Mysterious Metal Towers Appearing in New York

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Mark Matheny
September 28, 2017

All around New York, mysterious metal Towers are being erected, but no real explanation is being given by authorities there.

According to reports, the New York Public Transportation is spending $100 million on the project, where these towers will appear by bridges and tunnels.

Once the project is finished there will be 18 towers built. Strangely, even some of the MTA members assigned to the project are not completely sure what it is that these towers capabilities will be.

What is partly known is that the towers are more than likely part of an anti- terror surveillance system.




Looks like more 'Big Brother' techology to me....

MSNBC’s Chuck Todd Proves He's Complete Idiot

Mark Dice
September 28, 2017

MSNBC's Chuck Todd shows he knows less than nothing about the inalienable rights we Americans enjoy, given to us by our Creator.

North Korea: Millions sign up for military to fight against U.S.

USA Today

September 28, 2017

North Korea claims that 4.7 million of its citizens have volunteered to join or re-enlist in the military since leader Kim Jong Un threatened to "tame” President Trump “with fire" last week, North Korean state media reported.

Millions of young men and 1.22 million women said they wanted sign up to counter the U.S. since Friday, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper reported.

Pyongyang has previously claimed that North Koreans have volunteered to join the military as part of propaganda campaigns to boost solidarity, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap.

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NFL Protests and More

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Mark Matheny
September 25, 2017

Mark Matheny and guest Ron Stone discuss the events surrounding the protests in the NFL and more..

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis Weighs Using “Kinetic Weapon” On North Korea

Activist Post
September 24, 2017

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis hinted at using a kinetic weapon on Tuesday while discussing tensions with North Korea when he made a Freudian slip.

Mattis was asked whether there was “any military option the US can take with North Korea that would not put Seoul at grave risk,” Mattis responded, “Yes, there are, but I will not go into details.”

Later during the press conference, another reporter questioned Mattis and caught him off-guard:

“Just to clarify, you said that there were possible military options that would not create a grave risk to Seoul,” a reporter asked. “Are we talking kinetic options as well?”

“Yes, I don’t want to go into that,” Mattis responded.

Previously, Mattis stated that a war with North Korea would “involve the massive shelling of an ally’s capital, (South Korea) which is one of the most densely packed cities on earth.”

U.S. President Donald Trump in a speech to the United Nations on Tuesday threatened to “totally destroy North Korea” if Pyongyang didn’t quit its nuclear testing and threats.

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More Holes in Russia-gate Narrative

Washington's Blog
September 23, 2017

By William Binney and Ray McGovern. Bill Binney worked for NSA for 36 years, retiring in 2001 as the technical director of world military and geopolitical analysis and reporting; he created many of the collection systems still used by NSA. Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years; from 1981 to 1985 he briefed the President’s Daily Brief one-on-one to President Reagan’s most senior national security officials. Originally published by Consortium News. Republished with permission.

It is no secret that our July 24 VIPS Memorandum for the President, entitled “Was the ‘Russian Hack’ an Inside Job?,” gave rise to some questioning and controversy – nor was it a surprise that it was met with almost total silence in the mainstream media.

The ongoing U.S. media campaign against Russia has been so effective that otherwise intelligent people have been unable even to entertain the notion that they may have been totally misled by the intelligence community. The last time this happened in 2003, after a year of such propaganda, the U.S. attacked Iraq on fraudulent – not “mistaken” – intelligence.

Anticipating resistance from those allergic to rethinking “what everybody knows” about Russian “meddling,” we based our VIPS analysis on forensic investigations that, oddly, the FBI had bent over backwards to avoid. In other words, we relied on the principles of physics and the known capability of the Internet in early July 2016.

We stand by our main conclusion that the data from the intrusion of July 5, 2016, into the Democratic National Committee’s computers, an intrusion blamed on “Russian hacking,” was not a hack but rather a download/copy onto an external storage device by someone with physical access to the DNC.

That principal finding relied heavily on the speed with which the copy took place – a speed much faster than a hack over the Internet could have achieved at the time – or, it seems clear, even now. Challenged on that conclusion – often by those conducting experiments within the confines of a laboratory – we have conducted and documented additional tests to determine the speeds that can be achieved now, more than a year later.

To remind: We noted in the VIPS memo that on July 5, 2016, a computer directly connected to the DNC server or DNC Local Area Network, copied 1,976 megabytes of data in 87 seconds onto an external storage device. That yields a transfer rate of 22.7 megabytes per second.

