From: Beforeitsnews
by Tim Brown
Benghazi whistleblower Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the
deputy coordinator for operations in the State Department’s
counterterrorism bureau, is expected to level the allegation that former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to
cut his department out of the chain of reporting and decision-making.
His testimony is set to begin on Wednesday before Chairman Darrell
Issa’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
But there’s another official Fox News is reporting on.
Fox News has also learned that another official from the
counterterrorism bureau — independently of Thompson — voiced the same
complaint about Clinton and Under Secretary for Management Patrick
Kennedy to trusted national security colleagues back in October.
Thompson considers himself a whistle-blower whose account was
suppressed by the official investigative panel that Clinton convened to
review the episode, the Accountability Review Board (ARB). Thompson’s
lawyer, Joseph diGenova, a former U.S. attorney, has further alleged
that his client has been subjected to threats and intimidation by
as-yet-unnamed superiors at State, in advance of his cooperation with
Congress.
…
“You should have seen what (Clinton) tried to do to us that night,” the second official in State’s counterterrorism bureau told colleagues back in October. Those comments would appear to be corroborated by Thompson’s forthcoming testimony.
“You should have seen what (Clinton) tried to do to us that night,” the second official in State’s counterterrorism bureau told colleagues back in October. Those comments would appear to be corroborated by Thompson’s forthcoming testimony.
The State Department said these allegations are “100 percent false.”
Daniel Benjamin, who ran the department’s Counterterrorism Bureau at
the time, also put out a statement Monday morning. He said, “I ran the
bureau then, and I can say now with certainty, as the former Coordinator
for Counterterrorism, that this charge is simply untrue. Though I was
out of the country on official travel at the time of the attack, I was
in frequent contact with the Department. At no time did I feel that the
Bureau was in any way being left out of deliberations that it should
have been part of.”
He said that his bureau was a “central participant in the interagency
discussion about the longer-term response to Benghazi.” He said “at no
time was the Bureau sidelined or otherwise kept from carrying out its
tasks.”
Well, let’s see here. The State Department, Hillary Clinton in
particular, went along with YouTube video being the reason for the
Benghazi attacks, even though they would later claim they never did. In
fact, she still wouldn’t rule that out when she was before the Senate
earlier this year. This really brings into question anything anyone in
that Department says that is in favor of the current administration’s
“official story.”
Tim Brown is the Editor of Freedom Outpost and a regular contributor to The D.C. Clothesline.
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