Posted on 10/24/2015 10:16:38 AM PDT by jazusamo
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Judicial Watch Changes History On Benghazi
Yesterday, I had the honor of attending part of Benghazi Select Committee hearing featuring Hillary Clinton. Joining me was Judicial Watch attorney Ramona Cotca, one of the key JW attorneys litigating the federal open records lawsuits that forced both the creation of the Select Committee and the disclosure of Hillary Clinton’s illicit email system. As the Washington Post pointed out in a not-too-friendly piece, this hearing would not have happened but for Judicial Watch:
It was Judicial Watch that sued the State Department for e-mails that found White House aides collaborating on talking points about the attack, and it was those e-mails that had prodded the Republican majority to create the select committee.
Judicial Watch supporters should know that we were able to get into the packed hearing room thanks to Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), who was one of few Republicans House members who attended the hearing as a spectator. Rep. Gohmert actually took the time to personally escort us into the hearing room.
The hearings were hit and miss for truth and I can’t possibly catalog all the lies and evasions of Mrs. Clinton yesterday. It was good to see Mrs. Clinton questioned on documents uncovered for the American people long ago by Judicial Watch. AND I can tell you the liberal Big Media is lying when it says that Hillary Clinton escaped unscathed. How can that be when the Committee finally released an email showing that Hillary Clinton knew on the night of the attack that it was a terrorist hit and had nothing to do with a video? Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) detailed the devastating facts (transcript via RealClearPolitics ) :
I want to show you a few things here. You’re looking at an e- mail you sent to your family.
Here’s what you said at 11:00 that night, approximately one hour after you told the American people it was a video, you say to your family, “Two officers were killed today in Benghazi by an Al Qaeda- like group.”
You tell — you tell the American people one thing, you tell your family an entirely different story.
Also on the night of the attack, you had a call with the president of Libya. Here’s what you said to him.
“Ansar al-Sharia is claiming responsibility.”
It’s interesting; Mr. Khattala, one of the guys arrested in charge actually belonged to that group.
And finally, most significantly, the next day, within 24 hours, you had a conversation with the Egyptian prime minister.
You told him this, “We know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack, not a protest.”
Let me read that one more time.
“We know,” not we think, not it might be, “we know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack, not a protest.”
State Department experts knew the truth. You knew the truth. But that’s not what the American people got. And again, the American people want to know why.
Those new emails (unlawfully withheld from your JW by the Obama/Hillary operation) confirm that Hillary Clinton lied and allowed the American people to be lied to repeatedly about the Benghazi scandal. Only partisan hack would suggest that such a hearing helped Mrs. Clinton.
Our own Micah Morrison had this take in The Daily Caller:
Rep. Jordan complained of “false narratives” being constructed. “We want to know the truth,” he said. Yesterday, the Benghazi Select Committee appeared to get a little closer to it.
However, per usual, Judicial Watch got America much closer to the truth than this congressional committee.
As the hearing was underway, your JW released a September 12, 2012, cable from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to the Department of State Command Center (DSCC) revealing that the Obama administration was informed within 24 hours that the attack on the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi was “an organized operation” carried out by a “Salafi terrorism group” in retaliation for the killing of al-Qaeda’s second in command, Libyan national Abu Yahya al-Libi. The documents were forced out inresponse to a court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on October 16, 2014.
The lawsuit seeks “any and all logs, reports, or other records” the Washington-based Diplomatic Security Command Center produced between September 10, 2012, and September 13, 2012, relating to the terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya. The smoking-gun DIA cable obtained by Judicial Watch states: “The attack was an organized operation with specific information that the US Ambassador was present.”
The DIA cable was emailed to numerous State Department recipients by the DSCC at the request of the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC), further confirming that the Obama administration knew the assault was a well-organized terrorist attack before President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and National Security Advisor Susan Rice claimed the assault was the result of an “unpremeditated… spontaneous protest” over an obscure Internet video.
The previously Secret document includes the following information:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. A Salafi group (NFI) is believed to be responsible for the 11 September, 2012, attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The attack was in retaliation for the killing of an Al Qaeda operative. The Salafi group attended the [initial] protests and returned at night using overwhelming firepower to overtake security forces of the Consulate.
- (U) The general atmosphere in Benghazi .and Tripoli, Libya, relevant to the attack on the US Consulate, on 11 and 12Sept12, is that of shock and disbelief. A Salafi group is reported to be behind the attack. The Salafi group responsible for the violent [sic] are believed to be the same group who defaced the Islamic shrines and old historic monuments. Some business owners are siding against the Salafi group, believed to be the culprits, and hoping for international intervention to assure stability and justice. A majority of the local population is reported to hold anti-Salafi views.
3.(U/FOUO) The attack was an organized operation with specific information that the US Ambassador was present. The Salafi group attended the protest at or near the US Consulate earlier on 11 September, 2012, and then returned at 2300 firing small arms weapons and between 25 to 30 RPGs at the Consulate and other unknown targets (NFI). The local police tried to defend the Consulate but were out matched by the group’s size and their superior firepower.
