New Website Vows to Show You the Benghazi Documents the ‘White House Doesn’t Want You to Read’
Feb. 5, 2014 10:45pm Jason Howerton
The Republican Party has launched a new website dedicated to providing the American people an array of documents related to the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on two U.S. compounds in Benghazi.
The website currently includes House and Senate committee reports of their investigations into the Benghazi attacks, transcripts and notes from several congressional committee hearings on the attack. However, the site will also be updated with new documents as they become available.
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House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) office said in a press release that the site was created to bring the “facts straight to the American people by way of hundreds of pages of documents and transcripts the White House doesn’t want you to read.”
“The investigation is ongoing, and the search for the truth continues, so new documents will be added as they are made available,” the release adds.
The homepage of GOP.gov/benghazi proclaims that the “fight for answers and justice” in the Benghazi investigation is still ongoing. The site accuses the White House of refusing to tell the “whole truth.”
GOP.gov/benghazi
As reported by the Washington Post, the Senate Intelligence Committee released its much-anticipated report on Benghazi, placing blame on the State Department and intelligence community for not doing enough to stop the “preventable” attack. The report found that the State Department under Hillary Clinton neglected to provide more security at the compound despite warnings.
However, the report failed to find irrefutable evidence proving a political cover-up in the aftermath of the Benghazi attack. Some lawmakers allege this is due to stonewalling efforts by the Obama administration.
Photo Credit: AFP/Getty Images“The investigation is ongoing, and the search for the truth continues, so new documents will be added as they are made available,” the release adds.
The homepage of GOP.gov/benghazi proclaims that the “fight for answers and justice” in the Benghazi investigation is still ongoing. The site accuses the White House of refusing to tell the “whole truth.”
GOP.gov/benghaziHowever, the report failed to find irrefutable evidence proving a political cover-up in the aftermath of the Benghazi attack. Some lawmakers allege this is due to stonewalling efforts by the Obama administration.
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Lindsey Graham: Hillary Should Remain Focus of Benghazi Probes
Wednesday, 05 Feb 2014 05:43 PM
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should remain the focus of investigations into the Benghazi attack — a different take than that of Rep. Darrel Issa of California, who says prevention is the top priority.
"[Clinton] is likely to run for president . . . She has said repeatedly that she did not know of the additional security request to enhance security at the consulate from the time it was attacked in June until it was overrun on Sept. 11, even though the secretary of defense knew about the request," Graham told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
"Are you telling me the secretary of state never asked any questions or made any inquiries about a consulate that had been previously attacked? How could the secretary of defense know about the request for security? So, she's either out of touch or that's not true . . . [It's] a question of accountability."
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"[Clinton] is likely to run for president . . . She has said repeatedly that she did not know of the additional security request to enhance security at the consulate from the time it was attacked in June until it was overrun on Sept. 11, even though the secretary of defense knew about the request," Graham told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
"Are you telling me the secretary of state never asked any questions or made any inquiries about a consulate that had been previously attacked? How could the secretary of defense know about the request for security? So, she's either out of touch or that's not true . . . [It's] a question of accountability."
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On HBO's "Real Time" with Bill Maher, Issa said: "The fact is, Benghazi is a story of making sure it doesn't happen again. It's a story of, will the system work when an ambassador says, 'I need more security;' instead, he gets less security?"
But Graham says Clinton's culpability, along with an ongoing coverup of the real facts by the Obama administration, must be at the forefront.
"The noose is beginning to tighten. The president got away with it seven weeks before an election . . . trying to create a narrative that this was a protest caused by video [instead of] the truth that it was a preplanned terrorist attack by al-Qaida operatives," he said.
"It was the first sign of what's going on in the world today, the rise of al-Qaida. So, the real story in Benghazi beyond the four dead Americans, which is heartbreaking, tragic, is the failure of Obama's foreign policy.
"When the commander-in-chief and his team distort intelligence and basically cover up what happened to four people in the line of duty for political purposes, that's a very big deal," Graham said.
While Graham and Issa appear to differ on the top priorities of the Benghazi probe, the Palmetto State lawmaker praised his Republican colleague.
"Darrell Issa has done as much as anyone to get to the bottom of Benghazi, and I really admire what he's done on the Oversight Committee," Graham said.
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