Dear Chairman Gowdy - - America is
counting on your backbone!
By Joan Swirsky
RenewAmerica.com
To: Chairman Trey Gowdy and
the Select Committee on Benghazi
Your investigation is a huge relief to millions of
Americans like me who have wondered and agonized
over the past almost-two years about the actual
events that happened before, during, and after the
September 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya, that
resulted in the horrific murders of Ambassador
Christopher Stevens, information officer Sean Smith,
and embassy security personnel and former Navy SEALs
Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.
Another State Department employee, diplomatic
security agent David Ubben, was gravely injured
while under attack with Woods and Doherty, but like
other survivors he has been forbidden by the Obama
Administration from speaking publicly about his
ordeal.
However, as
reported by Catherine Herridge of Fox News, when
the late Florida Congressman Bill Young met Ubben at
Walter Reed Medical Center last summer, he said that
Ubben "emphasized the fact" that the attack on the
Benghazi compound "was a very very military type of
operation...they had knowledge of almost everything
in the compound...they knew where the gasoline was,
they knew where the generators were, they knew where
the safe room was, they knew more than they should
have about that compound."
Will the Select Committee include the testimony
of Ubben and the other muzzled victims, and will it
explore who sabotaged the Americans by revealing to
the terrorists "more than they should have known
about the compound"?
Of course, neither your Select Committee nor my
letter to you would have seen the light of day if
the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch had
not been successful in their Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) request, which revealed "the smoking gun"
e-mail in which Benjamin J. Rhodes, then-White House
Deputy Strategic Communications Adviser, laid out
several goals for U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to meet
on the five Sunday-morning TV shows she was
scheduled to appear on, chief of which was: "To
underscore that these protests are rooted in an
Internet video, and not a broader failure of
policy."
According to Dick Morris, former advisor to
President Bill Clinton, a full day and a half
before Rhodes sent his email advising Susan Rice
to blame the Benghazi attacks on the video,
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the
identical language in a statement of her own.
This suggests, Morris says, "at the very least, a
close coordination between and White House and
Hillary Clinton to deceive the American people about
the true nature of the attack in Benghazi. And it
may also be evidence that Hillary Clinton engineered
that decision immediately following the attacks. Was
the cover-up Hillary's idea?"
In addition, Morris is emphatic in saying that the
CIA talking points
were in no way related to the White House talking
points, which seem to have been made up out of
whole cloth.
Will the Select Committee vigorously investigate
the allegation that this 19-month cover-up was
instigated by Hillary Clinton? Alternatively, will
you get to the bottom of who exactly created the
fiction of the video?
On the Sunday morning talk shows, on September 16,
2012, Susan Rice obediently told the nation that the
murderous Benghazi attack was the result of a
demonstration in Cairo (that had spread to Benghazi)
protesting an obscure anti-Muslim video, and not a
highly organized terrorist offensive that was
launched with the full knowledge – and possible
collaboration? – of the White House in order to
burnish Barack Obama's reputation as a strong leader
and thereby maximize his chances for reelection in
the run-up to the 2012 presidential race. Those
talking points were repeated for weeks on end by
Barack Obama, Jay Carney, Hillary Clinton, and a
media – save for a few exceptions – acting more like
a protection racket than journalists
Among the top administration personnel who received
the Rhodes memo were White House Press Secretary Jay
Carney, then-White House Communications Director Dan
Pfeiffer, and then-White House Senior Advisor and
political strategist David Plouffe, all of whom –
and others – launched a massive disinformation
campaign that persisted until Rhodes' incriminating
e-mail surfaced last month and Speaker John Boehner
backed a vote for a Select Committee, with subpoena
power, to untangle almost two years worth of White
House web-weaving.
Interestingly, the House Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform has been asking the State
Department for Rhodes' and other relevant e-mails
since last August, but they were purposefully
withheld.
Will the Select Committee address the criminal
action involved in withholding evidence from a
congressional committee and if such action is found
will the consequences be commensurate with the
crime?