4.(U/FOUO) The attack was in [sic] carried out in retaliation for the killing of the Al Qaeda’s number two man, Abu Yah Ya ((A1 LIBI)).
COMMENTS: (Source Comments) 1. (U/FOUO) [REDACTED]
2.(U/FOUO) There has [sic]been no reports of any continuation of the protests or violence, but source suspects there could be additional violence since the attack seemed well coordinated. The majority of the population is against these violent actions, but will not openly condemn them as it will align them with those who support the creation and promulgation of the anti-Muhammad/Islamic video or view. It is believed that most of the businesses and population would support this as the majority hold anti Salafi views and are against such violence. [REDACTED]
3.(U/FOUO) There was a plan to protest in Tripoli on 11Sep12, but law enforcement officials squashed the protest with roadblocks and enforcement efforts.
4.(U) One business owner was heard expressing, “l hope the building has cameras,” to help catch the ones responsible.
(Field Comments) 1. (U/FOUO) To aid collection efforts, analysts are encouraged to send evaluations and additional source directed requirements (SDRs) via HOT-R. lf HOT-R is unavailable, please send evaluations and SDRs to DIRNAVCRIMINVSERV QUANTICO VA//0025//. For foreign disclosure and release of information contained in this IIR, submit a request for information (RFI) via the NCIS Homepage at: [REDACTED] …
The records are in line with other Defense Department documents uncovered through Judicial Watch litigation that also almost immediately reported that the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was committed by the al Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood-linked “Brigades of the Captive Omar Abdul Rahman” (BCOAR), and had been planned at least 10 days in advance. (The documents also include an August 2012 analysis warning of the rise of ISIS and the predicted failure of the Obama policy of regime change in Syria.)
These new smoking-gun documents show that intelligence tied the Benghazi attack to terrorists not to any videos. It is now inescapable that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice knowingly lied about the Benghazi terrorist attack. We would hope that the Benghazi Select Committee will try to get some accountability from Hillary Clinton for her deadly dishonesty. And, frankly, it is disgraceful that it is only Judicial Watch, not costly congressional investigations that is getting out these key documents for the American people. As Investor’s Business Daily pointed out in an editorial:
While the media were focused on all the fireworks that went off at Thursday’s Benghazi hearing on Capitol Hill, they missed a key part of the Benghazi story that took place nearby. Just a few blocks south of the Capitol, the office of Judicial Watch announced on the day Hillary Clinton went before the House Select Committee on Benghazi that it had found “new smoking-gun documents” related to the attacks.
I couldn’t believe it when Hillary Clinton kept insisting to the Committee that she still thought, based on intelligence reports, that the video had something to do with attack (which video, you will see below, is an open question). Where is this intelligence? It does not exist and Mrs. Clinton knows it. The “intelligence” is the material we’re reporting to you here. Both the Select Committee hearing and Judicial Watch’s latest revelations show that Hillary Clinton (and Barack Obama and all of his appointees) lied about the Benghazi attack.
As a supporter of Judicial Watch, you can take credit for this victory for accountability. Without you and Judicial Watch, there would be no Select Committee, no Hillary Clinton testimony, nor revelations that we are still forcing out about this awful Benghazi scandal.
New State Documents Show Quick White House Effort to Link Benghazi to Internet Video
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I think Judicial Watch does great work.
That all this didn’t have involved Obama is beyond belief. But the Justice Dept. has been hopelessly corrupted and there’s bi-partisan (i.e. uni-party) opposition to ever having another special prosecutor so our government is now running open loop. No checks or balances.
Jaz? Why do we have all of these people with FOREIGN-sounding names working in our State Department?
I mean, you would think President Barrack HUSSEIN 0bama would...Oh...Wait...
Never mind...
Bump.
Yep, our government is being run by a criminal enterprise (Executive Branch) with support from the two other branches.
Right on. :-)
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Benghazi ping.
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If the goal of the attack was to payback the loss of a Libyan Al-Qaeda leader by killing our Ambassador, then why did they go after the CIA building?
The Democrats will release a half-truth to keep you from knowing the whole truth.
We owe so much to people like Messrs Klayman, Robinson, Breitbart ..etc. Hopefully those that can donate just a few dollars to these very valuable entities will do so.
The QUESTION that remains, as always... "What is going to be done about it?"
Pray and dream.
Dream and pray.
That’s all I know to do.
BTTT!
It is also interesting that no one seems to have brought this up in the Benghazi hearings, any of the other investigations or in the MSM.
The attack on the CIA compound does seem to have been the better planned and more concerted attack than the one on the Non-Consulate property. Was the first attack on the Non-Consulate just a strategy to draw the best operators away from the CIA compound?
It worked. They were told from Tripoli to stand down but Tyrone Woods and five others, the best fighters, went to the Non-Consulate to rescue about six people there while leaving nearly thirty at the CIA compound. More people there, all CIA contractors of one kind or another, and loads more files. And who knows what else.
Well no, he was fingered. (sorry)
The old bat threw O'Bomber under the bus right off the bat. When asked about the stand-down order, she indicated that she had no such power, and that only the CIC could give a such a command....then later she said it again.
Does Gowdy have the balls to subpoena the Obamahole?
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