60-Foot Petition Demands End to Benghazi Secrets - Special Ops Veterans Want Details on American Security Fiasco

Gina Loudon * WND

It has been almost one year since the tragedy in Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans were killed and 10 others were injured in a terror attack.

Included in those murdered that day were U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, and two Navy Seals, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.

But a lot of other information isn’t yet known about the attack that day.

So Special Operations Veterans have presented a petition of 1,000 names calling for a Select Committee in Congress to “end the cover-up” of the Benghazi scandal.

The petition is 60 feet long, and it was unrolled near the Capitol building Tuesday.

Special Operations Speaks officials say the presentation was the opening volley in a nationwide campaign urging House members to sign the discharge petition that would force House consideration of HR 36 – the bill to establish a Select Committee to fully investigate the Benghazi massacre.

The Special Operations Veterans are asking why there was no military response, and why the consulate was never secured.

Gen. Carter Ham, the former head of U.S. forces in Africa, told the Aspen Security Forum just recently that “it became apparent to all of us quickly that this was not a demonstration, this was a violent attack.”

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton initially claimed the embassy attack was a response to an obscure Internet video.

U.S. Rep. Frank Wolfe, R-Va., has sponsored the congressional resolution, HR 36, that calls for an investigation of the attack and the administration’s handling of it in the weeks that followed.

More than 120 members of Congress are co-sponsors.

Rep. Louis Gohmert, R-Texas, has been front and center on the issue, and accuses his own speaker, Rep. John Boehner of doing too little.

“If they were addressing (the situation), we would have gotten to the bottom of it by now,” he said.