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Too bad your link proves you were wrong :lamo
A group claiming credit is not verification. You should be better than this. And I will keep repeating this until it sinks in....and I predict this will take a long time.Sept. 12: Libya’s deputy ambassador to London, Ahmad Jibril, tells the BBC that Ansar al-Sharia was behind the attack. The little-known militant group issues a statement that says it “didn’t participate as a sole entity,” neither confirming nor denying the report.
If Rice said "terrorist, would it bring Stevens back to life? "Terrorism"=abracadabra?"She knew at that point and time that al Qaeda was very likely responsible in part or in whole for the death of Ambassador Stevens," he said, intimating that Rice should have said that.
No, it does not. It proves you can't hear through your bias.
But within days, Mr. Hicks said, after raising questions about the account of what had happened in Benghazi offered in television interviews by Susan E. Rice, the United Nations ambassador, he felt a distinct chill from State Department superiors. “The sense I got was that I needed to stop the line of questioning,” said Mr. Hicks, who has been a Foreign Service officer for 22 years.
He was soon given a scathing review of his management style, he said, and was later “effectively demoted” to desk officer at headquarters, in what he believes was retaliation for speaking up.
House Republican leaders made the hearing the day’s top priority, postponing floor votes so that the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform could continue without interruption. The Obama administration appeared focused on the testimony, with senior officials at the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon responding through the day to Republican accusations of incompetence and cover-up in campaign war room style.
In the balance, in the view of both Democrats and Republicans, is not just the reputation of Mr. Obama but also potentially the prospects for the 2016 presidential election as well, since Mrs. Clinton, who stepped down in February, is the Democratic Party’s leading prospect. If the testimony did not fundamentally challenge the facts and timeline of the Benghazi attack and the administration’s response to it, it vividly illustrated the anxiety of top State Department officials about how the events would be publicly portrayed.
Mr. Hicks offered an unbecoming view of political supervision and intimidation inside the Obama administration. When Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah, visited Libya after the attack, Mr. Hicks said his bosses told him not to talk to the congressman. When he did anyway, and a State Department lawyer was excluded from one meeting because he lacked the necessary security clearance, Mr. Hicks said he received an angry phone call from Mrs. Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills.
“So this goes right to the person next to Secretary of State Clinton. Is that accurate?” asked Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio. Mr. Hicks responded, “Yes, sir.”
A State Department official said Mr. Hicks had been free to talk to Mr. Chaffetz, but that department policy required a department lawyer to be present during interviews for any Congressional investigation.
In a statement late Wednesday, a State Department spokesman, Patrick H. Ventrell, said the department had not and would not retaliate against Mr. Hicks. Mr. Ventrell noted that Mr. Hicks “testified that he decided to shorten his assignment in Libya following the attacks, due to understandable family reasons.” He said that Mr. Hicks’s current job was “a suitable temporary assignment” at the same salary, and that he had submitted his preferences for his next job.....snip~
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/u...a-of-benghazi-attack.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
How Ridiculous.....not one document. He testified under Oath.....are you saying he is purposely committing an act of Perjury. Why is it no one believes what the NY Times says the WH spokesperson is saying about Hicks being demoted to Desk officer?
Ventrell said Hicks testified that he decide to shorten his time in Libya? Guess you didn't pick up on that while having a way out perception of the what took place. Care to Elaborate where Hicks testified to such before his testimony yesterday? Considering he is a whistleblower? Plus had not testified anywhere else.
BTW they will have a record of his statements under oath. So there will be one Document alleging all he said about Mills and the other.
Your link proves that you're wrong. It's that simple
That's why the American people don't care about the GOP hackery
Sigh, if you can't articulate a point, don't expect me to do it for you.Later that day...
[video]http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50134495n&tag=contentAux;mostShared[/video]
No, it proves the opposite. The American people care about the truth, which the current administration seems to care nothing about.
Did the laywer representing hicks request documents from the state department to support hicks claim?
