See more at:
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StoneyCurtisll May 17th, 2016 at 15:51
It took the pinhead Gowdy to come to this conclusion?
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker May 17th, 2016 at 17:35
But…he misspoke? :/
Larry Schmitt May 17th, 2016 at 17:36
He misquoted himself.
Dan Steele May 18th, 2016 at 00:18
Yes, he had something…egg on his face.
Larry Schmitt May 17th, 2016 at 16:23
And yet the “investigation” continues? Too bad we can’t send him a bill for the entire cost when it’s all done, the way the costs of frivolous lawsuits are billed to the complainants. And worse yet, he will get re-elected again and again.
William May 17th, 2016 at 16:29
And to think that after only 3 and a half years and 22 million dollars, they were able to come up with that .http://benghazicommittee.com/benghazi-by-the-numbers/
Larry Schmitt May 17th, 2016 at 16:38
You got a real purty mouth.
granpa.usthai May 17th, 2016 at 17:02
well don’t git shy on US granpa will, he plays just as good now as he did as a youngun’
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granpa.usthai May 17th, 2016 at 16:46
and so now the investigation will center on who will get the first multi-million dollar coloring book of Libya with BENGHAZI located in it?
No way out May 17th, 2016 at 16:50
I saw thought I heard this and posted it on his facebook page. What a group of buffoons
Suzanne McFly May 17th, 2016 at 17:01
Then WTF are you having the 7th investigation on this issue for?
granpa.usthai May 17th, 2016 at 17:07
ever heard of ‘milking’ a project?
welcome to Trey’s REPUBLICAN BENGHAZI DAIRY FARM !
Larry Schmitt May 17th, 2016 at 17:35
That’s the only way they’ll get their hands on any t!ts.
robert May 17th, 2016 at 17:59
trey and daisy approve this message
RandyBastard May 17th, 2016 at 19:19
I used to be a contract programmer for several Fortune 100 companies. Once, for an insurance company (let’s say ‘a good neighbor’) I was hired to write a printing routine for their branches.
On the first day I was given the specs and my first thought was that there must be more to the project, because I could write this code in about 20 minutes. I then proceeded to write said code.
It turned out they had zero knowledge of what was needed and I had just completed the entire project.
My contract company told me “you could have milked it for a couple of weeks at least.” Because, apparently, everyone they sent over there was slow-walking their work.
Welcome to corporate America…
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17 May 17th, 2016 at 18:17
They’re continuing their tapdance around the real issue–Who were the arms being funneled to that were flowing through Libya? Everyone knows the answer to that question, but it can’t be publicly stated (for reasons of Nat’l Sec.). THAT’s what got those people killed. So instead we’re gonna continue to suck this thing dry to discredit the administration.
Suzanne McFly May 17th, 2016 at 21:41
They will be known for being on the wrong side in our future history books.
Dan Steele May 18th, 2016 at 00:14
Everyone knows? Not really. Only the TP/GOP purveyors of propaganda That’s just one layer in the stack of lies the GOP created to draw attention away from the serious cuts they made in embassy security. Now that the real truths have come out, showing that Hillary had no responsibility regarding the attack, it won’t matter to the Trumpites. When they hear GOP lies, they just repeat them over and over, even when everyone else knows they are not true. That’s what make Trump unfit for office. He is crude, vulgar and the biggest liar among all the candidates, even making them up as he goes along. He has absolutely no principle, no respect for anyone but himself and a lot of hidden things he’s hoping the public never finds out. He is far less a man than he projects himself to be.
17 May 18th, 2016 at 00:36
How you got off on a tangent with Donald Trump I do not know. My point was that everybody knows what was being done there, and all the Congressional Hearings in the world will not bring the truth to life, because they can’t. The GOP can only use this to whip Clinton with, in an attempt to discredit her, but they’ll never nail her on anything. Even THEY know the truth, and cannot divulge it. And so the tapdance will continue.
majii May 17th, 2016 at 18:58
The reason for the House Benghazi investigation is purely political and Gowdy knows it. He’s known it all along, but he and his GOP/TP buddies cannot stop themselves from trying to use it to mobilize GOP/TP voters to show up at the polls in November. Every issue the GOP/TP pushes from gay marriage to transgender bathroom laws to voter fraud is use to win/influence elections. They know that if they can use these issues to rile GOP/TP voters up, they can win they votes.
Suzanne McFly May 17th, 2016 at 21:42
The red states are filled with people who are pi$$ed at the world and the blue states support them. I wish we could cut them off, but not all of the population votes against their interests.
allison1050 May 17th, 2016 at 19:33
6.9 million
mistlesuede May 17th, 2016 at 19:36
There goes one of Trump’s main plans to attack Hillary with. Hope the Clinton campaign has the audio or the video of him talking saved.
