[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6585]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              LEFT BEHIND

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the Benghazi whistleblowers have 
spoken publicly: the administration failed before, during, and after 
the terrorist attack in Benghazi.
  Head of diplomatic security in Libya, Eric Nordstrom, testified his 
calls for more security before the attack were dismissed by a negligent 
State Department.
  During the attack, counterterrorism official Mark Thompson said that 
the rescue team was told to stand down instead of trying to save 
Americans under attack.
  Deputy chief of missions in Libya, Greg Hicks, said in his chilling 
testimony that when Ambassador Stephens frantically called him, they 
both knew this was a terrorist attack.
  The information was reported to Washington; but back on the ranch, 
the administration ignored the obvious terror attack and blamed the 
situation on a video. What a yarn. The Libyan President even told our 
government that this was a terrorist attack, and he was ignored.
  The result: four Americans murdered; an administration missing in 
action that didn't attempt to rescue Americans; a bungling State 
Department that misled us; and a Secretary of State testifying, What 
difference does it make?
  The difference it makes, Mr. Speaker, is four Americans were left 
behind. Shameful.
  And that's just the way it is.

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