Key Things to Take Away From Wednesday’s Benghazi Hearing

1. There were multiple stand-down orders, not just one.* Special operations forces were told, twice, by their chain of command not to board aircraft to Benghazi to rescue the Americans then under attack. The U.S. deputy diplomat, Greg Hicks, testified that the military commander, Lt. Col. Gibson, had his team ready to go twice
2. Whistleblower ‘Effectively Demoted’ After Questioning Benghazi Talking Points. ^* Hicks told members of Congress that he has been “effectively demoted” from his position as deputy chief of mission shortly after he questioned United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice’s explanation that the Benghazi attack was the result of a spontaneous protest sparked by a YouTube video.
3. Benghazi Witness Told Not to Speak With Congressional Investigator Alone.^ Hicks on Wednesday also revealed that he was told by Obama administration officials not to talk with Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) unsupervised.
4. Who Is Lt. Col. Gibson?^ Benghazi whistleblower Gregory Hicks repeatedly brought up a man by the name of Lt. Col. Gibson. Other than the fact that he was a Special Operations Command (SOC) Africa commander, we don’t know much else about him.
5. State Department Official Fingered Terror Group Day After Attack.^ During the House Oversight Committee hearing on the Benghazi attack, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) read from an email sent by Beth Jones, the acting assistant secretary for Middle Eastern affairs at the State Department, to Benghazi whistleblower Gregory Hicks and other top administration officials. In it, she fingered Ansar al-Sharia, a radical Islamic terror group, as the perpetrator behind the attack after the Libyan government speculated that they might be ex-Gadhafi forces.
6. Hicks testified that Ambassador Stevens traveled to Benghazi to fulfill one of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s wishes.* Despite the fact that security was worsening in Benghazi for months leading up to the 9-11 attack, Clinton wanted to make the post there permanent.
7. Clinton was briefed at 2 am on the night of the attack, was never told that a movie had anything to do with the attack by those on the ground in Libya, yet blamed the movie anyway.* Hicks also testified that he was shocked when Ambassador Susan Rice blamed a YouTube movie for inspiring the 9-11 attack.
8. “The YouTube movie was a non-event in Libya.” * Hicks directly testified that the YouTube movie, for which a man remains in jail, was not in any way relevant to the attack in Benghazi. Why Obama, Clinton, Rice et al blamed that movie for the attack remains an unanswered question.

Sources: *7 Things We Learned from the Benghazi Whistleblower Hearing.

                 ^Here Are the 5 Key Things to Take Away From Wednesday’s Benghazi Hearing

This is starting to sound like a cover-up to me. As for who issued the stand-down order that would be the POTUS.  That’s what former ambassador Rep. Ann Wagner said. If that’s true (no reason to doubt her) why wouldn’t Obama try to send help to the embassy? Because it wasn’t important to Obama try to rescue those people in the embassy. Maybe, he thought something would go wrong and he would get blamed. I don’t know. It didn’t concern him. Also, keep in mind Libya was his “baby” and made people to believe he had Al Qaeda on the run. 

From the Blaze.com (May 10);

Then, the talking points used by Ambassador Susan Rice on the Sunday shows on the weekend after the 9/11/12 terror attack in Benghazi underwent at least 12 edits –  including revisions by the Obama administration’s State Department — new emails obtained by ABC News show. Those revisions included scrubbing all references to an Al Qaeda-affiliated group and all references to previous CIA warnings about a terror threat. [read more]

If this isn’t a cover-up then I don’t know what is anymore.