The @HouseBenghazi Select Committee missed an opportunity to pinpoint responsibility for U.S. foreign policy in Libya by failing to thoroughly analyze interviews with some witnesses who were not in senior leadership or politically motivated roles. (1/7) One such witness was National Security Council director for Libya, Benjamin Fishman. In his 1/12/16 interview, he made it clear that Obama made the military intervention decision and was setting the policy in Libya in April 2011. (2/7)

In making his Rose Garden statement without acknowledging terrorism, @BarackObama would have had to completely ignore the Daily Brief he received earlier, which clearly defined the #Benghazi attack as an "intentional assault and not the escalation of a peaceful protest." (1/4) This description of an "intentional assault" was written by the Executive Coordinator of the Presidential Daily Brief, who had a military background. (2/4)

At the time of the final attack at the #Benghazi Annex, no asset Panetta claimed to order deployed had even left the ground. It is clear now that Panetta gave deploy orders only so that he could CLAIM later that he gave them. There was never any real intent to send help. (1/5) The teleconference attended by @HillaryClinton and chaired by an Obama White House representative ensured that any "deploy to #Benghazi" orders were snuffed out due to fears of the appearance of a US invasion of Libya. (2/5)

In the midst of silence from Leon Panetta's chain of command, Philip Breedlove, Commander of USAF in Europe, took his own initiative upon learning of the attack and began preparing C-130s in Ramstein, Germany that could be used to transport the FAST team. (1/4) Breedlove insisted repeatedly in his testimony to the @HouseBenghazi committee that his C-130s were ready to deploy before he received any orders from DC. (2/4)

An American named Marc Turi was a registered arms broker and owner of Turi Defense Group, Inc. who divided his time between Arizona and the United Arab Emirates. (1/9) Turi applied to the @StateDept for a license in March 2011 to ship former Soviet Bloc weapons to Libyan rebels. Turi emailed Stevens regarding his proposal. Stevens wrote back saying that he would share Turi's information with the appropriate people back at the @StateDept. (2/9)

In the summer of 2014, @HouseBenghazi Select Committee Chairman @TGowdySC first discussed sending questions to Pres. Obama with his lawyer W. Neil Eggleston. In a Jan. 2016 meeting, Gowdy again raised with Eggleston the possibility of sending questions to the President. (1/7) As part of the proposal, @TGowdySC offered Obama's lawyer Eggleston the opportunity to review and comment on the @HouseBenghazi Select Committee's questions in advance. The Obama White House refused every offer to meet and discuss the questions. (2/7)

The @CIA #Benghazi-related records that the @HouseBenghazi Select Committee was finally permitted to review after a 3-month wait consisted of over 4,000 emails. @JohnBrennan's @CIA had never indicated they were withholding such a large volume of material from the Committee. (1/5) Reviewing more than 4,000 records would require a significant time committment for the @HouseBenghazi Select Committee. To make this more difficult, @JohnBrennan's @CIA would only allow four Committee staff members to review its records at @CIA headquarters in McLean, VA. (2/5)

The false conclusion from the White House teleconference was that the #Benghazi attack had been a singular event, resulting in Ambassador Stevens being taken hostage. The Pentagon shifted the mission from one of an attack on the Benghazi compound to one of rescuing Stevens. (1/7) Pentagon decision makers assumed they were facing another hostage rescue operation, such as the 4/12/09 Maersk Alabama Captain Richard Phillips rescue or the 1/25/12 operation that rescued Jessica Buchanan and Paul Hagen Thisted. (2/7)

Kurt Tidd emailed orders he stated came from Leon Panetta, none of which directed any forces to #Benghazi. The CIF and SOF were to go to an "intermediate staging base" and the FAST was to prepare to deploy to Tripoli pending yet another final clearance from Panetta. (1/5) Tidd testified one reason the CIF and the U.S. SOF were ordered to an intermediate staging base and not to Libya directly was due to concerns expressed by @HillaryClinton's @StateDept regarding the number of military personnel that would arrive in country. (2/5)

The FEST is “the U.S. government’s only interagency, on-call, short-notice team poised to respond to terrorist incidents worldwide." FEST capabilities include crisis management, hostage negotiating, and counter-terrorism support within 4 hours. (1/4) FEST was deployed after multiple previous terrorist attacks including the 2000 USS Cole bombing in Yemen and the 1998 US Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. (2/4)

