For 17 months, Speaker Boehner has refused to authorize the establishment of a House Select Investigative Committee on The Battle of Benghazi.  We executed the second letter on the Battle of Benghazi which was hand delivered to Speaker Boehner; it is in the attachment and was signed by 94 Patriotic Americans requesting that Speaker Boehner finally authorize the establishment of a House Select Investigative Committee on The Battle of Benghazi.  That House Select Committee is absolutely necessary; because only such a committee can issue the subpoenas required, to obtain information that has been intentionally classified by Obama, in order to prevent the 5 separate House Committees investigating Benghazi from gaining access to that classified information for the past 17 months.  That failure to gain access to information intentionally classified by Obama is preventing the House from getting to the bottom of why Obama refused to issue “Cross Border Authority” on 9/11/12, thus preventing the US Armed Forces from dispatching a rescue mission that was ready and waiting on the tarmac 458 miles away in Italy, within 90 minutes of flight time to 2 hours away from Benghazi.

Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen was appointed by Hillary Clinton to be Vice Chairman of an Accountability Review Board (ARB) to supposedly determine the facts on the Battle of Benghazi, actually the report that Mullen authored “intentionally covered up” the fact that Obama refused to authorize “Cross Border Authority”.  In addition Mullen never interviewed the central figure responsible for the Security failure of the US Mission in Benghazi, Hillary Clinton.  Clinton was repeatedly warned by personal cables and personal phone calls made directly to her at least 8 times over nearly a 6 month period by Ambassador Stevens, the CIA, the DIA, Libyan State Security, and the Regional Security Officer in the US Embassy in Tripoli, that security was dangerously inadequate at the US Mission in Benghazi, that Ambassador Stevens was on an Al Q’ieda hit list, that 10 al Q’ieda training camps were operating openly in close proximity to the US Mission, and the lives of  members in the US Mission were in danger; yet Clinton repeatedly turned down requests for additional security and Mullen never revealed those facts, or why on August 5, 2012, just before the murder of Ambassador Stevens, Clinton refused to re-authorize a contract to fund Ambassador Stevens personal Security Detail.  The Senate bi-partisan Intelligence Committee reported that there were “Systemic failures at the State Department during Hillary Clinton’s tenure which resulted in a GROSSLY inadequate security posture in Benghazi.”

Mullen also failed to reveal that the lives of two US Navy SEALs, SOSC Tyrone Woods, USN (Ret) age 41, and SO1 Gen Dougherty, USN age 42, killed 7 hours and 35 minutes after 125-150 Al Q’ieda terrorists launched a well-coordinated and rehearsed commando style attack on the US Mission in Benghazi with truck mounted artillery, rocket propelled grenades, professionally trained mortar teams, NATO assault rifles, hand grenades, AK-47s, and machine guns lives could have been saved by US Air Force F-16s Jet Fighters sitting at the ready on the tarmac 450 miles away in Aviona, Italy, within 90 minutes of flight time away from Benghazi.  Mullen did not include in his ARB that the occupant of the Oval Office in the White House, who was watching live video feed from an aerial drone of the Al Q’ieda terrorist attack on the US Mission in Benghazi unfold for 8 hours, willfully refused to authorize a military rescue mission and the nature of “Cross Border Authority” (the US military can’t move US military forces across any international border, not even into Canada or Mexico, without issuing “Cross Border Authority”).

Forty-nine Republican Congressmen, including the top 4 Republican leaders in the House, have refused to support or to co-author Cong Frank R. Wolf’s (R-VA-10) House Resolution 36, which has been co-authored by 186 Republican Congressmen; they have been calling for Speaker Boehner to authorize a House Select Investigative Committee on the Battle of Benghazi to no avail.  Speaker Boehner and the 49 Republican Congressmen will have to answer to the voter in their primaries and in the general election in November for their support of Obama on this issue.

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The Honorable John Boehner Speaker,

U.S. House of Representatives

The Capitol, H-232 Washington, D.C., 20515

Dear Speaker Boehner,

Through the investigative journalism of Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge, a report of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and the investigation and litigation efforts of Judicial Watch, we now know that there is compelling evidence that former Acting Central Intelligence Director Michael Morell has made false and misleading statements to Congress. This issue demands your immediate personal attention.

