Mat Staver
Update on Thomas Perez nomination: Late last week, Republican demands to hold hearings on Thomas Perez’s controversial dealings have prompted the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to table the vote on Perez’s nomination as Secretary of Labor until May 8th. I believe that our pressure on senators helped move them to fully question Perez’s dealings and his misguided nomination to be Secretary of Labor. Watch for our future updates on this radical’s nomination!
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Five House Republican committee leaders just released a report citing President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the failure to respond to the Benghazi attacks and the subsequent cover-up to shield the State Department from being faulted.
Yet, many urgent questions remain unanswered.
Predictably, Democrats are calling the special report flawed and biased. This is all the more reason why there must be a special investigation by a select committee. See my very important update below – Mat.
Five Republican chairmen of standing House committees (Oversight, Foreign Affairs, Armed Services, Intelligence, and Judiciary) have released a scathing report on the issues leading up to and following the attacks on our Benghazi consulate which resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.
The report is based on months of extraction of evidence from documents, correspondence, and emails.
The 46-page report reveals…
* A “fundamental lack of understanding at the highest levels of the State Department as to the dangers presented in Benghazi, Libya, as well as a concerted attempt to insulate the Department of State from blame following the terrorist attacks.”
* Reductions of security levels prior to the attacks in Benghazi were approved at the highest levels of the State Department, up to and including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. This fact contradicts Clinton’s testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on January 23, 2013.
* In the days following the attacks, White House and senior State Department officials altered accurate talking points drafted by the intelligence community in order to protect the State Department and deflect criticism.
* Contrary to administration rhetoric, the talking points were not edited to protect classified information. Concern for classified information is never mentioned in email traffic among senior administration officials.
The White House dismissively called the report a “rehash” of known information. Democrats are brazenly calling for a retraction of the report coupled with a formal apology to former Secretary of State Clinton.
++There are still dozens of critical unanswered questions.
Frank Gaffney, President of the Center for Security Policy, said this after the report’s release…
“The most important take-away is that, more than seven months after that outrage, these committees still do not know precisely what happened.
It seems predictable that months spent on more of the same, business-as-usual inquiries will produce more of the same stonewalling by the executive branch, a host of still-unanswered questions, and a continuing lack of accountability for the policies that got us into this fiasco in Libya… for the conduct during the attack and for the cover-up that was perpetrated at the highest levels of the Obama administration.
The American people are entitled to know the truth about what happened before, during, and following the attack last year in Benghazi on 9/11.”
That’s why Liberty Counsel Action is united with the CSP, veterans groups, and other grassroots organizations in calling for a special investigation.
Speaker of the House John Boehner has balked at creating a Select Committee to investigate Benghazi, citing expense and time commitment constraints.
++Thankfully, some officials ARE calling for justice in Benghazi!
Representative Frank Wolfe (R-VA) has authored a resolution (H.Res. 36), which will create a House Select Committee to investigate last September’s deadly terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. It was introduced in January to the new Congress.
Representative Wolfe’s resolution is now cosponsored by over 119 representatives.
It is high time for the stonewalling to end and for Members of Congress to establish the 19-member Select Committee Representative Wolfe has proposed to uncover the truth!
There is now some movement on Capitol Hill, which tells me that our citizen action is being noticed –but more must be done.
I want to maximize the impact of our grassroots team. That’s why I’m asking friends like you, even if you have done so already, to schedule personal faxes for delivery to Congress.
Please continue to flood key congressional offices with faxes demanding a full Benghazi investigation!
Please go here and send your faxes to Congress demanding a full investigation into the Obama Benghazi cover-up:
www.lcaction.cc/1667/offer.asp
As you know, our fax barrage is highly effective! With a simple click of a button, we will send as many as 87 faxes to all the key leaders in both the House and Senate as well as your two Nevada Senators and Representative – each fax demanding a full investigation into the Benghazi debacle. Go here:
www.lcaction.cc/1667/offer.asp
Only this type of united grassroots initiative will result in a full investigation and uncover the truth about the Benghazi cover-up. Your faxes will help add to the rising grassroots voice demanding truth!
Thank you for your faithful partnership with Liberty Counsel Action. May God continue to richly bless you!
Mathew D. Staver, Chairman
Liberty Counsel Action
P.S. We cannot and will not let the Benghazi issue die – and I believe we are making a difference in the action of our legislators – but we can do more.
Once again, please consider going the “extra mile” by joining with other Liberty Counsel friends who are scheduling their faxes to Congress today demanding a special investigation. Go here:
www.lcaction.cc/1667/offer.asp
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