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Obama Admin forces Benghazi survivors to sign non-disclosure agreements [Darleen Click]

Most transparent administration EVAH!

Congressman Frank Wolf, a Republican from Virginia, said today on the House floor that survivors of the Benghazi terror attack have been forced to sign non-disclosure agreements:

“On Tuesday I raised the question of why none of the Benghazi survivors, whether State Department, CIA, or private security contract employees have testified publicly before Congress,” said Wolf.

“According to trusted sources that have contacted my office, many if not all of the survivors of the Benghazi attacks along with others at the Department of Defense, the CIA have been asked or directed to sign additional non-disclosure agreements about their involvement in the Benghazi attacks. Some of these new NDAs, as they call them, I have been told were signed as recently as this summer.”

Wolf continued: “It is worth noting that the Marine Corps Times yesterday reported that the Marine colonel whose task force was responsible for special operations in northern and western Africa at the time of the attack is still on active duty despite claims that he retired. And therefore could not be forced to testify before Congress.

“If these reports are accurate, this would be a stunning revelation to any member of Congress, any member of Congress that finds this out and also more importantly to the American people. It also raises serious concerns about the priority of the administration’s efforts to silence those with knowledge of the Benghazi attack in response.

Ya think?

h/t Glenn Reynolds

7 Replies to “Obama Admin forces Benghazi survivors to sign non-disclosure agreements [Darleen Click]”

  1. BigBangHunter says:

    – …..And the ones they can’t gag they ‘lose’.

    – The manner in which this admin lies audaciously on a daily basis is breathtaking. Thinking back to pre-Bumblefuck days, its worse than any of us imagined.

  2. Mueller says:

    He has fundamentally transformed America into a police state. The revolution can’t come fast enough.

  3. Squid says:

    Ironically enough, the revolution probably won’t come ’til an Establican is elected, and chooses to use all the shiny new toys the Chicago Mob brought in. Just imagine the reaction of the Left when they discover that they’re being spied on by the NSA and abused by the IRS and DOJ and OSHA and EPA and denied treatment by the Death Panels and occasionally locked up or droned without any due process, and that it’s not happening at the hands of the Light Worker, but rather some fascist warmongering neocon.

    The Chicago Mob currently gets away with it because they’ve co-opted everybody in a position to stop them, and because we middle-class middle-west types are notoriously well behaved. Take the leftist out of the White House, and those limits no longer apply. That’s when the organic fertilizer impacts the rotary ventilator. Dubya will look on and think, “Damn, that poor fella’s really getting the works.”

  4. Car in says:

    “What difference does it make now?” – Hillary Clinton 2016!

  5. cranky-d says:

    Isn’t fascism wonderful?

  6. sdferr says:

    Spook86: Where in the world is Col. Bristol?

    Remember Colonel George Bristol? In recent months, he has emerged as a key figure regarding our military response–or more correctly, the lack of a response–to the terrorist attack on our consulate in Libya last fall. At the time of that debacle, Colonel Bristol (a career Marine) was serving as Commander of Joint Special Operations Task Force-Trans Sahara, part of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), headquarted in Stuttgart, Germany.

    In that role, Colonel Bristol had detailed knowledge of special forces assets that might have been employed to assist American diplomats and security contractors who were under attack. Four U.S. officials, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed. There was no military response; early reports suggested that we lacked assets in the region at the time the assault began. When it was revealed that an American SOF team was actually on the ground in Tripoli–with an airplane waiting to fly them to Benghazi–the narrative changed. Current accounts suggest the team was “held” in Tripoli in case U.S. facilities in that city came under attack. Various administration officials have also denied claims that the commander of that SOF unit, Lieutenant Colonel S.E. Gibson was told to “stand down” when he volunteered to respond to the situation in Benghazi.

    Through it all, the one person we haven’t heard from is Colonel Bristol. When Congressional investigators first learned of his role, they asked DoD about the possibility of Bristol testifying before the House Oversight Committee (and other panels) who are looking into the debacle. Initially, DoD claimed it could not compel Bristol to testify because he was “retired.” Colonel Bristol left his post at AFRICOM in March of this year, following a change-of-command ceremony. In his farewell speech, Bristol said an “evil” has taken hold in Africa and it is “up to us to stomp it out.”

    But it turns out that Bristol isn’t retired (not yet). Marine Corps Times writer Dan Lamothe did a little digging and discovered that Bristol is still on active duty. Technically, he’s on terminal leave, which means he’s using accumulated leave and permissive temporary duty (TDY) days to prepare for retirement. But he doesn’t go on the retired list until 1 August.

    So anyone casually looking on can’t be faulted if they think “Hey, what? If the man hasn’t anything damaging about the administration’s position to say, why hide him? Why silence him?”, can they?

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