Special Forces veterans,
members of Congress demand special Benghazi
investigation
Breitbart – Matthew Boyle – 7/23/2013
Several members of Congress
joined representatives of the special forces military veterans and grassroots
organizations on Tuesday to launch an effort to force the House to have a
thorough, public investigation into the terrorist attack at Benghazi, Libya,
on Sept. 11, 2012.
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) has introduced legislation to
create a special select committee to investigate both the terrorist attack and
subsequent actions by President Barack Obama’s administration and former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s State Department. Wolf's bill has 161
co-sponsors. House GOP Leadership has not scheduled a vote on the bill.
Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX)
plans to harness the support for Wolf's bill into a "discharge
petition" that would force a floor vote on the bill. The petition would
need to be signed by 218 members of the House.
“I’m going to describe what
a discharge petition is because a lot of people have asked me questions exactly
what it is,” Stockman said at the Tuesday press conference outside the U.S.
Capitol building. “It’s to ask our leadership or actually demand from our
leadership that we have a vote on Frank Wolf’s bill. [Wolf is] a congressman
from Virginia who has a long history of being here and is articulate in
demanding that we have an independent investigation.”
“We can’t be silent any
more,” he said. “It’s been a year going by that we haven’t had justice. These
folks demand justice. They cry out for justice. Silence is not an option any
more. We’re going to challenge them. We’re going to have a discharge petition.
I encourage you to contact your congressman to sign the discharge petition.”
At the press conference,
Brauer’s group unrolled an enormous scroll of a petition that includes the
signatures of about a thousand special forces veterans joining the call for
this investigation. “What you see on my left is a one of a kind. I don’t think
it’s ever been done before: a four-foot-by-sixty-foot copy of the Special
Operations Speaks petition that we sent to the House of Representatives on the
Eighth of April asking for this select committee with subpoena power,” Brauer
said. “The scroll is signed by nearly 1,000 special operations veterans, from
the rank of Lieutenant General Three Stars
down to every other rank you can imagine, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, all
of them passionate about what we’re trying to do.”
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), a
congressman who supports the discharge petition, said at the press conference
that he was asked by a reporter recently about Benghazi: “Gee, that was so long ago. Do we
really want to pursue this now?”
“I told the reporter that
when I was a judge handling felony cases, I had defendants ask me that question
– ‘that was so long ago, do we really need to get into all this now?’ I can
tell you when the blood of American patriots cries out, when the blood of
individuals who were sent there into harm’s way, knowing how dangerous it was
in Benghazi, and especially two former SEALs who were even told to ‘Stand Down’
but they wouldn’t have it,” Gohmert said. “They went to save lives and that’s
exactly what they did. They even recruited another State Department man, a
former army ranger, to go up there on the rooftop with them. What they knew
from the first moment mortars were fired was that this was an organized,
well-prepared attack on our people. We need to get to the bottom of it. Their
blood cries out for that.”
But today only one person really stands in the way of a full and public
investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attack in Benghazi. It’s not President Obama.
It’s really not even Hillary Rodham Clinton, or Eric Holder. That one person is none other than House
Speaker John Boehner.”
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