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Select Committee asks why were we in Benghazi? Docs confirm MANPADS and gunrunning into Syria
Last month during the Benghazi Select Committee’s second hearing Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asked Gregory Starr, the Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security, “What was so important about Benghazi that we didn’t follow our own standards? We did not follow the wavier process. We created a term [special mission compound or special mission facility] that is not used in any of our [285] facilities … What was so important that we do all that to be in Benghazi?”
“Why were we there in the first place?”
“We” were in Benghazi because of MANPADs— Man Portable Air Defense Systems also known as shoulder-fired-anti-aircraft missiles—and because weapons “collected” in Libya were being moved into Syria—that’s arms trafficking. That’s why.
The evidence is all there. You just have to look. And Rep. Trey Gowdy’s (R-SC) Benghazi Select Committee has to act.
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