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2013-04-30 Terror Networks
State: Our Benghazi probe 'should be enough' for Congress
"Nothing to see here, move along"
The State Department on Monday defended its decision not to have lower-level employees testify before Congress about last year's attack in Benghazi, Libya.
And the "Watchdogs of Democracy", the MSM, agrees...
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is pushing ahead with his investigation of the terrorist assault, and has asked for legal protections for lower-level employees who might be called to testify.

The State Department pushed back on Monday and said the independent probe into the attack "should be enough" for lawmakers.

"We think that we've done an independent investigation, that it's been transparent, thorough, credible, and detailed, and that we've shared those findings with the U.S. Congress," State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said. "And that should be enough."

Ventrell said the employees who were present during the attack or were otherwise involved have already provided "extensive testimony" to the FBI and the State Department's independent review board, which issued a scathing report last year. He said they're back on duty and at their posts around the world.

"The standard practice, going back for a very long time, is that there are senior officers who are willing to testify on behalf of this department about our operations," he said. "We don't sort of have people at the operational level necessarily as witnesses who are testifying."


Posted by tipper 2013-04-30 08:59|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 "It's not. Want your budget cut? 50 % 'should be enough', right?"
Posted by Frank G 2013-04-30 09:31||   2013-04-30 09:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Operators are now talking. Appears neither the survivors or the SOF community are taking this one laying down.

Fill your hands you lying SOB's!
Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-30 09:44||   2013-04-30 09:44|| Front Page Top

#3 It's not the crime that gets you in deep caca, it's the cover-up.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2013-04-30 09:50||   2013-04-30 09:50|| Front Page Top

#4 "Let the fox guard the hen house," said no one ever.
Posted by Gravilet Elmuse2992 2013-04-30 09:58||   2013-04-30 09:58|| Front Page Top

#5 "Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?"
Posted by Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-04-30 10:08||   2013-04-30 10:08|| Front Page Top

#6 "What does it matter?"
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2013-04-30 10:30||   2013-04-30 10:30|| Front Page Top

#7 The Donks didn't accept Richard Nixon investigating himself. How about dusting off the John Mitchell wing of the federal prison system? Looks like we have a number of people working their way in.
Posted by Procopius2k 2013-04-30 12:02||   2013-04-30 12:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Obama ‘not familiarÂ’ with intimidation of Benghazi whistleblowers
Posted by tipper 2013-04-30 14:33||   2013-04-30 14:33|| Front Page Top

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