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The Citizens’ Commission On Benghazi report has been released to Bear Witness Central for publishing today, 6/28/16.  The Commission will unveil the report and have its press conference at the National Press Club tomorrow in Washington DC.  The full report can be read below.

In summary, the Obama administration deliberately withheld urgently-requested security for the U.S. mission in Benghazi for the benefit of the president’s re-election campaign in 2012.  The President, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and others in the Administration must answer for their coverup and dereliction of duty, a criminal offense under the United States Code.

Why was the Citizens’ Commission On Benghazi formed?  The report answers this question as follows:

All who take the oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic” accept the solemn duty and professional responsibility to know who the enemy is and to confront and defeat that enemy. The failure of senior officials of the U.S. government, especially within the top ranks of national security, forthrightly to name—or make any serious attempt to defend against or take the fight to—the Islamic terrorist enemy who attacked our mission in Benghazi, murdered four Americans and grievously injured others, is nothing less than dereliction of duty and a betrayal of that oath. That enemy includes all who support the Global Jihad Movement. Those forces remain on the attack against the United States, our allies, and the entire free world and will not stop until decisively defeated. That defeat can only be delivered by free people, committed to the eternal vigilance that Thomas Jefferson reminded us is the price of liberty.

The Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi formed in 2013 with the rueful conclusion that the Obama administration, Congressional Committees and even the Select Committee on Benghazi would never tell the full story of the 11 September 2012 Benghazi attack to the American people. We owe it to the fallen, the injured, their families and the American people to explain what happened and why. This must be done not just with another timeline narration, but with a full explanation of how our leadership failed in its duty to name and confront the Islamic jihadist enemy, failed to take the steps necessary to protect our diplomatic mission in Benghazi, failed to so much as attempt to come to the rescue of those beleaguered Americans that night, and failed to tell the truth about what happened afterward. American citizens deserve to know what happened that night, before, afterward, and why so that they might hold accountable those responsible for nothing less than a catastrophic betrayal of fundamental American principles. We hope this report will contribute to that mission.

Here is your link to the full report:

:  http://bwcentral.org/2016/06/alert-betrayal-in-benghazi-a-derelicti...

The Following KEY Facts represent NEW FINDINGS AS A RESULT OF THE COMMITTEE'S WORK.

The following facts are among the many new revelations in Part I:

• Despite President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s clear orders to deploy military assets, nothing was sent to Benghazi, and nothing was en route to Libya at the time the last two Americans were killed almost 8 hours after the attacks began. [pg. 141]

• With Ambassador Stevens missing, the White House convened a roughly two-hour meeting at 7:30 PM, which resulted in action items focused on a YouTube video, and others containing the phrases “[i]f any deployment is made,” and “Libya must agree to any deployment,” and “[w]ill not deploy until order comes to go to either Tripoli or Benghazi.” [pg. 115]

• The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff typically would have participated in the White House meeting, but did not attend because he went home to host a dinner party for foreign dignitaries. [pg. 107]

• A Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team (FAST) sat on a plane in Rota, Spain, for three hours, and changed in and out of their uniforms four times. [pg. 154]

• None of the relevant military forces met their required deployment timelines. [pg. 150]

• The Libyan forces that evacuated Americans from the CIA Annex to the Benghazi airport was not affiliated with any of the militias the CIA or State Department had developed a relationship with during the prior 18 months. Instead, it was comprised of former Qadhafi loyalists who the U.S. had helped remove from power during the Libyan revolution. [pg. 144]

The following facts are among the many new revelations in Part II:

• Five of the 10 action items from the 7:30 PM White House meeting referenced the video, but no direct link or solid evidence existed connecting the attacks in Benghazi and the video at the time the meeting took place. The State Department senior officials at the meeting had access to eyewitness accounts to the attack in real time. The Diplomatic Security Command Center was in direct contact with the Diplomatic Security Agents on the ground in Benghazi and sent out multiple updates about the situation, including a “Terrorism Event Notification.” The State Department Watch Center had also notified Jake Sullivan and Cheryl Mills that it had set up a direct telephone line to Tripoli. There was no mention of the video from the agents on the ground. Greg Hicks—one of the last people to talk to Chris Stevens before he died—said there was virtually no discussion about the video in Libya leading up to the attacks. [pg. 28]

