Thread by @BenghaziNotes

After reviewing the 4,000 #Benghazi emails from the CIA, the @HouseBenghazi Select Committee issued a new document request to the CIA on 4/28/15 for SameTime messages, emails, operational cables and intelligence reports to better understand CIA activities in #Benghazi. As with the 1st request for the "read-and-return" records, this request for documents was met with strong resistance from @JohnBrennan's CIA. It took another 2.5 months for the CIA to provide documents, but it was an incomplete production with many documents held back. One of the documents the CIA held back was a critical email it had shared with the House Intelligence Committee previously, so the only logical reason it would have been withheld from the House Benghazi Select Committee was that the CIA played politics with dead Americans. (1/3)

Because @JohnBrennan's CIA was withholding documents that were known to exist, the @HouseBenghazi Select Committee issued a subpoena to the CIA on 8/7/15. The 8/7/15 subpoena was for records including the unclassified #Benghazi CIA talking points, as well as SameTime messages, a more efficient communications platform than email used by CIA personnel during and in the immediate aftermath of the #Benghazi attacks. On 8/28/15, the CIA responded to the subpoena with additional documents, but still refused to send the SameTime messages because "doing so would have serious negative consequences on CIA's work." (2/3)

It is an extremely arrogant suggestion by @JohnBrennan's CIA that Congress is not entitled to staff communications, considering that, as set forth by the Constitution, Congress provides funding for and has oversight authority over the CIA. It was only after a 2nd subpoena on 1/20/16 and a threat to hold Brennan in contempt of Congress that his CIA finally relented and produced the SameTime messages and other records to the @HouseBenghazi Select Committee a staggering 11 months after their first request. (3/3)