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http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/19/issa_s_benghazi_document_dump_exposes_several_libyans_working_with_the_usIssa posted 166 pages of sensitive but unclassified State Department communications related to Libya on the committee's website afternoon as part of his effort to investigate security failures and expose contradictions in the administration's statements regarding the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi that resulted in the death of Amb. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
"The American people deserve nothing less than a full explanation from this administration about these events, including why the repeated warnings about a worsening security situation appear to have been ignored by this administration. Americans also deserve a complete explanation about your administration's decision to accelerate a normalized presence in Libya at what now appears to be at the cost of endangering American lives," Issa and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) wrote today in a letter to President Barack Obama.
But Issa didn't bother to retract the names of Libyan civilians and local leaders mentioned in the cables, and just as with the WikiLeaks dump of State Department cables last year, the administration says that Issa has done damage to U.S. efforts to work with those Libyans and exposed them to physical danger from the very groups that had an interest in attacking the U.S. consulate.
Memo to Darrell Issa: BACK AWAY FROM THE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE.
d_r
(6,907 posts)thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)Fuck this traitorous son-of-a-bitch!!!!
Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)First his hearing blows the CIA's cover in Benghazi, and now he's putting the lives of Libyans who cooperate with us in danger?
Grossly derelict of duty.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)amborin
(16,631 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)KauaiK
(544 posts)Do some google checks on Issa He is used car dealer out of San Diego. Rove got Issa to fund the recall of Gov. Gray Davis with the promise of the Governor's chair. Rove double crossed Issa and put in serial adulterer Ahhhnold Swartznegger. Issa has been arrested for gun violations among other things. He is pals with Randy "Duke" Cunningham, currently cooling his heels in federal prison for accepting bribes. He is a ignorant criminal.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Recall that after the initial attack at the consulate, they retreated to the CIA station where the subsequent attack occured. The attack was too quick to allow for destruction of records. The CIA's humint assets in Libya were rolled up.