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GOP lawmakers: Obama administration
blocking access to Benghazi survivors

Washington Times, by Gus Taylor

Original Article

Posted By:Drive, 3/18/2013 8:32:29 AM

More than six months since the deadly attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, Republican lawmakers say they are still looking for answers and are frustrated that the White House is blocking access to an unknown number of survivors. The Washington Times learned Friday that the State Department has failed to respond to a letter written nearly three weeks ago by two House Republicans seeking answers about the survivors, as many as seven of whom are believed to still be at Walter Reed

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: pineledger, 3/18/2013 8:48:10 AM     (No. 9230625)

One has to wonder why.


Reply 2 - Posted by: provide, 3/18/2013 8:58:21 AM     (No. 9230647)

Watch for fast transport to a German Hospital.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: pinger, 3/18/2013 9:05:37 AM     (No. 9230656)

How ironic the Benghazi attack and what followed....During the presidential campaign during 2008 Obama and Clinton jousted about who would be better qualified to take "a 3AM phone call" and make a decision on what the course of action should be. As it turned out, when the call came, they both rolled over and buried their heads in their pillows. They´re both derelicts and an embarrassment to our country.


Reply 4 - Posted by: SpeedMaster, 3/18/2013 9:12:02 AM     (No. 9230661)

Other sites have said this was not a consulate but a gun running operation to rebels in Syria through Turkey. Others have reported they were holding prisoners. The more this administration tries to cover up the more plausible these reports become. When these people testify (and they will eventually) I hope someone asks the right questions, especially what the heck the ambassador was doing there on what was known to be the most dangerous day of the year.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Adam, 3/18/2013 9:16:17 AM     (No. 9230669)

oh is this the same benghazi incident that the President said we´ve run out of questions to ask about? riiiiight.


Reply 6 - Posted by: right-turn, 3/18/2013 9:41:13 AM     (No. 9230718)

Finally! I now believe Obama and his claim about being a transparent administration.

We can see right through him!


Reply 7 - Posted by: Hotrod, 3/18/2013 9:42:41 AM     (No. 9230723)

Now that it is known to be a cover up, the truth will become known. There are people who know exactly what Obama and Hillary were up to. Hillary thought that if she ´´retired´´ and a new SecState was installed, the issue would fade away. Wrong! There is blood on the hands of both Obama and Hillary Clinton!


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: LZK, 3/18/2013 9:52:30 AM     (No. 9230741)

Maybe the survivors remember what happened to Linda Tripp when she came forward about the Monica mouth of bubba clinton´s Oral Office.....

AND -- remember what happened to Kathleen Willey´s cat. It disappeared mysteriously and was reported by goooooberment gonies to Mrs. Willey that she wouldn´t see him/her (?) again if she testified. So -- since she testified against bubba -- I guess her cat sleeps with the fishes...

LZK


Reply 9 - Posted by: EnsignO´Toole, 3/18/2013 9:57:14 AM     (No. 9230752)

A majority Democrat Congress would have called for a major investigation right away if a Republican was President. The Pubbies need to have a "damn the torpedoes full speed ahead" attitude and get to the bottom of this. It has lingered too long and needs to be kept fresh in the minds of voters that the Obama Administration is hiding a lot of sh*# that happened to their fellow Americans.


Reply 10 - Posted by: fed-up, 3/18/2013 9:58:01 AM     (No. 9230755)

Which is WHY, no one will take this on in the media now. They still have Hillary´s butt to protect on this. They drug it out to save Obama, past the election... but this could and should taint Hillary and her ability to handle any crisis confronting our country.

Just because she happened to be married to a scoundrel who became president, makes her qualified for anything astounds me anyway!


Reply 11 - Posted by: lana720, 3/18/2013 10:00:27 AM     (No. 9230760)

If/when, they testify, they must do so in cognito or behind a screen. We need the truth and these people must be protected.
Prosecutions are now way too late, but there is never a statute of limitations on truth.


Reply 12 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino, 3/18/2013 10:38:43 AM     (No. 9230829)

The Pubbie "Instant Response Squad" springs into action!

Their policy of zero tolerance for Zero´s lawlessness means that we may get to the bottom of this scandal within the next two or three decades.

Hang on, folks - - it´s going to be an exciting half-century!


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: spahrkl, 3/18/2013 10:51:06 AM     (No. 9230855)

wasn´t it Churchill who said there is nothing to fear but fear itself?

these people were given the gift of life from those who took action to make sure they were safe. Surely, with the knowledge that they fear for themselves and their families and that information if known about this situation is very damning it would provide them with protection among the many who want to know the facts.

Truth must surface and be shared. Four men gave their lives Are they worried about their jobs? the administration should be worried about their job and the future of
their corrupt positions.




Reply 14 - Posted by: RancherJack, 3/18/2013 11:08:28 AM     (No. 9230890)

How is this possible?


Reply 15 - Posted by: pete moss, 3/18/2013 11:20:03 AM     (No. 9230918)

It´s possible, #14, because we have criminals in high places.


Reply 16 - Posted by: lostinmassachusetts, 3/18/2013 1:13:48 PM     (No. 9231197)

How does Obama get away with such a ham-handed coverup? The collusion of the mainstream media, the unquestioning acceptance of his lies by people of limited intelligence in the electorate, and the cowardice of his political opponents, that´s how.


Reply 17 - Posted by: uno_thatguy, 3/18/2013 1:51:23 PM     (No. 9231267)

Lindsey Graham spoke with two of those survivors and said their stories about warnings were "chilling!" These criminals in the WH need to be in prison. As Sarah Palin said at CPAC that universal background checks need to start at the White House.

I´m hoping that the pressure is building that will soon burst the shroud in which this miscreant is wrapped. Nixon´s demise developed this way but the press was against him. Now I see signs of the press turning- very slowly though it be!


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: agility, 3/18/2013 1:52:00 PM     (No. 9231269)

Its the collapse of any meaningful Republican opposition that is extremely frustrating. The media is what is expected. The Republicans get on TV and say nothing. No effective opposition to this tyrannical administration.


Reply 19 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino, 3/18/2013 6:17:30 PM     (No. 9231711)

Be patient #18. The Pubbies will get to the bottom of this before long - - just about the time Kim Kardashian´s baby is eligible to vote.


Reply 20 - Posted by: udanja99, 3/18/2013 6:44:04 PM     (No. 9231745)

#13, I think that was FDR.


Reply 21 - Posted by: Dodge Boy, 3/18/2013 8:24:21 PM     (No. 9231876)

Come on, Obie, loosen up, bro. We need to find out what you threatened the survivors with to clam them up. Besids Carney needs new material to get through his pressies.


Reply 22 - Posted by: Philipsonh, 3/18/2013 10:08:28 PM     (No. 9232069)

We all know that this situation is possibly the biggest cover-up in decades by the least transparent Administration in History. Congress needs to ACT NOW to discover the truth.


   

 



 

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