According to blogger Jeff Dunetz, a State
Department e-mail that was released by Utah
Congressman Jason Chaffetz on May 1, 2014, proves
the State Department was certain on the day of
the Benghazi attack that it was conducted by al
Qaeda affiliate Ansar Al-Sharia. The e-mail was
entitled "Libya update from Beth Jones" and was sent
the very day of the attack, September 11, 2012.
Jones, who was then Assistant Secretary of State to
Hillary Clinton, wrote in her e-mail: "the extremist
group Ansar Al-Sharia has taken credit for the
attack in Benghazi..."
Jones' e-mail was copied to Deputy Secretary William
Burns; Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy
Sherman; Jake Sullivan, then-Deputy Chief of Staff
(now national security advisor to VP Joe Biden);
Under Secretary of State Patrick Kennedy; Cheryl
Mills, then-Secretary Clinton's Chief of Staff, and
Victoria Nuland, then-State Dept. spokesperson (now
Asst. Secretary of State).
The idea that the above CC list received Jones'
stunning report but that it somehow eluded Hillary
Clinton, her boss, who proceeded to meet the
grieving families, look in their eyes, and repeat
the preposterous falsehood that the attack was the
result of a video insulting to Muslims, simply begs
credibility.
Will the Select Committee interview all of the
above people to reinforce the fact that State knew
immediately that it was Ansar Al-Sharia who attacked
our citizens and that anyone who said otherwise
committed perjury?
A kidnapping plan was ostensibly formulated and
financed by then-President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi
who, for three months prior to the attack, had been
loudly demanding the release of the "Blind Sheik"
Omar Abdel-Rahman, now serving a life sentence in
North Carolina for his role as the mastermind of the
first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. In fact,
Morsi assured hundreds of thousands of his
supporters in Cairo that he would exact Rahman's
release, a promise he repeated just one week before
the Benghazi assault.
A month earlier, in August 2012, Morsi's de facto
boss, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the leader of al Qaeda,
issued a Fatwa that was published worldwide and
demanded that Muslims attack American citizens,
interests, and military installations anywhere and
everywhere for the purpose of freeing Rahman.
The objective of Morsi's plan was to grab Ambassador
Stevens, make sure that he was unharmed, and then
exchange him for the blind sheik. The result, of
course, would be that Morsi would get his sheik and
Obama would hold an elaborate Rose Garden ceremony
in which he'd be seen as "heroic" for "saving" our
ambassador – just weeks before the 2012 election!
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Valerie Jarrett, and
Huma Abedin all have close ties to the Muslim
Brotherhood. Were they too abetting Morsi by doing
Al-Zawahiri's bidding? It appears that Al-Zawahiri
was calling the shots and our White House was
obeying his directives! It is not a stretch to
imagine that Morsi set up the faux attack on our
Cairo embassy to distract the media while his
kidnapping plot was unfolding in Benghazi.
All this explains why Stevens' repeated requests for
additional security – on July 9, 2012; on August 16,
2012, when a classified cable, reported on by Fox
News, warned Sec. Clinton and other State Department
employees of an emergency meeting in Benghazi as a
result of rapidly deteriorating security; and when
Stevens screamed and pleaded for help while being
dragged through the compound's courtyard – were
turned down by Sec. Clinton. Simply, the Benghazi
facility had to be unprotected for the kidnappers to
carry out their mission.
Does this not also explain why, on the most
provocative day of the year – September 11th – and
in one of the most dangerous hotspots on earth,
there was not only a complete lack of security in
the Benghazi compound, but no rapid-response teams
were sent immediately after the powers-that-be in
the White House were notified of the attack?
And is it not now crystal clear why it took the FBI
a full three weeks to visit the burned-out facility,
conveniently giving Morsi's operatives on the ground
in Benghazi the opportunity to clean out and destroy
any incriminating evidence?
Will the Select Committee demand all videotapes
and transcripts of the night of the Benghazi attack,
including of drones, and conduct an in-depth
examination of the ongoing relationship between the
Obama administration and Mohamed Morsi, including
assistance of any kind given to the deposed Egyptian
president to this day?
