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Benghazi
hearing aims to reveal
high level decisions-makers
By Kerry Picket
May 8, 2013
Republicans
on the House Oversight
Committee say there will be “explosive” revelations that will come
forth during
the Committee’s hearing on Wednesday when three State Department
witnesses
reveal what they knew the night the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in
Benghazi,
Libya were attacked by terrorists. Committee members will be hearing
the
testimonies of State Department employees Greg Hicks, Mark Thompson,
and Eric
Nordstrom.
The
Committee appears to be
interested in finding out who ultimately made the decision to tell
military
assets not to send help to the Americans who were under assault in
Benghazi on
September 11, 2012. The attack took the lives of four Americans,
including U.S.
Ambassador Chris Stevens.
Congressman
Trey Gowdy (R-SC), a
member of the Oversight Committee, has said the whistleblower witnesses
will
discuss whether or not there could have been military assets deployed
during
the siege that could have saved the lives of former Navy SEALS Tyrone
Woods and
Glenn Doherty.
Hicks
told the Oversight Committee
in April:
If
we had got clearance from the
Libyan military for an American plane to fly over Libyan airspace. The
Libyans
that I talked to and the Libyans and other Americans who were involved
in the
war have told me also that Libyan revolutionaries were very cognizant
of the
impact that American and NATO airpower had with respect to their
victory. They
are under no illusions that American and NATO airpower won that war for
them. And so, in my
personal opinion, a
fastmover flying over Benghazi at some point, you know, as soon as
possible
might very well have prevented some of the bad things that happened
that night.
“[T]he
administration says we
couldn’t have gotten there in time which defies logic, because they had
no idea
had long the attack was going to last,” Gowdy told Fox News on Tuesday
night.
“Mr. Thompson is going to shed light on...the siege itself and whether
or not
our fellow Americans were crying for help and we could have helped them
and for
whatever reason chose not to,” he said.
Additionally,
Gowdy says he will be
questioning the witnesses about the administration’s explanation for
falsely
blaming an online video, made in part by California resident and Coptic
Christian Mark Basseley Youssef, for instigating the attack on the
consulate.
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice went onto five Sunday news shows following
the
attack and touted the administration’s position that the video was the
reason
for the attack on the consulate…
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