We were pleased to see that our letter of January 6, 2014 may have persuaded you and your various committee chairs investigating the Benghazi attacks to make some limited efforts to promote information gathered through the uncoordinated work of the House.

But the establishment of the Internet website, “The House Republican Investigation of Benghazi” only highlights the inadequacies of House efforts to date. Most Americans, in addition to a large majority of your party’s caucus, demand a full and complete investigation of this terror attack. Mr. Morell’s statements and conduct appear to have materially contributed to confusing and misleading the Congress and the American people. Susan Rice’s latest rounds of lies about Benghazi on the February 23, 2014 edition of Meet the Press illustrate the contempt that this Administration has for your committees’ investigation to date.

Americans want facts and justice – not controlled leaks of heavily redacted interview transcripts. The latest polling shows, “Sixty-six percent of voters want Congress to keep investigating the White House’s handling of Benghazi. That includes 50 percent of Democrats, 68 percent of Independents and 83 percent of Republicans.”  

Once again, we urge you to now create a House Select Investigative Committee on Benghazi – fully resourced with staff and subpoena powers – to conduct a thorough, coordinated investigation.

Mr. Morell must be compelled to appear before Congress and explain his statements and conduct. Even if he invokes his right not to testify under the Fifth Amendment, then the Congress must pursue, through a Select Committee, the many unanswered questions and apparent Obama administration cover-up of the terror attacks that cost the lives of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith, and Security Officers Glen Doherty and Ty Woods.

In addition to these new concerns about potentially false and misleading testimony and information being provided to Congress, there are a host of other Benghazi-related questions that remain unanswered. Most troubling perhaps are the still unresolved questions about whether any Obama Administration officials prevented available military assets, especially in the African Command (AFRICOM), from being used to protect and secure American personnel and facilities under attack in Benghazi. Indeed, Judicial Watch recently obtained new documents, first uncovered by a retired military officer, that dramatically highlight significant U.S. Navy assets that could have been deployed to assist and protect U.S. lives on September 11, 2012.

Gravely disturbing evidence of possible criminality and abuse of both public office and the public trust is now before you. Mr. Speaker, you must act now.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned:

