Democrat BUSTS REPUBLICANS For Trying To BURY Benghazi Report That DEBUNKS THEIR LIES

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WE should be banging the Benghazi drum now AFTER reTHUGS wasted tax-payer monies on tin-foil-hat conspiracies......

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) busted House Republicans for trying to bury their own Benghazi report by releasing on the Friday night before the Thanksgiving holiday.


Transcript via CNN:

REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D), CALIFORNIA: Well, I have great respect for Lindsey.

But it reminds me of a lawyer’s maxim that, if the law is not on your side, emphasize the facts. If the facts aren’t on your side, bang on the table. I think we heard Lindsey banging on the table quite a bit this morning.

This was a two-year exhaustive investigation. It was released by the Republican chairman of the Intelligence Committee and had the support of all the Republicans and Democrats on the committee. It’s designed to be the definitive word on what happened from the intelligence community’s point of view.

And nothing I think Lindsey said at all contradicts what is in that report. And calling it crap doesn’t change the fact that it was an exhaustive and objective review. So, I think we have had really the final word on many of these conspiracy theories, on the fact there was no stand-down order, there was no political interference, there was no effort to politically spin the talking points.

In fact, as the report points out, there were 21 intelligence assessments at the time that it began as a protest. Those turned out to be wrong, but there was no malice in getting it wrong.

BORGER: So, do you think the…

SCHIFF: And I hope that this will guide the select committee.

BORGER: Well, do you think the — the…

SCHIFF: And, you know, I think the — yes.

BORGER: … the administration is exonerated here?

SCHIFF: I think it is exonerated, certainly not the — in the sense that it shows there was adequate security at the diplomatic facility. There wasn’t. There’s been no contesting that. But in terms of whether there was an effort to cover up or spin

or illegal trafficking of arms by the CIA or any of those conspiracies…

BORGER: Well…

SCHIFF: … they have been completely vindicated.

And I hope — really, the only interesting question here, but it answers itself, is, why is this report being released on the Friday before Thanksgiving? Why is it being released in between major developments on immigration and Iran?

BORGER: So, you think it was kind of a dump? So you think it was a dump, so no one would pay attention to it?

SCHIFF: Oh, absolutely, absolutely. Exactly.

BORGER: We are.

SCHIFF: When you spend two years doing the definitive report, you want to trumpet it to the high heavens. You don’t want to bury it on the Friday before Thanksgiving.

BORGER: But let me…

SCHIFF: But I will tell you this. If the — yes. If the select committee comes up with a similar conclusion, it will release its report on Christmas Eve.



http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/23/sotu.01.html

House Republicans tried to dump the report on a Friday night before a holiday in the attempt to bury it so that nobody would notice that their own committee did not find any evidence to prove their baseless conspiracy theories. Rep. Schiff was correct. If the House Select Committee on Benghazi finds no evidence of wrongdoing, that report will be released sometime before hell freezes over. Benghazi has become such an ingrained myth within the Republican Party that Sen. Lindsey Graham when straight Benghazi truther when confronted with reality on CNN. Benghazi is their great Republican hope for defeating Hillary Clinton in 2016. It doesn’t matter to the GOP if 1,000 investigations find no wrong doing. Republicans will still try to smear Hillary Clinton with their Benghazi tall tales.


Republicans tried to bury their latest Benghazi black eye, but they failed. The American people have never bought into the scandal because their BS detector tells them that there is nothing to see here. Republicans don’t care that they sound crazy every time they mention Benghazi. They are convinced that they can win with a conspiracy theory, so reality be damned, and full steam ahead to a special investigation into Benghazi.




http://www.politicususa.com/2014/11/23/democrat-busts-republicans-bury-benghazi-report-debunks-lies.html

[Wella]

1. The Benghazi Brief concludes that actions surrounding the Benghazi situation were legal

That no crimes were committed.

[SummerSnow]

2. Republican definition...Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

[Rex]

3. K & R

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. Benghazi = Obama's Swift Boating

[WillyT]

5. K & R !!!

[allinthegame]

6. Bravo

To my Congressman Adam Schiff for taking the lead on pushing back!

[blackspade]

7. This exchange stood out to me...

BORGER: OK.

And I under -- I understand that, and you have said that the State Department needs to do more to make sure there's not another Benghazi. But let me get to this question of intelligence failure, because this report says that there wasn't intelligence failure, there were just gaps in intelligence.

But if there was an increased threat environment, but no uptick in security, isn't that an intelligence failure?

SCHIFF: Well, Gloria, what the report says is that there were intelligence leads, that there were deteriorating security climate, and then, in fact, the CIA annex took additional precautions to make that facility more safe.

Now, I think it is fair to ask the question, though, did the intelligence community miss something?

BORGER: Right.

SCHIFF: In other words, there wasn't intelligence -- specific intelligence that there was going to be an attack. And, in that sense, the agencies didn't -- fail to advise policy-makers of an imminent threat.

But I think it's fair to say or fair to ask, should we have seen this coming, should we have gathered intelligence? And I don't know that we have reached a definitive conclusion on that.

BORGER: OK. And...

SCHIFF: Is there something that we missed that we should have seen.

The framing of Borger's question is nonsensical.
She sets up the question by talking about security laxity, but finishes at an intelligence failure.
If the security wasn't strengthened, by security, then how is that an intelligence failure?
I think Schiff does a pretty good job this out.

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8. Lindsey's doin' his part to make sure it stays in the news..

EarlG http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017228494

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