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The Opinion Pages | EDITORIAL
Shut Down the Benghazi Committee
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDOCT. 7, 2015
House Republicans may be disinclined to disband the Select Committee on Benghazi with the presidential race heating up. But at the very least they should rename their laughable crusade, which has cost taxpayers $4.6 million, the Inquisition of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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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. Its become an insult to the memory of four slain Americans. ...
Mrs. Clinton is scheduled to testify before the committee on Oct. 22. The hearing will give Republicans another chance to attack the credibility and trustworthiness of the leading Democratic presidential candidate. It will do nothing to make American embassies abroad safer or help the relatives of the four killed in Libya.
The hearing should be the last salvo for a committee that has accomplished nothing. If the Republicans insist on keeping the process alive, the Democrats should stop participating in this charade.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/opinion/shut-down-the-benghazi-committee.html?_r=0
djean111
(14,255 posts)and how much they would not be working with her on anything but stuff they wanted to do in the first place.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)So, actually, it really is kind of personal.
thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)ejbr
(5,856 posts)"Trustableness", thank you very much