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Lawmaker Ignores His Own Facts To Make Debunked Benghazi Claim
Posted: 05/09/2014 9:25 am EDT Updated: 3 hours ago


WASHINGTON -- Politicians are notorious for pushing witnesses to say things in hearings that will reinforce a certain conclusion. Somewhat less common is the lawmaker who completely ignores the testimony he elicits.

But the creation of the new House select committee to investigate the oft-investigated Benghazi attack offers a fine example in Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.).

Last week, Mica, a member of Rep. Darrell Issa's (R-Calif.) Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, held a hearing during which he questioned retired Brig. General Robert Lovell, who was running the military intelligence operation involved in monitoring the Sept. 11, 2012, assault in the Libyan city on the Mediterranean coast.

Mica noted that he and Issa had visited U.S. military facilities in Germany, Italy and Spain before the Benghazi attack, and that they had been told the military would be able to respond in just such an emergency. Mica pressed Lovell repeatedly, demanding to know whether the general thought forces could have and should have been able to reach the beleaguered outpost.

Lovell answered that they could have done so if the capabilities had been in place, and that there should have been a way for the military to respond. He emphasized that he was testifying because he wanted to make sure that in the future, such capabilities would be on hand. But he agreed adamantly with the Republican-led House Armed Services Committee, whose report concluded that the military did all it could do on that tragic night. "That's a fact," Lovell said.

But this Thursday, shortly before voting to create the new committee, Mica said exactly the opposite, casting what Lovell would have liked to have existed as if it were what was actually in place.

"We know our military had the ability to save those Americans," Mica said Thursday, in apparent contradiction of Lovell's testimony. "We know that the State Department had the ability to keep those Americans safe, and no one acted."

Watch it above.

UPDATE: 6:40 p.m. -- Mica's office has released a statement in response to this article:

From the information I have and from information from prior briefings, I believe we have at least three locations in the Mediterranean that could have respond to the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi with a rescue operation. In fact, I visited two of those locations prior to the Benghazi attacks, and in one specific briefing, I was told we had emergency launch and rescue capabilities, not only to North Africa, but even deeper into the continent. Last January after the attacks in Benghazi, Congressman Issa and I visited what was a third location in the Mediterranean where we had emergency military launch capabilities.

I firmly believe that the United States had the capability of launching a rescue mission to come to the aide of the two Navy Seals that were killed approximately eight hours after the attacks began. In fact, no one gave the order to launch that mission. Furthermore, Brigadier General Lovell provided written testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that stated, “The point is we should have tried.”

Prior to the Benghazi attack, no one assigned the necessary resources, personnel or protections to the Benghazi post which was one of the top fourteen US diplomatic facilities identified as high risk.

What was accurate in the article was that I know our military had the ability to save those Americans and that I know that the State Department had the ability to keep those Americans safe and no one acted.

While I opposed the creation of the select committee when it was disclosed, the Administration has kept key documents from the Committee and has continued to ignore requests. It was necessary to take this action to make sure those responsible are held accountable.

Michael McAuliff covers Congress and politics for The Huffington Post. Talk to him on Facebook.

I asked for a source and one has not been provided

The same for the post above by Boob.

Borowitz Poll:Millions of Americans Who Need Jobs Want Congress to Get to Bottom of Benghazi Thing


WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Millions of unemployed Americans who have fruitlessly been looking for work for months are determined that Congress get to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi, a new poll indicates.

According to the survey, job-seeking Americans hope that Congress will eventually do something about job creation, but they are adamant that it hold new hearings about Benghazi first.

By a wide majority, respondents to the poll “strongly agreed” with the statement “I would really like to find a job, but not if it in any way distracts Congress from my No. 1 concern: finding out what really happened in Benghazi.”

In related findings, a survey of Americans found that taxpayers overwhelmingly consider Benghazi hearings to be the best use of taxpayer money, well ahead of schools, roads, and infant nutrition.

In the House of Representatives, Speaker John Boehner released the following statement: “I want to reassure the American people that, until we have completed our Benghazi investigations, there will be absolutely no action on job creation, infrastructure, immigration, education, housing, or food.”


www.borowitzreport.com

Blind, right. Maybe I could high-lite it in pink for you. If you don't comprehend much, high lite a sentence, paste it in the box and google. I search anything you quote and whoever you quote so I can see which RW blog you mindlessly quote.

The military provides one of the largest socialized medical system in the world between troop and dependents covered and the VA. I love TriCare. the VA found my cancer a year and a half ago and I am more than happy for the quality of all the treatment I get. When you add all Federal workers, all legislators and their families, Medicare, Medicaid, the US is a leader in the world in socialized medicine. I cannot believe any policy you have is cheaper or better than the VA.

And you use the New Yorker? Talk about arrogant progressive drivel.

Don't you watch or read the news? Are you suggesting there was no attack, that I'm making this up, that I am quoting some blogger somewhere? But just because you have that certain special stupidity that makes you, you - here:


http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/05/deadly-attack-libya-benghazi-20145362116518578.html

http://article.wn.com/view/2014/05/03/Attack_on_Libya_security_headquarters_in_Benghazi_kills_9/

http://www.stripes.com/news/africa/attack-in-libya-kills-9-soldiers-police-officers-1.281344

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/world/middleeast/libya-deadly-clash-in-benghazi.html

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-world/20140502/ML-Libya/

http://www.centredaily.com/2014/05/02/4160722/officials-attack-in-eastern-libya.html

http://m.570news.com/2014/05/02/libyan-officials-militants-attack-security-hq-in-eastern-city-of-benghazi-kill-6-troops/

http://www.news.nom.co/attack-in-libya-kills-9-soldiers-9286750-news/

Don't know how you missed it or couldn't figure out where it came from.

Speaking of Benghazi and Islam.



Isn't that special?


The left and terrorists hand in hand.

I asked for a source. you are saying the rest. Stop the bullshit and post the source.

This is my edit as you posted those links after this post.

Are you really that stupid? You're dumber than a bag of rocks.

Progressive toward WHAT ???

And blind to boot. Go **** yourself.

First of all get your number right. Second, big ******* deal. Clive Bundy's big strong defenders put women and children between Federal law enforcement and themselves and drew weapons. You totally disgust me.

Total control.

Progressive is a word carpfart likes toodling around like he knows what it means.

Nice self portrait. So nitwit, did you find the sources yet?

Nothing on your link. You got a lot of nothing.