{"id":35013,"date":"2013-04-09T10:09:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T14:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35013"},"modified":"2013-04-09T10:09:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T14:09:19","slug":"vets-push-benghazi-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35013","title":{"rendered":"Vets push Benghazi issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/apr\/8\/military-retirees-press-benghazi-probe\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that two groups of special operations veterans are calling for more scrutiny in regards to the attacks on the Benghazi consulate on September 11th, 2012;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In separate letters to House members, the groups Special Operations Speaks and Operational Security (OpSec), urged support for the resolution introduced by Rep. Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Republican, calling for a special congressional committee of inquiry to look into the deadly attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe traditional committee [oversight] process has failed stalled out,\u201d OpSec founder Scott W. Taylor, a former Navy SEAL, told The Washington Times.<\/p>\n<p>In a second letter to every member of the House signed by 700 retired military personnel, Special Operations Speaks demanded a \u201cfull accounting\u201d of the Benghazi attack, listing lingering questions about the incident and the Obama administration\u2019s responses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What with all of the distractions of North Korea, gun control legislation, immigration reform, the civil war in Syria, Iran&#8217;s nuclear intentions, Benghazi seems to have fallen off our national radar screen. At least some veterans haven&#8217;t forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Our buddy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susankatzkeating.com\/2013\/03\/sources-say-fifth-person-dead-from.html\">Susan Katz Keating<\/a> says that a fifth person died in that assault on our consulate. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/mother-of-slain-benghazi-officer-to-sean-hannity-they-want-me-to-shut-up\/\">Sean Hannity spoke to Pat Smith<\/a>, the mother of Sean Smith who died in that assault, and she told him that the Obama Administration asked her to shut up about her son asking for more security and asking questions about the circumstances of his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that two groups of special operations veterans are calling for more scrutiny &hellip; <a title=\"Vets push Benghazi issue\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35013\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vets push Benghazi issue<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}