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The Old ‘Ongoing Investigation’ Trick Is Being Used to Hide Benghazi Truth

Posted on | October 31, 2013 | 39 Comments

The Lonely Conservative:

The cover up continues. The State Department and the DOJ are blocking Congress from having access to survivors of the Benghazi attack. They blame it on the ongoing investigation.

This is a very familiar method of truth-suppression in D.C.: “I can’t comment because of the ongoing investigation.” Understand that when the federal government is investigating the federal government, denying information to Congress is a de facto cover-up.

Meanwhile, Rowan Scarborough of The Washington Times reports:

Masked from public view, two of the U.S. military’s elite special operations commandos have been awarded medals for bravery for a mission that further undercuts the Obama administration’s original story about the Benghazi tragedy. . . .
[S]ources directly familiar with the attack tell The Washington Times that a unit of eight special operators — mostly Delta Force and Green Beret members — were in Tripoli the night of the attack, on a counterterrorism mission that involved capturing weapons and wanted terrorists from the streets and helping train Libyan forces.
When word of the Benghazi attack surfaced, two members of that military unit volunteered to be dispatched along with five private security contractors on a hastily arranged flight from Tripoli to rescue Americans in danger, the sources said, speaking only on the condition of anonymity because the special operations forces’ existence inside Libya was secret.
The two special operations forces arrived in time to engage in the final, ferocious firefight between the terrorists and Americans holed up in the CIA annex near the ill-fated diplomatic mission in Benghazi, the sources added.
The two special operators were awarded medals for valor for helping repel a complex attack that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stephens, another American diplomat and two former Navy SEALs, but spared many more potential casualties.

So here we have Green Berets getting medals for their bravery in a battle that the administration refuses to tell Congress anything about, because “ongoing investigation.” Next we’ll be told that Obama can’t say anything about Benghazi, because “national security.”

Remember the administration repeatedly claimed that Benghazi was a “spontaneous demonstration” inspired by a YouTube video.

They’re Democrats. Their first instinct is always to lie.

Now? “Phony scandal!” And whatever happened to Nakoula?

 

Category: Barack Obama, Libya, Military

Comments

39 Responses to “The Old ‘Ongoing Investigation’ Trick Is Being Used to Hide Benghazi Truth”

  1. Lockestep1776
    October 31st, 2013 @ 12:40 pm

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  2. Resista38176897
    October 31st, 2013 @ 12:40 pm

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  3. jwbrown1969
    October 31st, 2013 @ 12:40 pm

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  4. rsmccain
    October 31st, 2013 @ 12:41 pm

    The Old ‘Ongoing Investigation’ Trick Is Being Used to Hide Benghazi Truth http://t.co/zVenXpP9M6 Hat-tip @lonelycon cc @instapundit #tcot

  5. rsmccain
    October 31st, 2013 @ 12:44 pm

    #Benghazi “Phony scandal!” And whatever happened to Nakoula? http://t.co/zVenXpP9M6

  6. WhiteRitzCracka
    October 31st, 2013 @ 12:48 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM The Old ‘Ongoing Investigation’ Trick Is Being Used to Hide Benghazi Truth http://t.co/Ykbot82RP7 #TCOT

  7. M. Thompson
    October 31st, 2013 @ 12:49 pm

    Color me unsurprised.

  8. wombat_socho
    October 31st, 2013 @ 12:49 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM The Old ‘Ongoing Investigation’ Trick Is Being Used to Hide Benghazi Truth http://t.co/Ykbot82RP7 #TCOT

  9. tahDeetz
    October 31st, 2013 @ 12:49 pm

    RT @rsmccain: The Old ‘Ongoing Investigation’ Trick Is Being Used to Hide Benghazi Truth http://t.co/zVenXpP9M6 Hat-tip @lonelycon cc @inst…

  10. JohnFict
    October 31st, 2013 @ 12:54 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM The Old ‘Ongoing Investigation’ Trick Is Being Used to Hide Benghazi Truth http://t.co/Ykbot82RP7 #TCOT

  11. scarymatt
    October 31st, 2013 @ 12:56 pm

    If you like your scandal, you can keep it secret.

