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Benghazi Investigator Won’t Deny Stevens Kidnap Plot – Questions Mount Regarding Murder of U.S. Ambassador

Thursday, September 26, 2013 10:14
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JERUSALEM – Is the Obama administration suppressing evidence of a kidnapping or attempted kidnapping of murdered U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens?

As WND reported, the State Department’s lead Benghazi investigator, Thomas Pickering, refused to deny there was a plan to kidnap Stevens.

Pickering’s response is just the latest in a series of developments raising questions about the story behind Stevens’ murder.

Pickering was the author of the 39-page report by the State Department’s Accountability Review Board, or ARB, which largely absolved then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other top State officials of wrongdoing regarding the Benghazi attack.

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At a House Oversight and Government Reform committee hearing on Benghazi last week, Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wy., asked Pickering about a potential kidnap plot.

She asked, “Is it true that they were planning to kidnap the ambassador and it went wrong?”

“I can’t comment on that,” Pickering replied, followed by a long pause.

Committee Chairman Darrell Issa stepped in and changed the subject.

Later in the hearing, Pickering further commented on the kidnap issue.

He stated: “Kidnapping seemed to me to be far-fetched. Because in effect in the testimony that was given and the public report, they did not make a serious attempt to go into the closed area of the villa. It is not even sure in my view that they knew the ambassador was there. So I would say, while I said I didn’t want to touch that, I would say in retrospect it doesn’t seem highly likely. It could be. but I don’t think so.”

Read more at WND:

http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/benghazi-investigator-wont-deny-stevens-kidnap-plot/#YxLjpuGzz7war6Ol.99

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