Chaffetz: The State Department is hiding Benghazi survivors
Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R- UT) told Breitbart News on Wednesday that he has been “thwarted” by the State Department from seeing any Americans who survived the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. Many people forget that there were Americans who survived the Benghazi attack, some of whom were badly injured and are still recovering.
“My understanding is that we still have some people in the hospital. I’d like to visit with them and wish them nothing but the best but the State Department has seen it unfit for me to know who those people are—or even how many there are,” Rep. Chaffetz said. I don’t know who they are. I don’t know where they live. I don’t know what state they’re from. I don’t even know how many there are. It doesn’t seem right to me.
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These people need to testify at the hearings.
Night Owl on December 13, 2012 at 8:29 AM
Yeah cuz you know, they might talk and give the real picture of really went down, and I bet you that it would not look very good for Obababama and Billery.
watertown on December 13, 2012 at 8:30 AM
Perhaps the State Department doesn’t want Congressman Chaffetz or anyone else talking to the Benghazi survivors because the Benghazi survivors might just tell the inconvenient truth about what happened in Benghazi…
ITguy on December 13, 2012 at 8:31 AM
Were there supposed to be any survivors?
OldEnglish on December 13, 2012 at 8:36 AM
Why doesn’t the MSM ask this question?
claudius on December 13, 2012 at 8:45 AM
What? Survivors? I never heard about any of this in the MOT news reports.
forest on December 13, 2012 at 8:47 AM
Vice Foster was not available for comment.
MikeA on December 13, 2012 at 8:50 AM
Well, it would be much more difficult to hide obama’s acts of treason if these survivors were allowed to speak out – so, of course they are being sequestered.
Pork-Chop on December 13, 2012 at 8:50 AM
Maybe he should file a writ of habeus corpus. These people are being held without due process.
Naturally Curly on December 13, 2012 at 8:51 AM
I asked this question shortly after the attack when I read that some people were whisked away and barely escaped with their lives. I read one report and then it “unexpectedly” disappeared from the MSM memory banks. We are so far down the “rabbit hole”…
Clink on December 13, 2012 at 8:52 AM
I wonder what it takes to keep dozens of people completely silent these days? The Regime can’t keep any national security secrets, but they sure can shut people up for their own political purposes.
forest on December 13, 2012 at 8:55 AM
This is not the report I was referring to but it’s a start.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/12/13833848-us-diplomats-marine-rescue-team-were-also-attacked-at-safe-house-libyans-say?lite
Clink on December 13, 2012 at 9:02 AM
On Drudge right now:
“Federal medical clinic destroyed in mysterious explosion, former Libyan embassy staff killed.”
Bishop on December 13, 2012 at 9:06 AM
I smell a movie brewing…
US govt. secretly detains Americans to prevent them from blowing whistle on President.
Locked in same jail with Elvis, Michael Jackson and the Area 51 aliens(who never seem to age! “It’s the global warming”, said one alien).
albill on December 13, 2012 at 9:13 AM
You are such a sh!t disturber!
Vince on December 13, 2012 at 9:14 AM
He got me too! I almost didn’t click after that Supreme Court thing, but I guess I am just gullible.
Night Owl on December 13, 2012 at 9:19 AM
This is something I’ve wondered from the very beginning. These people all have families so we are talking about quite a few people who have to be under gag orders. How are they able to keep that many people from talking to the press…..unless they have and the press has decided it’s not news worthy.
It’s getting to the point where I can’t even read the news or watch TV because I loathe being lied to.
Ditkaca on December 13, 2012 at 9:53 AM
Look on the bright side: At least they’re not burying the survivors. As far as we know.
Bitter Clinger on December 13, 2012 at 9:56 AM
Chaffez has a R after his name, so nobody will listen to him. He needs to change that R to a D so that he could maybe actually get some answers.
Bob's Kid on December 13, 2012 at 10:00 AM
Because Obama is half black, and he and Hillary are democrats.
The Rogue Tomato on December 13, 2012 at 10:15 AM
You will see them and hear their testimony after they are told that the entire event is classified Double-plus Super Secret and any speaking out of turn will result in immediate shipment to Gitmo.
CorporatePiggy on December 13, 2012 at 10:25 AM
I suspect it’s worse than this, I suspect that the death toll is higher than we know. Dead people are being hidden. The justification, -they are CIA employees, and we don’t generally announce when CIA is KIA. All they get is an anonymous star on a wall.
Someone in Congress needs to ask a direct question during hearings, -”how many Americans died as a result of the attack in Benghazi?”
slickwillie2001 on December 13, 2012 at 10:37 AM
Partially because the answer to “what were you doing in Libya?” is probably “rounding up weapons to ship to Syria” in about half the cases.
cthulhu on December 13, 2012 at 4:47 PM
Hmm i wonder why this administration won’t let them talk…BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE TRUTH! they know that it wasn’t a consulate there..that it was the base for the gun running operation for Jihadists in Syria…if only one of them could speak out..it would blow this story up big time
sadsushi on December 13, 2012 at 9:32 PM