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ILLUMINATI-THEMED FASHION SHOW HELD AT LONDON CATHOLIC CHURCH

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September 23, 2017

Rebuilding the Tower of Babel

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Mark Matheny

"And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before YAHWEH: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before YAHWEH. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel,...

...And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said to one another , Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto Heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad the face of the earth. -Genesis 11:1-4

In a nutshell, this is the New World Order. Soon this very similar event will unfold, and indeed is unfolding before our very eyes. It is said in the scripture that, " there is nothing new under the sun", and throughout the history of mankind, the desire by those who have taken hold onto the reigns of power, have arisen with that power the desire to control the entire wealth, resources, land, labor, and even the thoughts and actions of all humanity.

Nimrod, the mighty hunter, was a hunter of men's souls. He sought to consolidate the resources and wealth of the earth in his day by creating a world government in the name of "security" and "prosperity" lest the people should "be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." And like Nimrod, those in power in our time also have within them the desire to bring about a world governing "tower" by consolidating and controlling the wealth and resourses of the nation-states in order to "protect" us.

In the days of Nimrod, the whole earth "was of one language, and of one speech". Today in our era, we too, are of one language through the developement of translating technologies and learning tools. We have the ability with the click of the mouse button to translate our thoughts and intents into any language on the globe. Likewise, English has become the international language used in trade and business throughout the continents, thus bringing the entire population of humanity into "one language, and one speech".

The name Nimrod comes from the Hebrew word marad, which means to rebel. This is also where the modern english word "marauders" comes from. Those in power, like Nimrod, have rebelled against the Most High, and have also sought to consolidate their power by controlling the masses.

The Elite have worked hard to bring the nations under one banner, or global mindset, if you will. Through various organizations, think-tank groups, foundations, and media groups, they are in the very process of bringing all peoples to the same preliminary stage of a world government - and that is the ability to communicate globally;

"Now the whole earth was of one language and one speech.."

This has been brought about through organizations such as The Council on Foreign Relations, The Royal Institute on International Affairs, The Trilateral Commission, and several others. Through public education, our children have been taught that "globalization" is vital to humanity and its progress into the future. The globalists have also fostered concepts of "environmental catastrophes" to bring about unity on a global scale. Since "global warming" is a threat on an international scale, we must be united in the cause of protecting ourselves from its devestating effects,(or so the globalists would have us believe). 

And just as Nimrod convinced the masses in his time to consolidate their nations and tribes into a "global community", so too, the "Rebel Globalists" in our days hope to get the nations to repeat these words;

"...Come, Let us build ourselves a city and a tower, whose top is in the heavens. Let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."

With the flood still fresh in the minds of the children of Noah and his three sons, Nimrod was able to convince the people in his day to build a tower that would reach far bove the threat of another flood, and therefore protect them from the judgement of the Holy One. 

The globalists of our day have contrived a second "tower" under the banner of The United Nations, in hopes of convincing all nations that they too can have protection from environmental catastrophes, war, poverty, etc.

There is a push at this time to bring about a global currency, a global army, and a global government. With this push there also has to be a global religion. This religion is based on environmentalism, or the worship of "Mother Earth". It is necessary to replace the Creator of the Bible - Yahweh - with another, in order to bring about this unifying process into a "second tower of Babel" known now as "The New World Order".

Why is this necessary?

"But Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men built.

And Yahweh said: Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. After this, nothing that they purpose to do will be withheld from them.

Come now! We will go down, and there We will confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth; and they ceased building the city." -Genesis 11:5-8

When the people in Nimrod's day began to consolidate their power and resources under an oligarchy, or dictatorship, The Almighty knew that there would be no way to stop this world power once it would come into being. In scattering the peoples abroad over the face of the whole earth, and confounding their languages, or their ability to communicate, he would in effect, also stop a world ruling dictatorship.

This is the modern day concept of Sovereign Nation-States. This gives security and freedom to all by in effect making it impossible for any one nation to become an "All-Powerful" entity. We can look back to the lesson of WWII and the defeat of Hitler by Sovereign Nation-States that had the ability to protect themselves and help in the defeat of this Tyrant.

Under world government, a dictator, or ruling class Oligarchy, there would be no way to stop the desires of those in power. We know that with power comes often corruption, and " absolute power corrupts absolutely". This is why the League of Nations was a failure. Borders and sovereignty ensures freedom and prosperity. The absence of these brings tyranny.

