The most outspoken Republican critics of the 2012 Benghazi attacks have hammered away at the theory that someone – perhaps even Hillary Clinton – gave a “stand-down order” that halted military assets that could have saved the Americans killed at the diplomatic outpost and CIA annex there. But the testimony of nine military leaders to a House panel, made public just this week, suggests that’s simply incorrect. The Associated Press reports that the military officials were “largely in agreement” over how they responded to the attacks and that the decision to direct a Special Operations team to stay in Tripoli to protect embassy personnel there was the right call. All this comes before even the first public moves of House’s new special select committee to investigate the Benghazi attacks – a panel which plans to spend as much as $3.3 million on its efforts, by the way. The “stand down” theory had certainly gotten some credence in the past from Rep. Trey Gowdy, the chairman of that new committee. If the newly released testimony undercuts a theory widely disseminated by high-profile GOP members of the panel, how much credibility are these lawmakers going to have when they try to keep the Benghazi issue in the headlines later this year? LIED TO ABOUT ACA... LIED TO ABOUT BENGAZI...... any more scandals we need to waste taxpayer money on?? (fiscal conservatives??? where???)
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 12:18:00 +0000
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