Assets that Panetta did NOT "choose" to deploy included 2 squadrons of F-16s at Aviano Air Base, 4 remotely piloted aircraft (drones) stationed in southern Europe, special operations aircraft stationed in Souda Bay, Crete, and the Foreign Emergency Support Team (FEST). (1/5) On 9/11/12, the air squadrons in Aviano were not on any heightened alert status, despite the supposed call for a “heightened alert” from Obama. Instead, they were in training posture and in the middle of a 2-week inspection, meaning nothing was pre-loaded on any aircraft. (2/5)

An American named Marc Turi was a registered arms broker and owner of Turi Defense Group, Inc. who divided his time between Arizona and the United Arab Emirates. (1/9) Turi applied to the @StateDept for a license in March 2011 to ship former Soviet Bloc weapons to Libyan rebels. Turi emailed Stevens regarding his proposal. Stevens wrote back saying that he would share Turi's information with the appropriate people back at the @StateDept. (2/9)

With the first Sunday network TV news talk shows since the #Benghazi attacks approaching, the White House had to pick someone to appear and answer questions. Their 1st choice was @HillaryClinton. @brhodes sent her a request, but he claimed he never heard back from her. 🤣(1/7) This was obviously an embarrassing moment for @HillaryClinton, who had planned to use her war in Libya and the assassination of Qadhafi as a success story for her future campaign for president. (2/7)

When pressed by the @HouseBenghazi committee on why his overhaul of the talking points did not include the fact that there was NO 9/11/12 protest at the #Benghazi compound, backed by numerous documented witness accounts, @MichaelJMorell used an "It's not my job" excuse. (1/6) Morell's argument was that he would have overstepped his bounds as a CIA manager to change the assessment of analysts in the talking points: "Look, managers at CIA don’t do analysis. When they are perceived to be doing the analysis, the analysts go nuts, right?" (2/6)

Another document that @MichaelJMorell reviewed before he overhauled the #Benghazi talking points was an email from the CIA Tripoli Chief of Station stating his assessment "that the attacks were not/not spontaneous and not/not an escalation of protests." (1/4) The email referred to the press reports quoting the @StateDept #Benghazi compound guards who witnessed that the attack began without warning and in the absence of any protests outside the compound beforehand. (2/4)

Considering all the information that @MichaelJMorell had at the time that he overhauled the #Benghazi talking points on 9/15/12, it's abundantly clear he chose to ignore the facts and follow his marching orders from the Obama White House to describe the attacks their way. (1/5) A 9/15/12 New York Times article quoted a guard who was at the @StateDept #Benghazi compound when it came under attack. The guard confirmed that the attack began without advance warning or any peaceful protest. (2/5)

At the time the @HouseBenghazi Select Committee released its final report, a detailed inventory of all armed drone assets available on the night of the #Benghazi terrorist attacks was not produced by the Department of Defense. (1/4) The explanation that, because of time and distance, armed drones may not have arrived in #Benghazi in time is false and is no excuse for the fact that the Obama Administration didn't even try to help. (2/4)

Will Kotel was Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge at the Global Command Control System, Central Command in Tampa Florida, tasked with marking all air and sea military assets in Mediterranean region on 9/11/12. (1/6) Will Kotel confirmed there was substantial intelligence from highly vetted sources of threats in #Benghazi in advance of 9/11/12 that were significant enough to require both the removal of key personnel and increased security. Neither happened. (2/6)

Multiple members of the military who were on duty during the #Benghazi attacks on 9/11/12 attempted to come forward to the @HouseBenghazi Select Committee with evidence of military assets in the Mediterranean region that were available but never deployed. (1/5) Nick Noe, former 603d Air and Space Operations Center personnel member, working in combat operations based at Ramstein, Germany AFB was tracking assets through the Mediterranean using the CSS system on 9/11/12. His job was to know where military assets were at all times. (2/5)

Rone, Jack and Tig left their vehicle and moved towards the intersection and the gravel road that led to the @StateDept compound 400 yards ahead. There they got their first glimpse of the attackers that had stormed the compound and were now also shooting in their direction. (1/4) They took cover around a 17 Feb militia "Technical" (pickup truck mounted with a machine gun) which suddenly opened fire towards the compound. Rone, Jack and Tig joined in the firefight targeting jihadists at the gate. (2/4)

Statement from @TGowdySC following the release of the @HouseBenghazi Select Committee final report: “Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were heroes who gave their lives in service to our country. (1/5) Their bravery and the courageous actions of so many others on the ground that night should be honored. (2/5)