BALTIMORE, Maryland May 21, 2014 - For weeks Nancy Pelosi has made it clear she wanted nothing to do with the Special Committee Announced by House Speak John Beiner to investigate the Benghazi Massacre of Four Americans, including the USA Ambassador to Libya. She hinted, openly, that were it up to her to decide, she would boycott the Committee and leave it function only as a GOP Bashing Squad. It is clear to her, she says, that the only purpose of the Committee and its investigation is to Bash the President and the woman she hopes will be the next President, former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton.
But Pelosi and other Democrats have seen the many national polls that make it clear America wants all of the truth about Benghazi. They want to know whether what many say about President Obama and Clinton is true: that they made a political decision and refused countless requests for ramped up security in Benghazi because Obama was campaigning for re-election under the premise that he had gutted Al Qaeda by allowing Navy Seals to assassinate Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the Massacre of over 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001. The feeling was that to reinforce the American Consulate in Benghazi would belie Obama's campaign claim. On the anniversary of the 9/11/2001 Massacre, Al Qaeda related terrorists attacked the American Consulate and killed four Americans. The long attack lasted from the evening of Septermber 11, 2012 until nearly dawn on September 12, yet no American reinforcements were dispatched to Benghazi and it was admitted later that none had been put on heightened alert in the event of such an attack and in spite of warnings that one would occurr. The Obama Whitehouse blamed the attack on a protest about a You Tube Video which was said to impune the Moslem religion. Subsequent investigation has shown matter-of-factly that no protest occurred in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. The Obama Whitehouse apparently concocted the story to cover their Benghazi failures, failures that apparently led directly to the death of the four Americans.
Since the Massacre at least five Congressional Committees have looked into the 2012 events, but none have taken a comprehensive look at the incident. Nevertheless, it appeared that no special committee would ever be appointed until about three weeks ago when an email was turned over to litigants in a federal lawsuit brought by the non-profit Judicial Watch organization. The email showed for certain that the Obama Whitehouse knew the facts about the Massacre from the outset, but were willing to use the video story to cover their failures. At least that is what the GOP says and the Polls show that most Americans believe. Only this last fact - what the polls show - has played a significant role in convincing Pelosi to appoint the five Democrats the Committee is to be composed of. The majority party in the House of Representatives, the GOP, will have six regular members and the Committee Chairman, GOP Rep. Tray Gowdy of South Carolina.
Sources have told the Washington Post that the five Democrats to be appointed by Pelosi, the House Minority Leader, are Marylander Elijah Cummings, Adam Smith of Washington State, Adam B. Schiff of California, Linda T. Sanchez of California, and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois. As this story is posted at 2:14 pm Wednesday, Pelosi is expected to appear at a news conference to formally announce her choices.
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