Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Identify the Four Benghazi Employees

Open email to Rep, Issa (CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform:

Dear Chairman Issa,
    The Washington Times says, Secretary of State John F Kerry has reinstated four employees implicated in security lapses from last year's terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. You were mentioned as apparently having an objection and promising to expand your investigation to include Mr. Kerry's decision.
    As you have also said, your investigation has so far got nowhere and can be likened to musical chairs. May I suggest one reason is that you have failed to recall key witnesses, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and ask direct questions of where they were at the time the Benghazi attack took place, who else was there, where the President was, etc. Information from one witness should also be checked against information from second and third witnesses, in an attempt to determine where lying has taken place and can be subsequently prosecuted as perjury. In other words. I don't believe you have been playing "hardball".
    However, my present suggestion is that with the latest John Kerry development, we should not leave the identity of the four suspended employees as unspecified. The fact that the State Department has found their actions sufficiently objectionable to remove them from duty for a time indicates that they are likely not without responsibility. We should know exactly who they are. Their names, their job responsibilities, their length of service, and what they were doing at the time of the Benghazi attack.
    Identifying these people could possibly make them heroes in the eyes of their superiors and fellow workers in government, but the general public will likely look at it in a different way. The fact is that the American public has generally an antagonistic position toward government, finding it too big, and too intrusive to private rights and the private economy. If that public has any chance of reducing the size and influence of government, we need detail, and we can start with the names of the four excused employees. The next question is whether you yourself are part of trying to make a government accountable to the people or perpetuating its autocracy.

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