{"id":19474,"date":"2015-10-22T15:27:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T19:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=19474"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:00:13","slug":"wippl-in-usa-today-no-progress-on-benghazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2015\/10\/22\/wippl-in-usa-today-no-progress-on-benghazi\/","title":{"rendered":"Wippl in USA Today:<\/i> No Progress on Benghazi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joseph Wippl,<\/a> Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies,<\/a> said that partisan gridlock would limit the effectiveness of the Congressional hearings on Benghazi.<\/p>\n

Wippl made the argument in an Oct. 22 article on\u00a0USA Today\u00a0<\/em>entitled “New Benghazi Hearings Unlikely to Fully Answer Key Questions.”<\/a><\/p>\n

From the text of the article:<\/p>\n

Beyond\u00a0the partisan squabbling, the hearings will seek answers to key policy questions concerning why the U.S. was in Benghazi in the first place and whether the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens<\/culink> and three other Americans at the compound could have been prevented.<\/p>\n

Yet even after\u00a0eight\u00a0\u00a0investigations, 32 hearings and 70,000 pages of documents produced for various committees,\u00a0these questions may never be fully answered.<\/p>\n

With Republicans and Democrats so polarized and a new presidential election so close, committee members \u201care not even close to being on the same page,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0Joseph Wippl, a 30-year operations officer and manager at the CIA who now teaches at Boston University<\/culink>.\u00a0\u201cThey\u2019ll circle the wagons and protect their sides (and) the president, but I don\u2019t think they\u2019ll reach any results.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the entire article and watch an accompanying video here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Wippl is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. He spent a 30 year career as an operations officer in the National Clandestine Service (NCS). Learn more about him here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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