 Charles Woods, Father of Ty Woods Pat Smith, Mother of Sean Smith Michael Ingmire, Musician/Writer, Uncle to Sean Smith and Admiral Jerome L. Johnson, USN (Ret), former Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral James A. Lyons, Jr., USN (Ret), President/CEO LION Associates, LLC General Frederick J. Kroesen, USA (Ret.) Lt. Gen. Thomas G. McInerney, USAF (Ret), Former Assistant Vice Chief of Staff USAF, Citizens Commission on Benghazi Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, USA (Ret) Vice Admiral Albert J. Baciocco, USN (Ret) Lt. Gen. E. G. "Buck" Shuler, Jr., USAF (Ret) Lt. Gen. Ronald L. Watts, USA (Ret) Lt. Col. Allen B. West (US Army, Ret) former Congressman, FL Ambassador Henry F. Cooper, Former Director, Strategic Defense Initiative Col. Richard "Dick" Brauer, USAF (Ret), Member Special Operations Speaks & Citizens Commission on Benghazi Tom Fitton, President, Judicial Watch Phyllis Schlafly, Founder and President, Eagle Forum Frank Gaffney, Founder and President, Center for Security Policy Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, USA (Ret), Chairman, Stand Up America Joel Arends, Chairman, Veterans for a Strong America CAPT Joseph R. John, USNA '62, USN (Ret), Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC Kenneth R. Timmerman, Author, Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Benghazi (forthcoming) Col. James C. Harding, USAF (Ret), National Spokesman for Veteran Defenders of America Scott Raab, OEF/OIF Combat Veteran, Move America Forward Col. Wayne V. Morris, USMC (Ret), Member, Citizens Commission on Benghazi Kevin Shipp, Citizens Commission on Benghazi Larry Bailey CAPT (SEAL), USN (Ret.), CCB & SOS, Allen Roth, President, Secure America Now Dr. James C. Dobson, President and Founder, Family Talk Clare M. Lopez, Member, Citizens' Commission on Benghazi Mathew D. Staver, Founder and Chairman, Liberty Counsel Tim Wildmon, President, American Family Association Elaine Donnelly, President, Center For Military Readiness Ginni Thomas, President, Liberty Consulting Anita MonCrief, True the Vote, Black Voter Alliance Judson Phillips, Founder, Tea Party Nation David Horowitz, President, Freedom Center Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, Founder and Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition C. Preston Noell III, President, Tradition, Family, Inc. Andrea Lafferty, President, Traditional Values Coalition Roger Aronoff, Editor, Accuracy in Media Peter J. Thomas, Chairman, The Conservative Caucus Inc. Bryan Fischer, Director of Issue Analysis, American Family Association Sarah Folger White, Former Presidential Commissioner Maj. Gen. Henry D. Robertson, USA (Ret) Maj. Gen. Richard M. Cooke, USMC (Ret) Maj. Gen. Carroll D. Childers P.E., USA (Ret) Maj. Gen. Bentley B. Rayburn, USAF (Ret) Maj. Gen. Thomas F. Cole, USA (Ret) Brig. Gen. William Weise, USMC (Ret) Rear Adm. John A. Moriarty, USN (Ret) Rear Adm. William J. McDaniel, USN (Ret) Rear Adm. Grady L. Jackson, USN (Ret) Rear Adm. Hugh Scott, MC, USN (Ret) Brig. Gen. Francis Hughes, USA (Ret) Brig. Gen. William A. Bloomer, USMC (Ret),Brig. Gen. Charles Jones, USAF (Ret), Citizens Commission on Benghazi Brig. Gen. John Zierdt, Jr. USA (Ret) Brig. Gen. Jimmy L. Cash, USAF (Ret) Brig. Gen. Robert V. Paschon, USAF (Ret) Brig. Gen. Darryl Powell, MD, USA (Ret) CAPT Peter A. Hewett, JAGC, USN (Ret) CAPT Greg Streeter, USN (Ret), Past Commander General, Naval Order of the United States Col. Rob Maness, USAF (Ret), US Senate Candidate 2014, R-LA Dan Bongino, US Secret Service (Ret), US House Candidate 2014, R (MD-6) CDR Howie Lind, USN (Ret), U.S. House Candidate 2014, R (VA-10) Larry A. Wilske, Master Chief (SEAL) USN (Ret), U.S. House Candidate 2014 (CA-53)Col. David L. Percy, USMC (Ret) Lt. Col. Ken Benway, USA (Ret) John W. Slagle, USN (Ret), Special Agent U.S. Border Patrol Anti-Smuggling Unit Dr. James Pollock, Maj. USAF (Ret), OIF VETx2, SOCOM, Wounded Warrior, Congressional Advocate Susan Creed Percy, Advocate for Military Families Kelly Monroe Kullberg, Christians for a Sustainable Economy; Founder, The Veritas Forum; Co-author and editor, Finding God at Harvard Jack Lillywhite, Curator, The Lillywhite Family Museum Becky Gerritson, President, Wetumpka TEA Party Jennifer Schubert-Akin, Chairman and CEO, The Steamboat Institute David Wallace, Founder, Restore America's Mission Gene Andrews, American Citizen Anthony Papandrea, USNA '61 Dick and Patricia Schermerhorn, Appleton, WITerrance M. McCann, Supervisory Patrol Agent, U.S. Border Patrol (Ret), MGSGT USMC/USMCR Candido Gutierrez, EN2 (SS) USS Raton AGSS 270, Submarine Force Pacific Fleet, Vietnam Vet & Asst. Patrol Agent in Charge, Tucson Border Patrol Station (Ret)Shawn G. McBride, Louisiana Patriot, Vicki Dooling, Candidate For Assembly District 41, Las Vegas, NV Curtis Bowers, former Idaho State Representative Lauren Bowers, Assistant Producer of documentary, "AGENDA: Grinding America Down" Chet Nagle, Author and former CIA agent Everett Woolum, CMSGT, USAF (Ret) Robert M. Trent, Senior Special Agent, USINS, former Marine and Vietnam combat veteran Wayne Simmons, U.S. Intelligence Officer Lt. Col. Dennis B. Haney, USAF (Ret) Deb Marks, South Carolina Patriot Dave Hollenbeck, CHP, Private Investigator (Ret) Diane Sendlenski, Veteran, USAF