CIA Annex Team Member Shoots Down House Intel Committe Benghazi Cover-Up

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Who are you going to believe, a D.C. committee or the men on the ground. That’s always been the question.

The top ranking diplomat in Libya and the men on the ground who went public have always been clear about what happened in Benghazi. The various coverups and whitewashing has always come from various committees in Washington.

Media Matters and the media have kept referring to any criticism of what happened in Benghazi as a conspiracy theory. Their conspiracy theory is that the people on the ground who risked their lives are engaged in some sort of conspiracy and the only truth comes from Washington committees.

Now after the latest whitewashing report from the House Intel Committee, the men on the ground are standing by their statements.

During the Book TV interview, Paronto and Mark “Oz” Geist, who also co-wrote the book (along with Mark Teigen, who attended the interview but did not appear on camera), explained that it took them over an hour to get to the consulate from the time they heard about the attack. Asked why it took so long for them to reach the scene Paronto said, “That’s the million dollar question.”

Paronto stood by the claim made in the book that they were ordered to stand down, a claim that was disputed in this week’s House Intelligence Committee report. “We were told to stand down. We were delayed for approximately 27 minutes on our compound,” he said. “We do not know, as far as outside of our chain of command outside Libya, where that came from. We know that the stand down orders and the waits and the delays came from Libya. Came from chief of station, chief of base. Whether it came from anybody higher, we don’t answer that. We don’t know. And we’d like to know, but we have no idea.”

A caller from Sanford, Florida, accused the men of lying about the Obama administration to boost book sales, saying that House Intelligence Committee report proved they were not telling the truth.

“Ma’am,” Paronto said, “during the House intel subcommittee I looked at Mike Rogers in the eyes and I said, ‘If we would have not been delayed — which, we were delayed three times — that we would have saved the ambassador’s life and Sean Smith’s life.’” He added, “Why he came out with the report, I don’t know what to tell you on that. You’re going to have to ask him. What we said in the book is what happened on the ground and that is the truth.”

The “stand down” controversy is one of those lawyeresque arguments meant to obscure the facts. The House Intel Committee’s report concedes that rescue operations were delayed but claims that this was not standing down, but a delay.

The media never actually explains the issue because then their whole argument collapses into a Clintonesque “definition of is” technicality. So instead they claim that the “stand down order” was disproven. Meanwhile the House Intel Committee’s report largely disregards the testimony of the people on the ground and turns in the same nonsense about CIA protest talking points and “strategic delays” as before.

Business as usual in Washington D.C. where men are sent out to die and their deaths are then whitewashed.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    “Conspiracy theory”? Looks like the House Intel Committee is engaged in one of its own making. Anything to whitewash Obama, Hillary, Susan Rice, and all the rest.

    • Pete

      The RINOs are not fighting Obama and the Democrats on immigration and it looks like they won’t fight him on Ben Ghazi (or much of anything) either

      This is most shared on Slate at #1 “A Better Solution to America’s Immigration Problem: End birthright citizenship.”

      For amnesty if the Democrats, The RINOS and the rest of congress could proved that the barn door has been shut they could get one of their Holy Grails a comprehensive immigration bill.

      What would make it feasible if still unpopular would be an end to birthright citizenship and and actual southern border that was not a sieve.

      But they do not want to do that. They are either too weak politically, want the same things as the Democrats (& the Chamber of Commerce), or are just weak people( Which is possible. Think Howard Prescott as Boehner).

      Instead it is a big FU from the Beltway!

      If it is not the big FU, then it is “They are just going to wait us out” – Jerry Doyle

      • Erudite Mavin

        The Republicans are taking on Obama re immigration and when
        the most can be done against Obama is when the Republicans have the Senate Majority in Jan.
        It is the RINOs aka Libertarian Rand Paul followers who are the Amnesty pushers as well as Koch Bros., and others of that ilk.
        Libertarian Ron Paul when in Congress voted against every bill that would fence the border.

        • Pete

          Immigration needs a border fence and no birth right citizenship.

          Canada got rid of birthright citizenship in the last 15 years. People from Hong Kong were flying to Canada on vacation just ti give birth.

          But the libtards want us to adopt every bad European or Canadian ideal never any good ones.

        • Pete

          Ron Paul played the white race card pretty hard back in the late 1980s or so.

          Every one liked him, when he said audit the Fed. But other than that how much is there to like?

          • Erudite Mavin

            I read Ron Paul’s new org. site to keep up with this idiot is pushing.
            It is a combination of al Jazeera and Pro Putin propaganda

      • Erudite Mavin

        Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Sunday refused to accept that the new House Benghazi report cleared the Obama administration of any wrongdoing in its response to the Benghazi attack.

        “I think the report is full of crap,” Graham said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

        The senator insisted that members of the administration altered the Benghazi talking points after the attack.

        Republicans are not going to let this go.

        • Pete

          Well some Republicans did.

        • Patriot077

          I saw that and hope you are right. Trey Gowdy is still working with his committee, so I hope the fur flies hot and heavy when he’s completed his investigation.

          • Erudite Mavin

            I don’t think Trey Gowdy and some of the others on the Committee will let this just go away.

          • Patriot077

            I know he has spoken very passionately about finding out what really happened and has promised that to the families of those men who lost their lives. It felt sincere, but we all know that DC is a pressure cooker and I pray he holds true to HIS own convictions.

          • Erudite Mavin

            If there was no there, there, why did Obama, Holder et al stonewall, slow walk, lie, etc during the original hearings and continuing.
            3 of the 4 killed at Benghazi are from here in San Diego.
            Family members still have questions.

      • Patriot077

        No birthright citizenship and end chain migration. If families want to come they can come IF our authorities grant permission. Not if the immigrant chooses to import the relatives! That is so stupid on it’s face!

      • Pete

        One more lie for the Obama record

        Gimme some!

        Obamacare Sign-Ups Were Inflated With Dental Plans

        YEAH!

  • billobillo54

    Don’t forget Mike Rogers. Why his sudden decision not to seek reelection? What was his wife’s role in the security in Benghazi? What is Rogers’ relationship to Muslim Brotherhood linked people?

    • Patriot077

      And we know Mike Rogers had a secret meeting with the Ambassador only a short time before this attack. Megyn Kelly learned of it from Duncan Hunter and surprised Rogers with the question – which he failed to answer. He definitely is not clean in this.
      Also, he threw Louie Gohmert and Michele Bachmann under the bus when they had the audacity to question the national security clearance process. Any decent committee head would have supported an inquiry into the State Department’s handling of these. It was obvious that unqualified people were in positions of significance.

    • 4arepublic
      • Pete

        Very interesting

        This is not as interesting, but it confirms what we know of a certain breed of weak a__ negotiators & politicians.

        Deadline Time

        • 4arepublic

          Very interesting. Thanks for the link.

  • Gloria Stewart

    When the House Committee opened hearings, I saw news clips of Trey Gowdy questioning a witness. After the first day or so it seemed to disappear from the news. I have always considered Gowdy a conservative, but either he failed to carry the ball or he was overwhelmed by opposition.

    Is there an inside story that anyone knows of?