Fire Alarm
Book description
Fire Alarm: The Investigation of the U.S. House Select Committee on Benghazi is a study of legislative-executive friction, partisanship, and Congress's attempt to recount events surrounding the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Beghazi, Libya that killed four Americans. Using publicly available sources, Bradley F. Podliska details the history of…
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This is a non-fiction and deep dive into the congressional hearings conducted in the aftermath of the deadly attack on the United States Embassy in Benghazi, Libya. The author was a participant in the investigation and exhaustively researched all the events running up to the attack and the actions of responsible members of the US government, including President Obama. The conclusions offer a clear and stunning example of the breakdown in military and diplomatic procedures leading to the cover up that tried to exonerate those decision makers involved.
Written with the objective of adding clarity to how congressional investigations were…
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