“I’m going to ask them whether they think Mrs. Clinton has handed over everything she should and what they are going to do about it. And if they give me runaround responses, we’ll drag them up on Capitol Hill and make them answer these questions in public.”
". . because of the Secretary's unique arrangement with herself as it relates to public records during and after her tenure as Secretary of State, this Committee is left with no alternative but to request Secretary Clinton appear before this Committee for a transcribed interview to better understand decisions the Secretary made relevant to the creation, maintenance, retention, and ultimately deletion of public records."
It could be very, very messy . . to have a former federal prosecutor like Gowdy boring in on issues so damaging to someone who wants to be elected president in 21 months:
- How despite the ambassador's repeated pleas could security have been so poor at that consulate?
- Why, in fact, was it reduced given her admitted knowledge of the gathering terrorist clouds there?
- Why on a day dated 9/11, hours after the Cairo embassy was stormed, were no alert forces on Middle East standby somewhere nearby?
- Why was no rescue attempted or reinforcements allowed?
- Where in the world did Clinton's cockamamie video excuse emanate?
- Why did she and Obama and Susan Rice stick with it so long after we now know it was disproven by their own intelligence people?
“I'm not going to stop until someone is held accountable for allowing it to be a death trap, somebody be fired for not coming to the aid of these people for nine-and-a-half-hours. And somebody ought to be fired for lying to the American people. They were worried about the reelection, not telling the truth.”
"I’m not telling you how to do your job. But I’m going to ask you some questions and if you can’t answer these questions then I will leave you to draw whatever conclusions you want to draw about whether or not the media has provided sufficient oversight. Can you tell me why Chris Stevens was in Benghazi the night that he was killed? Do you know?...Do you know why requests for additional security were denied? Do you know why an ambassador asking for more security days and weeks before he was murdered and those requests went unheeded do you know the answer to why those requests went unheeded? Do you know why no assets were deployed during the siege...Do you know whether the president called any of our allies and said can you help? We have men under attack? Can you answer that? Do any of you know why susan rice was picked? The Secretary of State did not go. She said she doesn’t like Sunday talk shows. That’s the only media venue she does not like if that’s true. Why was susan rice on the five Sunday talk shows? Do you know the origin of this mythology that it was spawned as a spontaneous reaction to a video? Do you know where that started? Do you know how we got from no evidence of that to that being the official position of the administration? In conclusion, Congress is supposed to provide oversight. The voters are supposed to provide oversight. And you are supposed to provide oversight. That’s why you have special liberties and that’s why you have special protections. I’m not surprised that the president of the united states called this a phony scandal. I’m not surprised that Secretary Clinton asked what difference does it make. I’m not even surprised that Jay Carney said that Benghazi happened a long time ago. I’m just surprised at how many people bought it."
"What could President Barack Hussein Obama have possibly been doing that deadly night, what could his physical and mental condition have been that's so terrible and shocking that the know-everything chief executive would rather Americans think he was asleep at the national security switch?
That's something to awaken any American at 3 a.m. -- or earlier."
"It's not Watergate, of course. To the media, this doesn't even merit a 'gate.' Christie has Bridgegate, but no 'Benghazigate.'
In fact, there's no 'IRS-gate,' there's no 'DOJ-gate,' there's no 'Fast & Furious-gate.' Obama's White House is a gated community. It's guards are the media and anyone who asks questions is mocked. Can you blame the White House for the coverup? You can, but the media won't care, because they covered up the cover-up. And now they will coverup the cover-up of the cover-up. This isn't just Benghazigate, it's Mediagate."
"It is disturbing and perhaps criminal that these documents, that documents like these were hidden by the Obama Administration. The American people have learned that you cannot believe what the White House says, you cannot believe what the spokespeople say, and you cannot believe what the President says. The facts are coming out, that in fact this administration has knowingly withheld documents pursuant to congressional subpoenas in violation of any reasonable transparency or historical precedent, at least since Richard Milhous Nixon."
