House Speaker John Boehner has pulled the trigger on establishing a Select Committee for the Benghazi attack. The long wait was to establish this committee was due in part to having tangible and proven evidence that pointed inside the White House, which has now been delivered as a result of a law suit granting the delivery of additional emails.
The House must now vote officially for the creation of this committee and several other items need to occur before work gets underway. Members of this committee must be chosen and those members must be vetted and apply for a higher set of security clearances. Additionally, a resolution is to be crafted that defines the powers, rules and procedures as well as the scope of the investigation relating to Benghazi. This is a slow but measured process which has some history as we have come to know least of which is the Iran Contra Affair yet those before included select committees on Energy Independence and Global Warning as well as establishing the Treasury Department.
America is in a legislative crisis but most of all she is in an Executive Branch crisis and it has been established that key Cabinet Secretaries have crossed the legal lines of power. One such agency caught up in the matter of Benghazi especially is the State Department where two separate Secretaries where obfuscation is cancerous to the existing investigations on Benghazi. Hillary Clinton and John Kerry both have blood on their hands regarding Libya and the deaths of 4 Americans and even up to 24 more in Libya since the attacks.
WASHINGTON – Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry outlining the State Department’s continued obstruction into the investigation of the tragic events in Benghazi. While the Secretary stated in a House hearing this month that he was “not aware” of any State Department generated delay or obstruction into the investigation, Chairman Issa outlines specific incidences where the Department has used various tactics to stall and impede the investigation. This obstruction includes unusual restrictions on documents, threats to destroy Committee property, and attempts to hinder whistleblowers from obtaining legal representation cleared to view classified information.
The State Department has refused to provide requested information about procedures for attorneys representing whistleblowers can be cleared to handle classified information.
“During the course of the Committee’s investigation, numerous individuals have come forward with information related to the Benghazi attack,” wrote Issa in the letter. “Some witnesses may be required to retain personal counsel to represent them before the Committee and in case the Department retaliates against them for cooperating with the Committee’s investigation. Additional witnesses may be compelled by subpoena to give testimony to the Committee and can be reasonably expected to retain personal counsel at that time. In each case, witnesses may need to share sensitive or classified information with their lawyers. The Department’s unwillingness to make the process for clearing an attorney more transparent appears to be an effort to interfere with the rights of employees to furnish information to Congress.”
There has been a coordinated and intentional effort to cover up all the fallout of the 9-11 attacks but what is worse the re-election of Barack Obama was under an epic condition of fraud due in part to the IRS, NSA, PPACA and sadly the murders of 4 Americans.
For reference of the trail of blocking all investigative efforts by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, below is the text of the letter sent by the Chairman to Secretary of State John Kerry.
This letter demonstrates the cautious steps taken by the Oversight Committee but more it illustrates the extent by which the State Department has blocked and challenged all investigation efforts. should be noted the Select Committee process will involve several agencies as this also has international implications and classified documents as well as covert operators.
