Boom-Top GOP Benghazi Lawyer: ‘Nothing’ Could Have Prevented American Deaths
I am completely unsurprised. Reasonable people already knew this. But watch the fallout as it unfolds. HRC’s campaign just got a speed bump removed from the road the the WH. Bold is my addition.
Emails next up for exoneration?
The House Benghazi Committee’s chief counsel, before leaving the Republican-led committee earlier this year, said he did not believe the Pentagon could have done more to save American lives during the night of the attack, according to copies of his comments included in a Sunday letter from Democrats to Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.).
Three-star former Lt. General Dana Chipman told former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in a transcribed interview by the panel in January that “nothing could have affected what occurred in Benghazi” to prevent the deaths of four Americans in the immediate response to the attacks, the letter released by Democrats states.
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“I think you ordered exactly the right forces to move out and to head toward a position where they could reinforce what was occurring in Benghazi or in Tripoli or elsewhere in the region,” Chipman said, according to the letter. “And, sir, I don’t disagree with the actions you took, the recommendations you made, and the decisions you directed.”
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