The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on held
a hearing Thursday September, 19 with members of the Accountability Review
Board that testified about their report on Benghazi. The ARB report that Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton was allowed to read first before Congress and who was never
questioned by these so-called investigators shows itself to be a warmed over
government excuse report rather than a hard fact finding search for the truth.
This (ARB) in-house government review report as to the
events in Benghazi, Libya was not a serious, probing, comprehensive or real
search for accountability. Instead it was an inquiry of the State Department
done without witnesses being under oath, without a transcription of questions
and answers, and in some cases without any notes taken and recorded by the fact
finders.
It is one thing for the members of the government review to claim
that their objective was solely to find what bureaucratic mistakes and poor
security planning existed so as to make improvement recommendations, yet it is
quite another to claim no one in senior office is responsible for incompetency.
One has to ask why they would call themselves an accountability review board.
When did the word accountability become synonymous with faultless?
The ARB report and the testimony from the Board members came
across to all Americans watching the hearings as the genesis of Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton infamous line “What difference does it make?” They were
not seeking the truth, not seeking to critically evaluate State Department
officials for not having adequate security in Benghazi nor did the board want
to chastise the Department of Defense that failed to mount a rescue response.
The Democrats on the committee were full of rage but it was at their
Republican members for being critical of the lack of
investigation done by the board rather than the debacle of Benghazi. These Democrats went so far as to accuse some
Republican members as being disrespectful. Yet I was always taught along with
many Americans that questioning authority is our duty as citizens.
The real disrespectful action on that committee was when the
mother of Sean Smith and the father of Tyrone Woods were placed at the witness
table the Democrats left the hearing. I think that clearly defines an act of
disgraceful disrespect and disregard by Democrats for the families of the
fallen heroes.
The sum total of what was learned at this hearing was that
no one, not one, senior official in the State Department was at fault for a lack of security and
that there was not enough time to mount a rescue. To believe those two postulations
about Benghazi would require you to not just be a low information voter but also
among the most gullible and naïve persons on the planet.
Whitewash is not a strong enough term to describe the cover-up
and disdainful treatment of the truth by this rubber stamping board that
produced a narrative report backing the lies told by this administration to the
American people about the events of Benghazi.
In the compelling testimony of Patricia Smith and Charles
Woods that spoke of their search for answers as to why their sons died, alone
and abandoned by this administration we Americans identify in two ways. One we
feel their pain that their sons gave their life for our country and officials
of that country lied (protest caused by a video) about the cause of their
deaths. Two, we agree with their distrust of an administration that continues
to promote the lie that there was no stand down order and no resources that
could have been mobilized to rescue their sons.
If the Administration and the Democrats supporting this
administration in Congress thinks that the ARB (All Rubbish and Bunk) report
will finally stop the families, veterans and the majority of Americans from
seeking both truth and accountability for the reckless, cowardice and political
treachery of Benghazi, they are living a delusional reality.
Americans will continue to seek the truth about Benghazi,
and we will not abandon, stand down, or accept the new normal, that when America
is under attack, our Commander in Chief of our military, goes MIA (missing in accountability).