The globalists need to destroy the "Judeo-Christian" God of the Bible because we are assured of certain unalienable rights given by God Himself;

"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitles them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separate.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

-July 4, 1776 The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America

It is necessary for the global elite to bring about a form of universal religion without Yahweh, the Creator in the Bible, in order to destroy the thought and concept of "God-given rights". In The New World Order (The second Tower of Babel), there must be a total reliance of the people on The State, and "State given rights"-for whoever gives the rights to you can also abolish those rights.

In a world of Sovereign Nation-States endowed with "certain unalienable rights" by our Creator, their is relative freedom from tyranny, and the ability to fight against such threats. This is also the reason the New World Order advocates push for "global trade agreements" and many of the United Nations efforts to destroy national boundaries, under the guise of "security and prosperity". 

If we are to defeat the New World Order (The Second Tower of Babel), then we must learn a great lesson in the defeat of the First Tower of Babel - Protect and defend our right to remain a Sovereign Nation with distinct boundaries, and stay out of foreign entanglements, especially the United Nations, and continue to remain as "One Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all" - and cease in building the Tower.

President Trump's First Address to the United Nations

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September 19, 2017

Senate Republicans near votes to replace Obamacare with state block grants

Washington Times
September 18, 2017

Senate Republicans pushing to replace Obamacare with state block grants are making real noise before their window to act closes, insisting they are just one or two votes shy and that President Trump can nudge their last-gasp bill to victory.

“We are thinking that we can get this done by Sept. 30,” Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican who co-wrote the bill with Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said Friday.

Republican leadership seemed to greet the bill with a shrug when it was introduced last week, yet Mr. Cassidy said the idea “took off” during a Thursday luncheon that focused on health care.

The senator said his informal whip count stands at “48 or 49” Republican votes — close to the 50-vote threshold needed to pass a bill, using Vice President Mike Pence as a tie-breaker.

Senior Democrats, meanwhile, are rallying Obamacare’s defenders to stamp out a revived threat to their signature law.

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Saudi government allegedly funded a ‘dry run’ for 9/11

New York Post
September 14, 2017

Suspicious in-flight activity by Saudis in the US two years before 9/11 is fueling a suit against the Riyadh government.Getty Images

Fresh evidence submitted in a major 9/11 lawsuit moving forward against the Saudi Arabian government reveals its embassy in Washington may have funded a “dry run” for the hijackings carried out by two Saudi employees, further reinforcing the claim that employees and agents of the kingdom directed and aided the 9/11 hijackers and plotters.

Two years before the airliner attacks, the Saudi Embassy paid for two Saudi nationals, living undercover in the US as students, to fly from Phoenix to Washington “in a dry run for the 9/11 attacks,” alleges the amended complaint filed on behalf of the families of some 1,400 victims who died in the terrorist attacks 16 years ago.

The court filing provides new details that paint “a pattern of both financial and operational support” for the 9/11 conspiracy from official Saudi sources, lawyers for the plaintiffs say. In fact, the Saudi government may have been involved in underwriting the attacks from the earliest stages — including testing cockpit security.

“We’ve long asserted that there were longstanding and close relationships between al Qaeda and the religious components of the Saudi government,” said Sean Carter, the lead attorney for the 9/11 plaintiffs. “This is further evidence of that.”

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Trump says no DACA deal yet, doubles down on border wall

Washington Times
September 14, 2017

President Trump tweeted Thursday that he did not make a deal with Democrats for children brought to the U.S. illegally, but indicated he has no desire to deport them.

“No deal was made last night on DACA. Massive border security would have to be agreed to in exchange for consent. Would be subject to vote,” Mr. Trumptweeted referring to the Obama-era immigration program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA.

Mr. Trump hosted Democratic leaders at the White House Wednesday night for a dinner on immigration reform. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi released a short statement after the dinner, saying the meeting had been “very productive” and that they had come to an agreement on DACA.

While Mr. Trump disputed any deal with Democrats on the issue, he also indicated that he does not want to deport DACA recipients.

“Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military? Really!…..” he wrote adding, “…They have been in our country for many years through no fault of their own - brought in by parents at young age. Plus BIG border security.”

But the president did double down on building the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, one of his signature campaign promises, which Democrats have promised to oppose.

