Partisan Spin on Benghazi, The Republican administrator and baronial Democrat on the House Benghazi board anniversary adulterated the facts during TV appearances to altercate the committee’s work:
GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy was asked what “new facts” his board apparent that seven added committees did not. Referring to the abounding added investigations into the attacks that dead Agent Chris Stevens, Gowdy asked “how did they absence Agent Stevens’ e-mails?” But added committees did admission some of Stevens’ emails – including a June 7, 2012, email that Gowdy cited in the interview.
Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings accustomed above Secretary of Accompaniment Hillary Clinton for giving the Accompaniment Administration bags of work-related emails that she beatific and accustomed from her claimed email account. Cummings added that above Secretary of Accompaniment Condoleezza Rice did not about-face over “one page” of her emails. But Rice had none to about-face over; she didn’t use a claimed email annual for government business.
Gowdy, administrator of the House Select Board on Benghazi, and Cummings, the baronial Democrat on the committee, appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Oct. 18 — four canicule afore Hillary Clinton’s appointed Oct. 22 actualization afore the committee.
Stevens’ Emails
Four Americans, including Stevens, were dead during Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on a acting adept ability and a CIA addendum in Benghazi, Libya. The House accustomed the conception of the appropriate Benghazi board in a May 8, 2014, vote, although by that time seven added aldermanic committees had brash the attacks.
John Dickerson, the host of “Face the Nation,” asked Gowdy what “new facts” his board has baldheaded that the others did not.
Dickerson, Oct. 18: Tell us about the new facts. One of the accuse adjoin your board is there accept been seven hearings — seven investigations in Congress already. Why accept addition one. What new facts accept you got that rebuts that charge?
Gowdy: You know, John, I do apprehend that there accept been seven, which makes me smile because I wonder, how did they absence Agent Stevens’ e-mails? None of the seven antecedent committees agitated to admission the e-mails of our ambassador.
So, if you wish a window into Libya and what was accident in the weeks and months afore these four were killed, why would you not attending at the ambassador’s e-mails? He was a abounding e-mailer. I will accord you a one-week time aeon in June. He’s just been put in abode as the ambassador, just accepted, on June the 7th. And he is already allurement for added security. He knows that there’s an uptick in abandon and he’s allurement for added security.
On about absolutely that day, John, he is asked to apprehend and acknowledge to an e-mail from [Clinton acquaintance and above adviser] Sidney Blumenthal, who knows annihilation about Libya. So, he’s allurement for security. And [former agent arch of agents and administrator of action planning] Jake Sullivan in Washington is allurement our agent the day afterwards our ability was attacked with an IED to apprehend and acknowledge to an e-mail from Sidney Blumenthal.
The added committees did not “miss” Stevens’ emails. During the advance of their investigations, added committees did accept admission to at atomic some emails and cables beatific and accustomed by Stevens — who became agent on May 22, 2012, and served in that accommodation for beneath than four months.
In fact, the June 7, 2012, email cited by Gowdy on “Face the Nation” was discussed during Clinton’s affidavit on Jan. 23, 2013, afore the House Board on Adopted Affairs. That email aswell appears in a Benghazi timeline appear by the House Permanent Select Board on Intelligence in January 2014.
The intelligence board timeline shows that Stevens on June 7, 2012, exchanged emails with a Accompaniment Administration official (identified in addition House address as John Moretti) about the aegis bearings in Libya. In the email, Stevens requests to absorb the casework of two Mobile Aegis Deployments (MSD) about the time of the July 7, 2012, Libyan elections:
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Ambassador Stevens fabricated a claimed appeal for an admission in security. In a June 2012 email, he told a Administration official that with civic elections in July and August, the Mission “would feel abundant safer if we could accumulate two MSD teams with us through this aeon [to support] our agents and [personal detail] for me and the [Deputy Arch of Mission] and any VIP visitors.” The Administration official replied that due to added commitments and bound resources, “unfortunately, MSD cannot abutment the request.”
There were added emails and cables from Stevens, too. A House intelligence board address anachronous Jan. 15, 2014, said the board brash “thousands of intelligence letters and centralized abstracts (including e-mails, cables, etc.) which were provided by the IC, the Accompaniment Department, and DoD.” That address discusses an Aug. 16, 2012, cable beatific by Stevens apropos the aegis bearings in Libya.
Republican Rep. Tom Cole in an October 2012 columnist absolution refers to cables he said were beatific by Stevens on June 25, 2012, and Aug. 8, 2012. Cole aswell refers to a cable that was accustomed by Stevens on the day of the attack, Sept. 11, 2012.
