We’re reviewing notes from the Benghazi Hearings but wanted to put the initial media take together for review:  This is the Greg Hicks portion – including his statement for the record recounting his experience on the day/night of Sept 11th 2012

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Today at 11:30am Eastern, the Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold another hearing on the Benghazi Terrorist Attack of 9/11/12.

Three witness testimonies are expected:

• Mr. Mark Thompson
  Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism
  US Department of State
• Mr. Gregory Hicks
  Foreign Service Officer and former Deputy Chief of Mission/Chargé d’Affairs in Libya
  US Department of State
• Mr. Eric Nordstrom
  Diplomatic Security Officer and former Regional Security Officer in Libya
  US Department of State

The Hearing will be live-streamed from Washington DC and is Available HERE – it should also be carried live on CSPAN

If you are watching today please share your thoughts and opinions in the comment section. In addition we will update throughout the day as testimony and questioning reveal any details of the crisis and White House cover-up that followed.

Will the truth finally be revealed?

Like much of President Downgrade’s tenure the Syrian fiasco is one of insufferable consequences resulting from a ‘lead from behind’ strategy.

The window of opportunity for the U.S. to take action passed two years ago when the actual Syrian people, the ordinary freedom citizens, were crying out for help.  Over the course of the two years that followed those ordinary voices have been overrun by extremists who jumped into the vacuum created by a lack of action.

Now Syria has devolved into a brutal Assad regime being fought by an even more brutal group of al-Qaeda extremists, while supported by Egypt and Muslim Brotherhood elements.   The ordinary freedom movement is hiding amid destroyed homes, broken glass, and blood stained curtains.

Syria is Obama’s Iran 2.0 deja-vu.   In Iran 2009, the “Green Movement” suffered a similar fate to the ordinary Syrian seeking freedom.   President Obama ignored them both when the window was open – In Iran the Islamic iron gates locked down the opening, in Syria the same is taking place. (more…)

 

Something is totally FUBAR with this reporting. I can’t figure out where the disconnect is yet. See the bottom after the article:

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“red rover, red rover, the truth’s coming over”…

WASHINGTON DC – On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department’s own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision-making, according to a “whistle-blower” witness from that bureau who will soon testify to the charge before Congress, Fox News has learned.

That witness is Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for operations in the agency’s counterterrorism bureau. Sources tell Fox News Thompson will level the allegation against Clinton during testimony on Wednesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. (more…)

Could this be the raindrop which finally causes the flood?

Chairman Darryl Issa on CBS News Face The Nation

(Via The Weekly Standard)  Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2012, fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled the country about what had happened in the days following the assaults.

The Weekly Standard has obtained a timeline briefed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence detailing the heavy substantive revisions made to the CIA’s talking points, just six weeks before the 2012 presidential election, and additional information about why the changes were made and by whom. (more…)

(Via Doug Ross)   U.S. Had Assets That Could Have Saved U.S. SEALs

BAIER: The administration has insisted there was no help for the Americans under assault in Libya, none that could arrive in time to change the outcome in Benghazi. Tonight is the first of three exclusive reports charging that claim is just not true.

Because the Special Operator in this piece is fearful of reprisal, we have agreed to conceal his identity. Correspondent Adam Housley has the story.
HOUSLEY: Many Americans are asking indeed, I asked myself. How could this happen? In the seven months since the Benghazi attacks on 9/11, information from the administration has been incomplete at best.

Details and time lines provided by the State Department, the U.S. military and intelligence agencies had been contradictory and failed to answer many questions.

In December, a State Department review concluded: There simply was not enough time for U.S. military forces to have made a difference: Having said that, it is not reasonable nor feasible to forces at the ready to respond to protect every high risk post in the world.
But members of the military who are monitoring events in Benghazi disagree. (more…)