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"Across the Volga"

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Yahshua Matheny
September 14, 2017

Across the Volga

With the summer’s birds

My mother sung gently

Her face wrinkled by years of starving time

Softly weathered as her home

I kiss her goodbye

A single tear she cries

Her leathered skin in folds

To my back, I had marched from home

The engine starts, our steamboat roars

Across the Volga’s fiery hell

Fearsome, fighting, raging boar

Our Soviet might can withstand these shells!

The wailing sirens of a Stuka

Shrieks and screams from the far-off shore

Our brave lieutenant sings Katyusha

When he falls in a pile of gore

The beauty of the sky hides itself from us

Wretched, writhing, us pitiful sods
I see a man kneeling, with tears in his eyes

Deluding himself to be heard by God

Long ago, I saw bright faces towered by banners

The commissar stood, knowing no shame

“We are to fight against the ruthless fascists

And thus shall die in our motherland’s name”

The men were spirited, rowdy, unkempt

Rifles in hand, aloof to the world

They showed me their hats, fastened tight their boots

Before they marched, flags flying unfurled

Now the door opens, the ramp is lowered

But it is not land that we embark upon

The ground is slick and wet with blood

The sacrifices of comrades now forever gone

We rush forward, my company shouting

“The enemy retreats, the day has been saved!”

It is the sweet chalice of victory

That I taste before the grave

A hail of bullets

Worse than any storm

Plows through my fellows

Myself with only slight harm

Quickly, I am dragged

My blood mixing with the dead

That poignant smell in war

Steely, cold, and of lead

I am moved to the rear

Injured like many others

But the faces I see here

Are not the ones of summer

The cold nights grow ever longer

While the sweet days recede into memory

A new dawn has been shaped for us

The hurried fire of Stalin’s artillery

We are not the first, nay the second

Not the third and nor the fourth

The waves of Russia’s young patriots

Will keep pouring from the north

A poem authored by Yahshua Matheny

Planned Parenthood Recruiting Anarchists for #Rise up as One

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Mark Matheny
September 14, 2017

More Emails Show Hillary Knew Benghazi Attack By Al Qeada

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Mark Matheny
September 14, 2017

Select Committee on Benghazi Releases Proposed Report

benghazi.house.gov
September 13, 2017

81 New Witnesses, 75,000 New Pages of Documents Reveal Significant New Information,

Fundamentally Changes the Public’s Understanding of the 2012 Terrorist Attacks that Killed Four Americans

Washington, D.C. – Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy (SC-04) released the following statement after the committee’s Majority released a mark of its investigative report:

“Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were heroes who gave their lives in service to our country. Their bravery and the courageous actions of so many others on the ground that night should be honored.

“When the Select Committee was formed, I promised to conduct this investigation in a manner worthy of the American people’s respect, and worthy of the memory of those who died. That is exactly what my colleagues and I have done.

“Now, I simply ask the American people to read this report for themselves, look at the evidence we have collected, and reach their own conclusions. You can read this report in less time than our fellow citizens were taking fire and fighting for their lives on the rooftops and in the streets of Benghazi.”

The committee’s proposed report is just over 800 pages long and is comprised of five primary sections and 12 appendices. It details relevant events in 2011 and 2012.

The following facts are among the many new revelations in Part I:

• Despite President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s clear orders to deploy military assets, nothing was sent to Benghazi, and nothing was en route to Libya at the time the last two Americans were killed almost 8 hours after the attacks began. [pg. 141]

• With Ambassador Stevens missing, the White House convened a roughly two-hour meeting at 7:30 PM, which resulted in action items focused on a YouTube video, and others containing the phrases “[i]f any deployment is made,” and “Libya must agree to any deployment,” and “[w]ill not deploy until order comes to go to either Tripoli or Benghazi.” [pg. 115]

• The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff typically would have participated in the White House meeting, but did not attend because he went home to host a dinner party for foreign dignitaries. [pg. 107]

• A Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team (FAST) sat on a plane in Rota, Spain, for three hours, and changed in and out of their uniforms four times. [pg. 154]

• None of the relevant military forces met their required deployment timelines. [pg. 150]

• The Libyan forces that evacuated Americans from the CIA Annex to the Benghazi airport was not affiliated with any of the militias the CIA or State Department had developed a relationship with during the prior 18 months. Instead, it was comprised of former Qadhafi loyalists who the U.S. had helped remove from power during the Libyan revolution. [pg. 144]

Rep. Mike Pompeo (KS-04) released the following statement regarding these findings:

“We expect our government to make every effort to save the lives of Americans who serve in harm’s way. That did not happen in Benghazi. Politics were put ahead of the lives of Americans, and while the administration had made excuses and blamed the challenges posed by time and distance, the truth is that they did not try.”