The ties of this administration to the Muslim
Brotherhood are troubling to those of us who know of
that organization's philosophy and close ties to al
Qaeda. Clearly, the words of Refaat Saïd – leader of
Egypt's Socialist party, al-Tagammu', and previously
close friend of former Muslim Brotherhood Supreme
Guide, Mahdi Akef – must be taken literally:
"The organization of the Muslim Brotherhood is a
terrorist organization, and anyone who asks either
to reconcile with them, to join them or to ally with
them is himself a terrorist."
Both Walid Shoebat – a former Muslim Brotherhood
member who converted to Christianity and now exposes
the terrorists among us –
here, and Pamela Geller,
here, report that Rhodes'
"smoking gun" email revealed the instruction to
Susan Rice to blame the Benghazi attack on a video
and also exposed a recipient of that e-mail named
Mehdi K. Alhassani, the former leader of the Muslim
Student Association, which is a Muslim Brotherhood
front group.
"It is a mystery," Geller says, "how Alhassani
slipped through the cracks to become a
Special Assistant to the Office of the Chief of
Staff, National Security Council Staff, and
Executive Office of the President," adding that "it
is unknown why a
few hours before the Benghazi attack,
Alhassani met in the White House with
Samir Mayekar, a George Soros 'fellow'
for an unscheduled visit."
The American Thinker's James Lewis says that most
people are
still missing the strategic meaning of Benghazi.
"Under Obama we have secretly joined the terrorist
side in the Jihad War. That is the strategic
meaning of Benghazi...a forty-year policy led by
the Left to favor Islamic fascism is not, repeat
not, an accident."
Lewis cites intelligence analyst and former CIA
officer Clare Lopez and a group of distinguished
retired military and intelligence experts "who
released a statement last week that was quickly
covered up by the media." But Britain's
Daily Mail did report that after a seven-month
review, the group determined that the Benghazi
attack "could have been prevented – if the U.S.
hadn't been helping to arm al-Qaeda militias
throughout Libya a year earlier."
According to Lopez, "the United States switched
sides in the war on terror with what we did in
Libya, knowingly facilitating the provision of
weapons to known al-Qaeda militias and figures." She
said the Obama administration tacitly approved the
diversion of half of a billion-dollar Qatari arms
shipment to al-Qaeda-linked militants – arms that
killed "Christian children in Syria and Kenya in the
name of Allah." The full report is
here.
Further, Lewis makes this connection: "Huma [Abedin]
was Hillary's closest aide as Secretary of State,
and therefore privy to numerous secrets. You can bet
that Mohammed Morsi in Egypt knew all about the
inner workings of Hillary's State Department.
Hillary was in charge during the Benghazi debacle.
Just connect the dots."
Walid Shoebat has connected a lot of dots and
expands at length on Abedin and her extensive
ties to the Muslim Brotherhood in "The Abedin
Affairs with Al Saud."
In addition, it is well known that Barack Obama,
Valerie Jarrett, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, and
her chief-of-staff Huma Abedin enthusiastically
supported Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood election and
have worked vigorously against the Egyptian military
that launched the successful coup d' état that
deposed Morsi in July of 2013. In fact, Abedin not
only edited a Muslim Sisterhood magazine, but has
close ties through her family to the Muslim
Brotherhood.
Of great concern is the large number of
sharia advisors that Barack Obama has appointed to
high-security positions, including Homeland
Security, as detailed by writer Leon Puissegur, who
says that "their plans are to place their candidates
into elections to win so they can destroy the
Constitution and create a nation of Islamic laws!"
Journalist John Rossomando
further documents the degree to which the Muslim
Brotherhood has infiltrated the Obama
administration, including the White House.
