Marxist Media Matters Targets U.S. Navy SEAL For Birther Ties & Benghazi Questions

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Marxist Media Matters Targets U.S. Navy SEAL For Birther Ties & Benghazi Questions

Birther Report
4/8/2013

Excerpt:

Fox Hypes Letter With Birther Ties To Revive Benghazi Conspiracy Theories
Propagated By Andrew Lawrence @ Media Matters

Fox News hyped a letter from a group with birther ties to renew conspiracy theories about the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, last September.

On April 8, a group of Special Operations veterans released a letter calling for an investigation on the Benghazi attack and posed various questions stemming from long-debunked conspiracy theories, many of which have been pushed by Fox News figures. That same day, several Fox News programs including Fox & Friends, America's Newsroom, Happening Now, and America Live devoted entire segments to the letter. ....

The group that penned the letter, Special Operations Speaks, was founded by Larry Bailey, a former Navy SEAL who has admitted to being a birther and has touted the conspiracy theory that President Obama's real father was actually the late communist writer Frank Marshall Davis:

CONTINUED HERE: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/04...s-to-revive-be

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http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogs...navy-seal.html

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Special ops veterans’ group calls for select probe of Benghazi attack

Fox News
Catherine Herridge
4/8/2013

Excerpt:

More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News.

The letter from the group, “Special Operations Speaks,” supports the appointment of a special committee tasked with the single mission of investigating the attack that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, and shut down the CIA operation in an annex of the Benghazi consulate, in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack.

“Congress must show some leadership and provide answers to the public as to what actually occurred in Benghazi. Americans have a right to demand a full accounting on this issue," the letter stated.

Special Operations Speaks is a political action committee whose primary mission is to “emphasize the pressing need for the nation and its representatives to understand the value of our Constitution and actively support a return to its application in all phases of government,” according to the group’s website.

The group received widespread publicity for its stance against what it described as damaging information leaks related to the raid that killed Usama bin Laden in May 2011.

The letter includes more than 16 points of possible investigation for the proposed committee.

They range from the warnings given to the State Department that security was unraveling on the ground, as Al Qaeda and Islamist militias gained a foothold leading up to the attack; the continued silence of State Department and CIA employees evacuated from Benghazi since the attack; as well as the real-time decision making of President Obama, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Department of Defense on the night of the attack, which took place on the 11th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001.

"America has always held to the notion that no American will be left behind and that every effort will be made to respond when U.S. personnel are threatened. Given our backgrounds, we are concerned that this sends a very negative message to future military and diplomatic personnel,” the letter said.

Running more than 20 pages listing all its signatories, the letter supports House Resolution 36, which was introduced by Rep. Frank Wolf, a Republican from Virginia.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...nghazi-attack/

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Navy SEAL: 'There's guilt in this administration'

700 special forces veterans demand Congress uncover Benghazi truth

WND
4/17/2013

Excerpt:

More than 700 special operations veterans are demanding that the House of Representatives convene a special committee to uncover the answers to lingering questions about the Benghazi terrorist attacks almost seven months after the violence killed a U.S. ambassador and three others, including two Navy SEALs.

The veterans group Special Operations Speaks sent a letter to House leaders after previous inquiries revealed virtually no new information.

“I don’t anything significant has been learned except that what is to be learned is of sufficient importance that the administration is pulling out all the stops to hide it,” said retired U.S. Navy captain and SEAL Larry Bailey, who is also the co-founder of Special Operations Speaks.

As a result, Special Operations Speaks is now demanding that House leaders convene a special select committee to answer critical questions once and for all. The letter includes 16 key questions that the veterans believe need better answers, ranging from what resources were available in the region to why they weren’t used to the minute-by-minute actions taken by top officials here in Washington.

Bailey told WND the administration’s mishandling of the crisis suggests plenty of culpability and possibly even some criminal guilt on the part of some officials.

“The greatest indicator of culpability is the fact that the commander in chief, after having seen his troops under fire from a drone-mounted camera, after 30 minutes of being in the White House Situation Room, he excused himself and was never heard from since. He went to bed that night and got up the next morning and flew to Las Vegas for a fundraiser and never once – and this is according to (former Defense Secretary Leon) Panetta and Hillary Clinton – never once called back to check and see how things were going,” said Bailey.

“The guilt issue comes when the culpability is covered up, and that’s where we’re coming from. We know the culpability is there, but we have not begun to get our claws into the guilt issue, but we will,” he said.

Bailey said the deaths of two SEALs put this issue front and center for his group.

“It was so easy to get people to sign the petition (for a special committee). We got 700 names right away, all the way from four-star generals down to guys who were privates in the Army and didn’t do a career in the Army, but they were special operations and they’re part of our brotherhood,” Bailey said. “It just breaks your heart to hear about those two guys living for seven hours and fighting for seven hours and knowing they could have been rescued at any time during that time. Knowing that there were aircraft somewhere in the area, and knowing that there were ships not too far away and knowing that there were rescue teams within a reasonable distance, they could have been rescued.

“They went to the sound of the guns. They were saving people, but they couldn’t be saved themselves because of the ineptitude or the political chicanery of an administration that doesn’t even care about the military,” he said.

Bailey has not received a response from House leaders at this point, and he suspects there could be some resistance. In fact, he sees House Speaker John Boehner as part of the problem.

“Boehner is part of the cover-up. John Boehner, you know, he goes with the flow. He goes along to get along sometimes. He’s actually said that he thinks the investigations that have already been conducted are enough. But they’re not enough. The investigation that is enough is going to result in somebody going to jail or kicked out of office,” Bailey said.
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http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/navy-seal...dministration/

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Free Republic is running a thread titled, 'Seven Hundred Retired Military Special Ops Tell Congress to Form Select Committee on Benghazi', which was started 4/7/2013 by 'markomalley'

The thread references a 4/7/2013 Breitbart / Big-Peace article written by Kerry Picket - http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2...ee-On-Benghazi

View the complete Free Republic thread at:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3005202/posts