Rep. Martha Roby (AL-02) released the following statement regarding these findings:

“Our committee’s insistence on additional information about the military’s response to the Benghazi attacks was met with strong opposition from the Defense Department, and now we know why. Instead of attempting to hide deficiencies in our posture and performance, it’s my hope our report will help ensure we fix what went wrong so that a tragedy like this never happens again.” 

The following facts are among the many new revelations in Part II:

• Five of the 10 action items from the 7:30 PM White House meeting referenced the video, but no direct link or solid evidence existed connecting the attacks in Benghazi and the video at the time the meeting took place. The State Department senior officials at the meeting had access to eyewitness accounts to the attack in real time. The Diplomatic Security Command Center was in direct contact with the Diplomatic Security Agents on the ground in Benghazi and sent out multiple updates about the situation, including a “Terrorism Event Notification.” The State Department Watch Center had also notified Jake Sullivan and Cheryl Mills that it had set up a direct telephone line to Tripoli. There was no mention of the video from the agents on the ground. Greg Hicks—one of the last people to talk to Chris Stevens before he died—said there was virtually no discussion about the video in Libya leading up to the attacks. [pg. 28]

• The morning after the attacks, the National Security Council’s Deputy Spokesperson sent an email to nearly two dozen people from the White House, Defense Department, State Department, and intelligence community, stating: “Both the President and Secretary Clinton released statements this morning. … Please refer to those for any comments for the time being. To ensure we are all in sync on messaging for the rest of the day, Ben Rhodes will host a conference call for USG communicators on this chain at 9:15 ET today.” [pg. 39]

• Minutes before the President delivered his speech in the Rose Garden, Jake Sullivan wrote in an email to Ben Rhodes and others: “There was not really much violence in Egypt. And we are not saying that the violence in Libya erupted ‘over inflammatory videos.’” [pg. 44]

• According to Susan Rice, both Ben Rhodes and David Plouffe prepared her for her appearances on the Sunday morning talk shows following the attacks. Nobody from the FBI, Department of Defense, or CIA participated in her prep call. While Rhodes testified Plouffe would “normally” appear on the Sunday show prep calls, Rice testified she did not recall Plouffe being on prior calls and did not understand why he was on the call in this instance. [pg.98]

• On the Sunday shows, Susan Rice stated the FBI had “already begun looking at all sorts of evidence” and “FBI has a lead in this investigation.” But on Monday, the Deputy Director, Office of Maghreb Affairs sent an email stating: “McDonough apparently told the SVTS [Secure Video Teleconference] group today that everyone was required to ‘shut their pieholes’ about the Benghazi attack in light of the FBI investigation, due to start tomorrow.” [pg. 135]

• After Susan Rice’s Sunday show appearances, Jake Sullivan assured the Secretary of the State that Rice “wasn’t asked about whether we had any intel. But she did make clear our view that this started spontaneously and then evolved.” [pg. 128]

• Susan Rice’s comments on the Sunday talk shows were met with shock and disbelief by State Department employees in Washington. The Senior Libya Desk Officer, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, State Department, wrote: “I think Rice was off the reservation on this one.” The Deputy Director, Office of Press and Public Diplomacy, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, State Department, responded: “Off the reservation on five networks!” The Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications, Bureau of Near East Affairs, State Department, wrote: “WH [White House] very worried about the politics. This was all their doing.” [pg. 132]

• The CIA’s September 13, 2012, intelligence assessment was rife with errors. On the first page, there is a single mention of “the early stages of the protest” buried in one of the bullet points. The article cited to support the mention of a protest in this instance was actually from September 4. In other words, the analysts used an article from a full week before the attacks to support the premise that a protest had occurred just prior to the attack on September 11. [pg. 47]

• A headline on the following page of the CIA’s September 13 intelligence assessment stated “Extremists Capitalized on Benghazi Protests,” but nothing in the actual text box supports that title. As it turns out, the title of the text box was supposed to be “Extremists Capitalized on Cairo Protests.” That small but vital difference—from Cairo to Benghazi—had major implications in how people in the administration were able to message the attacks. [pg. 52]

Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-04) released the following statement regarding these findings:

“Obama Administration officials, including the Secretary of State, learned almost in real time that the attack in Benghazi was a terrorist attack. Rather than tell the American people the truth, the administration told one story privately and a different story publicly.”

