[FoxNews] Fox News has learned the names of the self-described Benghazi "whistleblowers" who are set to testify before a widely anticipated congressional hearing on Wednesday.
Appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will be three career State Department officials: Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time of the Benghazi terrorist attacks; Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for Operations in the agency's Counterterrorism Bureau; and Eric Nordstrom, a diplomatic security officer who was the regional security officer in Libya, the top security officer in the country in the months leading up to the attacks.
Nordstrom previously testified before the oversight committee, which is chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.,
... a very busy man, what with all the hearings he's been chairing, to the immense frustration of the Administration...
in October 2012. Of the three witnesses, he is the only one who does not consider himself a whistleblower. At last fall's hearing, however, Nordstrom made headlines by detailing for politicians the series of requests that he, Ambassador Stevens, and others had made for enhanced security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in the period preceding the attacks, requests mostly rejected by State Department superiors.
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I commend Issa, but how about he finish a project he starts; like Fast and Furious for one. where is the pressure on Holder and Champ for that little excursion, especially since el prezidente made a deal about US guns being responsible for all that violence in Mexico....
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Stalled until they can get around Executive Privilege. Which is why Obama did that.
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I was surprised to learn the Deputy Chief of Mission [a career foreign service officer] was set to testify. If he backs up the claims of his Regional Security Officer (RSO) who is set to testify a second time, it may not be so comfortable for the Hildebeast and Champ.
And with that knowledge we will learn why the talking points were changed. Was the White House caught by surprise? Did the president not want an al-Qaeda incident before the election?
The Champ Regime tends to take a "see no evil, hear no evil" approach to the problem of Islamic radicalism and terrorism.
In November 2009, when Maj. Nidal Hasan murdered 13 people and wounded dozens of others in a Fort Hood shooting spree, while repeatedly shouting "Allahu akbar," most Americans realized at once that the faithful follower of the extremist imam Anwar al-Awlaki (the spiritual leader of a number of the 9/11 hijackers) was a radical Muslim. But not the Champ -- whose administration misleadingly mislabeled the assault "workplace violence," thereby depriving the victims of benefits commensurate with combat injuries.
A long time ago on September 11, 2012, when al Qaeda terrorists stormed the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, killing Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, the Champ administration covered for the Islamic terrorists by blaming the incident on spontaneous reactions to a rudimentary Internet video critical of Islam. This false claim was repeated by both Ambassador Rice and Secretary Hildebeast in multiple public statements. A bullshi* claim also repeated by WH spokesperson, the odious and despicable Jay Carney.
Weeks later, the lie was fully exposed when former Klingon Director General David Petraeus reportedly testified before Congress that the initial "speaking points" produced by the Klingons "stated there were indications the attack was linked to al Qaeda," and suggested the terrorism reference was removed sometime during an interagency review process. Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against Champ's Director of National Intelligence seeking access to records detailing the attack, including the speaking points Petraeus says were scrubbed. We'll keep you posted.
More recently, on April 15, 2013, when Islamic terrorists attacked the Boston Marathon, killing three and maiming nearly 200 others, Champ refused to acknowledge their Muslim ties, instead admonishing the American people not to "rush to judgment -- not about the motivations of these individuals." Even after evidence gathered by the FBI proved conclusively that the bros. Tsarnaev were radical Islamists, Champ steadfastly refused to admit what was brutally obvious to the rest of the world. But not at all obvious to Homeland Insecurity Director, Big Sis, who eagerly parroted the regime's talking points.
None of this clear-cut evidence of the Champ administration's dishonesty about Islamic terrorism will come as a surprise to supporters of Judicial Watch. In fact, however, as it turns out, it may be only the tip of the iceberg -- the depths of which reach all the way down into this administration's actual collusion with known Islamic terrorist fronts.
Many Weekly Update readers will recall that in late January, we sounded the alarm about a top Obama State Department official, Mark Ward, participating in a December 2012, conference sponsored by two groups -- the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) -- both with chillingly close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is known as the parent organization of Hamas and al Qaeda.
At the conference, Ward conducted a seminar focused on career opportunities for Muslim youth. Here is how the event was billed: "Besides being a citizenship duty, there are benefits that Muslims can add to the American Muslim community and the global Muslim world by joining the US Foreign Services. This session will shed light on the different career opportunities for Muslim youth in the US Foreign Services Department. It will also clear any concerns that many people have feared about pursuing in this career."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
