not to kick a dead horse but... GOP Intel Report Debunks Its Own Party's Nutty Benghazi Theories WASHINGTON (AP) — A two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration appointees. Debunking a series of persistent allegations hinting at dark conspiracies, the investigation determined that there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria.
Someone should be going to jail but it's not Hillary. New Report Shows Republicans Leaked Doctored Benghazi Emails The GOP’s obsession with the State Department’s Benghazi so-called failings has been disproven by a new CBS report. The report shows that Republicans released altered emails to reinforce their campaign to take down Hillary Clinton’s credibility. The GOP’s altered version of Rhodes’ Benghazi email read: “We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don’t want to undermine the FBI investigation.” The White House version of that same email read: “We need to resolve this in a way that respects all of the relevant equities, particularly the investigation.” The GOP’s altered version of Nuland’s Benghazi email read: “The penultimate point is a paragraph talking about all the previous warnings provided by the Agency (CIA) about al-Qaeda’s presence and activities of al-Qaeda.” The White House version of that same email read: “The penultimate point could be abused by members to beat the State Department for not paying attention to Agency warnings.”
Lo and behold the possible next speaker of the house admits Benghazi was just about hurting Clinton's approval and not a serious investigation into wrongdoing after all. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/kevin-mccarthy-credits-benghazi-committee-clinton-damage
Eh, from the little clip I saw, it doesn't seem to me he's "admitting" it was just about hurting her approval rating. One could see it that way, or just say he thinks the "select committee" hurt her by simply doing the investigation. Let's not respond to Fox by doing what they do.
He did refer to it as their "strategy" so that sounds like a plan to do that. Rather than the strategy being to find out if there was any wrong doing.
I'm with you, but these faux scandal were political ever since after it was concluded no wrong doing occurred but continue. The Republican has a very not so hidden strategy of creating scandal so of course it's understandable that this does revealed the honest truth of their desire. Politic after all.
I don't really have a problem with what he said. It isn't some grand revelation that one party wants to discredit the member of another with a mock scandal. The larger story is that the Republicans have another smug assclown potentially. This dope has the charisma and tact of Ted Cruz. It was inevitable that Hilary would have a down turn, she has a lot of baggage and has been s known candidate for a long time. Fatigue was inevitable and not overly damning this far out.
Boom! Democrats Release New Video and Fact Sheet: “Couldn’t Be More Plain FACT SHEET: How the Benghazi Committee Targeted Hillary Clinton Gowdy Cancelled All Planned Hearings Other Than Hillary Clinton’s After NYT Email Story Gowdy Dropped Key Interviews with Top Defense and Intelligence Leaders Gowdy Scheduled New Interviews and Depositions of Hillary Clinton’s Associates Gowdy Stepped Up Aggressive Press Campaign Against Hillary Clinton Gowdy’s Taxpayer-Funded Political Campaign Against Clinton <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8vgcWS92xCg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
The fallout continues.... NYT Editorial Board: 'Shut Down The Benghazi Committee' "Lawmakers have long abused their investigative authority for political purposes,". "But the effort to find Mrs. Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the Libya attacks, was personally responsible for the deaths has lost any semblance of credibility. It’s become an insult to the memory of four slain Americans." House Freedom Caucus Endorses McCarthy Challenger For Speaker
Benghazi Committee Ex-Staffer Alleges He Was Fired For Refusing To Target Clinton "I'm scared. I'm nervous. I know that this is, you know, I'm going up against powerful people in Washington," he added. "But at the end of the day I need to live with myself. I told my wife, I will view myself as a coward if I don't do the right thing here." A former staffer for the Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi alleged that he was unlawfully fired in part because he resisted focusing his investigative efforts on Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, The New York Times and CNN reported Saturday.
Yes, it was obvious from day one that Benghazi 'scandal' was purely political. Anyone stating otherwise is either an idiot or a right wing shill.