As Cole notes, the abstracts were acquired by the House Board on Oversight and Government Reform — of which Gowdy is a member:
Cole, Oct. 29, 2012: Abstracts appear by the House Board on Oversight and Government Reform appearance growing affair on the allotment of Agent Stevens and his agents apropos the deepening aegis situation. In a cable from June 25 blue-blooded “Libya’s Fragile Aegis Deteriorates,” Agent Stevens wrote, “From April to June, Libya aswell assemblage an admission in attacks targeting all-embracing organizations and adopted interests.” Stevens goes on to annual six of the assorted attacks that had already occurred, including an advance on a U.N. official in Benghazi, an IED admission at the admiral compound, and a rocket-propelled armament advance on the British ambassador’s convoy. Stevens declared that his contacts in the breadth abreast him that “Islamic abandonment appears to be on the acceleration in eastern Libya and that the Al-Qaeda banderole has been spotted several times aerial over government barrio and training facilities.”
Another cable from August 8 mentions “a alternation of agitated incidents” and warns that the bounded aegis armament the Obama administering was to await on to assure our diplomats “has not coalesced into a stabilizing force and provides little deterrence.” On the day of his murder, Stevens common the warning, citation a administrator with Benghazi’s Supreme Aegis Council who “expressed growing annoyance with badge and aegis armament (who were too anemic to accumulate the country secure).”
Cummings, the baronial Democrat on the Benghazi committee, issued a columnist absolution afresh that listed six added emails and cables, to which added committees had access, that were beatific or accustomed by Stevens, including some above-mentioned to Stevens’ arrangement as ambassador.
Jamal Ware, a agent for Gowdy and the Republican majority associates on the Benghazi committee, told us that Gowdy did not say that the added committees did not accept any of Stevens’ emails. “Chairman Gowdy said the board was the aboriginal to ‘access’ them,” Ware said, abacus that the board asked for all of Stevens’ emails from March 2011 to Sept. 11, 2012, the day of the attack.
Ware is agreeable hairs. Although added committees did not ask accurately for Stevens’ emails, they did ask the Accompaniment Administration for abstracts accompanying to the Benghazi attacks, which would cover emails and cables beatific and accustomed by Stevens.
“Prior committees investigating the attacks in Benghazi had continued had admission to a cogent aggregate of emails and abstracts to and from Agent Stevens,” Alec Gerlach, a agent for the Accompaniment Department, told us in an email. Although typically, Gerlach said, the aldermanic requests were fabricated by “specific accountable matter, and not to specific accepted or above Administration employees.”
Also, Gowdy’s affirmation wasn’t artlessly that his board was the alone one to accurately ask for Stevens’ emails. He said the added committees absent Stevens’ emails and hadn’t “bothered to access” them. Clearly, they had admission to key emails and cables beatific or accustomed by Stevens apropos the aegis bearings in Libya above-mentioned to the attacks.
Clinton and Rice
For his part, Cummings, the baronial Democrat on the Benghazi committee, fabricated an apples-to-oranges allegory if praising Clinton for allied with the board investigation. He noted, correctly, that Clinton angry over “tens of thousands” of work-related emails to the Accompaniment Administration — emails that Clinton had beatific and accustomed from her claimed email annual and stored on a clandestine server. But again he claimed that Condoleezza Rice hadn’t “turned in one page.”
Cummings, Oct. 18: Well, accumulate in mind, accumulate in apperception that Hillary Clinton has angry in tens of bags of pages of e-mails, added than any added secretary in the history of our country, secretary of accompaniment in the history of country. And accumulate in apperception Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice accept not angry in one page.
That’s a distortion. Unlike Powell and Clinton, Rice did not use a claimed email annual for government business, so she had no emails to accord to the Accompaniment Department, according to the Accompaniment Department.
At a March 10 columnist briefing, then-State Administration backer Jen Psaki said that the administration requested work-related emails from four antecedent secretaries of state: Clinton, Powell, Rice and Madeleine Albright. She again discussed the responses the administration accustomed from Rice, Powell and Albright.
Psaki, March 10: Above Secretary Rice – I’m just traveling to go through all of them if that’s accept – responded to the Department’s letter and abreast us that she did not use claimed email for official business. Early in March of this year, General Powell brash – and I anticipate he’s announced to this about as able-bodied – that he acclimated a claimed email annual during his administration as secretary of state. He did not yield any harder copies of emails with him if he larboard appointment and has no almanac of the emails, with the annual he acclimated accepting been bankrupt for a amount of years. Above Secretary Albright brash that she did not use email as secretary and has no annal in her possession.