Sue May 18th, 2016 at 22:05
Gowdy’s actions, coupled with delays that have pushed the 2-year-old inquiry into the heat of the 2016 presidential race, “have damaged the credibility of the Select Committee beyond repair,” they wrote.
The letter from the Democrats comes after Gowdy sent a letter to Defense Secretary Ash Carter complaining that a top Pentagon official had intentionally mischaracterized the House inquiry.
The Democrats’ letter quotes Chipman as telling Panetta: “I think you ordered exactly the right forces to move out and to head toward a position where they could reinforce what was occurring in Benghazi or Tripoli or elsewhere in the region. And, sir, I don’t disagree with the actions you took, the recommendations you made and the decisions you directed.”
Chipman later told Panetta that he was “worried” that U.S. officials were caught by surprise during the Benghazi raids, which occurred on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Still, Chipman told Panetta: “Nothing could have affected what occurred in Benghazi,” the letter said.
The letter from the Democrats comes after Gowdy sent a letter to Defense Secretary Ash Carter complaining that a top Pentagon official had intentionally mischaracterized the House inquiry.
Hedger, in an April 28 letter to Gowdy, expressed frustration with the Benghazi panel, citing a “crescendo” of costly, duplicative and unnecessary requests, including a few based on claims made on Facebook or talk radio.
http://www.kxxv.com/story/31979347/democrats-benghazi-chairman-ignores-statement-by-gop-lawyer
Sue May 18th, 2016 at 22:13
State Department officials have determined that classified information was sent to the personal email accounts of former Secretary of State Colin Powell and the senior staff of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, NBC News has learned.
In an interview with NBC News, Powell challenged the conclusion, saying nothing that went to his personal account was secret. A Rice spokeswoman said the emails were about diplomatic communications.
In a letter to Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy dated Feb. 3, State Department Inspector General Steve Linick said that the State Department has determined that 12 emails examined from State’s archives contained national security information now classified “Secret” or “Confidential.” The letter was obtained by NBC News.
Two of the messages were sent to Powell’s personal account, and 10 were sent to personal accounts of Rice’s senior aides, the letter said. None of the messages were marked classified when originally sent, and none were determined to include information from the intelligence community, Linick said in the document.
Powell told NBC News he strongly disputed that the information in the messages sent to him was classified, and characterized the contents as “fairly minor.”
“I wish they would release them,” Powell said, “so that a normal, air-breathing mammal would look at them and say, ‘What’s the issue?'”
Powell said he has read the two messages in question, having been made aware of the letter. The messages originated with ambassadors — one in the Philippines, the other in Europe. He said they were first circulated on unclassified State Department systems, and sent to his personal account by his assistant.
“They were unclassified at the time, and they are, in my judgment, still unclassified,” he said.
Powell, who served as secretary from 2001 to 2005, said he used a personal email account because State’s email system was slow and cumbersome Rice, now a professor at Stanford University, was unavailable for comment, said her chief of staff, Georgia Godfrey.
“She did not use email as secretary nor use a personal email account,” Godfey said via email. “My understanding is that the report is in reference to emails sent to her assistant reporting diplomatic conversations and they contained no intelligence information.”
Linick’s letter said his initial findings suggest there could be a lot more classified material in State’s unclassified archives. He recommended that State take steps to find and remove it. The IG came upon the material during the course of a review of how current and past secretaries of state deal with classified material and with email. He sent 19 email messages to nine State bureaus and offices for review, and 12 were deemed to include classified material.
The review was prompted by the current controversy over Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal computer server to conduct government business while secretary of state.
Linick’s findings will be seen as helpful to Clinton, because they show that past secretaries of state and senior officials used personal accounts to conduct government business http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rice-aides-powell-also-got-classified-info-personal-emails-n511181
Sue May 18th, 2016 at 22:25
President Obama did send help. Question was it fast enough. There was no way possible they could have got there soon enough to save the men. Read the entire article. It shows all the false information given to the public and the truth.
FALSE: Administration officials watched the attacks unfold in real time but did nothing to intervene.
FALSE: Requests issued by U.S. personnel for military back-up during the attacks were denied.
FALSE: General Carter Ham was relieved of his command for attempting to provide military assistance during the Benghazi attacks.
FALSE: Rear Admiral Charles M. Gaouette was relieved of his command for attempting to provide military assistance during the Benghazi attacks.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/benghazi.asp#
Gary Wilkinson May 20th, 2016 at 17:32
Lets see – 6 congressional hearings and reports before this committee started its work and nothing bad found. Republicans cut embassy security funding and try to blame Obama and Clinton. I think our tax dollars would have been better spent if they looked into whether Humpty Dumpty was pushed.