House Benghazi probe will have a report by this summer

[nat4900]

I am far, far from a Clinton fan and sincerely wish that she would fade into oblivion. Never trusted the Clintons and she would do little to further the progressives' agenda. Nonetheless, the House Benghazi committee is an overt attempt to undermine her campaign and even the staunchest among right wingers should objectively admit that the entire probe has turned into a farce.

The Benghazi inquiry has gone on longer than the 9/11 Commission took to investigate the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001, spending more than $6 million in the process.

 

[TheOldSchool]

About fucking time. But I'll be stunned if it's released before November.

 

[nat4900]

About fucking time. But I'll be stunned if it's released before November.

My thought also.....But my guess is the release is timed to discourage early and by mail voters and give fuel to the GOP nominee during debates, etc.

 

[nat4900]

As an update, Gowdy (the committee chair) declined to elaborate specifically on what progress has been made AND the report by this summer is only a projected "estimate"

 

[waltky]

Benghazi Victim's Family to Get $400K...

Benghazi Victim's Family to Receive $400K after CIA Expands Benefits
Apr 21, 2016 - The family of a CIA contractor killed in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya will receive $400,000 after the agency expanded survivor benefits for employees and contractors killed in the line of duty overseas in acts of terrorism.

Glen Doherty, a former Navy SEAL who was working for the CIA's Global Response staff in Libya at the time of Benghazi, held a standard federal insurance policy that pays a survivor benefit only to spouses and dependents. Doherty, 42, was divorced and had no children, rendering his family ineligible for compensation under the 1941 Defense Base Act, which still requires all overseas contractors including CIA employees to carry disability and life insurance. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, the CIA informed lawyers for Doherty's mother, Barbara, Wednesday that the agency's policy change had been finalized.

Barbara Doherty told WFXT that she was relieved that the expanded benefit had approved. She also called on Congress to repeal the Defense Base Act. "It gives me solace that the CIA has done the right thing,” Doherty said. “Now it’s up to Congress to see if they can step up to the plate." Legislation introduced last year by Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass. and Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., would expand the death benefit to include families of all defense employees killed in terror attacks since Sept. 11, 2001, even if they don't have spouses or dependents. "It is entirely disrespectful to make [the families] fight through a long bureaucratic process to get the benefits that that heroism has earned," Lynch told WFXT.

Barbara Doherty, mother of slain former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty, is escorted from the Church of St. Eulalia in Winchester, Mass., after his funeral.​

The CIA policy change is retroactive to April 18, 1983, the date a suicide attacker crashed a truck into the front of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans, some of whom were CIA officers. "It wasn’t about the money, at all," Doherty told WFXT. “It was a fight for [all families], because they didn’t have a voice and we did …that’s what kept us going on, knowing that they would eventually be recognize." "I am glad the [CIA] made this decision so the Doherty family and others who have lost loved ones in service to and sacrifice for our country will finally receive the recognition and honor they deserve," Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., the chair of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said in a statement.

Doherty's family filed a $1 million damages claim against the CIA and the State Department in September 2014. The Union-Tribune reported that the family will drop all claims against the federal government in the wake of the expanded death benefit.

Benghazi Victim's Family to Receive $400K after CIA Expands Benefits | Military.com

 

[easyt65]

Since it was just revealed the State Dept HID Benghaxi documents for a year AFTER they received the subpoena ordering it to turn them over the committee should have more time...and those in the State Dept should not only be fired but should face criminal charges.

 

[Claudette]

About fucking time. But I'll be stunned if it's released before November.

I'd be stunned if they held State accountable for anything. Not going to happen. No Govt. entity is going to find another Govt. entity guilty of anything. Gotta cover every Fed ass when needed.

Anyone with a brain cell knows incompetence when they see it and no one with that brain cell needs an investigation to back that up.

State fucked up big time and four good men paid with their lives for that fuck up.

Its a pity the families of those men can't sue the shit out of State for gross negligence and incompetence.

To bad you can't be fired for incompetence. If that were the case Hitlery and douchebag in the WH would have been fired long ago.