We should aswell agenda that although Powell did use a claimed email account, rather than the government email system, he did not abundance his emails on a clandestine server. Powell, who was secretary of accompaniment from January 2001 to January 2005, said he did not accept any emails to about-face over.
Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings accustomed above Secretary of Accompaniment Hillary Clinton for giving the Accompaniment Administration bags of work-related emails that she beatific and accustomed from her claimed email account. Cummings added that above Secretary of Accompaniment Condoleezza Rice did not about-face over “one page” of her emails. But Rice had none to about-face over; she didn’t use a claimed email annual for government business.
Gowdy, administrator of the House Select Board on Benghazi, and Cummings, the baronial Democrat on the committee, appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Oct. 18 — four canicule afore Hillary Clinton’s appointed Oct. 22 actualization afore the committee.
Stevens’ Emails
Four Americans, including Stevens, were dead during Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on a acting adept ability and a CIA addendum in Benghazi, Libya. The House accustomed the conception of the appropriate Benghazi board in a May 8, 2014, vote, although by that time seven added aldermanic committees had brash the attacks.
John Dickerson, the host of “Face the Nation,” asked Gowdy what “new facts” his board has baldheaded that the others did not.
Dickerson, Oct. 18: Tell us about the new facts. One of the accuse adjoin your board is there accept been seven hearings — seven investigations in Congress already. Why accept addition one. What new facts accept you got that rebuts that charge?
Gowdy: You know, John, I do apprehend that there accept been seven, which makes me smile because I wonder, how did they absence Agent Stevens’ e-mails? None of the seven antecedent committees agitated to admission the e-mails of our ambassador.
So, if you wish a window into Libya and what was accident in the weeks and months afore these four were killed, why would you not attending at the ambassador’s e-mails? He was a abounding e-mailer. I will accord you a one-week time aeon in June. He’s just been put in abode as the ambassador, just accepted, on June the 7th. And he is already allurement for added security. He knows that there’s an uptick in abandon and he’s allurement for added security.
On about absolutely that day, John, he is asked to apprehend and acknowledge to an e-mail from [Clinton acquaintance and above adviser] Sidney Blumenthal, who knows annihilation about Libya. So, he’s allurement for security. And [former agent arch of agents and administrator of action planning] Jake Sullivan in Washington is allurement our agent the day afterwards our ability was attacked with an IED to apprehend and acknowledge to an e-mail from Sidney Blumenthal.
The added committees did not “miss” Stevens’ emails. During the advance of their investigations, added committees did accept admission to at atomic some emails and cables beatific and accustomed by Stevens — who became agent on May 22, 2012, and served in that accommodation for beneath than four months.
In fact, the June 7, 2012, email cited by Gowdy on “Face the Nation” was discussed during Clinton’s affidavit on Jan. 23, 2013, afore the House Board on Adopted Affairs. That email aswell appears in a Benghazi timeline appear by the House Permanent Select Board on Intelligence in January 2014.
The intelligence board timeline shows that Stevens on June 7, 2012, exchanged emails with a Accompaniment Administration official (identified in addition House address as John Moretti) about the aegis bearings in Libya. In the email, Stevens requests to absorb the casework of two Mobile Aegis Deployments (MSD) about the time of the July 7, 2012, Libyan elections:
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Ambassador Stevens fabricated a claimed appeal for an admission in security. In a June 2012 email, he told a Administration official that with civic elections in July and August, the Mission “would feel abundant safer if we could accumulate two MSD teams with us through this aeon [to support] our agents and [personal detail] for me and the [Deputy Arch of Mission] and any VIP visitors.” The Administration official replied that due to added commitments and bound resources, “unfortunately, MSD cannot abutment the request.”
There were added emails and cables from Stevens, too. A House intelligence board address anachronous Jan. 15, 2014, said the board brash “thousands of intelligence letters and centralized abstracts (including e-mails, cables, etc.) which were provided by the IC, the Accompaniment Department, and DoD.” That address discusses an Aug. 16, 2012, cable beatific by Stevens apropos the aegis bearings in Libya.
Republican Rep. Tom Cole in an October 2012 columnist absolution refers to cables he said were beatific by Stevens on June 25, 2012, and Aug. 8, 2012. Cole aswell refers to a cable that was accustomed by Stevens on the day of the attack, Sept. 11, 2012.
