I have been trying really hard not to talk about Obama (O) as often as I did in the past here at this blog. The reason? Because everything he did (and will do in the future) will one day "fall to dust and blow away." (ht: Jars of Clay lyrics from "Worlds Apart.")
The lyrics in that song express how different a person is once Christ enters the heart in the form of the Holy Spirit and becomes Lord and Savior over one's life. But it also could apply to how different one sees the world around him/her when he or she know God's Word and compares this fallen world to Christ's Kingdom and our future heavenly dwelling place. More on this in a future post.
This morning, I tried to listen to Obama's news conference. Ed Henry of The Fox News Channel was called upon first to ask questions. He asked about the "red line" Obama stated regarding the use of chemical weapons in Syria, and O just bloviated on and on about it; claiming that it doesn't just involve America (and him) but includes the international community (a.k.a. the do-nothing U.N.) blah blah blah.
No surprise there.
However, I was waiting for the answer to the second question - the one about how the Benghazi survivors are being threatened into silence regarding the attack there that claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens, Special Ops Navy SEALS Tyrone Woods, Sean Smith, and Glen Doherty on September 11, 2012.
No surprise that I would be sorely disappointed in O's response. After taking was seemed like FOREVER to discuss "stuff" (he uses middle school terminology and he's a Harvard grad? sheesh....) regarding Syria, he spends about a few seconds on the Benghazi question. And get this...he claimed not to know anything about the blocking of survivors testimonies about Benghazi by his BADministration!!! At that point, I had to turn the T.V. off.
That is "unaware" claim number one.
How many fools in that room and Obots watching on T.V. could possibly believe such lying drivel???
Fortunately, there will be more hearings in Congress and the information is said to be "explosive."
Several blogs discussing the topic are listed below. Read the comments, too, and you will learn more!
The Ulsterman Report: Special Ops Benghazi Survivor Speaks Out Against Obama Administration (M.I. RELATED)
The Ulsterman Report: BREAKING: Obama Administration Intimidating Benghazi Massacre Survivors Into Silence
Gretawire.Fox News Insider: THREATS AGAINST BENGHAZI WHISTLE BLOWERS ALLEGED
Copy of Gretawire post:
Benghazi: Threats against ‘Whistleblowers’ Alleged*******
By James Rosen
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 September 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 September 11, 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 falsely 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].”
Federal law provides explicit protections for federal government employees who are identified as “whistleblowers.” The laws aim to ensure these individuals will not face repercussions from their superiors, or from other quarters, in retaliation for their provision of information about corruption or other forms of wrongdoing to Congress, or to an agency’s inspector-general.
Rep. Darrell Issa, the Republican from California who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote to Secretary of State John Kerry on April 26 to complain that the department has not provided a process by which attorneys like Toensing can receive the security clearances necessary for them to review classified documents and other key evidence.
“It is unavoidable that Department employees identifying themselves as witnesses in the Committee’s investigation will apply for a security clearance to allow their personal attorneys to handle sensitive or classified material,” Issa wrote. “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.”
The Obama administration maintains that it has been more than forthcoming on Benghazi and that it is time for the State Department to move on. At a recent hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Kerry noted that administration officials have testified at eight hearings on Benghazi, provided twenty briefings on the subject, and turned over to Congress some 25,000 documents related to the killings.
“So if you have additional questions or, you think there’s some document that somehow you need, I’ll work with you to try to get it and see if we can provide that to you,” Kerry told committee chairman Rep. Ed Royce, also a Republican from California, on April 17. But Kerry added: “I do not want to spend the next year coming up here talking about Benghazi.”
Asked about Issa’s complaints about attorneys not receiving security clearances, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell on Monday indicated that – far from threatening anyone – the administration hasn’t been presented with any such cases. “I’m not aware of private counsel seeking security clearances or — or anything to that regard,” Ventrell told reporters. “I’m not aware of whistle blowers one way or another.”