And that is not to omit the fact that in 2011,
as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton refused to
designate Boko Haram, the al Qaeda affiliate, as a
terrorist organization despite the repeated urging
of the FBI, CIA, and DOJ and over a dozen
senators – the same Boko Haram (which means "Western
education is forbidden") that just kidnapped 276
young Nigerian Christian girls with the goal of
raping and enslaving them. No doubt the terrorist
group used weapons
that were never secured after Gaddafi's ouster in
Libya and made their way to Boko Haram. Was this
yet another example of Sec. Clinton's blind eye?
Will the Select Committee exhaustively explore
the possibly seditious links between the current
administration and al Qaeda-affiliated Muslim
Brotherhood and Boko Haram?
Initially, it appeared that the Morsi-orchestrated
event went as planned, with a cell-phone video
showing Stevens being removed from the charred
building and the audio portion recording the voices
of witnesses yelling, "Allahu-Akbar, Allahu-Akbar!
He's alive! He's alive!" before whisking him off to
an al Qaeda-operated hospital, where tragically he
died.
In a
damning report, Doug Ross confirms the
kidnapping scenario and provides a detailed and
Complete Benghazi Timeline.
With Stevens' death, however, Morsi's grand
kidnapping scheme failed. But six long hours passed
before anyone knew what had become of Ambassador
Stevens. It appears that Morsi was waiting for word
from his kidnapping squad on the ground so he could
then inform his pals in the White House. But no word
was forthcoming.
Journalist/author Jack Cashill is curious about
what Obama did on September 11, 2012, and spells
out an hour-by-hour scenario that includes where he
wasn't. According to national security spokesman
Tommy Vietor, Obama was not in the White House
Situation Room where military strategy is planned.
It is of more than passing interest that blogger
Dunetz reports that when Vietor spoke to Fox News'
Bret Baier a couple of weeks ago, he told the anchor
that he himself was involved in editing the Benghazi
talking points. But Mike Morell, deputy director of
the CIA at the time, said in sworn testimony that
except for changing one word, the White House had no
role in changing the talking points. "Either
Tommy Vietor lied to Bret Baier or Mike Morell lied
during his testimony to Congress," Dunetz
writes.
Will the Select Committee definitively determine
if Tommy Vietor lied or if Mike Morell committed
perjury?
Cashill continues: "At 3:40 p.m. Washington time"
"[Ambassador] Stevens called his number two man in
Tripoli, Greg Hicks, and told him, 'Greg, we're
under attack.' At 4:05 p.m. the State Department
Operations Center issued an alert to all relevant
agencies: 'U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi Under
Attack.' There was no lack of communication to the
outside world."
General Carter F. Ham, Commander of U.S. Africa
Command, who was visiting the Pentagon, said that
the fact attackers were using rocket-propelled
grenades and well-aimed small arms fire made it
clear to him that "this was certainly a terrorist
attack...." He personally shared the news with
General Martin E. Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, and both "immediately" briefed
then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.
At 5 p.m. Obama met with Panetta and Dempsey in the
White House for a prescheduled meeting, and he
"authorized the pair to take relevant steps, leaving
the specifics up to them. They had no further
contact with the president that evening and none at
all with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton."
"About 10 p.m. that evening," Cashill says, "Obama
made another phone call. Five months would pass
before anyone admitted he did so....soon after that
10 p.m. phone call, Secretary Clinton
released a memo
on the Benghazi attack. The timing suggests she and
Obama coordinated the blame-the-video misdirection
during their call. To this point in the evening, no
one in the military or on the ground in Libya had
mentioned the video or suggested that the assault on
the consulate was anything other than a coordinated
attack."
Cashill concludes that on the night of September 11,
"Obama retreated....for the next two months he did
what the Clintons did after the demise of TWA Flight
800: he just kicked the investigatory can down the
road and hoped that the media would not call
attention to the kicking. If the Clintons could get
away with it, why not he?"