No, it proves the opposite. The American people care about the truth, which the current administration seems to care nothing about.
Sigh, if you can't articulate a point, don't expect me to do it for you.
The American people don't care about the GOP's hackery. For them, this is a non-issue
IOW, you have no evidence that the FBI's investigation was somehow hampered because Obama correctly called it "an act of terror" :lamo
Another reason why americans don't care about the GOP's hackery
No, in other words you didn't know what you were talking about with the Definitions of terrorism.
Actually it is a reason to not care about the feelings of the Minority who think it is GOP hackery.....as if that would change any facts. Not!
Still can't show how the FBI were prevented from investigating this. :lamo
Like you still cant show about that Terrorism Definition.
But now that Hicks has testified that he felt Rice's remarks impeded the FBI going into Libya.....your theory is starting to look a lil bit less likely. :lol:
How would Hicks Rice's remarks impeded the FBI going into Libya?Like you still cant show about that Terrorism Definition.
But now that Hicks has testified that he felt Rice's remarks impeded the FBI going into Libya.....your theory is starting to look a lil bit less likely. :lol:
How would Hicks Rice's remarks impeded the FBI going into Libya?
| Moderator's Warning: |
How would Hicks Rice's remarks impeded the FBI going into Libya?
Libya blocks FBI investigators
FBI investigators still have not been granted permission to visit the consulate building where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed three weeks ago during an attack by Libyan militants in the eastern city of Benghazi.
An FBI team was dispatched to Libya within days of the attack, but they have been forced to remain in Tripoli as U.S. and Libyan officials argue over the terms under which the two sides will co-operate in the investigation......snip~
FBI investigation of attack on American ambassador to Libya - latimes.com
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While I always appreciate someone that backs up their assertions with third party evidence (thank you) AND I always appreciate it when it comes from a credible news source like the LA Times (thank you), BUT......
Who is Al Eisner and why is this on the LA Times Sports page?
Me thinks this isn't a credible reference that backs up your assertion.
MMC made the bogus, undocumented assertionWhere did Mac say he was demoted? But this is what he did say I quote:
"Who he is: With a 22-year career at the State Department, Hicks has distinguished record of service in six overseas assignments in Bahrain, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and The Gambia. In the course of his service, he's received six Meritorious Service Increases, three individual Meritorious Honor Awards, and four individual Superior Honor Awards. At the time of the attack in Benghazi, Hicks was the number two U.S. official in Libya."
It appears Hicks has served under different presidents, has a stellar record. And he is not the only one bringing out the truth over an Obama administration coverup of incompetence, and lies distorting the truth for political gain. This is not over nor should it be, lives lost due to incompetence and wrong political decision needs to fully uncover the truth. That is the least that anyone should want.
thanks for askingHere.....you must have missed it yesterday. Plus most have moved over to those threads and the more current events.
(1) Murdered US Ambassador Chris Stevens' second in command, Gregory Hicks, was instructed not to speak with a Congressional investigator by Sec. Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills. Hicks said he'd "never" faced a similar demand at any point during his distinguished 22-year diplomatic career. When he refused to comply with this request, the State Department dispatched an attorney to act as a "minder," who insisted on sitting in on all of Hicks' discussions with members of Congress (higher quality video is available here):
(2) When Hicks began to voice strenuous objections to the administration's inaccurate talking points with State Department higher-ups, the administration turned hostile. After being lavishly praised by the president and the Secretary of State for his performance under fire, Assistant Secretary of State Beth Jones instantly reversed course and launched into a "blistering critique" of Hicks' leadership. He was subsequently "effectively demoted." Hicks called Rice's talking points "stunning" and "embarrassing.".....snip~
http://www.debatepolitics.com/gener...ere-comes-finally-rest-story-benghazi-15.html
Al Eisner, of Silver Spring, is a crotchety old retiree who writes a lot of letters to the editors of various periodicals and runs the Impeach Obama campaign from his living room
That is who MMC is using as a source :lamo
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