• The morning after the attacks, the National Security Council’s Deputy Spokesperson sent an email to nearly two dozen people from the White House, Defense Department, State Department, and intelligence community, stating: “Both the President and Secretary Clinton released statements this morning. … Please refer to those for any comments for the time being. To ensure we are all in sync on messaging for the rest of the day, Ben Rhodes will host a conference call for USG communicators on this chain at 9:15 ET today.” [pg. 39]

• Minutes before the President delivered his speech in the Rose Garden, Jake Sullivan wrote in an email to Ben Rhodes and others: “There was not really much violence in Egypt. And we are not saying that the violence in Libya erupted ‘over inflammatory videos.’” [pg. 44]

• According to Susan Rice, both Ben Rhodes and David Plouffe prepared her for her appearances on the Sunday morning talk shows following the attacks. Nobody from the FBI, Department of Defense, or CIA participated in her prep call. While Rhodes testified Plouffe would “normally” appear on the Sunday show prep calls, Rice testified she did not recall Plouffe being on prior calls and did not understand why he was on the call in this instance. [pg.98]

• On the Sunday shows, Susan Rice stated the FBI had “already begun looking at all sorts of evidence” and “FBI has a lead in this investigation.” But on Monday, the Deputy Director, Office of Maghreb Affairs sent an email stating: “McDonough apparently told the SVTS [Secure Video Teleconference] group today that everyone was required to ‘shut their pieholes’ about the Benghazi attack in light of the FBI investigation, due to start tomorrow.” [pg. 135]

• After Susan Rice’s Sunday show appearances, Jake Sullivan assured the Secretary of the State that Rice “wasn’t asked about whether we had any intel. But she did make clear our view that this started spontaneously and then evolved.” [pg. 128]

• Susan Rice’s comments on the Sunday talk shows were met with shock and disbelief by State Department employees in Washington. The Senior Libya Desk Officer, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, State Department, wrote: “I think Rice was off the reservation on this one.” The Deputy Director, Office of Press and Public Diplomacy, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, State Department, responded: “Off the reservation on five networks!” The Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications, Bureau of Near East Affairs, State Department, wrote: “WH [White House] very worried about the politics. This was all their doing.” [pg. 132]

• The CIA’s September 13, 2012, intelligence assessment was rife with errors. On the first page, there is a single mention of “the early stages of the protest” buried in one of the bullet points. The article cited to support the mention of a protest in this instance was actually from September 4. In other words, the analysts used an article from a full week before the attacks to support the premise that a protest had occurred just prior to the attack on September 11. [pg. 47]

• A headline on the following page of the CIA’s September 13 intelligence assessment stated “Extremists Capitalized on Benghazi Protests,” but nothing in the actual text box supports that title. As it turns out, the title of the text box was supposed to be “Extremists Capitalized on Cairo Protests.” That small but vital difference—from Cairo to Benghazi—had major implications in how people in the administration were able to message the attacks. [pg. 52]

The following facts are among the many new revelations in Part III:

• During deliberations within the State Department about whether and how to intervene in Libya in March 2011, Jake Sullivan listed the first goal as “avoid[ing] a failed state, particularly one in which al-Qaeda and other extremists might take safe haven.” [pg. 9]

• The administration’s policy of no boots on the ground shaped the type of military assistance provided to State Department personnel in Libya. The Executive Secretariats for both the Defense Department and State Department exchanged communications outlining the diplomatic capacity in which the Defense Department SST security team members would serve, which included wearing civilian clothes so as not to offend the Libyans. [pg. 60]

• When the State Department’s presence in Benghazi was extended in December 2012, senior officials from the Bureau of Diplomatic Security were excluded from the discussion. [pg. 74]

• In February 2012, the lead Diplomatic Security Agent at Embassy Tripoli informed his counterpart in Benghazi that more DS agents would not be provided by decision makers, because “substantive reporting” was not Benghazi’s purpose. [pg. 77]

• Emails indicate senior State Department officials, including Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan, and Huma Abedin were preparing for a trip by the Secretary of State to Libya in October 2012. According to testimony, Chris Stevens wanted to have a “deliverable” for the Secretary for her trip to Libya, and that “deliverable” would be making the Mission in Benghazi a permanent Consulate. [pg. 96]

• In August 2012—roughly a month before the Benghazi attacks—security on the ground worsened significantly. Ambassador Stevens initially planned to travel to Benghazi in early August, but cancelled the trip “primarily for Ramadan/security reasons.” [pg. 99]

• Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta bluntly told the committee “an intelligence failure” occurred with respect to Benghazi. Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell also acknowledged multiple times an intelligence failure did in fact occur prior to the Benghazi attacks. [pg. 129]

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE 15 QUESTIONS PRESENTED TO PRESIDENT OBAMA THAT HE REFUSED TO ANSWER:

The House Select Committee on Benghazi asked President Obama to answer questions about what those in the White House did in response to the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya by Islamic extremists.