  12. BrianKennedy8
    October 31st, 2013 @ 12:56 pm

    RT @rsmccain: The Old ‘Ongoing Investigation’ Trick Is Being Used to Hide Benghazi Truth http://t.co/zVenXpP9M6 Hat-tip @lonelycon cc @inst…

  13. Josh_Painter
    October 31st, 2013 @ 12:57 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM The Old ‘Ongoing Investigation’ Trick Is Being Used to Hide Benghazi Truth http://t.co/Ykbot82RP7 #TCOT

  14. joej2020usa
    October 31st, 2013 @ 1:02 pm

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  15. joej2020usa
    October 31st, 2013 @ 1:02 pm

    The Old ‘Ongoing Investigation’ Trick Is Being Used to Hide Benghazi Truth; http://t.co/rYsu0FVRfu

  16. mikelord1
    October 31st, 2013 @ 1:02 pm

    RT @joej2020usa: The Old ‘Ongoing Investigation’ Trick Is Being Used to Hide Benghazi Truth http://t.co/rYsu0FVRfu

  17. rsmccain
    October 31st, 2013 @ 1:07 pm

    Commenter on #Benghazi post: “If you like your scandal, you can keep it secret.” http://t.co/zVenXpP9M6 HEH

  18. Kevin Trainor Jr.
    October 31st, 2013 @ 1:12 pm

    Kevin Trainor Jr. liked this on Facebook.

  19. Kirby McCain
    October 31st, 2013 @ 1:28 pm

    I’m sure the most transparent administration in the history of the universe is doing all it can to accommodate the people’s house in their investigation.

  20. ChrisCoon4
    October 31st, 2013 @ 1:30 pm

    RT @rsmccain: The Old ‘Ongoing Investigation’ Trick Is Being Used to Hide Benghazi Truth http://t.co/zVenXpP9M6 Hat-tip @lonelycon cc @inst…

  21. GulfDogs
    October 31st, 2013 @ 2:00 pm

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  22. WickedPatriot
    October 31st, 2013 @ 2:10 pm

    The Old ‘Ongoing Investigation’ Trick Is Being Used to Hide Benghazi Truth http://t.co/26YxTSAVgt

  23. rambler
    October 31st, 2013 @ 2:42 pm

    Rather than “investigating”, the lie factory is working over-time to come up with a plausible lie. The Youtube video was an epic fail of an excuse. They have had so much practice at lying, one would think that they would be better at lying than they are.

  24. Quartermaster
    October 31st, 2013 @ 2:56 pm

    I can’t seem to find that shade in my box of 128 crayons for some reason.

  25. Adjoran
    October 31st, 2013 @ 3:40 pm

    Obama has an app for that.

    Notice that in the most egregious failures like Fast & Furious, Benghazi, the IRS scandal, and Obama-Care, to name a few prominent ones, no one gets fired. Some may be “reassigned” or “suspended” but they never miss a paycheck. And they never talk.

    There seems to be a common thread here: Obama publicly expresses surprise and dismay (“Nobody is madder than I am about XYZ”) but neither accepts any blame NOR assigns any. No one pays a price, and no one says anything about Obama’s involvement in it.

    On the night of Benghazi, they still won’t even say where Obama was and what he was doing as the attack raged on. There are no holes in Obama’s stone walls.

  26. ConservativeJoy
    October 31st, 2013 @ 3:59 pm

    We the People need to continue pursuing the truth about what happened in Benghazi. Having Presidential candidates that see fund raisers and being reelected as being more important than saving American lives is not acceptable. There were almost 40 Americans at Benghazi. Apparently, neither our President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of DOD, nor the CIA Chief made no effort to save these Americans. The only help they got was from people who apparent refused to follow the orders from the top echelon to abandon these 40 Americans. One would think that these Americans would be so appreciative that they would not obey The orders from the Administration motto testify before Congress.

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  29. BeccaJLower
    October 31st, 2013 @ 7:01 pm

    ICYMI: @rsmccain: They’re Democrats. Their first instinct is always to lie. http://t.co/dYkxIUDrgI #tcot #benghazi #teaparty

  30. thatMrGguy
    October 31st, 2013 @ 7:02 pm

    The Old ‘Ongoing Investigation’ Trick Is Being Used to Hide Benghazi Truth http://t.co/gKVRGHC0pP

  31. rsmccain
    October 31st, 2013 @ 7:19 pm

    RT @BeccaJLower: ICYMI: @rsmccain: They’re Democrats. Their first instinct is always to lie. http://t.co/dYkxIUDrgI #tcot #benghazi #teapar…

  32. freegalt
    October 31st, 2013 @ 7:22 pm

    RT @BeccaJLower: ICYMI: @rsmccain: They’re Democrats. Their first instinct is always to lie. http://t.co/dYkxIUDrgI #tcot #benghazi #teapar…

  33. higgins1990
    October 31st, 2013 @ 8:57 pm

    I wish there was a way to spit on ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN. Since I can’t do that, I canceled TV all together.

  34. sokeijarhead
    October 31st, 2013 @ 9:49 pm

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  35. BBPowerbiz
    November 1st, 2013 @ 12:57 am

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  36. GodTruth
    November 1st, 2013 @ 1:05 am

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  37. Finrod Felagund
    November 1st, 2013 @ 1:42 am

    I’m sure you were able to keep a straight face while typing that.

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