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-- and I say sir thank you for having.
Congressman Frank Wolf on the house side has written a letter to speaker Boehner saying that a select committee should be formed to investigate what happened Ben -- -- -- -- -- John McCain and myself and senator -- out Leonard is -- resolution asking the majority leader Harry Reid.
Mitch McConnell the minority leader to do a select committee want -- -- one.
The State Department has under the foreign operations committee foreign relations committee's oversight.
Former defense is under armed service and the CIA's under the Intel committee if he had three different committees interviewing people separately.
We won't know what one group is saying vs the other so we should form a committee.
The three committees -- have oversight over department Defense Department state the CIA import together.
To -- -- -- good work product asked questions who would know what the answers are and have a professional approach to this having good combination.
I think the congress to be making a huge mistake to stove -- it slipped three committees golf by themselves -- not coordinate.
Senator Harry Reid the majority leader.
His view on -- -- committee it's what.
I don't know we've got to ask -- that I just don't believe you can get to the truth and a professional way.
When you talk with -- -- day.
Also want to -- Department of Defense why were these people left hanging for eight hours or could anybody help them.
The CIA one did you not get ready for an attack that people are telling you about State Department god knows how.
How many times did you tell the people and in Gaza a war one committee -- a professional staff.
Asking questions of all three the agencies not do it separately.
Why do you think -- at General Petraeus who was -- -- director at the end of October went to Libya was doing his own investigation.
I don't know but we need to ask him you know what happened and he's a friend of mine and I hate what happened to him on a personal level to his family and I wish them the best.
But you can't get to the bottom of in Gaza without him testify.
For months.
The State Department people on the ground we're telling.
The State Department and washed and al-Qaeda is all over the place we can't in this place.
The CIA chief that nine -- the attack told the people in Washington were under attack this is saying al-Qaeda coordinated attack.
I want to hear from General Petraeus about what he knew before during and after the attack and there is no substitute for his testimony Monday.
Well what is your theory as to lie on the fifteenth to September -- it to -- for a -- eleventh.
That even though his station chief and told them there was terrorism and everybody pretty much -- when there was terrorism right away.
That he came and told that the story about the video and the spontaneous protest.
What in the world -- -- possessed him to tell congress that.
I don't know and and -- and asking I think every American needs to understand why.
General Petraeus told committee members behind closed doors this was their moms.
Spawned by video a riot vs a coordinated al-Qaeda attack.
We need to know -- Susan Rice told the whole world definitively there's no evidence.
The terrorist attack.
When -- you filibuster.
Any effort to -- Ambassador rice the secretary of state should the president nominate her.
I'm not gonna promote -- one.
Who's involved in the main guys and disaster.
Seventy S and that.
That's -- -- the filibuster.
Here's I don't want to get ahead of myself I do want to tell people back home and -- throughout the country.
That when she said on the fifteenth of September makes no sense to me.
Either she was very an informed which means she should be promoted where she was misleading.
I can't see any circumstance given when -- -- That I would promote her.
Somebody has to be accountable -- four dead Americans the first -- killed in line of duty.
And 33 years -- -- talking about the spokesman.
Being promoted to the secretary of state who told the whole world a story that makes no sense I don't see anywhere in the world -- get -- -- -- Paul -- -- not come.
-- point six at Denver university made a statement to suggest that that the Ben Ghazi -- CIA -- is being used to hold prisoners.
Do you do you think that was true.
And if so is in violation of an executive order you shake your head yes.
I'd be in violation an executive order I don't know if it's true the CA denied it but I want to know why she said it.
She also said at that same speech that General Petraeus was informed by the station chief in -- Ghazi.
That were under attack this is a terrorist attack and that the whole narrative that there was some.
-- -- -- And a riot.
Didn't make any sense given what the people on the ground we're -- -- that night it's when -- when CIA director.
Petraeus went to -- up on September 15 and and was behind closed doors with that have been under oath.
Is that -- and I don't know I wasn't part of the Intel committee I think it was before the fifteenth and have talked to people who were in that briefing.
And they were very disturbed and concerned about what General Petraeus saying -- didn't make a whole lot of sense.
This -- -- -- on a consulate and a mile away and panics it was a coordinated military attack attack with heavy weapons including mortars.
And the people on the ground have been telling us months before the attack.
And al-Qaeda is taking over being Ghazi -- on August the fifteenth and cable was sent from investor statements to the State Department saying.
We cannot defend this place if there's a coordinated al-Qaeda attack and we -- -- a -- ten militia groups.
-- al-Qaeda affiliates into the -- and we're actually identified as having been involved in the attack kid people from Tunisia and yet people from Egypt.
This is a lot of things it's not a riots -- that video that was a long time in the making it was coordinated to different sites and mile apart and -- don't -- the bottom about it.
The affairs.
I hate that for the people involved you know they are no perfect people out there but we need to get to the bottom of what happened.
How did this consulate become a death trap I could they not be held for eight hours and why such crazy silly stupid stories why.
Why why why I have to tell me -- is look -- it's crazy stupid stories David that there is crazy stupid people believe them.
Course these were lives do you -- to liberalized until mislead the American people mislead congress -- Take your pick which one is well I don't know but I'm not gonna promote somebody who's telling a crazy stupid as it wasn't just -- -- Now the president and c'mon tell us what happened that I mean their battle that president even went -- on the view he went on David Letterman went -- and then there are -- -- -- -- Days after the present -- all over the country Letterman -- the -- saying.
We think this was a result.
Phnom.
Video like in Cairo the one person nobody talks about anymore is Barack Obama.
And that's the mistake he's the president United States and here's the question that's been unanswered I wrote a letter to the president did she know that in April in June.
But this year the consulate had been attacked twice in June attacked with a -- -- that little hole in the wall that forty people could penetrate.
Mr.
President where you informed of that and I cannot believe that the winehouse would not tell the president because mention this.
He goes out in the public and somebody asking what do you think capping the Libyan consulate surely they've -- he was told about that and if he was and I'm sure he was.
Hold him responsible pros in the United States.
Is ultimately in charge of our national security.
He should have closed the consulate.
Are given them reinforcement he chose the worst possible path leaving it open and unsecured.
Blame Barack Obama above all else for letting this happen.
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