The Benghazi Whitewash from the House Intelligence Committee


This whitewash from Mike Rogers does nothing to refute those lies. What needs to be looked at is Mike Rogers’ conflict of interest. It appears that his wife, Mimi, was part of a company that was involved in this clandestine operation. According to Judicial Watch:

No issue has dominated Rep. Roger’s time as committee chairman more than Libya. Protests against Muammar Gadhafi’s regime began in February 2011. In March, NATO air strikes commenced and the U.S. named Christopher Stevens as special envoy to the Benghazi-based Libyan opposition. By August, the end of the Gadhafi regime was in sight. The Associated Press reported that the CIA and State Department were “working closely” on tracking down the dictator’s vast arms stockpiles, including chemical weapons, yellowcake uranium, and some 20,000 shoulder-fired missiles known as MANPADS. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told the AP that Mr. Stevens was working with officials in Benghazi on how to track down the weapons.

By early October 2011, concern over missing MANPADS was growing. Prized by insurgent forces and terrorists, MANPADS are capable of shooting down attack aircraft — or a civilian plane. “We have reports that they may in fact have crossed borders,” Mr. Rogers told USA Today, criticizing the Obama administration for a lack of urgency. “I have some concerns we may      be a little bit late.” By the end of the month, Gadhafi was dead. Less than a year later, Mr. Stevens — by then Ambassador Stevens would be dead too, killed with three other Americans in an attack on the Benghazi stations of the State Department and CIA. Benghazi became a full-blown crisis. Chairman Rogers emerged as one of the Obama administration’s sharpest critics, hammering it for a lack of transparency.

Libya also was an area of activity for Aegis, Ms. Rogers’ company. As Rep. Rogers assumed control of the Intelligence Committee, an Aegis subsidiary, Aegis Advisory, began setting up shop in Libya. “Aegis has been operating in Libya since February 2011,” noted an Aegis Advisory intelligence report aimed at corporate clients. The report, marked “Confidential,” notes the company’s ability to provide “proprietary information [and] expert knowledge from our country team based in Tripoli.” Security was part of the Aegis package, too. “Aegis has extensive links in Libya which can be leveraged quickly to ensure safe passage,” the reportnoted. In 2012, Al Jazeera reported    that Aegis was hunting bigger game in the country, “seeking a $5 billion contract to guard Libya’s vast and porous borders.” Aegis declined to respond to Judicial Watch’s questions about Libyan border security contracts.

Ms. Rogers’ rise at Aegis was swift. A former press aide to Ambassador Paul Bremer in Iraq and an assistant commissioner for public affairs at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, she was named executive vice president when the U.S. branch opened in 2006. She was promoted to president in 2008 and added the position of CEO in 2009. In 2011, Ms. Rogers was named vice chairman of the company’s board of directors. In December 2012, she left Aegis and joined the law firm Manatt as a managing director for federal government affairs.

Aegis took a particular interest in events in Benghazi. One recipient of Aegis Advisory’s Libya briefings was Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor, the global intelligence and consulting firm. According to Stratfor documents obtained by Wikileaks, Aegis’s Libya briefings were circulated to Stratfor’s confidential “alpha list.” The alpha list “is a repository for most of the intelligence that comes in,” a Stratfor analyst wrote in an email released by Wikileaks. “The first rule of the alpha list is that you don’t talk about the alpha list.”

This report illustrates the continuing corruption of Washington. Mike Rogers, the co-author as it were by virtue of his position as Chair of HPSCI, has a clear conflict of interest. Rather than recuse himself, it appears he has helped try to whitewash what remains a bloody stain on the Obama Administration’s foreign and intelligence policy.
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  • Mike Rogers is retiring so he says "to hell with integrity", I'm gone.  This is just one more example of the lawlessness, corruption, and self-serving cover from a politician. God have mercy on Rogers soul.

    • Mike Rogers will not be without judgment, and not by man! That day will come and all things pass away for those who turn against God. They will all be punished for being greedy, un-Godly, liars and cheats!  We might not see this but God will turn his wrath upon them, unless they reform and repent. I see none of that in these peoples characters.  All this administration are liars, money grabbers, backstabbers, selfish arrogant people. "To hell with America" they say, can't help their fellow man, only themselves. No body has an answer on how to get Obama out our WH. Why is that I ask? I know they have to have a few decent people left in this world. At first we could take him out with the military, etc. Opps! Now we can't. Impeachment is out! This scum in the WH is the most evil creature I have ever seen in politics in the USA. He is incompetent to hold office, plus he isn't even an American citizen!  Is everybody protecting this scumball! Press charges on his butt and please get him out and I don't care if Biden is president. We don't like it, include him in the package of agreeing with all these illegal strikes against our constitution. They (congress and president) work for us!  He is NOT KING!  SHOW HIM THE CELL PLEASE! GOD BLESS OUR ONCE BEAUTIFUL AMERICA!

