In May 2013 “John from Iowa” called in to @seanhannity's radio program. During the call, he identified himself as one of the sensor operators of a drone that flew over #Benghazi during the 9/11/12 attacks. After the @HouseBenghazi Select Committee was formed, he was one of several DoD witnesses they requested to interview. After many weeks without results, the committee had to repeat their request twice, met with a DoD lawyer and then threatened subpoenas. On 4/28/16, Stephen Hedger, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs sent an inaccurate and misleading letter to the House Benghazi Select Committee complaining about its requests for DoD witnesses. Not surprisingly, Hedger's inaccurate letter of complaint was leaked to the press the following day and was posted on the Committee Democrat Minority’s website. Hedger’s complaint that the DoD had expended “significant resources” to identify “John from Iowa” to “no avail” was a lie. In actuality, DoD had identified “John from Iowa” within hours of his call in 2013, and had reprimanded him for calling @seanhannity's show. When Leon Panetta's Dept. of Defense finally relented to the House Benghazi Select Committee's requests, its witnesses provided valuable information for the investigation, including a drone video feed of #Benghazi that was a useful point of interest. Due to Stephen Hedger’s lie that “significant resources” had been used to find "John from Iowa," the Committee issued a subpoena to Hedger to explain what resources had actually been used, and why the DoD was unable to respond to a Congressional request in a timely manner.

In a May 2014 interview with NY Times at the Deadline Club’s annual awards dinner, @CNN President Jeff Zucker said his network wouldn't be 'shamed' into covering the #Benghazi congressional hearings. In regards to the #Benghazi congressional hearings, Zucker said “We’re not going to be shamed into it by others who have political beliefs that want to try to have temper tantrums to shame other news organizations into covering something.” After equating hearings on how Americans were killed in #Benghazi to "political temper tantrums." Zucker then defended CNN's nonstop coverage of a missing Malaysia Airlines jet: "I believed early on, right from the start, that it was an enormously important story."

Bryan Pagliano was a State Dept employee with an unusually high 6 figure salary for an IT specialist. He was also being paid in cash on the side by the Clintons to build the personal server @HillaryClinton would use for work emails, violating her own State Dept policy. Pagliano built Hillary's homebrew server in a room once used as an office for her presidential campaign on Washington DC's K Street. He used remnants of a computer from Hillary's failed 2008 campaign to build the server. Pagliano could have provided the House Benghazi Select Committee with valuable answers as to why Hillary didn't provide a full production of her emails related to the #Benghazi attacks, but he invoked the 5th Amendment to protect from self-incrimination. Had Pagliano testified, he could have explained why Hillary's server was reportedly down during 2 key time periods: August 2011 (during the US invasion of Libya) and October 2012 (the weeks following the #Benghazi terrorist attacks.)

The @HouseBenghazi Select Committee received 105 email exchanges from the State Dept on 6/25/15. This production is significant because it was made only after a non-government witness provided 179 additional pages of email exchanges with @HillaryClinton on 6/12/15. 59 of the emails produced by the non-government witness had never been provided by the State Dept to the committee despite the fact these emails were clearly responsive to previous requests and fully within the jurisdiction of the committee. It is impossible to logically interpret this behavior as anything other than obstruction on the part of Hillary's State Dept. A continuation of withholding records that the Select Committee had every right to demand. This withholding of emails exposed Hillary's assurance that all public records had been returned to the State Dept as a total lie.

After the @HouseBenghazi Select Committee learned that @HillaryClinton was using non-government email addresses to send State Dept business emails, it was then discovered that she was using her own personal server for the same communications. Using her own server for both personal and State Dept communications was significant because it gave Hillary complete control over what emails were saved and what emails were deleted, including those related to the #Benghazi terrorist attacks. In a display of arrogance, she was also knowingly violating the explicit policy of her own State Dept that requires all agency employees to archive their work emails to comply with federal record-keeping laws. As pressure ramped up, Hillary held a 3/10/15 press conference at UN hq where she confessed to deleting more than 30,000 emails she deemed "personal" from her tenure as secretary of state — and wouldn't allow access to the private server she used to send them. Only Hillary's most loyal disciples have the blind trust necessary to simply accept her being the arbiter of which emails from her own server she would release to investigators, and which emails she wouldn't.

The State Dept's first production to the @HouseBenghazi Select Committee of 15,000 pages of documents contained few emails sent to or received by the State Dept’s senior staff. In fact, the production included only 8 emails sent or received by @HillaryClinton. But these 8 emails were all from two non-government addresses: “[email protected]” and “H.” This was the first time the State Dept. produced emails from Hillary Clinton. It was also the first time the Select Committee became aware that Hillary used a private email account to conduct State Dept business during her tenure. The Select Committee was not informed at the time, or at any time until immediately before media reporting, of the extent to which Hillary Clinton relied on private email and a private server to conduct State Dept. business.

More from the scene outside our restaurant in Paris. Tear gas affecting some of the diners...

The scene outside our restaurant in Paris about 20 min ago.

Here is a pile of "construction materials" and stone right on the side of the main thoroughfare along the Seine. Where have we seen this before?

Just exited the Louvre in Paris and ran into this "student protest" which is really a march of the Marxist Islamists. Antifa chants, bloodied up doll limbs under a Palestine flag. Totally organic and unfunded I'm sure. 😉