Will the Select Committee interview or
re-interview Tommy Vietor, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Leon
Panetta, Gen. Carter Ham, and, again, Hillary
Clinton, to determine the accuracy of the above
timeline and if there was any collaboration between
Clinton and Obama in both (1) hatching the idea for
the Benghazi attack, the better to satisfy Morsi's
goal of freeing the sheik, and (2) creating the idea
of blaming the attack on an anti-Muslim video? Will
the Select Committee determine if either Vietor or
Morell lied? And will the Select Committee include
the White House's collaboration with the Muslim
Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi as a primary line of
inquiry? In addition, instead of dispatching drones
for observation of the attack, on whose orders did
General Ham fail to send out fighter jets for
several low-flying passes over the Benghazi attack
area to scare and drive off the terrorist attackers?
During the attack in Benghazi, no military force
came to the rescue of Ambassador Stevens and the
three other Americans who died. Was the military
given orders to stand down? While there are plenty
of denials about this, including from our military,
Chad Miller at
www.dcclothesline.com has written that it
might have been none other than Valerie Jarrett who
issued such an order. He cites an August 2013
Rush Limbaugh broadcast in which the radio host
presents a timeline of the evening of September 11,
2012, when Obama seemed to be missing in action.
Will the Select Committee determine who exactly
is running the foreign policy of the United States
of America? Is it White House advisor and assistant
to the president Valerie Jarrett? Obama top
political advisor David Axelrod? Top Democrat donor
George Soros? The Muslim Brotherhood?
As reported by writer and private investigator
Douglas Hagmann, a
CIA whistleblower faces the ire of an angry Justice
Department over Benghazi questions regarding
illegal gun-running.
Hagmann reports that Robert "Tosh" Plumlee posted 11
"questions" to his Facebook page, which placed him
under the threat of a subpoena by U.S. Attorney
General Eric Holder to (1) legally silence him and
(2) find out the sources of the information he
revealed.
Here is a small sample of Plumlee's questions:
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Is the United States secretly arming and supporting various factions of the Syrian rebels with high caliber impact weapons from the United States' arsenals?
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Will our troops one day again face these American-made weapons on some foreign battlefield?
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Did our ambassador and others, weeks before they were murdered, notify our State Department and CIA that Syrian rebels had obtained U.S. weapons, including "Stinger missiles" from Jordan, Turkey, and Pakistan, shipped from CIA safe houses?
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Were they told to "stand down"?
Will the Select Committee investigate what the
CIA was doing in Benghazi? Were guns being smuggled
covertly and illegally from Benghazi through Turkey
to the Syrian rebels – who were members of al Qaeda?
And was Ambassador Stevens protesting that operation
or facilitating the transfer? Will the Select
Committee expose the fact that the al Qaeda
jihadists that American taxpayers armed and financed
to overthrow Gaddafi's Libyan regime in October 2011
are the exact same jihadists who murdered the four
Americans in Benghazi?
Chairman Gowdy, Americans are aware that for
investigating this important event, you have
received death threats from those who are deeply
threatened by this line of inquiry. Please know that
you and your committee members will remain in the
thoughts and prayers of the liberty-loving people in
our country.
If Democrats refuse to join – or choose to boycott –
your efforts, as Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) so
shamefully suggested on a recent news show, they
will be viewed as aiding and abetting what appears
to be a massive cover-up and therefore appropriately
guilty by association.
In closing, I
cite former U.S. attorney, prosecutor of the
"Blind Sheik," writer and author Andrew C. McCarthy,
whose new book –
Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for
Obama's Impeachment – will be published June 3.
"The chief executive, James Madison asserted, would
be wholly 'responsible for [the] conduct' of his
subordinate officials. Therefore, it would 'subject
[the president] to impeachment himself, if he
suffers them to perpetrate with impunity high crimes
or misdemeanors against the United States, or
neglects to superintend their conduct, so as to
check their excesses....when AFRICOM abstains from
battle, or Lois Lerner obstructs an investigation,
or Eric Holder misleads Congress, or Michael Morell
doctors talking points, or Susan Rice serially lies
on national television, Barack Obama is responsible.
It is his bidding that they do, and by failing to
fire or discipline them he implicitly endorses their
malfeasance."
Godspeed, Mr. Chairman.
Sincerely yours,
Joan Swirsky
www.JoanSwirsky.com
© Joan Swirsky