  • All the LIES come right from the Oval Office and the followers just do as they are told...PERIOD..!!!

    • Yes Dr. Michael,  Mr. Obama is following the same steps of V.I. Lenin, i.e. Vladimir Ulanov, First dictator of the proletariat in the Soviet Union.  Lenin was also a "community organizer." His objective was to "grow an underclass."  One cannot have a "dictatorship of the proletariat without having a large enough proletariat." Since people seem to be programmed in that direction anyway, increasing their ranks is pretty facilitating.  The "underclass" is grown primarily through government subsidies and propaganda via public, progressive education.

      • Mr Burke. Ditto.  The lies are blatant and in our faces.  Abuse of presidential power is also, yet not too many are screaming for justice.  It's the progressive game.  Am I right in my understanding that the investigative committee assigned with looking at all the details of Benghazi concluded last week that "they found nothing wrong"?  It always gets deep in poop in DC.

        Definition of a communist is "a socialist with a gun". That's why NY and a few other states have passed legislation in an attempt to register "assault rifles" and thus make it possible to confiscate......

        We are in it.

  • What else would you expect from the obummer regime.

  • I think the biggest question is this

    WHAT IS LEFT FOR WTP DO TO TO GET AMERICA BK ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL SOVEREIGN FREE MARKET CAPITALIST NATION WE KNOW WE ARE AT HEART.

    WE HAVE HELD RALLIES

    EMAILED

    SENT LETTERS

    AND DONE WHAT PEACEFUL MEANS WE CAN; OAS COULD HAVE WORKED BUT MILLIONS NEVER CAME

    SUGGESTIONS WELCOME

    • Bonnie,

      We have not had rallies in years. You are so right Col Riley's rally was a bust because the fat lazy so called conservatives cannot give up a day of their couch and beer. The truckers, the bikers are all big mouths that just do photo ops but when it comes to the nitty gritty they are MIA. The old Vets stood up to the evil person holding our White House hostage and took down the fence at their memorial, but the rest of us sit on our butts and do nothing. Funny how illegals, blacks, muslims can rise up and get millions to get out for a rally yet we conservatives do nothing. When the tea Party fell apart, and it did, because  mine here in Connecticut is gone, we made a difference. What we need is people to get out and be visable, that is what gets attention. Col Riley spent so much time on this but I will tell you it was not organized well. Power was given to people that helped him and they did him in. The man in Ct in charge blocked me for no reason from getting on the site. The web site was poorly run, no advertising on TV etc. If you rfemember Glenn Beck had millions and then I went to another rally in DC that was not as large but huge and that is what we need again. Even at 80 I will be there. I was ready to go to the rally Col Riley was organizing but could find no one to go with me. I have tried to organize overpass rallies in my town, put signs all over town date, time etc. Who showed up ME!!!! Then the cops came and made me leave, this was a violation of my civil rights but being 80 and there alone I was scared. If I was black I would have a zillion lawyers wanting to help me and there would have been riots but being an 80 yr old white woman I was made to leave, even though I was not blocking traffic was off the road and  one lone peaceful protestor. But then again this is a Democrat state and my town is totally democratic. So hopefully the young people will wake up and carry the flag that we older people honor on a daily basis.

      • Well said, Bonnie. I and my two friends who attended the OAS rally were, quite literally, SHOCKED by the anemic turnout. I remember dejectedly looking to my friends and quipping "My God. It really is all over." And that may well be more true than we'd like to believe. There are times when I think the foundational damage to our republican system and the indoctrination have been so complete as to be irreversible. So, what's left? Surrender? Not me. More and more, secession looks EXTREMELY appealing. It is certainly something our Founders would have counseled. And, guess what. Just as the Founders envisaged, today it would be peaceful. This is no 1861, and there is no revisionist Lincoln at the helm to stop it.

        • I think why there is such apathy in this country is because we have not had any invading forces on our land to get people motivated to defend their country from terror within the government and outside forces. When and if that happens, I think that people will realize that if they do not step up to the plate and defend themselves, their families and their country, it will be terror.

          As far as the WH I think the devil and all his minions are in the white house.  The only way to get them out is lots of prayers and fasting and marching and shouting. God helped in Jericho, He will help in the USA when we acknowledge Him our King and Prince of Peace.

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