The president refused, stating through his attorney that “If the president were to answer your questions, his response would suggest that Congress has the unilateral power to demand answers from the president.”

Nevertheless, merely reading the questions that were asked is instructive, especially given that the president is “the only person who can answer some of these questions,” committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy observed in his report.

“The Executive Branch would, perhaps, argue sending questions to the President is ‘unprecedented’ and would create a ‘constitutional crisis,’” the South Carolina Republican wrote. “The Legislative Branch would argue several prior Committee Chairmen sent an extensive set of questions to the President regarding Benghazi, the President has answered media inquiries about Benghazi without a ‘constitutional crisis,’ and the President is uniquely situated to answer these questions.”

In his June 7 letter to Obama’s counsel,

Gowdy disclosed what questions he wanted answered.

1.The White House issued a readout of your meeting with senior
administration officials on September 10, 2012, indicating
“specific measures” had been taken to “prevent 9/11 related
attacks.” What were these specific measures, and how did these
specific measures differ from specific measures taken on prior
anniversaries of September 11?

2. When did you first learn a U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya, had
been attacked? What were you told, and by whom? Were you
informed Sean Smith had been killed during the initial attack?

3. What orders or direction, if any, did you give to Secretary of
Defense Leon Panetta upon learning of the initial attack? Did
you or anyone at your direction ever modify, withdraw, alter, or
amplify the initial orders or direction you gave to Secretary
Panetta?

4. What were you told about Department of Defense assets in the
region that could respond specifically to Benghazi? Did you ask
for or receive a list of military or paramilitary assets in the region
that could respond to Benghazi during the pendency of the
attacks?

5. Were you subsequently kept informed about the initial attack,
subsequent attacks, and/or efforts to either send military
assistance or evacuate U.S. personnel? By whom?
6. When did you learn Ambassador Christopher Stevens was
missing, and who informed you? Were you kept informed on
efforts to locate Ambassador Stevens, and if so, by whom? When
did you learn Ambassador Stevens was dead, and who informed
you?

7. [Classified]

8. Were you aware that prior to any military asset moving to
respond to the attacks the State Department expressed concerns
to the White House about the number of military assets going
into Libya?

9. When did you learn of a mortar attack that killed Tyrone Woods
and Glen Doherty? Who informed you?

10. Were you aware of any efforts by White House and Department
of Defense officials during the evening of September 11, 2012,
and into the early morning hours of September 12, 2012, to reach
out to YouTube and Terry Jones regarding an anti-Muslim
video? What specifically connected the attacks in Benghazi to
this anti-Muslim [sic] video, and why weren’t these efforts made
after the protests in Cairo, Egypt?

11. When did you learn individuals associated with terrorist
organizations participated in the attack on the U.S. facilities in
Benghazi, Libya?

12. Did you receive the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) on September
12, 2012 and September 13, 2012? If so, who provided you with
the PDB

13. Have you ever viewed surveillance footage from the cameras (or
other sources) located at the U.S. facilities in Benghazi depicting
the attacks? Will you declassify this footage so the American
people can see for themselves what transpired?

14. Did you authorize a covert action or covert operation to provide
lethal assistance to Libyan rebels?

15. [Classified]

Those are the questions that were asked of the president — 13 open to the public, and two that were classified.But we’ll never learn the answers because “the most transparent administration in recent history” doesn’t want us to know.

Link to full document

Read more: http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/06/28/read-the-15-questions-obama-...

AND WHERE WAS PRESIDENT OBAMA THE DAY AFTER THIS HORRIFIC ATTACK?

OFF TO A FUND RAISER IN LAS VEGAS

Link to full document

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/06/29/we-all-know-obama-was-missin...

IN CASE YOU SHOULD NEED IT, HERE IS AN ADDITIONAL LINK TO THE FULL REPORT

http://benghazi.house.gov/NewInfo

THE BLACK CLOUD OF DEATH HANGS OVER THE WHITE HOUSE

A DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO REPRESENTATIVE TREY GOWDY AND THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION FOR THEIR UNWAVERING EFFORTS TO EXPOSE THE TRUTH.

"All that it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

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