As Cole notes, the abstracts were acquired by the House Board on Oversight and Government Reform — of which Gowdy is a member:
Cole, Oct. 29, 2012: Abstracts appear by the House Board on Oversight and Government Reform appearance growing affair on the allotment of Agent Stevens and his agents apropos the deepening aegis situation. In a cable from June 25 blue-blooded “Libya’s Fragile Aegis Deteriorates,” Agent Stevens wrote, “From April to June, Libya aswell assemblage an admission in attacks targeting all-embracing organizations and adopted interests.” Stevens goes on to annual six of the assorted attacks that had already occurred, including an advance on a U.N. official in Benghazi, an IED admission at the admiral compound, and a rocket-propelled armament advance on the British ambassador’s convoy. Stevens declared that his contacts in the breadth abreast him that “Islamic abandonment appears to be on the acceleration in eastern Libya and that the Al-Qaeda banderole has been spotted several times aerial over government barrio and training facilities.”
Another cable from August 8 mentions “a alternation of agitated incidents” and warns that the bounded aegis armament the Obama administering was to await on to assure our diplomats “has not coalesced into a stabilizing force and provides little deterrence.” On the day of his murder, Stevens common the warning, citation a administrator with Benghazi’s Supreme Aegis Council who “expressed growing annoyance with badge and aegis armament (who were too anemic to accumulate the country secure).”
Cummings, the baronial Democrat on the Benghazi committee, issued a columnist absolution afresh that listed six added emails and cables, to which added committees had access, that were beatific or accustomed by Stevens, including some above-mentioned to Stevens’ arrangement as ambassador.
Jamal Ware, a agent for Gowdy and the Republican majority associates on the Benghazi committee, told us that Gowdy did not say that the added committees did not accept any of Stevens’ emails. “Chairman Gowdy said the board was the aboriginal to ‘access’ them,” Ware said, abacus that the board asked for all of Stevens’ emails from March 2011 to Sept. 11, 2012, the day of the attack.
Ware is agreeable hairs. Although added committees did not ask accurately for Stevens’ emails, they did ask the Accompaniment Administration for abstracts accompanying to the Benghazi attacks, which would cover emails and cables beatific and accustomed by Stevens.
“Prior committees investigating the attacks in Benghazi had continued had admission to a cogent aggregate of emails and abstracts to and from Agent Stevens,” Alec Gerlach, a agent for the Accompaniment Department, told us in an email. Although typically, Gerlach said, the aldermanic requests were fabricated by “specific accountable matter, and not to specific accepted or above Administration employees.”
Also, Gowdy’s affirmation wasn’t artlessly that his board was the alone one to accurately ask for Stevens’ emails. He said the added committees absent Stevens’ emails and hadn’t “bothered to access” them. Clearly, they had admission to key emails and cables beatific or accustomed by Stevens apropos the aegis bearings in Libya above-mentioned to the attacks.
Clinton and Rice
For his part, Cummings, the baronial Democrat on the Benghazi committee, fabricated an apples-to-oranges allegory if praising Clinton for allied with the board investigation. He noted, correctly, that Clinton angry over “tens of thousands” of work-related emails to the Accompaniment Administration — emails that Clinton had beatific and accustomed from her claimed email annual and stored on a clandestine server. But again he claimed that Condoleezza Rice hadn’t “turned in one page.”
Cummings, Oct. 18: Well, accumulate in mind, accumulate in apperception that Hillary Clinton has angry in tens of bags of pages of e-mails, added than any added secretary in the history of our country, secretary of accompaniment in the history of country. And accumulate in apperception Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice accept not angry in one page.
That’s a distortion. Unlike Powell and Clinton, Rice did not use a claimed email annual for government business, so she had no emails to accord to the Accompaniment Department, according to the Accompaniment Department.
At a March 10 columnist briefing, then-State Administration backer Jen Psaki said that the administration requested work-related emails from four antecedent secretaries of state: Clinton, Powell, Rice and Madeleine Albright. She again discussed the responses the administration accustomed from Rice, Powell and Albright.
Psaki, March 10: Above Secretary Rice – I’m just traveling to go through all of them if that’s accept – responded to the Department’s letter and abreast us that she did not use claimed email for official business. Early in March of this year, General Powell brash – and I anticipate he’s announced to this about as able-bodied – that he acclimated a claimed email annual during his administration as secretary of state. He did not yield any harder copies of emails with him if he larboard appointment and has no almanac of the emails, with the annual he acclimated accepting been bankrupt for a amount of years. Above Secretary Albright brash that she did not use email as secretary and has no annal in her possession.
We should aswell agenda that although Powell did use a claimed email account, rather than the government email system, he did not abundance his emails on a clandestine server. Powell, who was secretary of accompaniment from January 2001 to January 2005, said he did not accept any emails to about-face over.
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