Ventrell cited the work of the FBI – whose probe of the attacks continues, almost eight months later and without any known instances of perpetrators being brought to justice – and the Accountability Review Board. The ARB was an internal State Department review panel led by former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Thomas Pickering and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen. An unclassified version of the ARB’s final report that was released to the public contained no conclusions that suggested administration officials had willfully endangered their colleagues in Benghazi or had misled the public or Congress.
“And that should be enough,” Ventrell said at Monday’s press briefing. “Congress has its own prerogatives, but we’ve had a very thorough, independent investigation, which we completed and [which was] transparent and shared. And there are many folks who are, in a political manner, trying to sort of use this for their own political means, or ends.”
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James Rosen
Chief Washington Correspondent
Host, “The Foxhole”
And here we have "unaware" claim number two:
Asked about Issa’s complaints about attorneys not receiving security clearances, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell on Monday indicated that – far from threatening anyone – the administration hasn’t been presented with any such cases. “I’m not aware of private counsel seeking security clearances or — or anything to that regard,” Ventrell told reporters. “I’m not aware of whistle blowers one way or another.”
Really??? Who in their right mind would believe such bull**it???
Of course we have the new Secretary of State - John Kerry - covering for this BADministration just like Hillary did:
“So if you have additional questions or, you think there’s some document that somehow you need, I’ll work with you to try to get it and see if we can provide that to you,” Kerry told committee chairman Rep. Ed Royce, also a Republican from California, on April 17. But Kerry added: “I do not want to spend the next year coming up here talking about Benghazi.”
Yes!!! And we can all certainly surmise exactly WHY Kerry doesn't "want to spend the next year coming up here talking about Benghazi!!! " It takes a lot of lying and evil machinations to keep a cover-up this big going.
Hmmm...a certain lyric from a song called Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who just popped into my mind...
"meet the new boss...same as the old boss..."
I am really grateful and thankful for these whistle blower patriots who won't allow the threats from this BADministration to silence them!!!
The truth will come out...it always does!!!
Hat tips to all links.
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On second thought, another 40 second portion of the press conference turned out to be worthwhile:
Comment there:
RedBeard
My response? YES!!!!! PACK UP AND GO HOME!!! - TO CHICAGO AFTER YOU ARE IMPEACHED AND RUN OUT OF OFFICE!!!
Rosemary Woodhouse | April 18, 2013 at 10:39 pm
Robert S. Mueller, III
Director
September 4, 2001- Present
Robert Mueller was nominated by President George W. Bush and became the sixth Director of the FBI on September 4, 2001.
Born in New York City, Mr. Mueller grew up outside of Philadelphia. He graduated from Princeton University in 1966 and later earned a master’s degree in International Relations at New York University.
After college, he joined the United States Marine Corps, where he served as an officer for three years, leading a rifle platoon of the Third Marine Division in Vietnam. He is the recipient of the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Medals, the Purple Heart, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.
Following his military service, Mr. Mueller earned a law degree from the University of Virginia Law School in 1973 and served on the Law Review.
After completing his education, Mr. Mueller worked as a litigator in San Francisco until 1976. He then served for 12 years in United States Attorney’s Offices, first in the Northern District of California in San Francisco, where he rose to be chief of its criminal division. In 1982, he moved to Boston as an Assistant United States Attorney, where he investigated and prosecuted major financial fraud, terrorist, and public corruption cases, as well as narcotics conspiracies and international money launderers.
After serving as a partner at the Boston law firm of Hill and Barlow, Mr. Mueller returned to public service. In 1989 he served in the United States Department of Justice as an assistant to Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh. The following year he took charge of its Criminal Division. In 1991, he was elected Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
In 1993, Mr. Mueller became a partner at Boston’s Hale and Dorr, specializing in complex white collar crime litigation. He again returned to public service in 1995 as senior litigator in the Homicide Section of the District of Columbia United States Attorney’s Office. In 1998, Mr. Mueller was named United States Attorney in San Francisco and held that position until 2001.
Mr. Mueller and his wife, Ann, have two daughters.
- Extension of Director Mueller’s Tenure
Miri | April 19, 2013 at 10:06 am
Rosemary Woodhouse | April 19, 2013 at 11:02 am