When asked about Benghazi whistle blowers being intimidated, Obama claimed to reporters yesterday he was “not familiar with this notion that anybody has been blocked from testifying”. Notice he doesn’t actually answer the question about whether he knew they were being intimidated, just whether they have been “blocked from testifying”.

Yet Representative Darrell Issa said in a statement today he has repeatedly written to the Obama team directly asking them to resolve the issue of the State Dept blocking the witnesses lawyers from getting proper information they have requested, that he sent 4 separate letters.

Via Washington Examiner:

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., accused President Obama of “aid[ing] those in his Administration who are intimidating” potential Benghazi whistle-blowers, because Obama pleaded ignorance when asked about the issue today.

“Even if the President really doesn’t know anything about someone wanting to come forward, his position should be that whistleblowers deserve protection and that anyone who has different information about Benghazi is free to come forward to Congress,” Issa said in a statement today. “The President’s unwillingness to commit himself to protecting whistleblowers only aids those in his Administration who are intimidating them.”

Obama was asked if he would help State Department employees, survivors of the Benghazi terrorist attack, who have told reporters that they are being blocked from testifying on what they know of the assault.

“I’m not familiar with this notion that anybody has been blocked from testifying,” Obama replied. “So what I’ll do is i will find out what exactly you are referring to.”

But Issa has written the Obama team repeatedly about the subject. “A lawyer for Benghazi whistleblowers has publicly stated that the State Department is blocking her client’s ability to talk freely with counsel,” Issa said. “Over the past two weeks, I have sent four letters requesting that this Administration make information available about how lawyers – who already have security clearances and are representing Benghazi whistleblowers – can be cleared to fully hear their clients’ stories. I have yet to receive any response from the Obama Administration.”

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Greg Gutfield on "The Five" yesterday had an interesting take on this:

He said that what he noticed about Obama's response was that Obama wasn't even "sweating" (literally or figuratively) about the whole Benghazi mess.

In other words (mine), in the past when we've had REAL presidents holding REAL press conferences and they were asked about something, you might see in their body language that whatever they were asked about wasn't on "the up and up." Watergate and Iran-Contra come to mind.

They realized that the press was "on it" - like a dog with a bone - and they wouldn't be letting go.

But with Obama - he KNOWS that only Fox News is saying anything about Benghazi - and with the help of the State Run Media, Fox News has been sufficiently discredited.

Obama KNOWS that - whatever the truth IS about Benghazi - he can count on the MSM to help him sweep it under the rug.

Now - can we PLEASE get back to news about the homosexual NBA player?