At least four career officials at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency have retained lawyers or are in the process of doing so, as they prepare to provide sensitive information about the Benghazi attacks to Congress, Fox News has learned.
Victoria Toensing, a former Justice Department official and Republican counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee, is now representing one of the State Department employees. She told Fox News her client and some of the others, who consider themselves whistle-blowers, have been threatened by unnamed Obama administration officials.
“I'm not talking generally, I'm talking specifically about Benghazi – that people have been threatened,” Toensing said in an interview Monday. “And not just the State Department. People have been threatened at the CIA.”
Toensing declined to name her client. She also refused to say whether the individual was on the ground in Benghazi on the night of Sept. 11, 2012, when terrorist attacks on two U.S. installations in the Libyan city killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens.
However, Toensing disclosed that her client has pertinent information on all three time periods investigators consider relevant to the attacks: the months that led up to the attack, when pleas by the ambassador and his staff for enhanced security in Benghazi were mostly rejected by senior officers at the State Department; the eight-hour time frame in which the attacks unfolded, and the eight-day period that followed the attacks, when Obama administration officials incorrectly described them as the result of a spontaneous protest over a video.
“It's frightening, and they're doing some very despicable threats to people,” she said. “Not ‘we're going to kill you,’ or not ‘we're going to prosecute you tomorrow,’ but they're taking career people and making them well aware that their careers will be over [if they cooperate with congressional investigators].”
Not surprised, but get ready for the bots to attack everything from the source, to ultimately, whistleblowers themselves...
In all honesty we have heard these horrible allegations before and had them turn out to be overblown and sometimes complete BS. But I am quite sure if this turns out to be true this will be the big event that we keep hearing is coming that will take Obama down for good. It is a good thing perjury only happens with sworn testimony or else we would need a federal prison just for faux news.
You guys keep on grabbing for those straws and maybe one day you will get the evil overlord Obama.
Not surprised, but get ready for the bots to attack everything from the source, to ultimately, whistleblowers themselves...
In all honesty we have heard these horrible allegations before and had them turn out to be overblown and sometimes complete BS. But I am quite sure if this turns out to be true this will be the big event that we keep hearing is coming that will take Obama down for good. It is a good thing perjury only happens with sworn testimony or else we would need a federal prison just for faux news.
You guys keep on grabbing for those straws and maybe one day you will get the evil overlord Obama.
Thanks for proving my point...One post, first attack on the source....good job
It is a good thing perjury only happens with sworn testimony or else we would need a federal prison just for faux news.
Well, it seems clear to me that you are well aware of the well deserved reputation of your source. Just because you quote the biggest liar in the business and predict that someone is going to say that you cannot rely on their information does not make what they said true. However, you are quite astute in recognizing the obvious that faux news is a bunch of liars who no one with a brain trusts.
Not surprised, but get ready for the bots to attack everything from the source, to ultimately, whistleblowers themselves...
Yes, imagine the audacity of people to suggest something a Republican lawyer told a disreputable Republican news site may not quite be as serious as suggested...
Do you know what happened in Benghazi? Do you know who authorized the arms sales in Mexico that got 'lost'? Do you know who ignored the terrorist threat notification regarding the individuals in Boston? Yeah...apparently...neither does anyone in the administration. That means the joint is being run by horribly incompetent people...or they are lying. Sadly...lying would be the lesser of those two evils. Not that it 'matters'...right?Yes, imagine the audacity of people to suggest something a Republican lawyer told a disreputable Republican news site may not quite be as serious as suggested...
Do you know who ignored the terrorist threat notification regarding the individuals in Boston?
Of course you would. Because to do otherwise would mean you might have to actually have to offer a critical perspective of the current administration. I know...as if...right?I'm going with the same folks who ignored the warnings about 9/11.
Do you know what happened in Benghazi? Do you know who authorized the arms sales in Mexico that got 'lost'? Do you know who ignored the terrorist threat notification regarding the individuals in Boston? Yeah...apparently...neither does anyone in the administration. That means the joint is being run by horribly incompetent people...or they are lying. Sadly...lying would be the lesser of those two evils. Not that it 'matters'...right?
I'm going with the same folks who ignored the warnings about 9/11.
Of course you would. Because to do otherwise would mean you might have to actually have to offer a critical perspective of the current administration. I know...as if...right?
You'd be correct. The same people that ignored the warnings about the Benghazi attack on 9/11/12.
That's two.
They really don't disappoint.
Yes, thanks to "Kerry noted that administration officials have testified at eight hearings on Benghazi, provided 20 briefings on the subject and turned over to Congress some 25,000 documents related to the killings."Do you know what happened in Benghazi?
Just what EXACTLY do you think happens in these situations? Do you think the State Department sat on their hands for 3 months and only received one transmission which said the only place which could be attacked on September 11th was Benghazi and then said, "Nah, I don't care"? You know as well as I do these people likely sift through thousands of intelligence pieces, and you know as well as I do our law enforcement prevents many many would be attackers. Yes, sometimes things get missed and it's tragic when it happens. But I think things need to be kept in proper perspective.Do you know who authorized the arms sales in Mexico that got 'lost'? Do you know who ignored the terrorist threat notification regarding the individuals in Boston? Yeah...apparently...neither does anyone in the administration. That means the joint is being run by horribly incompetent people...or they are lying. Sadly...lying would be the lesser of those two evils. Not that it 'matters'...right?
In all honesty we have heard these horrible allegations before and had them turn
out to be overblown and sometimes complete BS. But I am quite sure if this turns out to be true this will be the big event that we keep hearing is coming that will take Obama down for good. It is a good thing perjury only happens with sworn testimony or else we would need a federal prison just for faux news.
You guys keep on grabbing for those straws and maybe one day you will get the evil overlord Obama.
Where are the survivors? There are questions that need answers. Congressional Hearings? WTF? Where are the survivors? Who are the survivors?
Thats a pretty stupid comment. Care to offer ANY indicator where I have not been appropriately critical of the Bush administration? Or for that matter supportive of several of Obamas terror responses?Just like you can't look critically at the Bush administration? In fact, it probably was the same people. It's not like all the FBI agents get fired when there's an election.
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