Rep. Peter Roskam (IL-06) released the following statement regarding these findings:

“In the days and weeks after the attacks, the White House worked to pin all of the blame for their misleading and incorrect statements on officials within the intelligence community, but in reality, political operatives like Ben Rhodes and David Plouffe were spinning the false narrative and prepping Susan Rice for her interviews.”

The following facts are among the many new revelations in Part III:

• During deliberations within the State Department about whether and how to intervene in Libya in March 2011, Jake Sullivan listed the first goal as “avoid[ing] a failed state, particularly one in which al-Qaeda and other extremists might take safe haven.” [pg. 9]

• The administration’s policy of no boots on the ground shaped the type of military assistance provided to State Department personnel in Libya. The Executive Secretariats for both the Defense Department and State Department exchanged communications outlining the diplomatic capacity in which the Defense Department SST security team members would serve, which included wearing civilian clothes so as not to offend the Libyans. [pg. 60]

• When the State Department’s presence in Benghazi was extended in December 2012, senior officials from the Bureau of Diplomatic Security were excluded from the discussion. [pg. 74]

• In February 2012, the lead Diplomatic Security Agent at Embassy Tripoli informed his counterpart in Benghazi that more DS agents would not be provided by decision makers, because “substantive reporting” was not Benghazi’s purpose. [pg. 77]

• Emails indicate senior State Department officials, including Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan, and Huma Abedin were preparing for a trip by the Secretary of State to Libya in October 2012. According to testimony, Chris Stevens wanted to have a “deliverable” for the Secretary for her trip to Libya, and that “deliverable” would be making the Mission in Benghazi a permanent Consulate. [pg. 96]

• In August 2012—roughly a month before the Benghazi attacks—security on the ground worsened significantly. Ambassador Stevens initially planned to travel to Benghazi in early August, but cancelled the trip “primarily for Ramadan/security reasons.” [pg. 99]

• Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta bluntly told the committee “an intelligence failure” occurred with respect to Benghazi. Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell also acknowledged multiple times an intelligence failure did in fact occur prior to the Benghazi attacks. [pg. 129]

Rep. Susan Brooks (IN-05) released the following statement regarding these findings:

“President Obama has said his worst mistake was ‘failing to plan for the day after … intervening in Libya.’ As a result of this ‘lead from behind’ foreign policy, the Libyan people were forced to make the dismal trade of the tyranny of Qadhafi for the terror of ISIS, Al-Qaeda and others. Although the State Department considered Libya a grave risk to American diplomats in 2011 and 2012, our people remained in a largely unprotected, unofficial facility that one diplomatic security agent the committee interviewed characterized as ‘a suicide mission.’”

Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (GA-03) released the following statement regarding these findings:

“One of the most concerning parts of the State Department’s policy in Libya was its reliance upon the militias of an unstable nation to protect our men and women in Benghazi. These were by no means forces that could adequately protect Americans on the ground, and the State Department knew it. But the appearance of no boots on the ground was more important to the administration.”

Part IV of the report reveals new information about the Select Committee’s requests and subpoenas seeking documents and witnesses regarding Benghazi and Libya, and details what the Obama administration provided to Congress, what it is still withholding, and how its serial delays hindered the committee’s efforts to uncover the truth.

Part V proposes 25 recommendations for the Pentagon, State Department, Intelligence Community, and Congress aimed at strengthening security for American personnel serving abroad and doing everything possible to ensure something like Benghazi never happens again, and if it does, that we are better prepared to respond.

The Select Committee intends to convene a bipartisan markup to discuss and vote on the proposed report on July 8, 2016. All members of the committee will have the opportunity to offer changes in a manner consistent with the rules of the House.

Letter from Chairman Trey Gowdy to Speaker Paul Ryan

FACT SHEET: The Benghazi Committee's Investigation - By the Numbers

Below is the full report with links to PDF files of each section.

(Update 12/7/16: Following the transmittal of the final report to the House, the report has been published with the Government Printing Office.)

(Update 7/8/16: Following the committee’s vote to make its proposed report final, the links to the PDFs below were updated to reflect the final versions that will be filed in the House.)